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• Ann Taylor replaced Heidi Klum with Katie Holmes for the spring season. The brand says it sought Holmes, who's also modeled for J. Crew and been the face of Miu Miu, for "her intellect, kindness and enduring personal style." [WWD]

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• Model Coco Rocha unearthed and published the Steven Meisel photograph that Anna Wintour famously killed from Grace Coddington's 1920s-themed spread in The September Issue — previously only glimpsed ever-so-fleetingly in the movie. So this is it. It's purty. [OhSoCoco]

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• Carine Roitfeld finally addressed her infamous blackface editorial: "We take risks. Painting Lara Stone in black, for example. We were accused of being racist, which was totally untrue, since I once did an entire issue on a black model." [WWD]

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• Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have reportedly been indicted on tax evasion charges in Italy. In 2004, the duo transferred their brands to a holding company; they could be found liable for $1 billion worth of taxes and fines. [WWD]

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M.I.A. wore a burqa, Sarah Silverman wore an infantile shirt. The Room's Tommy Wiseau was there. This was Spike TV's 'Scream 2010,' and scream we did. More »
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• Supposedly Brad Goreski left Rachel Zoe's employ because he was on the cover of the Times Style section during fashion week and Rachel Zoe must be the star of everything. Further proof the Style section ruins everything. [PopEater]

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• Balenciaga asked Cindy Sherman to create a series of six of her trademark in-character self-portraits for the brand. In each, naturally Sherman wears Balenciaga head-to-toe. [The Cut]
• Pop covergirl Britney Spears might perform at the magazine's FNO party. [DFR]

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• Bono and Ali Hewson star in the newest of Louis Vuitton's "core values" ads. The couple, who were shot in South Africa, wear clothing by Edun, Hewson's sustainable fashion line. LVMH owns 49% of the brand. [WWD]

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• Apparently, the last thing Lindsay Lohan did before she went to jail was wrangle a commitment out of Blackbook to publish her ramblings about fashion, personal style, and that feeling you get when you're cutting up a Gucci dress. Herewith:

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• American Apparel's stock is tumbling this morning, following news that the company's dodgy accounting has caught the eye of the U.S. Attorney's office. It's currently trading at 0.83. [AMEX:APP]
• Dov says: "The capital structure issues will work themselves out." [WWD]

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• Before testifying at Charles Taylor's trial, Naomi Campbell has demanded accommodations normally extended to victims of atrocities. She wants the media to not film or photograph her, and she wants a lawyer to speak for her on the stand.

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In a shocking turn of events, Julia Roberts was airbrushed down to her (now disappeared) pores for her first Lancôme ad. [Daily Mail]
• Louis Vuitton's fanny pack is exactly as hideous as you'd expect — and costs $1,970. [TLF]

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• Natalie Portman will be the latest face of Christian Dior perfumes. She joins a stable that includes Sharon Stone, Charlize Theron, and Monica Bellucci. Some common perfume ingredients are hazardous to health; some are animal products. Is perfume vegan? [WWD]

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• American Apparel's stock sank to a 52-week low yesterday after news that its quarterly loss had widened, and that it had received a de-listing warning from the New York Stock Exchange. What, neon onesies aren't great business? [TS]

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• Carrie wears a $50,000 karaoke outfit, and there are lots of Maybachs. "Like in the Great Depression, I thought Hollywood should take people on a big vacation that maybe they couldn't afford themselves," says writer Michael Patrick King. [WWD]

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• Heidi Klum, one of five models including Jessica Stam to make People's Most Beautiful list this year, poses for the tabloid in a so-hot-right-now makeup-free shot. [HuffPo]
• The Kardashian sisters have added bikinis to their trashy Bebe line-o'-knockoffs. [People]

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• Naomi Campbell taped an episode of Oprah. It must be tremendously comforting to be able to confess one's blood-diamond-mongering sins with warlords to Oprah's stern-but-spiritual countenance. Oprah also extracted from Campbell a pledge to stop throwing phones. [WWD]

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• David Beckham got Victoria something truly special for Valentine's Day: a pair of flat shoes, albeit from Lanvin. "I have discovered I can walk very quickly when I'm not wearing silly shoes," she said. [WWD]

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• While we assume McQueen's death will add gravitas, Fashion Week is off to a farcical start. "Phones not working because of the snow...Girls have had phone problems because they are using them outside. They forget that snow is WATER!" [NYMag]

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Fact: most celebrity profiles are boring. Fact: Lara Stone — the "curvy," "old" Dutch supermodel — is interesting. In this battle between medium and subject, who shall prevail? Clearly the one who's prepared to talk about alcoholism and breasts. More »
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• This rather banal anecdote about Michael Kors being mistaken for Marc Jacobs is enlivened by an adorable photo of the two from when Jacobs was pale and long-haired and still had those clear-framed glasses that are so totally hot. [FWD]

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• New lows in celebrity sartorial publicity: Dior would like everyone to know that Madonna was wearing its sunglasses when she visited the victims of her stage collapse in Marseille, which killed two workers and left eight injured. [WWD]

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• Posh and Becks are in an underwear ad, together! David seems to be deep in thought, perhaps pondering the wisdom of letting Armani give him hair that belongs on a Lego newscaster. Narrate Victoria's inner monologue in the comments! [Telegraph]

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The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that personality is making a fashion comeback just now, after years of Eastern Brazilopean clones on the runway and in the magazines. More »
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• Women, gird your loins: Lady GaGa wants you to share her personal, pants-optional, control-top-hose-and-neon-and-sunglasses-at-night style of dress. Because in the future, everyone will have a clothing line. [Sassybella]

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• Vivienne Westwood's campaign with Pamela Anderson (and Viv's hot, much-younger husband) was shot on election day last year. The ladies talk about their friendship, which is based on sending each other books. [Times of London]

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• Michelle Obama wore Tracy Feith yesterday. She has yet to warn any designer what she's wearing — which is kind of awesomely normal. It must be the best surprise one could get. [WWD]

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• Olivier Theyskens is holding true to the fundamentals. “When the economy changes, it’s not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate,” he said, after showing his pre-fall collection for Nina Ricci. [WWD]

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'Model.Live', the oddly punctuated series put together by Vogue and IMG to fill the void of industry-related reality television not bearing the fierce imprimatur of Nighttime Tyra, didn't serve up its finale webisode as expected today. Instead, the three models featured — Madeline Kragh, Austria Alcantara, and Cato Van Ee — uploaded goodbye videos to Bebo. They thank the sponsors for the opportunity of having cameras track their daily moves and expose their missed flights and longed-for but unbooked jobs to the internet's scrutiny. (Cato also vows to soldier on with the tough business of becoming a supermodel.) Austria's vid is the most interesting; unusually, she manages to look excited when talking about her future and the next ready-to-wear season. She says Paris is her favorite city, and if you look closely, you can see she's wearing tiny Eiffel tower earrings. Clip above, and more after the jump. More »
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Cato Van Ee has had the best season of the three models IMG picked to follow for this series. The agency must have known it had a surefire smash hit in Cato; coming off high-profile exclusives for Prada and Miu Miu the previous season, plus a cover of L'Officiel, it would take spectacular bungling on the part of either agent or model for her to not have had a stellar season. What's been served up is a kind of very managed portrait of an emergent supermodel—what the head of the IMG development board, David Cunningham, terms "A confirmed new star on the market—but, you know, I say 'star' in small letters." Clip above, and full recap of what's new with the Dutch beauty after the jump. More »
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Where do the models go after fashion week? Model.Live, the never-ending web documentary, stays with its subjects to the bitter end. Austria, the beautiful Dominican who was 14 (until she signed with IMG!) has had a tough show season. The overt racism of the industry, her comically unhelpful mother agent/chaperone, Socrates McKinney, and the relentless travel schedule left her looking worn out and strangely sad at castings that rarely led to jobs. At home in Santo Domingo for its fashion week, Austria is aglow with happiness. Until she remembers she has to go back to New York and get to work again. Clip above, and recap, after the jump. More »
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I never know how I'm going to feel about "Model.Live." Some episodes, it tries so hard and achieves so little of interest, and then other weeks it's like they more or less just let the camera roll and the footage is effortlessly compelling. This time they find the sweet spot. Madeline, after a really tough show season, returns to New York to chase the elusive campaign dollar. She's joined by her Aussie boyfriend, Jimmy, to reflect on the mountain of debt she's racked up on her world tour. But they're young and in love and it's still warm out, so even the jeremiad has a jokey quality. They pass a mattress on the sidewalk, and Madeline calls out, "Hey, there's a mattress! We need a mattress." Then she books two days of work that she says pay better than the previous month of shows. Clip above, and recap after the jump. More »
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The new Model.Live is sort of a wrap-up of the show season that has just passed — and upon watching it, I realized this entire series has contained no surprises. We've witnessed the ascent of Cato Van Ee, which was foretold in her Prada/Miu Miu exclusive of six months ago. We've seen Madeline Kragh, who works successfully in secondary markets like Australia, sputter in the upper echelons like thousands of others (put yours truly in that group, too). We've seen Austria Alcantara, who looks so young and acts so shy, passed over for work on that basis, plus the equally predictable basis of her skin color. So, what, then, is there left to say at the not-quite-end of it all? Cato seizes an opportunity to make fun of herself and a scout/manager talking head spouts some mystical gibberish in the clip above and recap after the jump. More »
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This week on Model.Live, Cato, Austria, and Madeline reach Paris. And in the City of Lights, things go topsy-turvy. (Except for Cato. Cato still books everything. And gets reunited with Simon. Awww.) Austria gets a belated lecture on castings etiquette from her booker (the scene captures the essence of the peculiar mix of by-golly-just-be-confident boosterism and I-can't-believe-I-have-to-tell-you-this undermining that every booker seems to revel in). Madeline? Has this season's first genuine, extended, Why Do I Do This, Again? rant. Clip of her freak-out above and recap of the full episode after the jump. More »
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Fashion week — which really should be called fashion month, or fashion six weeks, or fashion long-enough-to-get-blisters-and-your-period — finally hit the Continent, and Vogue's Model.Live was there to bring you the highlights as experienced by three young models named Madeline, Cato, and Austria. And at last the series seems to be settling into a groove. After the jump, a recap of all the riveting modeling action, plus a clip above, which includes Cato's almost touchingly un-self-aware utterance of the line, "If I don't get it this time, you know, I already did Prada once." More »
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Another week, another fashion extravaganza to rush headlong into. London, the littlest fashion week, is in full swing as I type this, and Austria and Cato are here to show us how walking more than a dozen shows in six days is done. (Blister Band-Aids, your own eye makeup remover, and a big bottle of cheap conditioner plus the richest overpriced salon hair mask you can find — for combing out and repair, respectively.) Madeline? Never makes it onto British soil. Dum dum dum! Clip above, and recap after the jump. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5052179&view=rss&microfeed=true The latest episode of Model.Live could not have been a greater disappointment. After teasing us with promises of uncensored, unguarded behind-the-scenes dish, Vogue's reality series finally reaches New York Fashion Week — and dissolves into a simpering collection of jump-cuts and runway footage and generically exciting music. If there was ever a time I'd be willing to tolerate jaunty, more or less harmless fashion boosterism, now would be it; but I'm unhappy to be left contemplating empty-headed B-roll of the city that looks spliced from Project Runway and not much else of substance. More »
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It's fashion week, so Madeline, Cato and Austria are busy hoofing it down runways — and doing all the castings, fittings, and journeying around town that leads to them. (For that matter, so am I! Seventeen appointments yesterday left me zombified on the couch, too tired to do anything for dinner but munch on a big bowl of cereal. I didn't even have the wherewithal to follow the storyline of whatever dumb MTV reality show my Brazilian roommate seemed to find entrancing.) But: the modelfolk persevere! This week's episode of Model.Live is a taste of the pre-show week whirl. In the clip above, everybody lines up, waits, walks, and repeats — and Madeline, who mislays her book and freaks out at casting #30, pronounces the series' very first "Just stop filming for a minute!" in urgent tones. More »
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Vogue sneaked up the third installment of its modeling "documentary", "Model.Live" over the long weekend. Austria, who may be as young as 15, explains how she got into the industry — via the Ford Supermodel of the World competition, her participation in which ironically attracted IMG's attention instead of Ford's — and why she is leaving her family and friends in the Dominican Republic for two months to try her luck on the international show circuit. Tears are shed, a large cake is consumed, and there's a raucous going away shindig with dancing. But one of the weirder moments — and probably the show's best example yet of the way some modeling business interests talk about their young charges — happens when Austria's Santo Domingo agent, Socrates McKinney, explains just what drew his eye to Austria. Clip of McKinney, and Austria's would-be model mom, above, and more after the jump.
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American Vogue’s online reality series, Model.Live, unveiled its first episode today, and I’m sad to report that it’s not the irretrievably tacky, so-bad-it’s-good, corporate-sponsored suckfest I was hoping it would be. (Hoping? I am a mean-spirited person.) The series — which, at $3 million (or around $31,000 a minute) is some of the most expensive online television yet produced — follows three models as they navigate the discombobulating month-long global merry-go-round that is the fashion weeks of New York City, London, Milan, and Paris. More »
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