Jezebel: berlin fashion week

Jill Stuart Jettisons Lindsay Lohan For Hilary Swank

Jennifer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:30:00 EST

Lindsay Lohan has been dropped as the face of Jill Stuart, because she's, well, Lindsay Lohan. Her replacement: Hilary Swank. [Porfolio - Mixed Media]
Tomorrow's the last night of this season's Project Runway: What are fans supposed to do with ourselves now? Oh yes, stalk the casting sessions for Season 5, which begin this month. [Sassybella]
Not content with shilling overpriced denim, Victoria Beckham is now doing a line of dresses which will be done under a separate label than her DVB denim line. The dress line's name? POSH Frocks, naturally. [Sassybella]
Pete Wentz is opening his own salon in Chicago. To which I say: NO. [BellaSugar]
Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony looks, well, like the crazy prepster-indie-skater-prairie girl shit you normally see on... Chloe Sevigny. [FabSugar]

I would probably me more inclined to buy expensive shit if the ads showed a woman masturbating. [FabSugar]
Ugh. Jean-Paul Gaultier isn't alone: Fur is more popular now than ever before. [Reuters]
Hayden Panettiere's ads for Dooney & Burke are out: Does anyone think this girl looks increasingly like an anonymous blonde and less like, well, herself? [Sassybella]
They say no splinters, but I'm still skeptical of lingerie made from pine trees. [Daily Mail]
Poor organization made for a less-than-perfect Berlin Fashion Week. [WWD, sub req'd]
Diane von Furstenberg: Helping people every day! Or at least asking business leaders to "inspire" women in developing countries. [WWD, sub req'd]
John Galliano's models lurve him big time. [Fashion Week Daily]

Jennifer — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:30:00 EST

So that's what Naomi Campbell was doing in Venezuela: interviewing Hugo Chavez for British GQ. Now they're sending her to talk to Fidel Castro. Is this a fucking joke? And if not, does she realize the whole Latin American socialist alliance thing is like, kinda last season? [Vogue UK]
Selling real fur as "faux": clever move, Neiman and Saks! [Consumerist]
On the heels of an ELLE redesign, Vogue is undergoing some design "tweaking" of its own. [WWD, 1st item]
Agyness Deyn is the face of — well, the whole entire fucking universe, including the Armani cell phone. [Sassybella]

Marketing ploy we just can't avoid: Blackberry has asked Karl Lagerfeld, Dita von Teese, Henry Holland and others to share their favorite secret spots for the masses on their new website The B List. Karl: likes eating tacos at La Esquina in NYC. Where they put crickets in the tacos! [Vogue UK]
Signing bottles of Armani perfume in Milan, Beyonce shared how excited she was to go to her "mum's" for Christmas. Oh god. [WWD, sub req'd]
Whoah: Over-the-knee Uggs. [FabSugar]
Coach: still doing meh. [Portfolio]
Lanvin Spring 2008 ads: you know, they said the giant tent-dress trend was over, but not really getting that vibe with this one... [Sassybella]
Valentino Spring 2008 ads: who needs plastic surgery when you've got a giant handbag to shield your face? [Sassybella]

Jennifer — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:13:29 EDT

Eva Longoria had accessories designer Rafe Totengco make custom clutches for each of her bridesmaids for her Friday nuptials to Tony Parker, and then had the girls carry their gifts down the aisle. Uh, isn't it kinda awkward to have bridesmaids carry clutches down the aisle? And how could the bridesmaids adequately straighten Longoria's train and tend to her every idiotic need besaddled with a clutch? Um okay we're stopping now. [WWD, 1st item]
L'Oreal Paris makes our favorite mascara. They are also apparently racist. Sigh. [WWD, 2nd item]
The Vera Wang for Kohl's drama continues to mount as Macy's drops Wang's two lingerie lines after an annoucement that Wang will be designing a third Kohl's-exclusive line. [WWD, sub req'd]

American Eagle Outfitters and J. Crew are predicted to be the biggest sellers among teens for the upcoming back-to-school season, which means teenagers are as boring and uncreative as we remember them being. [WWD, sub req'd]
Topshop attempts to make up for not selling Kate Moss's line online by selling vintage designer finds on its website. [WWD, final item]
Berlin's first-ever Fashion Week begins Thursday. Meaning: Wednesday should be a good day in at the colonic clinic! [WWD, sub req'd]
Is Prada going English? Possibly, if rumors of a sale to an English tycoon are true. Also allegedly vying for ownership are the two private equity firms that just jousted for control of Valentino, winner Permira and loser Carlyle. What does it all mean?? Um, a lot of money will be made by all. [Yahoo]
Ferragamo is resurrecting not only iconic images from the film La Dolce Vita for its fall advertising campaign, but also the careers of former supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Stephanie Seymour. [Vogue UK]
Dita von Teese's beauty philosophy summarized: Why be a natural beauty when using lots and lots of makeup is so creative? Spoken like a true mall goth. [Vogue UK]