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Stress, Health Problems Factors In Fashion Model's Suicide

Sadie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova jumped to her death from her Manhattan apartment in an apparent suicide Saturday. The 20-year-old had been featured on the cover of Vogue and walked for Marc Jacobs, Nina Ricci and DKNY. [CNN]
Friends say Korshunova had been suffering from health problems and personal stress. [New York Post]
And in a shocking show of ghoulishness ('poor taste' doesn't begin to approach this one), Fox News has aired footage of her body. [Huffington Post]
Oy vey.Real World producers sign on for Project Runway. Bring on the hot tub. [Variety]

First seeing-eye cats guiding dogs, now designers collaborating! What's next, peace in the Middle East? [The Independent]
Tom Ford seeks to do the impossible: "“For this project, I wanted to reinvent patchouli . . . I loved the idea of mixing patchouli with white florals. We used patchouli orpur, which takes out some of the darker, smoky notes of patchouli. We mixed that with peony, bergamot, and jasmine,” says he of his new, Erykah-Badu-faced "White Patchouli." [Oh No They Didn't]
Family to take Clarins private. [WWD]
In a post-Sharon-Stone world: the future of Dior. [Financial Times]
Bella Freud: "I wish people would take more notice of what's going on in Palestine because if they knew the level of suffering of the Palestinian people, they would be outraged and appalled. People would demand that something should be done." [The Independent]
Gellin' like Magellan' is apparently complete nonsense. [Los Angeles Times]
Twiggy's daughter is staying off the runway. [Mail on Sunday]
Kaiser Karl: the ultimate arbiter. [Guardian]
A day after her sentencing, Naomi Campbell —surprise! — hits the catwalk. Um, in a men's show. [Los Angeles Times]
Liberty of London opens first boutique. [WWD]
Recessionistas take note: virtual H&M opens in new, depressing Sims world. [Los Angeles Times]
So, that hair extension Kate Moss lost? You can buy it on eBay. [Sassybella]
In a match made in...an insane asylum, Master P relaunches his line exclusively for Wal-Mart. [Reuters]
Green cosmetics take it to the fields. [New York Times]
Sit tight for today's Ebay knockoff ruling! [Breitbart]
Old-school Converse goes high-tech with new interactive marketing. [Adweek]
Oh, that should make the Queen happy. Kate Middleton, aka "Prince Williams maybe-fiancee" is a maybe-model. [Daily Express]
Molly Ringwalg gets the fashion-icon props she deserves! [Los Angeles Times]
Oh, and I guess Helene Rochas qualifies too. [W]
Recession? What recession? Fabulously wealthy keeps the good times rolling for Paris couture. [WWD]

Posh & Marc: 1. Haters: 0.

Jennifer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:30:00 EST

The new Marc Jacobs ads featuring Victoria Beckham have finally been made public. And they're awesome. Also: We seem to remember a certain Glamour magazine beauty editor who took to doing this with a Gucci bag. [WWD, 1st item]
Madonna swears that the Fox News reports aren't true and that she didn't screw Gucci over and trick them into hosting a fundraiser for the Kabbalah Centre of Los Angeles. [WWD, 1st item]
Giles Mendel's thoughts on Project Runway after serving as a guest judge on Wednesday night's episode: "OK...The authority of a TV show might not be good enough at the end to make a successful fashion house. That's a different ball game." Whoah — he didn't just question The Greatest Show on Earth, did he? [WWD, 5th item]

Donna Karan on her experiences as a fashion student at Parsons: "Failed typing, failed draping, you know. I had a little ADD problem. Sewing? Oh, forget it. I burnt my dress. They told me I would never make it as a fashion designer at all." Oh, kooky Auntie Donna! It all worked out now, didn't it! [Page Six]
Abercrombie & Fitch is launching a lingerie brand under a separate label, Gilly Hitch, and separate stand-alone stores. Given as A&F catalogs are supposed to be selling clothes and in reality, show models in their underwear, we can only assume that Gilly Hitch catalogs will feature models fucking each other naked. [WWD, sub req'd]
Is it wrong that we're pulling for the success of the Joan Rivers makeup line? [BellaSugar]
(Faux) rocker Bryan Adams is everywhere nowadays: He shot Tia Cibani's Ports 1961 presentation at the Chateau Marmont on Wednesday. [Fashion Week Daily]
Betsey Johnson is starting up a separate line of outerwear. Lots of tulle and a corset on a raincoat, please.
Narcisco Rodriguez's line is turning 10, and to celebrate ,the designer is doing a limited edition collection featuring 20 pieces celebrating the best of the line's history. [Chic Report]
Fashion designer Bella Freud will be showing her upcoming collection via a short film. We're sure that great grandpappy Sigmund would have made some joke about screen memory. [Fashion Week Daily]
Sign that Daria Werbowy is actually a good model: Even looks good in ad campaign for Pepe Jeans! [Vogue UK]
Phillip Lim: now designing kiddie clothes. Which, to our dismay, makes us like Phillip Lim a tiny bit less. [Fashion Week Daily]
The Missoni Spring 2008 ads: Scary. [Sassybella]
Katherine Hamnett's "Clean Up Or Die" bags: Sure to be the next "I'm Not A Plastic Bag" bags. Sadly. [Vogue UK]
Though it declared bankruptcy in 1999, Fruit of the Loom's insurance company had to cough up $42.5 million after the company got slammed with charges from the Environmental Protection Agency in regards to four of its factories. [UPI]
Fruit of the Loom may be bankrupt, but the luxury underwear market's never been bigger! [Telegraph]
St. Ives, they of the dorm-fave Apricot Scrub, has decided that maybe it needs to expand its brand and reach the oldies. Hence it's new line for "aging" women, named "Elements". Aging = women age 29 and up. Ouch. [WWD, sub req'd]
Armani: now doing a skincare line for men! We wonder if the brand will find a way to tie the face of David Beckham into this one, too. [WWD, sub req'd]
It saddens our hearts that there's already a waiting list for the Burberry Warrior Bag. Also, if you don't feel like shelling out $23,000 for it in it's croc skin glory, you can get a plain leather one for a mere $3,150. [WWD, 3rd item]

How Mark Jacobs Motivates At The Gym

Jennifer — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:45:20 EDT

Marc Jacobs trashes John Galliano to his trainer at the gym and he's not exactly subtle about it. Because there's really no better way to combat "superior talent" than "rock hard abs." And by "better" we might mean "gayer." [Sassybella]
A Canadian drug store executive we've never heard of is the new CEO of the Gap, which is really actually genius, because selling pharmaceuticals is the only reason we'd ever shop at the Gap again. [WSJ]
Peter Som becomes creative director of women's wear for Bill Blass today, though they're letting him continue to design his own eponymous label since pretty much everything Bill Blass has done since that Barbie dress has been a failure. [WWD, sub req'd]
The ego/empire of Zac Posen expands into the realm of scent, and because this is such a monumental event he decided to give us a year and a half's advance notice. [WWD, sub req'd]

Dolce & Gabbana are outfitting the Chinese soccer team in skinny suits and skinny ties. We're trying to get a better picture because this is actually kind of hot. [WWD, 1st item]
Nepotism: never goes out of style! Carolina Herrera confirms that her daughter, also conveniently named Carolina Herrera, will stay on as the official face of the brand. [WWD, 2nd item]
Kate Spade is leaving the line she founded to "focus on family", i.e. "count her money." [Vogue UK]
It's the war of the aging no-longer-really-so-"super"-models! Helena Christensen takes Elizabeth Hurley's place as the face of declining British brand Monsoon. [Vogue UK]
English designer (and great granddaughter of Sigmund) Bella Freud puts forth an entire collection of sweaters with cats on them. [Vogue UK]
We're pretty sure that the print ads for Marc Jacobs' new fragrance Daisy give us the uh-oh feeling. [Coutorture]