The roach brooch is the height of fashion

I must admit that watching America’s Next Top Model is a sick and guilty pleasure, and listening to the whiny, dim-bulb contestants makes me feel like a Rhodes scholar by comparison. But for once I felt sorry for the models—in a recent episode, they were forced to wear living insects as jewelry. Yes, decorated, crystal-adorned, leashed bugs as a fashion accessory. They weren’t even cute, like ladybugs, or sweet and harmless, like praying mantises. They were Madagascar hissing cockroaches designed by Jared