• One of the hazards of dating a rock star: When, mid-fight, you want to throw some of his stuff into a pool, there's a slight risk that he might have unreleased, non-backed-up new songs among his personal effects. [Mirror]

• "I used to bring pies to the office," says amateur baker Peter Som. "I can't eat them all myself." How did that dude ever get fired? [WWD]
• Thus spake Lacroix: "Don't tell anyone, because I'm not allowed to do this, but we absolutely are going to have a show in mid-July, during Fashion Week –- and it won't be a funeral: it'll be a fightback." Since Christian Lacroix's fashion house, owned by the U.S.-based Falic group, entered bankruptcy, the fate of the couture show has been in serious doubt. "It can't cost us a single Euro to put this show on, because I'm not having my workers lose a penny from their pockets, but so far, it looks like thanks to other people's kindness — friends and suppliers working for free — it might happen. I can't stand the idea that people think I am to blame [for the bankruptcy] but to a certain extent I am paying for not having done what everyone else did, with their logos and It-bags. I never went down that route." Lacroix has been working for free for 18 months, and is owed 1.2 million Euros in back pay. [Telegraph]
• Model Lily Cole earned a first in her end of year art history exams at Cambridge, one of only three students to receive the top grade. [Mirror]
• Yigal Azrouel, whose relationship with Katie Lee Joel is rumored to have brought about the end of the latter's marriage to Billy Joel, romances a lot of ladies. (He is an attractive, straight man working in fashion. Duh.) One rumor alleges Azrouel sleeps with editors at magazines to further his career. [P6]
• Chanel and Burberry model Emma Watson is said to be launching a clothing line for children and teens to benefit Unicef. [Hindustan Times]
• Usher says his men's fragrance really "represents the growth I've had in the last two years." VIP, which he's set to launch this September, is a "tool of engagement for seduction...made for a man but for women to enjoy." [WWD]
• Uh-oh. Sales of perfumes fell 6% overall in 2008, and 7% during the first quarter of 2009. Estée Lauder's fragrance division said the last three months of 2009 saw sales fall 20%, and another perfume company executive said anonymously that he believed sales for this year were down 15-20% because distributors are not restocking after selling to retailers. [NYTimes]
• "I don't want to do 'Adele by Adele' perfume!" says Adele. [LATimes]
• A judge refused to dismiss gourmet butter distributor Clint Arthur's lawsuit against Louis Vuitton for selling off-cuts of fabric as art prints. [P6]
• You really know you've hit the event horizon of aspirational shopping when someone from a company that makes plastic shoes describes her products as "affordable luxury." [LATimes]
• Robin Givhan at the Washington Post sees in H&M's just-announced collaboration with Jimmy Choo the end of luxury as we know it. "There's something about cheap Jimmy Choo shoes that doesn't feel right," writes the critic. "Women's shoes have been sold on a centuries-old mythology that makes the discovery that Jimmy Choo can produce a desirable pair of shoes for less than $50 as jarring as when Dorothy pulled back the curtain on the Wizard." [WaPo]
• Actually, the cheapest offering from Jimmy Choo's H&M collection will retail at around 40 Euros, or $55. The 12 women's styles and four men's models will range in price from there up to 200 Euros, or $138. Bags will cost up to 200 Euros. It all goes on sale in select H&M stores on November 14. [WWD]
• Cool looking Missoni-printed Converse Chuck Taylors will also be a thing you can buy, starting next summer. [WWD]
• Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton is, according to rumor, sitting on an offer for a year-long internship at American Vogue from Anna Wintour. Middleton, a former fashion buyer, could take her pick of either working in New York or Los Angeles. [Hindu]
• Jason Wu anticipates $4 million in sales this year and sees a men's wear division in his future. The 26-year-old enjoys spending his Sundays browsing at the Strand and playing poker with a $20 buy-in, "just enough to take it seriously but not enough to feel bad when you lose." [NYTimes]
• The Fall Calvin Klein Collection and CK Calvin Klein ads have leaked — they feature Monika "Jac" Jagaciak and Jourdan Dunn and Sigrid Agren, respectively. The Collection campaign was shot by David Sims and CK by Craig McDean. [Fashionologie]
• Isaac Mizrahi is opening a store for his namesake label in August. It'll be 1500 square feet and located on the Upper East Side. [WWD]
• Cashmere prices have fallen so drastically that many herders of cashmere goats have had to sell their animals for meat. Orders for winter cashmere sweaters from the West have fallen by up to 30%. And get ready for a cold season: the garments being made are using less cashmere. "They are too small — half the breast is outside the sweater," said one factory's sales manager. [NYTimes]
• Jil Sander is on the comeback trail in a big way. The German designer, who lost the use of her name to Prada when the Italian company bought out her house and fired her, has just announced a fine jewelry collaboration with Damiani. This is in addition to her new position as a creative director of Uniqlo. [WWD]

Village leaders have called for all people living in the Tillabery region of Niger to end the practice, reports CNN. "We have decided to definitively put an end to female genital mutilation in our villages and to continue sensitizing neighboring villages so they also give up the practice," said N. Babobou Pana, leader of one of the villages.

According to UNICEF, the rate of FGM among women ages 15 to 49 in Niger has decreased by half, from 5 per cent in 1998 to 2.2 per cent in 2006. However the statistics conceal how prevalent the practice is in certain regions and ethnic groups, where the rate may be higher than 65 percent. The Tillabery region has one of the highest rates of FGM.

Between 100 to 140 million girls and women across the world have undergone FGM, according to World Health Organization statistics. It is most widely practiced in Africa, where about 92 million girls above the age of 10 have been mutilated. 28 countries in Africa perform FGM, and as shown in the graphic below from the World Health Organization, rates vary widely by region.

While FGM is most prevalent in Africa, it is also widely practiced in some regions of Asia and the Middle East. WADI, a German nongovernmental group that advocates against female circumcision, has been studying the problem in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2004 and found that more than 60 percent of women in the region underwent the procedure, according to the group Stop FGM in Kurdistan. However, in some areas the rate is as high as nearly 100 percent.

A bill banning FGM was submitted to Kurdistan's Regional Parliament in April 2007 and according to a female MP and a doctor who have been campaigning against the practice, it is expected to pass soon. But many women are still being mutilated. One of the latest victims is Iraqi Kurdish four-year-old Shwen, who is pictured above screaming during her circumcision in Suleimaniyah earlier this week.

[Graphic via WHO.]

African Villages Denounce Female Genital Mutilation [CNN]
Turning Former Practitioners Against Female Genital Mutilation In Niger [UNICEF]
Female Genital Mutilation: Prevalence And Age [World Health Organization]
FGM In Kurdistan [Stop FGM Kurdistan]
The Atlantic: Face of the Day [Andrew Sullivan]

Earlier: Womanhood Brings Pain To Kurdish Girls

This information was released today, as part of the U.N.’s annual children’s survey, which focused this year on the health of mothers. The results have grave implications for teens all over the world, but show an especially grim picture for women living in Africa. As a continent, Africa has the highest rate of maternal deaths, with women having a one in 26 lifetime chance of dying during pregnancy or childbirth. The risk is more than 300 times higher than in industrialized countries. Tragically, 80 percent of maternal deaths can be prevented with access to basic healthcare services.

Newborns also face serious risks. A child born in one of the least developed countries is 14 times more likely to die within the first month of life than one born in an industrialized country. The UNICEF report states that “the root cause may lie in women’s disadvantaged position in many countries and cultures and in the lack of attention to, and accountability for, women’s rights.”

UNICEF: Teen Births 5 Times Deadlier Than In 20s [AP]
Women In Developing Countries 300 Times More Likely To Die In Childbirth [Guardian]

• Only one more day of having to listen to designers opine about politics! Marc Jacobs' L.A. windows are "set up with the Republicans menacingly on one side (with a particularly freaky-looking W) and brightly dressed Obama voters/supporters on the other. There's also a gun-toting Palin with a letter posted next to her image, which reads as follows: Dearest Citizens, I believe in, 1) No choice for you gals. 2) Creationism for you kids. 3) No rights for you gays and lesbians. 4) Everyone should own a gun! You gotta believe in something, baby!" [Racked]
• Stella McCartney throws an Obama-themed tea. I guess eating his face is an endorsement. [WWD]
• Meanwhile, Henri Bendel stays neutral: "Today, the store will unveil its bipartisan windows featuring a group of five mannequins dressed in the latest cocktail dresses from Chloé & Reese and Greta Constantine. The girls are flanked by red and blue polling booths, each one representing a political party. Today, each mannequin can be seen with a large question mark above its head, but Wednesday morning, the question marks will be removed and the group will be placed in front of the winning voting booth. Several pounds of confetti will be thrown over the group in celebration of that party’s win." [WWD]

• Rihanna's the face of Gucci's new "Tattoo Heart" campaign, which features, um, tattoo hearts on clothes. Some of the proceeds benefit Unicef. [Perez Hilton]
• The secret of Yves Saint Laurent's success? "He liked women to be beautiful." [Reuters]
• Wanna see a young female moddle in Lagerfeld drag? No? Don't click on this link. [FashionWeekDaily]
• Mod pioneer Mary Quant gets her own stamp! It features a mod bird in a mini and zip-top. [ElleUK]
• Did you know Zac Posen was a classically trained singer? Apparently it's why he's so into opera — hence his Lincoln Center arts leadership award for his commitment to supporting arts education. [WWD]
• Consignment stores continue to clean up. [WSJ]
• Apparently the new Kate Moss tell-all is a great read, even if it boils down to the moddle demanding, "Why the f**k can't I have fun all the time?" [Daily Mail]
• Speaking of models with drug scandals in their (recent) pasts: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has a new gig as the face of dothegreenthing.com. [Fashionista]
• A moddle we can actually get behind? Alek Wek. "I'm working with my uncle in the Sudan embassy in London to open a secondary school on the Nile in Susan. It would be made up of 50 per cent boys and 50 per cent girls...My father always stressed education. I didn't understand it when I was young but I understand now." [VogueUK]
• Christian Siriano, modest as always: "Also, designing Heidi’s gown for the Emmys was amazing, especially when I went to the afterparty and met Debra Messing. Debra told me, “Oh my God, I love your clothes, you’re a genius!” You never know who’s going to be a fan of your work." [Cosmopolitan]
• The city grounds to a halt as we all get our vote on; the Nylon girls are "Gone Voting!" [Nylon]
• Retail extravaganza Lucky Shops looks undimmed by the economy! Encouraging, or depressing? [FashionWeekDaily]

• Newly-minted Louis Vuitton designer Sofia Coppola's road was not an easy one. "At the age when Marie-Antoinette was facing the rigid etiquette of the court of Versailles, the 15-year-old Coppola was working as an intern at Chanel in Paris, a city that her parents had always loved." No wonder, then, that "Coppola drew on a well of personal experience for the accessories. A gilded wedge ankle-strap sandal (€500) was stirred by the memory of her mother's Yves Saint Laurent shoes in the 1970s." We love a rags to riches story. [IHT]
• What Not To Wear good cop Clinton Kelly has thrown his hat into the competitive fabulosity ring. "In Freakin’ Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better Than Everyone Else, Kelly begins by taking the reader through his long journey toward “fabulousness,” which started prepuberty. 'While other kids on the elementary school playground were trading baseball cards and playing kickball, I was silently debating whether to spend my first paycheck on Italian suede driving shoes or on a cashmere coat,' he writes." [WWD]
• Designers won't loan gowns to Mad Men's resident bombshell Christina Hendricks! Too "curvy!" [Ephemerist]

• Presses stopped. Chanel, Moschino, Louis Vuitton, Sonia Rykiel, Stella McCartney and Christian Lacroix are all designing DOLLS for Unicef! [VogueUK]
• Which should please foppish hockey player cum novelty intern Sean Avery, who liked playing with dolls as a kid. Us too! [New York Magazine]
• As his trial progresses, creepy designer Anand Jon is looking more perv than rapist. [Radar]
• Travis Barker's fashion line (?) makes tee shirts to benefit families of the two victims of his plane crash. [UPI]
• Here's a pic. [People]
• Who whoa whoa. Sheryl Crow's alleged clothing line? "The first line is made up of about two dozen pieces developed by Crow's stylist and inspired by clothes from the singer's wardrobe." [IHT]
• Twiggy puts clothing swaps on TV in some kind of bid to beat the recession. [Daily Mail]
• Party girl Alice Dellal may be disinherited. Which will put her on a level with the rest of us. Oh, wait, she's a famous moddle. [Daily Mail]
• Meanwhile, male model Donald Carmichael robbed and shot in New York. Well, grazed. He's okay. [UPI]
• Almost all the cosmetics you use are poison. Wah-wah. [LA Times]
• The tone of international Fashion Week? Strictly Let Them Eat Cake. [Washington Post]
• Lucky editors claim their new style guide is actually really perfect for the recession. [The Budget Fashionista]
• Diesel plans unique stores worldwide. [WWD]
• Apparently literally every celeb in the world was at one of Diesel's 17 30th birthday parties. [ElleUK]
• Zahara Jolie-Pitt wears organic denim. It's $128. [Fashion Week Daily]
• The Glamouresque Wig Party is where celebrities design wigs. For charity, obvs. [Daily Mail]
• Relive your high school years — or mine, anyway! — with Screaming Mimi's online vintage. [FabSugar]
• Why choose between cognac and sneakers when you can wear the $300 Hennessy Celebration Hi-Top? [BlackBook]
• Want to read a list of Kate Moss's debaucheries? Yeah, set aside some time. [Daily Mail]
• Cosmetics are up. Well, we all need to cover dark circles these days. [Washington Post]
• Please let this be our last mention of male pantyhose. [News.com.au]
• The recession may speed consolidation in the fashion world. [WWD]
• So, want to wear a fake school uniform? No? Here are some options anyway. [Sassybella]

The Good::
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise might be psycho, but always look sleek.

Liya Kebede, can I be you when I grow up?
Words I never thought I would say: I love how Ellen Pompeo is dressed.
The color of Becki Newton's dress got me hot.

The Bad:
Lucy Liu's dress was probably a dazzling sketch...but the execution seems a little off.
Drew Barrymore's skirt and belt combo is a little much.
That shapeless black gown isn't doing Cynthia Nixon any favors.
J. Lo: Stay home! You look so uncomfortable!

The Ugly:
Rachel Zoe: Then, now, always.
Molly Sims should refrain from wearing floral sculptures.

• Angelina Jolie is in Iraq, and has meetings with Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi migration officials. Oh, and she's sleeping with Brad Pitt, has four kids and is probably pregnant with twins. What are you doing today? [Yahoo News]
  
• Scarlett Johansson has an "extremely erotic" scene with Penelope Cruz in the new Woody Allen movie. Girl-on-girl action, hot! [Page Six]
  
• Amy Winehouse still does not have a visa? How is she going to make it to the Grammys on Sunday? Insiders say she is not actually slated to sing, although she wanted to do a medley with Kanye West. She might end up appearing via satellite from London, boo. [Gatecrasher]
  
• Kirsten Dunst is in rehab; she checked into the Cirque Lodge clinic in Utah, where Eva Mendes just finished her treatment and Lindsay Loan spent two months. Such a hotspot! [The Sun]

• Does Eva Longoria Parker have a bun in the oven? She was seen shopping at L.A. celebrity baby store Petit Tresor. [Rush & Molloy]
• Rose O'Donnell is on the wagon. Why? "Cause I was drinking too much, 'cause I didn't want to any more, 'cause it is hard to lose weight when drinking, 'cause I can never have only one," she writes on her blog. [Page Six]
• The Hills' star Brody Jenner and 12 friends were at a party; Brody snapped his fingers and said "I'm out!" and the posse followed him. He's like the Fonz! [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which famous fashion photographer and admirer of the male physique insists on 'relaxation exercises' when casting his models? He tells them he likes to put his hands on the parts of their bodies where he senses the most stress ... and the ones who respond get to stand in the front of his trademark group shots." [Gatecrasher]
• Designing Women star Delta Burke has checked herself into a psychiatric hospital for depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and hoarding. Wow, being a pack rat is treatable? Might need to look into that. [Rush & Molloy]
• Britney's parents are not happy that she is out of the hospital. They issued a statement that reads: "We are deeply concerned about our daughter's safety and vulnerability and we believe her life is presently at risk." [TMZ]
• Britney was released because a representative from the court found "no just cause" for her to be held — despite the fact that doctors wanted her to stay. [People]
• Some are saying that if Britney is out of the hospital she must not have hit rock bottom. [MSNBC]
• After she checked out of the hospital, Britney checked into the Beverly Hills hotel. [LA Times]
• She was followed to the Beverly Hills Hotel by 20 SUVs of paparazzi. [TMZ]
• Kevin Federline has been trying to keep calm during phone calls from Britney. "The few times they chatted, Kevin had to cut it short because Britney went off on a tangent about Kevin kidnapping the boys from her," says a source. "Kevin loves her — and wants her to get better for the boys — so he's trying not to let her get to him." [MSNBC]
• Jennifer Lopez: Still pregnant, refusing to wear sweatpants or maternity dresses. [People]
• Heath Ledger's father says Heath's death should be a warning not to mix prescription drugs. [Yahoo News]
• The federal government is working with the NYPD to determine how Heath acquired so many prescription drugs. [People]
• Cher, 61, is planning a "visually unbelievable" show in Las Vegas with elaborate choreography, eye-popping costumes, 14 dancers and 4 aerialists. "Our set moves down from the ceiling, in from the sides, up from the floor," she says. "We have screens in the foreground, the center and the back. We can change a city into a forest in two seconds. You'll see a different stage for every song." Raise your hand if this sounds effing awesome! [USA Today]
• Last night, Madonna hosted a party to aid UNICEF — and inaugurate a new Gucci store. Conflict of interest? What about the fact that her charity, Raising Malawi, is headed by the co-director of the Kabbalah Center? [Reuters]
• Paris Hilton spoke at Harvard University yesterday, accepting her Harvard Lampoon Woman Of The Year award. "You guys are so hot," she said. "Harvard's hot." [Reuters]
• Paris has also built a doggie mansion in her backyard that is a replica of her house. "It has a chandelier and the same stairwell and furniture and they all live there," she says. [UPI]
• Don't expect Jerry Seinfeld to return to TV. "I'm old, I'm rich and I'm tired," he says. Touché. [Page Six]
• Brandy's mom says of her lawsuit against the Kardashians: "I decided to afford the Kardashians an opportunity to resolve this matter without a lawsuit," Sonja Norwood says. "When the fraudulent charges were brought to their attention, they apologized profusely, and advised us, through their attorneys, that they would pay the debt in full. However, they have since reneged on that promise." Ms. Norwood claims that the Kardashians owe $120,000 in charges run up on her AmEx, and is also seeking 10% interest. [People]

• 2-year old Suri Cruise has custom-made Christian Louboutins, making her the red-soled footwear company's youngest client ever. [NY Post]
  
• "She was a great sport. She agreed to do something rough and tough and quite raw. It wasn't days and days of hair and makeup," says Marc Jacobs of Victoria Beckham's participation in his Spring 2008 advertising campaig [WWD, 1st item]
  
• And in other Posh Spice news, Beckham has also posed in the buff for Jacobs' t-shirt line benefiting skin cancer research. Uh, because she'd rather go naked than protect her skin from harmful UVA rays with one of his crummy T-shirts? Oh wait...huh. [Mirror UK]
  
• Justin Timberlake: Now designing womenswear under the J. Lindeberg label. What qualifies him, you ask? Yeah, we hate obvious punchlines. [Vogue UK]

• The 23-year old fashion boy wonder Esteban Cortazar (whom you may best remember from the person throwing the party for the yacht catering challenge from this season's Top Chef where Howie finally got the boot) has just been tapped as the new head of the Emanuel Ungaro label. This makes us feel really insufficient. [WWD, sub req'd]
• To celebrate record sales, a Taiwanese lingerie company celebrated with a designated day where its female employees were asked to come to work wearing the goods. [Sassybella]
• Moschino has made a plexiglass doll — a plexiglass doll! how cuddly! — to be auctioned off as part of UNICEF's children's AIDS efforts. [Vogue UK, 7th item]
• H&M: Now with even more organic cotton! [FabSugar]
• Not-actually-made-from-seaweed yoga wear line Lululemon's profits tripled in the third fiscal quarter. [WWD, sub req'd]
• In times of economic turmoil and poor consumer sentiment, J. Crew... predicts great holiday sales! God bless America. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Christian Dior cosmetics claim to have harnessed the power of stem cells in creating their new line, making for the swiftest wrinkle repair ever. Could this be the breakthrough that wins over the hearts and minds of the nation's anti-abortion lobby? One can dream! [WWD, sub req'd]

• Tory Burch is designing a line inspired by old pictures of Martha Stewart, back from when Martha Stewart looked sort of like a pretty version of Tory Burch. [As I'm sure you can imagine, Jennie, who loves both WASPs and fashion-pop culture collabos like the proverbial fat kid loves cake, is in a corner somewhere heaving in ecstasy. Hey Jennie, Ralph Lauren called, and he's got a message for you! "I Am Your Father." -Moe] [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Ever wondered how Miuccia Prada transported herself from office to car in those heels? A giant slide. Sort of what you'd expect, but whoa. [Sassybella]
  
• Vivienne Westwood, Luella Bartley and others are designing dresses inspired by the Disney princesses as part of the celebration of Euro Disney's 15th anniversary. The dresses will be auctioned off with proceeds going to UNICEF, which is the part you should focus on, as opposed to whatever the fuck the guy who drops a few hundred grand on a Westwood-designed Ariel gown will actually be doing with it. [FemaleFirst]

• J. Mendel designer Gilles Mendel has a band called Born Again Baldwins. Um, quirky? [WWD, 2nd item]
• We love Julianne Moore. Which is why we're not exactly thrilled to bring you the news that Vogue sponsored the reading she held for her children's book Freckleface Ball yesterday, at the Hogan store. [WWD, 3rd item]
• M.A.C. raised $100 million in funds for the M.A.C. AIDS Foundation! Wait, you mean to tell us fashion does actually give back? [Fashion Week Daily]
• What has Elizabeth Hurley been up to? "I'm still working on my bikini line, but I've also started to work on my organic farming." Of course she has. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Don't you just hate when the claim that your overpriced line of yoga wear is made from seaweed turns out not to be true? [NYT]
• Tiffany's is after eBay, saying it is not doing anything to crack down on sellers of counterfeit Tiffany's baubles. [WSJ]
• Burberry profits are up 31%. They credit "accessories" which is investor relations speak for "accessibly priced crap that comes in that signature plaid, duh." [FT]
• Says fashion designer/sister of fashion photographer Mario Testino of the strong creative genes in their family: "I have a brother in Paris who works with Mario, a sister in New York who is an interior designer, another sister in Peru who designs jewellery but also works with Mario - in fact we all do a bit - we're his slaves!" Um, nevermind. Not strong genes. Strong chains. [Vogue UK]
• Prada. Limited edition. Keychains. Design taken from Prada archives from the '30's. Also, teddy bears. [Vogue UK]

• Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive learned what it really feels like to be "just like us" when she got booted out of Parisian boutique Colette because Victoria Beckham had arrived to shop. And uh, Leive was in the middle of getting changed in the dressing room. Ouch. [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Memo to models: It does not make us like you any more when you say things like, "But my whole family is tall and pretty!". [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Olivier Theyskens is going to restage his S/S 2008 Nina Ricci show in interior designer/cracked out Top Design judge Kelly Wearstler's backyard in Beverly Hills. For breast cancer awareness, naturally. [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Speaking of cancer: Marc Jacobs will be reissuing his skin cancer awareness T-shirts with all our favorite naked (and we assume, lily-white and sunspot-free) tushes from last year — Winona Ryder, Julianne Moore, etc. [WWD, 1st item]

• Marc listed his own outfit on the run-of-show sheet given to all attendees at the Vuitton show. Right down to his Sponge Bob lunchbox. [So can you stop idolizing this freak already? -Moe]Fashion Week Daily]
• French singer Francoise Hardy is probably going to start a clothing line herself. Le why? We would've hoped that the French were more evolved than us, and would have been able to spare themselves from Celebrity Designer Syndrome. [WWD, 2nd item]
• Gucci is partnering with UNICEF, presenting a special, limited-edition bag that will benefit the children's charity. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Apparently redheads have more fun these days. Alert Britney! [Daily Mail]