Deidre went to the show, then Anne pointed out the little controversy that had flared up around the Ashley Paige Spring Collection 2007 show held in LA lat week. I received an email yesterday with a statement from the designer's PR firm regarding her "tasteless stunt" of showing a young girl in a bikini alongside women modeling bikinis.

According to the email from the PR representative, the girls were modeling mommy-mathcing swimsuits from the Baby Paige collection, and the media had "incorrectly [linked] the Baby Paige swimsuits on the girls to Ashley¹s completely separate adult swimwear line." The designer herslef stated: "It saddens me to think that people could in anyway believe I am trying to exploit children. I was not seeking controversy what I was seeking was simply for the girls to look cute and have fun, as kids do on the beach everyday in Southern California and most of the rest of the world."