Model Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[alix*]

Anyone has something on Lara Stone? She seems really laid back and cool to me.

Mm I would like some information concerning her too

 

[Tinsley V]

Model and former Bond girl Waris Dirie went missing three days ago, and has been found in Belgium today
This has some shocking content, so I don't know if I should post it all - mods can edit the mutation part

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Police on Friday found Waris Dirie, three days after the Somali-born model who launched a worldwide campaign against female genital mutilation had vanished.

Dirie, 43, appeared to be in good health and was being questioned by police about the disappearance, said Estelle Arpigny, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office.

She declined to give further details, saying it was unclear what had happened since Dirie vanished early Wednesday. Belgian media reports said police found her Friday afternoon walking the Brussels' Grand Place square.

Hours earlier, police had announced they were launching a nationwide search for the former model, who had last been seen getting into a cab after a mix-up over a hotel.

Dirie gained international fame as a model posing in Chanel ads and acting in the 1987 James Bond movie "The Living Daylights" before launching her campaign against female genital mutilation in 1996.

She shocked the world with a best-selling book "Desert Flower" that described how her genitals were sliced off with a dirty razor blade without anesthesia, and then stitched together.

Now a U.N. goodwill ambassador, she was due to speak on genital mutilation in Brussels at two conferences on women's rights organized by the European Union, including one on Thursday attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

News of Dirie's disappearance came a week after French police said they had found the body of another former model of African origin who had campaigned against female genital mutilation. Guinean-born Katoucha Niane was discovered floating in the River Seine in Paris.

The French police said an autopsy showed no signs of foul play, raising the possibility that she may have fallen accidentally into the river. However, Katoucha's family members say they suspect homicide.

Dirie's manager, Walter Lutschinger, said she had been involved in an altercation in a hotel reception area after a taxi driver took her to the wrong branch of the Sofitel hotel chain. The police were called and drove Dirie around Brussels looking for the correct hotel because she had apparently forgotten where she was staying.

At one hotel, while staff and police were checking for her name on a computer, Meilleur said Dirie stepped out saying she planned to buy cigarettes from an all-night kiosk, but instead climbed into a taxi and drove away.

An Austrian citizen, Dirie was attacked in her Vienna apartment in 2004 by a Portuguese handyman who had stalked her. The man was given a five-month suspended sentence by an Austrian court.

source|associated press

image source|homepage.hispeed.ch
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[happytrail]

News of Dirie's disappearance came a week after French police said they had found the body of another former model of African origin who had campaigned against female genital mutilation. Guinean-born Katoucha Niane was discovered floating in the River Seine in Paris.

The French police said an autopsy showed no signs of foul play, raising the possibility that she may have fallen accidentally into the river. However, Katoucha's family members say they suspect homicide.

that's shocking to hear that. however, i don't think there's a coincidence with her disappearance and Katoucha's death. something about that doesn't seem right.

 

[smokebreak]

Oh god that sounds so awful..

 

[tocceve]

^^weird that another model named Katoucha or something died very similar and because of the same reasons

 

[kezme44]

Whoever it is I bet they're freaking out ..unless it was Jessica Stam
But if style.com used the same leg as the model who stole the shoes, it looks like Kim Noorda's because it's slimmer than Kori's and well, we know why it wouldn't be Chanel's.

i can't see kim stealing shoes

 

[smokebreak]

all models are capable of stealing shoes. it's common enough backstage really.

 

[style_expert]

I'd like to insist personally Kim would never do that

 

[smokebreak]

Well, a lot of models don't consider taking the shoes backstage as stealing. Many will excuse it with either their status as it being a gift.. or that the deisgner would give it to them if they asked anyway.. or as a piece of payment even. Most have made out with pinching shoes at least once
Why so insistent it wasn't kim?

 

[kezme44]

kim's a good girl

 

[smokebreak]

....so are a lot of other models. they still take shoes.

 

[tocceve]

^mhm did somebody steal shoes and wants to make it sound less bad now

 

[*Kristina*]

^

 

[kezme44]

i know but i can't see kim do that. i can see many other girls do it but not her

 

[smokebreak]

Actually I'm the only one who's never stolen shoes. WIN!

 

[kezme44]

pfff...yeah
i'd like to blame it on chanel

 

[SalemK]

Puh-leeze. I'd steal the shoes if it were me.

Besides, look how much extra free advertising YSL got!

 

[smartarse]

i'll blame it on Chanel!

 

[smokebreak]

Wait I just read all that about the shoes. Nowhere does it mention that there was an issue or someone had reported the shoes missing.. nor does it say that the shoes in that picture were the exact ones or that the legs were that of the thief.. it just plainly doesn't state the shoes were definitely stolen, just that they were on one of the models spotted one night. Often times certain models are actually given the shoes by the stylist or the designer either offered or the models can ask. Just some ways that it's not actually considered stealing. BOGUS STORY I SAY!
or it could be Chanel. whatever works.

 

[happytrail]

smokebreak, from your personal experience, which designers are generous with giving away clothing, and which ones are "stingy" or "cheap" enough to cause "theft?" and what was your favorite piece of free clothing you received from a designer?

i can understand if you can't answer that, i'm just curious.