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CULTURE, FASHION / February 2 2012 3:12 PM

Fashion Week Internationale Wraps Up Its First Season in the Most Homophobic Place on Earth

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You can’t keep a good gay down. At least that’s what I took away from the season finale of VICE‘s Fashion Week Internationale on Nigeria, a country of enormous civil unrest and institutionalized homophobia. However, while same sex marriage is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison,  hostess with the mostest Charlet Duboc learned that to get ahead in the burgeoning Nigerian fashion industry — or anywhere in Nigeria, for that matter — it (allegedly) behooves one to be a friend of Dorothy. Duboc couldn’t help but notice this conflicting duality which seems to mark the entire country during her time in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city:

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SPREAD'EM / January 7 2012 12:12 PM

Vogue Italia Takes a Page Out of the Joan Rivers Playbook

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QVC and HSN, once the domain of Marie Osmond‘s creepy fetishistic dolls and the legendary Joan Rivers Classics Collection has gotten a recent injection of diva with Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey taking to the air to hock their perfumes, clothing lines and pregnancy stories. For its first issue of the year, Vogue Italia, perhaps sensing a trend, tapped Steven Meisel and Karl Templer for this brilliant send-up of the home shopping networks featuring leggy ladies Joan Smalls, Karlie Kloss, Sigrid Agren, Caroline Trentini, Gertrud Hegelund, Daria Strokous and Natasha Poly. And if that weren’t enough to get your collective hearts beating in anticipation, there’s a…video. Listen closely and you can almost here Joan screaming from beyond (L.A.) about the only things these skinny bitches are eating up is her goddamn screentime. Video and gallery after the jump!

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NEWS, SPREAD'EM / December 12 2011 4:20 PM

Franca Sozzani Admits It Was a Mistake Taking Down Karlie Kloss Photo

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Remember this photo of a contorted Karlie Kloss by Steven Meisel? Well, some people might not since Franca Sozzani and the kids at Vogue Italia took it down from the magazine’s website after it started appearing on pro-anorexia websites. Sozzani took to her blog today to dispel any rumors and explain her reasoning behind the decision:

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SPREAD'EM / December 1 2011 3:00 PM

This Christmas, Give the Gift of a Naked Karlie Kloss [NSFW]

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Karlie Kloss is one of the hardest working models in the game. From Vogue covers to the Victoria’s Secret runway, the 19-year-old Chicago native has had quite a 2011,  crossing over into that rare pop culture terrain occupied solely by bona fide supermodels. So why not close out the year on a high, steamy note by ripping off her clothes and giving the kids a show in Vogue Italia‘s December issue, photographed by Steven Meisel. And there’s a lot of show going on.

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SPREAD'EM / November 9 2011 12:38 PM

Perfecting the Dead-Eyed Stare: Kristen Stewart in Vogue Italia

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I guess even Vogue Italia, that one link to editorial relevance in the Condé Nast stable of periodicals, can run afoul every now and then. Case in point, this bit of visual vomit Michelangelo di Battista threw up for their latest issue. Filmed in what could easily be your grandmother’s attic painted the most abhorrent shade of blue — with uninspired styling by Alice Gentilucci and listless and lifeless posing from Kristen Stewart whose hair apparently hasn’t seen a brush in ages –  this spread has Italian Vogue wading in levels of American Vogue dreckitude.  Enjoy after the jump. 

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CULTURE, MODEL LUST / October 19 2011 8:30 AM

And the Naomi Goes to…: FashionIndie’s 1st Annual Model Citizen Awards

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Awards season  has just begun and while film and the occasional TV stars are busy patting themselves on the back — among other places — we’d like to take some time out to honor our favorite catwalkers and posers of the past year. Roll out the red carpet and break out your best Joan Rivers schtick — “Ugh, Lara! Were you in a car accident because it looks like you left the airbags under your dress!” — we’re going to the FashionIndie Model Citizen Awards!

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