I’m 5′ 11″, and in my skinniest, tiniest days back at around age 19, I was modeling a bit. I was a size 4. While I didn’t have an eating disorder, I would regularly pass out if I didn’t eat enough. I was much too thin to be heathly, and everyone around […]

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New York has been abuzz with the huge story of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution ring sex scandal.  This story had nothing to do with Fashion Law, so I stayed away.  However, now there is word on the street that the alleged hooker (known as “Kristen”, Ashley DiPietro and Ashley Dupre) marketed herself on a modeling site […]

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Today Police in Paris, France found the body of former model Katoucha Niane in the Seine River.  Naine, who gained notoriety as the face of Yves Saint Laurent in the 1980’s, went missing January 31 aafter a night of drinking with friends.  Foul play was ruled out, and it is thought that Niane simply fell into […]

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Remember the 1990’s days of Kate Moss and heroine chic?  Skinny was king.  It seems that lean is mean these days for male models.

The days of buff bods may be gone for the male model.  Amid current worries over the thin silhouettes of females on the catwalk, The New York Times is reporting that the […]

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Sean Combs, now known as “Sean John” (formerly known as “P. Diddy”,  ”Puff Daddy”, “Diddy” and ”Puffy”) allegedly told internet gossip blog, Media Take Out, that he plans to use only black models in his fashion show this week. 

Perhaps this is Combs’ media-savvy response to the current controversy surrounding the lack of minority representation on the runway during […]

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More news about the lack of diversity among models on the catwalk appeared in last week’s Wall Street Journal. The article focuses on designer Peter Som’s casting of his show for Fashion Week.

Above is Chanel Iman, a a 16-year-old model who is in high demand for shows this season.  The lack of minority faces on the runway […]

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Today’s NY Metro Style Section features a story about the surprising lack of diversity on the catwalk. 

Fashion week kicks off at the end of the month, and many are calling for more faces of color to walk down the runway. 
Several months ago, there was an open forum to discuss ways of improving diversity representation in fashion models.  Led […]

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The net’s abuzz with the news that this cycle of Top Model that ended last week may have been rigged. Last week I wrote about the finale and announced the winner.

Media Take Out exposes some inappropriate links between the show’s producer/ judge, Tyra Banks, and this cycle’s winner, Saleisha Stowers.

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Fashion Lawyer is obsessed with Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model.  The reality T.V. show is packed with melodramatic outbursts from supermodel hopefuls, and I cannot get enough of it.  Sadly, because of working too hard and too much lately, I was asleep during last night’s finale. Don’t start crying for me yet, Argentina; I’ll download […]

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Imagine a picket line of models in snazzy outfits bearing signs like, “Pay Models Fair Wages!” and “Models Have Rights, Too!”   It might happen…  soon!
 
A group of fashion models in the United Kingdom are joining the Actor’s Equity Union, a British counterpart to the Screen Actors’ Guild (WWD).  United they stand; divided they fall, right!?!
Issues at the heart of importance […]

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