Friday, February 12th, looks to be a jam packed day with fashion people thinking outside the insular bubble in which it normally exists. 2 events are happening: Alessandra Ambrosio and Coco Rocha’s Open Your Heart Benefit for Lakay Pam and Naomi Cambell’s Fashion For Relief show (click banner below to buy tickets). We’ll be there to lend our support, will you?

Calvin Klein today announced that they will present live broadcasts of their Fall 2010 runway shows taking place during New York Fashion Week. Both shows will be held in New York City this season and will be broadcast in real time via the brands’ official website and Facebook page.

The men’s Fall 2010 Calvin Klein Collection runway show will be broadcast live at 2:00pm EST on Sunday, February 14th, while the women’s Fall 2010 Calvin Klein Collection show will broadcast at 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 18th. Both shows will appear exclusively and simultaneously on the brands’ dedicated website at Calvin Klein Collection.com and on their Facebook page at facebook.com/calvinklein. A live chat function will be on the brands’ Facebook page.

2 new beautiful young men arriving soon at New York Model Management. Julius (left) and Jozef (right) certainly make things exciting there.
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Modeling News:

We are huge fans too. Raquel Zimmermann is an icon..

David Sims shoots Gisele for Colcci post baby with the delicious Danny Schwarz. Yet another reason to be jealous of Ms. Bundchen.

Models, please, please get help if you are suffering from an eating disorder. Don’t die like some of these poor girls.

Photography and Miscellaneous:

Are you getting paid to come to a fashion show? We are not.

The new book about the house of Versace looks to be pretty darn juicy.

We adore Contributing Editor’s behind the scenes story from backstage at Milan, shot by a model (Julian Schratter) who’s also a photographer.

Lope Navo scores another big interview after Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and Arnaldo Anaya Lucca. Here he interviews super photo agent Jed Root.

For female models in town, Modellounge is back. Here’s the deal
-ML is moving to union square Monday Feb 8th. Address: Union Square Lounge | 29 Union Square West at 16th street
-Stop in next week to pick-up a NEW model lounge ‘all access privilege card’. The current card expires Friday Feb 5th, thus current membership and privileges also end Friday Feb 5th.
-(Pre-Fashion Week and) Fashion Week at Model Lounge presented by UGG Australia. The lounge will be decked out in UGG shearling rugs and more… girls will receive UGGs etc.
-Model Lounge Cadillac Courtesy Vehicles sure to be a big attraction among models since fashion week can’t exist without the models.
-Girls will also receive sunglasses, HD video cameras, headphones, premium denim and many other gifts
Hours: 10.30 - 5pm, Monday thru Friday. Here’s website: www.modelloungenyc.com

Agyness Deyn.
Jamie Bochert.
Daphne Guinness.

Only Steven Meisel could bring together three of fashion’s most inspirational forces: the trio shines on the cover of February’s Vogue Italia, in coordinated yet distinctive looks and the accompanying editorial is sure to be a showstopper.

Is 2010 the year of Abbey Lee Kershaw? The Aussie model continues her unstoppable editorial domination with not one, but two covers of Pop. Shot by famed artist, Richard Prince, the covers feature Abbey looking very wild west and almost reminiscent of Sam Haskin’s classic ‘Cowboy Kate’. Which cover will you be picking up?

Abbey Lee by Richard Prince | Image Credt, fearless 123 @ tFS

Teen Vogue, always finds a way to make fashion palatable to a younger audience and this month the mag enlists Kate Kosushkina for a whimsical editorial perfect for the young, or just the young at heart. Shot by Nick Haymes and styled by Havana Laffitte, the story shows Kate playing with marionettes and looking sweet in colorful Spring ensembles: which makes for a perfectly quirky set of images.

Briane Hatcher. Ph: Juergen Teller for Marc by Marc Jacobs S/S 10, pic courtesy of Ford Models.

This very second, models from around the world are descending in droves upon NYC. One young man who doesn’t have far to travel is 17 year old Briane (pronounced Brian) Hatcher from Queens, New York. Casting director Michelle Lee is a fan of the music loving student booking him 2 consecutive seasons for the Marc by Marc Jacobs shows. With the appearance of his first major campaign and set to model full time this summer, it looks like it’s going to be quite a year for Mr. Hatcher.

Pic exclusive to MODELS.com by Andrew Weir for ACW.

You’ve already seen the striking images for the new Y-3 starring the iconic Yohji Yamamoto, world famous soccer star Zinedine Zidane and a host of beautiful models. Major Model Management, home of many a beautiful male face, scored quite a coup booking all the male models for the ad campaign. Here’s an exclusive pic backstage at the Y-3 men’s show 2 weeks ago in Paris (cast by Andrew Weir) of Zinedine with many of the most exciting men’s faces on the scene today.