In economic hard times, its not just fashion budgets that get cut. We all take a hard look at what we spend our TIME as well as MONEY on these days. Case in point, Page 6 Magazine has parted ways with model - Lydia Hearst. She wrote a "column" for the editors bi-weekly that chronicled her so-called "SUPERMODEL" life. To anyone who ever read "The Hearst Chronicles", you know that one episode of the MTV show The Hill's is infinitely more interesting than Hearst' rants on nothing. Well now, the Post thinks enough is enough as well. In a big they said/ she said tiff, Hearst is no longer writing for Page 6. The disagreement was over a quote Lydia gave criticizing Hearst Publishing's party schedule in the wake of the economic downturn. While trying to recant her comments - it came out that Lydia was not actually "writing" the column as much as turning in notes to an editor that would in turn translate to coherent English.
Last year, this deranged girl compared a backstage runway photo of her using Male hunk Tyson Beckford's hands as a bra to the infamous photo of her mother Patty Hearst toting a machine gun during a bank robbery. The infamous case involved the 1974 kidnapping and brainwashing of the heiress by the Symbionese Liberation Army in Berkeley, California. The bank robbery led to one of the most publicly covered trials in U.S. history and ultimately jail time for Heart. Are you kidding me? A person was killed during that bank robbery and Patty went to jail. Lydia blushed as a result of her picture and actually got press - because no one knew or knows who she was/ is! More to the point, no one even saw the pic. This educationally challenged girl was using her mother's infamy to get press. That's not living a life of Style. That is just vile! And for the record - Her name is Lydia Hearst Shaw. So just like Melissa Rivers, Lydia jumped on the "use my mothers maiden name to become famous" bandwagon.
I knew Patty Hearst in the 90's when Lydia was still a pre-teen. Patty and Bernie (Lydia's father) were nothing but polite and charming. I worked with Patty on a wild project for Thierry Mugler and we became phone buddies afterwards. Mothers - don't let your daughters grow up to be models!!
I look forward to Lydia free Page 6 Magazine editions! Maybe now Max & Co.. can change the ridiculous credit they gave Lydia in the ad campaign she models for them. It states "Journalist and Supermodel, " - for the record, scribbling down a few sentences to be turned into an editor for a weekly glossy does not make you a "Journalist". Furthermore winning an award for "supermodel" of the year does not make you a Supermodel. Supermodel is a title you earn, like "Legend". You don't win it, this isn't the lottery. You already won that dear Lydia by being born a Hearst!