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Napoleon Perdis’ Associates In Self-Promotion Shock

11:18AM Clem Bastow | Defamer Australia readers who are long-term viewers of Australia’s Next Top Model will be familiar with the fabulous Napoleon Perdis, the self-made make-up maestro who is never short of a few words to say about his “brilliant” new range that is inevitably In Stores Now (though we also adore him for encouraging the Cycle 3 cat-fight between Alice “WINNER” Burdeu, Jordan “Game On Moles” Loukas and Steph “Morocca” Hart, then sitting back and clapping his hands, shouting, “I love it!”). Thus, we weren’t surprised at all to see that Perdis’ powers of self-promotion are rubbing off on his young Academy protegees, who have had fingers wagged at them after their ‘Napoleon Perdis’ t-shirts were spotted front-and-centre at various fashion events, which is the fashion equivalent of, dunno, parking your “FORD” emblazoned ute at a Toyota-sponsored footy match. Napoleon Perdis is exclusively aligned with David Jones, so it puzzled a number of Myer folk and the Foxtel crew when a dozen girls, wearing T-shirts with the cosmetics king’s name emblazoned across them, sat beside the stage for a Holeproof underwear fashion show. The same bunch of girls, by the way, were also sitting in the same seats last week at Myer for Jennifer Hawkins’ fashion parade appearance. “They asked us to take our T-shirts off or cover them up,” said one of the girls from the academy. “We came down here to see the latest fashions. It’s part of the training.” This story is even more entertaining if you imagine the young student crying as she says, “We came down here to see the latest fashions”, as though she’s a Depression-era scamp who just wanted to look at the pretty people for a while before returning to the dustbowl to renovate wooden pallets. And, really, all this has done is to remind us HOW TOTALLY EFFING PUMPED WE ARE FOR AUSTRALIA’S NEXT TOP MODEL CYCLE 4!! Ahem. More »