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Back in Los Angeles, I did a lot of work called “informal modeling,” a type of job which essentially amounts to parading around a department…
Read onBack in Los Angeles, I did a lot of work called “informal modeling,” a type of job which essentially amounts to parading around a department…
Read onWhen I was growing up, my family had an empty Arrowhead water jug that we would fill up with spare change. And when I say…
Read onTwo weeks ago, there was a life altering, big-uh-oh typo at the Miss Universe pageant, meaning the organization mistakenly crowned Miss Denise Garrido as the…
Read onSlashies. Back in Los Angeles, where I lived for nearly seven years, these were about as common as potholes, as invasive as Bermuda grass. They…
Read onFun. It seems to be coming up a lot in conversation these days. The other night I was sitting at a Brooklyn bar, dividing my…
Read onRecently, an ex-Vogue editor Kirstie Clements caused quite the stir with her disclosure that she had heard of and/or seen models eat tissue paper to…
Read onThere’s a popular meme featuring a wild-eyed Britney Spears sporting a shaved head and wielding an umbrella with unhinged menace. It reads: If Britney can…
Read onModels, just like fashion, are trends that come in waves. In the ‘90s you had the curvy (by today’s industry standards, at least), hyper-sexed supermodels.…
Read onThere’s an advertisement on the subway station wall for VitaminWater or a vacation to somewhere tropical, maybe Majorca. I can’t remember. All I know is…
Read onThere, just through the leafy foliage of a potted plant, past the shifting shoulders of the restaurant’s patrons, sits That Guy… That Guy in That…
Read onThe film opens with the all-too-familiar phalanx of half-naked girls, young Siberian women in cheap bikinis, bare limbs exposed to harsh florescent lighting and even…
Read on“If you could try on the pants and jacket back there. And you,” the man with the close-cut shave and the blonde hair and the…
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