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MODEL STALK-HER | AGYNESS DEYN

-After having dinner with a friend in the East Village Saturday night, we started strolling west on 5th Street.  We chatted about my Friday post about Agyness Deyn's recent move to the East Village and her favorite dining spots.  I jokingly said I would start spending hours at Veselka and Atlas to stalk the magnificent Mancunian.  Then lo and behold, within seconds we nearly walked right into her and her posse on 2nd Avenue!  Dressed in an adorable red, white, and blue graphic print summer dress, Deyn was unmissable.  She is about my height, 5'8", impossibly thin and her skin was pale and radiant.  She appeared very happy and friendly. 

The Daily Mail has a somewhat cheesy article on Agyness (formerly Laura Hollins) here.  The adorable photo to the right is from the article and is Laura aged five.  Awww!  She was always adorable.

-Another sighting I had this weekend occurred Sunday afternoon in Chelsea.  I was crossing westward on 23rd Street at 6th Avenue in the rain and spotted Rufus Wainwright crossing eastward.  The usually dapper diva was particularly under-dressed wearing only a small, white tee, mint green cotton short-shorts and mandals.  Perhaps Rufie was in the middle of doing his laundry...  His hair was still impeccable though, despite the rain, and he still looked cute as a button. 

IRINA ROCKS | MULTI-TASKING MANNEQUIN

Yeah, I'm still mad girl-crushing on Irina Lazareanu.  And now there's more reason to love her.  Not only is she one of the coolest models currently out there (don't worry - I still love Agyness too!) and recording her first album post-Babyshambles, she's also taken on the role of stylist and fashion photographer.  The uber-stylish Laz styled and shot a shoot for V where she enlisted the help of professional poseurs, Daria Werbowy, Gemma Ward and Lily Cole.  Of the experience, Irina said, "It was freaky.  I had to make sure the girls got ready, got dressed.  And I'm just a friend.  It really was a challenge.  It took 10 years off of my life."  Uh... okay.  Well, as tricky as it may be to get grown women dressed, Lazareanu was not deterred and is styling another shoot for Vogue.  If she dresses these shoots half as well as she gussies herself up for a night on the town, then I'm sure the results will be styling!  Read more here.

LILY COLE | WHAT A BUST!

-The uber-p.c. and lovely model, Lily Cole, has made a plaster cast of her bust, dressed in an "eco-friendly" bra designed by Andrea Galer, to auction off for charity.  Lily's mum helped her make the cast which is on sale on eBay.  Proceeds from the sale will go to Comic Relief.  Click here for more and a pic.

-Stalker alert!  Kate Moss will be at Barneys to introduce her Topshop collection on May 8th.  Barneys will exclusively carry her line in the States.  The collection will be sold in the Co-Op section of the store and Simon Doonan will design windows featuring Kate's duds.  To give the window displays an ever-so-special and realistic Kate "feel", Doonan should include hundreds of ciggie butts, empty champers bottles, mounds of white powder, razor blades, tiny spoons, rolled up bank notes, and syringes.  Read more here.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE | MOSS CELEBRATES 33RD B-DAY

Awww... look at the happy birthday girl!  She simply looks thrilled on her big day.  Kate Moss celebrated her big 3-3 yesterday with 12 hours of somewhat tame (definitely by her standards) activities.  The day started off in her Primrose Hill home where she and crack-lover, Pete Doherty, "received presents including flowers and a bottle of 1999 Dom Perignon."  The pair later met up at hotspot, Scott's oyster bar in Mayfair, for dinner.  Post meal, the duo went to Soho to see friend, Rhys Ifans perform in a production of Don Juan.  After the performance, the couple went to a friend's house for a quick costume change (consisting of a long, cream dress and awful wooly mammoth coat for La Moss, right) and then went off to the Dorchester for cocktails with friends including Sadie Frost and Paul Simonon.

Pete left the festivities around midnight but was there to greet the lucky birthday girl, with present in hand, when she returned home at about 4am.  Hmmm, what'd he get her?  A new crackpipe?  They then presumably went in, had lackluster crackhead sex and passed out before Doherty had to report to court (again!) the following morning.  Read more and see pics here.

KATE MOSS | KEEPING BUSY!

Cocaine Kate will not slow down!  Not only is she getting more modelling jobs than ever, reportedly expecting baby #2 and marrying Pete Doughy-ty next year, Moss has several other projects on the horizon.

-Simon Cowell, the producer responsible for the Spice Girls and the UK version of American Idol, wants to give Kate a record deal.  It's not really been top secret that Moss aspires to sing having recorded a Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra song (Some Velvet Morning) with friend Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and more recently dueting with boyfriend/drug buddy, Pete, onstage during his Baby Shambles shows.  Whether or not she can sing well, Cowell is convinced that the "Kate factor" will sell records.  Read more here.

-Moss is also scheduled to be a part of a skit on the Brit comedy show Little Britain airing November 22nd.  One of the show's stars, David Walliams, had this to say about her appearance, "The thing about Kate is that she's funny in her own right so we think it'll be brilliant... It'll be a speaking role but I don't want to give too much away. When you see her and what she'll be wearing and doing, it'll be a big surprise... Kate has natural comic talent. It's just that most people don't know it because they see her in pictures and beautiful people aren't allowed to be funny. But I know she's going to be great. It's a real coup and we're absolutely chuffed."  Story here.

-Kate will also be the subject of a show called Face of Fashion at the National Portrait Gallery in London next February.  The show will feature nine iconic pics of the model taken by photographers including Corrine Day, Mert & Marcus, and Mario Sorrenti.  More here.

-La Moss has also joined forces with Nikon, whose ad campaign she currently stars in, to co-host a silent photo auction to benefit young victims of the Thailand tsunami two years ago.  Photographers including Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Craig McDean, and Sorrenti will donate photos, many featuring Moss (but of course!), for auction.  Read more here.

-And with all that's on her plate, Moss still has time to party (but of course!).  Check her out in a fab, gold frock at the 90th anniversary party for British Vogue at the Serpentine Gallery here.

DU JUAN | JUAN IN A MILLION

The Independent has a feature on one of my favorite new-ish models, Du Juan.  The article declares that the twenty-year-old, Shanghai native will be the one who bridges the fashion and beauty gaps between eastern and western standards.  There have always been discrepancies between what or who westerners and Asians find beautiful, and Du Juan, with her undeniable beauty and elegance, seems able to create a balance.  Her resume can certainly back this theory up.  She is the first Asian model to grace the covers of French and Chinese Vogue (though both times standing alongside the much more famous and caucasian, Gemma Ward) and has appeared in editorials for Italian Vogue, W, and Allure.  She has been featured in ad campaigns for Louis Vuitton, YSL, Hermes, Kenzo and Miu Miu.  And she was all over the place during the Spring 2007 runway shows.

Ironically Angelica Cheung, editor of Chinese Vogue says, "The Chinese consider Du Juan pretty - not stunning, but pretty," while Joanne Ooi, the creative director of Shanghai Tang says, "She's classically beautiful, but very sensual as well.  I chose her because her beauty is unique but also universally appealing."

Judging by the amount of work Du's been getting, it seems more people agree with Ooi.  Let's hope we continue to see more of Du Juan (maybe even a cover of her very own someday!) and that soon, an Asian model won't seem like such a novelty.  Full article here.

DIANA VREELAND | TIPS FOR MODELS

"But if you're an honest-to-God model, you go to a gym before you come to work; you have one boyfriend who buys you your dinner.  You go to bed good and early.  No nonsense.  You'd never see one in a nightclub."  - Diana Vreeland from Jean Stein's Edie, An American Biography

Vreeland (former e-i-c of Vogue) commenting on why hard-living Edie Sedgwick could never be a top model in her magazine.  Ha!  That Diana!  What a comedienne!  Times sure have changed under Anna Wintour's regime...

ROLE MODELS

-FishbowlNY traces the twelve simple steps to Kate Moss' successful career.  Follow these steps and you too can be a supermodel!  I think step #5 might be the only one we can handle...

-Vogue UK introduces us to a few catwalk hopefuls.  These nubile mannequins will be prancing about during the fashion week shows trying to make their mark.  Sixteen-year-old Zoe Zimmer looks like she could be a contender.  She's got the messy fringe, wide-set eyes and high cheekbones that are all the rage these days.  That Zoe - she's so HOT!

-Hintmag's Model Mania page also shows us seven new faces.  Meh.  The only standout in this group is Tayla Collins from Georgia.  She's already been featured in Pop, i-D, Italian Vogue and W.  She is also the fabulous androgyne in the current Jil Sander ads (above).  Fierce!

THE WOES OF BEING A SUPERMODEL

-Model-cum-actress Amber Valletta has jumped on the rehab trend and checked herself in at the Meadows in Arizona for "work stress" and "image issues."  The star of such hits as Hitch, Duplex, and Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (I shit you not!) entered into the facility last week and is expected to be released today.  Shit!  If Amber's got "image issues", what's keeping the rest of us out of rehab?  Story here.

-The reason why rehab was invented, Pete Doherty, has been ordered to go to the Priory Clinic in London.  Well, that puts a bit of a damper on his and Kate Moss' wedding plans!  Coincidentally, Kate entered Priory a few years back to clean up as well - and that was before her infamous "Cocaine Kate" scandal of last year.  Perhaps the clinic needs to rethink its program.  Also the Daily Mail posted an unflattering pic of Kate leaving a club in Bali that shows "her shiny visage dotted with spots..."  Honey, Kate on a bad night still looks a hell of a lot better than most of us on our best days!  Read all about it here.

-And since we apparently just can't get enough of Kate, Pop Magazine's September issue will have two different covers featuring the model.  One will show her dressed as a "gilded angel" declaring "Hell's Angel" and the other has her as a "dewy prizefighter" stating "Kate Fights Back."  See the covers here.

THE RETURN OF THE SUPERMODELS... EXCEPT CLAUDIA

-Versace strays from its recent trend of putting celebrities in the company's ad campaigns (Madonna, Demi Moore, Halle Berry) sort of - word is the line is using Jonathan Rhys Myers in upcoming ads.  However, beginning in September, fashion rags will run the new Versace Fall/Winter campaign shot by Mario Testino featuring past and present supermodel greats Christy Turlington, Kate Moss, Carolyn Murphy, Angela Lindvall, and Daria Werbowy.  Check out FWD for the photos.  The gals look great.

-While the above models continue to work and land lucrative jobs, editorial spreads and contracts, poor Claudia Schiffer seems to have been forgotten and is stuck modeling for "Invest In Germany" posters hanging in Grand Central Station.  How embarrassing.  See the ads here.

-And the always atrociously dressed Gwen Stefani goes shopping in a bed sheet with baby Kingston.  Let's hope she's going to buy herself a decent dress.  See here.