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U.S. dollar discouraging models from American work

By Andrea Thatcher on November 6th, 2007

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We all heard the rumors swirling around the European shows that buyers for the big American department stores were having to be more frugal than usual in their selections because of the weak American dollar, and now Gisele refuses the currency of the country that put her in her push-up bra in the first place!

Our stylish sister site Catwalk Queen reports that just as Linda Evengelista famously would not get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, Gisele Bundchen won’t get out of bed for dollars at all! The world’s richest model has revealed that she refuses to get out of bed unless she is paid in euros now that the US dollar has hit an all time low.

“Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don’t know what will happen to the dollar,” said her sister and manager, Patricia Bundchen.

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My Experiment with Vogue

By Elaine LaPersonerie on October 12th, 2007

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This may sound crazy but I just achieved a life long quest: page by page I went through the October issue of Vogue to count the number of advertisements. I am always taken by the number of ads and what little content lives between them. The issue has 440 pages–all of which are filled with a variety of news stories–short designer profiles, longer fashion features, celebrity interviews and of course advertising: the glue that keeps the publication from folding. But here’s what’s amazing–before reaching any type of content (and by that I mean valuable reading material) I flipped through 60 ads. In hindsight the number 60 doesn’t sound so intimidating. 60 seconds, $60, 60 minutes–no matter how you slice it, 60 is pretty tolerable. But now take that number and imagine your freshly manicured fingers having to lick and turn 60 pages 60 times. A little insane right?

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