Fashion’s half-price models

Feb. 2, 2009 2:55 PM PT

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The financial crisis is hitting the haute couture runways of Paris where models are having to walk for half of what they usually do. That means a day rate of $2,100 instead of $4,200. Read Sophie Hardach’s Reuters piece here.

-- Booth Moore

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Booth Moore

As Los Angeles Times fashion critic from 2004-15, Booth Moore logged tens of thousands of miles covering the runways from L.A. to Paris and interviewing style leaders such as Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford and Donatella Versace.

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