Rag Trade
- Kate Moss gives rare interview, reveals herself to be infantile. "I am still acting like a 17-year-old," she says defiantly. "I definitely haven't become middle-aged."' [The Mirror]
- Other revelations? "I like making money." [The Sun]
- Okay, that was edited a little unfairly. "But I don't call people up every day to see how much I've made. As long as I have what I need at the time. I am not completely money-orientated." [Telegraph]
- She's also launching a makeup line! [Fashionista]
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Rag Trade
- 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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Rag Trade
- Kaiser Karl himself is set to help create and conceive of 80 homes on Dubai's new Isla Moda (yes, "Fashion Island"). Says the designer: "The metamorphosis of art and beauty is my passion. The discovery of contemporary mediums of expression has allowed me to pursue my interest in art, beauty, architecture and progressive cultural exchange. Dubai is a fashion bud on the verge of blossoming into the next fashion hub of the world. The city is alive with culture and rich in personality, making it a perfect place for aesthetic, fashion and design to flourish. Isla Moda has tremendous potential to be the style icon of the future and I intend on driving the island to high style stardom." [Refinery29]
- Perennially self-satisfied designer, phrase-maker and Cuomo in-law is disturbed by America's #1 slot in a recent international drug-use ranking, proclaiming it "A Number One We Don't Want To Be." [Awearness Blog]
- This blogger from New Mexico was just robbed. By chance, he happens to have been stalking Tom Ford. [Fashionista]
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dirt bag
- Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham was on a plane with kids Romeo and Cruz when a bird flew into one the of the aircraft's engines right before take-off. According to The Sun, "Passengers screamed as the pilot slammed on the brakes and the plane screeched to a halt. It was then that the horrifying scale of the disaster really hit home for Victoria — she realised she was wearing standard-issue aircraft pyjamas and no make-up." [The Sun]
- Amy Winehouse hit her own damn bodyguard. Get a grip, girl! [The Sun]
- And here's a man who says Amy Winehouse punched him in the face three times at a pub. Is this new news? It's so hard to tell. [The Sun]
- Jamie Lynn Spears and new baby! Picture! [ONTD, via OK!]
- Is Mary-Kate Olsen heading back to rehab? Midweek Madness will have more on this later. [Star]
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dirt bag
- Drew Barrymore and Justin Long: Dunzo. Sigh. They seemed so ridiculously happy, didn't they? They've been together since August 2007, though they knew each other for seven years before getting serious. Drew's been through so much… Sniff. [Us Magazine]
- Kate Moss and Jamie Hince: Also splitsville! Sob. Now Cher is stuck in my head. [People]
- Matthew McConaughey is a dad! Camilla Alves gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. Matt and Camilla are both "stoked." [Us Magazine]
- Lily Allen is back with Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers. This is according to diligent reporting by checking their Facebook profiles. [The Sun]
- Oh! And Samantha Ronson bought Lindsay Lohan a $21,000 Cartier ring. It's not an engagement ring, it's a token of her commitment. But yeah. Ah, love. [Mirror]
- James Haven and Maddox Jolie-Pitt visited Angelina Jolie in the hospital over the weekend. Still no twins! [People]
- Amy Winehouse is addicted. To tanning beds. [The Sun]
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Rag Trade
- Rapper Nas is partnering with Fila. The company will pay for his tour and album, he'll wear their stuff and create a "late-80's"-inspired line. [Adage]
- You will be relieved and delighted to hear that celebrity? socialite? sex-taper? Aha! television personality Kim Kardashian is launching a perfume. "It all started when my mom introduced me to famous perfumer Caroline Sabas from Gras, France. She and I have been working together to create a scent that is uniquely me that I can share with everyone!" [Official Kim Kardashian]
- Renaissance woman, polymath and Strokes-dater Agyness Deyn can add "DJ" to her ever-lengthening resume (which one can only assume is printed on hot-pink paper and doesn't actually exist). [New York Magazine]
- Tan television personality and alleged designer Michael Kors "dishes" on Condi Rice, Anna Wintour and that skintight black tee he always "sports." [Huffington Post]
- Hey, you guys watch The Closer? Me either. Anyhoo, QVC's selling a replica of Kyra Sedgwick's purse. [UPI]
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
According to legend, Glastonbury was the site of the mythical Isle of Avalon*. According to me, everything looks better with a pair of Wellies (apparently peeps at the Glastonbury Music Festival were sporting the Hunters in support of a charity called "Water Aid.") But since the music festival does not qualify as a red-carpet -style event, I, the guest blogger who Came to Dinner, don't feel that the boldfaces should be held to R.C. standards, and as such am merely presenting you with a gallery of uncategorized Glastonbury images.
Kate Moss,
Kelly Osborne,
Daisy Lowe, and more, post-jump! (*For all my Marion Zimmer Bradley girls.)
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rag trade
- KATE MOSS VERSUS AGYNESS DEYN! "'Kate can't stand her. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Agy is her nemesis...It's not about Agy's personality, but what she represents. She's younger, fresher, everyone loves her and she's got everything ahead of her. Now she's singing with a band, something Kate has wanted to do for years. Kate's 34 now and she realises her days as a model are numbered. Everyone's calling Agy the new Kate Moss - and that hurts.'" [Daily Mail]
- Is the panty party over already? The University of Minnesota seeks to 'distance' itself from Victoria's Secret college line. [US News]
- Taylor "Little J" Momsen, the 14-year-old Gossip Girlie, has signed on to model with IMG. [People]
- Which makes sense, as apparently this WWD model is a GG regular... [Fashionista]
- ...in stories like this one, about the changing streetwear market! [WWD]
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- Bex bares (almost) all for Armani once more. After the item, People earnestly queries, "Tell us: What do you think of David Beckham’s ads?" Eager to see the conversation this generates. [People]
- The previously-discussed Italian Vogue featuring only models of color hits European newsstands next Thursday! "In a reverse of the general pattern of fashion magazines, all the faces are black, and all the feature topics are related to black women in the arts and entertainment." [New York Times]
- Tyra Banks is one of said black models. (Click to see awesome pix.) [Fashionista]
- Tyra's new show Stylista: OBVIOUSLY BIGGEST THING OF THE SUMMER. [Fashionista]
- "Soften your image" for only $99! Michelle Obama's View dress at Donna Ricco! [Donna Ricco]
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Loose Lips
Jake Gyllenhaal and
Tina Fey were voted the top gay and lesbian
celebrity icons by the sibling websites AfterElton.com and AfterEllen.com. We're not the only ones with girl crushes on Tina!! • A Paris court slapped screen siren
Brigitte Bardot with a
$23,325 fine for "provoking discrimination and racial hatred" when she wrote that Muslims are destroying France, reports the
IHT. Back in 2006, Bardot wrote a letter to current President Sarkozy wherein she said France is "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts." •
Pete Doherty shelled out £5,000
for a portrait of ex-girlfriend
Kate Moss. In fact, Pete commissioned the portrait while he was still dating Kate, but neglected to pick it up for about a year. The artist, Sam Shaker, charged him 15 times the originally agreed upon price of £300 as a penalty. Ouch! [
The Sun,
IHT,
The Sun]
rag trade
- Fashion giant and world-famous monogram Yves Saint Laurent dies in Paris. [NY Times]
- Unfortunately, his legacy is honored by the hiring of legally-challenged Naomi Campbell. [Daily Mail]
- But then she goes bald! [The Sun]
- NY Times employs appropriately dated Herbal Essences reference to describe SATC fashions. [NY Times]
- ...although Herbal Essences is one of the few brands not aggressively promoted within the movie! [Vanity Fair]
- Meanwhile, SJP “deceived” by elfin designer Olivier Theyskens into wearing a gown socialite Lauren Davis Santo Domingo sported at the Met last month. [NY Times]
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rag trade
- “There so many celebrity clothing lines out there that just really suck!” says Perez Hilton in this new video about his collaboration with Hot Topic. Thanks Perez, now there’s gonna be one more! [YouTube]
- Fashion iconoclast and actress Chloe Sevigny is teaming up with the designers at Opening Ceremony again, this time to do a men’s line. The cool thing, and this shit has “cool” written all over it, is that the men’s clothing will be for women too. "Not only did I want to do something for the guys in my life, but a lot of my girlfriends prefer to wear men's stuff," Chloe says. Why hasn’t someone thought of doing this before? [fashionologie]
- More Sex and the City fashion news! It never ends! The Notorious P.A.T. (that’s Patricia Field) has been tapped to create a line for England’s own Marks & Spencer (aka “Marks and Sparks” to London city-dwellers) this coming fall. [Telegraph]
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kate moss
I hope you guys got my Smiths reference in the title. Did you? You know,
Kate Moss is from England, like The Smiths? Anyway, see this red pansy dress? Well give it a good hard look, memorize it and store it away your brain because, mark my words, you will see it EVERYWHERE this summer. It's true that maybe the Kate Moss
Top Shop hype has died down a bit since the 1st collection (remember that mayhem?) but she (and her design team) still have quite the knack of creating easy-to-wear pieces that are classic enough to last for many seasons. Well, at least some of them. There are always exceptions. After the jump, the latest looks.
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rag trade
- Ladies, start your engines: Kate Moss has a new Top Shop line! “Two hundred of the coveted red pansy dresses were sold in the first hour and a half,” writes the Telegraph's Hilary Alexander. For the love of God RUN, don’t walk, and buy everything you can right now. This is the 'Sex and the City' of clothes, people! [Telegraph]
- Never a dull moment for Marc Jacobs, who is channeling Andy Warhol for an upcoming cover of Interview magazine. Page Six reports that he got Andy’s actual wig flown in for the occasion, as he should, because Marc Jacobs can do anything! He’s a superhero! [NY Post]
- Jennifer Lopez and Ashley Olsen drooled at Francisco Costa; Donatella received a "Superstar Award" from Fashion Group International (they couldn’t think of a better name?) and Angelina Jolie loves Nike. [WWD]
- This just in: Savannah, GA is awesome! Follow up to yesterday’s story about designer John Galliano calling in sick to SCAD’s graduation: As it turns out, designers the school and Galliano is often flaky. “Savannah is the physical jewel of the south,” adds Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley. [WWD]
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Loose Lips
Oh no he
didn't.
Howard Stern manipulated sound bites from a
Dolly Parton audiobook into sexually graphic and racist statements last week. Dolly has released a statement today condemning Stern. "If there was ever going to be a lawsuit, it's going to be over this. Just wanted you to know that I am completely devastated by this." Chin up lil' lady. •
Heather Stohler, a model who appeared with
Kate Moss in
Calvin Klein ads, died on Sunday in an apartment fire in Indiana. She was 29. •
Marc Anthony ex-wife, former Miss Universe
Dayanara Torres has written a book called
Married to Me: How Committing To Myself Led To Triumph After Divorce. "The takeaway," reports
Radar, is "even international beauty queens can find themselves alone and unshaven, binging on
Candace Bushnell and self pity." [
Reuters,
TMZ,
Radar]
Jezebel
