Loving the black cat-looking Ali Michael. That hairbow is adorable on her!

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Coach has once again decided to use model Ali Michael for their ad campaign. The S/S 09 photos look great with her in them. Michael gives Coach a younger, fresher image that makes me want to check out some of the new bags. This yellow piece is super cute; much better than those disgusting patchwork logo purses that make me want to vomit.

Thanks to Fashion Copious for the photos.

18-year-old Ali Michael is the new face of Coach, she shot their Fall ‘09 campaign last week, with a salary reported at around $50,000. Ali follows Lisa Cant, Caroline Winberg, and Mandy Moore as previous faces of Coach.

This weekend, Australian model Abbey Lee Kershaw fainted on the runway of Alexander McQueen. The industry is blaming a tight corset for causing the problem, but I feel this is just another notch on the belt of insiders who are looking to enforce stricter rules on the fashion industry. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for healthy body images on the runway, but I feel it’s a bigger problem than just making sure size 4 girls hit the catwalk.

Here’s what happened according to Frockwriter.

“When she was coming to the end [of the runway], back near the [entrance] ramp, I could tell she was having difficulties, because her steps were getting shorter and shorter, they were more like baby steps. I was reading her face and I could see ’struggle’ all over it and I was thinking, ‘She’s not going to make it’. But then she made it to the top of the animals and I thought she was OK, that’s why I turned my back on her to to go back to the main room.

Of course, now Abbey Lee will become the poster child for anorexia (if no one has made this claim yet, let us be the first to speculate) and she will be asked to come onto a couple of news stations and magazines will call her for shoots to show that she is in fact (now) healthy and/or is battling a disease which plagues millions of girls. Anything to prevent Alexander McQueen from looking like a designer who makes dresses that are hazardous to your health (if people faint from wearing your garments, you know you’re gonna have a few problems with wholesales). Either way this probably won’t be the last we see from Abbey Lee, who is quickly becoming infamous for her runway snafu’s (she also recently took a tumble on the runway of Rodarte).

Get to know this girl. She’ll either be the next Ali Michael and become a champion for women with eating disorders everywhere, or she’ll become the next Agyness Deyn and will hit the covers of magazines everywhere in an attempt by the industry to prevent this “faint” girl from casting a bad shadow on the house of McQueen.

Want to see a healthier version of Abbey Lee, check out this shoot from 10 Magazine…

I was on a plane from Paris to Texas, and I ran my fingers through my hair, and when I took my hand away there was a dry brittle clump of hair in my hand. And that’s kind of when I realized that this wasn’t worth it anymore, and it had completely taken over. - Ali Michael on the Today Show describing her state after she lost 28 pounds, leaving her a svelte 102 pounds for the Paris runways.