Lohan's A "Living Doll" Says Ungaro CEO; Siriano Gets His Own Reality Show

- Ungaro's CEO says Lindsay Lohan was appointed creative director because, "Celebrities today attract lots of attention and having a moving, dancing, swinging, living doll is, we hope, going to bring down the age group at Ungaro while keeping the DNA."
Tim Gunn Horrified By Unfashionable Footwear
Tim Gunn has voiced his distaste for the plastic-y clogs known as Crocs before, but last night he let Conan O'Brien know how he really feels. Put your hooves away, people!
Roisin Murphy Calls Lady Gaga "A Poor Imitation Of Me"; Katie Holmes Is Launching A Fashion Line
- We never thought of Lady Gaga's style as something one should actually seek to take credit for, but Roisin Murphy apparently feels differently. [Refinery29]
Coming Soon: Team Sparklevamp Capitalism!
- Twilight clothing is happening — it's only surprising it took so long. The duds go on sale at Nordstrom in October. Selina Khan, on the right, looks like she just doesn't care about Edward or Jacob, bless her heart. [People]
Stella Loves Critters; Diane Von Furstenberg Is A Swinger
- Stella McCartney's fall ad campaign makes a Bambijoke out of all that nature imagery that suddenly became hip over the past few years. For everyone who's ever considered an ironic taxidermy at a bar and concluded, "Why?" [WWD]
Charlotte To Star In New Perfume Ad; Rihanna Nabs Italian Vogue?
- Nicolas Ghesquière picked the intolerably cool Charlotte Gainsbourg to advertise Balenciaga's perfume. Ghesquière calls his friend "one of the most inspiring girls in the world." Gainsbourg said, "I was secretly hoping to be the face of Nicolas' first perfume." [WWD]
Estée Lauder Face Kept Beautiful With Eucerin; Two Supermodels Reportedly Sperminated
- Hilary Rhoda: Estée Lauder spokesmodel with a thing for drugstore makeup. A woman after our own hearts. [Daily Beast]
- In other news from model-land, Adriana Lima might be pregnant. [NYDN]
- Also said to be expecting: Gisele Bundchen. [NYDN]
- And sources say Kate Moss could be birthing a "novel." [Sun]
Anna Wintour Is At War With Azzedine Alaïa, Kiefer Sutherland
- Says totally important designer Alaïa, whose designs Nuclear Wintour snubbed in the Met exhibit, "she behaves like a dictator and everyone is terrified of her...but I'm not scared of her or anyone." BURN! [WWD]
Jay-Z-Owned Fragrance Company To Sell Scent Of A Mystery Female Artist
- The future will smell like Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West. (And, if I'm understanding "established female artist" correctly, Beyoncé.) [WWD]
- Kim Gordon hates it when you call some fashion thing "fierce." [The Cut]
Marc Jacobs To Marry; Louis Vuitton Levels Its Sight On Google
- Fresh off his CFDA award women's wear nomination, Marc Jacobs is reportedly engaged to his Brazilian boyfriend of one year, Lorenzo Martone. Mazel tov to the happy couple! [WWD]
Belly Shirts For American Dudes; dVb By Victoria Beckham Dropped
- Yes, it's fashion week, yes, there are better things to talk about, and yes, we'll get to them after the jump, but first: Toby Keith's clothing line debuted. It's worse than we thought. [TMZ]
Michelle At Fashion Week; More Katie For Miu Miu
- There's the usual gloom, sex, scandal and, ahem, 50 Cent's makeup line - today, but first, brace yourselves: Michelle Obama has not RSVP'd to Fashion Week. This woman's priorities are way out of whack! [WWD]
P. Diddy Is No Barack Obama
- Diddy likens himself to Obama. Speaking of his new fragrance, "I Am King," he declares, "When you see Barack Obama, you see a strong, elegant black man and when people see my ad, it's almost like that's the trend." [WSJ]
- "Mr. Obama sometimes wears jeans, as he did for a rally on Oct. 28, but his jeans are the loose,…
Ewan McGregor Represents "The World's Great Wildness" Cologne
- Is no one safe from the lure of Designer Fragrance? Ewan McGregor is the face of Davidoff "Adventure." The cologne "explores uncharted fragrance territory. Its fresh spicy woody composition is daring and elemental, inspired by the world's great wildernesses and raw, masculine emotion." [BlackBook]
- Avril Lavigne's…
Living Barbie Paris Hilton Premieres Line For Dollhouse
- Paris Hilton, aka the rich man's Heidi Montag, premieres her line for Dollhouse. "Some pieces, like the tees with her face plastered on them, are quintessentially Paris, and others are a bit more rock 'n roll like her sister Nicky." Huh? [FabSugar]
- Meanwhile, in the world of the equally inexplicable, Jessica Simpson…
John McCain: The Story Of Crocs Is The Story Of The American Economy
I like to give John McCain the benefit of the doubt when it's clear he's making a joke. (Like about how he stopped beating his wife.) So I want to defend this clip where he holds up the company Crocs as some paragon of American business innovation. I mean, on one hand, hahahaha: a company that owes its entire business…
Michael Jackson Is Doing A Fashion Line? Insert Glove Joke Here
- Wacko Jacko is teaming up with Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier to launch a new line this fall. The apparently delusional Frenchman says, "It's the merging of the King of Pop with the king of fashion. Something explosive is going to happen." Kitson, for some reason, has committed to carrying the line exclusively.…
Steven Tyler Has A Whole Croc Of Stylish Shit
[New York, June 23. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
