- Mischa Barton has been filming a guest spot as a hooker
on Law & Order: SVU, and a source says her one scene took 10 hours.
In New Documentary Film, The Fashion Models Shoot Back
Sara Ziff — an outspoken Sasha Pivovarova double — started modeling at 14, and deferred college to model full-time. After 12 years in the industry, she's co-directed a documentary about the working lives of models.
Runway's In, Britney's Glam, And Topshop, Topshop, Topshop!!!!
- The good news: Runway is safe. The bad news: yup, it's on Lifetime. [AdAge]
- Britney Spears cuts a revealing figure in her new Candie's ad. Candie's: the last refuge of a scoundrel. [NYDN]
Tom Ford To Bequeath His Devastatingly Attractive Genes To A Baby?
- Oh lord: Tom Ford is having a baby in 2008. It will be "biologically" his, not his partner Richard Buckley's. "I don't want to get to 75 years old and just have made a lot of dresses, done some houses." In the same interview: "I don't find a guy's cock or a woman's vagina offensive; in fact, I find them beautiful." So will…
Newly-Engaged Daniel Craig Sobs For His Suits
- "It's really a crime - it makes me weep every time." Daniel Craig, on having to get his Tom Ford suits dirty while filming James Bond movies. [Vogue UK]
- Blind item! "Which aging actress was the celebrity guest for a fashion function and made the moves on the company's powerful and handsome - but married - CEO? The company …
PETA: Now Targeting Donna Karan
- An incognito PETA operative posing as a style-maven turned up at Donna Karan's Manhattan home on Wednesday; the undercover "agent" was invited in, offered a beverage, and when Donna came home, shoved a portable DVD player with footage of animals being slaughtered alive for their pelts in the designer's face. Said Donna, …
Naomi Campbell Is Still Mad That Ethnic Models Aren't Working
- "Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington would go to big designers and say: 'If you don't want Naomi to be in your show, then I don't want to be in it'...Women of colour are not a trend...That's the bottom line." — Naomi Campbell, still fighting for the cause of models of color. [Vogue UK]
- Speaking of women of color:…
Dita Von Teese Wants To Give Our Breasts A Lift
- Dita von Teese is collaborating with Wonderbra on a lingerie collection to be called — so original! — Wonderbra by Dita von Teese. Um, what would Dita von Teese know about needing a Wonderbra? [Vogue UK]
- BBC reporter Jeremy Paxman, no stranger to calling attention to the pressing news stories of our time, is currently…
No Love Lost Between J. Lo And Label's Former Designer
- Jennifer Lopez is expected to file suit against former Sweetface design partner Andy Hilfiger, ostensibly because, uh, the line really sucks. Hilfiger, meanwhile, is expected to countersue because Lopez' hubby Marc Anthony is a psychotic asshole. [NY Daily News]
- In a strange twist of fate, PETA's new phone number was…
Egomaniac Movie Mogul & Marchesa Designer Say "I Do"
- Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein and Marchesa co-designer Georgina Chapman got hitched on Saturday night at Weinstein's home in Westport, CT. The bride wore Marchesa, the groom Tom Ford, the Gypsy Kings gave a private concert and even Vogue's Anna Wintour attended. Also there: Model Natalia Vodianova, celebrity stylist…
