Highly Priced, Out of Work
The New York "Daily News" (January 7, 1997) reports that top designers are now rethinking their strategy of featuring top models in their campaign ads and reigning in the pricy photogs who come with them. Famous photographers always felt that they nee
ded to have top, overly priced models to sell the product. Designers Tommy Hilfiger the Gap and Ralph Lauren now disagree, and have recently canned photographers for their costly preconceptions. Besides paying the price top models expect, th
ey are also known to be quite demanding. That ain't news to us.
Over Exposure
The "New York Post" (January 7, 1997) reports that an ex-waitress of Amici Miei, a high-class SoHo Restaurant, is suing the eatery for using a topless photo of her in an advertisement. Denise Boehmer agreed to do a photo shoot for "possible fa
shion and /or editorial use." She agreed to bare her top only after she was told that she wouldn't be identifiable in the resulting photo. But oh, is she identifiable! She claims that her bare-breasted appearance has made her a laughingstock and could ru
in her career as an aspiring model. Boehmer is suing the restaurant and the photo agency for $2 million, and the magazines that are featuring the ad for $100,000.
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