Last year, V named Amanda Laine their model search winner.

Since then, the Canadian’s walked everything from Alex Wang to McQueen, Miu Miu to Vuitton. She’s been in V (obviously), Interview, POP, Numero, W, Bazaar and more. Needless to say, Stephen Gan’s eye for runway potential has a one up on Tyra’s.

So now the mag’s teamed up with Ford Models and thrown Alexander Wang onto their judging panel to find the next superstar. They’ve already received over 6000 online entries, but you have until June 29th to submit your profile on their site.

Finalists will be announced July 3rd and from there the winner gets an editorial in V and a contract with Ford, which is kind of priceless. Gan wants to, “unearth the next classic female beauty with a twist.”

If that’s you, you better get a move on.

It’s official!

Victoria’s Secret and Givenchy model Adriana Lima is pregnant with her first child with new husband (and NBA player) Marko Jaric.

Pregnancy rumors have been swirling as of late about Adriana and that other newlywed supermodel/superstar athlete couple.

Adriana’s rep tells People that she’s due this winter and that, of course, the pair is very excited.

We can’t wait to see this newest member of the world of the tall and ridiculously good-looking.

Gisele, Tom - do you have anything you’d like to let us in on?

Givenchy gave WWD a sneak peek of their new campaign and change abounds.

Inez and Vinoodh have shot for Ricardo Tisci for the past nine seasons, but Mert and Marcus did the honors for the AW09 collection. Their spreads - for glasses, bags and clothes - feature Mariacarla (duh), Iris Strubegger (who’s officially everywhere), Leonor Scherrer, Ranya Mordanova and Adriana Lima, who already surprised everyone just by walking in the show in March.

Tisci hailed the changes as steps toward a more realistic brand image, “It’s important to give reality to women.”

But aside from the fact that the above image represents reality to very few women, who wants reality in their luxury fashion ads? We appreciate acknowledgment of the economic times, but when the Givenchys and McQueens actually embrace reality, we’ll be devastated.

Theodora Richards has left IMG to join her sister Alexandra on Wilhelmina’s roster.

IMG plays home to all the rock star kids: Lou Doillon, Julia Roitfeld, Liv Tyler, Elettra Rossellini, Daisy Lowe (yes, we use the term rock star liberally), but the gorgeous blond Richards sisters, daughters of Rolling Stone Keith and model Patti Hansen, are now holding down the Wilhelmina fort.

Theo’s starred in ads for Tommy Hilfiger and Roberto Cavalli for H&M, but maybe, with a package deal for the two sisters, they’ll get to join their dad in the realm of luxury advertising.

A family portrait for LV? Sounds do-able.

We produce models as fast as we can, given the fact that you guys steal them away within months.`

We’ve recently lost Agyness, Daisy, Alexa and Karen, so thank goodness our model machine keeps churning out new faces.

Meet Amber Le Bon, daughter of Yasmin and Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon. The combination of her mum’s legs and her dad’s rock star appeal is thoroughly British. And she’s still too young to leave us. It’s no wonder she’s just signed contracts with high street store River Island and Myla, the lingerie brand whose recent ads starred your Lydia Hearst.

Thanks in no small part to her mum’s enviable Alaia collection, she stood out at last night’s Hogan party, even while surrounded by the likes of Beth Ditto, Giles Deacon, Savannah Miller, Lily Cole and Katie Grand.

—CHARLEY B.

Just in case you haven’t heard, Matthew Williamson recently launched a collection for H&M.

There was a major London bash, a New York launch and then a Grace Jones-centric party on a boat in the Hudson and now, this commercial. Daria speaks, which is rare, and Matthew Williamson emerges from underground, which we imagine is also rare.

Grey-haired men, Dolce-shouldered models, pink horses and bikini-clad women star; at the end Matthew declares, “Well, I haven’t done it all, yet.”

What, exactly, does he have in store?

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!’”

Chanel Iman, Sessilee Lopez and Jourdan Dunn shot what they promised to be a “major” editorial in London last month.

We still don’t know where it’s going or what it’s for but the girls have been much more forthcoming since their return to New York. Yeterday, Chanel twittered that she was shooting an editorial with Peter Lindbergh and swore the pictures would be “collectible” while Sessilee Lopez posed for Ellen Von Unwerth in Milk Studios. Today, the two of them are working together in Times Square and Sessilee thinks you should stop by.

If you make it, we want to know who’s behind the camera and what the girls are wearing. Major bonus points if you send pictures!

Ford Models just re-signed Jerry Hall.

The woman’s been modeling for thirty-seven years but it sounds like it took her recent turn for Chanel to get Ford, her old agency, to pay attention.

Karl Lagerfeld put her front and center for his Cherie inspired Spring accessories catalog and she landed a Self Service editorial, too.

Now that she’s repped by Ford and there seems to be some sort of international demand for golden models of yesteryear - Lauren Hutton, Tasha Tilberg, Kristen McMenamy (a range, we know) - we wonder how long it will take to see Hall’s face everywhere.

Everywhere but Levitra ads, that is - we can’t see Ford being cool with that.

Warning: Once you start watching videos on Modelinia, it is very, very hard to stop.

But this one, featuring May Anderson and her oh-so-eloquent description of how one turns from model to designer, is worthy of its own recognition.

The Danish model had a fear of looking back on her life in fashion and thinking, “What did I create? Nothing.”

So her friend made a really awesome logo that said Chicks With Guns. Then they watched Scarface together and really liked it when Tony said, “My whole life is to get my name on a chick’s ass.” They thought that was funny so they made a pair of jeans just so that they could put the cool logo on girls’ asses.

Does she realize she still has to answer, “Nothing?”

Well not really, but Gisele’s gone and bumped Kate Moss from her number one spot on MDC’s icon list.

Was it her marriage? Her numerous campaigns? Her ability to move flawlessly from Victoria’s Secret to Louis Vuitton? Maybe it’s because she’s one of the few models who really is just a model without a slash in sight.

So now Kate’s number two, followed by Claudia, Natalia and then Carolyn Murphy. And Naomi Campbell’s knocked out of the top five to number six.

Hope that doesn’t make her too upset.

You can add supermodel Amber Valetta to the list of models/designers.

Tucked into today’s WWD story on the Loomstate for Target pre-party in Los Angeles last night is this:

“As much as I love fashion and as much as it has supported me, I see how extreme and extravagant it is,” said Valletta, who is collaborating on a women’s clothing collection to be announced this summer.

The token statement in which said supermodel honors her place in fashion while preparing the retail stage for her affordable line which probably pays more than some tribute to the high fashion in her own closet.

Anyway, who might she collaborate with? Her Vogue Italia couture supplement’s part of our office wall paper so we’re having trouble envisioning her in Target or H&M - guesses?

Lily Cole’s ads for Rimmel, which were announced almost a year ago, have finally hit Rimmel.com.

She poses with her mouth just parted, her hair in the wind, and each and every one of her freckles airbrushed out of existence.

As much as we love a great NSFW editorial with Ms. Cole, this beauty bot shot doesn’t sit quite right.

PS Does anyone else think freckles are completely adorable?!

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.