Model: Natalia Vodianova

Brand: Stella McCartney

Season: Spring/Summer 2010

Photographer: tbc

Myf Shepherd has built a pretty comendable modelling portfolio after just a year and a half hard at work. Recently, she's covered Dazed & Confused Japan and scored an editorial for Numero (a shot is after the jump), but since being being snubbed by 'Australia's Next Top Model' producers and debuting at Rosemount Australia Fashion Week in May 2008, she's done everything from walking for Prada to becoming the face of Gucci. Now? Shepherd is taking a break from the runway and studying theatre-set design at Sydney's College of Fine Arts, according to frockwriter.

Shepherd isn't the only Australian model to quit the catwalk for the time being. Tallulah Morton (shown here covering the French magazine Velvet) is heading after a fine-arts degree, according to her agent Vikki Graham - but some close to the situation say that her "break" might end up being a permanent exit from the industry. Morton began modelling at age 13, starting at Rosemount and moving on to New York Fashion Week for a strong next season. She had a lukewarm period with not much international heat (perhaps because of French child-labor laws), and then hit the Paris shows strong when she turned 16 in 2008. Morton won favour with Hermes and Jean Paul Gaultier, but for the past 18 months or so her social antics, often catalogued by The Cobrasnake Mark Hunter, have earned more notice than her career.

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GQ & Levi's have just revealed the list of nominees in the running for the Best New Designer in America Award. Hoping to win a limited-edition menswear capsule collection with Levi's that will be sold exclusively at Bloomingdales' nationwide are the likes of Richard Chai, Billy Reid, Eunice Lee of Unis, Caulfield Preparatory's Vincent Flumiani, J.Crew's Frank Muytjens, and Burkman Bros' Ben and Doug Burkman.

The designers will have to impress the judging panel consisting of editors, retailers and Levi's executives with their Fall '09 collections before the winner will be announced. As the first-ever female to be nominated for the award, Ms Lee is excited at the thought of designing for an institution such as Levi's. She told Style.com that she's "had Levi's on for all of my life," and has a penchant for the vintage men's styles. Having been inspired by climbers and sports from the '60s, she described her collection by saying: "...it was about your cotton waxed jacket and heavier twills and things like that...it's sportswear...in the original sense." Look out for the announcement of the winner at an event during New York Fashion Week next month. Let the games begin.

Gwen Stefani will be returning to Milk Studios for her A/W10 L.A.M.B. show (she's also hosting a cocktail party), and she's not the only designer who's skipping the tents at Bryant Park for a new atmosphere. The MAC & Milk scheme was launched just last season to provide designers with a free show space, compared to the $25,000 minimum at New York Fashion Week's main location, and has since become the cool spot for labels both new and established.

This season, MAC & Milk will host 32 shows and presentations, compared to 25 last year, and has nabbed a few of the fashion-week calendar's big steals: McQ by Alexander McQueen, Richard Chai menswear and Patrik Ervell, for example. Jeremy Scott, who previously showed in Paris and London, is moving his show to the 15th Street location, and Jeremy Laing will also show there.

Besides having a strong roster, there are the perks to think about. Ryan Gosling's band, Dead Man's Bones, will perform at a party for newcomer LnA, and Surf Lodge chef Sam Talbot is debuting a new menu from Thursday to Sunday. And for those not lucky enough to see shows for Vena Cava, Band of Outsiders or Threeasfour next month, there's always a chance to the backstage products used at the shows on the MAC site from Feb. 2 to 22.

When Katie Grand left the pastures of POP magazine to start LOVE magazine, we knew her new venture wouldn't be like any other glossy. And when it came to the grand unveiling of the debut issue, we were faced with a naked Beth Ditto in all her plus-size glory. This resulted in unimaginable amounts of attention, and so for the dual cover follow-up issue, Grand maintained the nudity featuring Alex Hartley, a previously unknown bass player dressed in nothing but skin-tight frayed trousers - flashing his 19-year-old bare chest.

We guess LOVE felt the need to have a hat trick of nude covers, as the next issue will bring more of the same. With three different covers featuring full-frontal shots of newly-engaged Lara Stone, leggy Jamaican model Jeneil Williams and verteran model Kristen McMenamy, we can't help but secretly hope this will be the last of the naked covers for some time. We miss the clothes and colour.