Jéssica Morgades started making clothes at 14, when she took a sewing and patterning class with a group of 60-year-old grandmothers. She came to Barcelona to study fashion design, and since then she has gone on to do wardrobe design on various film productions. She has just finished working on X1, the first European feature-length porno film in 3D.
— How did you get involved in this project?
I began working in a night club, and the guys from the production company were working there, too. They were just then putting together …

The best-selling women’s magazine Brigitte announced last month that as of 2010, it would no longer feature professional models with “size zero” figures, opting instead for “real life” women. Editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert said that the move is a response to readers complaining that they felt no connection to the models featured in editorials. Lebert explained that “the whole modeling industry is anorexic” and that the magazine would now choose its models from the common pool of German women, whether it be “the 18-year-old A-level student, the company chairwoman, the musician, or the footballer”.