Rihanna's Sexy Sex Life Somehow Makes Her Unqualified to Shill Skin Cream

Did you know that over the past year Rihanna has been starring in a series of advertisements for Nivea skin cream? Oh, you didn't? You don't read my celebrity toiletry endorsement gossip blog, Celebrity Toiletry Endorsement Journal Constitution Digest? Weird. But anyway, that's happening, and apparently it's turned…
Nivea Says Afros Are Uncivilized
Nivea is running an ad that shows a clean-shaven black man with close-cropped hair who looks like he's about to go bowling with a decapitated head. He's holding the head by its Afro. Tag-line: RE-CIVILIZE YOURSELF. Ah, yes, the enlightened and highly appropriate association of black hair (and, by extension, black…
Competing Isabella Blow Biographers Attack Each Other
- Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes are trading jibes with Lauren Goldstein Crowe over their dueling Isabella Blow biographies, both of which hit U.S. bookstore stores this week. Everyone is sniping at everyone over the email, sometimes in ALLCAPS!!!
The Brave New World Of Manvertising: Body Wash Wars
It started quietly, with the appearance of black loofahs in the body wash aisle. Marketing body wash to men has proved to be quite lucrative, unleasing a wave of new ads determined to convince men their body wash is magic.
Brangelina Tries Jewelry Design; Lindsay Lohan For Bebe?
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have designed a fine jewelry collection for Asprey, which goes on sale this week. The line, themed around snakes and called "The Protector," starts at $525; all proceeds go to support Jolie's children's charity. [WWD]
