Roberto Cavalli Wants To Spice Up Our Lives

Jennifer — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EDT

It's official, confirms Victoria Beckham: Roberto Cavalli (not Donatella Versace and not David Beckham, as had been rumored) is designing all the costumes for the upcoming Spice Girl reunion tour. Trashulous! [WWD, final item]
Kanye West and artist Takashi Murakami are collaborating on a jewelry line together. [WWD, 3rd item]
John Galliano is designing a line of children's clothing for Diesel. Ugh. [Vogue UK]
Sienna Miller are her boyfriend are sharing clothes. How, um, progressive? [FabSugar]

Holy shit, if you live in Paris and you're reading this please please watch Paris Premiere channel for us on your TV from Saturday through Oct. 12: Karl Lagerfeld is going to be "guest editing" the entire channel and thus filling the programming with whatever he fancies. [WWD, 2nd item]
Stella McCartney, ever the do-gooder, is donating the wall of flowers used as the backdrop to her Paris show yesterday to some low-income housing community. We gag. [Fashion Week Daily]
Kristin McMenamy, to whom you'll surely remember Tyra comparing Asperger's Heather to in the casting special episode of America's Next Top Model, returned to the runway for the first time in nine years for the Givenchy show yesterday. Sign from the gods that Heather will win this cycle? We think yes! [WWD, 3rd item]
Remember how we mentioned the opening of the eco-friendly nightclub the other day? Says face of the project model Jessica Stam: "I'm not sure an eco-friendly nightclub is gonna fly, but it's raising awareness. Every little bit helps." Ohhhh it's a bad sign when you don't even believe in your own model hangout. [WWD, 5th item]
The new $18,000 handbag: the $18,000 Lancome makeup kit. [WWD, 8th item]

Rag Trade: Best Wishes, Courtney & Jenna!

Anna — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:20:37 EDT

Our frozen-faced, nipped and tucked friends deserve our sympathy and support! Lift Me Up Cards has created a greeting-card line of congratulatory, plastic-surgery themed cards with subjects like "liposuction" "Botox" and "breast augmentation". [WWD]
Architect Rem Koolhaas is designing "colorful and playful" $160 T-shirts for Prada. One depicts "an Eskimo and polar bears on sand dunes". Sounds a lot more "global-warming" than "colorful and playful", but that's just us. [WWD]
A Goldman Sachs survey finds that there's a growing demand for luxury watches from brands like Cartier and Rolex. Wonder if this has anything to do with that $16.5 billion bonus pool enjoyed by Goldman bankers last year! [WWD]
Makeup artist Gucci Westman and Rag & Bone designer David Neville had a baby boy on Tuesday. [FashionWeekDaily]
An ad agency is publishing a portrait-book of celebs who have appeared in campaigns for The Gap. Somehow we doubt this will boost the retailer's flagging fortunes, but... yeah. [AdAge]

A sneak peek at Kylie Minogue's H&M Loves Kylie collection. [Sassybella]
Old Navy to discontinue offering plus-size versions of its apparel? [BudgetFashionista]
Polo Ralph Lauren wants to expand in the Japanese luxury-goods market, give Japanese that oh-so-lovely WASP aesthetic! [WSJ, subscription req'd]