Esther Canadas.In the latest in a string of coups for the Mexican fashion world, Spanish supermodel Esther Canadas hit Mexico in early February to work the runway for a Mexican department store. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cynics Cynics (sĭn`ĭks) [Gr.,=doglike, probably from their manners and their meeting place, the Cynosarges, an academy for Athenian youths], ancient school of philosophy founded c.440 B.C. by Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates. might say that it marked the sad decline of one of the world's most beautiful women, but with a reported payoff of US$150,000 for three days of work, it is hard to argue with the bombshell's decision to hop a plane from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to peddle the spring-summer line. Canadas followed the lead of Argentine modelValeria Mazza, who promoted the same store's fall-winter collection, and the inking of two of the world's top models in less than a year is indicative of how hot the retail wars are getting in Mexico. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Canadas made her name as the face of DKNY DKNY Donna Karan New York , Donna Karan and Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the elite luxury department store market with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New in the late 1990s, gracing the cover of over 200 magazines, and in an interview with national media she dragged on the occasional cigarette and blithely answered questions from shabbily dressed reporters. She talked of her love of the beaches around Manzanillo, her friendship with pop star Paulina Rubio and how her dog is named after a Mexican street dish (a Chihuahua named "chalupa
A chalupa is a kind of tostada platter in Mexican cuisine. "). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Her remarks also contained the obligatory, I'm-just-a-regular-girl revelations, even though her lips might very well launch a thousand ships. Exceptionally thin (the 5-foot-10 Canadas tips the scales at just over 100 pounds), Canadas said, "I don't do "I Don't Do" was the debut single by glamour model Michelle Marsh, released on 6 November 2006. The single reached 27 in the UK in its first week, selling only 9,000 copies and over 16,000 copies as of January 2007. The single spend a total of four weeks in the Top 75. anything at all to keep my figure. I like to sit in front of the TV and snack." At least she didn't use the line about having a high metabolism. But by all accounts a charming 27-year-old lady, Canadas seemed free of supermodel pretensions, saying she has no desire to leave her lucrative profession for the silver screen, even though she did appear alongside Pierce Brosnan in "The Thomas Crown Affair." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Instead, she is content to strut down the catwalk at the Auditorio Nacional (the fashion show served as a prelude to a Luis Miguel concert) and afterward jet to a quiet Colima beach, spending the cash of the beautiful on fattening fat·ten v. fat·tened, fat·ten·ing, fat·tens v.tr. 1. To make plump or fat. 2. To fertilize (land). 3. snacks while watching the Pacific tide roll in. Pass the lip protection. |
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