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November 7, 2008 5:37 pm >> THE MODELIZER —Today's summary episode of Model.Live was the season finale, and it looks like there's another season in the pipeline, presumably for the February-March 2009 string of Fashion Weeks.  The episode ends with the tagline "Stay tuned for Season 2, coming in 2009" but next season's model subjects seem yet to be determined.  In Madeline Kragh's goodbye video, she says that she hopes "there will be more Model.Live to come, maybe with [Cato van Ee, Austria Alcantara, and me] or maybe different models."
"That's What I Earn in a Whole Year" October 24, 2008 3:53 pm >> After a disappointing Spring 2009 runway season, Austria Alcantara saw a turn for the better when she returned home to the Dominican Republic for a couple of days.  Dominicana Moda, the local Fashion Week, was going on and Austria booked 12 shows, getting the opportunity to open and close for the first time ever.  She was treated like a celebrity, with applause every time she appeared on the catwalk, and as her agent, Socrates McKinney, described it, "Every single girl in the Dominican Republic wants to be like Austria."  It just keeps getting better: Austria has booked her first New York campaign, and her compensation is $9,000 for three hours of work — quite a hefty salary for a girl from a country where her agent says the average salary is $200-$300 a month.
"Wouldn't Want To Be in That Position" October 17, 2008 12:05 pm >> In this Madeline Kragh-centric episode of Model.Live, it's post-Fashion Week, and she's caught up in the mad cycle many models fall into: that of not being able to afford living in New York unless she's booking well-paying jobs, but not being able to book those good jobs unless she's based in New York.
The End of an Era October 10, 2008 11:50 am >> As we left off Model.Live mid-Paris Fashion Week, Cato van Ee was booking everything .
"Everybody wants Cato" October 3, 2008 11:03 am >> It's Paris Fashion Week, and those frustrations that were building on Model.Live in Milan finally come to a head — at least for Madeline Kragh.  Austria Alcantara seems to have given up — she gets a pep talk about confidence and then sent off to 12 castings; she aims to make 8 of them but ends up doing less: "The agency's going to kill me."  Cato van Ee says that she wouldn't model at Austria's age — she didn't want to give up her childhood — but then Cato is having plenty of success with her shows and has a visit from boyfriend Simon, while Austria seems all alone — no mother or agent in sight.
Two Out, One Grand Slam September 26, 2008 11:18 am >> The third Fashion Week in for the Model.Live girls, and things start to get difficult — for Madeline Kragh and Austria Alcantara, at least.  Austria went to over 30 castings for Milan Fashion Week and got nothing, except a call from a casting director to her agency IMG saying that she wasn't looking her best.  Ouch.  Madeline had the same troubles — she wasn't cast for any shows, and at one point got frustrated enough to tell the cameramen to stop filming.  Both girls, defeated, move on to Paris early.  Cato van Ee, on the other hand, scores Prada for the second season in a row — and does a little impromptu song and dance when she finds out.  Will Paris be a whole new ball game, as the girls are promised?  Next week, we'll find out.
Madeline Out, Cato Up, and Austria Down September 19, 2008 5:09 pm >> The end of London Fashion Week nears, so where are Cato van Ee, Madeline Kragh, and Austria Alcantara?  Madeline's back in New York — she got to London and was deported because she didn't have her passport stamped.  Austria made it through customs, but she's already tired — and Milan and Paris are still to come.  As for Cato, she's having the most success: At least seven shows this Fashion Week, and her mom even came to watch her walk at Christopher Kane.  Will anyone take the biggest casting coup of all season — Prada?  That's for the next episode to tell.
The New York Whirlwind September 12, 2008 1:15 pm >> By now, you've seen the Model.Live girls around at New York Fashion Week, but what are there final show counts?
The Model.Live Girls Have Arrived at Fashion Week
The Model.Live Girls Have Arrived at Fashion Week September 3, 2008 11:25 pm >> We've been watching the stars of Model.Live — Cato van Ee, Madeline Kragh, Austria Alcantara — in their weeks leading up to New York Fashion Week, and now they've arrived.
Madeline "Cool/Nerd" Kragh and Austria "Indian/black/white" Alcantara to New York August 29, 2008 11:47 am >> Last week on Model.Live, we saw Cato van Ee take off for New York, and this week, it's all about her co-stars Madeline Kragh and Austria Alcantara making their own voyages to Manhattan.