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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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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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