• Finally, an explanation as to why there was an empty front-row seat for Matt Damon at the L.A.M.B. show! It was all because of a crasher. Some dude talked his way into the show by pretending to be Damon's agent. The empty seat caused an all-runway media pile-up the likes of which we have not seen since the Spitzer hooker got seated at Yigal Azrouël. Throngs of photographers and reporters crowded the empty seat, rumors were started (for a time, it was believed that the seat was not for Matt Damon but for Matt Dillon) and then corrected (this was clearly disinformation intended only to weed out those who lacked the conviction necessary to pursue front-row reporting); things just got more mysterious when it was said that backstage, someone had asked Gwen Stefani about why Matt Damon should be at her fashion show, and Stefani had replied that she didn't even know Matt Damon. It turns out that a man who took the wrong moral lesson from Six Degrees of Separation was the cause of all this consternation. Peter Gianquinto goes to events and pretends to be the manager of someone famous, essentially. Dylan Bernstein, the son of the Beatles manager, has experience with the smooth-talker. "He befriended himself to our family as Peter Mellon of the Mellon banking family," says Bernstein. "It is ironic that Peter used Matt Damon's name when Peter himself reminds me of a harmless Talented Mr. Ripley." [P6]
• Sarah Jessica Parker skipped the Halston show at New York fashion week — but turned up at a trade show called Fashion Coterie to man the Halston booth, model samples, and talk to buyers. [P6]
• Artist Marc Quinn — best known for his sculptures Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was installed in Trafalgar Square, and Siren, a life-sized gold statue of Kate Moss with her legs behind her ears — says that Akris used some of his prints without his permission in its spring collection. "To take someone's copyright material and turn it into a commercial product without their permission is completely unacceptable," says Quinn. Akris admits its creative director, Albert Kreimler, was inspired by a trip to a gallery, but says "Within his design process Albert too [sic] this as inspiration — adding his own creativity and artwork." [Vogue UK]

[LAX, February 1. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

• Khloe Kardashian, her late, lamented red hair, and a mask apparently made of plastic packing straps and a packet of studs from the nearest Michaels star on the cover of NY skate shop Yellow Rat Bastard's in-store mag, YRB. [Racked]

[Beverly Hills, January 17. Image via INFDaily.]

• "Since Wonder Woman has this amazing strength," explains a spokesperson, everything's oversized. Products range from $14 for fake lashes to $49.50 for "a brush set with its own metallic utility belt," and are expected to generate sales of $20m. [WWD]

• This new French L'Oréal ad is like celebrity spokesmodel whack-a-mole. We spy Beyoncé, Patrick Dempsey, Jessica Alba, Freida Pinto, Claudia Schiffer, Rachel Weisz, and Jane Fonda... It's funny to watch them all say, "Parce que vous le valez bien." [YouTube]

• Taylor Momsen and her band were playing a show in Scotland when she said something the crowd found rather offensive.

• Miley Cyrus's bong hit video was not a commercial. But. Because people are stupid, sales of salvia have increased since Friday, with customers specifically asking for "the stuff Miley was smoking."

• Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]

• After taking down Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, and Elle magazine, the dreaded bedbugs are now ensconced at the Fifth Avenue Juicy Couture store. We're picturing bedbugs in tiny velour tracksuits, talking on tiny pink bedazzled cell phones. [Gothamist]

[West Hollywood, November 18. Image via Flynet.]

[Los Angeles, October 26. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

[More photos after the jump! Las Vegas, September 22. Images via Getty.]

• Julia Roberts' original deal with Lancôme, signed last December, was rumored to be worth up to $20 million. Now that the actress is renewing for five more years, she's said to be earning a cool $50 million. [Daily Mail]

• Mariah Carey is launching an accessories line on HSN in November. Expect her to be hawking shoes, jewelry, and "a limited edition version of her Luscious Pink fragrance, with a butterfly-cap bottle and a personal note from the songstress." [WWD]

[Visiting the Air & Space Museum, New York, September 8. Image via Flynet.]

[Los Angeles, August 29. Image via INF.]

[Marina Del Ray, August 7. Image via PacificCoastNewsOnline.]

[Malibu, August 5. Image via Flynet.]

[Beverly Hills, July 25. Image via WENN.]

• Lindsay Lohan is still doing things which prevent her from being perceived as a normal, productive 20-something-year-old girl who likes to blow a few rails and date girls when she wants to. Her life is still fraught. [TMZ]

[Mountain View, California; June 14, 1996. Image via Getty]

• Whitney Houston's disastrous comeback tour is still going, and at a show in Denmark recently, hundreds of disappointed fans actually walked out on her performance. Says a critic who attended the show:

• In an interview with TMZ, Gary Coleman's ex-wife Shannon Price said, "I don't want people to be so hard on me thinking I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn't have made it anyway..."

[Malibu, May 31. Image via WENN.]

[Malibu, May 23. Image via x17.]

[Los Angeles, May 15. Image via x17.]

• Those who reported Lindsay Lohan's mom was in L.A. to make sure she showed up for her deposition today clearly don't know Dina Lohan. Mom and daughter partied until 2 a.m., and Lindsay was 22 minutes late to court.