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Albany Starts To Wonder at Paterson [NYS]
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Lindsay Lohan claims the girl caught on camera phone performing fellatio on her ex-boyfriend Calum Best isn't her, but her friends don't believe her. Former model Bruce Hulse wrote a book about his escapades with female models, including the time he shot down Elle Macpherson and had a wild fling with Paulina Porizkova. Renée Zellweger says her hair has been dyed so many times "she's amazed it's still attached to my head, by the grace of God." David Lynch is donating $1 million in scholarships for kids to learn how to do yoga and meditate. Winona Ryder may or may not have been busted shoplifting again, this time makeup from CVS. Chris Rock joked that he's worried about Barack Obama becoming president because he doesn't think a black woman can be First Lady. Fashionista Boaz Mazor was given a summons after getting into an argument with police over an improper turn his driver made. Comedy writer Buck Henry (The Graduate) has been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer. PageSix.com was shuttered either because the economy stinks or everyone who worked there hated each other. Excitable conservative pundit Rachel Marsden has applied to be a senior publicist at Maxim but probably won't get the job. Jonathan Rhys Meyers told Cindy Adams that tabloids make him out to be worse than he is to sell more newspapers.
Tagline: "We're making a play about vampires. It's not like they're real … are they?"
Translation: We made a movie about hipsters. But distribute it anyway … will you?
The verdict: It was just a few months ago that this indie production was shooting, but there's already a slickly produced trailer, made presumably to raise interest among distributors in a movie that — let's face it — is about hipsters. An aimless, bearded ladies' man gets hooked up by his doctor dad to direct a play in the East Village? The film's directed by Domino lead singer Jordan Galland, with music by Sean Lennon? So hipstery. So we really wanted to hate this trailer but were kind of won over by it nonetheless. It's funny; it's handsome to look at; it stars Artie Bucco from The Sopranos, Dustin Hoffman's kid, and Ralph Macchio. And it establishes the creeping horror of a once-legitimate neighborhood being overtaken by soulless, pale, black-clad, nocturnal monsters. You know, vampires.
When rich men smile at you like this, it's time to run.Photo: Getty Images
A newspaper analyst estimates that the paper is worth something in the range of $400 million and is probably a lucrative venture, based on its Long Island circulation base. Considering how well Zuckerman and Murdoch know the newspaper business (nobody knows it better than Rupert, sure, but the Post is a routine money loser and the News is profitable), it's hard to imagine that Dolan would come out on top in this bidding war. Plus, the competitive edge it would give in New York's tabloid war is incalculable — which means the two print giants have more at stake.
We've always liked Newsday. Their reporting is expert, clever, and sober. It also indulges in less tabloid shock appeal and use of outrageous puns. They sometimes write in lowercase letters, even. We worry a little about what it would become in the hands of the News or Post brass. Do New Yorkers really need more tabloid covers with cop funerals on them? Or hero strippers? Your parents live on Long Island, for Pete's sake.
Three New York Moguls in Talks to Buy Newsday [NYT]
STARTING TODAY
• Patricia Field is overflowing with spring goodies so it's having a sidewalk sale to get rid of winter merchandise. Only today and tomorrow, find racks and buckets full of stuff for just $5, $10, and $20. On Saturday, they’ll serve spiked lemonade. 302 Bowery, nr. Bleecker St. (212-966-4066); Fri. and Sat. (4–8).
ENDING TODAY
• Prep for beach vacations at the J Rosen Showroom which offers deals on swimwear, flip-flops, and jewelry from Vix, Lisa Curran, and Debbie Katz; cover-ups were $140 to $250 but are now $30 to $80. 250 W. 39th St., nr. Seventh Ave., Ste. 510 (212-221-2349); cash only; through 3/21 (9–8).
STARTING TOMORROW:
• Freemans Sporting Club has suits, button-downs, and jackets on sale starting at 40 percent off. 8 Rivington St., nr. Bowery (212-673-3209); Mon.–Fri. (noon–8); Sat. (11–8); Sun. (noon–6).
ENDING TOMORROW
• The once-a-year Hermès of Paris sample sale ends tomorrow. Both men’s and women’s collections will be marked down. Through 3/22. Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 W. 18th St., nr. Sixth Ave., fourth fl.; Wed. (10–6), Thurs. (10–8), Fri. and Sat. (10–6).
• Stock up on jeans at the Elizabeth Charles sale, where you can find up to 40 percent off all 18th Amendment and Karen Walker denim. Through 3/22. 639 ½ Hudson St.; (212-243-3201). Tues.–Sat. (noon–7:30); Sun. (noon–6:30); closed Mon.
• The Project No. 8 sale offers clothes by Loeffler Randall, Maison Martin Margiela, and Tucker for 50 to 80 percent off. Through 3/22. 215 Centre St., nr. Grand St. (212-219-1693); 4–8.
STARTING SUNDAY
• Bloomingdale's Soho invites shoppers to get a La Mer mini–eye treatment. So hurry to schedule an appointment. Bloomingdale's Soho, 504 Broadway, nr. Broome St. (212-729-5127); 11–7.
ENDING SUNDAY
• All men’s and women’s clothes and accessories from Ro, Mayle, and John Richmond that go for $140 to $250 are whittled down to $29.99 at the Misorena sale. 260 Fifth Ave., nr. 28th St. (212-725-5400); Mon.–Fri. (10–7); Sat. and Sun. (11–6).
• The green trend hits the sales department, as (eco)mpassion's “carbon-neutral designer sample sale” starts. Find up to 90 percent off Joe’s Jeans, People’s Liberation, Citizens of Humanity, and more. Five percent of sales are donated to Trees for the Future. Through 3/23. 2 Great Jones St., nr. Broadway; 12–8.
• Denim and select designer apparel is 35 to 80 percent off at the Art of Shop spring Soho sample sale. Find Seven for All Mankind and Monarchy in the denim section; a selection of spring items by Versace, Costume National, and Just Cavalli are expected, too. Through 3/23. 76 Greene St., nr. Spring St.; Thurs. (2–7), Fri.–Sun. (11–7).
For more deals, check out our Sales & Bargains calendar.
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Truth Will Set Four Free: Tina Fey, Christopher Guest, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Hodgman have joined the cast of Ricky Gervais's This Side of the Truth. Upon hearing Hodgman was cast in a Ricky Gervais movie, Justin Long angrily crashed his CPU. [HR]
James Seeing Green: Tony-nominated Brian d'Arcy James (Sweet Smell of Success) will play the lovable green ogre in Broadway's Shrek, opening November 8. Joining him are Crybaby's Chester Gregory II as Donkey and John Tartaglia as Pinocchio. To get into character, James promises to eat sticks, shower only in mud, and watch I Am Legend's six-minute Shrek scene on loop. [Playbill]
Mr. Show Guys Back: All those worthless internet petitions have paid off, sort of, as David Cross and Bob Odenkirk will return to HBO in a new comedy pilot, David's Situation. Show features Cross playing himself, and he moves to the suburbs with a liberal hippie and a right-wing conservative for roommates. [HR]
Garth Is the Girl: Jennie Garth will play the female lead in CBS' comedy pilot My Best Friend's Girl, created by 7th Heaven's Brenda Hampton. Pilot centers on two best friends, one of whom falls in love with the other's ex-wife (played by Garth). Good job, Jennie — way to dash our hopes that Kelly Taylor will be part of 902102. [HR]
Comedy: Potter Puppet Pals in "The Mysterious Ticking Noise"
Series: The Guild, Episode 1
Short Film: My Name Is Lisa
Honestly, the last one might make you cry too.
The same group is behind Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, a fake Japanese talk show that will also offend you or basely amuse you or both. Thank god someone's still doing edgier work than "Stuff White People Like."
There is overwhelming demand from customers and members for coverage of celebrity, movies and music. According to PQ Media, the market for outsourced entertainment news content is set to rise by 77% by 2011 to $960 million. So, increasing our entertainment coverage provides an opportunity to give them more of the content they want and to increase revenue at the same time...
The entertainment vertical is not about gossip, unnamed sources and innuendo or about "peephole" journalism with AP photographers becoming paparazzi. It’s about recognizing an opportunity to use our journalistic talent and unmatched network of resources to produce high quality, multimedia coverage in an area of growing interest. AP’s high editorial standards and news values will continue to be observed, honored and practiced. That makes good business sense, too: In a realm in which gossip and innuendo abound, particularly on the Web, our standards establish us as the trusted, authoritative voice on entertainment for all our members and customers.
Declining to offer "gossip, unnamed sources and innuendo" in celebrity news is like writing about sports without talking about the score or about business without dollar figures. Plus it's just boring, and there's no $1 billion market for this type of boring.
New York State Voters Have High Hopes For New Gov [Quinnipiac]
A projection of Paula on October 31.Photo composite: Getty Images, Courtesy of Bravo
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency was supposed to be beginning.
But when the TV movie starring soul singer Jill Scott debuts on the BBC Sunday night, it'll mark the end of Anthony Minghella's...
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Remember back when you were still a mysterious high-class escort, captured for posterity on what looked to be a pretty swanky yacht? You'd just been revealed by the press as the lady behind the downfall of the state's highest executive and we were enthralled. Who were you? From where did you hail? What were your hopes and dreams? The exact size of your breasts? Was your hooker heart at all gold in color? We wanted to know everything. And now? Now we're sort of over you. Maybe it was the growing avalanche of low-rent nudie pics of you available everywhere that tainted you for us, or perhaps it was your slurry-looking underaged appearance in that Girls Gone Wild video. Possibly it was just the trucker hat you were wearing in it. But we can't seem to muster up any interest in whether producer Joe Francis will release it or bow to pressure from your lawyers to shelve it. Trucker hats! Joe Francis! Oh dear … so much for the ritzy hooker motif. What's the most important thing to remember during your fifteen minutes of fame? Overexposure can happen in under ten. Thanks for the memories though!
Love,
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Related: All Daily Intel posts regarding the rise and fall of the hooker once known as "Kristen"
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2. Men Without Pants, "And the Girls Go"
In truth, we haven't even listened to this MP3 yet; we just liked the band's name. Luckily, Dan the Automator is a member, so it's probably not bad. [Stereogum]
3. Mystery Jets, "Half in Love With Elizabeth"
Here's the second-best song on the MJ's new album (thought it is the one with the best title). [Dead Flowers]
4. British Sea Power, "No Lucifer" (live on Letterman)
The Brighton, England, weirdos perform their latest single for Dave, Paul Shaffer, and anyone lucky enough to be watching Monday's Letterman. Man, we wish we'd TiVoed this. [Culture Bully]
5. Lil Wayne, "Westwood Freestyle"
In case you were under the impression that every word that comes out of Wayne's mouth is brilliant, here are a few that aren't. [Nah Right]
Last night Kimora Lee Simmons launched her new fragrance, Fabulosity. So we hit the bash, cameras in tow. What, we had to know, does Kimmy smell like? "An exotic, fruity, floral, exotic, sensuous, hot, sexy — I hope! I smell like Fabulosity. I smell fabulous." There's more! What's the biggest jewel in Kimora's box? Watch the video to find out.
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Poll says Red Sox more popular statewide than lowly Knicks [NYDN]
Poll: Bush's popularity hits new low [CNN]
Photo Illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images, Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Law & Order Gets Served: Ravi Batra, a bald, ethical Manhattan lawyer, is suing the creators of Law & Order over a 2003 episode featuring a corrupt lawyer, also bald and named Ravi, who he claims could not have been modeled on anyone but him. A judge is allowing the case to move forward, because every other lawyer named Ravi has long, beautiful hair. [City Room/NYT]
No Word Yet on the Egg Hunt: An Atlanta judge is allowing T.I. — who's been under house arrest since October on weapons charges — to attend Easter services this Sunday, and for that we can all truly be thankful. [AP]
Idol Creator Does CW Hospital Show: The CW is picking up Austin Golden Hour, a medical drama produced by American Idol creator Simon Fuller. The show's action will apparently happen in real time and focus on a Texas hospital's surgeons and EMTs as they sleep together and fill out paperwork. [Variety]
So This A-Team Movie Nonsense Is Actually Happening?: Apparently! Jon Singleton's A-Team movie has just been given a release date, June 12, 2009, on which it will open against several other negligible films which do not feature someone playing Mr. T. (presumably). [Variety]
Kylie Minogue is ready to get back into the heads of her U.S. fans.
The Australian songbird will release her latest album, X, in the States on April 1, her record label announced Thursday.
The...
Heatherette's M.A.C linePhoto: Courtesy of M.A.C Cosmetics
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• Organic Apoteke's Rejuvenating face cream is made from four pounds of rose petals. You can find it at Henri Bendel. Doesn't sound all that ecofriendly. [Style.com]
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Murdoch making a play for Newsday [Crain's NY]
Good Friday came a day early for T.I.
The rapper, who's been under house arrest for the better part of five months, got some great news Thursday as a federal judge approved his request to...
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Our enjoyment of the show was briefly interrupted when we accidentally elbowed the wrong uptight hipster, and he tried to fight us, which was awkward because we're tall and, you know, not a dude. Another guy tried to defend our honor, and the tussle sparked an honest-to-goodness mosh pit, which momentarily cleared the floor, much to the band's surprise. There were no hard feelings, though, and Witch closed with riff-y stoner anthem "Seer," thrilling all those in attendance. Before calling it a night, singer-guitarist Kyle Thomas leaned over fans in the front row and joked that the band couldn't do an encore because they didn't know any more songs on their set list. —Elizabeth Cline
Justin Giunta in his workshop — this is where the magic happens. It's like a crafty bat cave, no?Photo: Melissa Hom
Your pieces incorporate a lot of different elements, endlessly unique charms and baubles and chains. What’s your inspiration?
It’s a condensed version of the key points of my aesthetic, and that goes back to that first foam-core-board collection. There were five narratives that went into the Target collection: There was this planetary theme, the cactus-desert-safari-summertime look, the birds and bees, the bohemian romantic moment, and then this Bauhaus very constructed moment.
We've never wanted so badly to be a mannequin.Photo: Melissa Hom
Where do you find materials?
I go all over the world to flea markets and warehouses and dig through dirt, oil, and grease to find this stuff!
You’ve got to cater to a pretty broad consumer base with Target; the fashionistas in New York are going to be a lot different from those shopping in the Midwest. What do you think is going to sell in the stores here versus, say, those in Iowa?
I think the pieces that will sell the most here are the most classic pieces. When I approached Target with the idea, I expressed that I can design something with just one charm and one chain if need be. I think those pieces will do really well here. Iowa will be about the bright colors, big, long bead strands, the kinds that you would see at Barneys but couldn’t afford. We’ll also do well in the Midwest with some of our solid metallic necklaces in gold and silver.
Tri-strand cluster necklace, $59.99.Photo: Melissa Hom
Your jewelry markets to individuals who really love to wear that one bold, standout piece. Do you think this signature-piece trend will last?
I think signature pieces will always last; they’re collectible, and people are likely to invest in jewelry. You can wear it with jeans, or you can wear it with a couture gown. You could be fat, you could be ugly, you can be insecure about anything — but when people are engaged by an amazing piece of sparkle around your neck, they are going to love you. It’s a security blanket for most people, and that’s a good thing.
Lucite cuffs, $14.99 each.Photo: Melissa Hom
What do trends do you wish would just disappear into the ether?
Tight jeans! I’m over skinny jeans; they make people look gangly. They wear big tops and skinny bottoms and they look disproportionate.
What look can you not stand seeing on the street?
Nothing! A source of my inspiration living in New York is always seeing the diversity. The last thing I want is to homogenize New York City.
What trend is going to be big in spring?
Flowers! It’s this dichotomy between earthly pleasures like fauna and flora finding their way into prints with a cut-and-cropped assemblage. It’s an established sense of the future — moving into space, into glitter, into a streamlined look at the same time keeping that nostalgia for the organic.
Who’s your favorite designer?
I’m a big Viktor & Rolf fan. For about eight years they made collections that were completely conceptual and unwearable. That helped really bridge the gap between design and art — for whatever that’s worth.
And who do you actually wear the most?
Dries Van Noten. I’m all Dries, all the time.
Justin creates some sort of glorious madness.Photo: Melissa Hom
What’s your signature item?
Sunken-treasure necklace is my iconic piece. It’s really about the formula of what we stand for as far as taking old things and putting them back together to make it look like you’ve sourced an entire jewelry box on your neck.
What can’t you live without?
Paper towels.
—Irina Aleksander
Subversive is available for purchase online or at Target stores starting Sunday.
Carroll Gardens: A cracked building that looks like it might collapse any minute is a scary thing, no? This one's at 170 Smith, where emergency scaffolding has been put up. [Gowanus Lounge]
East Village: The former CBGB's Gallery, at 313 Bowery, won't become a bank branch after all…it's staying a gallery. [Stupefaction]
Greenpoint-Maspeth: The "traffic-choked" Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Queens, won't become a landmark after all, clearing the way for a new and better bridge. [NYDN]
Harlem: Was that really Karl Lagerfeld and his entourage on 122nd Street yesterday and today? And if so, where was his new muse, Amy Winehouse? [Uptown Flavor]
Lower Manhattan: Steel shoring will replace the timber bracing that's been holding up the handsome nineteenth-century Leaning Tower of Broadway at Reade Street, which has listed eight inches to the south since work started last spring on a big twenty-story condo next door. [NYT via Curbed]
South Slope: Brownstone-y dweller of the Slope, don't sneer at those parvenus moving into the big new boxes down on Fourth Avenue...they're your very own neighbors! [NYS]
Courtesy of CBS
So, this sounds gross! Do you want to take your kids to Six Flags and have them picking shattered skull fragments out of a bloody baseball bat? Except that CBS claims the attraction will be family-friendly: "The crime will not be a murder," says a rep of the network's consumer-products division. We're just looking forward to HBO's licensing The Wire for an attraction in which audience members wander the scene of the crime, communicating solely through the word "fuck" and exposing the secrets of the killing.
'CSI' tapes off amusement park [Variety]
From left, Madonna at the Revolver New York
premiere in December; at the Berlin Film Festival in
February.Photo: Getty Images
Now, Madge must love the shoes as much as we do, because she wore them again to the Berlin Film Festival in February. We had to have them. We rang up Dior to find out which shelves they're hiding these gems on. Yeah, try European shelves, because these exact babies aren't available in the U.S. But you can snag a slightly different style at the 57th Street Dior boutique for just $990. They're black, shiny grained goatskin with white stripes. Okay, so they're not the same as Madge's but close enough. And, sure, they're like a month's rent, but it's a small price to be like Madonna. Or her feet.
Image: Sarah Lynch’s Untitled No. 1 (2003).Courtesy of the artist and Klompching Gallery
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May 22, 2002: An untrained forklift operator driving near the edge of the windowless eighth floor at the Time Warner Center site falls to his death.
November 18, 2002: Buildings commissioner convenes "construction-safety summit" with trades groups.
September 26, 2003: An unpermitted company dismantles a 40-story crane at 37th and Third Avenue after hours, then runs a crane two weeks later across town with no penalty.
October 1, 2004: New rules subject untrained crane operators to up to $100,000 fines and six months in jail.
September 30, 2006: Steel rigging falls off a crane at 110 Third Avenue and onto a taxicab. Five people get hurt.
October 1, 2006: New cranes and derricks standards match national standards for ropes, safety gadgets, and operations.
July 23, 2007: New rules require a licensed rigger, who previously only had to file papers on job, to be present "at the jump" when a crane starts operation.
October 17, 2007: A crane swings out of control at One Bryant Park, injuring six.
December 14, 2007: A crane swings a load of metal studs onto an architect at the Goldman Sachs tower site in Battery Park City.
February 13, 2008: Buildings announces "more proactive inspections across the five boroughs than at any time in the Department's history."
January 14, 2008: Concrete splits a wooden support at the 42nd floor of the Trump Soho site, sending a worker to his death
March 15, 2008: Seven people die when a crane falls at 51st Street and Second Avenue.
March 19, 2008: The city, which employs eight crane inspectors, orders a "safety sweep" of all 253 cranes in the field. —Alec Appelbaum
Updated: Today, Investigation commissioner Rose Gill Hearn told reporters that Edward Marquette, the Department of Buildings inspector who filed a report saying he'd checked out the crane on 51st Street, actually hadn't done so. He has now been arrested. Buildings commissioner Patricia Lancaster took the heat as she has throughout her six-year tenure, saying she was "so, so sorry" but remaining doubtful that an actual inspection would have averted the disaster.
Spare the Rod, do what you want with the child.
So, more or less, say lawyers for Rod Stewart as they seek to get the sexagenarian rocker removed as a defendant on a lawsuit filed against...
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Is it scary up on the floating sofa?
The scariest moment for me is in the seventh scene when I’m doing the torture bit — okay, it’s not a “bit” — but when I do the torture scene and then I completely undress and redress in the dark and then lay down on the sofa. It’s scary simply because I’m in a very vulnerable position emotionally, and I’m in a vulnerable position physically since I have to actually scoot over to the edge of the couch. So as I’m putting on my pajamas I’m thinking to myself, One of these days I’m gonna end up on the floor.
The play has the potential to be a major controversy magnet. What's been the response so far?
Responses have not been so contentious in nature — I mean, I wish they were! With the audiences we've been playing to, the skew is toward preaching to the choir. I mean, if people walk away thinking, "Wow, we are so controlling, and we don’t let people breathe and we don’t let people do what they want to do, but at the same time, that behavior has allowed us to live the life that we have chosen to live — this is why I have a couch and an apartment and a piano and a chair and coffee in my cup," if it creates that kind of conversation, that’s great.
Do real-world foreign-policy developments affect how you play the role?
Not in terms of character choices, no. To us it’s about two men in love with each other. It doesn’t matter to us that Sam might be seen as abusive or controlling or scared or pioneering or industrial or whatever adjective you might think of — to me, Sam is desperately in love with Guy and needs Guy to complete his being, his soul. When Sam references interfering with other countries — putting up propaganda posters or preventing elections or meddling in South Korea or Guatemala — those are all ways of impressing Guy.
I have to ask: Any chance of a Gilmore Girls or a Tenth Kingdom movie?
They talked about a Tenth Kingdom movie years ago, but they couldn’t figure out how to get it done. That was a shame, I thought. I've heard talk through the press that there’ve been conversations about a Gilmore Girls one. [Series creator] Amy Sherman-Palladino's coming to the play this week, so I’ll probably bring it up with her.
One of your fan sites combines your birthplace and your Tenth Kingdom character’s name and calls you the "Bronx Wolf."
Wolf was such a wonderful, wonderful character that it’s hard to let go. I tried to get people interested in a second movie for years, and Simon Moore wrote a treatment, but the ratings on NBC were not as good as they wanted them to be — though if you compare them to ratings now, I think they were probably fantastic! But there are so many other things that have gone on since then that have been equally interesting. This play is one of the best things I’ve ever done. I feel very lucky that I’ve been able to work with Caryl, who is, I think, a genius — somebody who brings you back to the joy of the work. She is not a mimic, she doesn’t copy anybody. You feel like part of a creation, and there are very few people out there like that. —Mac Rogers
And, no, we will not pick up where they left off, so don't even ask.
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At least the upstairs mural is lovely.Photo: nytimes.com
Signs of corruption, everywhere. Alligator trunks and bandboxes hurled into careless piles on the floor, as if by stoned porters. Leather clutches in vegetal greens and purples tossed in disarranged piles in a glass case, as if on Bijou Phillips’s closet floor.
We would never toss anything from Prada with the carelessness of a "stoned porter." We mean, each item in that store is worth a plane ticket to Spain. Despite the mess Wilson tried on clothes with the help of — who else? — Zelda.
Kudos to Zelda for up-selling, but it rubbed Wilson the wrong way. Considering the door on her dressing room didn't lock, she was justifiably disgruntled:
Knock, knock. “How’s it going?”The door slid open. I loathe being barged in on while half dressed.
“We can alter that. Try this!” Zelda handed me a shirt I had rejected with her earlier.
She left the door open. Male sales assistants stomped by. I dug to find the items I wanted.
Knock, knock.
“Yes?” (Translation: “Come in! Bring a guest!”)
I stood in my camisole as Zelda exposed me to the seamstress: a small woman with a pin-filled tomato on her wrist.
“She’s leaving,” Zelda cried. “Can you come back tomorrow?”
“Yes. Could I get some clothes on, please?”
“Oh!”
Zelda left the door wide open. A construction engineer in work boots walked by. I tried the lock again.
The atmosphere deterred Wilson from buying anything. But it's good to know the Prada store really isn't as intimidating as we thought. Only the dressing rooms are.
Better Angel, Out of the Dressing Room! [NYT]
Amanda Overmyer's problem was that she was a square—"a square peg in a round hole."
An admittedly exhausted Overmyer told reporters Thursday that she knew her American Idol time...
He also likes finger painting.Photo composite: iStockphoto
I am looking for men 20s-40s who are painters that ideally have their own studios, and have exhibited at galleries and can say that this is their avocation. Men should be between 20-40. Should be 5'9-6'2 in height. A magazine will feature them in a July fashion story that is about NY-based painters. The photo shoot will be April 9th and 10th. The magazine would like to photograph men in their actual studios. Shoot will be 3-4 hours one of the above mentioned dates.
So budding Basquiats might want to hop to it and send your info and a photo to alm.2834111@gmail.com. And when, just coincidentally, your work starts showing at Gagosian, try not to forget the little people who helped you out along the way. We'll be there in the back of the room, beaming with pride.
Britney Spears' driving-without-a-license case has been steered off course once again.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday postponed the troubled pop star's long-pending trial...
From left, the Star Print! The Kate Face! The Clown Top! The Horror! The Horror!Images courtesy of Topshop.
In part, Kate’s new range is more of the same as last time – tight jeans, hot pants, lace-up skinny trousers, and fringed, garish waistcoats. In addition to feeling very Last Summer at Glastonbury, these are all versions of things we’re pretty sure Kate acquired long ago from actual designers and has already worn to one of her infamous birthday orgies. It's surprising that Kate would return to the same well once again. Of course, it’s also surprising that she seems to believe the average Topshop customer would want to wear hot pants and a silk tailcoat, but perhaps we're just on the wrong side of the pond. Despite what the untouched racks of Kate Moss gear at Barneys may suggest, her lines tend to do pretty well across the pond. But maybe the kids in London have finally tired of dressing like extras from a Rockettes ode to Royal Ascot — the Daily Mail notes that, contrary to launches past, this time around there were no crowds waiting to see Kate's latest.
There’s also a new problem in the mix: Though we are at least vaguely amused by her crazy copycat clothes, Kate unfortunately happens to be a pretty dull designer once she runs out of stuff in her closet to remake. The line has been haphazardly fleshed out with everything from flimsy Old Navy–style tees to run-of-the-mill strappy dresses and boring tanks, pausing occasionally to include stuff that is intriguing but only in how completely random it is. Standout disasters in that vein include a blue “star print blouse” that we’re pretty sure Bea Arthur once wore on Maude, and a silk monochrome mess called a “clown frill long-sleeved top,” which is guaranteed to suck in all those ladies who’ve long dreamed of a gig making balloon animals at the Met Costume Institute Ball.
All of these sartorial attempts might be considerably more entertaining were it not for the inflated cost of each piece — think Forever 21 quality at Banana Republic prices. Kate even hopes you’ll pay twenty pounds – upwards of $40 – for a T-shirt with her face on it, a venture which has likewise already been explored by another fine designer: Paris Hilton. When you’re Kate freaking Moss and you’re nibbling at Paris’s sloppy seconds, it’s time for a little self-examination.
Just looking at Kate’s lackluster collection fills us with terrible dread about the myriad celebrity vanity collections coming down the pike, like Rachel Bilson for DKNY or Avril Lavigne’s line for Kohl’s (not that we ever had very high hopes for that one, unless it’s solely a line of hoodies and girl ties). Granted, we may not be the biggest Kate Moss fans — can you tell? — but we'll give her this: She has spent the last fifteen years modeling exceptional, trend-setting clothing for top designers and being surrounded by skilled fashion professionals. If she hasn’t picked up anything along the way, what hope can we have for Pete Wentz? —The Fug Girls
Earlier: Kate's Topshop Line: Perfect Clothes for the Hungry and Sullen
Further adventures in celebrity design:
Rachel Bilson Designs Line for DKNY
Avril Lavigne Launches Tragic Juniors' Brand
Pete Wentz Designs, Wears Women's Clothes
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