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Why top runway fashion models never smile

They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? "You don't smile. It is just not done," said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born Londoner has...

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After tears for crocodiles, Jane Birkin keeps name on Hermes bag

Following the reports that Jane Birkin has dropped her request to have her name taken off the iconic Birkin bag after PETA released uncovered footage the horrific treatment crocodiles under went the label's suppliers farms, PETA'a founder Ingrid Newkirk commented: "Jane Birkin is a good person, and we think she has been given false assurances by...

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Jane Birkin wants Hermès to stop using her name for Birkin bag

New York - For over three decades the Hermès Birkin bag has been one of the ultimate status symbols. It was practically the designer bag that was unrivaled by virtually any other designer bag. With its 10,000 dollar and up price tag and almost three year waiting list, finally getting your hands on one of those bags was a sign you had made it to...

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Corrie Nielsen kicks off PFW with beehive hair and Mad-Men styled skirts

Nine days of Paris fashion got off to a retro start Tuesday with a 1960s-inspired collection from Corrie Nielsen featuring beehive hair and Mad Men-style looks with futuristic, voluminous twists. Citing 1960s icons Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin as influences, Nielsen dedicated the collection to "the women of the 1960s who shaped and influenced...