>> 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." [Bebo]

>> 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.

For the time, she's back in New York with her boyfriend Jimmy, sleeping on couch cushions instead of a mattress and going into debt every week to her agency, IMG, who takes out money against her for housing, living costs, plane tickets, and even clothes for her to wear to go-sees.  But hey, at least she's making money: she's earned more in two days during campaign season than she did in all six weeks of runway shows — and she's apparently booked a campaign with a French designer that she "loooooves."  Madeline may be already dreading next Fashion Week, but she seems happy in the meantime — will Austria Alcantara be in the same high spirits post-Fashion Week?  Next week we'll see.

>> As we left off Model.Live mid-Paris Fashion Week, Cato van Ee was booking everything . . . and Madeline Kragh wasn't so happy with her progress.  Turns out that she did end up booking one show — Manish Arora.  Manish liked Madeline so much, he asked her to close the show, her only instruction: "I want you to do whatever you want."  Madeline left on a high note, ready to grow out her hair, hoping that it would allow her to book more in the future.

Austria also ended up booking one show in Paris, but her agency still isn't convinced she's ready to be a model.  Although she was asked to think about sitting out a year — she's only 16 — Austria is determined, not wanting to go back to her old life that she already gave up.  As for Cato, she's just worried about keeping herself at the level she's attained: "Sometimes it's harder to stay on top than get on top."  So how will they do booking advertising and editorial post-Fashion Month?  Next episode will hopefully tell.

>> 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.

And then there's Madeline, who thought everything was going so well . . . Issey Miyake and Vivienne Westwood seemed within her reach . . . and then didn't come through: "Everybody's so sorry and they love me and they're happy I'm back in Paris, but everybody wants Cato."  Will everything even out?  Next week's Paris Fashion Week episode will tell.

>> 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.

>> 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 MODELIZER —When the last episode of Model.Live left off, it seemed like Cato van Ee might miss her flight to London.  She ended up making it, but as for Madeline Kragh? Not so much. It's not that Madeline missed her flight — she just wasn't allowed entry through immigration, even though she had working papers — so now she's back in New York, biding her time until Milan. [Madeline's Bebo Blog]

>> By now, you've seen the Model.Live girls around at New York Fashion Week, but what are there final show counts? Madeline Kragh scored seven, including Shipley & Halmos and Chris Benz, Austria Alcantara also racked up seven, among them Marchesa and DKNY, and Cato van Ee, coming off a Prada exclusive last season, was optioned for nine shows, including Marc by Marc Jacobs and Jonathan Saunders.  All in all, a successful outing — no one was a Karlie Kloss, who did 31 shows in her first season of New York Fashion Week, but let's let bygones be bygones.  Up next, London — but will Cato even make it there?

>> It's just a few days short of New York Fashion Week in this episode of Model.Live, and the girls are having a few minor troubles — Cato van Ee is nervous, Austria Alcantara doesn't understand how the others do without their mothers — and one major one: Madeline Kragh loses her portfolio book somewhere in between castings. The funny thing is, she seems pretty nonchalant about the whole idea of casting, but I've already seen her in at least one show . . .