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“Someone bet me 30¢ to make Hilary Rhoda laugh on the runway and I won!”
Coco Rocha, Teen Vogue

“Compared with all the other girls, I have big thighs.”
Doutzen Kroes, May 2007. Vogue

“Once at a fitting, I couldn’t get into a sample-size dress because it was so tiny.”
Karolina Kurkova, May 7, 2007. People magazine

“But listen, I actually recycle, and I actually drive a hybrid!”
Jessica Stam, October 4, 2007. Style.com

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and Natasha is still on NY Mag homepage

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Falling at the Pucci Show Was Horrible
1/29/09 at 3:05 PM

Angela Lindvall plans to hit the Paris catwalks this season, but not New York's. “It’s more about the babies here, which is cool with me — I was a baby at one point," the 30-year old told us at Russell James’s book party last night. "I prefer to just go to Paris and do the Parisian scene — the godfathers of fashion." Lindvall also described a recent photo shoot where she was ordered to crawl around on the floor. “It was weird, all these people staring at me and I’m on the grass and they wanted me to crawl like an animal. I felt like I was being abused. I felt I was being demeaned.” But then her experience kicked in, and she suggested a new approach. “I gave them something much better, because it was a bad idea to begin with."

But that shoot wasn't as bad as when she fell on the runway for the first time last season — twice. "It was at the Pucci show, and I didn’t know that the top of my shoe had a really small platform, and I was strutting my stuff and then, pffft.” She was down. Lindvall was stunned, and at first decided not to do the show’s finale, but later she had second thoughts. “When you fall off a horse, you get back up. I went out for the finale — and fell again,” she said. “And I was bleeding on my knee; it was like one of those dreams where you show up to work naked. That’s what it felt like in real life; it was embarrassing.” How did the audience react? “I don’t know. I really don’t; I just wanted to get the hell out of there. It was horrible. But now I can say I fell.”

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Calvin Klein still hasn't learned its lesson. After networks banned the Obsession fragrance commercial in which Eva Mendes bared the edge of her nipple, the brand is coming out with an even racier jeans ad. The Mendes ad never made it to television in this country, but we're glad that didn't stop Calvin Klein from giving it a second go. The label hasn't made a jeans ad for television since Brooke Shields went commando in the eighties. Steven Meisel shot the new spot, which networks have already deemed too racy for late-night cable television. It consists of models making out with and groping each other on a dingy couch, wearing nothing more than Calvin Klein jeans and body grease. The models are Edita Vilkeviciute, Anna Selezneva, Anna Jagodzinska, Natasha Poly, Vladimir Ivanov, and Danny Schwarz. So four girls and two guys. Yes, there is a threesome scene. Yes, there are more nipples. Needless to say, Calvin Klein will have to edit the commercial so it can air in the U.S. But Europe gets to show this version. Because if anyone in the U.S. sees a bare breast for a millisecond, children will die, obviously. Click on and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IrNaIa1rQ

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This week, Jezebel reported that a knowledgeable fashion source had learned that the New York Times outed Jason Wu to his extended family in a recent profile of the designer. "Styles"-section editor Trip Gabriel responded: "During his reporting, Eric Wilson asked both Wu and his partner, Gustavo Rangel, if it was okay to mention in print that they were a couple. They both consented." [Jezebel]

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• Narciso Rodriguez is returning to the tents for Fashion Week next month, after six seasons off-site. [WWD]

• Apparently Gisele is the new face of Rampage. You can even watch her modeling for the campaign, in behind-the-scenes videos on Rampage's site. Go ahead and look. No judgment. [British Vogue, Rampage]

• Matthew Williamson will make his modeling debut in the ads for his H&M collection, alongside Daria Werbowy. Now that necessitates behind-the-scenes videos. [WWD]

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Fug Girls: Seven Ways to Revive Ugly Betty
1/29/09 at 12:40 PM

Stop making Betty's family so douchey. At some point, Ugly Betty morphed from a sassy, snarky soap-with-a-heart into a soppy morality play about the dangers of allowing a paying job to keep you from playing nursemaid. We blame the increasing insufferability of Clan Suarez: People enjoy watching an unlikely heroine make her way in the big city, but nobody wants to see said heroine's whiny family guilt-trip her about fleeing the coop — to the point where she agrees that wanting a job AND her own life is a terrible character flaw and moves back home. There’s a reason Sex and the City didn’t have any scenes where Carrie's mother yelled at her because her column deadline prevented her from attending a family Tupperware party.

Bring back the soapy tone. What happened to Mr. Suarez's beloved telenovelas? In addition to providing a clever reminder that Betty is based on a telenovela itself, they encouraged a campier framework, and subtly prompted the audience not to take this whole world quite so seriously. We understand criticism that the show is occasionally too over-the-top (though for us, that is impossible), but if we were really that interested in watching a heartfelt exploration of assistants mixing up outgoing mail, we'd go hang out at CAA’s offices for an hour. Plus, we want to know what happened to the maid who faked a pregnancy with a soccer ball.

Make more out of Mode. A fashion-mag office should be replete with saucy and complex potential story lines, but lately most of the Mode shenanigans exist merely as lazy comic relief to offset tedious "Hugging and Learning" segments, or as fuel for Betty’s bogus life lessons in "How Working Will Ruin Your Family." Moreover, there are way too many people shoehorned into the cast with either nothing to do, or nothing to offer. The new CFO's primary character trait is that Daniel wants his ex, and Wilhelmina wants him. Wake us up when he decides to poison one of them by redoing the walls in lead paint.

Finish stronger. When you manage to turn a bitter, glamorous transsexual character like Alexis into a melancholy dullard, you have gone awry. And hasn’t Christina been gestating Wilhelmina’s child with dead Mr. Meade for nearly a year? Ashley Jensen may leave the show, so presumably her character will pop it out eventually, but the story line has dragged on so long we're starting to wonder if she'll give birth to a toddler. If you want to compete with the hotness of Bones' David Boreanaz, you need better endings to promising plot twists.

Commit to Betty's look. She's supposed to be a fish out of water. Hiring Pat Field to make her clash fashionably in $600 coats does not count.

Commit to Betty. After almost three years of babysitting Daniel, the decision to enroll Betty in an editor-training program is a good start at giving her some drive. Girlfriend needs more visible talent and a real shot at participating at Mode, or else we'll all quit because we can't believe she hasn't.

Hire Heather Locklear. Hey, it worked for Melrose Place.