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Some of my designer clients need 6-8 girls for several runway shows during LA Fashion Week 2011. You will be walking the runways in their shows, which will be closing LA Fashion Week on March 20. The castings are being coordinated by Los Angeles-based modeling agency Nyx Models.

[Quick 2012 update: some castings for F/W 2012 are here: 2012 LA Fashion Week castings.]

Requirements
Height: 5’10″ (177+ cm) or taller
Age: 14-24
Bust: 32” – 34”
Hips: 35” or less
Cup Size: A or B
Size: 0-2

Important: if you do not meet the above requirements, DO NOT APPLY. Let’s not waste each other’s time.

Runway experience is a plus, but not required. Please bring two recent comp cards or recent photographs.

The final casting is this Sunday, March 6, 2011, beginning at 10:00AM in West Hollywood.

You must also be available for rehearsal on March 13 as well as the entire day of the show, March 20 – no exceptions.

If you are selected, you must be available to stay immediately following the casting for a fitting and rehearsal. So, please be sure to set aside a few hours on Sunday.

RSVP by e-mail to casting@nyxmodels.com or contact me.

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HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 26, 2011: Bands of snow are visible in the sky above the Hollywood sign as a rainbow shines in the foreground. Snow and small hail fell in Los Angeles as the area experienced some of its lowest temperatures in modern history.

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Here’s a leaked rehearsal tape of James Franco attempting to sing Cher’s ”You Haven’t Seen The Last Of Me”. Now we know why he won’t be singing at the Oscars.

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Various celebrities sporting hot fashions on the red (blue!) carpet for the premiere of TRON in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

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W Korea Takes My Side, Fixes Demi Moore’s

Right when you thought (hoped) this whole thing was over, something comes along that, as the Jerky Boys would say, puts a whole different paint job on things. I was back in Maine for Christmas (and of course, holding my breath for an apology and retraction from Demi Moore and her legal team), just hanging out with my Mom and her cat – and in came a cameraphone tip from halfway ’round the world. [Thanks, Joe!] Well, the January 2010 issue of W Korea just hit the newsstands (with the ironic subtitle “Women in Full”).

Unsurprisingly, they decided to use the excellent Mert & Marcus shot of Demi Moore. But very surprisingly, they installed a new hip on Demi. So: even W‘s sister publication thought the image looked weird enough to fix.

W Magazine Korea, January 2010

This raises a few serious questions for Martin Singer, his client, and W: did W‘s Korean team add in a fake hip because they just kinda thought it looked awkward? (Y’know, like I did, before you attacked, discredited, and threatened to sue me?) Or did they merely reveal a hip that was already there, but that Singer, et alia litigiously denied had been accidentally obliterated?

If it’s the former: are Singer, Moore et alia now going to pursue legal action against W Korea? By retouching the image’s supposedly “genuine representation” of her “absolutely not retouched” hip, did W Korea imply the same things Singer claims I did (but which, of course, I didn’t)?

If it’s the latter: who was aware of this? If Mr. Singer and Ms. Moore were aware, this raises some rather serious legal questions. Regardless of it being the dumbest argument ever, some very serious core principles are in play.

Anyway, to my eyes, the W Korea image looks great – it’s a beautiful cover, and anatomically correct! If I’d seen this image in W‘s December advance, I never would have said a thing – except, perhaps, “nice work!” (And, had I not been threatened with a lawsuit, I surely would never have noticed the deformed thumb.)

My attempts to secure comment from the W Korea editorial team were (of course) unsuccessful.

[Update 1, 8:45 AM: fixed cover image now available on W Korea's web site.]

[Update 2, 10:15 AM: The volume of angry email I woke up to this morning has astonished me. People, think about this: I pointed out a blooper & was threatened with legal action for doing so. Now the basis for that threat is totally blown away by W's own sister publication. What would you do? This isn't about a hip, it isn't about retouching (I do not object to retouching at all - I do it very frequently), and it isn't about Demi Moore. It's about my reputation - and the rights of all bloggers to express themselves without being bullied with threats to their livelihood. Please consider this before writing to tell me how stupid/obsessed/vicious I am.]

[Update 3, 11:45 AM: Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing brilliantly explains why this is important and why you should care.]

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