Woody Allen's lawsuit against American Apparel, which used his picture on billboards in New York and L.A. without authorization, was settled at the eleventh hour. The clothier will pay Allen $5 million. [LA Times]
Kate Moss has signed on with Virgin Books to pen a presumably un-virginal "no holds barred" autobiography. Says publisher Sir Richard Branson, "It's going to make an exciting read." [Telegraph]
An American Apparel internal memo leaked yesterday — and it offers a totally different take on the t-shirt company's contretemps with the director Woody Allen than that voiced in the media by the company lawyers.
I honestly don't know whether to love or loathe the new American Apparel pregnant lady ads.
A match made...somewhere. Miss USA contestants will be sporting barely-there bikinis from the Jessica Simpson collection. [NYDN] The nebbish-weight cage match between Woody and Dov continues, as Allen decries the jersey-meister's "rep-tarnish"...
Hark, watchers of the court of Karl Lagerfeld: doubleplustop prettyboy Brad Koenig is out. Model Baptiste Giabiconi is in. This is just like when Louis XV replaced Madame de Pompadour with Marie-Louise O'Murphy! [The Cut]
Someone from the American Apparel mothership has weighed in on the report cards kerfuffle of one Dov Arieh Charney — and the company says they're the real deal. Full explanation, after the jump.
Report cards from Dov Charney's senior year at Choate — at least, the part of senior year that passed before he was supposedly expelled — have been leaked. So how was young Dov the student?
A tipster sent us the link to this May 2008 video, which explains the appeal of American Apparel and the reasoning behind its advertising: "It's the embodiment of [Dov's] weird creepy sex fantasies." [Current]
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