U.N. airlifts food to starving French fashion models

PARIS -- In defiance of angry French officials, the United Nations disrupted Paris Fashion Week today to deliver emergency all-you-can-eat buffets and pot-luck suppers to starving female fashion models.

"We could not let the humanitarian crisis on Paris catwalks continue," U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said. "The world community had to act to save the models of Paris from their own astounding stupidity and bad taste."

Under pressure from the World Health Organization, the French government changed the name of the country's most famous fashion show from "Ready to Wear" to "Ready to Eat" to encourage the models to stop at the buffet tables. The situation was so dire that U.N. peacekeepers and WHO medics were forced to set up buffets along the edges of catwalks to prevent models from collapsing from exhaustion and malnutrition during the show.

U.N. observers expected France to veto the Security Council resolution ordering the airlifts, but the chain-smoking French ambassador to the U.N. missed the vote when, in compliance with New York City's indoor smoking ban, he had to spend the entire session on the sidewalk