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Paris, Jan 22: Kalenna, Dawn Richards, Karl Lagerfeld and P Diddy form a curious quartet at the Dior Homme fashion show as part of Paris Menswear Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011-2012. (Image via Getty)
Lily Allen Quits Music For Fashion; Obama Breaks With Presidential Dress Code
- Lily Allen told a British radio show that she is quitting performing for two years to open a boutique called Lucy In Disguise. She's also going to found a record label. [Elle UK]
Dressing Like Chloe Sevigny Is Harder Than It Looks
- Chloe Sevigny says doing oversized unisex menswear for Opening Ceremony was easy. "Except for the trousers — getting the fit right was really difficult." She thinks we'll buy that she draped the pants herself? [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,…
DVF Plays Superhero, Serves Cosmos
- DVF's comic book, Be the Wonder Woman You Can Be, is here! The party sounds kinda crap, tho. "The green tome was stacked about the space, as were special DVF Wonder Woman tees and totes. Per the theme, bright red Wonder Woman cosmos completed the standard drink offerings of champagne, white wine and sparkling water.…
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…
Giorgio Armani Insults Anna Wintour To Her Face
- Georgio Armani is co-chairing a dinner to celebrate a Vogue-sponsored Costume Institute exhibit called "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Which is why he gave a press conference during which he professed to be "indifferent" to Anna Wintour while standing next to her. We assume he'll be too dead to make it to dinner.…
Venus Williams Thinks Fashion Design Is Actually About Design
- Venus Williams was awarded with an associate's degree in fashion design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale over the weekend, becoming the first celebrity "designer" to ever get a degree in fashion design. She even got a prize for the "Best Sportswear Collection" and a 3.5 GPA. Also, she has a collection for…
According To Designer Issey Miyake, Fashion Sucks. Hard.
- Designer Issey Miyake's show taking place today in Paris is inspired by vacuum cleaners. Guaranteed not to blow you away? [WWD, 5th item]
- TopShop is opening its first U.S. store, supposedly in time for the holiday season. [Fashionista]
- Giorgio Armani paid himself $346.5 million this year. We hope he enjoys it before…
Get Set For The Todd Oldham Navy!
- Todd Oldham has been named creative director at Old Navy. Says ON prez Dawn Robertson:"Todd was an interesting choice because he is so relevant. He is really modern." Which is interesting, you see, because the Gap usually goes the extra mile to be irrelevant. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Cell phones are the new handbags, so if…
A Kennedy Clothing Line At Last!
- Alina Shriver, who is part of the whole Shriver-Kennedy clan, is getting in on the whole rich socialite starting a fashion label thing. We hope it evades the Kennedy "curse"! [NYPost]
- He speaks! Notoriously hermetic, recently-ousted Dior Homme designer Hedi Slimane will be interviewed in French newspaper Le Monde this…
Rachel Zoe Shocks Universe, Proclaims Self More Important Than Anna Wintour
- Rachel Zoe: prepare to die. The celebrity stylist has announced herself mightier than Anna Wintour! Uh, didn't Zoe ever study Greek mythology in school? Don't taunt the gods. [WWD, 1st item]
- Former Dior Homme designer Hedi Slimane is BFFs with French president Nicolas Sarkozy?! (Might they be interested in a…
Style Ditto: Shove Over Lily Allen, Look Who's Coming To 'New Look'!
- "If I could just do one thing for 24 hours it would be [have sex] . . . or sew. Or have sex while sewing. Or sew an outfit to have sex in." So says singer Beth Ditto, which is why the plus-sized Ditto is now collaborating with New Look to become the most unlikely (and kinda awesome!) celebrity clothing endorser yet. [
