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Vogue's Health Initiative One Year Later: What's Improving, What's Not

It's been a while since we checked in on Vogue's Health Initiative, which officially celebrated its one year anniversary in June. Introduced last May, the initiative outlined six tenets which would work to promote health and well-being in the pages of Vogue's 19 (now 20) international editions. So how much progress has the Health Initiative one year later? We investigated.

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Pamela Anderson and Her Nipples Get a Vogue Spread

There's T. There's A. There's underboob and nipples--oh, how many nipples there are! Nipples trying their hardest (hehe.) to escape from a dry t-shirt, nipples getting a glimpse of the outside world from behind the thin veil of a sopping wet bodysuit, nipples waiting patiently for their big reveal beneath an impossibly miniature red crop top.

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Retail Stocks 101: Tips for Investing in Your Favorite Fashion and Beauty Brands

With Coty's IPO imminent, Michael Kors doing gangbusters on the stock market and Fifth & Pacific selling shares via Facebook, we've never been more compelled to personally invest in the fashion and beauty brands we love. But before you go nuts on an E-Trade, here's a little tutorial. I've consulted Hitha Prabakhar and Brian Sozzi—two analysts who know a lot about the stock market, but also a lot about fashion and retail—on how to invest in a smart way.

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Fashion News Roundup: Marc Jacobs Lets 14-Year-Old Models Walk in His Show, Anna Dello Russo Crouched at Diesel, and Lindsay Lohan Shows Terry Richardson Her Undies

Marc Jacobs Uses Underage Models, Defies CFDA Guidelines: Much like the crazy nastyass honey badger, Marc Jacobs just don't care about the CFDA's proposed guidelines to ban models under age 16 from the runway, despite the fact that Jacobs is a member of the organization. In brazen defiance, Jacobs used at least two models who had potentially just completed their bat mitzvah's, stating "If their parents are willing to let them do a show, I don’t see any reason that it should be me who tells them that they can’t." Whatever, whatever, Marc does what he wants! {NY Times} New Designers Struggle to Get Notice at NYFW: Not all designers can get Anna Wintour (or even George Lucas) in the front row. Take a look into the world of the new and talented designers who can't yet afford a runway at Lincoln Center, or a professional makeup artist for that matter. {NY Mag} Bar Rafaeli Felt Flabby in Sports Illustrated: The lingerie model-turned-designer says she felt fat and flabby posing with professional athletes for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In the poignant word of Michelle Tanner: "Puh-lease." {NY Mag}

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It's Here! Kate Moss, Lara Stone, Joan Smalls and More Get Naked for the 2012 Pirelli Calendar, Shot by Mario Sorrenti

The Pirelli calendar--otherwise known as the classiest pin-up girly calendar ever--is an annual tradition for those lucky few VIPs who find it in their mailboxes. It's traditionally shot by world-renowned fashion photographers (Karl Lagerfeld last year, Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Terry Richardson...the list goes on and on) and features A-list models and actresses. This morning we attended a press conference to preview the 2012 Pirelli calendar, and it left us feeling very warm and um, tingly. First of all, the calendar was shot in Corsica by Mario Sorrenti, who was in attendance and who is exceptionally easy on the eyes (he's a former model). Second of all, every single model in the calendar is as naked as the day she was born, and we were treated to a 20-minute long behind-the-scenes video documenting the shoots of all 12 models. Suffice it to say there was a lot of glistening flesh (in almost every scene an assistant is seen spritzing down the models), and a lot of come-hither looks. Here are the ladies who the lucky recipients will get to ogle in 2012: Isabeli Fontana, Natasha Poly, Saskia de Brauw, Lara Stone, Joan Smalls, Guinevere Van Seenus, Malgosia, Edita Vilkevicute, Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, Margareth Made, and Rinko Kikuchi.

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Underage Model's Parents Suing Urban Outfitters and Photog For Using 'Salacious' Photos, Here is the Shoot in Question--Are They Really That Bad?

The media has barely had time to cool down since the recent outpouring of outrage for 10-year-old model Thylane Blondeau's suggestive French Vogue spread and, more recently, our discovery of Jours après Lunes, a lingerie line for young girls. Already, another instance of an underage model being photographed in a questionable manner has caught the media's attention. However, this time, it's because the parents of said model are taking action. Hailey, now 16, is a successful working model and has since starred in editorials for Vogue Russia, Vogue China and T Style, as well as campaigns for Gucci, Zara, Jill Stuart, DSquared and others. Her parents are suing Urban Outfitters for selling merchandise printed with pictures of her taken last April when she was 15 that they feel are sexually suggestive. They are also suing the photographer, Jason Lee Perry and two other stores and seeking damages exceeding $28 million. What confuses us is that, according to the Daily News, "her parents knew about the photo session but did not give permission to use the pictures." Hmm.

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American Apparel is At It Again, Reveals Topless Ads for Swimwear

Oh, American Apparel. You are such a tease. One minute your models are bearing all, the next they're covered up. You give us a topless model on horseback, or a girl with her pubes showing through lace panties, and then a photo of founder Dov Charney's childhood darkroom and a story about his struggle with dyslexia. Aw. You keep us on our toes! And we like that. But what most folks seem to love (or love to hate) are American Apparel's more provocative, more gratuitously naked ads, like this one. It fits nicely into the brand's canon of provocative ads, which dates back to 1995. Another important question: how does one wear this bathing suit without flashing everyone? Check out the full ad, out today. Apparently there are many topless poses one can assume in this bathing suit.