The NY Post has a special NY Fashion Week supplement this week, including "Off-duty models: why do they have to look so good without make up", a double-spread of infantile bits and juvenile gossip. Me, I never read gossip about models, but I thought maybe a few readers here would like to read it, so here you go (special thx Janie):

Mini Anden:
Someday, this 24-year-old Swede will have her own talk show — and she’ll probably do all the talking. As she riffs a mile a minute about her four dogs, her excessively “anal” neatness and life with her husband in Los Angeles, she keeps the Magnolia Bakery counter staff in stitches.
A seven-season New York Fashion Week veteran, she’s clearly recognized on the street, even if gawkers aren’t sure exactly where they’ve seen her. Her dramatic Costume Nationale cloak and Jack Russell terrier Cosmo complete the package.
She loves modeling enough to commute from Los Angeles, even if her patience for the cattle calls is wearing thin. “Sometimes it’s frustrating that I have to go on castings,” she confesses. “My hair hasn’t changed, my face hasn’t changed and my weight is the same since the last time I saw them.” AGENCY: T Model Management
YOU’LL SEE HER: On the runways at Luca Luca, Bill Blass and Ralph Lauren. Dancing at Lotus on Tuesdays.

Yasmin Warsame
Born in Somalia and now living in Toronto, 24-year-old Yasmin puts family first. Never mind late nights with the gals at Bungalow 8 — her favorite diversions are snowboarding and skating with her 4- year-old son. “He’s my little prince. He keeps me grounded,” says Yasmin.
A former psychology student, she’s an avid “people-watcher” who loves scoping out the fashion crowd as much as they like watching her on the catwalk. AGENCY: Next
YOU’LL SEE HER: Walking for Oscar de la Renta and Anne Klein. In the new Chanel ads and shopping at the nearest Toys “R” Us.

Delfine Balfort
We caught up with this 23- year-old Belgian at Petite Abeille, a café a stone’s throw from her New York home- away-from home, the Tribeca Grand Hotel.
She carries her laptop everywhere, but don’t think she’s working on the next great Belgian novel — she’s just ogling photos of her boyfriend. “I keep it open permanently with photos of Felix on the screen,” she says, displaying a wallpaper shot of the couple embracing.
When she’s not pining for Felix, she’s shopping on West Broadway, her favorite shopping street.
Her off-duty look is “rock chic,” whether from Clements Ribiero, Marc Jacobs or the local vintage shop. “I like designer clothes but also second-hand clothes that look old,” she adds.
Then again, wrinkled clothes suit her fine too — and they seem to be every globe- trotting model’s occupational hazard.
“I slept on the floor at Heathrow last night and missed an Escada shoot, all due to bad weather,” she laughs. AGENCY: Ford
YOU’LL SEE HER: On the runway at Marc Jacobs, Richard Tyler and Zac Posen. In GAP ads.

Caitriona Balfe
Though shy, this 23-year old Irish vixen has a mischievous sparkle in her eye and the politics to match.
If she’s not playing pool at a bar on the Lower East Side, she’s as likely to turn up at an anti-war protest as a fashion show.
A self-confessed bookworm, she’s currently brushing up on “antiglobalization and the International Monetary Fund.”
Off the catwalks, she dresses every bit the radical as well. “I’m a bit of a rebel,” she says, recalling how she shaved her hair off at age 14.
The way to her heart is through imported Irish chocolate and potato chips. Pay attention, fellow rabble- rousers: she’s single. AGENCY: Elite
YOU’LL SEE HER: On the runways for Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs and Diane Von Furstenbeg. On the cover off this month’s Jalouse magazine.

Sara Ziff
Sara Ziff has something few models can claim: a diploma from Manhattan’s prestigious Dalton School.
Ziff, 20, would probably be in a college English class right now if she weren’t so darn good looking.
The daughter of a lawyer mom and NYU professor dad, she grew up downtown, where she now looms larger than life on a Tommy Hilfiger billboard at the corner of Houston and Lafayette streets.
Her personal style — vintage T-shirts and designer totes — was honed at Barneys and Paris flea markets.
And she’s just as happy sipping tea at at L’Avenue in Paris as at her local hangout, L’Aile ou la Cuisse on Bleecker Street.
She doesn’t mind Fashion Week because she gets to sleep in her own bed — a relief from a schedule that often has her flying to Europe three times a week.
“I have a little meltdown once in a while,” she confesses. “But I try not to do it publicly.” AGENCY: Next Models.
YOU’LL SEE HER: On the runways for Luella Bartley, DKNY, BCBG, Zac Posen.

Candice Lake
Hard to believe Candice, 21, arrived from Hawaii at 2 a.m., and has already been to 33 go-sees.
She seems 100 percent relaxed — or is it catatonic?
Candice hails from Queensland, Australia, but she’s right at home in the East Village, where she can shop to her heart’s content for vintage clothing and antique books, which she collects. (She claims she’s on first-name terms with every vintage store owner in the city.)
She’s applied to law school at England’s Oxford University, but it’s going to be tough to pry her loose from Manhattan. “New York is so the place,” she says. AGENCY: Ford
YOU’LL SEE HER: On the runway at Ralph Lauren and Luca Luca.

Editor takes LHJ in a cozier direction
By Aileen Jacobson STAFF WRITER NEWSDAY

Diane Salvatore hasn't actually changed the name of the 119-year-old magazine where she recently became the first new editor in 21 years. But by enlarging the type size and shifting the placement of its middle word, she has transformed Ladies' Home Journal.

Journal used to be the dominant moniker - and still is, temporarily, on home-delivered and some newsstand copies, for a smoother transition, says Salvatore. But, in the new version, it's going to be Home Journal that jumps out. And that's more than a cosmetic lift.

"When I looked at the name, Ladies' Home Journal, it became very clear to me that there was a lot of equity in the word 'home,' and that home was a warm word, and it certainly did lend warmth to the word 'journal,' which can be a little business-sounding and a little cerebral and chilly."

Salvatore's new motto for the magazine is "heart, home and family." Partly spurred by the nation's new home-centered mood after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, she says, she's concentrating on "the theme of family connectedness, from lots of points of view and in lots of formats." The logo change fits right in: "By putting 'home' all front and center, it helps to cue readers ... that there there has been a shift in the focus."

Felicitously, she also found in looking through the magazine's archives that Home Journal had been the title when the publication launched in December 1883 as a compilation of letters from "lady farmers to the editors of the magazine," who gave advice. "A wily printer took it upon himself to add the word 'Ladies' to the original title. And that's how it got born as Ladies' Home Journal," says Salvatore, who at 42 has worked at many magazines, including YM, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and, most recently, overseeing 15 Hearst titles.

"I felt very much like a back- to-the-future moment when I learned that ... this has very much been part of the legacy of the magazine, that Home Journal was the heartbeat of the magazine to begin with."

Other changes may not be as apparent to readers: The magazine is using heavier paper (on newsstand issues and eventually for all copies), more prominent writers (including Wall Street Journal and New York Times staff members) and its own photos instead of hand-out shots of celebrities on its covers Read more