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28 #schonmagazine maddieby jack waterlot ziegler 1 editor’s letter “Forget your troubles, come on get happy. You better chase all your blues away…” Judy Garland #happy #schonmagazine Spring is finally here, summer is around the corner, and it’s time to get happy! As the world around us bursts with new life, we celebrate youth and the promise of the future, starting with our cover star, Maddie Ziegler, the twelve-year-old girl who has danced her way into the limelight and onto the stage of the Grammys. We take a look at the most stylish little ones with a preview of the new season at Baby Dior, and we hang out with RJ Mitte, who not only stole our hearts in the phenomenal Breaking Bad but, aged just 22, is an ambassador for people with disabilities and a role model for us all. Olga Kurylenko, the beautiful Bond girl, and now star of Russell Crowe’s directorial debut The Water Diviner, puts us through our paces in a playful photo shoot and tells us why 2015 is such a big year for her. Both young and old will be looking forward to the hotly anticipated new version of Cinderella. We talk to one of its stars, Sophie McShera, about the switch from Downton Abbey to Disney blockbuster and to model and actor Colton Haynes about his transition from small screen to big in action thriller San Andreas. Fresh beginnings can come at any time of life and the stunning Pamela Anderson is certainly turning a new page. Read on to find out about the exciting and unexpected projects she has coming up. As usual, we bring you the best of the season’s bold, bright and downright beautiful fashion, from swimwear to sunglasses, to candy coloured jewellery, as well as beauty products that light up your looks and scents that put a spring in your step. Whether you want to reconnect with your childhood, or simply see out the season in sunny style, the #happy issue is sure to bring a smile to your face. Maddie Ziegler by Jack Waterlot & Coline Bach Retouch / [email protected] wearing Bustier / Emporio Armani Top / Varsity raoul keil Neckpiece / National Theatre Costume Hire editor-in-chief & creative director 2 3 little miss america photography. jack waterlot fashion. coline bach Sweatshirt / Moschino Neck ruff / National Theatre Costume Hire Petticoat / Beyond Retro Tights / American Apparel Pointe shoes / Maddie's own 4 5 Dress / Dolce & Gabbana Shoes / Dior Garter used as ruff / ID Sarrieri Headpiece / Lara Jensen Fishnets / Falke Sleeve with ruffle / National Theatre Costume Hire 6 7 Top / Gucci Shorts / Helen Lawrence Dress / Michael Costello Coat & cuffs / Hoopskirt / Ret Turner National Theatre Costume Hire Headpiece / Lara Jensen Collar / Vivetta Gloves / Cornelia James Tights / American Apparel Earring / Dior 8 9 Blazer dress / Jean Paul Gaultier Gloves / Cornelia James Cuffs / 214 Designs Black cuffs / Ret Turner Wrap up top worn underneath & tights / American Apparel Socks / Happy Socks Shoes / Maddie's own Dress / Vivienne Westwood Earrings / Dior Shirt & skirt / Ammerman Schlösberg Earrings / Dior 10 11 elastic heart At just twelve years old, Maddie Ziegler has been parodied by Jim Carrey on SNL, released her own clothing line with her little sister Mackenzie, and danced in a life-sized bird cage with Shia LaBeouf. Maddie Ziegler started dancing at the age of two, the age at which most There’s no doubt she’s kept her head screwed on. “The other day while we kids are learning to walk up stairs. By the age of five, when most kids are were filming, she answered someone’s question so eloquently,” recalls Abby learning the alphabet, she started dancing competitively. These are just two Lee Miller. “There wasn’t an ‘um’, a ‘like’, or even a ‘well’ in her intelligent, examples of how Ziegler is a prodigy of her chosen art form: dance, which meaningful, response. Inside I was jumping up and down. I was so proud she has mastered before her teens. Avatar to Grammy Award nominee Sia, that this little precocious peanut had developed into such a well-spoken, breakout star of reality series Dance Moms and, a few hours after we meet, her confident young lady. Of course, I didn’t let her know this. I’m a teacher – I curriculum vitae will broaden with a performance on Saturday Night Live. It’s always have to keep my students on their toes!” a combination of moxy and stage gravitas that has put this young lady on a well-fuelled rocket ship to superstardom. Ziegler made headlines last year by breaking free from the land of reality stars after Grammy Award nominated singer/songwriter Sia (who penned Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ziegler recalls a story told to her by her Rihanna’s Diamonds and Beyoncé’s Pretty Hurts), reached out over Twitter mother, one of the aforementioned ‘Dance Moms’ of the popular Lifetime asking if Ziegler would like to be in the video for her lead single, Chandelier. series. In the story, Ziegler explains how she came running off the stage Loud screams ensued. She got connected with Sia’s agent straight-away during an early performance of The Nutcracker with her face streaming with and was on a plane to LA two weeks later. “Incredibly surreal,” is how she tears. She missed the stage the very second she walked off. Maybe we’ll put describes the whirlwind experience. The video, which features a bleach her in for another year, mom quickly thought. Spoiler: This was the right blonde bobbed Ziegler playing a Sia avatar, exploded, racking over half a move. billion views on YouTube. Shortly after, Ziegler and her younger sister Mackenzie enrolled at Abby Lee Ziegler was recently back in LA, filming Sia’s follow-up single, Elastic Heart. Dance Company. That’s when ‘reality’ came knocking. “At first when we did This time she appears in a giant life-sized birdcage opposite a very shirtless the show, it was developed as a docu-series, so we thought this will last maybe Shia LaBeouf. Because of Sia’s decision to obstruct her face from any and a season,” Ziegler explains. Season 5 premiered in January, 2015. The show all promotion for her album, Ziegler has become the de facto face of the satiated the viewers’ appetite for a bizarre ensemble of embattled mothers, campaign. She joined the singer throughout a promotional tour with stops verbally setting each other on fire in an almost ancillary behind-the-scenes on The Ellen Degeneres Show, So You Think You Can Dance, and on SNL, a look at the world of competition dance. “I don’t even watch the show,” performance she felt “nervous and excited” about. Ziegler admits. “We live it, we don’t really have to see the show. It’s weird seeing yourself on TV and when the moms are fighting. I don’t like to see If one thing is made entirely clear, it’s Sia’s profound influence on the young that, so my whole family just doesn’t watch it.” performer. “She’s taught me to be myself; not to let fame get to me,” says Talent / Maddie Ziegler Ziegler. “She said it’s not fun letting everything get to you and having to Photography / Jack Waterlot Instead, Ziegler does what she knows: she dances, eight hours a day, six days be so serious in life. She told me I’d have more fun being silly. ‘Stay in the Fashion Editor / Coline Bach a week, between classes and shooting the show. When she’s not dancing, moment. But have fun. Don’t let anything be too serious.’ Before I met her, Hair / Rob Talty @ Forward Artists using Bumble and bumble she might be at the mall with friends (“my happy place”) or filming a guest I was really, really serious, always thinking ‘I need to stay focused,’ and now Make Up / Anthony H. Nguyen using MAC Cosmetics & KohGenDo appearance on her favourite Disney show, Austin & Ally. She’s doing her best I take the time to be silly when I’m in rehearsal. Life is more fun that way.” Nails / Whitney Gibson to balance normal life with her ever-escalating fame. Once Dance Moms is a Fashion Assistants / Maricel Cena & John Angelo de Peralta blip in the oversaturated reality spectrum, Ziegler will remain, making reality Location / Beachwood Studio TV her ladder, not her landing. 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