Last year Urban Outfitters and photographer Jason Lee Parry got into some trouble after a 15-year-old model named Hailey Clauson was featured in an "X-rated" print on a t-shirt sold in the store. Parry was the photographer, and the model's parent's filed a lawsuit against him and the retailer in Manhattan Federal Court. Yesterday, about six months after filing, a Manhattan federal judge dismissed the $28 million suit, at least against Parry, who the judge said “is not subject to jurisdiction under New York law." According to the NY Post, this is because the photo was shot in California. Urban Outfitters, however, remains a defendant in the case. At the time, Blood is the New Black (who made the shirt in question), told us: more ›

Last fall, there was uproar when a 15-year-old Croatian model walked the runway during Fashion Week, prompting the Council of Fashion Designers of America to ask its members to essentially card models to confirm that they are at least 16 years old. CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg even said, "Top modeling agencies—including DNA, Elite, Ford, IMG, Marilyn, New York Models, Next, One, Supreme, Trump, Wilhelmina, Women and Women Direct - have again pledged that they will not send out models under the age of 16 for shows." But now it turns out that Ford never promised it, so that's why they have two models under 16 participating in Fashion Week. more ›

The Maurizio Cattelan exhibit currently housed inside the Guggenheim (you can't miss it), will be on view through January 22nd, and the museum has just offered up this neat video showing Cattelan using a one-twelfth-scale model of the building to help visualize the installation. Along with the miniature rotunda, he used maquettes of artworks to prepare for hanging the objects. Most likely he used one of these foam-core miniatures. more ›

A few weeks ago, a 23-year-old online fashion magazine editor and sometime model accidentally walked into the moving propeller of a small plane, suffering serious injuries. Lauren Scruggs's left hand was severed, and yesterday her family announced that doctors removed her left eye. more ›

Check out these photos for a pretty new New York-based lingerie line called The Lake & Stars. The lingerie itself is rather lovely, full of vintage-inspired flourishes that keep it sexy without being skanky. The models, too, are very pretty, and it's refreshing to see that at least one of them isn't jailbait material. That's because the models are a real-life mother-daughter team. Do you feel weird on the inside? more ›

A big-time scam artist was busted and fined close to $1 million for allegedly running a fake talent agency promising nonexistent work for aspiring models and actresses over the course of nearly six years, the Department of Consumer Affairs announced yesterday. That's a whole lot of useless headshots. more ›

David Chang has worn many labels over the years: unapologetic meat-eater, egalitarian reservation overseer, aspiring storyteller, and now...model? Apparently, yes. more ›

Remember Claudia Charriez? She made it to the semifinal round on America's Next Top Model in 2006, but was disqualified after she revealed that she had been born a man. She's back in the news now—because she says her firefighter/FDNY calendar model boyfriend assaulted her, because he thought she was flirting with other men at Flashdancers. "He pinned me into a telephone booth and strangled me, then let go and started crying," she told the Post. more ›

Urban Outfitters is in hot water after hawking a t-shirt that featured an X-rated print of a 15-year-old girl. The photo was originally taken by photographer Jason Lee Parry (who specializes in topless photography) last year. He is now being sued by the model's parents—the retailer, and two other stores (including Brandy & Melville in SoHo) are also part of the suit. The teen's parents filed yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court, and say while they knew about the photoshoot (which was for a magazine), and the specific photo, they never approved it for the shirts. more ›

A French model is causing a stir thanks to a "bad person in the U.S.A."... and also because she's only 10-years-old. Thylane Loubry Blondeau has been posing and posturing amongst the industry's elite, but many think the young girl is being pushed too far, getting a little too grown up for photo spreads in magazines like French Vogue. Lest we forget, Brooke Shields was just 10-years-old when this controversial photo was taken, and that controversy has stuck around for decades. Blondeau's mother Veronika Loubry allegedly defended her daughter on Facebook, saying: more ›

A couple of weeks ago, Diddy's PR blitz took a turn for the worse when a model sitting in a bathtub managed to set her hair on fire at his album launch party. But Diddy, always the gentleman, is now planning on paying for her hair repair! TMZ reports that he called the model, Miyoki Jones, after the party to see how she was doing, and promised to foot the bill no matter what. Even if it costs $1,000, which TMZ estimates it will. more ›

Ex-Rikers inmate and graffiti gal about town, Danielle Bremer (known as UTAH) is now fancying herself a model. Animal has photos of the vegan street artist posing in some undies for CLAW Money’s latest clothing line. Is an American Apparel modeling career in her future?
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Peter Feigenbaum (who you may know from the Brooklyn band Dinowalrus) has created a pretty amazing miniature streetscape of outer-borough New York City circa the 1970s and '80s. Tomorrow his installation will open at the Open Source Gallery—it's called “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart.” From the gallery: more ›

Beautiful models don't get no respect. Former bikini model Irina Krupnik has lost a $10 million lawsuit against NBC Universal, the makers of Couples Retreat. In the suit she claimed she never intended for a photo of her dressed in a skimpy bikini to be used to help a middle-aged man with a "prominent belly" (Jon Favreau) pleasure himself on the silver screen. more ›

Ford Models and Next Management, two top NYC modeling agencies, are taking their catfight to the Manhattan Supreme Court. Next has accused Ford of poaching three of their top models, Anna Aleksandra Cywinska and Anna Maria Jagodzinska from Poland and Estonian Karmen Pedaru, while all were still under Next contract. In the lawsuit, Next is pulling the 'un-American behavior card': Accusing Ford of waging a "campaign to raid Next's businesses," and, according to the Post, calling Ford's owners "Russian nationals who totally ignore the American legal system." In Russia, legal system ignores you! more ›

A Queens nine-year-old supermodel is one of the highest paid models in the world, earning nearly $250,000 a year. Fatima Ptacek has been modeling since she was five, appeared on SNL and has been in commercials for McDonald's, Bisquick and Pillsbury Toaster Streudel. As if that wasn't enough of a shot to your ego, she is a nationally ranked gymnast, reads at the 10th-grade level, is fluent in Spanish, studies Mandarin and would give up modeling if she could go to an Ivy League college and be a lawyer. Well, at least you don't have to ask permission when you want another juice box, right? more ›

Remember that hilaaairious scene in Couples Retreat when horndog Jon Favreau rubs one out while leering at a bikini model on the cover of a brochure? Probably not, because you most likely didn't see it, but anyway that tree did fall in the woods, and now we have one of our beloved tabloid lawsuit stories, because the model in the photo is suing NBC Universal for $10 million in damages for her "great humiliation, embarrassment, emotional distress, shame, mortification and injury to her reputation and career." more ›

A photographer has come forward with seductive pictures of Sherr-una Booker, the woman who filed domestic violence charges against a former top aide to Gov. Paterson. David Johnson, her former beau, allegedly punched and pushed Booker after she refused to take off a sexy Halloween costume, but the photographer says that a decade ago she was a "modest" model. "She was just drop-dead gorgeous," Jonathan Dewayne Woods (this guy?) told the Daily News. "She was what I call, 'street fine.' She wasn't made up like a model in Cosmopolitan magazine. She was the type who looked good all the time." more ›

A former Manhattan model set fire to her New Jersey home and killed both herself and her boyfriend last week. In 2004 the cover girl made headlines for successfully fighting off the advances of a would-be rapist in Central Park, but in the end her “emotionally unstable” personality got the best of her. "They had their up and down moments," said Scott Broschart a close friend of Carina Schlesinger and Daniel Cresci, who’d been together 18 months. more ›

The manmodelhunt for Naomi Campbell is over. The 39-year-old allegedly hit her driver yesterday after he wouldn't tell her if her boyfriend had been cheating on her. By not speaking up, he landed himself an unexpected smack while driving down East 58th Street, which sent his head into the steering wheel. The model fled the scene when he pulled over. more ›

The powers that be should really give Naomi Campbell her own police scanner code at this point. MBB: Model Behaving Badly? It seems the supermodel took her rage out on her poor limo driver at 1 p.m. today. Details are scarce, but the Daily News reports that since the incident she's gone missing—making her the first ever fugitive supermodel? Give this woman a reality show! more ›

When model and "wannabe-socialite" Kashmir Snowdon-Jones committed thousands of dollars worth of credit card fraud "to get back at" a friend her peers predicted she'd get out of charges using her feminine wiles and upper Manhattan fortunes. But now, charged with grand larceny and identity theft, it seems unlikely she'll be able to completely evade the consequences of her unauthorized purchases. According to the victim Jennifer Hirsch, "I told my parents that it wasn't going to end. She is going to get away with it like she always does with everyone else's money. I didn't want her to hurt anyone else as she had done to me. So that's when l said, let's go to NYPD." more ›

Coco Rocha, the size 4 model who made it to the cover of the Daily News, is speaking out. The words that loomed over her photo in that issue, read: "Is She Too Fat To Be A Runway Model?" The article went on to claim that she's no longer in demand for the runway, but Rocha says the story was spun, and "there has been quite the commotion... as only a few select statements of mine were printed." more ›