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Claudia Schiffer gives birth to girl

2010-07-28T11:46:46Z

German supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her British film director husband Matthew Vaughn announced on Saturday the birth of their third child, a girl.

The infant, who has yet to be named, was born Friday at the Portland Hospital, a specialist private hospital in central When world wanted to be Twiggy, the teen with the big eyes and boyish bob wanted to be Marilyn

Back in the Mod '60s, when Twiggy conquered London and fashion changed forever, the waif of a teen with huge eyes, a boyish bob and long legs craved the glamour and curves of a different icon.

"Whether you're thin, fat, small, dark, blond, red...

Plus-size models take to London catwalk

2010-04-16T07:01:37Z

Plus-size models took to the London catwalk on Saturday in the latest collection by British knitwear designer Mark Fast, just days after a fresh row erupted in New York over the weight of fashion models.

Fast was at the centre of a dispute during London Fashion Week last September, when a stylist was fo...

Andre Leon Talley to judge 'Top Model'

2010-04-16T07:10:09Z

Andre Leon Talley added to 'America's Next Top Model' judging panel

Andre Leon Talley will help crown "America's Next Top Model."

The over-the-top 60-year-old Vogue editor-at-large will join Tyra Banks, p...

Cheesy French calendar promotes farm-fresh fromage

2010-10-22T11:56:23Z

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - They are soft, round and all in the best possible taste - the cheeses that is, not the pin-up girls promoting them.

But the "From Girls" are a group of cheese fans prepared to pose in their underwear for a pictorial calendar promoting regional French fromage.

The pin-up calendar was the idea of the Association of traditional French cheesemakers, "Fromage des Terroirs," who say that far f...

China's Internet buzzing over woman in black

2010-04-16T08:52:09Z

Forget Obama's speech, the Internet wants to know who the woman in the black dress was

While President Barack Obama talked about Internet rights during his visit to China, the Internet here talked about a mystery woman in black.

Clad in a black dress and red coat, college student Wang Zifei was snapped by photo...

Kate Moss criticized after skinny-is-good remark

2010-04-16T09:01:26Z

Eating disorder experts criticize supermodel Kate Moss for skinny-is-good motto

Eating disorder experts criticized Kate Moss on Thursday after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on Web sites that encourage girls to avoid eating.

In an interview with the fashion Web site WWD, Moss said one of her mottos was "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

The same slogan is posted on Web sites enco...

Naomi Campbell champions African models, mothers

2010-04-16T09:11:05Z

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters Life!) - Carrying a golden dagger on her first African catwalk, supermodel Naomi Campbell emerged from behind a shimmering veil to make a pointed attack on the developed world's discrimination against black models.

"Where do we see a woman of color in an advert? It's quite blata...

Featured Model: Maya Rochelle

2010-04-16T09:49:28Z

Maya was a judge for Bullz-Eye's Racey Girl 2009. They loved this outgoing, energetic and sexy model so much that they decided to do a full photo shoot with her. Check out her hot gallery below and see why she was a Bullz-Eye.com Featured Model.

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Mannequins hit by discrimination -- and loss of face

2010-04-16T09:59:44Z

As blue-eyed blondes increasingly hog the catwalks, discrimination is also at work in the weird and wonderful world of the fashion mannequin.

"Black mannequins don't sell," said Marc Lacroix, a manager at one of the world's leading producers, Paris-based Cofrad which also owns Los Angeles firm Patina-V, a maker of ...

Anna Nicole prescription was "pharmaceutical suicide"

2010-04-16T10:11:26Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A pharmacist asked to provide powerful medications for late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith described the combination of drugs as a prescription for "pharmaceutical suicide" and refused to fill the orde...

Free massages, merchandise -- for female models only

2010-04-16T10:20:26Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A lounge in New York City is offering free massages, free food and free merchandise -- for female fashion models only.

Dozens of models turn up daily at The Model Lounge, located in the basement of Delicatessen, a trendy restaurant and bar in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood.

"All ...

Tyra goes back to her (hair) roots on TV talk show

2010-06-11T21:49:54Z

Tyra Banks goes back to her (hair) roots on TV talk show; drops artifice to make a point

Tyra Banks is getting back to her roots for the season debut of her TV talk show, and she doesn't mean that as a figure of speech.

On Tuesday's fifth-season premiere of "The Tyra Show" on the CW network, the former supermodel goes on-camer...

Plus-size model Crystal Renn fits in her own skin

2010-04-16T10:37:32Z

In `Hungry,' plus-size model Crystal Renn says she's living in the body she was meant to have

Crystal Renn was miserable as a super-thin model who had heart palpitations when she'd worry that there might be calories in Diet Coke.

Her moment of epiphany came when "I couldn't walk another step without being exhausted, or having hair clumps falling out." Sh...

Naomi Sims, among first black models, dies at 61

2010-04-16T10:59:42Z

Naomi Sims, who embodied 'Black is Beautiful' movement as groundbreaking model, dies at 61

Naomi Sims, whose 1968 Ladies' Home Journal cover shot was a breakthrough for black fashion models, has died. She was 61.

Sims, said by some to be the first black supermodel, died Saturday of breast cancer in Naomi Sims, a black model who opened the white-dominated fashion industry to African Americans in the 1960s, has died, reports said Tuesday. She was 61.

Sims, sometimes dubbed the first black supermodel, died of cancer Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, the New York Times and

Brazilian fashion gets racy -- and racial

2010-04-16T11:43:37Z

Top model Gisele Bundchen and Madonna's "toyboy" Jesus Luz opened Brazil's top fashion show this week, but the focus was just as much on race as the racy summerwear and celebrities on parade.

For the first time, the Sao Paulo Fashion Week -- It's a boy for ex-model Kimora Lee Simmons and her boyfriend, actor Djimon Hounsou

It's a boy for former fashion model Kimora Lee Simmons and actor Djimon (JAI'-mon) Hounsou (Hahn-SOO').

Simmons announced the birth Saturday on her Twitter feed. A representative for Simmons says...

Patriots QB Brady says no more kids on the way

2010-04-16T12:04:34Z

Patriots QB Tom Brady says supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen is not expecting another child

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said Thursday there's no baby on the way for him and his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen.

Brady, who has a son with actress Howling keeps company hopping: Keene, NH, company's wolf T-shirt becomes big seller online

A T-shirt depicting three wolves howling at the moon has gained an exploding following with a Facebook page and online videos — all because a customer posted a tongue-in-cheek comment on ...

Taiwan pageant organisers caught in hoax

2010-04-16T12:18:04Z

The organiser of a Taiwanese beauty pageant have claimed they were conned by a modeling agency when it sent Australian women posing as international contestants, a report said Saturday.

Models claiming to be from 24 different countries took part in "The World Supermodel Pageant" co-hosted this week in Taichung by the city's tourism association TMTA and an Australian modeling organisation, the Paulina Porizkova says she was fired by `America's Next Top Model'

Paulina Porizkova got a pink slip from "America's Next Top Model."

That's what the model-actress said Tuesday night on CBS' "The ...

Model as Muse: life imitates beauty in New York

2010-04-16T12:26:43Z

They are supermodels and in a new exhibition at New York's Met museum they are also the superheroes of a world where image is everything and beauty is priceless.

"The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" details a lineage ranging from Richard Avedon's supremely elegant 1955 photo "Dovima with elephants" to 1960s icon Twiggy...

Plus Size Lingerie Modeling

2010-04-16T12:33:48Z

Plus Size Lingerie Modeling

By Susette Browne

In the society of today many people look at only the slender looking woman as a model for lingerie but gone are those days when designers and fashion houses reject the plus size person. They now recognize that plus size women buy their product and need to see them selves on the runway. For years plus size women were afraid to come forward and get in the groove of modeling.

They are beautiful. Full figured women a...

Can You Be a Promotional Or Trade Show Model?

2010-04-16T15:34:01Z

Can You Be a Promotional Or Trade Show Model?

By Fred Sweet

Have you ever been to a trade show and seen attractive girls working in the booths or been approached by pretty girls in a bar or nightclub with drink samples? If you have, then you have seen promotional models. This type of modeling is the easiest type to get into. The only real requirements to be a promotional model are to have an attractive look and an outgoing personality. The key here is that you are going ...

Full Figure Women - Join the Modeling Industry

2010-04-16T17:37:46Z

Full Figure Women - Join the Modeling Industry

By Tiffany Hart

Have you ever had the desire to be a model, but thought it was beyond you because you simply are not thin enough. The fact of the matter is just the opposite is true. Plus size models are in great demand given the fact most women do not have rail thin bodies. The question, of course, is how do you become one?

The first thing to understand is the modeling industry is not an easy one. It can be gla...

Bundchen, Brady in Brazil to visit model's family

2010-04-16T16:02:21Z

Bundchen introduces Brady to her family in her Brazilian hometown

Brazilian media are reporting that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are in the supermodel's hometown so that she can introduce the American football star to her family.

Zero Hora newspaper says the supermodel and Brady are in the souther...

Elite model boss faces cocaine charge in Paris

2010-06-11T22:36:49Z

A top executive at the Elite model agency has been charged as part of a crackdown on cocaine use on the Paris fashion and nightclub scene, a judicial official said Thursday.

Bertrand Hennet, the 35-year-old chief executive of Elite World, the parent company of the world's biggest model agency, was charged Wednesday with buying and transporting illegal drugs, the official said.

Hennet admitted to snorting up to two grammes of cocaine p...

Factors in Becoming a Plus Size Model

2010-04-16T17:37:49Z

Factors in Becoming a Plus Size Model

By Tiffany Hart

There is a vibrant world of opportunity for plus size models in the United States and Europe. If you are interested in the possibilities of becoming a plus size model, you need to know what factors are involved in the process and that is exactly what we cover here.

The issues a woman is required to deal w...

Banks: Scars, attitude part of `Top Model' beauty

2010-04-16T16:14:45Z

Tyra Banks says scars, attitude are part of `Top Model' beauty; shorter women next to rule

Tyra Banks, with a lively rush of words, describes a photo session featured in the season debut of "America's Next Top Model."

In the shoot dubbed "Return to Innocence," the German Football League (DFL) have shown a red card to a request by Karlsruhe defender Dino Drpic and his pin-up wife who want the footballer to wear the suggestive number 69 on his playing shirt.

Bundesliga officials have blocked the idea on the ground...

German football league red card saucy number request

2010-04-16T14:40:23Z

The German Football League (DFL) have shown a red card to a request by Karlsruhe defender Dino Drpic and his pin-up wife who want the footballer to wear the suggestive number 69 on his playing shirt.

Bundesliga officials have blocked the idea on the ground...

Naomi Campbell settles lawsuit filed by ex-maid

2010-04-16T15:18:56Z

Naomi Campbell settles lawsuit filed by a former maid

Naomi Campbell has ended her legal tussle with a former maid who accused the supermodel of hitting her and calling her names.

Terms of the settlement are confidential, but a lawyer for the 38-year-old Campbell says both sides were pleased with the outcome.

A lawyer for Gaby Gibson, who w...

Not just for Christmas

2010-06-12T09:59:00Z

I live with a supermodel -- excessively fussy about diet and grooming. Sadly this gorgeous creature has four legs not two, and is a boy not a girl. He is a Pekingese dog and, five years ago, he was a birthday present from my wife. (She, too, of course, is a supermodel. ) My Pekingese is extremely special. Every British Pekingese is currently extremely special. In figures published recently, the Kennel Club lists only 567 pekes in the country, with only seven accredited peke breeders. Th...

The Natural

2010-04-16T13:39:19Z

Bettie Page, Pollyanna of pin-ups.

The Natural

Bettie Page, Pollyanna of pin-ups.

By Helen Rittelmeyer, December 29, 2008

It's not unusual for icons of the sexual revolution to find Jesus. Norma McCorvey, who put the "Roe" in Carla Bruni, the pop singer wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who spent her 41st anniversary in a Brazilian slum on Tuesday.
"Parabens para voce!" -- the traditional Brazilian birthday song that mirrors the "Happy Birthday to You" tune in English -- greeted Bruni as she visited the Pavao-Pavaozi...

American pin-up and culture icon Bettie Page dead at 85

2010-04-16T13:50:54Z

Bettie Page, the pin-up model whose seductive photographs in magazines titillated and outraged Americans in the 1950s, has died, her agent said. She was 85.
"With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 6:41pm PST this evening (0241 GMT Friday) in a Los Angeles hospital," her agent Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano has signed a deal with Payless to design a line of affordable shoes and handbags. [NY Post]

Designer Roberto Cavalli has been cleared of all tax evasion charges brought against him i...

America's Next Top Model Judge Jay Alexander Sells Book on 'Presence, Poise and Power'

2010-04-16T14:13:42Z

Endearingly boisterous America's Next Top Model judge and walking coach J. Alexander (Miss J to the fans) has sold a book, Follow the Model: Miss J's Guide to Unleashing Presence, Poise, and Power, to Simon Spotlight Entertainment, to be edited by Patrick Price (Mr. Price was also responsible for the seminal He's Just Not That Into You, not to mention the

Models are too skinny for my size 10 styles, says fashion designer

2010-04-16T12:43:02Z

One of Britain's leading fashion designers has reopened the skinny models debate by revealing she struggled to find models big enough to wear the clothes in her latest fashion show.
When Maria Grachvogel set about preparing her catwalk show at Claridge's this week, she requested size 10 models, only to find that most agencies could only provide models size 8 ...

Bond girl rises from humble Soviet childhood

2010-06-11T22:40:17Z

New Bond girl rose to prominence from provincial Ukrainian town
Olga Kurylenko, the model and actress who stars in the upcoming James Bond movie, began acting by playing Santa Claus' young wife in a school play in her Ukrainian hometown.
Teachers remember Kurylenko, the 28-year-old brunette who ...

Case of the $5K designer umbrella ruled frivolity

2010-04-16T13:22:02Z

Attorney fined $500 for filing lawsuit that claimed supermodel damaged expensive umbrella
It's a rainy day for the Manhattan restaurateur who sued a supermodel claiming she intentionally damaged his designer umbrella, said to be worth $5,000.
State Supreme Court Justice Joan A. Madden threw out Nello Balan<...

Former Revlon model, cover girl Dorian Leigh dies

2010-04-16T16:54:09Z

Former Revlon model Dorian Leigh, featured in "Fire and Ice" cosmetic ads, dies at 91
Dorian Leigh, an early supermodel who made Revlon's 1950s "Fire and Ice" cosmetics line famous, has died at age 91.
Leigh, who went on to run her own modeling agency and open a restaurant in France, died Monday at a nursin...

Fashion Twiggy

2010-03-30T13:32:37Z
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1967 file photo, British fashion model Twiggy is pictured at a London Salon where she is presenting the first collection from her line of clothing in England. Twiggy, now 60, will hit HSN, Home Shopping network, with an affordable line of designs and accessories in bold colors and price under $100, Arpil 3, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 - Arrivals

2010-03-27T08:04:26Z
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 24: Agyness Deyn arrives at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 at Brixton Academy on February 24, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 18: Victoria's Secret supermodels take over Times Square at Military Island on November 18, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Orthodox Jews Demand The Cover Up Of Bar Rafaeli's New Poster Campaign

2010-03-30T14:14:53Z
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 30: A huge poster shows Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, modestly dressed in winter clothes, in an advert with a male model for the local Fox clothing company, on October 30, 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The billboard replaced a previous poster showing Refaeli and the model partly-dressed, which ultra-Orthodox complained was pro...

Lifestyles Teen Vogue Pregnancy

2010-03-30T16:12:34Z
In this magazine cover image released by Teen Vogue, teen models Jourdan, left, and Chanel are shown on the cover of the November 2009 issue of Teen Vogue. (AP Photo/Teen Vogue)
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