>> New York Fashion Week is known as the springboard for new faces every season, but for Fall 2009, it's become the springboard for comebacks — especially with models right around the 30-year-old mark. This morning, Frankie Rayder (34), who hasn't hit a catwalk since the Fall 2004 with the exception of Spring 2009 Givenchy, walked Michael Kors. The runways of Preen, Rodarte, Alexander Wang, and Marc Jacobs have been especially overrun with these mainly late-'90s, early-00's faces — from those who have hovered in and out the past few seasons: Anne Catherine Lacroix (29), Natasa Vojnovic (29), Caroline Ribeiro (29), Jamie Bochert (28), Christina Kruse (34), Carmen Kass (30), Colette Pechekhonova (28), Hannelore Knuts (31); to those who have exited the runway for a while — Tasha Tilberg (29), Kirsten Owen (38), Trish Goff (32) — all are booking some of the most coveted spots this season. Kors, Behnaz Sarafpour, Staerk, VPL, and Diane von Furstenberg are feeling it too — the mature woman is back in New York.
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Behnaz Sarafpour
Fall 2009: Not Just for 15-Year-Old Models
Kate Moss' Long Lost Hair Extension, Up For Sale
»The hair extension Kate Moss lost a couple of weeks ago is now being auctioned on eBay [BellaSugar]
»Behnaz Sarafpour is celebrating her first wedding anniversary with a trip to Bermuda [Style File]
»Hye Rim Park is rumored to have gotten married last month [TFS]
»Lazaro Hernandez wigged out at his birthday party on Thursday [Style File]
»More previews of Eva Herzigova for Louis Vuitton, Claudia Schiffer for Chanel Fall 2008 campaigns [TFS, TFS]
»More preview pictures of Richard Chai for Target [Nylon]
»Two Yves Saint Laurent documentaries are being shown this weekend on the Sundance Channel [LA Times]
»Full Jill Stuart, Giorgio Armani Resort 2009 collections, previews of John Galliano and Viktor & Rolf Resort 2009 collections [Style.com, Style.com, WWD, WWD]
Anna Wintour: A Woman of Few Words
»Anna Wintour curtly addresses the likelihood of a Vogue reality series [The Cut]
»Topshop owner Sir Philip Green is already looking for more potential Topshop sites in Manhattan [WWD]
»Nicole Kidman: Confirmed for the July Vogue cover [FWD]
»Simon Doonan recounts his insulting comment to Andre Leon Talley at last week's CFDA Awards [NY Observer]
»Speaking of ALT, he confirmed that the Vogue caricature bought for him is currently being framed, and then will go in his office [WWD]
»Preview of Pringle, Derek Lam, Bill Blass, and Behnaz Sarafpour's Resort 2009 collections [WWD, WWD, WWD, WWD]



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