NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
By Kavitha Surana

Models aren’t generally known for their word play. But Modelinia.com’s cool new T-shirts are emblazoned with model-related catchphrases that riff on well-known idioms and logos. Now you can Facebook “like” Karlie Kloss or proclaim that “Nobody does it better than Abbey Lee” on your shirt.

Backstage buddies Coco Rocha and Behati Prinsloo combine their names in the “Team Cohati” tee, a take on the pro-Conan O’Brien “Team Coco” graphic. “I like that we’ve become the Brangelina of the modeling world,” Rocha said backstage at Anna Sui. “But I’m kind of obsessed with Lara Stone’s Rolling Stones spinoff — that gap tooth is just perfect.”

The tees are $45 each on Modelinia’s Facebook store, and all the proceeds go to Unicef. Get them while they’re hot: as the Modelinia editor Bianca Posterli says, “We made them limited edition because our girls are too special to be mass.” We won’t mention the early catalog years.

Who’s team are you on?

Every New York Fashion week Modelinia.com likes to do something special with the models. This season they’ve created a series of T-shirts based around 7 models. My friend Behati and I (under our “couple name” COHATI) are the only two-for-one deal of the bunch. From my perspective that makes our Tshirt the best value for money. Wouldn’t you agree?! Though neither of us are currently red-heads, ours is based on the “TEAM COCO” logo Conan O’Brien has been using.

CLICK HERE TO BUY YOURS.

STEPS FOR A CAUSE

New York fashion week is officially over, as is my Nine West challenge to walk for charity. I’m happy to announce I made 227,507 steps this week! To see how we models did in raising money go HERE.

RUNWAY RELIEF
by Coco Rocha

Well August is almost out the door and that means one thing - Fashion Week is nearly here!!! This season Modelinia has teamed up with Nine West on a very special project which I’m happy to be a part of. I’ll be one of forty models doing what we models do best - WALK - but this time, for a cause. My girls and I will all be strapping on our specially made Nine West’s boot with built in pedometer’s to track our every step. For every mile of steps accumulated Nine West will make a donation to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer which supports research and education.

Would you like to help us? Well you can! Modelinia will have a dedicated site for you to check out how many steps each model has taken per day (oh its on!!) and you can even SPONSOR A MODEL! How great is that? 
I’m unleashing my competitive spirit on this one and calling out all other models!! I promise you, if that means I’m going to be walking to each and every show, I will out walk them all. That having been said, if any show is late on my account, please remember it will be for a good cause ;)

Taken from Modelinia’s blog

Coco Rocha and MCM took a walk down history lane and came across the ’80s ads starring supermodel Cindy Crawford by Herb Ritts.

Wind-blown hair, slight glow, and full on stare. Inspiration achieved.

So for the Spring 2010 campaign, Coco worked with photographer Cheol Park to recreate the original ’80s image starring Cindy. Of course, given the span of twenty years, a few alterations have been made. Coco’s fair skin takes over the bronzed look, her brown locks are still wind-blown but less teased, and she’s a bit more modest in her attire. Most importantly, the similarities are still there, and Coco certainly pulled off a brilliant rendition of Cindy.

COME SEE ME!

Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, I will be at The Tribeca Film Festival Family Street Fair. I shall be talking to young ones on the subject of self esteem. You’ll find me on Greenwhich and Hubert on the Franklin Stage at 2pm. So bring yourself and your questions and I hope I will have all the right answers for you. And after have a look at Modelinia’s Booth, they’ve got a lot of cool things to check out.

See you tomorrow!!