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Demi Moore May Have Dumped Rachel Zoe; Male Models Accused of Having ‘Oddly Pitched-Forward Gaits’

• Demi Moore has reportedly dropped her longtime stylist, Rachel Zoe, in favor of Zoe’s former assistant, Brad Goreski. [Page Six/NYP]

• The Lake and Stars ran into some trouble when casting plus-size models for their fall 2011 Fashion Week presentation. Co-designer Maayan Zilberman said, “Agencies are horrified we’re putting girls from plus division in with [skinny girls], and some agents said flat out they wouldn’t put their ‘good girls’ with plus sized models.” [Refinery 29]

• Washington Post dance critic Sarah Kaufman on male models’ walking skills: “Once the guys head down the runway toward that bank of flashing cameras and flanked by hundreds of onlookers, all their personality and swagger, the confidence of being young, fit and exceptionally hot — poof. It’s gone. In its place: tight steps, wooden torsos. Oddly pitched-forward gaits. Stiffly held shoulders or too much shoulder, torquing the body with an exaggerated sway.” [WP]

• Christian Louboutin named a shoe after Blake Lively, and it has lots of multicolored straps. [Vogue UK]

• Street-style blogger Garance Doré told a Getty photographer her name was “Zoe Lulu.” How dare they not know who she is. [Racked]

Demi Moore May Have Dumped Rachel Zoe; Male Models Accused of Having ‘Oddly Pitched-Forward Gaits’