Celebrity Mound

ALICE+OLIVIA designer Stacey Bendet, who is showing her collection today at her West 40th Street store, is a mite miffed at model Molly Simms. Responding to nymag.com – which noted, “The lower-end shows have the thinnest girls . . . The better-paid ones look more well fed” – Simms replied: “Yeah . . . I see the same thing, too. Like the alice+olivia show last year, two girls should not have been walking.” Bendet, who flew Simms in for her February show and gave her free clothes, fumed to us, “Before Molly calls us ‘lower end,’ maybe she should stop begging for free pants and a plane ticket.” Molly will now have to mooch elsewhere.

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