We probably think this post is about us…and in a lot of ways it is.

According to a report compiled by TotalBeauty.com, New York is the vainest city in the US. The study examined data like plastic surgeon to population ratios, number of personal care businesses (salons, day spas, etc.) and money spent on beauty upkeep.

Fact: New Yorkers spend nearly 60 million (yes, six. zero.) dollars on trying to make ourselves prettier each year. And there are more than three times the amount of salons et. al in NYC than any other city, and that includes Los Angeles.

These stats got me thinking:

—Do we New Yorkers feel pressure to be pretty because models and all-around beautiful people can be found at every turn? (Agyness Deyn is always at my am coffee spot. Yes, it makes me feel less than lithe and lovely early in the morning.)

Want to break into the modeling world…on the business side? Here’s your chance.

Women is looking for few good interns, and just maybe that’s you.

Things that will help you get the job: Knowing the girls who work and who should be working, an obsession with fashion, magazines, and all things photographic. Oh, and the ability to always do what is asked of you—from organizing a girl’s book to making sure the comp cards are client-ready.

If this sounds like you, send your resumé and cover letter to joaquin@women-direct.com. And of course, give us the exclusive when someone books a big campaign.

Sneak A Peek: Here’s a sneak preview of the Natasha Poly-centric Muse, hitting New York’s news stands on September 10th. It features Craig McDean, Riccardo Tisci, Jeff Koons and Terry Richardson. If ever there was a time to try to replicate those lips, it’s tonight’s Paper party. {Models}

Jeepers Creepers: Yes, all fashion girls swoon for Yigal Azrouel. He’s gorgeous, makes brilliant clothes and is the only straight man for miles. But this woman, who told the Post she likes to try on clothes in his store just to be naked in the same room as him, is far too enthusiastic about the whole thing. {NYPost}

PughHoo!: Gareth’s coming to New York. The Brit will show his full collection in Paris - no word yet on whether he’s reverting back to runways or sticking to last season’s video format - but before that he’ll swing by Milk Studios and offer a peek of his SS10 collection this Saturday night. {Style}

Now You’re Talking: Here’s a peek at Numero’s September issue. R’el Dade and Mélodie Dagault were shot by photographer Greg Kadel. It’s super hot & super NSFW. {Models}

How to Glam: Glamour’s launching a new video feature on their site. It’s called 20 Outfit Ideas from America’s Most Stylish People and includes commentary from Phillip Lim, Karl Lagerfeld, Rachel Zoe, Jason Wu and more. You can watch the preview & sign up for the daily videos now. {Glamour}

On Repeat: Keira Knightley’s latest Mademoiselle ads for Chanel look a lot like the last ones- pretty, and strategically naked. {Egotastic}

Lucky Duckie: Style Rookie, Tavi Williams, video taped the Rodarte for Target preview this morning while editors were sworn to secrecy. {Lucky}

Want to know the answer to yesterday’s blind item? Well, we can’t tell you. But you can get in with the models and find out for yourself.

New York Model Management needs fall interns, whether you need school credit or not.

You obviously need to love fashion, which you probably do if you’re reading this, and you probably shouldn’t be the person who commented the other day that fashion is only about clothes, because it’s not. And this is an internship within a modeling agency.

And the writer is…Jenna Sauers.

The New Zealander has penned her final essay as Tatiana here, but she’s going to continue to contribute to the site, just under her own name.

The commenters are going a little bananas over there, throwing around words like The New Yorker and Joan Didion regarding her writing style, which might be a wee bit of a stretch. Though I will continue to check in on what she has to say in the future.

So were any of you right? Did you know it was Jenna?

Like Grown Up Lula: Ellen Von Unwerth shot Milla Jovovich and Sasha Pivovarova for July’s Italian Vogue. As if that’s not enough Fall clothes give us butterflies. {IMG}

On the Otherside: Catherine McNeil’s in the new Vogue Germany doing black and white for Patrick Demarchelier. She’s also kind of nakey. {Models}

We Are Not Alone: Haters of Adventures in Copyright beware, this may not be the link for you. {Daily News}

Long Time Passing: We love Lara, but we’re saying goodbye to our thick brows anytime soon. {NY Times}

It’s the Monday after a holiday weekend. I’m bummed that I’m not in Paris watching couture shows and spending evenings at the Meurice. And I miss Britt.

You know what makes everything just a bit better…puppies! Seriously, it’s true. Sure they may not be the answer for all that is failing in our economy, as seen in this funny sketch. But they do make us smile.

Modelinia’s slideshow of the day features the girls (Miranda, Gisele, Maggie) we love to watch walk and the pooches they walk every day.

And you know what? The afternoon just got a little better. Give it a try, we think you’ll like the results.

If anyone out there’s more excited than we about this year’s Met theme, it’s Modelinia.

They’ve declared May, “History of Models” month and snagged Model as Muse curator Kohle Yohannan to guide us through beautiful people from 1920 to today.

Here’s a peek at what the month holds - interviews with Gilles Bensimon, Garren, Paulina Porizkova, Erin Wasson and Mario Testino who says, “If a girl looks beautiful, you can put a pot on her head and people will say, ‘Oh my god, it looks incredible!’”

Did you know Freja and Catherine made a movie together?

Well, sort of. The short film helps promote the work of designer Mads Nørgaard, and includes Freja walking around like she’s in a music video until she runs into Cat and they play sexy eyes at each other for about a minute.

The second, and much more official, installation can be found here.

Guess we’ll have to wait and see if the girls get a happy ending.

Certain pretty girls claim to play Guitar Hero at home (yes, Blake Lively), but we always wondered if that was like how beauty pageant contestants always claim to love roller coasters and religiously read to the blind - a nice touch, but we need the evidence to believe it.

So here’s Coco’s. She posted a video of herself that someone secretly took while she spazzed out on 2008’s best video game (actually, she calls it Guitar Hero, but we think it’s Rock Band), and we think we believe her.

Make sure to stick through to the end, when she switches to drums.

Happy almost-weekend.

Not only does Chanel Iman have an upcoming guest spot on Gossip Girl following her House of Style stint this weekend, but it looks like the Ford model’s planning a much longer career on sets instead of runways.

She told Fashionologie that she’s “kind of slowing down on the modeling” which would explain how she’s going to accomplish her earlier statements to Teen Vogue, that she wants to do “television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!”

So is Chanel Iman the next model-business a la Heidi Klum? Maybe.

We would wonder aloud whether this new career path of hers has longevity, but considering that she was born in 1989, we’ll hold off.

Even though J.Crew’s had plenty of well-known models in their catalogs (Lauren Hutton, Cintia, Anouck, and Mallory from the Real World Paris, if you’re into fun facts, they’ve never signed just one face to front the print shopper from first page to last - until now.

Fashion Week Daily reports that Liya Kebede, Ethiopian mother of two and face of St. John for Spring 09, has been signed to model the April J.Crew catalog all by herself, which is sure to bring some fashion-centric attention to the brand that’s just come off so much press from Michelle Obama’s support of the office-wear staple.

But more pressing: Does this make the J.Crew catalog the new barometer of a model’s success?

We don’t know - and can’t imagine - why, so we’ll just give you the facts:

1. Ashton Kutcher is starting another television show, this time for the CW (home of the fashion-centric Gossip Girl), and this time about models.

2. It’s going to be based on his experiences having grown up as a model from Iowa, though it looks like it’s supposed to be fiction.

3. Actress/former Keds girl/handbag designer Mischa Barton will star in the series as Sonia, “a successful model who keeps the competition at bay but also advises the younger ones, at the end of the month.”

Which kind of makes it sound like it’s supposed to be a fake reality show, which sounds perfectly in line with the rest of the information.

But most pressing: Can it top High Heel Boot Camp?

Fashionista’s favorite party photographer, Jeremy Kost, took a break from snapping the actual partying scene for a minute to capture his boys-only exhibit entitled “After the Party”. Showing off the faces (and the abs) of some of the modeling world’s best known boys, his exhibit is a collection of 180 Polaroids that pair the man candy with a variety of props ranging from stuffed Elmos to blow-up monkeys.

If you want to check out the faces of Parker Gregory, Ryan Kennedy, and Reid Prebenda (just to name a few of Kost’s top choices) we suggest you head over to the Dactyl Foundation on 64 Grand Street, if you have some free time between 12 - 6pm, Tuesday - Saturday, from now until March 21st.

After all, even if Reid is in Models.com’s Top 50, they just don’t show him in his underwear. You definitely got ‘em there, Jeremy.

—CARSON GRIFFITH

WHICH two veteran models got into a “full-on serious fistfight” in a Paris nightclub this Fashion Week? The fight was so demode, Uncle Karl himself had to break it up…

There’s been a lot of buzz about the return of the semi-oldies-but-goodies to the catwalk (Angela Lindvall, Maggie Rizer, Frankie Rayder), though no one seems to mention the one we find most impressive: Jamie Bochert.

If you didn’t remember her from a few years ago, her surprise appearance on the Spring 09 Marc runway - she opened the show - had a lot of people asking, “Who is that woman?” Turned out, she’d been working as Marc’s fittings model for quite some time, after she left modeling in 2006 to focus on her music career.

Since then, she’s stalked a steady stream of runways including Ann Demeulemeester, Rodarte and Lanvin, and shows no signs of stopping.

So our Best Comeback award goes to Jamie - even though we’ll always hate her a little for making Marc’s dresses so ridiculously long.

There’ve been a lot of pressing model questions this show season, one of the most common being, “Where the hell is Caroline Trentini?”

It turns out she was an exclusive for YSL, which she just closed in Paris, minutes ago.

Mystery solved.

In other exclusives news, just how many do you need to stage a real Givenchy show? Not only were Dree Hemingway and newcomer Ranya Mordanova signed to make their Fall 09 debut at Riccardo Tisci’s show, but also Adriana Lima, whom you may not have recognized under all those sleeves and pant legs.

C’est tout.

Don’t ask us how, but Stockholm-based label Acne has been experimenting with video, which has resulted in the work at left: Boys bouncing on a trampoline. In their undies.

Acne says it’s “creative” and a “film installation” by young British film maker Richard Brandon Cox “inspired by” the Spring/Summer 09 underwear collection.

We say: Does this remind anyone else of that horrible show from years ago on Comedy Central, The Man Show, which always ended with a series of girls jumping on trampolines? (Except much better now, for the obvious reasons.)

Art or comedy - you decide.

Doubtless you’ve heard about the “model fights” at Jean-Paul Gaultier over the weekend.

In case you had a hard time picturing it, don’t worry: Coco got some of it on film for you, which we think is the perfect accompaniment to that bagel and probable rain.

So enjoy. And remember: Don’t mess with the models.