Pay per view gains model citizens.

The sinuous lines of a woman's back have intrigued artists for centuries and in works such as Renoir's reclining nude or Rembrandt's study of a nude from the back, the models are the silent but powerful partners of creativity. Nine-year veteran of the life- drawing scene, Liz Argall, plans to model through any future pregnancies and well into her 80s. ''It will give them interesting wrinkles to draw,'' she said.

But the shape of art may be changing in Paris models have banded together to protest against poor pay and the veto on the ''cornet'', a piece of art paper rolled into a cone and passed round for tips as a model dresses after class.

The French models …