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Model May Andersen on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
The feisty fashionista has exactly the same political worries as everyone else in America.
Posted 09/10/08 in Daily Intel : Bons Mots
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Fox News Says They Made an ‘Error’ by Showing Pics of Dead Model
But what kind of error, exactly?
Posted 06/30/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Be Prepared to Learn More About the Taleses Than You Ever Wanted to Know
Mariah Carey doesn't want you to see her eyes, Pamela Anderson gets American, and Elite modeling agency goes to Utah!
Posted 04/29/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Introducing Johannes Huebl, Olivia Palermo's New BF!
Personal details included, and a beefcake video!
Posted 04/24/08 in Daily Intel : Cultural Capital
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Lydia Hearst Pimps Out Her Aspiring Singer Boyfriend!
We just personally got invited to a party by Lydia Hearst! She said "Hey You!" in the subject line!
Posted 04/22/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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The ‘Times’ Notices Something Skinny About Male Models
Hey, guys, remember when we noticed that male models, starting with the fashion shows in Milan, were surprisingly skinny this year? Well, eventually Guy Trebay noticed, too! He has a whole story in the Times about it today. Now, to our eyes, the models in New York aren't as coltish and sunken-cheeked as they were in Milan. But they are skinnier than usual. Take the normally buff boys of Duckie Brown, for example. Their silhouettes are much narrower this year. For more evidence, click through our slideshows from menswear (and mixed) shows like DKNY, Phillip Lim, and Thom Browne. The Vanishing Point [NYT] Related: The Skinny on Milan's Male Models
Posted 02/07/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Model Man Scott Lipps Would Not Live in New York on $35,000
Name: Scott Lipps
Job: President, One Management. Even though Lipps is a busy man during Fashion Week, he also just launched a pop-culture blog, The New Blog.
Neighborhood: Soho Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Actually, he was a Londoner (I'm a bit of an Anglophile), but he lived in New York. Does that count? That would be the greatest songwriter of all time, Mr. John Lennon. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? Its a toss-up between a beautiful romantic evening I just had at Danube and the all-time favorite Sushi Yasuda…love that sushi . In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job? Manage, manage, manage…actors, models, musicians; I'm managing as we speak.Posted 02/05/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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Natalia Vodianova’s Hips Do Lie
So as you've probably guessed, we're all in a tizzy getting ready for Fashion Week. We've started getting our invitations, we're assigning photographers, and we're going through the schedule and castings. As we looked at agency DNA's list of models who are up for gigs starting next week, we spotted a familiar name: 25-year-old Natalia Vodianova. The beauty from a destitute Russian village turned British aristocrat’s wife is among the lovelies. It got us thinking about how Vodianova never seems to age. After nearly ten years of modeling, she still has the same baby face and baby hips. Like, not the kind that are made for the having of babies (even though she's popped out three), but ones that a model for babyGap would take one look at and stop breast-feeding for a week out of sheer envy for them. Nothing she can do seems to shake that girlish figure. Vodianova gave birth to son Viktor on September 13, and while she sat out the New York shows in the fall, she hit the Paris runways less than three weeks later. This made us wonder about Vodianova’s other model-cum-mommy powers, so we went back and did the math on her past postpartum runway returns.
Posted 01/23/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Video: Backstage at Ford's Supermodel of the Year Competition
Ford's Supermodel of the World competition last year launched model Chanel Iman (who was a runner-up) into the freezing, barely breathable atmosphere of the modeling world. Since then she's modeled for Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, and Derek Lam, among many others. She was also featured on the cover of Vogue last year in an homage to fashion's new supermodels. So anyone who says the annual Ford contest isn't a ticket to stardom is just plain wrong. Click above to view some backstage video of this year's competition and model interviews with New York's Jada Yuan. Ford Supermodel of the World [NYM Video]
Posted 01/17/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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The Skinny on Milan's Male Models
Remember how, during the past few fashion weeks, there's been such a to-do about the health of female models? In 2006 in Madrid, designers were ordered to select only runway models with a healthy body mass index and officially banned from using any that set an unhealthy example for young women. This was followed by political efforts in other cities, including New York, to institute the same kind of rule. Designers and buyers alike took sides in the debate. Well, it's been a while since we've talked about the issue, but we're wondering whether it might be coming up again this season. As many fashionistas are winging their way back to New York from the Milan shows today, we're hearing that there's buzz about the size of the models. The male models.In this week's Italian menswear shows, as you can tell from scanning through New York's extensive photo galleries, there was an emphasis on the super-skinny. "The models did look more like stick insects than usual," texted one fashion guru while idling on an airport runway waiting to come home. "Even Dolce & Gabbana [who often favor overmuscled hunks] had slightly more slender models!" This is a city that made headlines for plastering itself with cautionary billboards of a naked anorexic woman before last fashion week, too. We're not saying any of these guys are unhealthy (we'll wait until the swimwear shows start to really start judging), but they've certainly gotten that "colt look" going. Kate Bosworth would kill for those legs! European Menswear Shows [NYM Fashion]
Posted 01/17/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Live Like a Supermodel, But With a Better Apartment
Comely wannabes looking to launch their modeling careers usually bunk up in tiny apartments to make ends meet until they land that elusive cover. But not apparently the contestants for Make Me a Supermodel, Bravo's upcoming reality series. A tipster says scouts for the show, slated to hit the air early next year and hosted by the easy-on-the-eyes Tyson Beckford, recently checked out a luxe (read camera-ready) 4500-square-foot penthouse on West 20th Street with five bedrooms, four and a half baths, and a roof deck. It's currently on the market for $8.2 million, though apparently also available for rent for somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000 a month. Listing broker Darren Sukenik of Prudential Douglas Elliman declined to comment. Needless to say, it's not your average apartment, for models or otherwise. —S. Jhoanna Robledo 129 West 20th Street [Prudential Douglas Elliman]
Posted 12/13/07 in Daily Intel : Vu.
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Find the Perfect Man With Our Male-Model Manual
If the delicious cornucopia pictured above didn't already get your attention, allow us to direct you to our latest offering: men! More specifically, those newly featured in our ever-handy Model Manual, to which we've just added 41 male specimens. Don't know your dreamboat's name? No worries — he doesn't necessarily need one, right? Plus, we've taken the time to organize them all by their distinctive traits, from Brazilian boys to sugar daddies. After the jump, please do enjoy a solid afternoon's worth of lusty procrastination.
Posted 12/04/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Models, Breasts, and a ‘Marie Claire’ Charity Auction
Marie Claire threw a party at Milk Gallery in Chelsea last night in honor of supermodel- cum-photographer Helena Christensen's photo spread in the mag's August issue. Christensen's photographs of "Super Role Models" (supermodels who are role models, get it? Ha!) were silently auctioned for charity to the hipper-than-thou crowd, which seemed more into the free booze and their accessories than the art. Oh, and breasts. They were also into breasts: Christensen's shot of a breast-baring Naomi Campbell (you could see her nipple!) was the night's star attraction. How does a model feel when her nip slips out? Naomi wasn't there for us to ask — and we might not have asked her such a probing question, either, at least not without taking away her cell phone first — but up-and-coming young model Chanel Iman was, and she recalled her own breast's inadvertent runway debut. "I saw the video," she recalled of a fashion show two years ago, "and I saw my nipple just jiggling, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' And at the time I was really young, you know, so I wasn't that mature." Now a worldly 16-year-old, she got over such petty humiliations long ago. "It's just a breast," she said, sagely. We hope Campbell feels likewise. —Haven Thompson Find out what Helena Christensen, Amy Sacco, Rachel Roy, and others had to say in our Interactive Party Lines.
Posted 07/19/07 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Blowin' in the Wind
Bobby Kennedy Jr. says he and his uncle Ted aren't as opposed to the proposed Cape Cod wind farm as a book says they are. Liza Minnelli and Isle Werther are fighting over a dress. Barneys creative director Simon Doonan is happy to be a "card-carrying fag." Boxing will go upscale when three Ford models replace the traditional ring girls at the upcoming welterweight championship at MSG. Former Justin Timberlake flame Cameron Diaz and current Justin Timberlake flame Jessica Biel will both be at the MTV Movie Awards, which may be awkward. Adam Carolla noted that Rosie O'Donnell is a fat female lesbian, and thus has "triple coverage as a minority." President Bush's chief domestic policy adviser, Karl Zinzmeister, reportedly said he'd never hire another woman because they "just get pregnant and leave." Dean McDermott broke up with girlfriend Mary Jo Eustace via "Page Six."
Posted 05/29/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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The Very Models of a Modern Iraq Protester
It wasn't just little kids and aging hippies at the Iraq protest in Union Square last night. We even saw our favorite male models, Video Look Book veterans and childhood pals John Jones (left) and Khale Unger. Entering further into the realm of life imitating Zoolander, Jones and Unger wore coordinated outfits to the event. Who knew political demonstrations could be so fashionable? John Jones and Khale Unger [Video Look Book] Earlier: All They Are Saying…
Posted 05/03/07 in Daily Intel : The Follow-up
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Some Models, Apparently, Eat As Much As You Do
Think models don't eat? If Missy Rayder — currently featured in Gap's khakis campaign — is any indication, that's hardly the case. Missy runs down her week of noshes in the new New York Diet, and we count mentions of "really greasy" French fries, lobster rolls, "the best brisket ever," and Heath bar ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery. That's not all. Find out what else she scarfed down this week on Grub Street. Model Missy Rayder Drinks Garlic and Eats 'Dragon Bowls' [Grub Street]
Posted 03/09/07 in Daily Intel : Grub Street
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Speak, Models!
FASHION • Turns out models can speak — at least in Ridley Scott's new Prada movie. [Fashionista] • Bottega Veneta has designed the interior of a penthouse suite at the St. Regis. [British Vogue] • Model Paulina Porizkova has joined the cast of Dancing With the Stars. [Flypaper] • Naomi Campbell left Premier Models, where she's spent most of her career, for IMG. [All Company News]
Posted 02/23/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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