This article clip from models.com from awhile ago, says that Colette may have been on her way to being another campaign icon like Kate Moss or Natalia V. in tha Calvin Ads. This was right after Kate Moss had been dumped from the campaigns and Colette was just starting in the business:
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]One girl amused him more than any, a tall blonde Russian beauty with incredibly clear skin and a slightly alien, vaguely bulbous stare. Her name was Colette and she was locked in with New York Models, the hot boutique agency. Days after the Kate Moss drama, the press was fed the story that Calvin's new muse had been selected. Colette with three campaigns in her back pocket was booked exclusively for the Calvin Klein show in February of '99, ensuring that no other designer could use her for their runway. And promptly Edward Enninful, Fashion Editor of the English style bible and a former consultant to CK, books the instant star Colette to his April cover, passing over surefire sellers like Amber and Erin O' Conner. All the tracks are laid for Collette to emerge as the newest Calvin Klein icon. Then a funky thing happens. Collette disappears from the CK view. Instead we get a celebrity driven CK Jeans campaign.[/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sources inform MODELS.com that like the film Rashoman, the different parties have a different, often conflicting tale to tell. Our contacts at Klein's showroom reflect the matter as a simple change of a whimsical mind. Calvin, apparently, got over Colette, no more no less. Our sources at New York Models, while trying to be delicate in their phrasing, however hint that negotiations collapsed over the issue of fees, since an exclusive contract usually suggests a seven-figure compensation. Wherever the truth lies, suffice it to say, Calvin was not amused.
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