Model

Blurring the boundaries between men and women has brought Andrej Pejic international celebrity as a model, writes Caroline Overington, who talks to the 21-year-old and his mother about his career and family life. ASK any mother what they want for their children, they’ll probably say they want them to be happy. Drill down a little, […]

Miranda Kerr has stepped down as David Jones’ fashion ambassador after five years with the company, passing the reins to Australian model Jessica Gomes. David Jones has been negotiating the star model’s contract since the start of the year but the retail giant is expected to announce the end of that relationship this morning The […]

A French fashion magazine has caused controversy by “blacking up” 16-year-old white model for a photo shoot entitled “African Queen”. Ondria Hardin appears in the March issue of Numéro magazine “heavily bronzed” to resemble a black woman. The teen model — who usually sports blonde hair and very pale skin — wears an African-style headdress […]

The fashion industry has been accused of promoting “manorexia” after an array of shockingly thin male models were sent down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week. Designer YSL was criticised on the blogosphere for “woefully irresponsible model casting” as a photo of an emaciated model prompted a barrage of responses on social media. Photoshop fail: […]

Anna Nicole Smith’s six-year-old daughter Danielynn made headlines yesterday when it was revealed she had made her modelling debut at the tender age of six. Adding fuel to the critics’ fire was the fact that the little girl has signed with Guess, the same brand her tragic mother represented before her death from a drug […]

Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter has landed her first modelling job at the tender age of six. Danielynn is the new face of Guess, the same brand her mother modelled for before her death from a drug overdose in 2007. The campaign has outraged parenting experts who think young girls should be sheltered from the spotlight […]

Fashion magazines are constantly criticised for altering images to make models appear thinner, but in the latest Photoshop fail, an international fashion magazine has been attacked for airbrushing skinny supermodel Karlie Kloss to make her appear more full-figured. Posing in Numero magazine, the 20-year-old model is pictured topless with her hands raised above her head […]

Megan Gale copped a hailstorm of criticism when she broke up with comedian Andy Lee in 2010, so she can be forgiven for keeping her new romance quiet. Now 18 months into her relationship with 24-year-old AFL player Shaun Hampson — a man 13 years her junior — Megan has spoken about her new love […]

As New York Fashion Week begins, a young model has revealed the horrifying extremes she and her colleagues go to in order to stay thin. Russian Kira Dikhtyar, 24, told Fox News that the impossibly-thin bodies strutting down the catwalks are the result of a strict regime of cigarettes, laxatives, appetite suppressants, drugs and injections […]

An image of a naked plus-sized model with Barbie’s proportions drawn onto her body has gone viral on social media. The picture of Katie Halchishick — co-founder of body image blog Healthy is the New Skinny — was shot for the November 2011 issue of O magazine. In pictures: The real-life Russian Barbie doll It […]