CATE UNDERWOOD - Sexy tunes. (BYMALENEBIRGER, PARIS FASHION WEEK)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Colonia parfumerie. (Colonia club, Paris)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Vogue. (VOGUE UA DESIGNERS SHOWCASE, Leclaireur, Paris)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Electronic Sophistication. (H&M at Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Diamonds Are Forever (SUGAAR, Paris)

Underwood performing some hot tracks for friends to dance as if it's the last night. You say party - we say die. x

CATE UNDERWOOD - #TheKiss (Litkovskaya party at ASTHIK multibrand store, Kiev)

Holiday Listening for Estēe Lauder. Photographer-turned-model-turned-DJ Cate Underwood scores your holiday party.

http://www.esteelauder.com/estee-edit-article-playlist-holiday-listening

Cate Underwood has Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine to thank for her first official foray into the fashion industry: in 2010, the Kiev native won the magazine’s Fashion Forward Award as an upstart photographer, which earned her a subsequent editorial for the magazine. But Underwood was already making plenty of unofficial waves on her own. “I started shooting when I was 17. I’m self-taught so I had those sleepless nights trying to figure out how Photoshop worked,” the now-24 year old recalls of a childhood fascination with the film cameras that her model mother used to snap photos of her on family vacations, which turned into an obsession, and saw her focus own lens on a fashionable group of musician and DJ friends. “I started to see things from both sides of the camera,” says Underwood of when her budding modeling career took off, a rare opportunity that she admits has really helped her understand how to do both jobs—and well. In the three years since she posed for her fist picture, Underwood has shot, or has been shot for Vogue Italia, Vogue Ukraine, Elle Ukraine, L'Officiel Ukraine, and H&M.

During the holidays, it’s nice to stick to the classics.

And lest we forget to mention, Underwood also regularly puts in time on the decks as an in-demand international DJ, playing the party scene in Kiev, London, Berlin, Milan, Paris, and New York. “It’s something that I really do for pleasure because I like to feel the vibe when people are smiling and dancing and you know that you are giving them that emotion,” she says of her musical leanings, which tend to veer towards the experimental and electronic.

While Underwood admits that her “guilty pleasure” is gangster rap, she’s likely to tone it down just a bit when it comes to entertaining this time of year. “During the holidays, it’s nice to stick to the classics,” she insists, listing Sade, Goldfrapp, and Patti Smith as a few of her go-to artists.
“They have beautiful songs that everyone loves because they make you feel nostalgic, which is what the holidays are about” —that, and maybe a ruby red statement lip. Listen below for an exclusive holiday playlist that Underwood curated for The Estēe Edit.

CATE UNDERWOOD - holiday listening mix for Estēe Lauder (New York City, US)

CATE UNDERWOOD - baby underwood for baby grand. (Paul's Baby Grand, TriBeCa Grand Hotel, New York)

#howtokeepitgangsta despite the rain in nyc [for all who didn't make it to Full Moon Festival on sunday (now you have to fix it and dance your night away listening to this mash up) & big kiss to all who made it and brought these amazing vibes] xx yours truly, underwood

CATE UNDERWOOD - SexySwag. (Full Moon Festival, Governors Island, NYC)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Karma. (VOGUE Fashion Night Out, Sanahunt boutique, Kiev)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Breakfast at Tiffany's. (Tiffany & Co. gala, Moscow city)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Only Lovers Left Alive. (VOGUE fashion's night out, Kyiv)

Cate’s dj-set at Vogue Ukraine 5th anniversary exhibition “Ukraine in Vogue” which was on show at Kiev’s Lavra Gallery this autumn, boasting a selection of framed photographs as well as 3D-printed sculpture of Cate Underwood and experiments with augmented reality, video and animation.

CATE UNDERWOOD - Ukraine in Vogue. (Vogue Ukraine exhibition, Lavra gallery, Kyiv)

CATE UNDERWOOD - Beauté du Diable. (Nous concept store, Paris)

CATE UNDERWOOD - VOGUE Fashion Night Out MIX (Mauro Grifoni showroom, Milan)

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CATE UNDERWOOD - VOGUE Fashion Night Out MIX (Mauro Grifoni showroom, Milan)

one of my sets from Amsterdam is online now. enjoy and xx!

CATE UNDERWOOD - Amsterdam is love #2. (Mauro Grifoni store opening, Amsterdam)

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CATE UNDERWOOD - Amsterdam is love #2. (Mauro Grifoni store opening, Amsterdam)

Babes, sharing with you my main and favourite mix for now, recorded live in Amsterdam. Hope I'll make your mood for today xx

CATE UNDERWOOD - Amsterdam is love #1. (Mauro Grifoni store opening, Amsterdam)

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CATE UNDERWOOD - Amsterdam is love #1. (Mauro Grifoni store opening, Amsterdam)

Some fresh music for you. hugs and kisses.

CATE UNDERWOOD - Exhibition opening (CORRIDOR & STAIRS gallery, Milano)

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CATE UNDERWOOD - Exhibition opening (CORRIDOR & STAIRS gallery, Milano)

"ukrainian with a life passing between Paris and New York, London and Berlin. Model, dj, but, above all, photographer. Underwood collaborates with important fashion magazines as Vogue, V magazine, W, Harper's Bazaar etc. What is obvious from her instagram @undervoodoo that for contemporaries she is a coolhunter and a media phenomenon."

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