Jezebel: Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin Calls The Hermès Birkin 'A Rather Trivial Piece Of Heavy Luggage'

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:55:00 EST

Jane Birkin says she doesn't mind that Hermès has made a mint off the luxury handbag that bears her name. "I got Hermès to fork out for my charities once I saw the fortune they were making," explains the singer and actor. "A certain amount of money every year goes straight to my charity and it will continue to after my death. This year I was able to [use some of that money] to go to Japan for a benefit concert after the earthquake. We use some of the money to feed the poor people who can't afford to eat in France. I sold one of my Birkin bags for $163,000 to help the Japanese Red Cross. So that rather trivial piece of heavy luggage has done a lot of good in the world." As we all know, Jane Birkin prefers to use her Birkin as a pillow, a cat bed, and an occasional pet carrier. How cool is Jane Birkin? Still cooler than just about anyone else on earth, in case you were wondering. [WWD] More »

Jane Birkin Uses Her Birkin Bag As A Cat Bed

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EDT

Jane Birkin, for whom the $5,000 Hermès tote was named, has only owned four Birkins in her lifetime. "I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough," she says. But they get a lot of use. "Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports. There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it — and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine — from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's." She's auctioning of the current Birkin to raise money for disaster relief in Japan. [Vogue UK] More »

Lindsay Poses For Teen Oligarch Fashion Line

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:30:00 EST

Lindsay Lohan is leaving rehab today for a very special reason: to shoot a campaign for Kira Plastinina, the bankrupt-but-now-revived fashion label designed by a Russian orange juice oligarch's teen daughter. Remember when Lindsay did campaigns for Miu Miu? [TMZ]

Sexy People Having Sexy Sex, Courtesy Of French Vogue

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:40:00 EDT

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Consider the plight of Carine Roitfeld. In a time when every politician, sports pro, and dude-who-likes-Nazi-memorabilia is acting as if he's on a mission to show how tawdry and dumb sex can be, she still has to make sex sexy. More »

Jourdan Dunn Rules The Runway; Hairy Unibrows Give Us Nightmares

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:40:00 EST

Jourdan Dunn returned to the catwalk at London Fashion Week two months after giving birth. [Vogue UK]
Alexa Ray Joel is the new face of Prell shampoo, 24 years after her mother, Christie Brinkley, had the same gig. [Daily Express]

Michelle's Jewelry, Zac's Lower-Priced Line, & Claudia's Cashmere

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST

Michelle Trachtenberg is designing a line of jewelry for Coach's Poppy brand. Expect "colorful crystals." [WWD]
Zac Posen is doing a lower-priced line, Z Spoke, which will be available exclusively through Saks Fifth Avenue come spring. It starts at $78:

Jon Ordered To Return $180K; Oprah Won't Apologize For Unleashing Dr. Phil

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:40:00 EDT

Today a judge ruled that Jon Gosselin must pay back $180,000 of the money he removed from his shared bank account with Kate Gosselin in violation of an arbitrator's order. As for the rest of the money...

Jesus & Madonna "Just Friends"; Kiefer & Jack Put Headbutt Behind Them

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Jesus Luz went on a Brazilian TV program, Fantastico, and said of Madonna: "She is my friend, only my friend." Hmm. Wow. Okay. He also said:

Joaquin Phoenix's Rap: "There Are Dance Songs"

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:00:00 EST

"Life poet" Joaquin Phoenix on his rap career:

February French Vogue: Steven Klein Model Zombies & NSFW Nan Goldin

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

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I promised you all some more Lara Stone, and I haven't delivered. But read on for a spot of mid-afternoon nudity, S&M, red-lit bedrooms, a boy in a cage, and the ethereal, horrifying Lara. More »

DVF, Presidential Ski-Bunny; Pam Anderson's Vivienne Westwood Ads Debut

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:40:00 EST

Diane von Furstenberg attended the inauguration with her oldest African-American friend, André Leon Talley. She hobnobbed with Oprah and David Axelrod, then dressed up in, um, a ski suit to watch the swearing-in. [Financial Times]

The Betsey Johnson-Anna Nicole Makeout Session Is A Bad Mental Image

Sadie Stein — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:00 EDT

We love Betsey Johnson, but we're kind of weirded out by the revelation that she made out with Anna Nicole Smith, like on a Monday in 10th Grade when you hear about some really random hookup from a party over the weekend. "She was wearing one of those dotted net see-through things with roses on her bullet bra underneath . . . It was when she was doing TrimSpa, and she looked really beautiful." Okay, but wouldn't that be around the same time she was doing eating contests on her reality show? Again: to each her own. [Page Six]
Janet Jackson's apparently unironic lingerie line, Pleasure Principle, is out. "The legendary hip-hop and R&B diva teamed with Bruno Schiavi, the Australian lingerie designer behind Dr. Rey’s Shapewear line (named for “Dr. 90210” fixture Dr. Robert Rey), for her debut fashion duet. The 18-piece line is named after the hit single from Jackson’s 1986 multiplatinum album “Control,” is designed to be comfortable for a range of sizes — 32A to 44G, and is crafted of mostly satin and lace." [WWD]
It seems like celebs are always lying about how they're going to wear Project Runway designs, but after guest-judging the Australian iteration, Kelly Rowland's actually making good. "Wearing the custom-made, scalloped outfit on stage at a concert in Cannes, France, a few nights ago, the diva strutted her stuff - which almost brought a tear to the Brisbane designer's eye."She was so lovely and the fact that she has worn my design makes me so proud," Juli Grbac gushed. NB: from the pic, we can kinda see why they usually back out. [News.com.au]

Kira Plastinia: The Last Pointless 15-Year-Old Rich Person I Ever Want To Read About

Moe — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT

"I think teenagers are all the same everywhere," says Kira Plastinia, a 15-year-old Russian, and "wrinkles her nose." Kira is apparently the Miley Cyrus meets Mary Kate Olsen of the former Soviet Republics; her dad, an orange juice mogul, bought her a a clothing line, and a signature shade of pink, and Paris Hilton's number, and a horse named Baloven — meaning "someone who is spoiled and treated too well" — and now a store in Manhattan, which has inspired a profile in New York Magazine. Wait, am I really burdening you with this information? Do we really have such a dearth of the great global wealth concentration's photogenic beneficiaries over here? Over the weekend I was dutifully forcing myself to read the NY Times' review of a book called Bringing Home The Birkin, which chronicles the quest of an eBay Power Seller to land one of the coveted Hermes bags. "What is a Birkin bag and why on earth should I care?" demands editor Sam Tanenhaus of the book's critic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine editor Christine Muhlke, on the Review's weekly podcast. More »

Tom Ford Takes On Big Oil

Jennifer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:00:56 EDT

Tom Ford has purchased a large tract of land near his New Mexico home to prevent it from being sullied by oil harvesters. For what did we invade Iraq, if not to preserve the nation's country homes? [Vogue UK]