America's Next Top Shorty

Ladies, you know that lie you tell yourself when you look at fashion models? "The one thing keeping me from being a model is my height"? Well, now there's no excuse. Removing itself further than ever from the actual world of fashion, for its 13th cycle, "America's Next Top Model" has now put a height MAXIMUM on its contestants: a whopping 5 feet, 7 inches.

“There have been top supermodels in the past that weren’t as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss,” said Tyra Banks in a press release announcing the casting call. “So we are changing up ‘Top Model’ for cycle 13 and making it a year for the shorter model!”

What's going to be the gimmick for the next casting call? Models with no faces?

—Claire Zulkey

(Photo: Analeigh, Cycle 11. Credit: The CW)

Hot Models In Lingeries Frolic For Charity

Hot Models In Lingeries Frolic For Charity

Super models wear little more than what decency allows over at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Saturday evening with proceeds benefiting the poorest inhabitants of the Third World. It's called "Lingerie Miami", black tie event, a catwalk show of Europe's finest couture lingerie labels. Guests will enjoy a couture lingerie runway show featuring such classy brands as Agent Provocateur, Carine Gilson, and Fifi Chachnil. Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker will host the event. "Lingerie Miami" is the fundraising arm of 7Bar Foundation. Its founder, Renata M. Black, explained, "What it does is provide small loans to impoverished women to help them come out of poverty. So we teach them a skill and then we give them a loan and through this, they themselves come out of poverty. So you never give anything for free." Lingerie empire Agent Provocateur founder and designer Joe Corre spoke to CBS4 News while at the Bal Harbour Shops about his collection, which began in London and SOHO. He said, "We now have, I think, forty-something stores in about 20 different countries. I guess we're probably the most fashionable lingerie brand; but also especially, it's because they actually have to fit and do what they're supposed to do: pull you in and push you out in all the right places." If it's sexy, Agent Provocateur has it: from shoes to bras, panties and all that fits one's fancy. All of the fabrics are made in France with only the finest silks and leaver lace. Agent Provocateur's fine lingerie is out to empower women in many ways, and also defining sensuality.