The word "supermodel" was first used in the 1940s, but the supermodel phenomenon belongs to the 1980s and 1990s, when a few women epitomizing glamour and opulence captured the American popular consumer's imagination. For most of...

A supermodel is a highly-paid elite fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling.[1] The term took hold in the popular culture of the 1980s and...

Byline: LUCRETIA MUNRO IT is not an Oxfam famine appeal, or a scene from a prisoner-of-war film. The emaciated frame of Marianne Berglund is, in fact, the latest and perhaps most extreme example of a catwalk trend provoking massive controversy in...

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Brazilian supermodel Daniela Cicarelli said she disagreed with a judge's now-reversed order to ban YouTube in an attempt to stop steamy footage of her from being viewed. But she stopped short of offering an apology.Thousands of Brazilians who use the popular video-sharing site had launched...

Two months after his divorce, is President Nicolas Sarkozy back on the dating scene?Sarkozy was spotted at Disneyland Paris last weekend with supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni, who once dated Mick Jagger and Donald Trump.The president's office would not comment, but reports speculated the very public appearance...