“This means that women don’t cerebrally choose which men they are going to be attracted to,” Xuma says in his new report. “Being attracted to someone is not voluntary. The key to a man making himself attractive to a woman lies not in his looks, but in how he communicates.”
In other words, women want men to seduce them, Xuma says. A man who is successful at this can be physically unattractive and the woman will still be attracted to him.
For instance, a man with a pimply face and greasy hair can still pull women by the boatload, if he knows and follows seduction techniques, Xuma says.
That doesn’t mean a guy should be lazy and not have impeccable hygiene. After all, men have to do everything they can to be attractive. It just goes to show that some men with seemingly nothing going for them can attract women if they know seduction techniques, he says.
“If a man knows how to communicate in ways that sparks the woman’s attraction, it won’t matter as much how he looks. It has everything to do with how he acts, what he says, and what desire he is able to create in her,” Xuma says.
Another technique men should put in their arsenal of seduction tips is the ability to always challenge and tease a woman, Xuma says in his new report.
“Men who tease a woman are able to spark attraction,” he says. “Men who tease women and challenge her are showing her that they are not desperate and that they are a desirable commodity. In addition, behavior like that just oozes self-confidence.”
Xuma has spent years teaching men flirting tips for guys and has been a dating expert and attraction adviser for more than 10 years. He has appeared on ABC and CBS television, as well as Playboy radio. He’s the author of The Bad Boy Formula, Secrets of the Alpha Male, the Girlfriend Training Program, and numerous other books and articles. He has also been recognized for his work sharing dating advice for guys and sharing tips on pick up artist techniques and seduction tips.

Rodney Alcala, “The Dating Game Killer,” to be extradited to NYC on two murder charges.
California’s highest court has cleared the way for a convicted serial killer to be brought to New York to face charges in two 1970s killings.
Rodney Alcala, 68, a former amateur photographer and TV dating-show contestant was sentenced to death in California in 2010 after being convicted of strangling and sexually torturing four women and a 12-year-old girl in the 1970s.
The jury convicted Alcala on February 25, 2010 of killing Robyn Samsoe, 12, as well as Jill Barcomb, 18, who had just moved to Los Angeles from Oneida, N.Y.; Georgia Wixted, 27, of Malibu; Charlotte Lamb, 32, of Santa Monica; and Jill Parenteau, 21, of Burbank. After the California convictions, Alcala was charged with murdering two 23-year-old women in New York City in the same decade.
It was unclear when Alcala might arrive in Manhattan although arrangements could take a few weeks.
Through a lawyer, Alcala had argued that being sent to New York would undermine his efforts to appeal his California conviction and death sentence. He said he needed to be at hearings and do other preparatory work himself because he had acted as his own lawyer – a move that produced a defense that entailed showing a TV clip of himself on a 1978 episode of “The Dating Game” and playing Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant.”
But the California attorney general’s office said Alcala could work on his appeal just as well from New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex as on death row at San Quentin State Prison, particularly since he has an appellate lawyer.
Neither California Attorney General Kamala Harris’s office nor Manhattan DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s office had immediate comment Thursday. Alcala’s lawyer didn’t immediately respond to a telephone message.
In New York, Alcala is charged in the 1971 strangling of flight attendant Cornelia Crilley and the death of Ellen Hover, daughter of a one-time Hollywood nightclub owner. She disappeared in 1977; her remains were found the next year in the woods on a suburban estate.
A New York conviction wouldn’t affect Alcala’s sentence in California, but Manhattan prosecutors have noted that a conviction in New York could essentially be insurance for law enforcement in case Alcala wins yet another California appeal, which happened once before. Alcala likely would be sent back to California’s death row if convicted in New York.

Is Drake Dating Two Women at Once?

Drake, he’s so hot right now.
In Touch Weekly reports (via Page Six) that the rapper is currently romancing Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones and model/America’s Next Top Model host Tyra Banks. He’s apparently been seeing Rashida since earlier this year, when the two met during the Sundance Film Festival, and just last week he was photographed at Disneyland with a dressed-down Tyra.
Although both Rashida’s and Drake’s reps insist they’re just friends, a source for In Touch says, “She wants them to go public, but he’s reluctant.”
Whether or not there’s any truth to these romance rumors, Drake’s makin’ “Headlines”!

Just in case you were under the illusion that Kim Kardashian chooses her mates based on love, Hollywood Life would like to break out of your bubble: Kim can’t stand Kanye West – at least according to an “insider” close to her soon-to-be ex-husband Kris Humphries!

The insider claimed that Kim is “definitely taking a bullet for her career,” and that “having a romance with Kanye” is just a way to “reach a new fan base and to give the media something new [to] write about.” (Wait, I guess that’s us…?!?!)

Despite Kanye rapping about how he wants to put Kim “in a white dress,” this isn’t the first time there have been rumors that their relationship is just for show. (Which, when you think about Kanye’s unimaginative of “in a white dress” and “in a white dress” on his new single “Way Too Cold,” isn’t that surprising!)

Back in April, Hollywood Life, the same site where the latest rumor originated, claimed that it had a source who said that the two K-named stars are “”are equally using each other to expand their own personal interests/brands rather than fall in love.”

“If they are in the same area, they are going to hook up,” the source told the esteemable gossip rag, Hollywood Life, about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. “But they are not going to take the relationship to the next level and become exclusive with each other.”

And, it should go without saying, they do appear to be availing themselves of each other, sexually. Rumor is that two photos featured on MediaTakeOut three weeks ago were of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. The first shows a mid-action shot of a man, who MediaTakeOut claims is Kanye West, engaging in sodomitical relations with a large-bottomed woman, who many are speculating is none other than Kim K. herself. The second picture is a tighter but no less graphic shot, again depicting posterior insertion.

So then what is Kim doing introducing Kanye to her parents?! The two were spotted dining with the rest of the Kardashian clan at the Spice Market, a trendy restaurant in New York’s Meatpacking District.
TMZ said that “Kanye and Kim were excited for the family gathering and the opportunity to show them just how great they are together” and that “the meeting went great, and the family thinks they make the perfect couple.”
And, of course, this all contradicts what MediaTakeOut reported about their supposed breakup. It claimed earlier that Kanye had broken things off when Kim tried to bring cameras along to visit him while on tour. But, then again, MediaTakeOut has never been the most reliable narrator, and the photos of Kim and Kanye at Spice Market seem like pretty good evidence that the two are still on.
News of the relationship between two of the most narcissistic people in the world first broke when Kim Kardashian was spotted leaving Kanye West’s house in the morning in the same clothing she was wearing the previous night when she went in. That same day, Kanye released a song in which he rapped about falling for Kim while she was still dating Chris Humphries.

Kanye’s song “Theraflu” included the lyrics: “And I’ll admit, I had fell in love with Kim / Around the time she had fell in love with him / Well that’s cool, baby girl, do ya thang / Lucky I ain’t had Jay drop him from the team.”

TMZ claimed the two had been “eyeing” each other since 2004. However, TMZ’s source maintained that “they never acted inappropriately while Kanye was with Amber Rose, or while Kim was with Kris Humphries.” (Ha! Yeah, right … )

Because the testing process takes time, it stalls the queue at the check-out and the shoppers become a little bored, so they stack up the unwanted products (in whatever state they may be) in between the sweets and biltong that line the checkout aisle. While browsing the same sweets and biltong, they discover there are some quite attractive products that another shopper has already discarded, and because they are easily accessible, they assess these products more closely as well before returning them to the rack. (Quite like those doughnuts that we all too often see at the checkouts: been poked with a finger this side, squashed that side, with sticky jam and cream all over.)
So eventually it gets to the point that each shopper takes their product and pays the price to take it home for ever.
Such is online dating (or in my terms: Parallel Dating). Internet shoppers are so used to Googling everything they can about their products because they know there is no warranty after purchase, that they come to treat innocent people as items on a shelf. The questions that are posed to prospective suitors are beyond predictable, and the answers just as predictable (within a range). The emotions are not visible on-line, so hurting such people becomes a habit that the “shopper” is not even aware they are perpetuating. As much as it is unavoidable to emotionally scar some people, there should be some attention paid to softening that “blow” (although I know a certain lady that would disagree.)
The moral of the story is that, in our market anyway, the products have the same emotions that the shoppers do. The products desire the attention of the shopper, and feel rejection when they are overlooked. Oh, and one final important point: the shoppers are not all male and the products not all female! Happy shopping!

Dating & The Shopping Trolley.

So, as it was with Star Wars, my story started at the end and should surely retrace to the beginning. My first article (Parallel Dating: A phenomenon) may not have been an epic tale, but it left out some points that will now only be available in the annals of the dating site itself. (And no, it’s a dating site, not a pick-up spot, in case you wondered why there was an extra “n” in that word.)
I have noticed lately that women read some of the strangest books that give “insight” about men, and follow them as Gospel. They don’t realize that their own kind are so predictable that there is no book needed; just a shopping trolley!
The shoppers enter the market; some take a trolley, others a basket, and a few take nothing, aiming to acquire a special product, and they budget for nothing else. The male shoppers have as much budget as testosterone, so most have bigger trolleys than they can even push.
The products sit patiently on the shelf, and show off their shiny little boxes, all painted, some in packaging that is more revealing than others. The shoppers stroll past and pick up the products from the shelves, reading the details and rating how suitable the product is for their needs. They may like the product (sometimes just the box) and put it in the trolley, then move on to examine the next product.

This process continues until the trolley is full, at which time the shopper decides to move toward the check-out and pay the cost of the accumulated products. Now here is where we deviate a little, because in real life it is only President Zuma that CAN actually purchase all the products (although he also discards many at the check-out). The rest of the population can only afford one product (although many do return later to try and find a more suitable one than the first). So what happens is that the shoppers unpack all the products in their trolley, testing which has the best features, which is the most user-friendly, which has the strongest battery etc.

Who invited the high-vis? Perth’s flammable fashion awards.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Perth fashion scene is hot, and at last night’s WA Fashion Awards there was so much heat the emergency services were called.

Shortly after all the pretties and posers settled into the decadent Parisian den tucked away inside the historic Perth GPO, an overzealous smoke machine triggered a smoke alarm which allowed a group of men in on-trend fluoro to join the exclusive party.

Once the firies had secured the salon and guests, including photographer and Donna Karan’s best friend Russell James, refuelled with champagne and churros, the 16th annual industry, model and creative awards were announced.

James, who is back on home soil after photographing the upcoming Victoria’s Secret campaign last week, was keen to chat to model of the moment, Holly Caiulo, whose peaches’n'cream complexion and cheeky catwalk caper would lend themselves to a pair of the world’s most coveted wings.

Dressed in a cherry bomb of a body con cocktail number, the near on 6-foot tall face of Cue, Sportsgirl and Carla Zampatti was the night’s big winner, taking out runway model of the year and photographic model of the year.

Emerging and edgy women’s wear designer Ange Lang, who has been shortlisted for an internship with Parisian fashion house Balenciaga, won the fashion equivalent of the gold Logie – Designer of the Year.

Fashion doyenne Zara Bryson’s merchandising and decorating pizzazz was confirmed after she was awarded the best dressed boutique for her Claremont boutique and soon-to-be launched e-boutique.

Creative director of fashion-forward hair salon Head Studio Marie Cain took out the prize for best creative edge while blogger and stylist Emma Bergmeier was named blogger of the year.

One Fell Swoop scooped the pool to be announced as 2011′s most innovative designer, while jewellery and accessories label Totomoto was recognised as the highest achiever in the finer details category.

The after party, like most ladies stilettos, kicked off at Malt Supper Club in Mount Lawley shortly before midnight.

Priyanka Chopra is going all out to make sure her character of an actress from the 1960s, in Kunal Kohli’s untitled love story with Shahid Kapoor rings a hundred percent true. Priyanka’s character is apparently modeled on the 1960′s most successful heroine Asha Parekh.

Turning on the horsepower in Paris.

Equestrian styles dominated two major collections on day six of Paris fashion week, with horse-riding vestments — some comfortably elegant, some constrictively racy — the motif explored by Hermes and Givenchy.

The gaucho or Argentine cowboy inspired a cool and confident mix of clothes at the Hermes show, while Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci turned on the horsepower for a pulse-quickening show complete with retro variations on jodphurs, riding jackets and racing boots.

Hermes

In his third collection for Hermes, the house of the jet-setting fashion buyer, Christophe Lemaire flew business-class to Argentina. His first piece introduced gentle, hanging silhouettes: a long fringed cape in dark blue was worn like a South American poncho.

Wide, low-slung pleated gaucho pants mixed with sumptuous nude leathers — the house’s signature material — that were so soft, they moved as if they were living and breathing.

True enough: as the models walked past there was a distinct aroma of polished hide.

There were nods to the season’s must-have, the boxy-jacket, with one charcoal number reworked on a high white collar, in the style of Spanish equestrian garb.

But Hermes, in typical style, was all about comfort.

The relaxed look was perfected with subtle contrasting pieces: a coat was so cool it hung from one shoulder, yet also had the fierceness of a matador’s cape.

Givenchy

Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci’s show on Sunday presented a highly charged take on equestrian riding gear.

Jodphurs in black and sable brown shaped the silhouette of the collection’s first half, with oversized earrings like horse-blinders complementing high riding boots.

As ever with Tisci, there was a sense of danger at all times with chokingly tight neck scarves, loud, troubling music, and even one skintight leather piece — based on a sporting polo — that looked like bondage gear.

Intentionally crude stitching in one leather dress was followed by a series of intense-colour slip dresses with clashing belts — harking back to the palette of British glam rock.

Alexis Mabille

The young girl next door with a pretty red bow: that was the inspiration for Alexis Mabille’s autumn-winter collection on Sunday, which reworked the youthful bow in every imaginable way.

Girly tied-lace belting shaved years off the look of a flounce dress with chestnut bow embroidering, while diamante bow earrings put the icing on the cake of the carefree, chic gamine look.

This insouciance translated to a short skirt wardrobe. It was a blatant “sticking your tongue out” at the normal autumn covered-up look, with pleated miniskirts and short dresses in plum and black exposing yards of leg.

In the more wintery part of the collection, he showcased a series of plumed pieces. But at times the texture-mixing looked like he was trying too hard.

One jacket embroidered entirely with messy, wild feathers and fox fur looked almost like a vixen had raided a chicken pen.

Hands on hips, the US model Karlie Kloss glided down an elevator, shaking her mini-skirt to a punchy soundtrack, at the start of Kenzo’s autumn-winter runway show on Sunday, day five of Paris Fashion Week.

Showcased inside a 1960s Paris university, its walls coloured orange, pink and yellow, the latest look by Kenzo’s design duo, the New Yorkers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon brightened up a wet, blustery day in the French capital.

Models slid down the elevators criss-crossing the interior courtyard, four-storeys high, walking round its corridors in patterned trenches, neon stiletto heels, animal-print sweaters or wool coats with colourful knit sleeves.

The design duo explained they used home decoration as the starting point for prints on raincoats and jackets, suggestive of a country interior like a grapevine motif set against black or white.

“We wanted this girl to know who she was,” Lim told reporters of the bold palette of blues, reds, bright greens or magenta, after greeting a long line of well-wishers including the hip-hop icon Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs.

Models should be tall and skinny.

She was tall and blonde with long legs, a great chest and flawless skin. I watched as she strutted her way from our line in front of the scouts. They too were watching her like a hawk. Some scribbled down notes, others concentrated on her steps.

It was ‘us’ against ‘them.’ We all loved to hate them. They were too uppity, too northern, too trendy, too gay. But we all wanted to be part of their world– the modeling world.

To this day, I still remember the blonde. She was such a sweetheart and spent a lot of money to be told she was too “fat.” Finally she signed with an models agency in Miami, after shedding some weight and spending some more money.

In high school, I did a little bit of bit of modeling. It was mostly local shoots for local photographers. I’ve been on the cover of a magazine, in a Seventeen magazine ad and countless of stock photos. There’s probably still poloroids of my profile floating around at some agency in New York City.

In my limited experience modeling, I was exposed to a lot. Many of the models who showed up to castings were told to lose weight. At 5-foot-7 and 110 pounds, it  seemed like I was in the clear. But my advisor always told me to tell the scouts I had a size eight shoe, as to appear that I was still going to grow inch or two. I might have been slender, but I was still considered short.

Fashion is a strange world. It is a fantasy. Runway clothes are avant-garde, not wearable. And the models fit the same mold. They’re not a realistic depiction; they are an ideal, a fantasy.

The average American woman is 5-foot-4 and 164.7 pounds, according to the Center for Disease Control. The average model is 5-foot-11 and 117 pounds.

Designers want a walking coat hanger. And I don’t disagree. It is a model’s job to maintain her body. She is hired based on her appearance. No one wants to see a pudgy stomach sticking out of this season’s mint green cardigan or a muffin top spilling over what is supposed to be tailored high-waisted trousers.

80 percent of fourth grade girls have been on a fad diet, according to the Social Issues Research Center. Many people think that fashion advertisements and models have contributed to this obsession with weight loss.

But models are supposed to be thin, long and lanky. They are part of a designer’s art. So I wish people would cut the crap and stop blaming the media for making young girls have eating disorders. No one is making anyone starve themselves.

Instead, there needs to be programs put in place to encourage young models to love their bodies and understand that the ladies in magazines aren’t the real deal.

Children should be educated on photoshop and airbrushing. They should also be taught to stay away from processed foods and stick to the perimeters of the grocery store instead of going on crash diets. With healthy eating, the body shrinks to its natural frame, which is a beauty in itself.

Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the last thirty years, according to the CDC. I think this has a bigger effect on health and body image than fashion.

I am a big fan of Dove’s campaign for real beauty. In a viral video, they show a model’s transformation from a normal girl to a professionally made up, photoshopped vision.

Although I was aware of the powers photoshop and airbrushing, they literally changed the model’s neck length and bone structure. She wasn’t even the same person after the makeover.

And this year the Council of Fashion Designers of America has set up health initiative guidelines to help raise awareness of eating disorders among young women.

I have to applaud the CFDA for their efforts to combat eating disorders in the fashion world.

It’s courageous for the Council to take on this trend of unhealthy tactics head on, instead of ushering it under the rug and trying to hide any bad publicity.

And even though deterring bad publicity is probably one of the CFDA’s main concerns, it seems like they really do care about women and sending the right message through the creative and powerful medium of fashion.

“We each have the power to impact the lives of women. Together, we can let the world know that diversity and Health Is Beauty are what we stand for,” Diane von Furstenberg and Steven Kolb wrote in a letter on the CFDA’s website.

Models now have to be 16 or older to walk the runway. Providing healthy snacks and a smoke free environment during shoots and fittings are other objectives. They are also working on developing workshops on eating disorders and having models seek professional help if they have an eating disorder.

By helping women love their bodies, teaching them about advertising tactics and by transforming the way they eat, future generations will be educated enough to understand the dynamics of shape, instead of just pointing a finger at a blatant fantasy world.

Where Has Model Freja Beja Erichsen Been? We Investigate.

Karlie Kloss isn’t the only model we haven’t been seeing enough of this season.

Freja Beha Erichsen, who we always look forward to seeing at Paris Fashion Week (she hasn’t walked the runways in London, Milan or New York in a few seasons), has been conspicuously absent.

Despite being a big-name model who can afford to be rather choosy with the labels she walks for, you can usually count on spotting Freja at a handful of A-list shows during Paris fashion week. For spring 2012 she walked Valentino, Chanel, Lanvin, Balmain and Balenciaga. But so far this season we have yet to spot that unmistakable disheveled mop (and her too-cool-for-school street style) anywhere. Freja was not included in IMG Paris’ show package (posted on Models.com) this season, and she was also conspicuously absent from the haute couture shows (she usually walks Chanel and Valentino). So what gives?

Commenters at the Fashion Spot have supplied a few theories. Some say that Freja is on a self-imposed break from fashion, noting that last summer she told The Times newspaper that she would one day take a break from fashion, “[My goal] is quite visual. It’s a about having a little farmhouse, a couple of horses, musical instruments. I’ll grow organic fruit and vegetables and be self-sufficient.” Hmm…

On the other hand, some commenters are citing an unsubstantiated rumor that Freja was dropped from Chanel’s Spring 2012 ad campaign, and therefore has less incentive to walk for the house–usually one of her staple shows. Sigh. So much internet chatter.

However, fans of the tomboy model can take heart: The Fall 2012 season may not be completely Freja-less. Model Caroline Barcomb tweeted: “Freja Beha was at one of my castings today! Ughh if I were a lesbian…”

Since most of the shows have already happened and we know she didn’t walk any of them, that leaves only big-name shows like Miu Miu, YSL, Chanel and Valentino left–and a little birdie told us to place our bets on a Chanel exclusive. Cross your fingers she makes an appearance!

This could get ugly: models round on Heidi Klum father.

Germany’s first family of fashion is hit by ultimate ‘pushy parents’ backlash.

CHLOE

Wearability and light shone from Chloe fall-winter collection Monday – unsurprising, perhaps, from the house whose founder coined the original phrase “ready-to-wear” more than 60 years ago.

A sense of spring, not fall, bloomed from the largely off-white array of diaphanous silk blouses, scattered pearls and applique lace flowers on display at a sky-lit showroom in Paris’ central Tuileries garden.

Dimensional patchwork in wool that was felted gave the knitwear a playful, sporty ease, with airy lace sweaters. Even the British military parka constructions were cushioned by padding and soft-quilted silks.

One knit effect Teddy shearling in a leather V-neck captured the bohemian chic look of the Glastonbury music festival – all with a Parisian neatness and sophistication.

Clare Waight Keller, who became Chloe new creative director in June, conceded that her move to Paris six months ago could help explain the cross-Channel contrasts in Monday’s collection.

“I’ve just come from London where there’s a different spirit,” she said backstage. “I love Paris, but the Chloe models is somewhere in between.”

Tuesday’s shows include Chanel, Valentino and Alexander McQueen.

STELLA MCCARTNEY

STELLA MCCARTNEY went to the heart of the English countryside in a sporty show that mixed posh furniture patterns with stretchy tweeds and zipper—and the London Olympics on her mind.

“Everyone has to bring in a touch of the Games, don’t they?” said the designer backstage, referring to the Olympics media frenzy that has taken over her home city.

Tweed short dresses were fit for the tennis court as stretchy inserts in ultra-white and blue contoured a silhouette that flared. Models in tightly pulled, gymnastic buns looked ready to forward flip down the catwalk.

This style worked well with the jackets’ athletic shoulders and necklines, accentuated by jacquards with graphic silk. Softer knitwear provided a halftime break from the sporty look.

A cardigan dress twin-set in soft washed out blue, and a palette of pinky and dusty rose added a feminine touch. However, in a couple of pieces, the hourglass shape in thick knit made bottoms look overly bulky.

One person who didn’t seemed to mind was Stella’s father, Paul McCartney, looking on from the side-row.

“It’s so beautiful, isn’t it?” said the former Beatle, “but I suppose I’m probably biased!”

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Pilati’s final YVES SAINT LAURENT collection was stronger and sharper than last season. Perhaps fittingly, it channeled black—the color of mourning—and chainmail, redolent of combat and self-defense.

From the outset, a tangibly fatalistic mood hovered in the air: the first model strode slowly down the 100-meter (328-foot) catwalk in a simple black hood.But the seeming lightness of the materials diluted the fierceness of the clothes: Sharp-shouldered silhouettes with cinched waists managed to have an element of fragility.A long black coat could have been inspired by the Matrix, but had the feel of a kimono and a softness in the leather. A chainmail dress looked delicate—like the skin of a fish—later echoed with finesse in chainmail printing.

A subdued mood with slimmer forms replaced the free volumes of previous seasons. Also gone were the palazzo pants and the Prince of Wales check of last fall, and with it most of the house’s DNA.

“Stefano has given them lot of iconic things,” said actress Salma Hayek, on hand for the show. “This show was a homage not to the house, but to himself.”

The last piece was the exception that proved this rule. A gorgeous 1970s tuxedo suit, a single generous tribute from Pilati to the late, great YVES SAINT LAURENT.

The standing ovation from Anna Wintour said it all.

Such rare, visible acclaim from the powerful US Vogue editor capped Monday’s Yves Saint Laurent show, an emotional farewell to designer Stefano Pilati after more than a decade at the helm of one of the fashion world’s most famous brands.

The sometimes temperamental Italian designer divided critics from the start of his tenure as creative director in 2004. He had a tough act to follow, stepping in then for Tom Ford.

After months of speculation, Pilati’s departure was only confirmed a week ago. The house credited him for “rebuilding and repositioning” the brand, and its parent company, PPR, pointed to a “giant step” up in profits last year.

Actress Catherine Deneuve, the longtime muse of the late, legendary Saint Laurent, was among the celebrities on hand for the final Pilati bow.

In other shows, Day 7 of Paris’ fall-winter collection saw Stella McCartney gave the English country manor a sporty revamp—just in time for the London Olympics. Chloe, the house where ready-to-wear started, produced a wearable tale of two cities: London and Paris.

Model Andrej Pejik Plays Both Sides at Paris Fashion Week

The androgynous beauty takes the runway for both men’s and women’s collections, walking with the ladies for designer Jean Paul Gaultier.

Some folks in the audience at Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fall/Winter Paris fashion show this past weekend might have thought that this model, Andrej Pejic, was just another tall, skinny, striking blonde female model like Karlie Kloss, Aline Weber and other top walkers.

But this is a model who is already doing Gaultier’s menswear fragrance ad campaign. And he’s not a woman, he’s a man.

Born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1991, Andrej fled to Serbia with his family, settling in a refugee camp near Belgrade. Later the family immigrated to Australia, in 2000. He was discovered in Australia, in his teens, and was noted for his unique androgyny.

He first walked both the men’s and women’s shows in 2011 for Gaultier and the men’s shows for Marc Jacobs. In May 2011, Pejic’s cover for the New York-based magazine Dossier Journal — he was photographed removing his shirt, his long blond locks in curlers — was considered so scandalous that the magazine had to be covered in both Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores.

As of September 2011, he reached the no. 18 on the models.com Top 50 Male Models list. There’s now buzz that he may star in French film director Florence Dewavrin, movie based on Andre Balzac’s 1834 novel, “Séraphita,” a  novel about an androgynous youth who attracts the love of both a woman and a man, both of him believing him to be the opposite sex.

Andrej hopes his apperance will create a more open world, telling Out magazine: “I would like to live in a world where your gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and, above all, financial status didn’t affect the opportunities you are given in life, the way you’re treated by others, and your overall freedom. In a world like that, I wouldn’t be given such a complex definition.”

He’s already helping change the fashion world. Pejic looked awesome in a metallic, graffiti-print suit with a orange fur casually flung over this shoulder in Gaultier’s Saturday show. And the very next day, Sunday, he was sitting with all the other famous folks in the front row at the John Galliano Fall/Winter show.

Marc Jacobs’ Non-Apology Over Treatment Of

Models Shows The Industry’s Need For Stronger Regulations.

Marc Jacobs unwittingly made a very good case for increased government regulation of the fashion industry today with his flippant response to a piece on his (and others’) refusal to pay models fairly for their work. Here’s how it went down.

Earlier today, Jezebel ran a piece on how Marc Jacobs doesn’t pay his models except in “trade” (i.e. designer goods), despite expecting them to work very long hours for him during fashion week. Given the amount that it costs a model to travel to and from gigs at the world’s various fashion weeks, all that these models often have to show for their hundreds of hours of work is a mounting pile of debt to their agencies. (Jacobs, meanwhile, makes millions of dollars each year.) As previously reported, he also flouts the CFDA guidelines on casting underage models, because of “creative freedom” or some shit. He’s not the only designer who does this, but he’s certainly the most flagrant.

The only notable exception to this is in Paris, where strong labor laws dictate that runway models must be at least 16 (which decreases the pressure on young models to leave school), and designers must pay their workers in money. Crazy, I know.

This is proof enough for me that CDFA “guidelines” don’t mean shit, and this industry has absolutely zero capacity for self-regulation. Any why should it? The whole point of a capitalist enterprise is to make money, and even the “nicest” business owners are pushed by market forces to decrease wages, safety measures, and other overhead costs as much as possible. (And as you can see, Marc Jacobs is hardly a “nice business owner.”) But even Adam Smith acknowledged that state regulations are necessary in order to keep this system from producing a cartoonishly horrific world in which bosses floss their teeth with workers’ bones. Hence, laws are passed, quality of life is maintained, there are no bloody revolutions, people can afford to buy things, and capitalist society continues to function, albeit not as profitably as it would if those pesky child labor laws went away.

This all seems fairly basic, but for some reason, people often forget these ideas when faced with the uniquely special, creative and aspirational field of fashion. Well, guess what? Their job might be more glamorous than most, but models are workers just like anyone else, and as such, should be entitled to the same protections. Thankfully, organizations like The Model Alliance are now working to make this a reality.

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A study in Europe links the fashion industry’s use of super-thin models to the self-identity problems of many young women. The industry can do more to help girls find their true self-worth.

Much of public life these days is designed to remind individuals they can choose what to allow into their thinking. Movies, for example, come with ratings so people can decide not to watch violence or sex. Fewer schoolteachers give lectures and instead encourage pupils to sift through facts and competing ideas for themselves.

One of the most difficult challenges in helping people with such choices is the use of super-skinny models in fashion magazines and on the catwalk.

The destructive images of waifish women are closely followed by many young women who simply let others define a self-identity based on body shape – and in dress sizes 0 to 6. Even among 12-year-old girls who are underweight, two-thirds of them believe they are fat.

Now, a new study of nearly 3,000 young women in Europe finds that the fashion industry is a significant influence on a woman’s identity. The study found that countries with the highest rates of eating disorders such as anorexia are also places where young women generally worry the most about what they eat and have the highest circulation of fashion magazines.

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Such stylistic directions as dandy and militarian, now and then darting in glossy magazines last season, have now become an integral part of the women new fashion collections. Gloss has publicly urged women to replenish their wardrobes little things, borrowed from men’s fashion. But can a woman preserve its charm and charm, dressed in a shapeless men’s jacket, or bomber jackets camouflage colors, whether or not a man easily overwhelm its gait, striding down the street in boots a la waiter or high boots of rough skin? Of course, the direct copying the style of the stronger sex does not make a women more elegant and attractive. But, after looking good in vogue for men’s silhouettes can be seen and rational.

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