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Why top runway fashion models never smile

They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? "You don't smile. It is just not done," said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born Londoner has...

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Jane Birkin wants Hermès to stop using her name for Birkin bag

New York - For over three decades the Hermès Birkin bag has been one of the ultimate status symbols. It was practically the designer bag that was unrivaled by virtually any other designer bag. With its 10,000 dollar and up price tag and almost three year waiting list, finally getting your hands on one of those bags was a sign you had made it to...