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 ›

Rangers' left wing Sean Avery has drawn ire from the starlets he's insulted, the players he's assaulted, and just about everyone else. But with the release of a PSA for the Human Rights Campaign in support of gay marriage in New York, the former Vogue intern is seeking to unite voters in the issue, telling the Times "I certainly have been surrounded by the gay community. And living in New York and when you live in LA, you certainly have a lot of gay friends." more ›

In a new profile in Vogue, Kirsten Gillibrand is painted as an everywoman, equally comfortable talking about finance as she is about farming. Jonathan Van Meter compares the Senator to Hillary Clinton, who ten years ago won the same Senate seat with a similar "listening tour" of New York and spent her early days in the Senate "charming many of her Senate colleagues on the other side of the aisle with her intelligence, her tirelessness, and her deft ability to work the center of American politics." But none of that matters because did you see that slideshow? Gillibrand is pretty hot. more ›

Last night marked yet another night of synergy between designers and shoppers as Fashion's Night Out inspired New Yorkers to buy all night long at some of the city's hottest stores. Created by Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, NY1 describes the night as "meant to unite designers and retailers for one special night to put some sparkle back in the eyes of shoppers—and to get them off the streets and into the stores" all around the world. It also allowed for some more outlandish behavior on the part of Naomi Campbell. more ›

Yesterday, Condé Nast sent a memo to its employees alerting them that it was negotiating a move from Times Square to the World Trade Center in 2014. One "insider" told the Post, "I don't think they would have sent the memo if it wasn't a done deal," and many staffers were upset enough to say things like, "It's just depressing. Everybody is pretty bummed out about it. Nobody wants to move down there," and "If I'm still here by then, just shoot me." more ›

As rumored/speculated, the NY Times reports that Condé Nast signed a tentative deal to moves its magazines to Freedom Tower One World Trade Center: "The 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper will be the tallest building in New York when it is completed in 2013. If the deal goes through, employees of Condé Nast — publisher of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue and 15 other magazines — would move in 2014 from their current home in Times Square." more ›

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is simply not pleased with a developer's plan to build a condo in her Greenwich Village neighborhood. She put pen to paper (official Vogue letterhead, to be exact) and wrote a letter to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, calling the project "a totally out-of-scale, inappropriate eight-story building" and an "unwelcome intrusion." According to the NY Post she wrote the letter in February 2009, but just last week sent an appeal to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. more ›

A former Australian Vogue cover model, whose modeling career ended last year after a doorman disfigured her face with a broken bottle, is finally having her day in court. Liskula Cohen's lawsuit isn't against the hotel where she was attacked, but against Google—she's trying to force the company to identify an anonymous blogger who's been trashing her on the website "Skanks in NYC." Earlier today the lawyer for the blog was in court to explain why her client's identity should remain undisclosed. "Skank and ho are ubiquitous terms," skanky ho lawyer Anne Salisbury told the judge. "If you Google it, you get millions of hits... If you turn on VH1, skank, ho, skank, ho is every other word." Ah, the VH1 defense. If only every argument could be settled by turning to MTV Networks for guidance. According to the Post, Salisbury also also cited a recent New Jersey ruling dismissing a lawsuit against the operators of "Hot Chicks with Douchebags." (That kitten class action suit against LOLcats is also an important precedent.) more ›