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Victoria's Secret Angels - “Bombshell” Fragrance Launch in SoHo
Some of the Victoria’s Secret Hottest beauties were spotted in SoHo in New York City on 24th Sep 2010. Candice, Lily and Erin all opted for the same little black dress and heels while Adriana went for a different look in a pink get-up paired with a black belt.

Enjoy the pictures of Victoria's Secret Models at the Bombshell Launch.

Top 10 Richest Models

The 10 richest models in the world

The age of the supermodel is definitely not over. The world’s top models have proved their earning power this year despite fashion designers downgrading their runway shows because of the recession. For the second year in a row, Gisele Bündchen, the Brazilian model tops Forbes magazine's richest models list, based on estimated earnings from June 2008 – June 2009.


1. Gisele Bündchen, pictured above, £15 million

Despite earning US$10 million less this year, due to the loss of Victoria’s Secret and other contracts, this Brazilian beauty has topped the list for the second year in a row. With her own shoe line and success from campaigns such as Versace, Dior, and True Religion jeans, the 28 year old earned about £15 million last year. She also found time to hold two wedding receptions with her husband, American football player Tom Brady.


2. Heidi Klum, £9.7 million

At 35, this mum of three (soon to be four, with husband Seal) and Victoria’s Secret Angel has made her fortune through TV and endorsements. When she wasn’t busy hosting her hit TV series Project Runway and Germany’s Next Top Model, she designed a range of sandals for Birkenstock. Klum endorses brands that range from Diet Coke and Volkswagen, to McDonalds and LG.


3. Kate Moss, £5 million

This year Moss shot down rumours of a pregnancy by saying she's "just fat" and was also attacked for being old (yes, she is 35), but the supermodel isn't going anywhere. She achieved great successes in the past year as the face of Longchamp, Versace, and David Yurman, and her range for Topshop, which also debuted in New York, has made her the third highest earning model.


4. Adriana Lima, £4.8 million

Another angel, famous for her sultry poses, Lima's career has taken off with the support of the lingerie brand. Although her contract with Maybelline ends later this year, the one-time Ford “Supermodel of the year” is busy away from the catwalk too. She appeared on Ugly Betty last September, and is now expecting her first child with her husband, basketball player Marko Jaric.


5. Doutzen Kroes, £3.6 million

This Dutch model, the latest to join the entourage of Angels, recently signed up with Seven For All Mankind jeans after her contract with DeBeers expired. At just 24, Kroes is also the face of cosmetic company L’Oreal, and the fragrance Calvin Klein Eternity.


6. Alessandra Ambrosio, £3.6 million

Last autumn, the 28 year old returned to the Victoria’s Secret runway just three months after giving birth. Having starting modelling for their PINK line, she is now one of the brand’s biggest names. Ambrosio is also a model for the European retail outlet C&A and the Mexican department store Liverpool.


7. Natalia Vodianova, £3.3 million

This Russian-born beauty has not forgotten her roots, using some of her fortune to run Naked Heart Foundation, which helps provide playgrounds for children in Russia. Vodianova, 27, is most recognisable for her work with Calvin Klein fragrance Guerlain, but over the next three years, she will be designing and modelling various collections for French lingerie company Etam.


8. Daria Werbowy, £2.7 million

After winning a modelling competition, this Polish-born Canadian has shot to fame as the face of Lancome and Louis Vuitton. Werbowy’s other campaigns include H&M, Balmain, Roberto Cavalli, and Vogue Eyewear. At just 25, she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, alongside film director James Cameron.


9. Miranda Kerr, £1.8 million

Equally famous for being Orlando Bloom’s leading lady as for her sultry Victoria’s Secret campaigns, this fresh-faced Aussie made her mark signing on to be the new face of Maybelline and XOXO. Following the devastating Australian bush fires earlier this year, Kerr lent a hand to the Australia Unites fundraiser.


10. Carolyn Murphy, £1.8 million

The long-time face of Estee Lauder has proved her staying power in the industry, at 35. She is also the only American on the list. Having posed for Playboy and Sports Illustrated swimsuit in the past, her most recent campaigns include Banana Republic and Lord & Taylor.

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Sexy calendars and pictures | Women in bikinis | Topless models

Sexy calendars and pictures of topless models in tabloid newspapers really do lead men to think of women as objects, research shows.

When men are shown images of women in bikinis, the part of the brain they use when thinking about DIY tools and other objects lights up.

At the same time, the region they use to try to tune into another person's thoughts and feelings tunes down, brain scans showed.


You don't say: Sexy calendars in the workplace make it more likely that men look at women as objects

Researcher Susan Fiske said: 'The only other time we have seen this is when people look at pictures of the homeless or of drug addicts because they really don't want to think about what is going on in their minds.'

Her experiments also found, perhaps not surprisingly, that men remember the images of scantily-clad women better than those of fully-clothed women.

Overall, the experiments showed that sexy images lead men to think of women as 'less than human', the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference heard.

Professor Fiske, of Princeton University in the U.S., said the effect could spill over into the workplace, with girlie calendars leading men to sexualise their colleagues.

She said: 'I am not saying there should be censorship but people need to know of the associations people have in their minds.'

Asked if women were likely to view half-dressed men in the same way, she said that women tended to rate age and bank balance over looks.

Beauty wins despite ugly pageant prank

Throughout the Miss Puerto Rico pageant last week, someone apparently doused Ingrid Marie Rivera’s clothes with pepper spray and spiked her make-up so that she broke out in ugly, swollen hives

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Police on Monday sought to determine who tried to turn a beauty contestant ugly by dousing her clothing with a chemical solution and spiking her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.

Ingrid Marie Rivera was composed while appearing before cameras and judges throughout the Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant but had to strip off her clothes backstage and apply ice bags to her face and body and she swelled and broke out in hives twice. But the veteran beauty-pageant contestant beat 29 rivals last Friday to become Puerto Rico’s 2008 Miss Universe contestant.

Pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said the symptoms first began showing up during preliminary competition on November 18. “We thought at first it was an allergic reaction, or maybe nerves,” Rosario said. “But the second time, we knew it couldn’t have been a coincidence.”

Police spokesman Stephen Alvarez said on Monday that an evening gown and Rivera’s makeup have been delivered to the Institute of Forensic Sciences for a chemical analysis. Magali Febles, director of the Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant, said earlier that the substance used in the alleged attempt to derail Rivera’s bid for the crown appeared to be pepper gas.

Rivera tearfully recounted her ordeal at a news conference on Sunday, acknowledging she had wavered about staying in the contest.

“At one point I said, ‘Am I a masochist?’” she recalled. “But I said, ‘I am with God and this is my goal, regardless of the results’.”

A model displays a dress decorated with 325 Austrian gold coins

A model displays a dress decorated with 325 Austrian gold coins, with a price of about 26,900,000 JPY (233,000 U.S. dollars), at the Bunka Fashion college student’s fashion show in Tokyo.Gold hit a 28-year high on Thursday after the U.S. dollar tumbled to a record low against main currencies and oil soared to all-time highs, but the rally lost steam just a fingertip away from hitting 800 dollars.

The top paid model in 2007

According to estimated earnings over the past 12 months, Forbes compiled this year's list of The World's 15 Top-Earning Models. With raking in $33 million, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, the ex-girlfriend of Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has become the top paid model in 2007. Her earnings are more than triple the $9 million banked by Kate Moss, who came in second.