But Aren't Makeup Ads About Making Women Feel Bad So They Buy Dumb Products?

• Freida Pinto and Evangeline Lilly are new faces of L'Oreal. To mark the occasion, Lilly said she's proud "to represent a brand whose ambition is to...contribute to the fulfilment [sic] and well-being of everyone." [PRNewswire]

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WWD Really Wants To Know Michelle Obama's Dress Size

• Michelle Obama wore French-born Brooklyn-based designer Sophie Theallet to unveil a bust of Sojourner Truth at Emancipation Hall yesterday. Naturally, journalistically, WWD asked the designer to specify the First Lady's measurements. Theallet declined. [WWD]

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David Beckham: Designer; Madonna Has Marc Save Her Man

• It had to happen eventually. David Beckham has dipped a toe in the choppy waters of retail, becoming a Celebrity Designer. You can buy his clothes for Adidas Originals starting this fall. [WWD]

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Christian Louboutin Creates Sky High, Obscene, Snake Stilettos

• This shoe is made by Christian Louboutin, out of python skin, leather, cobbler's glue, and, we assume, diamond-plated unicorn farts. Because what else could justify a $2,875 price tag? Happy recession! [The.Life.Files]

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Le Freak, C'est Chic! At Nylon's 10th Anniversary

You'd expect Nylon's 10th anniversary (at NYC's Thompson LES) to bring the chic, bring the big names, and bring the bizarre - and it delivered on all counts. More »

Naomi Rocks Saris In Mumbai; First American Woman In Space Shilling For Louis Vuitton

• Naomi Campbell stalked the runway like a thoroughbred in Mumbai for a charity show. Last time Campbell blended fashion and philanthropy, the supermodel raised over $1 million for Hurricane Katrina survivors. [Daily Mail]

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The Tragedy That Was The Project Runway Show

The general consensus about Project Runway's half-assed Fashion Week show? Sad. Very, very sad. More »

Tilda Swinton Dresses To Impress; Let Us Now Praise Great London Fashion

• Tilda Swinton, one of the few celebrities who can actually pull off avant-gard fashion, looks predictably stunning on the cover of Another Magazine. [Stylefrizz]

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Agyness Deyn Keen To Kick Habit; Zooey Deschanel To Design Glasses

• Agyness Deyn might try hypnotism to quit smoking. She "obviously" wants to stop so she can "settle down and have babies," says a friend of her boyfriend's. Obviously that's any woman's only consideration. [Daily Mail]

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Kate Moss Is Either Knocked Up Or Full Of Beer

Kate Moss is three months pregnant, says a paper with a questionable reputation. But! More »

Dita Von Teese Will Wear As Much Couture As She Wants

• Dita Von Teese wears two Elie Saab couture creations in her limited-run Paris show. Is it strange that the only people who can afford couture these days are burlesque artists and Saudi princesses? [IHT]

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New Beckham/Armani Briefs Advertisement Debuts

• Before we tackle today's inevitable layoffs, liquidations and bankruptcies, look at David Beckham. Look at semi-naked David Beckham. In his very important new Emporio Armani ad. Why, good morning to you, Dave. [People]

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Bijou Phillips Disses Michelle Obama Election Night Dress

• Bijou Phillips on Michelle's Narciso "hell dress": "It made her look fat...It didn’t fit her properly... If you print that you need to print that I would have voted for her." [BlackBook]

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Sole Man

Great news: Project Runway winner Christian Siriano will design shoes and handbags for Payless. "I'm all about the runway and the sidewalks!" Siriano says. "I've already been working with the Payless Design Team in New York, and I can’t wait to see how they will take the high-end shoes and bags I’m designing for the runway and turn them into pieces that everyone can buy." The collection will be unveiled during Fashion Week in February, and hit stores in fall 2009, priced from $25-$45. Caviar style on a fishstick budget! [Sassybella]

Katie Holmes As The New Face Of Miu Miu?

• Katie Holmes is the new face of Miu Miu. Srsly? [New York Magazine]
• Marc Jacobs' company has been accused of bribing a state official so the designer "could get a desirable venue for his fashion show." They're paying $1 million in fines. [TMZ]
• In happier news, Marc is open to marriage! Even if California isn't. “I refuse to let anyone tell me who I can and cannot marry, and who I can and cannot love. That’s just bullshit...Wherever we’d have to go. If he’s up for it, I’m up for it.” [New York Magazine]
• Are women overreacting about American Apparel's latest ads? Reverse Cowgirl's Susannah Breslin thinks so. Personally, I just hate leggings as pants! Seriously, we're talking blouses tucked into leggings, kids. [Reverse Cowgirl]
• Jessica Biel is not, we repeat, not, designing handbags for William Rast. [Fashionista via People]

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Britney Says Her New Life Is Worse Than Jail

• Britney Spears's comeback includes a stop at NBC’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on December 3. Will she perform? Will she push the button and light the tree? Will she ice skate? So many questions. [MSNBC]
• Wait a minute: In this report, Britney says her new life sucks! "There’s no excitement, there’s no passion. I have really good days, and then I have bad days. Even when you go to jail you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day. […] I think it’s too in control. If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening." B-but- you're doing so well! [The Sun]
• Brit's new CD leaked all over the internet yesterday, probably deliberately. Fans dig it. [The Sun]
• Barack Obama's barber in Chicago says the President-Elect doesn't mind having gray hair. "It's not like he has a head full of gray hair," says Zariff, who only goes by one name. "It's just a few gray hairs, so it's nothing to get excited about." Oh! And Zariff might visit DC! "I said, 'I'm going with you' [if you win]," Zariff told Obama. His reply? "Absolutely. I'm not changing barbers, man." [Us]
• Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer had a romantic candlelight dinner. It's so on. [People]

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Loose Lips

That was quick: The Keanu Reeves trial is over; Keanu doesn't have to give the paparazzi who sued him a single dime. Most excellent! • Project Runway winner Christian Siriano might dress the Pussycat Dolls? Hot. Tranny. Mess. • Here's a sneak peek at Oprah talking about her fave things with Liz Lemon from Thursday's episode of 30 Rock. If Tina Fey gets any more awesome, there could be a tear in the space-time continuum. [AP, New York Mag, E!]

Christian Siriano: Cruella De Fierce

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Sarah Palin Returned All Those Clothes, Silly!

• McCain campaign claims that it didn't keep a lot of those Fashiongate duds: "about a third of it was returned immediately" when they didn't fit. Yes, that'd be $50,000 worth. [AP]
• Roseanne offers a McCain-Palin Hitler smiley-face tee on her website. Genocide sensitivity: ur doin it rong. [Oh No They Didn't]
• Tom Ford makes over 007: “It was time for a change and, whereas Brioni is very polished, this new Bond is edgier and darker...Tom Ford’s tailored suits work better for him.” [FT]
• Sarah Jessica Parker's hard at work on her new fragrances, Lovely Moments. "The collection will include three fragrances based on different expressions of time — Dawn, Endless and Twilight." What? [WWD]

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Christian Siriano's Maternity Clothes? 'Nuff Said.

• Ooh! Sneak peek at Christian Siriano's bizarre "Moody Mamas" maternity line! [New York Magazine]
• Russia's fashion elite feel the financial burn; neglect shopping. "Usually abuzz with Moscow's rich, the shop was populated only by the mounds of black caviar and giant lobsters left untouched in fridges." [Reuters]
• Jesse McCartney (he's part of the Disney stable for those over the age of 16) is launching a scent. [WWD]
• I'm sure you can figure it out, but here's a how-to on Palin Halloween costumes! [Sassybella]

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Christian Siriano Aims To Make Expectant Moms Fierce In Fashion

• In weird/amazing news: Christian Siriano is doing a maternity line. "Siriano teamed up with his two friends Marta Abrams and Elise Rosemarin, founders of Moody Mamas maternity clothes, to create a collection called Fierce for Moody Mamas by Christian Siriano." Apparently he liked the idea of a gay man doing maternity - and a 22-year-old, less! [NY Mag]
• Isn't it nice when celebrity lines actually make sense, like Dita Von Teese for Wonderbra? [The Life Files]
• What will Stella say? Gwyneth Paltrow wears fur, creates ruckus. "The actress, who along with her husband, Chris Martin, supports a raft of ethical causes, is pictured draped in fox fur and wearing fur-lined boots for the Italian luxury goods company Tod’s." And this after PETA wrote her "many times" and "sent her videos showing how animals suffer for fur." [First Post]

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Eau De McDreamy: Patrick Dempsey Unveils "Unscripted"

• Okay, it's slightly less random than it seems: Dempsey's wife, Jillian, has been Avon’s global creative color director since July 2006. Not that this really excuses it. Or why WWD refers to "Unscripted", ominously, as the actor's "first scent." And about that name: does he really want to take credit for ad-libbing the Grey's dialogue? [WWD]
• Meanwhile, in other fragrance news, Josh Hartnett is fronting "Emporio Armani: Diamonds for Men," [ET]
• ...while Eva Mendes is the, um, face of both Calvin Klein's new Secret Obsession perfume and its "Seductive Comfort" underwear line. Quoth the loyal pitchwoman, ""I wear [Calvin Klein] G-strings all of the time on the red carpet and when shooting for a film because you don't see the [panty] lines." [WWD]
• Christian Siriano: "I am honored to be a part of this amazing group of talent!” Siriano said. “It is a dream to work with legends such as [director] Charles Shyer, Uma Thurman and [costume designer] Milena Canonero on a wonderful story filled with creative inspirations." The project? Eloise in Paris. [E!]

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Lauren Conrad's Fashion Star Is Fading

• Poor L.C. Influential L.A. boutique Kitson (the same one rumored to be cooling on Posh, but wasn't) is actually dropping Lauren Conrad's line due to "lackluster sales." [NY Mag]
• Candie's knows how to net the classy demographic: along with current pitch girl Hayden Panettiere, the company is taking over Perezhilton.com today to launch its new ad campaign. Hayden, who's releasing an album, will be singing in the ads. Quoth she: "I'm someone that has a lot of different personalities, so what I wear depends on the mood I'm in. I think the clothes worked well for the video. They gave me a lot of options to pick from." [WWD]
• Better late than never? British retailer Blues Clothing launches the "Marilyn Monroe collection," a "trendy, fashionable, and girly" line for young adults. Cause those are the first things that come to mind when you think of Norma Jean. [BlackBook]

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Last night on Ugly Betty, former Elle fashion director Nina Garcia and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano visited the offices of Mode magazine so that Christian could preview his wares for its editorial team. Interestingly, the episode featured four utterances of Christian Siriano's full name (considering the show is only about 40 minutes without commercials, that averages to once every ten minutes), two uses of the word "fierce," one of "ferosh," and one of "hot tranny mess" — directed at Rebecca Romijn's character, who, of course, is an actual transsexual.

Pookie: The Magical Force That Bonded Tory Burch To The Misshapes

• Who is Tory Burch's elusive 23-year old stepdaughter Pookie? On Mondays, Pookie interns for Bruce Weber, and the rest of the week she works as the assistant to the president of Carolina Herrera, and she was (allegedly) responsible for the magical pairing of New York's leading faux-WASP ice princess with Princess Coldstare, but alas, we have scoured the Google and cannot find a picture of her. So this will have to do. [Fashion Week Daily]

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Anna Wintour: 1; Rachel Zoe: 0

• OMG: Rachel Zoe has been disinvited from the Anna Wintour-hosted Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, taking place Monday night in New York. This is what you get when you tempt the gods and proclaim yourself more important than Vogue. [Fashion Week Daily]

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Nina Garcia Glares At Mention Of Affair On Ugly Betty

This week on Ugly Betty, the staffers at the fictitious Mode magazine get a little visit from Nina Garcia and this season's Project Runway winner, Christian Siriano. The whole thing is, of course, a little awkward since 1) Nina has since been fired from Elle, 2) Christian Siriano seems to be mocking his own garments and 3) Nina looks shocked and downright offended when Gabrielle Union's character, currently dating Mode editor-in-chief Daniel Meade, appears during the middle of the run-through and accuses Daniel of cheating on her with a bunch of whores (aka - models). Um, has Nina really never heard of a fashion magazine editor having an affair before? Clip of the leaked scene, above.

Nina Garcia Thinks Your Birth Control Is Aesthetically Unpleasing

• It's official: Nina Garcia is officially a has-been. The recently-fired Elle fashion director is now partnering with Bayer and Yaz to judge a contest in which people submit designs for a new little case to hold birth control pills. I don't know about you, but I like the purple faux-suede "wallet" that my Yasmin comes in just the way it is. [Fashionista]

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Donatella Versace Expresses Love For Fellow Blondes

• Donatella Versace loves Hillary Clinton but thinks she should dress more like Donatella Versace if she wants to nab the presidency. [Vogue UK]

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Loose Lips

Did Oprah buy her bff Gayle King a tony Manhattan penthouse? TMZ thinks so! But that doesn't make them lesbians. If we were as rich as big O, we'd buy our best friends yachts and shit, too. • Christian Siriano is going to be on an upcoming episode of Ugly Betty. It will certainly be a fierce, tranny, hot mess, &c. • Remy Ma was found guilty today on charges of of first-degree assault, attempted coercion, possession of a deadly weapon, and felony assault. She shot her friend Makeda Barnes-Joseph last July, and apparently Remy's lawyer tried to make the shooting look like an accident. Whoopsie! Remy faces up to 25 years in prison. [TMZ, Us, Dlisted]

Luke Wilson Golf Wear: What The World Needs Now

• Luke Wilson is "designing" a line of golf products and accessories for Puma. Ah, the insatiable American hunger for the consumption of stuff and celebrity! Or the perception of the insatiability, or whatever. [WWD, sub req'd]

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The Fashions At Flawless Were Anything But

Last night in New York, Demi Moore, left, hosted a special screening of her latest movie, Flawless, in which she co-stars with Michael Caine as an executive so disgruntled over glass ceilings that she agrees to screw over her employer and steal some diamonds. And although the plot of the film seems somewhat flimsy, Moore turned up to the screening looking well, flawless, if you ask me. Too bad the others in attendance — Vogue's Andre Leon Talley, Harper's Bazaar's Glenda Bailey, Project Runway's Christian Siriano, Donna Karan and Debbie Harry — didn't follow suit! The full Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Flawless screening, after the jump. More »

Christian Siriano Leads A Fashionable, Fame-Whorish Life

• Christian Siriano for president! I mean, hell, if Sienna Miller, Eve, Brett Ratner, Becki Newton, and Brittany Murphy all like him, surely the's a uniter, not a divider. [Page Six]

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Holy Itshay, What Is That Big Black Man Doing On The Cover Of Vogue?!

• Gisele appears on the cover of the April Vogue with...Lebron James. This is may seem like an historic event on par with, say, a black president, but that would belie how far we've come as a nation, revealed by the dead-first comment reacting to the news on our brother blog Deadspin: "That cover would have been much more fantastic if he had been dressed a la Andre french vogue. Oh Anna, Anna, Anna." Our take: Lebron probably exercises more influence over footwear and apparel sales than Anna Wintour and Gisele and Karl Lagerfeld combined. If Vogue really wanted to think outside the (heh) box, they'd make over Lebron's mom. [Deadspin]

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Christian Siriano: Works Hard, Is Gonna Stab You

Dear Christian Siriano: We're sorry (okay, I'm sorry) for making disparaging comments about your ego and your hairstyle during the beginning of the most recent Project Runway. We (okay, I) now understand the error of our ways. Because truth be told, you seem like a totally nice guy; the kinda guy we would probably be friends with. And if the interview you gave with The Advocate, is any indication, you are one earnest, humble, hard-working, fierce tranny mess.

I was actually pretty surprised I won. I wanted it so badly, but I needed it more than I wanted it. I'm just getting started....I'm not looking to make hundreds of thousands of dollars. I want to brand myself as well, but I want my clothes to be high fashion, avant-garde. It's easier to take inspiration from something that's creative than to build on something that's not. I don't want to do QVC.

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Madonna Gave It To Justin Timberlake In The Ass

• While Justin Timberlake was working with Madonna on her album, Madge offered JT a B-12 shot. "She proceeds to pull a Ziploc bag of B-12 syringes out [of her purse] and says, 'Drop 'em.' I don't know what you say to that, so I immediately dropped my pants," Justin says. "She gave me a shot in my ass and looks at me and says, 'Nice top shelf.' That was one of the greatest days of my life." [People]

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Amy Poehler Portrays Designer Diva On Saturday Night Live

Good on SNL for keeping it relevant this season: There was Tina Fey spreading the word that bitches do it better, Ellen Page's possible admission of lezebel leanings, Hillary Clinton's cameo, and, this past Saturday, a skit imagining what would happen if Project Runway winner Christian Siriano was given his very own reality show. As you can imagine, it incorporated a lot of fierce, and fair amount of funny. Clip above.

This Week Made Us Unbeweavably Tard

• Racist Barbie-fondler Allison was kicked off America's Next Top Model. We were not sad to see her go.

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