Models (Professional)

October 23, 2017

After Weinstein Scandal, a Plan to Protect Models

The Harvey Weinstein news has spurred an outcry on sexual harassment from women far from Hollywood. Now some of that outrage is taking a new shape, […]
September 27, 2017

Maye Musk, 69, Is Now a CoverGirl

In the past year or so, the beauty company CoverGirl has shown it is determined to corner the market on diversity. Today, months after signing James […]
September 8, 2017

Last Night, Calvin Klein — This Morning, Algebra

Ariel Nicholson Murtagh made her fashion week debut Thursday night walking in Raf Simons’s Calvin Klein show. She is 6-foot-1, weighs 125 pounds and has a […]
July 11, 2017

Elsa Martinelli, Italian Model and Actress, Dies at 82

Elsa Martinelli, an Italian fashion model turned actress whose Hollywood career included roles opposite Kirk Douglas in “The Indian Fighter” and John Wayne in “Hatari!,” died […]
June 20, 2017

Bringing Social Media Stars Onto the Runway, and Hearing Them Roar

MILAN — There is an ancient (O.K., recent) wisdom carved into the Fashion Week Commandments, handed down from the mount: To woo the millennial, you must […]
December 13, 2016

Encounters: Veronica Webb, Overseer of Pizza Parties

Encounters By LAURA M. HOLSON “It’s not glamorous taking out the recycling,” Veronica Webb said, as she carried a basket of plastic bottles and cardboard down […]
November 3, 2016

Sinosphere: The 80-Year-Old Runway Model Reshaping China’s Views on Aging

Sinosphere By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING — Before cranking up the techno at his 80th birthday party, the man known as China’s hottest grandpa paused from […]
September 21, 2016

Naomi Campbell Is Everywhere These Days

Here she was at Madison Square Garden introducing Rihanna in late August at the Video Music Awards. There she was the next weekend at the Venice […]
September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The First Shows

As New York Fashion Week approaches its 75th year (the first official shows, massed under the heading of Press Week, were held in 1943), with 151 […]
July 27, 2016

Kid Models (and Their Moms) Trade Summer Fun for City Auditions

Five children, in brightly colored T-shirts and wrinkled jean shorts, chattered in an eighth-floor office in Manhattan on a recent June day, taking breaks to lick […]