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FASHION - Its not that fashion models and supermodels aren't real, its just that they're not realistic compared to average working women these days. Today Vancouver Canada based fashion designer Cheri Milaney created a first-of-its-kind runway show that stitches together real women and high fashion. She's chosen 22 average-sized non-models from a variety of careers to display her Fall/Winter 2009 collection tonight at LG Fashion Week. The women he's trained are mothers, artists, teachers, entrepreneurs and cancer survivors. "It's not just a runway show," says Milaney. The concept is intended to shake up the notion of ideal beauty, she says. "It's about bringing life to the clothing." While not professional models, the models have each been given practice sessions on the catwalk by Ben Barry, the author of 'Fashioning Reality' and a modelling consultant. Milaney hopes her stance will give the younger generation role models to look u

FASHION - Supermodel Tyra Banks says producers of America's Next Top Model are "doing everything we can" to see all the women left out of auditions after a weekend melee in Manhattan. Three people were arrested and six injured in New York on Saturday afternoon when an audition lineup for America's Next Top Model turned into a brawl. Thousands of women had been waiting overnight outside the Park Central New York hotel for a shot at stardom on the hit television reality show created and hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks when the chaos broke out. Two people were taken to hospital, but four others refused treatment. Its believed the riot started when a fight between two women broke out. Matters were made worse when a man charged into the crowd attempting to steal handbags. Police canceled the day's auditions and two women and a man were arrested on charges of inciting the riot and disorderly conduct. The street outside the hotel was littered with shoes and clot

FASHION - Love earth tones but don't want to blend into the background? Think luxury. When picking earth tones to wear, the trick is to look at the clothing and imagine if Marilyn Monroe was wearing it. Would it look elegant, luxurious and sexy? Or would Ms Monroe toss it to the side and look for something else. If it can't pass Monroe's standards, why would it pass yours? FOR REFERENCE: Earth tones is a color scheme that draws from a colour palette of browns, tans, greys, greens, and even some reds. The colours in an earth tone scheme are muted and flat in an emulation of the natural colors found in dirt, moss, trees, rocks and minerals. Many earth tones originate from clay earth pigments, such as umber, ochre and sienna. Earth tones has a very natural, sexy look. Depending on the fabric, the cut of the fabric or what you mix it up with, earth tones can also look rustic, festive, warm and soft. It breathes sensibility, sexuality and it slimming. Earth tones also brings o

FASHION - For almost 30 years black has maintained a stranglehold on fashion, even in Paris the avant garde capitol. But there are growing signs that things are changing and that red... isn't dead. In the early 1980s purist Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto claimed black was dense with meaning and subtext. They rejected colour and focused on form and shape. Colours were frivolous and only to be used as accents, if absolutely necessary. Black was existential, smart, artsy and serious. Wearing it meant separating yourself (like goths do) from the rest of the overly colourful society. For Kawakubo, black was a feminist colour because she felt it desexualized the female form. These days everyone wears black , but the high-mindedness and theory has gone stale. Now black is a cliche and is "so two decades ago". Women today who wear black will defend it by arguing it's easy to co-ordinate and that it visually flattens unwanted curves. Even now as th

FASHION - Check out this biography of 1980's Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova .