Celebs Glam It Up for Home Shopping
QVC threw a fancy-schmancy pre-Oscars party at The Four Seasons last night and managed to actually get some nominees (of years past) to attend the event that was otherwise reality TV-heavy.
10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, a 3500-square-foot apartment in Manhattan isn't big enough for Kelsey Grammer's wife, Kathie Lee Gifford tries to use the subway, and Oprah has the nerve to think someone else's name is weird.
Douche-y Newspaper Exec Resigns After Suspension
Tribune executive Lee Abrams, first investigated for douchitude
The Torturous Art Of Buying Jeans
Jeans have gone from from workwear, to rebelwear, to wear-anywhere. They are the universal empty point around which a wardrobe is calibrated. And while they are manufactured in more sizes, styles, and washes than ever before, jeans shopping is hell.
Chanel Couture Inspires Witty Celebrity Banter
- Jessica Alba was so impressed by the 40-foot-tall lion at the Chanel show that she kept taking pictures of it. Anna Mouglalis said, "I feel like I'm inAlice in Wonderland!" Meanwhile, Beirut is "where it's all happening right now." [WWD]
Kimora Photoshops Her Head Onto A Model's Body
The woman at left: Kimora Lee Simmons. The woman at right: An innocent model hired to appear in the ad campaign for Simmons' new fragrance "Dare Me," who was then subjected to an experimental head-transplant procedure. [N.Y. Magazine, WWD]
You Are What You Eat: Is Food TV Lookist?
One writer - from the carnivorous Meatpaper (vegetarians, avert your eyes) - has unearthed what he calls the "unattractive men/unattractive meat narrative" of food TV: "the weirder-looking you are, the weirder the food you have to eat."
Hoda Kotb Loves A Good Fart Joke
This morning, during the fourth hour of the Today
Lauren Conrad's Fashion Star Is Fading
- 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…