Bar Refaeli Rails Against Skinny Models

Supermodel Bar Refaeli is sick of seeing stick-thin girls starving themselves in hopes of landing a runway modeling gig, so she decided to take a stand and rant to her Twitter fans. According to HollywoodLife, she tweeted, "I get so sad when I see 15-year-old pale extremely skinny models at the agency looking all shaky and hungry ... when will it end?!?!?"

The 5-foot-9-inch supermodel is represented by One Management in NYC. Her rant comes just as the Australian federal government has begun implementing tougher restrictions and even bans on ultra-thin models.

In 2006, the world's first ban on super-skinny models in a high-fashion show occurred in Madrid and caused outrage among modeling agencies. Refaeli was the first Israeli model to appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and two years later, she was the cover model for the famed edition. Refaeli is also known for her on-again, off-again relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Style wizard Emma Watson casts her magic over ethical fashion

Actor known for playing Hermione Granger in Harry Potter films to launch latest People Tree collection at eco festival. She remains best known for playing the youthful wizard Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. But now Emma Watson is weaning teenage shoppers away from mass-produced chainstore clothes in favour of ethical fashions made on a small scale in some of the world's poorest nations.

Watson's latest collection for People Tree, which works using strict Fairtrade and environmental guidelines, will be launched at "a garden party to make a difference", a 12-day environmental festival organised by the Prince of Wales that will be held next month in the gardens of his London home, Clarence House. Fashion experts say Watson, now 20, has a considerable amount of influence among girls and young women who have watched her gradually shed the image of the somewhat frumpy Hermione to emerge as a fully fledged fashion icon. "I think a lot of young women have grown up with her, seen her develop her style," said Emily Sheffield, deputy editor of British Vogue. "She is a classic English rose."

Traditionally, ethical fashion is a sector associated with older consumers more concerned with provenance than design. But Orsola de Castro, co-curator of Esthetica, the British Fashion Council's eco-sustainable initiative, believes this perception is changing and Watson is part of that. "We have to make ethical fashion available and interesting and glamorous for the public," she said. "Celebrity support is providing that platform." Watson says she wants to create clothes for people of her own age, introducing younger lengths and fitted shapes to the People Tree brand. "Emma appeals to younger people and the collection has sold incredibly well on [online fashion outlet] Asos," said Safia Minney, founder of People Tree. "When clothes are worn by someone as lovely as Emma, it brings a whole new customer in." Watson's previous collection, for autumn/winter 2010, will be for sale from Wednesday from People Tree. "Although I wasn't centrally involved in the design, I had a great fun in helping People Tree select some gorgeous Fairtrade textiles," she said. "There are even a few party dresses, such as the little black satin tulip dress which can be dressed up or down to suit any occasion."

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Naomi Campbell: the supermodel with a temper

As she took her seat in the courtroom of The Hague, Naomi Campbell left onlookers in little doubt that she had better things to do with her time. "I don't really want to be here. I was made to be here. This is a big inconvenience for me," she said in the manner of a sulky teenager. Dressed in figure-hugging Azzedine Alaia, with her hair piled high in a Sixties beehive, she cut a demure figure. She was keen for the court to get her full job description. "I'm a model, I'm a self-employed businesswoman and I do a lot of charity work," she explained.

She is also a regular in courtrooms around the world thanks to her temper. The supermodel from Streatham has a habit of making the news for all the wrong reasons. There was the time in 2008 when she assaulted two police officers at Heathrow after learning that one of her bags had not been loaded on to the plane. She was led from the aircraft in handcuffs and given 200 hours community service. In 2007, a New York court ordered Campbell to attend anger management classes after she hurled a jewel-encrusted BlackBerry at her maid's head. Her sentence involved mopping floors at the Department of Sanitation – she wore a silver Dolce & Gabbana gown and left in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce.

Most people would find it unusual if two strange men turned up in the middle of the night bearing mysterious gifts. Naomi Campbell is not most people. "I just took them. I get gifts given to me all the time at any hour of the night. It's quite normal for me to receive gifts," she said dismissively when questioned about the diamonds. Indeed, she did not bother to open the pouch until the morning, and then claimed to have no idea what they were. "When I'm used to seeing diamonds, I'm used to seeing diamonds shining in a box," she informed the court, as befits a woman who is dating Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin. The jet set lifestyle is a long way from her upbringing in a tough area of south London. She was spotted by a talent scout at 15 and by 1988 had become the first black woman to grace the cover of French Vogue. She was one of the 'Big Six' supermodels who dominated the 1990s, alongside Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Kate Moss.

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