Glamour girls strut out for cancer research
Article From: The Courier Mail
October 12, 2008 11:00pm

LOGAN’S Catherine McNeil notched up her first Vogue cover this month and has now been hailed as one of the country’s top 10 supermodels on the front of Madison.

McNeil has joined the likes of Brisbane-born Alyssa Sutherland, David Jones’ new face Miranda Kerr and face of Sportsgirl Abbey Lee in helping make cancer research glamorous for a Witchery promotion.

The girls model a set of 10 white shirts and tops available through Witchery, which is donating profits to the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation.

Rounding out the top 10 is Skye Strakke, Pania Rose, Elyse Taylor, Sarah Stephens, Nicole Trunfio and Jessica Gomes. See their pictures here

The charitable threads aim to raise $500,000 for ovarian cancer research.

Aussie models in white-hot top 10
Article from: The Herald Sun
October 13, 2008 12:00am

IT’S no secret this lot could each wear a potato sack and still look the goods, but now they’re all right in white for a good cause.

These 10 top Aussie models — most of whom call New York home — feature in Madison magazine, out today, as part of Witchery’s White Shirt campaign.

The home-grown hotties — including Miranda Kerr, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Catherine McNeil and Alyssa Sutherland — are wearing white duds from the fashion chain where 100 per cent of the price tag will go to helping fight ovarian cancer.

Adding to the true-blue talent flavour, the gals were snapped for the mag by Ben Watts, the Big Apple-based fashion photographer brother of screen star Naomi Watts

This month Catherine appears on the cover of Vogue Australia and Madison.

Model Catherine McNeil takes a break to recover
Article from: The Courier Mail
Kellie Alderman
October 11, 2008 11:00pm

LEADING Queensland model Catherine McNeil is making a strong recovery from a mystery illness that forced her out of recent top European fashion shows, friends and family say.

The Logan-raised 19-year-old raised eyebrows last month when she pulled out of the Milan and Paris fashion spectaculars, with her agent expanding no further than saying she was “unwell”.

Exhaustion and homesickness had caught up with the globetrotting beauty and she just needed a break from the spotlight, according to industry friends and her grandmother, Sandra McNeil.

“She’s just burned out,” Mrs McNeil said.

She said her granddaughter, who spent at least half the year on the road, was recuperating at her New York base and would be back at work again “soon”.
McNeil’s Sydney rep Kathy Ward, from Chic Model Management, expected McNeil to be back to full health soon.

McNeil appeared on last month’s cover of Vogue Australia and the magazine’s editor-in-chief Kirstie Clements said her absence from Milan and Paris would have no effect on her career.

“She’s at the top of her game so it’s not going to matter,” Ms Clements said.

“She’s one of the Top 10 (models) in the world and really only does the top-level stuff now.”

Catherine McNeil pines over home, homesick, burned out
October 06, 2008 12:00am
Article from: The Daily Telegraph

HOMESICKNESS has been cited as the mystery illness forcing Australian fashion star, Catherine McNeil off Europe’s catwalks. Have your say!Add your comments or read what others are saying
As revealed in Confidential last week, the 19-year-old was forced to pull out of Milan and Paris fashion weeks because of an undisclosed ailment.

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However, fashion insiders claim exhaustion and homesickness are to blame.

The self-confessed tomboy from Logan, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, is believed to be prone to bouts of missing her more laidback Aussie lifestyle. Her grandmother Sandra McNeil confirmed the model was taking time off at her New York base to rest.

“She’s just burned out,” Mrs McNeil said, adding her granddaughter would be back at work “soon”.

McNeil’s Chic Model Management representative in Sydney, Kathy Ward, claimed the illness had been “blown out of proportion” despite confirming the situation to Confidential last week.

McNeil was expected to return to work for her many lucrative and high-profile advertising accounts in the coming weeks, she said.

Industry experts were quick to state the time off could prove more than healthy for her state of mind and her career.

Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements, who featured McNeil on this month’s cover, said the model was “at the top of her game.”

“She’s so far up the tree, it wouldn’t matter (if she missed Milan and Paris). She really only does the top-level stuff now and she’s got some big advertising campaigns booked,” she said.

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