[Los Angeles, November 12. Image via Flynet]

[Los Angeles, November 11. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• National tragedy: Heidiwood, Heidi Montag's fashion line, has apparently been discontinued! [Oh No They Didn't]
• Diddy buys Enyce from Liz Claiborne. [WWD]
• Karl Lagerfeld's interview with the Olsen twins is possibly the most awesome thing ever. The Kaiser dishes on his hatred of male models, tall women, men's opinions, and marriage! "Today you can have a baby first. If you want. I never liked the idea of a family at all. If it's a woman — it's more fun for a woman." [New York Mag]
• $700 mink Ric Owens stuffed bunny. You can put your keys in it. And it has "a mean face." [Fashionista]

• "Versatile classics" are the big sellers right now. [WWD]
• Another charming common touch piece from Cathy Horyn: "On Sunday afternoon I received a call from the Barneys women’s buying office saying my black Balenciaga dress was in. It was heartening to know in these difficult times that somebody wanted to make a sale." [NY Times]
• Having already beaten the candidates' neckwear into the ground, let's turn to their financial advisors! "Obama's man, Austan Goolsbee, wore a blue silk necktie with a subtle "neat" pattern—which on closer inspection turned out to be the phrase "Obama '08" repeated multiple times, like a subliminal message. His opponent, McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, wore a conservative, law-and-order number: red with small white stars." [US News]
• Bond girls wear rad clothes. This premise serves an excuse for this reporter to try on all their outfits. [Telegraph]
• WWD takes full credit for Rodarte's breakout. [WWD]
• And speaking of Rodarte, the Mulleavy sisters are selling some of their archive online. [BlackBook]
• Although 50% of British women are size 16 and above, German designer Anna Scholz is the only one making high-end plus-sized clothes. "The problem is that other ranges want big women to apologise. It's always about disguising and concealing, never about celebrating. I don't understand it. Why would anyone want to wear a breast minimiser?”[Times Online]
• The Delhi Commission of Women seeks to ban a new film which they feel cruelly exploits the trials of the thinly-disguised model protagonist. [Hindustan Times]
• Zappos bans fur from its site, earning PETA's approval. [PETA]
• Apparently Zara's fall catalogue is good. [Fabsugar]
• Australian swimwear designer wrongly targeted in drug sting. [News.co.au]
• ABC cuts wardrobe budget for Desperate Housewives. [ MSNBC]
• Barneys gets all political, decorating the store with presidential portraits. Coolidge always gets me in a shopping mood! [WWD]
• There's some way you can win a clutch at Anya Hindmarch. It sounds like a raffle but it has something to do with Halloween. [VogueUK]

[Los Angeles, October 19. Image via x17]

[Heathrow, October 8. Image via Flynet]

[London, October 7. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Addressing the alarming shortage of celebrity fragrances, Halle Berry, who is releasing her own, proclaims: "It’s a real, true expression of who I am — I was involved in all aspects of making it." [WWD]
• Oh, those wags at PETA! In another devastating jab at their fur-sporting nemeses, the animal rights wits have produced "Trollsen Twins" masks for us to wear on Halloween! "To complete the "Hairy Kate" and "Trashley" look, PETA recommends Starbucks, cigarettes and boho chic gear." [MollyGood]
• Hey! Wanna go to the Viktor & Rolf show? It's online! (No, you still can't afford anything.) [NY Mag]
• Kaiser Karl is coming to America! Specifically, Vermont. Quoth Lagerfeld, “I love it. It’s very much Emily Dickinson." [WWD]
• Leighton Meester "does her part to end domestic violence" by walking in a celebrity fashion show. [People]

• Irina Lazareanu, the Barbra of modeling, says she's really retiring this time. [Style.com]
• Yup, Alessandra Facchinetti's out at Valentino. [WWD]
• We're starting to feel bad for Lauren Conrad's clothing line . [Perez Hilton]
• And if LC and Heidi are too high-profile for you, perhaps you want to patronize a smaller designer, why, here's Audrina's denim line! [Perez Hilton]
• Anna Wintour: the Rasputin of the fashion world. [NY Mag]
• The CEO of Coach went all Joyce Carol Oates on us and just wrote a book about wrestling. [MediaBistro]
• Are we the only ones who think of Electra from Gypsy when we hear about all these high-tech "intelligent" clothes? This new jacket has a solar panel. Hey, you gotta have a gimmick! [Reuters]
• Possibly because of her complete blankness, Kate Moss is the most popular artist's muse of our age. [Independent]
• Kate also really likes that solid gold statue of herself. [VogueUK]
• She also doesn't wear underpants. And her hairdresser takes total credit for her style. [GraziaDaily]
• Rich people discover second-hand clothes. [LA Times]
• Uniqlo is up, at least. [WWD]
• New beauty director at Nylon, late of ElleGirl. [Fashionista]
• Vanessa Paradis on Johnny Depp: "Maybe I'm a good girlfriend because I'm his girlfriend. I'm not sure I'd be a good girlfriend to anyone else." Yeah, we're guessing we could go good for Sparrow, too. [ElleUK]

[Milan, Italy; September 23. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Mini moguls Mary Kate and Ashley are dipping their tiny feet into the world of fashionable footwear. They're teaming up with Steve Madden to add a shoe line to their Elizabeth and James label. [ElleUK]
• Weirdly, model Twiggy's husband calls her Twiggy too. [Daily Express]
• Moddles fall all over the runway on Prada's slippery runway. Try not to enjoy it. [NY Times]
• Following in the steps of such sex symbols as Gorbachev and the Berlin Wall, Sean Connery goes before Annie Leibovitz's lens for Louis Vuitton. [WWD]
• Just saying, if I were running for office, known ass Andre Leon Tally is kind of the last person I'd want carrying a tote with my name all over it, even if it was a DVF original. [Concrete Loop]

• Diesel launches the Diesel car. Doesn't require diesel though. [ElleUK]
• As they say, the rich get richer: cosmetics mogul Laura Mercier sells pad for numerous millions. [Observer]
• Marc Jacobs turns London's black cabs into a "dasiy chain." "In promotion for his floral fragrance Daisy, Jacobs will be adorning black cabs in London with the flower, as well as outfitting the cabs’ interiors with faux daisy fields." One can only assume long-suffering cabbies were not consulted. [BlackBook]
• Remember Bag, Borrow or Steal, which got plugged in the SATC movie when Jennifer Hudson borrowed her fug purses from them? Yeah, here's more about that. [The Street]
• Heidi Klum is very gracious about J.Lo's obvious lying to get out of Project Runway finale. [The Cut via a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/heidi-klum-on-jlo-missing-runway-finale-she-is-fantastic-i-believe-her_article_11364">Access Hollywood]
• Calvin Klein on fashion's realities: "It's a tough business. It's one that you really have to work at — if you're a very small business, or it's very large. It requires a full commitment. There is no easy way to do this," [Yahoo]
• Prada wants in on the pre-fab millionaire's playground that is Dubai. [IHT]
• David Bowie loans Ziggy Stardust outfit to a pop exhibition. What does he do with it the rest of the time? [Daily Express]
• Despite her involvement with the Freddy Prinze, Jr. vehicle Head Over Heels, Shalom Harlow will be the star of Viktor and Rolf's virtual fashion show. [WWD]
• To make up for flagging sales, luxury retailers focus on their outlet stores. Which are hopefully less depressing as a result. Looking at you, Saks outlet at Woodbury Commons! [Business Week]
• Le sigh. Editrice spawn Julia Restoin-Roitfeld to front British chain Accessorize. [WWD]

[LAX, September 21. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Rumor has it that the mini moguls' "lifestyle differences" are tearing their fashion collabs asunder. “Ashley really wants to be a respected businesswoman and be taken seriously...MK does too, but she hasn’t been willing to give up her lifestyle and act like an adult for their job.” Result? MK is being "distanced" from the business end. [LA Times]
• Gossip Girls Blake Lively, Leighton Meester and Michelle Trachtenberg have all "designed" Stuart Weitzman heels for charity. "Blake's candy-themed kicks (no doubt courting comparisons like "sweet" and "confectious") are going for the highest of the three at $300 - Leighton's in the middle and Michelle's on the right." [Fashionista]
• A petulant Oscar de la Renta is skipping the Metropolitan Opera's opening night for the first time in 20 years. He "was none too happy to learn that Renée Fleming’s onstage frocks for the affair were designed by Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Christian Lacroix." Um, is his ticket going begging? Sounds better than fashion week! [WWD]
• Markets rebound a tad; retailers still panicky. [WWD]

• Uh oh. Amidst the recent financial turmoil, Prada has called off its widely-reported plan to go public this year, "making it the global financial turmoil's most high-profile fashion victim." [WSJ, WWD]
• The "Obama Effect" has done wonders for designer Thakoon, whose rose-colored frock Michelle sported on nom night. "I saw her on TV and I couldn't even look, I was so embarrassed from being excited,'"quoth he. [LA Times]
• Norwegian designer Peter Dundas joins venerable print-meisters Pucci as creative director. [IHT]
• Rumor — no, it really might just be a rumor — has it that Marc Jacobs is opening a store in Manhattan's East Village. Which, even if true, doesn't seem like that big a deal. [Fashionista]
• Thes auction Naomi "Siddhartha" Campbell organized for the White Ribbon Foundation was a big hit. "London’s big spenders outbid each other for looks donated by designers including Alexander McQueen, Zac Posen and Christopher Kane." [WWD]
• "Last year, Giorgio Armani told Time that PETA had persuaded him to drop fur from his designs, but his fall line includes fur coats for babies, floral-printed fur coats, fur-hemmed skirts and fur-trimmed jackets." PETA's pissed. So now they're going to go back to the always-effective plan A: harassing and heckling! [P6]
• Gap is opening in Mexico, stealthily: it'll be opening "stores within stores" in an established department store chain. [WSJ]
• A graphic designer named "Salvor" has teamed up with Rogan to lauch a capsule collection which, one assumes, will have a one-word name. [Fashionista]
• Fans of both clothes and Sonic Youth — read, anyone — must be thrilled about Kim Gordon's new line, Mirror/Dash. Even if, so far, it's just one jacket. [BlackBook]
• The New Yorker's panel talk on "The Future of Fashion": snooze or revelation? [Fashionista]
• "A Japanese designer and furrier, Chie Imai, has called her autumn 2008 collection of fur-trimmed capes and boleros Eco Harmony." The fabric is, indeed, recycled. The fur? The animals in question might take exception to the "harmony." PETA certainly would. [Independent]
• Sears is introducing these 3-D virtual dressing rooms that will allow you to "try" things on from home. If you thought store mirrors were dishonest...! [Reuters]
• Betsey Johnson loves being a grandma, fresh fish. [Fashion Informer]
• Fashion Fringe winner: "Go By A Secret Path, aka designer Eun Jeong Hong, yesterday earned herself a rather nice end of week treat in the shape of £100,000, as well as continuous support from the Fashion Fringe at Covent Garden team to kick start her professional design career." [VogueUK]
• Abercrombie and Fitch pioneers "scent ambience services" in its stores. Why am I having visions of the poppy field in the Wizard of Oz? [Breitbart]
• Wyndam Hotel employees will go green whether they like it or not, sporting "uniforms made with polyester fibers spun from plastic beverage bottles." All we can say is, whoever made that virtuous decision better be wearing Coke couture, too. [BrandWeek]
• A few royals hit Fashion Week, but paps mostly had to settle for Kate Middleton's little sister. [WWD]
• Pamela Anderson escorted by "a man in a white mask" at Vivienne Westwood show. [ElleUK]

[LAX, September 16. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Tara Reid looks like she has no longer been ridden hard and put away wet! The former winner of Miss Hot Mess 2002-2007 is dating fashion executive Julien Jarmoune and apparently fending off marriage rumors. A pal of the couple says, "It looks like she's finally gotten her act together!" [E! Online, AHN]
• Someone who has decidedly not gotten her act together: Amy Winehouse. She was spotted stumbling out of a Camden pub at 3:30 this morning, looking a fright. [Daily Mail]
• The Olsen twins are causing dramz in the West Village: their partying habits are bugging the neighbors near the W. 13th Street apartment they're renting for $12,000 a month."Plenty of other celebrities around this block [Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler, Gisele Bundchen and Julianne Moore] are good neighbors and blend in with the neighborhood - but these two are invaders," a source says. [Page Six]
• One half of the gruesome twosome, Mary Kate, was spotted at fashion week with a new boyf, artist Nate Lowman. [Perez]

• Even too-cool-for-school New Yorkers are gaga over Michael Phelps, who is currently in town to host the season premiere of SNL this weekend. At Blue Ribbon Sushi on Monday, "It was funny to see jaded New Yorkers, who always see celebs around town, act like excited schoolkids," says a witness. "People kept sending over bottles of champagne and sake! Never seen anything like it." [Page Six]
• Daily Show funnyman Rob Corrdry and his wife Sandra are expecting a second daughter! Rob says, "We have a short list of names that we are considering. My 2-year-old (daughter Sloane) is pretty set on the name 'Freeka.' She also likes 'Laurie Berkner,' but that sounds weird in front of Corddry. We may just go with 'Baby the Entertainer' in case she grows up to be a black comedian." [People]
• He said, she said, on their nude scene in the upcoming film The Duchess. Dominic Cooper: "I knew there was a scene in which I had to get naked. It wasn't gratuitous, but still quite overwhelming. There were a series of devices I was offered to wear which protect my [naughty] bits. And I gave Keira the choice in a very gentlemanly way, 'You can chose either the furry soft, the pink diaper or the Spandex." Keira Knightley: "I don't remember choosing. I think he's making that up. Unless I was feeling particularly malicious, I don't think I would have chosen to put a man in a skin-colored diaper. I could have been feeling particularly malicious, however, that's entirely possible." [ People]
• Oooh!! Britney might have a new album ready for Christmas! The plan right now is to release the single in November and then have the LP out in December along with some live shows. Don't pressure the girl, she's just getting her sea legs back! [The Sun]
• Matthew McConaughey: "When I'm lucky enough to be in a place where I don't have to wear a shirt and shoes, I don't." No, really? [People]
• Lynda Carter, aka Wonder Woman, had this to say about Sarah Palin being referred to as "the new Wonder Woman." "Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?" [Philly Mag]
• Um, so apparently, Viggo Mortensen is always being detained by airport security because the favorite tea that he carries with him looks like pot. "And it doesn't help that Mortensen, who grew up in Argentina, drinks his tea with a pipe." That isn't a joke. [Showbiz Spy]
• Ugh, Hugh Grant is such an old skeeze! He was spotted in London hitting on women at a club for 18-22 year-olds. [Perez]
• Oprah is atop the list of Most Generous Stars. Also in the top ten: trumpeter and A&M records co-founder Herb Alpert, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Brangelina, Michael Jordan, Canadian ex-hockey player Eric Lindros, Lance Armstrong, and though it pains us to tell you, Rush Limbaugh, who gave $4.2 million to children of marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. [Reuters]
• Queen Latifah on her status as Jenny Craig spokesperson: "If anything, I was worried about alienating my big girls. I didn't want them to think, Hey, she's leaving us. But if I can be an example of loving yourself regardless of what you look like, I can be an example of loving yourself and being healthier." [Reader's Digest]
• Rob Lowe's recent sexual harassment issues with his nanny have been hurting his wallet in more ways than one. “Since the headline that a second nanny sued me for sexual harassment, I have been passed over for at least three commercials, any of which could have ultimately resulted in income of over $1 million," he said. [MSNBC]

[Hollywood, August 15. Image via Flynet]

[Los Angeles, July 29. Image via x17]

• You sent us your prom pictures! There were many a mullet. We bet that one of you slept with your mulleted prom dates in the back of a Trans Am.
• Judge Judy will always be our superhero.
• We met a profesh douche named Dmitri.
• Anne Hathaway's No goodnick (now ex) boyfriend Raffaello Follieri turned out to be a total con artist. Instead of yachting on the Riviera, he's going to be yelping at Rikers.
• We fell in love with Mary Kate Olsen just a little.
• It's Friday. Shake your insured booty all weekend long.

[Los Angeles, May 8. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Los Angeles, February 26. Image via x17]

[Brentwood, California; February 24. Image via x17]

• Days after he allegedly gave Hayden Panettiere his number, Ryan Gosling was seen having dinner with Michelle Williams in New York. Reps say it wasn't a date but a discussion of an upcoming film project. Sure, sure. At least Michelle's stepping up from Heath Ledger. [Page Six]
  
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen hung out at the Bowery Hotel's Lobby Bar in New York Wednesday with former TV daddy Bob Saget and "Uncle Jesse" John Stamos. No Steph, no D.J.? Come on, make it a Full House! [Page Six]
  
• Mary-Kate's new man: Dave Annable of Brothers & Sisters. He's cute! [E!]
  
• Tori Amos to two girls in the front row of her show who kept coming and going: "Get the fuck out of my show! It's a privilege to sit in the front row and I reserve those seats for people who appreciate music, get the fuck out!" Yeah, it's on video. [DListed]
  
• Amy Winehouse is vowing to get her life back on track in the New Year, but first she wants a white Christmas, snort! [The Sun]

• Mary J. Blige on Amy Winehouse: "It's just sad. I hate to see any of these females go through it. I was young, and I did dumb stuff — I was doing worse than that." [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
• Kevin Federline's lawyer is pissed that Britney has been a no-show for her deposition four times. He plans to ask the Commissioner to bar Brit from asking for more than she already has in her court order, as a penalty. Get it together already, girl, you're exhausting. [TMZ]
• Hugh Jackman's wife: Um, a wee masculine? [TMZ]
• Ricki Lake on John Mayer: "I swear to God, there is no story. I met him at a party. He admitted he had a crush and I admitted, hey, vice versa. That was it. I wish there was actually something to tell. There was nothing." [People]
• British newspaper Daily Telegraph apologized for running a column that falsely accused Nicole Kidman of saying that Jo Malone perfume was her favorite, though she is the face of Chanel. The source admitted that the story was made up, and the paper will pay damages to Kidman, which she'll donate to the UN's Development Fund For Women. Wait, papers print stuff that isn't true? [Yahoo News]
• Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe were named Hollywood's "most overpaid" actors. But you can't put a price on what they do! Oh, actually, you can. [News.com.au]
• Blind item! "Which jet-setting performer is stingy with the holiday cheer? The doormen and porters at her posh Central Park West building pad are left with empty pockets when it comes to Christmas tips." [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which legendary actor's wife recently sold their luxurious Manhattan condo to a couple who later found hidden closed-circuit cameras in the guest bedroom and guest bathroom during a gut renovation of the apartment?" [Page Six]
• Tyra Banks says she never said Britney should kill herself. "Britney is a friend and we correspond with each other," says TyTy. [Sydney Morning Herald]
• Helen Mirren is accusing a film director-turned-food critic of being "insulting and sexist" and treating her like a piece of meat. This was in 1964, but you go Dame Helen! [Telegraph]
• Renee Zellweger says a third Bridget Jones movie will kill her. "My body is whacked by the time we finish one of those," she says. "Your glucose levels are going crazy. You're up and down and all over the place. It doesn't feel good, and no one wants to hear that, but it's the truth." [MSNBC]
• Hugh Grant was seen snogging an "Eastern beauty" while another man caressed her thigh. Maybe he was rehearsing for his new film, Menage A Trois, Actually? [Mirror]

• Lindsay Lohan may be strapped for cash — she reportedly shopped around staged Thanksgiving photos with of herself with mom Dina, sister Ali, brothers and boyfriend Riley Giles to the celeb weeklies. The asking price started in the six figures, but dropped to $20,000. Also, does she get paid to be seen shopping at stores like Armani Exchange and Intermix? [MSNBC]
  
• LL and Riley are dunzo: She dumped him after they got back to L.A. after Thanksgiving in New York. "She got tired of him pouting all the time," a source says. Also, he never paid for anything, not even sodas. Does he even have a job? [E!]
  
• Mary-Kate Olsen is recovering from her kidney infection by partying 'til 3 a.m. She cannot be stopped! [Page Six]
  
• Tila Tequila "is not really bi," says a source. "It's all a sham. She as a boyfriend... MTV works hard to pretend she's single." Wait, you mean there's something fake on MTV? [Page Six]

• Ex-porn star Jenna Jameson and Heatherette designer Richie Rich are opening a bar in NYC's Chinatown. Expect the interior to be delightfully tacky. [Page Six]
• Drea de Matteo popped! She and longtime boyfriend Shooter Jennings had their first child Wednesday, a daughter they named Alabama. Dig the name! [Page Six]
• If you're interested in a spoiler for that damn Sex And The City: movie, click here. [Page Six]
• Paul McCartney gives all his ladies the same thing: a bottle of perfume and lacy undies. Ever heard of can't buy me love? [Page Six]
• OKay, so we knew something was up between Helio Castroneves and his dancing partner Julianne Hough, but we did not realize that she is 19 and he is 32. [Rush & Molloy]
• Oh wow, spin control! Julianne says "I love Helio like he is my brother." [People]
• The season finale of The Hills is only half an hour, but there will be a two days of programming on MTV: A Lauren Looks Back special "video scrapbook" of LC's life from Laguna Beach High to today, the finale, and a live after-show, with the ladies answering viewer questions and an announcement that "will leave fans wanting more." Unless it involves Spencer dropping off the face of the Earth, we're pretty sure we don't want more. [People]
• Conan O'Brien is paying 80 staffers during the strike: NBC is paying them through the end of November and Conan agreed to personally cover the salaries for the foreseeable future. Seeing as how it's almost Christmas, we're sure this is the best news some people could ever have. [People]
• Hey, so you know how Milo Ventimiglia, 30, and Hayden Panettiere, 18, aren't dating? Here's a picture of them coming out of the movies together. [People]
• There's a video of Julia Roberts pissed at the paparazzi. She followed a photographer who was attempting to film her and yelled at him to "Turn it off!" Roberts accuses him of taping her near a school. [TMZ]
• Amy Winehouse is heading into the studio in the new year to record her third album, and sources say it might be amazing: "Some of Amy's best writing stems from emotional heartache and turmoil. She's actually more creative now then she's ever been," says a source. No shortage of material, that's for sure. [Mirror]

• Mary-Kate Olsen went to the emergency room yesterday and has been hospitalized with a kidney infection. She is currently "resting comfortably" and should be released in a day or so. [People]
  
• Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and the brood will head "home" for Thanksgiving: Missouri, where Brad's family is. [MSNBC]
  
• Oh, and the Ethiopian biological mother of Zahara Jolie-Pitt says she conceived Zahara after being raped at knifepoint. Tragic. [Reuters]
  
• Heather Mills (McCartney), an adamant vegan, suggests we drink rats' milk instead of cow's milk, since livestock creates carbon emissions. Yum? [Telegraph]
  
• Apparently this rat milk idea was in an episode of The Simpsons but may not be viable. [Telegraph]

• Kate Moss gave Sienna Miller at talking-to regarding her new beau, Rhys Ifans, who is one of Kate's friends. "If you hurt Rhys, you'll have made an enemy for life," Kate warned. [Mirror]
• So you know how Amy Winehouse's tour manager quit because he claimed he tested positive for drugs, just from inhaling her secondhand smoke? Doctors say the chance of that actually happening is "a long shot." [ABC News]
• "Nearly broke" Michael Jackson is "struggling to put a roof over his head." The "sad-sack artist" and his kids, Prince, Paris and Blanket, stayed with billionaire Ron Burkle last week. Weird weird weird. [Page Six]
• Superman star Brandon Routh is getting married to longtime girlfriend Courtney Ford. Not on the registry: Kryptonite. [Page Six]
• The woman working the door at the American Music Awards afterparty didn't know who anyone was and didn't let anyone in, which resulted in a party of one: Chris Daughtry. Sad! [Page Six]
• Ashlee Simpson asked a photographer not to take a picture of her having a cigarette break outside Pete Wentz's East Village bar last week: "I don't want my fans knowing I smoke!" Haha, "fans." [Gatecrasher]
• The photographer Nicole Kidman testified against took the stand in Australia today, telling the court that when Nicole saw him trying to snap her picture, she told him to "fuck off." [Sydney Morning Herald]
• The government of Malawi is applauding Madonna's efforts to spotlight and raise money for AIDS orphans. Madonna is working with Gucci to raise $2 million for the one million orphans in Malawi. [Reuters]
• Blind item! "Which celebrity 'girlfriend' turned up solo at her actor beau's recent party because, several wags joked, he was still busy with his boyfriend?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Director Tim Burton on Johnny Depp's hair in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: He modeled it after that Vogue editor. Anna Wintower." [Rush & Molloy]
• Britney Spears is hiring a private eye to investigate ex-husband Kevin Federline, hoping to turn the custody battle around. Uphill battle, baby. [TMZ]
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing cable network Showtime over their show Californication. The RHCP had an album and song of the same name in 1999 and say the show is trying to "steal [their] identity." [TMZ]

• Kanye West's mother, Dr. Donda West, died Saturday in L.A. She was 58 years old. The cause of death has not been released. Dr. West was formerly the chair of Chicago State University's English Department. In her book, Raising Kanye, her son wrote in the foreword: "I have known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope." [USA Today]
  
• Britney Spears has a new manager — her "friend" Sam Lufti. The same guy who may or may not have been trying to sell her emails to the tabloids. Stay classy, Brit! [Page Six]
  
• Uh, did Britney fail a drug test? [Perez Hilton]
  
• Maybe! The test came back positive, says a source. But the source also says it was a false postive. Maybe she had a poppy seed bagel? Also, did she run a red light with her kids (and court-appointed monitor) in the car — and not even notice, because she was texting? [TMZ]

• Oh, and is Britney on a medication called Provigil, which helps addicts kick cocaine? It was seen in her purse. Although it's also used to treat narcolepsy. It's hard to know what to think. [ONTD]
• View cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck gave birth to a boy on Friday, and will call the show today to announce her son's name. YAWN. [People]
• Prince Harry and girlfriend Chelsy Day have split up. Some claim that Chelsy was fed up with Harry's playboy lifestyle. If you were a cute 23-year-old red-headed prince, would you settle down? [People]
• Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been "crying non-stop" in prison. He was moved to a medical unit, which is supposed to calm him down. "He's crying for Amy," says a source. "He's more concerned about her." Amy is said to be "furious" she can't visit him until tomorrow. Messy stuff! [Mirror]
• Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis says his imprisonment is "an abuse of the criminal justice system." And that someone is trying to get "revenge"on him. Hmm, we thought it was because he filmed underage drunk girls showering together? [ABC News]
• Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons loves critters: He's releasing an anti-dogfighting PSA. [Page Six]
• Rocker Lenny Kravitz worries when daughter Zoe's skirts are too short. Why are devoted dads so hot??? [Page Six]
• While Ashley Olsen is seeing Lance Armstrong, Mary-Kate is dating hockey player Sean Avery, who's apparently a cad. Watch out, M-K! [Page Six]
• Kate Hudson as seen making out with Heath Ledger??? Oy. We're having trouble keeping up. Also, ew. [Page Six]
• Marilyn Manson's girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, says she's not bisexual, but "there have been times where I have been attracted to a woman. I'm not afraid of sexuality. I think too many people get shit and get called skanky or a whore just because they are sexual." [Page Six]
• Is 43-year-old Desperate Housewives star Nicolette Sheridan pregnant? [Mirror]
• Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart sat down with "famous puppy" Iggy — of the Ellen DeGeneres debacle — for some "exclusive footage." No, it's not a joke. [ET]

• Lindsay Lohan has checked out of rehab! She left Friday afternoon. Good luck, LL! [CNN]
  
• Britney Spears has reunited with her mother (and sister)! Lynne Spears and Jamie Lynn flew from Louisiana to Los Angeles Friday night. Saturday Jamie Lynn and Britney were seen going to Taco Bell, yum. [People]
  
• Third time's the charm: Pam Anderson married her "friend" Rick Salomon Saturday night in Las Vegas. She wore a white denim dress and the ceremony took place in between magic shows she was working. [People]
  
• Mary-Kate Olsen was seen making out with a "scruffy" guy in Paris: He pushed her up against the wall, she wrapped her legs around him, and the people in the restaurant applauded. Uh, we're speechless. [Page Six]

• Charlie Sheen is getting his 13 tattoos removed for fiancée Brooke Mueller, including "a dragon with glasses" and wooden sign above his heart that says "back in 15 minutes." Lately we know more about Charlie than we EVER wanted to. [Page Six]
• Kanye West will be performing at In Touch's 5th anniversary party Wednesday. Is that what he meant when he said "Give a black man a chance" ? [Page Six]
• Someone mistook Sarah Silverman for Melissa Rivers? "We do have a similar simian look," Sarah said. [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which recently separated star had his sidekick secure two young ladies to join him for a wild night back at his new bachelor pad?" [Page Six]
• Orlando Bloom was seen on a date with an Australian model? What about Jennifer Aniston? [Page Six]
• The FBI is investigating those nude pictures of Kim and Kourtney Kardashian that may have been taken before they turned 18. [Gatecrasher]
• Blind item! "Which man-loving Fox personality might want to keep his cats off the bed during intimate moments? Because you know how the gays gossip about things like that." [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Diddy has a new daughter! Well, she's 15 months old and he seems to have known her mother only briefly... But a DNA test says she's his. This makes 6 kids for the hip-hop mogul. [Rush & Molloy]
• David and Victoria Beckham added a pool to their vacation home in Bargemon, France, but did not obtain a building permit and may be forced to demolish it. [Riviera Times]
• Christian Slater's new woman? Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon. "We seem to be well matched," she says. [Daily Mail]
• Prince William and Kate Middleton may consider legal action against the "aggressive" photographers who followed them after they went to a London club last week. Considering the inquest going on regarding the death of his mother ten years ago, it's understandable that he is "furious." [Telegraph]
• Christina Aguilera is registered at Bel Bambini in West Hollywood, in case you want to pick something up for her unborn child. [People]

• Orlando Bloom and Jennifer Aniston spent the weekend together in Mexico. Let us repeat that: Orlando Bloom and Jennifer Aniston spent the weekend together in Mexico. Pictures later today. [ONTD]
  
• Also in WTF news? Bono is collaborating with the Spice Girls. [Mirror]
  
• Eva Longoria sex tape! We predict her makeup will look perfect. [The Sun]
  
• Pamela Anderson: Getting married? She and Rick Salomon obtained a marriage license in Las Vegas. It would be the third marriage for both. But would it be the last? [ET]
  
• The so-called "sultan of sleaze," David Hans Schmidt, who tried to extort $1 million from Tom Cruise for stolen wedding photos, was found dead in his home from an apparent suicide on Saturday. [Reuters]

• Posh brings people together! Months before his near-fatal heart attack, David Beckham's dad, Ted, had been back in touch with David, thanks to Victoria. They'd had a falling out in 2005 after Ted wrote a book about David without his permission. [Mirror]
• Blind item! "Which heir to a multinational fortune was checked into rehab for drugs and alcohol after his wife caught him cheating by reading his e-mails? His servants are smiling because he is cruel and mean to them." [Page Six]
• The producers of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency had the mini-bar removed from Janice's room in a Miami hotel after she racked up $900 in "incidentals." Surely this wouldn't happen if those little bottles of vodka were bigger! [Page Six]
• Actor Steve Guttenberg is writing a memoir, yawn. [Gatecrasher]
• Mary-Kate Olsen to random fan: "Christ saves all! I save all!" [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
• Blind item! "Which former celebrity chef had a little drug freakout while on vacation this summer? He became convinced the adult film he was watching in his hotel was a live feed from another room, and stormed into the lobby demanding to be shown to the orgy." [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Someone doctored an article in an issue of J-14 magazine, spreading that false pregnancy rumor about 14-year-old Miley Cyrus, star of Hannah Montana. Kids today! [NY Times]
• Paris Hilton on her love of animals: "I don't wear fur, and animal testing, and things like that." Uh, okay. Also, Paris says when she was on David Letterman's show, she talked about her perfume, clothing line and new movie. [New York Magazine]
• But actually, Dave teased her incessantly about jail. [PopSugar]
• Sharon Osbourne's brother says his sister is working Ozzy Osbourne so hard he might die on stage. Gotta keep the cash rolling in! [The Sun]
• Speaking of Sharon Osbourne, Courtney Love denies that she gave Sharon's son Jack OxyContin at age 15, as Sharon claims. Courtney says, "I would never give drugs to a teenager. F—- you, Sharon!" Sharon responded by saying that Courtney is "a virus" and a "has-been." Ding ding ding! Round 3! [Rush & Molloy, 4th item]
• Nicole Kidman was denied a private box at a sold-out rugby game in Sydney, Austrailia. [News.com.au]
• Usher's knocked-up bride, Tamkea Foster, says she's glad she's gonna have a boy: "No girls for me. I hate girls!" [Rush & Molloy, 5th item]
• OMG yay! Kanye West has a blog! [TMZ]
• Have Joel Madden and Nicole Richie set a wedding date? Sources say October 13 is the big day. [TMZ]

[Los Angeles, September 13. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

They have been selling Formica bedroom sets in pastel colors, but they worship Ghesquière.

Mary-Kate might wear ten kooky rings, Ashley just two or three... Their signature look mixes Edie Beale with Balenciaga, Johnny Depp, and John Galliano... They've raised accessorizing to a form of high, glamorous art. If the Olsens' style resembles anyone at all, it's not Lindsay Lohan or Mandy Moore or any of their other presumptive peers—they dress like sittings editors at French Vogue.

[The Row] was my sister's baby, and of course I wanted to do whatever I could to help her.

Says Ashley:

When we were growing up, it was always about being appropriate... [In college] I was studying architecture and psychology and I loved it, but I kept thinking about T-shirts and how to make the perfect one.

They're a mystery wrapped in an enigma, light and dark, annoying and likable. Plus, not to get all 70s on you — they're Geminis. Phew! We're tired.

Attack of the Fashion Gremlins [NYMag]

• After a super low-key and abstemious week in New York, Lindsay and Callum Best let loose a bit in the Bahamas at one of those super understated resorts populated by close friends Gloria Estefan, Steve Tyler and the Village People. [Rush & Mulloy]
  
• Razorlight concert attracts likes of Kate Bosworth, Mary Kate Olsen, Kirsten Dunst (who dates lead singer Johnny Borrell). We have never listened to Razorlight, but we have an inkling there may be some finger foods going uneaten backstage! [Gatecrasher]
  
• Sheryl Crow adopts a baby boy, mercifully abstains from naming him one of those hippie names like "Woodland" or "Sierra" or "Emission Tax Credit" or some shit. [Sherylcrow.com]
  
• We have basically been waiting for our entire lifetimes for a Fergie-Sarah Ferguson collabo. For the children! (And the retarded at heart) [Rush & Mulloy]

• All those dudes who pumped their fists a little while pledging to see Spiderman 3 last weekend made good on their words. [Nikki Finke]
• Iggy Pop on modeling the Stooges' steez on Egyptian pharaohs: "Those guys look bitchin', they never wear shirts." [Page Six]
• Drea de Matteo is prego with some country singer who promised to put the O back in country. We have never paid any attention to these people but from the sounds of their Wikipedia entries the kid is actually getting a good shot at gene-wise being in the top tenth percentile of the celeb spawn kindergarten class. [Page Six]
• Following on the footsteps of similar actions by Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. frontmen Paul Westerberg and J. Mascis, respectively, Beyonce reveals that Destiny's Child may reunite.
• Gossip press rips "New Yoko Ono" title from Ashlee Simpson, bestows it upon Sienna Miller. Because Pete Wentz was less deserving of the John Lennon parallels than a supposed rock star who is also a model. [Gatecrasher]