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

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.

Francisco Costa, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Philippe and Italo Zucchelli.

Friday night’s Calvin Klein’s special event with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) celebrating Los Angeles Arts month was a mammoth affair with some of the biggest stars in art, Hollywood and of course the fashion industry turning up to support the brand’s designers Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli. Top models past and current outfitted by Calvin Klein included Milla Jovovich, Molly Sims, Kellan Lutz, Michelle Alves, Coco Rocha, Elise Crombez, Jessica White and Tony Ward. Other fashion notables included Arianne Phillips, Honor Fraser, Cordula Reyer, Lorenzo Martone and Joe Zee.

Tony  Ward vamps it up with former model Bijou Phillips.

Milla and Michelle

Jessica and Coco. (All images Patrick McMullen, courtesy of Calvin Klein)

Kirsi P by Anne Constance. Brand Model Management
New face Kirsi is a special brand of beauty from Finland.

Eduardo Calero by Simon Procter for V Man Magazine. (Still from video)

The gorgeous Eduardo Calero, in the current Givenchy campaign, fends off staff wielding masked men. Fierce. Check out the video here and the story in VMan, on the stands today!

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Modeling News:
MTC Casting celebrates diversity on the runway with the new crop of Asian girls. We love it.

If you haven’t seen the new sensual film by Bruce Weber for YSL with Simon Nessman, Paolo Anchisi, Terron Wood and Josh Yajcaji, here it is on VGL. (Definitely NSFW)

Interview Magazine catches up Bronx boy and Marc by Marc model, Yuri Pleskun.

Rodarte has Ethan James on their minds (and shirt).

Ralph Lauren helps Haiti with a special shirt worn by Pierre Woods. If there’s every a time, fashion could help, it would be now.

Fans of Belgium model Cesar Casier: he has a blog with a darn witty name.

Eniko Mihalik, our former MOTW, is featured in W’s “This Week’s Model”. We love her.

Man eye candy (mandy?) for the day: Made in Brazil’s Speedo boy on video. Speaking of beautiful Brazilian boys here’s a whole bunch at 40 Graus by Didio.

If you missed the lovely Frida Gustavsson on Ponyryder, read about the Swedish stunner here.

Fashion and Photography News:

Like Interview and Style.com, we are OBSESSED with JPG’s couture collection, this dress and this girl.

Saverio Cardia who did the fabulous special project on 20 of the top male models, is interviewed by the Fucked Up Crew in Milan.

One photographer interviews another. Lope Navo interviews Arnaldo Anaya Lucca, one of Ralph Lauren’s favorite photographers. Fascinating story of how Arnaldo got to where he is now.

We love Armani Exchange’s share the love campaign.. So inclusive and so HOT.

Miscellaneous:

Yes Marie-Amelie Sauve is genius… Sans Artifice agrees too.

Here’s a link to Golden Globe winner, Mo’Nique who dedicates her award to victims of child abuse. “”The number of victims who never reveal their secret or who wait many years to do so is very high. This is regrettable because the longer they wait to reveal the abuse, the harder and more enduring the consequences will be.”

Adrien in Raf Simons, Charlie in Hermes, Robbie in YSL. (images from catwalking.com via tFS)

The men’s designers in Paris have spoken and their favorite models are the next generation of top faces. Adrien Sahores (one of the Prada campaign faces), after a small but stellar showing in Milan, exploded in the City of Lights booking more than 10 of the top brands. Following close on his heels are 2 other former newcomers to watch, Charlie France, who was available for the first time on the open market after his 2 seasons of exclusivity, and Robbie Wadge, another Englishman blessed with the elfin boyish beauty favored this season in France.

Our top 10 walkers Fall/Winter 2010 for Milan/Paris (based on number of shows, caliber of shows and number of times opening and closing):

1-Charlie France
2-Bastiaan Ninaber
3-Benoni Loos
4-Jakob Hybholt
5-William Eustace
6-Matvey Lykov
7-Philipp Bierbaum
8-Robbie Wadge
9-Nicolas Ripoll
10-Simon Nessman

Related stories:
Milan’s Top Men January 2009
Paris’ Top Men January 2009
New York’s Top men February 2009
Milan/Paris Top Men’s Newcomers July 2009