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"In the not-so-distant past, the modeling world was broken up into two basic groups: Women who walked in runway shows and did edgy fashion editorials and the occasional luxury ad campaign but never gained much mainstream recognition, and women who made serious bank posing in swimsuits and skivvies for the likes of Victoria&amp;#x27;s Secret and Sports Illustrated. But thanks to a few recent casting coups, including at today&amp;#x27;s Giles Deacon show, the lines have become a bit more blurred...and we&amp;#x27;re wondering what you think of it! Australian babe Miranda Kerr is best known for her bikini bod and for her equally babe-like boyfriend, Orlando Bloom. But Miuccia Prada took a departure from the super-lithe Eastern European beauties she&amp;#x27;s cast of late and instead let Kerr strut her stuff on the fall 2010 runway. It&amp;#x27;s funny to see how much she and the rest of the models can change from one show to the next--in this year&amp;#x27;s Victoria&amp;#x27;s Secret fashion show, she was all wide smiles, bright bling, super-girly makeup and a sassy walk that screamed &amp;quot;sex appeal,&amp;quot; while the Prada show turned her into a more somber, subdued made-under model. Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Karolina Kurkova and Alessandra Ambrosio aren&amp;#x27;t exactly new to the runway, but it was still a surprise to see them turn up (in so much clothing!) at the Giles Deacon show in Paris earlier today. Ambrosio also took a turn at Prada last week, along with fellow supermodel/swimsuit queen Doutzen Kroes: While I&amp;#x27;d be hard pressed to call these Angels &amp;quot;curvy,&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s definitely nice to see some women with a little meat on their bones hitting the runway. They strike me as happy and healthy and maybe a better representation of the women who will actually be wearing these clothes than the pin-thin models we&amp;#x27;ve seen in recent seasons. I&amp;#x27;m loving a little bit of muscle tone on the runways--how about you girls? Do you think it&amp;#x27;s funny to see these very commercial models looking all fashion-y? Do you prefer the Angels looking sunny in their skivvies, or edgy and high style? Are you happy to see a few more healthy faces on the Paris and Milan runways? And do you think there&amp;#x27;s hope for curvier, swimsuit-type models to break into the big stakes after all? Discuss! More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage Follow Slaves to Fashion on Twitter! Photos: Getty Images/courtesy of style.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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