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These Calvin Klein Jeans commercials starring a then-fifteen-year-old Brooke Shields got her banned from CBS and made her one of the most sought-after models of the 1980’s.

Director Richard Avedon filmed the commercials that captured the coltish supermodel wriggling into a pair of jeans and seductively purring the infamous come-on, “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.” that catapulted her into the sex symbol stratosphere.

Too sexy for fifteen? You’ll have to ask Miley Cyrus about that.

“Definitely Heidi and I come from two different places,” Iman tells the World Entertainment News Network. “I’m not belittling Heidi Klum, but I have been in fashion much more than she has. Not to toot my own horn, but I have been one of the best runway girls.”

She adds: “I know clothes, and I know about working hand in hand with designers - I mean, I’ve worked with Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, John Galliano. Yves St Laurent - he created a whole collection for me. Tom Ford, Valentino. Versace. Jean Paul Gaultier. Thierry Mugler… I could go on and on.” [source]

Apparently, flying the friendly skies with Naomi Campbell ain’t so damn friendly. On Thursday night, the supermodel threw a hissy fit at Heathrow airport over a lost bag and allegedly spit on a police officer. They catwalked her ass to jail where she was released on bail sometime after midnight Friday morning.

Via the AP

Naomi Campbell was released on bail Friday after a spat with a police officer at Heathrow Airport’s troubled new Terminal 5, where one of her bags was lost.Campbell, 37, left the airport police station just after midnight. London’s Metropolitan Police said she was released pending further inquiries and told to report to a police station in late May.

The London-born supermodel was arrested late Thursday on suspicion of assaulting an officer after police were called to a disturbance at the airport.

According to the Telegraph, this isn’t the first time Naomi has lost her mind in an airport.

In September she was seen swearing at airline staff in front of dozens of passengers after being told she could not board her flight to New York because she arrived just 11 minutes before take-off.

She also lost her temper in Bogota airport in Columbia in 2005 after bags containing her designer dresses and shoes were mistakenly sent to Houston, Texas. The model, who had just flown in from New York, threatened to get on the next flight out of the country if the problem was not sorted out.

Someone seriously needs to up her meds.

Katoucha Niane for Christian Lacroix F/W 1992

I’ve been meaning to do a tribute to Katoucha Niane since her death in Paris this February.

Known professionally only as “Katoucha”, she was one of the first African models to achieve top model status and paved the way for the careers of Naomi Campbell and countless other black models. She was the former muse of Yves Saint-Laurent and one of the top model in the 1980’s and through the early 1990’s, walking for Christian Lacroix and Thierry Mugler.

Katoucha Niane and Christian Lacroix F/W 1994

Born in the African nation of Guinea, Katoucha retired from the runway in 1994 and spent the last few years speaking out against the practice of female genital mutilation in her homeland. In 2007, she wrote a Dans ma chair (In My Flesh), a book that detailed her own female circumcision at the age of nine.

In the book, she categorized her success as a model saying, “I embodied the most arrogant and admired kind of femininity, I who was supposed to be diminished”.

On February 28, 47 year old Katoucha Niane’s body was found in the Seine River. Although there was initially some suspicion of foul play, her death has since been ruled an accident caused by an intoxicated Niane falling into the river as she returned to her houseboat after a party.

Although her life was marked by tragedy, she will always be remembered as the vibrant, elegant and unfailingly beautiful model and activist.

video via WSJ

Jessica Stam bestows some model mojo and teaches a DKNY intern how to walk like a supah model. Her advice: shoulders down, head up and long strides.I think that’s what I do every day, but somehow I don’t get paid for it.

The video also has a little clip of Jourdan Dunn walking in the Oscar de la Renta show.