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The collection officially drops tomorrow, but we're here to give you a little — OK big — sneak peek of Kate Moss's Summer '10 goodies for Topshop. There are over 80 pieces to salivate over! Here is the one hot shot of the Super clearly loving her line in lace-up railroad striped shorts and an airy floral bustier-style top. Other highlights include loose beaded frocks, lots of flowy maxis, cute bra and undie sets, wide-leg jeans, and short shorts. Oh, and there are a few more shots of Kate showing off her latest line.

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Last week, I asked you to play along with me as model for a day. The premise: You'd just been selected to model for a coveted ad campaign. It was your call to play model for a high-end designer or mass market brand, but you needed the perfect ensemble to represent yourself. I started you off with a little inspiration via Coco Rocha in Flair. You only got one shot, so let's see how you did.

Look #1, created by Zivanod, is totally eclectic-cool. Major crush on that tribal-print tote.

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Play along with me: You've just been selected to model for a coveted ad campaign. It can be for a high-end designer or a mass market brand, your call. But wait, you need the perfect ensemble to represent yourself. You get one shot, what's it going to be? Show me an outfit that represents you, and use Coco Rocha in Flair as inspiration.

Let's go Fab Finding. Be sure to come back and tell me your Fab Finds are up, or just tag your Fab Finds with Model For a Day. Now, you can build outfits by creating your very own widget of clothing items. We have everything you need to build outfits, and you can use your Fab Find bookmarks, too. This is an even better way to put together an entire outfit when completing your Fab Finding missions. Learn what a Fab Find is and how to make one. And here's a detailed explanation of bookmarks from GeekSugar.

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"I don’t want to be the fat one anymore, so I have just started doing Pilates every morning, then going to the gym, running and swimming."

— Model Lara Stone, adored by French Vogue's editor Carine Roitfeld and famed for her amazing curves and the sexy gap between her front teeth. Clearly, the prevailing uberskinny look in fashion can make even women with bodies most of us would die for feel insecure. Don't do it, Lara!

"Even though I was accomplishing my dream, I was absolutely miserable. I was torturing myself every day by going to the gym every day up to eight hours a day and starving myself."

— From anorexic to plus-size model and now author of the memoir Hungry, Crystal Renn tells Good Morning America how she suffered to get where she is now. She thought she had signed up for a dream job when a modeling scout told her she had the look. The catch? The 5'9" Renn was told she needed to shave nine inches from her hips and lose around 70 pounds — which she did, at one time weighing only 90 pounds. Older, wiser, and a lot less hungry, Renn should be a lesson to us all: don't lose yourself (figuratively or literally!) to make anyone else happy.

Ah, a day in the life of a hand model. It's all about no cooking, no cleaning, or performing excessive actions in an effort to protect the hands. Or, in certain cases, it's all about standing in when the actress's hands aren't available. Doesn't sound too bad, does it? While, yes, it's true that these "parts models," as they're known as in the biz, take extra precautions to keep their hands looking pristine, it's more than just looking pretty for the camera.

Take hand model Ashly Covington, for instance. "I moisturize 20 to 30 times a day, and wear gloves 90 percent of the time," she told CNN. "When it's your livelihood, you've got to think hands first," she added. Find out some more interesting facts regarding this uncommon profession.

"I dropped 30 pounds to do this.”

— A. J. Abualrub, née Ahmad Jalal, about getting ready for the Roberto Cavalli men's fashion show in Milan. Scouted by a Ford modeling agent in his native Kentucky, the 22-year-old former high-school wrestler practices martial arts. But being athletic didn't account for the primary way he loss weight. His diet secret to fitting into leather and neoprene pants that, as Guy Trebay says, don't provide "what you would call a lot of wiggle room" was meeting with a nutritionist and eating only two meals a day. See? Some men adhere to impossible beauty standards, too.