THE FASH PACK

Ever since Dutch supermodel, Lara Stone, was signed by IMG in 2006, she has become one of fashion's most in-demand models with a distinct and edgy tomboy style; a style we can now get a piece of for ourselves.

Stone has personally picked out 50 of her most loved pieces for the September curate section at Not Just A Label, an uber-cool online shop specialising in selling young designers’ pieces. The site will provide all Stone-style admirers with a unique insight into her taste in clothes. “She loves leather, very tomboyish stuff,” says NJAL co-founder Stefan Siegel. “She basically wanted to choose all black, but when we asked her to choose some colour she fell in love with an orange felted shift dress - and it was by a recent graduate from Ravensbourne College.” Stone’s top four items, all modeled by herself of course, have been renamed as the Lara Stone micro-collection.

The modelling industry has had a shake up in recent months due to talks of launching a Code of Conduct which aims to protect models from the varying forms of exploitation- to stop them being cheated out of pay, being sent to work on dangerous shoots and being victims of sexual harassment.

Dunja Knezevic and Victoria Keon-Cohen, from Australia, are the forces behind this phenomenom and are in talks with their agency, IMG, the Association of Modelling Agencies and the British Fashion Council, to assist with the project.

In the last 18 months Knezevic and Keon-Cohen have represented a number of models in complaints ranging from dwindling pay to sprained ankles as a result of the models having been instructed, by the photographer, to wear heels on a trampoline which resulted in them spraining their ankles.

Only time will tell how well the project will do and whether its aims can and will be achieved. Until then, watch this space for further developments.

Uh-oh. Du Juan has been sued by a Chinese modelling agency New Silk Road for an alleged contract violation, and she might face fines of as much as 4.5 million yuan (roughly $659,000).

In September 2002, the model signed a contract with New Silk Road after winning the agency's annual model search, according to China Daily. The paperwork required that New Silk Road remain her only agency, but Du Juan signed with IMG in 2005, before the contract term expired. The agency is seeking a portion of the model's IMG earnings plus 3 million yuan (about $439,000).

Du Juan's lawyer claims she was forced to sign the contract to compete in the final round of the model search, rather than after the competition, like New Silk Road claims.

London Fashion Week is not the only fashion week wanting a revival. LA continues to fight for its position as a fashion capital.

It's been a rocky couple of years for them. If Smashbox, Mercedes Benz and IMG pulling out as official sponsors isn't bad enough, several designers don't actually want to show there anymore. Let's just say that the Pussycat Dolls and Lauren Conrad's clothing line are the biggest shows on the show schedule. Enough said.

Fashion insiders have been less than kind about the city. As The Cut said, 'It hardly pays for them [designers] if no one important is there (and as great as it is to have Tori Spelling or P. Diddy on the front row, they won't place large wholesale orders or put the clothes in Vogue'. Rick Owens also lashed out at the city saying, "Get off your ass and go to Europe... [W]hy do they have to be a fashion capital? They're the movie capital of the world and they've always been that, can't they just be satisfied with that?"

Do you think LA Fashion Week can follow in the footsteps of London Fashion Week this season and reinvent themselves?

Can you see this face winning modelling jobs? So can IMG. Miss Kimberly Alexis Bledel has signed with mega-agency IMG. This puts the former Gilmore Girl in the company of Gisele, Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss and (you know you love her) Taylor Momsen.

We say: Get this girl a beauty campaign ASAP.

Douglas Perrett at COACD has named his favourite up-and-comers in the modelling industry, and we're pretty taken with the choices. Especially the fact that he managed to use half a yellow smiley on a headshot. Tao and Jac have taken especially high spots on our radar, so we hope to see lots more of them. As long as they don't compromise our runway time with Lara Stone.

See the rest of Perrett's choices after the jump