As usual Prada comes up with a stellar campaign for Spring 2013. Beautiful product  galvanized by simple, color crisp  images and of course showcased by many of the industry’s top girls–Vanessa Axente, Saskia de Brauw, Irina Kravchenko, Eva Herzigova, Sung Hee, Irene Hiemstra, Kirsten Owen, Sasha Pivovarova, Amber Valletta, Maartje Verhoef, and Raquel Zimmermann. (And as good as all the product looks in images, it’s more delicious in real life–words cannot describe how this writer longs for a Prada bag!)

Except for Sung Hee, the girls are all white, a tendency for which Prada has repeatedly been criticized for, especially as it applies to its runways. In a way though, pointing out the color of models on runways is a shallow shot at brands. Modeling is an ephemeral job at best (career–implying as it does something with longevity/import–should never be used to describe the work of posing in clothing), with those landing jobs that set them for life about as rare as a Powerball lottery winner.

In reality you have to guess the bigger issue lies at the top of major fashion brands, which one has to bet are even less diverse than their runways. And if there is little to no diversity among decision makers, it would make sense that they are reluctant to represent the same in their ads and on their runways. After all, when one lacks everyday relationships with ethnically/religiously/racially different people, it’s easier to view them as exotics to be pulled out for special statement-making moments (or as tokens to appease the complaints) rather than as stellar beauties upon whom a brand can be built. I’ve said it before, fashion can do better and actually I believe it will in 2013….xox0

On another note, lol, more of those Prada ads on the next page.

Come Spring, Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto will celebrate ten successful years of collaborative efforts. To mark the event, Adidas has brought on photographer Pierre Debusschere, with the result a photo series featuring bold colors and graphic lines that celebrate both the collection and its theme of movement, distortion and transformation.

The accompanying campaign film, also directed by Pierre Debusschere, is an examination of the same themes. On the Y-3 website user will be able to interact with the video content and create their own video clips through manipulation of sound and image.

Check the full campaign after the jump.

Here is another look at the Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2013 campaign shot by Juergen Teller. The first image starring Ruby Jean Wilson reminds of the first preview we gave you a few weeks ago whereas the second photo reminds more of  the 2012 campaign also shot by Juergen Teller. We’ll keep you posted!

Terry Richardson in mid-November joined the ever-growing network of Instagram where he continues to document his going ons in pictures. The 17 photos he has thus far posted show him and some of his favorite subjects from his blog Terry’s Diary, including Miranda Kerr, Jared Leto, Pharrell Williams, among others. Check out his profile and while your at it, also take a look at the Highsnobette Instagram page.

The 2013 edition of the Maybelline calender features all of the cosmetic brand’s spokesmodels, including Erin Wasson, Julia Stegner, Freja Beha Erichsen, Charlotte Free, Shu Pei Qin, Emily DiDonato, Kemp Muhl, and Jessica White. The models were shot by Kenneth Willardt at some iconic New York spots that are just as strong in color as the make-up and body paintings of the girls. Like the Pirelli calendar this month-to-month agenda is limited and not available for purchase.

Fortunately, we have all pictures in the gallery on the next page.

We are starting to see images via Buzzfeed from the famous Pirelli calendar for 2013–that’s Adriana Lima above–a significant shot because it’s the first time the calendar has featured a pregnant model. The big twist for this edition is it doesn’t feature naked models, a feature it has become known for. Photographer Steve McMurry who shot in Rio de Janiero had this to say on his reasons for keeping the models clothed:

“I would say I am a street photographer doing ‘found situations. You can photograph nudes anywhere. But these models are clothed, and each of them has her own charity. They are purposeful and idealistic people. So I wanted to photograph them in a special place, and Rio was perfect for this.”

And a lack of nudity isn’t the only break from the past, Pirelli also included street-shot images of people and places. Can we call this is an official end to the era of the industry’s obsession with photographing completely nude models–many of them in their teens? You know, not wearing an ounce of fashion, which is what they entered the business to do in the first place. One can dream!

More images on the next page.

We showed you Kate Moss’s cover for Vogue Spain December 2012, and now some shots from the editorial, as shot by Mario Testino. See the above matador shot in full on the next page, along with four more images.

Jimmy Choo taps Jeneil Williams, who describes herself on Twitter as, “tomboy model from Jamaica,” for its Resort 2013 ad campaign, as shot by Solve Sundsbo for a gutsy and visually arresting campaign.

See one more shot on the next page.

Japanese model Tao Okamoto for Vogue China’s beauty supplement for December 2012, gorgeously shot by photographer Lachlan Bailey. Above left, the cover, and on the right, one shot from the editorial.

We’ve posted the Kate Moss Vanity Fair cover for December 2012, but the editorial shots are even better. In the piece, various friends and acquintances are asked about what makes Moss magic with the best quote belonging to Keith Richards, who comments, “For a bad girl she’s always been very well behaved.”

See the rest of the editorial on the next page.