Tag: Models
Vogue are back to using underage models. Welcome to Ondria Hardin…
Mark Jacobs defies CFDA ban and uses under age models
Seems like the fashion world can't help but keep using underage models despite assertions that to the contrary.
Case in point, model Ondria Hardin who in the space of a short...
Ford Models presents its working Black models wish list campaign. But will it work to get more black girls...
How to get more colored girls thumping down the runway and onto American covers?
It's true that in the fashion world there is a disproportionate depiction of white girls to colored girls. But that is not to say that the...
Top Shop forced to take down anorexic campaign.
In response to an avalanche of public dismay over their recent campaign (you can see the pictures here before they were pulled off and the main campaign image below) Top Shop, the UK fashion house has been forced to...
Nick Gruber has a message for playgirl: ‘Go fxck yourself!’
How fame and connections suddenly went to Nick's head.
Woe to be a famous boy toy and not treated with kid gloves.
Huffingtonpost: Vice President of Marketing for Playgirl Daniel Nardicio told Musto that once upon a time he contacted Gruber to pose for the...
The rise of the ‘older’ model? The cunning tricks of the fashion world explained.
According to an intriguing article out of this weekend's UK Telegraph, fashion designers are turning to name brand models of yesteryear in their campaigns, thus creating a situation whereby older models are suddenly being (re)celebrated. What ought to also be...
The end of the male model?
Pursuant to a surprising (well not so surprising to those of us who have actually pursued it, this author included- Reflections of a former Male Model.) statement by top male model, David Gandy that male models are treated on...
The arrival of the supermodel and transsexual French Kiss.
In the continuing stake of de sexualizing fashion and by extension the hyperbole that surrounds it (even though paradoxically it is used to sell and position merchandise and ideas that draw on sexual innuendo) the fashion world has once...
Downtown ‘It Girl’ JULIA G.
NYC— JULIA GONCHARENKO (a.k.a. Julia G.) is the angelic, elegant, vixen-aesthete who will kick your ass in a flash. At first glance she appears heroine-like, a character straight out of an impossibly...
Which Media Turkey are You Taking to Dinner?
Surrogate turkeys in your backyard, if you can find them.
Yippee, it's that time of year where you get to see all the people you spend the rest of the year avoiding. We had a little think to ourselves...
Victoria Secret Runway Show Great Success For Fat, Rich, Men.
Blowing money as scantily clad ubermodels blow kisses. Keeping it simple in America.
Unfortunately for us, our request to cover last night’s Victoria Secret’s fashion collection at the Lexington armory fell upon deaf ears. We think we know now why....
Russell Simmons, Batman, and the Life Project for Africa.
The taxi inched towards fifth avenue as the streets became suddenly illuminated by the camera flashes of passersby. As I stepped out onto the sidewalk, I craned my head over the massive horde of people and saw the Batmobile...
Models vs Dot com Divas.
The modeling industry today has blurred the line between what’s socially acceptable as a working model and what it actually takes to be working as a model in L.A or New York. Imagine this: you're signed to one of...
Yves Saint Laurent’s Parisienne Masquerade, Bon Ton..!! (with flair)
First of all, if you didn’t understand French, it was ok because no one was actually from Paris at the party. Arriving at 8:50 to the Norfolk Street venue, we were greeted by an army of...
Randy Lebeau; Journey of a Male Model.
Randy Lebeau probably doesn't want to be a fashion model but the irony is he is a damn good one and that's the rub. The young man who started out aspiring to be an artist is starting to make...
Celebrity Mother Of the Year.
Story courtesy of Jo Tyrell
I may just not be very tuned into this sort of thing, possibly because I don't read celebrity magazines and so don't know the ins and outs of these women's lives, but reading the shortlist...
