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söndag 16 maj 2010
Macy’s Fan Report & Exclusive Picture of Kellan!
I arrived to the Macy’s location at around 1:30 and was completely freaked out, due to the fact that my friend had texted me a half an hour prior letting me know that Macy’s was only letting in the first 500 people to see Kellan Lutz. I rushed to the location as quickly as I could, and thanks to my friend (God bless her heart), she was able to get me a ticket for the photo op with Kellan. Since she was able to score 2 tickets, I wondered if it was possible to score an extra ticket for myself so that I can have a photo op with Kellan by himself and dedicate it to the fans of Kellan Lutz Online…especially the girls in which I am closest to, such as Nadine, Kim, and Katie.
I thought of possibly writing out their names on a piece of paper and have him hold it, but quickly thought against especially since I was unsure if they were even going to let me take the second photo op pic. My friend and I quickly rushed to the line outside of the store and waited until were were called in…Around 2-2:05…we were let into the building and forced to wait on another long line…As I waited on the inside line, I quickly heard girls screaming (and me being the nosy person I am) proceeded to check it out…I saw Kellan pretend to take his shirt off and flash his abs…needless to say…they were mighty fine abs! He then decided to jump up in the air and inch his shirt up unto his chest and give the girls in the back of the line (and the ones inching up to take closer pics) a show…
As we inched closer to the front of the line, my heart was palpitating and I started to get nervous…I looked toward my friend and she confirmed that she too was nervous and was trying to keep her mind off it. I thanked the lord that they were playing amazing dance music, because in order to keep my mind off of the nervous beating of my heart, I decided to dance it off and prayed it would shake my nerves off. Soon it was my turn to take the picture and I was greeted by the greatest hug in the world. As I tightened my hug, he tightened his back, and I gotta say my heart fluttered. We took our picture in which we were both smiles and I decided to make my move and go in for the kill….I had to ask him for another picture…a different one…
Rules of the Macy’s/Calvin Klein photo ops were such:
If you had an extra ticket, you were only allowed an extra copy of the original picture you took with Kellan…
Yea, I wasn’t having any of that…
I wanted my picture to be different because I love all my Kellan Lutz girls and I wanted to do something special for them…so I asked him
“Would it be possible to take an additional picture for Nadine from Kellan Lutz Online?”
His face lit up and recognition was present in his eyes…
He said, “Sure, no problem? Did you want to be in it? Or…”
“No, you can be in it by yourself,” I declared.
I stepped off the platform so that he can do his/my photo op and thought for a second on what pose to do…
and then…he did THE CUTEST THING EVER!…
He formed a heart with his hands and held it out in front of him and looked as if he had the innocence of a child…
My heart melted…it was the sweetest thing he could do
He didn’t have to take an extra picture, nor did he have to do an extra adorable pose!
I definitely felt special at the moment!
After viewing that photo op, I entered the photo area, in which we retrieve our photo op pictures. There was confusion and some nasty attitudes thrown towards me, in regards of getting my photos…but I prevailed and fought for them…
No one was going to take them away!
And so, I left Macy’s with both photos secured and a Kellan Lutz/Calvin Klein ad signed “I <3 you xoxo Kellan Lutz”
Needless to say, I felt accomplished!!! I have tried so many times to meet him and I finally lived my dream. This officially had to be my Top 5 favorite days ever! Thank you Kellan for being the most down to earth, and sweetest guy ever imaginable.
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lördag 15 maj 2010
NY Times: Calvin Klein Underwear Modeling
Who wouldn’t?
Though it has been seven years since he went from working as a shirtless greeter at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Los Angeles to a cover model on one of its raunchy catalogs, and from a bit part on “The Bold and the Beautiful” to recurring eye candy in “90210” and “Twilight,” it will not come as much of a surprise that Mr. Lutz is still best known as the guy with a washboard stomach who is not on Team Jacob. That is not to imply that Mr. Lutz lacks for acting talent or broader ambition but rather to note just how far an actor can go by adhering to the simple example set forth by Mr. Wahlberg — the School of Marky Mark, if you will. The single lesson is success by six-pack.
After all, long before Mr. Wahlberg was to become an Academy Award-nominated actor for his role in “The Departed” and a producer of the HBO series “Entourage,” he was a terrible rapper, an obnoxious loudmouth and, quite possibly, the greatest underwear model the world has ever known. It is no wonder he is seen as a role model to Mr. Lutz, who is among the latest crop of actors and athletes to star in a campaign for Calvin Klein. In 1992, when Mr. Wahlberg’s ads first appeared, with a billboard in Times Square and commercials co-starring a topless Kate Moss, he went from a rap star with a strong MTV fan base to an international sensation with workout videos, a picture book and a catch phrase to match his meteoric, if somewhat embarrassing in retrospect, success: “Pow!”
“It’s a really cool thing,” Mr. Lutz, 25, said last week during a phone interview from the set of one of at least three films he has in production, including a romantic comedy with Mandy Moore and a gladiator movie with Samuel L. Jackson. The campaign, he said, had been something he had wanted since he started modeling as a teenager, and so it was somewhat humbling to drive through Los Angeles in March and finally see his own torso reflected on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard.
The coy, racy posing and lopsided grin were meant to be evocative of Mr. Wahlberg’s original ad, photographed by Herb Ritts, which was a huge hit. It was also controversial because of Mr. Wahlberg’s remarks and stage antics that were interpreted as homophobic, leading to protests outside Mr. Klein’s offices. He was later shown in an image grabbing his crotch, and in commercials rapping about the underwear: “I gotta wear dese during my shows cause if I just wear regular briefs, they get stretched out.” Mr. Klein thought they were a riot.
Mr. Klein once said of his advertisements that he had never intended to be provocative. “It’s that we’re trying to be exciting,” he said. His underwear campaigns have been a topic of public fascination since 1982, when he first introduced an image of Tom Hintnaus, an Olympic athlete, photographed on the Greek island of Santorini with an obvious focus on the bulge in his white briefs. It stopped traffic in Times Square. The photograph, by Bruce Weber, was cited by American Photographer magazine as one of “10 Pictures That Changed America.” Mr. Hintnaus seemed almost frustrated by his fame, telling The Los Angeles Times, “I worked so hard to be the best pole vaulter in the world and I ended up being more well known for putting on a pair of briefs.”
Subsequent campaigns included the gold medalists Karch Kiraly and Steve Timmons, the models Michael Bergin and Joel West (whose spread-eagled stance in 1995 offended even Linda Wachner, then the head of Calvin Klein’s underwear licensee), Ed Flory and Albert Delegue and the actor Antonio Sabato Jr., some of whom were relative unknowns at the time. Nearly three decades later, even since Mr. Klein retired from the company and during a time when visible abdominal muscles are hardly a rarity in advertising, the job of Calvin Klein underwear model retains a surprisingly potent allure. Landing a Calvin campaign is the male modeling equivalent of appearing in a Victoria’s Secret fashion show.
“It is simple: whoever represents Calvin becomes a star,” said Sam Shahid, the art director who worked with Mr. Weber and Mr. Klein on many of the early campaigns. “What’s amazing is the longevity this has had.”
The work that goes into a single campaign image is considerable — Mr. Lutz worked with a trainer for weeks to bulk up his chicken legs, gave up candy and thought back to all he had learned from his earlier modeling days to capture a look, he said, that suggested he could just as well have been walking down a street, holding a smile and having a conversation with someone without thinking, “Gosh, I’m in my underwear.”
“You have to look like you enjoy what you’re selling,” Mr. Lutz said. “It doesn’t look that hard, but a lot of people don’t think about what goes into it.”
The effect, as intended, was almost immediate.
“I won’t lie about it,” he said. “I started getting text messages and calls from producers, and when I went into meetings for scripts, people were always commenting on the billboard and asking for pictures for their daughters.”
Looking at the history, it is sometimes striking to see the connections among the models. Most have gone on to acting careers, and two appeared in the same film. Two (Mr. Wahlberg and Djimon Hounsou) have since been nominated for Oscars. At least three have appeared in Janet Jackson videos. Almost all the rest have at least scored minor roles in films and on TV, particularly soap operas, like Mr. Sabato, who was on “Melrose Place” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Of the current cast of four, only Mr. Lutz can be said to have markedly improved name recognition (he is the only one who will be appearing at the Macy’s Herald Square store on Saturday to promote the briefs), though that could just as well be because two of the others are foreign athletes (Fernando Verdasco and Hidetoshi Nakata) and the fourth, Mehcad Brooks, of “True Blood,” does not actually portray a vampire on that show. And pity the unfortunate model from a 1991 campaign, photographed by Mr. Weber from the side with his face twisted away from the camera. He is listed in the company archives as “unknown male.”
And what of Mr. Hintnaus? In 1994, a headline appeared in The Houston Chronicle: “Model makes a splash at River Oaks event.” The model was Mr. Hintnaus, who took a big swan dive into a pool as the finale of the River Oaks International Tennis Tournament and Tootsies fashion show. It was not exactly a career highlight, but Mr. Hintnaus was a sport.
He had continued to compete, in the 1984 Olympics for Brazil and then in South Africa. He grossed about $100,000 over six years for the Calvin Klein image, he said, but the company eventually cropped his head off the image on its underwear boxes and stopped paying him. He tried acting in Hollywood, but eventually became a contractor. He is now 52, living in Honolulu, building docks for private homes and continuing to compete as a pole-vaulter.
“I’m still in shape,” he said. “Maybe they’ll bring me back for an old guy campaign.”
nytimes
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