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Fashion Roundup: Karl Lagerfeld Discusses the Chanel Runway Show; Naomi Campbell Settles With Ex-Maid; Bill Murray Buys Shoes

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:09:25 -0500

Karl Lagerfeld on this year's Chanel runway show: "We have no budget. We do what we want and throwing money out the window brings money back in through the front door. The bottom line is I don't deal with the bottom line. The luxury in my life is I never have to think about it." [Vogue UK]

The lawsuit between Naomi Campbell and her former maid, whom she reportedly attacked, has been settled. [NY...

Fashion Roundup: Madonna Gets Shot... For Louis Vuitton; Jon Hamm's Adorable Gap Ad; Donna Karan on Dressing the Obamas

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:50:10 -0500

Several sources say that photographer Steven Meisel recently shot Madonna for the spring Louis Vuitton campaign. [WWD]

As everyone scrambles to find new job, the classic interview suit might be making a comeback. [NY Times]

Jon Hamm appears very un-Don Draper-like in the new Gap ads, smiling and being hugged by his girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt. [Racked]

Donna Karan on why she would like to dress the Obamas: “It’s not about her clothes, it’s really about...

Morning Memo: Naomi Campbell Cuts the Line; Oprah Winfrey's Victory Speech Neighbor; Obama to Model?

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:44:28 -0500

Bravely disregarding their own safety, travelers at Kennedy Airport booed temperamental model Naomi Campbell as she cut in front of around 200 people to go to the front of the passport checking line. Ms. Campbell's lawyer says the special treatment was for "security reasons." [R&M]

Sam Perry, the random campaign worker whose shoulder Oprah Winfrey was photographed crying on during Barack Obama's acceptance speech, will appear on her show today. [US Weekly]

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Fashion Roundup: Victoria Beckham Teams Up With Armani; Tom Ford Just Wants to Direct; New Naomi Campbell Photos

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:03 -0400

Victoria Beckham has been announced as the face of Emporio Armani underwear collection for women; her husband, David Beckham, has been modeling for the men's collection. [Vogue UK]

Ms. Beckham is also reportedly running in the New York City marathon this Sunday. [NBC via Racked]

Designer Tom Ford will make his much-awaited directorial debut with A Single Man, an adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, and Matthew Goode. [THR] ...

Fashion Roundup: Gisele Bundchen Selling Jewelry; Was Anna Wintour's Fundraiser a Bust?; Fashion Week Crisis Averted

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:31:51 -0400

Gisele Bundchen is putting several pieces of jewelry—including a colored diamond ring estimated to bring in $15,000 to $20,000, and a diamond pendant necklace estimated to fetch up to $150,000—up for auction at Christie's. The jewelry is believed to be gift from her former boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio. [WWD]

Anna Wintour's Obama fundraiser that also featured Sarah Jessica Parker was disappointing, because 400 guests were packed in like "sardines." But! At least there is a video...

Fashion Roundup: Naomi Campbell's New Brazilian Pad; Salvatore Ferragmo Designing for Nicole Kidman; Kate Moss Gets Golden

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:29:16 -0400

Next week, Opening Ceremony will put American designers aside in favor of featuring young Japanese designers whom owners Humerto Leon and Carol Lim discovered on their travels through Tokyo. [WWD]

Naomi Campbell's billionaire Russian boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, bought her a $18.5 million penthouse in Brazil. [P6]

Tom Ford is co-hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the Beverly Hills home of the Creative Artists Agency’s Bryan Lourd, and Michelle Obama is slated...

Naomi Campbell Dodges Prison Time

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:56:50 -0400

Temperamental supermodel Naomi Campbell was reportedly sentenced to 200 hours of community service this morning and ordered to pay about $5,000 in fines after pleading guilty to assaulting an airline pilot and two police officers in April.

Campbell, who received community service and anger management therapy for attacking her assistant with a cell phone last year (apparently it didn’t take), allegedly subjected British Airways Captain Miles Sutherland to a...

Tempest in a Turban: How Tiny Moi Vexed André the Great

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:28:24 -0400

I felt like such a turd on the night of Monday, June 2. “Turd’” is a very underused word. At some point soon I will dedicate my life to restoring it to popular usage. In the meantime permit me to elaborate on the circumstances that occasioned this unpleasant feeling.

There I was at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at the New York Public Library thinking...

Morning Memo: Rest in Peace, Yves Saint-Laurent

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:39:32 -0400

Designer Yves Saint Laurent died at home in his apartment in Paris yesterday at the age of 71. [NY Times]

Tatum O'Neal, who wrote a memoir in 2004 about her drug addiction, was arrested for buying crack on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning from a homeless man. [NY Daily News]

Lindsay Lohan reportedly passed on a $1 million offer from OK! magazine to do a cover where she "comes out" about her...

Naomi Campbell: Model, Interviewer of South American Heads of State

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0500

Who knew supermodel Naomi Campbell, a relatively new contributing editor at British GQ, would land the Latin-America beat? For her first interview, Ms. Campbell sat down with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez—but that, it now seems, was just the beginning.

Next up: a meeting with Fidel Castro, the increasingly reclusive aging leader of Cuba, which is in the works, according to WWD. (She’s already met the bearded bad boy, back in...

Naomi Campbell Interviews Hugo Chavez For Brit GQ

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:00:21 -0500

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, British GQ’s new contributing editor, kicked things off at the magazine by interviewing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. In the four-page interview, Mr. Chavez talks about his fears that President George W. Bush wants to kill him, his dream to unite South America by 2020 and how the world is currently watching America’s decline.

Ms. Campbell does manage to keep the interview—which will appear in...

Marc Jacobs Looks to Richard Prince for New Louis Vuitton Design Concept

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:00:35 -0500

It seems Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton are spearheading a full-scale revival of the Amazonian supermodel frenzy from the 90’s. In this Style.com clip, Mr. Jacobs, 44, who became creative director of the French fashion label in 1997, explains the aesthetic behind Louis Vuitton’s Spring-Summer 2008 campaign.

According to Mr. Jacobs, the veritable king of cool around these and most other parts, it was his collaboration with artist...

How Haute Living Treats Guests

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:51:00 -0500

Our friends at Curbed already pointed out the "awkward photoshop job." But the awkwardness was not fully realized until diving into The Real Estate's archives. This photo appeared in the promotional materials for Cipriani Club Residences. It was delivered in a handsome tote bag that was given out by children (dressed as old-fashioned paperboys), following Mary J. Blige's performance at 55 Wall Street. Under the original photo the tag reads, "Cipriani Club member Naomi...

Ninja Taught Paris to Walk

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:00:00 -0500

The next time Paris Hilton walks down a runway, seductively hurling one bronzed leg in front of the other, her hair extensions and barely clad hips swishing to the beat of the music, the guys salivating in the audience should know something: Ms. Hilton learned to walk like that from a gay black man living in Flushing, Queens.

His name is Willi Ninja, and if you remember the 90's, you'll remember his name. A fixture...

Naomi Campbell Conquers All, From David Letterman's Green Room

Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Supermodels, particularly this one, are not famous for punctuality, but Ms. Campbell was ahead of schedule. Live television makes her nervous. "You're supposed to say 'Break a leg,' not 'Good luck,'" she cooed into the phone. On the dressing-room sofa sat the hairdresser, waiting his turn with Naomi at the mirror while, like a veteran dance partner, the makeup artist followed whichever way Ms. Campbell swayed–to answer the phone, check a phone number, whatever–without...

He Is Goldie,Hear Him Bore

Sun, 01 Feb 1998 19:00:00 -0500

There was a time when Artistic Overreach was a dreaded but inevitable stage of a performer's career trajectory. Hot on the heels of a colossal mainstream success, a singer or group would respond to the yearning within them to rip up the hit blueprint and leap into the abyss. Thus would follow concept albums, monstrous, sprawling double and triple record sets, stylistic gearshifts into unfamiliar genres and excursions into the realm of classical composition.

However,...