Byline: Cathleen McGuigan, Lorraine Ali, Malcolm Jones and Peter Plagens

Was Cindy a Turncoat?

Cindy Crawford likes to do favors for her friends. Last week the supermodel turned mom returned to the catwalk after three years for Roberto Cavalli's fashion show in Milan. "I just love his clothes," said the 36-year-old mother of two. "At home I wear jeans and a T shirt, so it doesn't matter if I get mucky with Kaia and Presley, but then I put on a Cavalli top or trousers and I feel like a sexy mom rather than a frumpy housewife." (Yeah, right--frumpy.) But when Crawford strolled down the runway in a knee-length Cavalli mink coat, she drew fire from the animal-rights group ...