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Kanye West used forty naked models to help promote his new album ‘808’s and Heartbreak’.
Guests at the launch party were treated to an open bar and DJ before “walking up a driveway illuminated by fluorescent lights to a darkened room where we say 40 nude women. Most of them were wearing strange masks made of wool.”
The models who West said were, “live performance artists” then stood in the middle of the room while the new album was played. Apparently the naked models were part of a art show put together with the help of Vanessa Beecroft.
After the album was played West said, “These are pieces of real life that I’m putting out for people to judge. It’s from my heart. I don’t give a f**k if someone rates it ‘hot’ or ‘not’. I’m here to bring positivity that cannot be judged. It’s like judging a grandmother’s love!”
Sounds to me like he was not expecting good reviews so he got his attack in first.
Nude models cause stir at wild West show
Canada.com, Canada
Kanye West created a sensation at the launch party of his new album by inviting 40 naked models to attend. The MC unveiled his anticipated fourth album 808s …
Kanye West invited 40 naked women for album launch
Oneindia, India
Kanye West caused a stir at the launch party of his eagerly anticipated album ‘808s and Heartbreak’ by inviting 40 naked women to attend. …
Kanye West’s Naked Party
MTV UK, UK
Kanye West threw a party in LA on Tuesday night with the perfect ingredients for press coverage; cue celebrities, 40 naked models and eagerly anticipated …
Kanye West premieres raw new album with naked listening party
Entertainment Weekly
Back in the 1970s, Allen Funt, of Candid Camera fame, put out an R-rated feature film called What Do You Say to a Naked Lady, which had, yes, live, …
Kanye West’s Listening Party: Lights, Heartbreak, Nudity
Rolling Stone
Kanye West knows one way to make guests pay attention at an album listening party: a room full of live nude women, standing and posing in silhouette against …
Kanye’s naked party
iAfrica.com, South Africa
Kanye West has created quite a stir around his new album ‘808s & Heartbreak’ by hosting a listening party with an ensemble of masked, naked women. …
Naked Models Help Kanye West Launch New Album
People Magazine
The outspoken hip-hop performer teamed up with several dozen nude models to introduce his new album 808s & Heartbreak at an LA listening …

Page Three girls have been central to the success of the soaraway Sun, becoming a peculiarly British tradition in the process. But their introduction was risky, and their survival never completely assured.
Sun editor Larry Lamb made his big gamble on 17 November 1970, when his proprietor Rupert Murdoch was safely out of the country.
It was a year since Murdoch’s second relaunch of a title that was already attacked by its critics for being obsessed with sex.
Up until then, the Sun’s new Page Three girls had kept their clothes on. But with Murdoch away, Lamb decided to boost the Sun’s sexual content further and Stephanie Rahn, a 20-year-old German, became the first of its models to take her top off.
Lamb had no idea how women readers or the newspaper’s distributors would react.
Legend has it that Murdoch was incandescent with rage when he saw the first bare breasts to grace his title. But the subsequent rise in paper sales - 1.5 million to 2.1 million in a year - rather soothed him.
Rahn, not heard of since, kicked off a tradition that secured not just the Sun’s future but helped finance Murdoch’s fledgling media empire. Quite an achievement for a 20-year-old in, what the paper at the time called, her “birthday suit”.
‘A pleasure’
Lamb’s gamble paid off but in the end he seemed ambivalent.
“I helped make page three part of the language, he wrote before he died in 2000.
“In many ways now I wish I hadn’t.”
In fact, in the 35 years since they arrived on the newspaper scene, Page Three girls have been the subject of constant controversy.
Soft porn that demeans women or good harmless British fun? It depends who you speak to.
Beverley Goodway, the photographer who snapped Rahn, went on to make a lifetime career out of the Sun’s Page Three.
“I must be one of the few men who can honestly say I’ve seen more naked girls in the flesh than I have had hot dinners,” he said when he retired last year.
“It’s my claim to fame and it has been a pleasure. There’s not a single bloke alive who won’t swap places with me.”
Moral judgements
The Sun itself has seemed less certain at times.
Senior executive Wendy Henry made a Sun-style stab at equality by introducing the bare-chested Page Seven fella, but he never really had the same impact on readers and their nakedness never carried the same social meaning.
There has never been a male equivalent of Samantha Fox or Linda Lusardi.
As deputy editor, Rebekah Wade battled against Page Three. She steered clear of moral judgments and argued that topless women were bad for business.
Wade maintained that page three was working against efforts to draw more young women readers in.
Since she became editor, though, Wade has dropped the issue.
Murdoch has also been inconsistent.
He has been lobbied by feminists including Clare Short MP, who failed in her 1986 Commons bid to ban Page Three.
But he also been collared by females in his own family who wanted him to get rid of the girls.
In a 1994 interview with India Today magazine, Murdoch suggested Page Three’s days might be numbered but he may simply have been playing to a conservative audience.
In 1999, he told News Corp shareholders in Adelaide that a short-lived Page Three flirtation with bikinis would cease immediately if it affected circulation
Breast shots
Carsten Edwards owns International Model Management, the biggest supplier of Page Three models in Britain.
He has 100 girls on his books and they work for the Sun and Daily Star and lads mags such as FHM and GQ.
The latter don’t tend to pay Page Three girls as much as the tabloids, but they don’t require full-breast shots.
Edwards reckons that if the Sun ever does walk away from the topless Page Three, another paper will quickly step in.
“But I don’t think the Sun will ever pull out,” he says. “It knows its audience.” Page Three plays on male weakness and that makes the business recession free, he says.
Fame and fortune
Like many involved in the business, Edwards says he doesn’t often find himself on the receiving end of criticism.
Does he ever get stick from women? “Only when I don’t sign them up,” he says.
And there are many such unsuccessful candidates, with up to 70 new girls a week approaching him for work.
They come from all classes, with an occasional student lawyer or doctor popping up and that even young mums - “still in shape” - have modelled.
“Glamour, fame, fortune and a love of being in front of the camera,” are all part of the appeal he says.
“And of course they all have a certain amount of exhibitionism.”
‘In demand’
His current top earners - Michelle Marsh (topless) and Lucy Pinder (nipples covered, so far) - can earn in excess of £100,000 a year.
Twenty-one-year old blonde Michelle (vital statistics - 32G-24-34) says such sums should serve notice to anyone who wonders whether all Page Three girls are not bright.
“At the end of the day I could work nine to five, but I would not be travelling the world earning such good money and meeting brilliant people,” she says.
Like many girls, she got into Page Three through a local modelling agency and also works for the lads mags.
She says there have been catty comments from one or two women offended by their boyfriend’s wandering eye and the odd time when she’s wished the men would stop paying her attention, but most people respect her choice - including her family.
“My mum and dad are absolutely fine about it, they collect everything I do,” she says. “When they saw how happy I was they were really pleased for me. My dad runs my website.”
‘In demand’
Michelle, the proud owner of her own house and a sports car, knows she won’t be able to continue in her line of work for ever and plans to work as a carer for the elderly.
While she can probably afford to pick and choose, even averagely successful Page Three girls make between £30,000 and £40,000 a year.
“Page Three girls are in demand with magazines right now,” says Edwards.
“Because the bottom has fallen out of the magazine market, titles cannot afford to pay celebrities for sexy photo shoots.”
Back in 1970, Rahn and Lamb could have had no idea what they were starting.

Madrid fashion week, one of Spain’s most prestigious shows, is banning underweight models on the basis of their body mass index (BMI).
UN health experts recommend a BMI of between 18.5 and about 25, and some models may fall well below the minimum.
The Spanish Association of Fashion Designers has decided to ban models who have a BMI of less than 18.
Unhealthily skinny models at last year’s fashion shows led to protests from doctors and women’s rights groups.
The association agreed to use the BMI - a calculation based on height and weight - in response to local government pressure.
It suggests that 30% of would-be participants fail this test and this year’s fashion week, which begins on 18 September, will offer medical treatment to excessively thin models.
Outrage
“The restrictions could be quite a shock to the fashion world at the beginning but I’m sure it’s important as far as health is concerned,” Leonor Perez Pita, director of the Madrid fashion show, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Madrid’s local government says it wants to set a more positive, healthy image of beauty for teenagers to follow.
You cannot ban skinny women in the same way you cannot ban fuller bodied women.
“Fashion is a mirror and many teenagers imitate what they see on the catwalk,” said regional official Concha Guerra.
Spain’s Anorexia and Bulimia Association says if designers refuse to follow these voluntary restrictions the government should legislate to ban thin models.
However, some sections of the fashion world have expressed outrage at the idea of weight restrictions.
Cathy Gould, of New York’s Elite modelling agency, said the fashion industry was being used as a scapegoat for weight-related illnesses.
“I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer?” she asked, adding that the careers of naturally “gazelle-like” models could be damaged.