It has been confirmed that Audrey Tatou will play Coco Chanel in the upcoming movie on her life.It was originally touted to be Demi Moore who would be playing Coco, but I think Audrey is a much better fit for the role. I hope the movie will be in French not English- how cool would it be if Karl Lagerfeld had a cameo??!!
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Check out these awesome shots featured in the latest U.S GQ of Jessica Alba shot by none other than fashion photog Terry Richardson.
Could she scream 'SEX' any louder? She must have like a 1000 stalkers. She's so hot she could make Elton John give up cock... for at least a week.
(Click the title of the post to see the rest of the photos)
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The Herald Sun is reporting that an accused rapist planned to murder Anna Wintour. First Karl and now Anna. Man, it sure is tough at the top.
(I'm having trouble getting that link below to work, so just click on the headline of the post, and it will take you to the full article.)
Anna Wintour, the legendarily frosty and demanding editor-in-chief of style guide American Vogue, was allegedly intended as a victim of accused kidnapper Peter Braunstein.
The New York Post revealed that Braunstein ranted in a personal manifesto, read to a court, about killing Wintour.
He wrote: "So I'll tell you why I'm going to kill Anna Wintour -- because I just feel like it."
Braunstein, a former fashion writer, has admitted dressing as a New York firefighter and setting off two homemade smoke bombs to trick his way into a co-worker's apartment on Halloween, October 31, 2005.
He has confessed to holding a gun to the victim's head, drugging her with chloroform, and then stripping her and binding her to her bed.
Wearing a black ski mask, he then raped her over a 13-hour period in her Chelsea apartment in New York.
His defence team argues the acts were committed unintentionally because of his severe mental illness.
Braunstein was earlier sacked as a fashion media critic for Women's Wear Daily after causing a fuss when he found he'd received only one ticket to the Vogue Fashion Awards.
Braunstein penned his manifesto in the months leading up to the attack on his co-worker at Fairchild Publications.
The New York Post reported that no details of Braunstein's were disclosed in court, apart from his saying that Wintour's death was to be up close and personal.
Wintour is widely believed to have been the inspiration for the fashion editor in The Devil Wears Prada, a character played in the hit film by Meryl Streep.
The Post said that according to parts of the manifesto, read aloud in the jury's absence in Manhattan Supreme Court, Braunstein wrote that just shooting Wintour would be "too impersonal".
Braunstein also reportedly celebrated late '70s serial killer Son of Sam (David Berkowitz) and the Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
The New York Post said that Braunstein had also admired Andrew Cunanan for his 1997 Miami Beach murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
And he even applauded fictional killer Hannibal Lecter as an important criminal literary figure "because of his intellect".
Last week, jurors also heard about Braunstein's loathing for Wintour, the Post reported.
He wrote that she "just never talked to peons like us . . . It was beneath her. And all the while I'm thinking 'Who is this skank?' "
He said she played up a "let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette-style regal attitude, but "all she does is edit a magazine -- that's it. So what's with the royalty routine?"
Braunstein also wrote: "Wintour will be escorted by eunuchs to a place in Hell run entirely by large rats. Even Satan can't get in there, because he and the rats had a falling-out a couple of millennia ago.
"The rats, apparently, are unionised and Satan tried to break the union; there's been a lot of bad blood ever since."
The trial continues.
WTF?! That shit is crazy. At least the people who wanted to kidnap Karl Lagerfeld had a purpose. This guy is just nuts. But I'm sure Anna has dealt with enough nut jobs in her time... she does work in the fashion industry.
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Kate Moss is in the new issue of W magazine in a photo shoot by the up and coming Ryan McGinley. I'm too busy to write anything clever about the shoot so I thought I'd let Kate talk for herself.
"I feel like I become somebody else when I do the pictures. I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into somebody different." Kate Moss
"I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing." Kate Moss
"I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model." Kate Moss
"I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare." Kate Moss
"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would." Kate Moss
Who knew Kate had so many wise words to share?
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Karl Lagerfeld was guest photog for the French Magazine Madame Figaro this month. And because he does nothing by halves (well besides his meals) he's ensured the mag is jam packed with more celebrity photos than hamburgers David Hasselhoff has eaten off his bathroom floor. The photos are part of a Cannes Film Festival special. The magazine contains 60 pages of photos and 9 pages of behind the scenes shots.
Some of the lucky bitches to be shot by Karl include- Jack Nicholson, Isabelle Huppert, David Lynch, Benicio Del Toro, Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann, Gérard Depardieu, Milla Jovovich, Julie Delpy, Vanessa Paradis, Emmanuell Béart, Charlotte Rampling, Monica Bellucci, François Ozon, Audrey Tautou, Cate Blanchett, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Matthieu Kassovitz, Diane Kruger, Jane Birkin, Faye Dunaway and a big pile of French actors you've never heard of.
And because Karl is such an exclusive bitch, the magazine was only on sale for 1 day.
I love the photo of him on the front cover. He looks like he's posing for promotion shots of his new telemovie- 'Murder On the Movie Set'.
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Bjork is on the cover of the May issue of i-D magazine in a crazy Zoolu inspired knitted outfit, with painted face, carrying a stick I assume she found on the way to the shoot. I don't know what else to say about the look. It's nothing if not expected from Bjork. The woman certainly walks to the beat of her own fashion drum. And I think it's great. I was such a fan of her swan dress at the Academy Awards. I thought it was the coolest outfit. And the over-the-top response it received, was so symptomatic of how conservative a LOT of Americans are when it comes to fashion.
The Oscars have not been the same without Bjork. We need to get her nominated next year. Then she could turn up in something as equally crazy as 'the Swan' and show all those boring actresses in chiffon how it's really done. It's gonna have to be something big to top the her last effort. I'm thinking something inspired by the withered vagina of Laura Bush. Just a big floppy, guant looking thing, that really parallels with the country, what happens when you get fucked by George W. Bush. And on her head she could wear a giant hat made out of the pubic hair of slaughtered Iraqis. Something that really makes a statement. And just for the hell of it, maybe she could pair the whole outfit with a necklace made out of the empty pockets of fired steel workers. Just a thought. Joan Rivers would literally shit herself.
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"I've got this reputation for being a bit of sex maniac and things like that, and I'm not. I love that Jean Shrimpton quote: 'Sex has never been high on my list of priorities'."
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD (The Guardian Weekend)
Does anyone really think Vivienne Westwood is a sex maniac? I mean, no offence to the woman- I love her- but the first image I think of when someone says 'sex maniac' isn't her. The woman has horns growing out of her head for gods sake! And she's like 100 years old. Can you even have sex once you've been through 'the pause'?
I think in the interest of everyone who is able to have sex, Vivienne just needs to keep her legs, and mouth, shut. I know it's harsh, but, it just makes everyone feel a lot more comfortable. As Samantha Jones from Sex and the City said in that episode where she finds a grey pube, and confronts Carrie about it, "no one wants to fuck grandma's pussy." Ahmen to that!
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This is for Lily Allen's new collection at New Look in the UK.
Check it out.
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According to WWD.com, Penelope Cruz and her sister Monica are set to design a range of clothing for Spanish retail chain MNG. Along with the "25-piece collection, including accessories...they also will be the new faces of the retailer's fall-winter 2007 advertising campaign. Cruz and her sister, a dancer and TV actress on a "Fame"-like series called "Un Paso Adelante," already design a collection of jewelry and handbags for the Japanese retail chain Samantha Thavasa."
When will the madness stop? Who's going to be the next to join the ranks of celebrity designers- Rosanne Barr?! Who'd have thought it was so easy to design clothes? Why are these big design houses paying millions of dollars to talented people like Hedi Slimane and Phoebe Philo, when apparently anyone with a celebrity profile and killer smile can do it? Gucci's looking to freshen up their house- someone give Bai Ling a call ASAP! Oh and Karl Lagerfeld don't worry about finding yourself a successor, I have the perfect guy- Jerry O'Connell! Remmember he was the fat kid in 'Stand By Me' and he was in that TV show Sliders. He's kind of famous and he's going out with Rebecca Romijn (previously Rebecca Romijn Stamos) so surely you'd get her in the front row of the show!
P.S. Keep an eye out for the range I'm designing for Target Uzbekistan- it's inspired by the peasant chic look I'm so well known for.
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