MARCH MADNESS: CULTURE ROUND 1

MARCH MADNESS: CULTURE ROUND 1

Get ready for a slash attack!


March Madness marches on! Having already finished the first round of competition between the film and fashion conferences, it's on to our culture crew. We picked 16 of our favorite artists, photographers, and slashes--from writer-director-actors to DJ-bloggers and everything in between--and now it's up to you to vote on which eight move on to Round Two.

You have until 12am PST tonight (so through Thursday, March 6) to vote--so make sure to submit your picks before it's too late. And if you haven't already, download our official brackets here so you can follow along with each round.
REBECCA WILLA DAVIS

Name: Alexa Chung
Talent:
Television presenter and model
Best Known For: It's On With Alexa Chung, collaboration with Madewell, having a Mulberry bag named after her
Fun Fact: She's obsessed with photography and shoots on film with 35mm camera
Why We Love Her:
She's the one person we all wish we were friends with

Name: Bip Ling
Talent: Blogger and DJ
Best Known For:
Her blog BipLing.com, being the face of Forever 21 in the U.K.
Fun Fact: She's currently writing a children's book
Why We Love Her:
She can talk as well about art as she can about fashion




Name:
Lena Dunham
Talent:
Actress, director, and writer
Best Known For:
Girls, Tiny Furniture, and her $3.7 million book deal
Fun Fact:
If she could be any animal she would be a dolphin
Why We Love Her:
She's the reason we now stay home on Sunday nights (and also have reconsidered the merits of yellow mesh tank tops)

Name: Cory Kennedy
Talent:
Blogger, model, NYLON TV correspondent
Best Known For:
Her blog, ItsCoryKennedy.com, her ads for Sebastian
Fun Fact:
She was discovered by Mark Hunter at a Blood Brothers concert when she was 15
Why We Love Her: Anyone who nicknames Tommy Hilfiger 'Tommy Boy' is a winner in our book




Name:
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Talent:
Actresses, fashion designers
Best Known For:
Full House, their clothing lines The Row and Elizabeth and James, building a mini-empire
Fun Fact: They recorded their first album when they were six
Why We Love Them: Come on, you know you've fantasized about being an Olsen triplet.

Name:
Jemima Kirke
Talent:
Artist, actress
Best Known For: Playing Jessa on Girls
Fun Fact: Her mom owned a vintage boutique that supplied dresses to Sex and the City
Why We Love Her:
She's on a hit show and still insists that acting is secondary in her life




Name:
Zooey Deschanel
Talent:
Actress, musician, blogger
Best Known For: New Girl, (500) Days of Summer, the website she co-founded HelloGiggles.com
Fun Fact:
She took tap dancing lessons for six years
Why We Love Her:
She's the only person in the world who could make us say "adorable" and not cringe

Name: Coco Sumner
Talent:
Musician, actor, model
Best Known For:
Her band I Blame Coco, providing backing vocals on Miike Snow's "Animal," a Burberry ad campaign
Fun Fact:
Her first ambition was to be a bank robber
Why We Love Her: Have you heard "Caesar"?




Name:
Georgia May Jagger
Talent:
Model
Best Known For:
Ad campaigns with Just Cavalli, H&M, and Versace
Fun Fact: She's besties with Cara Delevingne
Why We Love Her: She's got the looks of her mom, Jerry Hall, and the rock'n'roll edge of her dad, Mick Jagger

Name:
Alice Dellal
Talent:
Model, musician
Best Known For:
Ad campaigns for Chanel, Agent Provocateur, and Burberry, drumming in the band Thrush Metal, being one of Mario Testino's muses
Fun Fact:
She started her own record label, Sweet Dick Music
Why We Love Her: We have her to thank for the half-shaved head craze.




Name:
Dree Hemingway
Talent:
Model, actress
Best Known For:
Ad campaigns for Gucci, Chanel, and H&M, her role in the film Starlet
Fun Fact:
Hemingway attended Ernest Hemingway Elementary School, named after her great-grandfather, when she was a kid
Why We Love Her:
Doesn't everyone wish they were in a Vaccines music video?

Name: Petra Collins
Talent:
Photographer
Best Known For:
Her shoots for Urban Outfitters and Rookie, assisting Richard Kern
Fun Fact: She's currently attending Ontario College of Art and Design
Why We Love Her:
There aren't enough self-proclaimed feminists working as fashion photographers in the world




Name:
Leigh Lezark
Talent:
DJ, model
Best Known For:
Being one-third of The Misshapes
Fun Fact: Her dog, Eddie, has been illustrated and printed on a Deer Dana tee
Why We Love Her:
No one starts the party like Lezark

Name:
Zoe Kravitz
Talent:
Actress, singer, model
Best Known For:
Her role in X-Men: First Class, her ad campaigns for Vera Wang
Fun Fact:
She starred in Jay-Z's "I Know" music video
Why We Love Her:
She's not afraid to chop off her hair (and yet still looks amazing, anyway)




Name
Lou Doillon
Talent: Model, singer, actress
Best Known For:
Ad campaigns for Gap and Givenchy, her album Places
Fun Fact:
She had tattoos and a tongue ring before she turned 12
Why We Love Her:
Bad-ass is so much cooler when it's got a French accent

Name:
Atlanta de Cadenet
Talent:
Model, DJ, and blogger
Best Known For:
An ad campaign for Smashbox, DJing parties for brands like Topshop
Fun Fact:
She's an avid horseback rider
Why We Love Her:
She might be rockstar royalty (her mom's Amanda de Cadenet, her dad's Duran Duran's John Taylor, and her stepdad's The Strokes' Nick Valensi) but she's got a down-to-earth sense of style






This story was published on March 7, 2013.


CONTENT RATING: ( 5 )

THISCHARMINGSHIT.BLOGSPOT.COM

03/07/2013


Jeez, Jermima vs The Olsen's was a lot harder to pick than I ever thought it would be

cee

03/07/2013


i'm so glad we get to do this every day. FUN!!!

Zuzy

03/07/2013


:)

Katharina Joy

03/07/2013


sad to see Coco Sumner is not going too strong (yet!) she's so wonderfully bad-ass & british

Meagan Morrison

03/07/2013


Awesome roundup! So many inspiring girlss...


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