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I had the great luck to have had Frederique as a client and friend over the past few years. Given her superstar status and arresting natural beauty (h...
American Vogue has never featured an Asian model on its cover in its 40-plus years of featuring models.
We have a complaint. Truth be told we have lots of complaints, but we're on a bitching diet and are limiting ourselves to one really good bitch a day...
I have been to plenty of fashion parties in Boston, but none have ever been as big, bold and beautiful as the one Thursday night at Liberty Hotel.
Contemporary audiences will immediately notice how comparatively mature Parker appears compared to today's supermodels. Aesthetics were very different in Parker's day: women strived to look sophisticated, rather than half their age.
We can call injections of foreign stuff under our skin "having nothing done". So what if Botox makes you look like a poorly dubbed movie?
Susan Ringwood's initiative to revolutionize designers' attitudes about "model" bodies wasn't easy. "Did anyone try to tell Picasso to change his models?" a designer demanded.
Thompson spends most of her time these days speaking to college-aged girls about healthy body image.
While magazine editors profess to be on the lookout for more normal models, not very many of them practices what they preach.
Since every savvy gal on a budget must amortize her costs, we stick by a steadfast rule of putting money into 'keeper' pieces that get frequent wear. Besides, since we are contrary by nature, the fancier the event, the bigger the thrill of a bargain 'fraud'.
An employer can't legally tell you to do something that will knowingly cost you your life, like stand in oncoming traffic, so why should we allow an industry that tells girls they can't work unless they are actively starving themselves to death?
You think you have it hard? Try being a fashion model! They're beautiful (all the time!), naturally thin, and get paid lots of money to be quiet and j...
If you are given something of great value, the least of your responsibility is to make use of it. Which is why I became a model. But here's the twist: since you don't actually have to do anything to pursue a career based on the way you look, it is seen as a shallow calling.
It's absolutely amazing to me how new products always excite makeup artists. They squeal. They covet, hide, and hoard. And as we get deeper into the week of shows, they are not sharing with each other.
I barely noticed the clothes because I was so distracted by the models underneath the garments. Line after line, show after show, model after model looked the same: jutting chest bones, sharp clavicles, bony knees, and so on.
