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Baaa! 80s Reign at L.A.M.B., Rocker Gwen Stefani's Line

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:34:03 -0400

Gwen Stefani, 39, has kept busy in the last year. First, there was the birth of her second child, Zuma, followed by a huge tour with her recently reunited band, No Doubt. In between she managed to design the Spring ’10 collection for her clothing line, L.A.M.B., named after her first solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby.

The show started fifteen minutes late and everyone looked pretty stressed by the time they were let up...

Fashion Roundup: Anna Wintour Dresses Adele; Madonna and Her New Man in W Mag; Farewell, Pet Fashion Week

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:44:39 -0500

Anna Wintour styled British singer Adele in a black Barbara Tfank dress for the Grammys last night; Hamish Bowles was Adele's date. [Fashionologie]

The new face of Myla lingerie, a position previously occupied by Lydia Hearst, is model and party girl Poppy Delevigne. [WWD]

The male model that Madonna has been spotted with lately appeared in a photo shoot for W magazine with her. [Jezebel]

Pet fashion week has been canceled this spring, but the...

Morning Memo: Chace Crawford's Less Illustrious Past; Gwen Stefani Has a New Son; 1Oak Gets Sued

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:18:37 -0400

When actor Chace Crawford worked as a valet in New York, pre-Gossip Girl days, he was terrified when Suge Knight came in with his car (Mr. Crawford made one of the other valets move it!). [Us Weekly]

Eleanor Wohl will reportedly throw a party on Sunday at her Meadow Lane Estate in honor of Prudential Douglas Elliman chairman Howard Lorber to thank him for helping the Chabad of Southampton in its zoning dispute....

Angelina Jolie's Makeup Artist Found Dead

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:29:35 -0400

Paul Starr, a makeup artist to celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner, was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment yesterday, according to Metro UK.

While the cause of Mr. Starr's death is still undetermined, his friends said that they hadn't seen or heard from Mr. Starr in several days. After knocking on his door repeatedly, police broke down the door and found him dead. Mr. Starr's age was reported...

Morning Memo: Mizrahi Gets Slick; Stefani Changes Form

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:27:16 -0400

Isaac Mizrahi's favorite hair pomade has been discontinued, so naturally he holed up in his apartment and made a lifetime supply of his own, to be called I-Hair. [P6]

Being married to Gwen Stefani means getting used to her untamed fashion sense, or as Gavin Rossdale puts it, "It's like marrying three different people a week, because you never know who's going to come out of the bathroom." [P6]

HarperCollins is suing Victoria Gotti, daughter...

Ex-Chubettes Unite! Former Fat Kids Let It All Out

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:46:08 -0400

Jessica Silk, a wavy-haired, freckled grad student in public health, was sitting at the Organic Grille in the East Village on a recent sun-drenched afternoon, picking at a healthful seitan wrap. “Sometimes I think we can smell one another in a crowd, and not because we have snacks,” she said.

Ms. Silk, 27, was talking about former fat kids, of which she is one. Have you ever noticed how New...

Photo Retoucher to Kidman and Stefani Turns Eye on $5.8 M. Village Townhouse

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:57:21 -0400

The ability to artfully keep Kate Moss’ acne and George Clooney’s wrinkles out of glossy magazines is more lucrative than one might think. Pascal Dangin, the maestro of fashion photo retouching, paid $5.8 million this month for a townhouse at 281 West Fourth Street, in the West Village brownstone dreamland near West 11th Street.

“I saw the house on my way out to an airport, on my way to Europe,”...

Alicia Keys Dates Herself at Rock 'n' Roll Benefit

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:55:41 -0400

“You know service is the best Prozac, or any drugs that are out there for stress. Service! It’s cheap, it’s good!” AIDS activist and Keep A Child Alive founder Leigh Blake told audiences yesterday at Condé Nast’s Black Ball in support of her organization.

Ms. Blake, who left school at 14 to follow the Who and subsequently spent her life surrounded by artists like Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and the Talking Heads, knows a thing...

Gwen Stefani Arrives at Hammerstein Ballroom

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:28:06 -0400

Looking something like a zebra, hollaback girl Gwen Stefani just arrived at Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown, where later tonight she will perform with Alicia Keys for the Black Ball 2007. The proceeds from the evening will go to the AIDS charity Keep a Child Alive.

Gwen Stefani Keeps a Child Alive [Just Jared]

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A Disappointing Pharrell Nurses His Contradictions

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400

No figure embodies the ambiguous last decade of popular music quite like Pharrell Williams. His work as the public face of the production duo the Neptunes helped make ecstatic, percussive minimalism the default radio and dance-floor standard. Out of inchoate raw materials—the third-wave gangster rap of Mystikal; the Scandinavian bubblegum of Justin Timberlake; the sunny post-grunge of No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani—Pharrell fashioned a challenging Neptunes sound that’s now the International style of pop. ...

Cher's 'Believe' and Kenny G?! 'I'm a Bride in the Headlights.'

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:12:43 -0400

AIMEE: Brian and I settle in for our final consult with our wedding planner Jennifer Arezzo of A Simple Wish and the barrage of questions begins: menu choices, linens, gift bags, songlist...songlist, stop! Now she's hit a hot-button issue, one we care about deeply. We've got a dancing crowd and the band, which I chose partly because they had played Cal Ripken Jr's wedding years ago and I'm a big Orioles fan (so kill...

The Knitting Factory: Music's New Death Star?

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:55:48 -0500

The new Gwen. Remember the mangy below-stairs bar on Houston Street with all of the smoke-stained sweaters stitched together and slung from the ceiling? For a long time now it's been a multi-stage venue on Leonard Street in Tribeca, and even had a Los Angeles arm that was partly responsible for transforming Gwen Stefani from an imitator of Selecter into an international phenom. Now the place is rolling out little Knitting Factories all over the country. It...

Toga! Toga!

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:34:00 -0500

In December, Barbara Corcoran told The Observer that if she wasn't invited to the Gods and Goddesses-themed holiday party, she would probably crash it. We're actually not sure if Babs ever made it, but from the sound of this "event report," Corcoran CEO Pam Liebman was definitely in control of the festivities. "Liebman then commanded everyone to “have the best time ever,” at which point New Kids on the Block’s “Hangin’ Tough” blared through...

In Today's Salmon Spread: Will Lloyd Grove Go Home?

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:41:00 -0400

In The Transom: The catty front-row seat thieves of fashion week! Salman Rushdie goes off on "philistines" at the New York Public Library! Billioinairess Sheila C. Johnson comes to town, with her checkbook and white wedding shoes! Amanda De Cadenet gets strokes from her Stroke beau at her big gallery opening! Walter Kirn's memoir of bad behavior comes to the big screen! And, of course, The Transom sneaks into Gwen Stefani's show to molest...

Thursday Styles With Tom Scocca: The Way We Eat Now Is Sloppily

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:18:00 -0400

After a brief hiatus for vacation and a string of various Thursday-happening crises, we once again return to Thursday Styles With Tom Scocca, in which The Transom sits on its post-lunch ass in the office 15 feet away from On The Record man Tom Scocca, the New York Observer's media dude, and blathers about the New York Times' Thursday Styles section. Why? Dunno. For better or, most probably, for worse, The Transom is pleased...