Victoria Beckham's Designer Dreams In The Bargain Bin

• Poor Posh. After the embarrassingly poor sales of her denim line and ensuing abandonment by retailers, we hear that her men's dVb line has been pushed back "until next year" by L.A. boutique Kitson. Plucky Posh is undaunted, having spoken of her desire to launch a couture line and show at New York's fashion week. dVb denies the line is floundering, claiming that "it is currently being manufactured but is likely to reach stores later than anticipated." [This Is London]
• A man has confessed to the murder of Canadian model Diana O'Brien, whose body was found last week in Shanghai, where the 20-year-old was on a 3-month modeling contract. 18-year-old Chen Jun was arrested Friday morning in Anhui province; he apparently killed the model during an armed robbery of her apartment. [CNN]
• Gwyneth Paltrow is really slacking in her obligations to Estee Lauder's new "Sensous" perfume, refusing to show for any of the hundred ridiculous promos the company's set up (opening the stock market, anyone?) and leaving the burden on the slender shoulders of co-pitchwomen Hilary Rhoda, Carolyn Murphy, and Elizabeth Hurley. Recriminations all around. [New York Magazine]

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The Fashions At Flawless Were Anything But

Last night in New York, Demi Moore, left, hosted a special screening of her latest movie, Flawless, in which she co-stars with Michael Caine as an executive so disgruntled over glass ceilings that she agrees to screw over her employer and steal some diamonds. And although the plot of the film seems somewhat flimsy, Moore turned up to the screening looking well, flawless, if you ask me. Too bad the others in attendance — Vogue's Andre Leon Talley, Harper's Bazaar's Glenda Bailey, Project Runway's Christian Siriano, Donna Karan and Debbie Harry — didn't follow suit! The full Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Flawless screening, after the jump. More »

This is how Zach Braff makes out: "Some men are kissing monsters! They do this" (she stuck out her tongue) "or they do this" (she stuck out her tongue and wiggled it around.) Says who? Arden Wohl. Do we have to forgive her now for occupying that space in our brains where geometry once was? Or do we disapprove of making out with Zach Braff in the first place? Oh don't lie, you'd totally make out with Zach Braff EXCLUSIVELY for the opportunity to tell New York how bad it was, too. Is Arden Wohl just like us? Uh, well she did make this. [New York]

Giorgio Armani Pulls A Valentino, Randomly Asserts His Non-Retirement

• Oh great: Valentino finally breaks down and retires, and now we have to deal with the lady-doth-protest-too-muches of Giorgio Armani who, out of the blue, has made a big announcement that he is not retiring. Now we give him one year, tops. [WWD, sub req'd]

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Cory Kennedy And Arden Wohl: I Am So Fine Without You

We were recently racking our brains for the word for Yasser Arafat's headdress thingy when we found ourselves reading a post about a French magazine putting Internet It-Girl Cory Kennedy on its cover. We have been following the "career" of Cobrasnake muse and sometime girlfriend Cory for over a year and a half now and we're pretty sure that's why we have no fucking clue who's running Israel or Palestine (or what we're even supposed to call Palestine? Is it still the PLO? What did ) anymore. But the point is that something about the combination of Jazzercize chic and Middle Eastern headdresses and suddenly we had an "epiphany": Arden Wohl, the Vogue profile subject and profound filmmaker and pothead socialite whose "career" we also wished we didn't know about is just the Uptown, Manny-reading answer to Cory. And that's when we realized we needed an intervention! Please! Erase them! One of them, at least! After the jump, a poll. And also, Wikipedia's answer to what's up in the Mideast. More »

'Vogue': There Are Dumber Things To Read This Weekend, But At Least 'Baldo' Has A 10% Chance Of Being Funny

Sometimes magazines make promises they can't keep on their covers. The cover-touted "Once Burned, Twice Shy: One Woman's Tale of Tanning Abstinence" in next month's Vogue is not an example of this. What you see is what you get: this is the story of a single woman, Joan Juliet Buck, not claiming to represent any sort of emerging trendlet, who simply doesn't lay out in the sun. Because she is allergic. What happens when she attempts to you ask? Well, she gets a rash. Surely this allergy has had, at one point or another, made for a somewhat more eventful reaction than a rash? No! In the story's defense, it does not, like the 972 other solar-themed stories in women's magazines this month and every summer month since time immemorial, mention the "skin cancer" phenomenon that has scared so many women out of the sun and into the Mystic tanning booths in recent decades. (Memo to Anna Wintour: I personallyabstain from microdermabrasion AND deep tissue massage, think we could get a 1,500 word contract out of that?) But back to cancer, which afflicts First Lady candidate Elizabeth Edwards, the subject of a very very long Vogue profile on page 152, past most of the pretty people and the fashion shoots and the incredibly compelling piece on the woman of utmost importance that is Arden Wohl. More »