Fat Cats

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week is well underway. I've been in such a frenzy preparing for the shows making sure my stomp is just right and going for tons of "go sees" as well as managing my hectic schedule with my bookers.

Being a slim, beautiful and uber lean pussycat takes a lot of hard work. The pressure to keep a slim trim figure is all important in today's modeling world - whether you are a pussycat or a Mistress of Beauty and Glamour. Given my hairball issues, I can totally relate to the struggles of my kitty cat peers and those Mistresses - in terms of what they must contend with to maintain a size zero or two sample size and stick thin appearance where their arms resemble noodles and their heads look like bobbleheads.

With that said, there is a place for every shape and size of model. Take Helga Crittendorfer for example. Helga has been at the top of the plus size pussycat modeling world for years and elegantly demonstrates that there are many different types of beauty.

Helga Crittendorfer

Plus sized models seem to be gaining notoriety and respect in the business given the backlash against models that are impossibly thin. In the January "Size" issue of V, Crystal Renn, plus size supermodel extraordinaire was posed side by side with Jacquelyn Jablonski (a size 2 model) via Models.com

Jacquelyn Jablonski shot by Terry Richardson

Crystal Renn shot by Terry Richardson

Superstar plus size model Crystal Renn was recently interviewed in the New York Times about this matter. She said, "Normal is the new overweight."

Not to be mean, but honestly, I don't want to look at fat models in the magazines. I don't think that models should be so impossibly thin, but some of these plus size models look like they've been on steroids for far too long!

Speaking of Fat Cats, there are plenty of them hanging around the tents at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Those people at Goldman Sachs really have a lot of nerve! Just because they stole the US economy and that of Greece and probably Portugal, Italy and Spain too, does it give them and sleazy shadow banker hedge fund jerks the right to enter the tents? Do they really think that Models of the pussycat world and Mistresses of the Beauty and Glamour world are that stupid? I think we need to protest! I can't speak for the other models, but I'm an intellectual and never suffer a fool!

Protesters outside of Goldman Sachs Headquarters -- Alex Wong/Getty Images

I say, let's give PETA the boot and get the anti Goldman protesters on board! We need our economy back so we can buy FASHION and get back to work! Because this year at the tents and on the party circuit, I heard someone say that "Austerity is the new Black!" And we all know that the world of Fashion is completely predicated on EXCESS!!

Just ask Tyra's Miss Jay....He looked bored in the tents this year!

Here's another concept: Why did America's favorite billionaire, St. Warren Buffett, choose to invest billions in Goldman Sachs as opposed to saving any of the other too big to fail financial institutions? What did he know and when did he know it? Can you spell COVER UP?

This could be bigger than Watergate!

My friend, David Caploe, PHD, the Princeton and Harvard educated Political Economist at Economywatch.com discusses this "800 lb Gorilla in the Room" matter in great detail. There are some very interesting questions posed indeed that the mainstream media has completely overlooked.

Well, adoring fans, I must head off to some post show parties. I promise to write in soon with more exciting news!

Supermodel Transformations

I enjoy watching Tyra Banks' "America's Next Top Model" on a regular basis. I watch the show to learn about what it's like to be a budding supermodel so I can take some tips. Like Tyra says, I want to look like the fiercest pussycat on the runway and always feel fierce!

Also, I am amazed about the transformation and journey that these Mistresses of Beauty go through in order to become Supermodels in the real world. Tyra Banks is such an inspiration to me in terms of how she has perfected the "Smize" - a word she coined and uses to describe what you do to smile with your eyes, or, "I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You need to squint with your eyes open!" Another term I love is when Jay says, "Stomp it to death"! And Tyra says, "You're selling sexual chocolate" and, "Did you rock your fierce ferociousness?"

Of course, I admire Tyra Banks for the enviable business franchise that she has created through "Bankable Productions" via "America's Next Top Model" and "The Tyra Show". She's not only a gorgeous supermodel, but a really smart gal! I also think she has a great sense of humor like the shoot she did for Harper's Bazaar pretending to be Michelle Obama reviewed in NY Magazine. http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/tyra_poses_as_michelle_obama_r.html

Well, speaking of beauty transformations, I must share an interesting page with you that fully epitomizes what I mean about a supermodel transformation. The page
which refers to an article in the UK's Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208913/The-poodles-transformed-pandas-horses-snails-creative-grooming-dog-shows.html really says it all! Poodles that are groomed to look like camels, panda bears, chickens and peacocks among other things. If you ask me, I think that Poodles are the topiaries of the Dog world.

Thank the Lord I am a budding supermodel pussycat and that my Mistress of Beauty and Adventure would NEVER do something like that to me! I mean come on, that's absolutely humiliating in the Dog world! And in the Pussycat world too! For me, I am just stunning and will style my fur in a number of ways...no make up required, just proper grooming and a touch of mascara and whisker balm and some whisker curling because I am stunning the way I am! Everybody I have ever met is in absolute awe of my natural beauty! For me, it's all about the fashion that makes the transformation.

A little maintenance is always required...manicures, pedicures, brushing (hisssss) I hate all of them! But as my Mistress of Beauty and Adventure has always told me since I was a little kitten, "There is no Beauty without Pain!" I need to learn how to deal with this better as I don't want to get a reputation as being difficult. You can ruin your career in show business if you get a reputation like that! It's happened to many Hollywood Stars! The producers and directors simply do not want to work with you! Take Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears for example. I vow I will never let that happen to me!