Time to submit that portfolio...and check your ego?

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I didn't bother covering last week's war between Boing Boing and Ralph Lauren's lawyers concerning the badly-Photoshopped image of model Filippa Hamilton (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-r.html). Partly because that's one of the

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[dativesingular]

I've been following this via Shapely Prose, so sadly no reality check here--so to add to the craziness apparently Barbie's (yes, that one) cankles are too fat for fashion.

[sensaes]

Incredible, isn't it?

Without waving my feminist credentials (*pauses for laughter from the cheap seats*), the best argument I ever heard for trying to rectify the disproportionate "fame" that has been bestowed upon fashion models, from Twiggy to Kate Moss, involved putting bags on their heads.

The point being that it's the clothes which are important, not the nonentities wearing 'em. We shouldn't even know their names.

(Reality check courtesy of a chat with Fay Weldon, about seven years ago.)

[dativesingular]

Indeed. My reality check is all of about four days old, but I'm glad to have had it, finally.

[helice]

Talking of a reality check, Nicholas Cage has had to put his Gothic folly castle at Midford, just outside Bath, on the market due to the downturn in the market................. is that the Gargoyles I hear rubbing their collective talons together in glee. They'll be wanting to 'measure up' for dungeon chains next!