People who have spoken with Mr. Cayne say that he, like everyone at Bear, was stunned by the firm’s precipitous collapse and the rock-bottom price of its sale. In the past weeks, together with his wife, Patricia Cayne, who is a student of Jewish religious traditions, Mr. Cayne has spent considerable time searching for comparable events in religious history to see what lessons can be learned from the collapse of his firm, said a person who has spoken to him recently...
While Mr. Cayne has not publicly said why he sold his shares, people who know him say that it suggests a need to separate himself, emotionally as well as financially, from the firm that for so long had been part of every fiber of his being and that now had become a source of pain and disappointment.
Here's a taste of Wolfe's Croker, from A Man In Full, after his corporate meltdown and religious conversion:
"...You think if only you can acquire enough worldly goods, enough recognition, enough eminence, you will be free, there'll be nothing more to worry about, and instead you become a bigger and bigger slave to how you think others are judging you. 'You have priceless silver and goblets of gold,' said the philosopher, 'but your reason is of common clay.' As of this morning, I am as rich as the richest of you, for I am hereby handing over anything I own, the Croker Global Corporation, every last branch of it..."
"I don't know what you're like," Croker was saying, "but if you're like most uv'us here is Atlanta, you're driving yourself crazy over possessions. Just think about that for a second..."
"I can tell you that the only real possession you'll ever have is your character, that and your 'scheme of life,' you might say. The Manager has given every person a spark from His own divinity, and no one can take that away from you, not even the Manager himself, and from that spark comes your character. Everything else is temporary and worthless in the long run..."
"But you say, 'I'd rather die than sit down beside the road with a Dixie cup, begging.' Do you realize what you're really saying? You're saying, 'It ain't what I'm gonna eat or where I'm gonna stay I'm worrying about, it's saving face, it's what everybody in Buckhead's gon' think about me..."
Times: Down $900 Million or More, the Chairman of Bear Sells
First of all, I just had my gym bag, that's all I had, a little, small, little Louis Vuitton gym bag.
And number two, my boots, they are $2,0000 fucking [unintelligible brand] boots, brah.
And three, as in the words of Lil' Kim, you should get your facts straight or Shut Up, Bitch, because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Preston later said someone had just handed him my cell phone number and told him I was the tipster, and that I should "ignore the text message," which is probably even better but has yet to arrive.
Photo: Getty Images
New York Penn Station Plan Appears to Be Dead [NYSun]
Obama flirted right back. “The reason I bought breakfast is because I expected payback," he said, batting his lashes. "I’m no dummy. The mayor was a cheap date that morning. There are some good steakhouses in this city."
OMG! The crowd thought (we imagine): They're totally going to do it! But alas, according to the Times City Room blog, no. "Despite a few jokes and a stiff embrace," they noted, "the men seemed nothing like two peas in the same political pod." Devastation! We wanted Bloombama almost as much as we wanted Chace Crawford and JC Chasez to be together, or Teri Hatcher and Ryan Seacrest combined. We guess the pressure just got to be too much.
Obama-Bloomberg Speculation Takes Off After Joint Appearance [CityRoom]
If it looks like Dr. Sara Tancredi's head in a box and people say it's her head in a box, and there's no sign of the pretty little neck it was once attached to, doesn't that mean it's...
Hayden Panettiere: inevitable designer.Photo: WireImage
The analysis in sum: Teenagers go nuts for these delebrity (God, now we're saying it) lines, but now that there's so many of them, they're losing their appeal. So retailers keep kids interested by keeping the new lines coming, churning through them to keep up with shortened attention spans. Successful lines are designed by "good girls" like Miley Cyrus, while a "difficult person" like Avril Lavigne, who's "easy to hate," might not do so well (she's working on a line for Kohl's). Also: Hayden Panettiere and America Ferrera are likely to have their own lines soon since teen girls really, really love them. Just accept it now so it stings less when it becomes a reality.
And a random gem: Victoria Beckham hasn't gotten much negative publicity lately, but there are little nuggets to be found.
Fraser Ross, owner of the Los Angeles-based Kitson stores, said his number-one issue with celebrity clothing lines is the lack of participation from the celebrities."There has to be more support for their retailers. The celebrity has to be 100 percent involved with their own line and they have to be willing to support the retailers who are selling it. Having a clothing line should be treated by them as no different than selling an album or promoting a movie," he said. "I'm fighting right now with Victoria Beckham's people because she lives here in L.A., we sell her line and she won't come in here to do an appearance. We have customers asking if she will come in and what am I supposed to tell them? She lives here, she really should come out and support her fans, the people buying her jeans." (Beckham has, however, made numerous personal appearances in other stores that carry her line, recently doing a multicity tour with Saks Fifth Avenue.)
What's one more stop, Posh? Kitson is, like, the Polo Lounge of celeb-shopping pit stops. Who doesn't swing by that place for a photo op? Wear some Christian Siriano and they'll really go nuts.
Fashion Scouts New Talent [WWD]
Photos: Getty Images
How do we know this? Because we saw them literally in talks the other week, at the Edison Café near Times Square. Stone hopes to cast Giamatti as…well, someone. Sadly, the din of theatergoers enjoying pastrami and Matzo ball soup (delicious!) drowned out any hints as to what exact part they were discussing. Giamatti’s a noted chameleon — seriously, who else could play John Adams, Harvey Pekar, and Santa Claus? — so we can definitely picture him as Dick Cheney (we were hoping for Burgess Meredith, alas), though perhaps the likeliest role is puppetmaster Karl Rove. After all, Giamatti claimed he based his villain in unjustly ignored masterpiece Shoot ‘Em Up on Bush’s longtime advisor. We do know one thing — he’s not up for Rumsfeld, since we did hear him ask Stone, "Do you have a Rumsfeld?" — which is now our own personal catchphrase. —Adam Sternbergh
Photo: iStockphoto
• L’Occitane Ultra Comforting Set is on sale for $76 and includes mini-versions of the popular hydrating mask, cleanser, serum, and shea butter. [Beauty Snob]
NAILS
• British high schoolers developed a polish that’s red in sunlight but turns clear indoors. This enables them to comply with the dress code in class and doll up for recess. Commenters note these Brits didn't have the idea first — Del Sol did the same polish-morphing thing a decade ago. [BellaSugar]
MAKEUP
• Besame discontinues a few beauty products like the Cashmere Powder Compact. Scoop up the last of 'em at its online sale going on now. [Blogdorf Goodman]
• Transparent Finish To Go by Alison Raffaele is a white, transparent powder that changes tone to match your skin. Chameleon powder? Trippy. [Teen Vogue]
Photo: Getty Images
John McCain gave a speech yesterday on the Iraq war. "I detest war," he said. "It is wretched beyond all description. When nations seek to resolve their differences by force of arms, a million tragedies ensue…Not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war," he continued.
It was quite moving actually. It was also back in 1996, when Admiral Timothy Ziemer said the same thing to a bunch of Navy Seals at a reunion, a viewer who wrote into Think Progress and busted the old man. Why have politicians not learned the lesson that every schoolchild has learned in the past ten years? If you plagiarize something off the Internet, the teachers will catch you.
EXCLUSIVE: McCain’s Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer» [Think Progress]
UPDATE!: So it turns out this was all a bag of lies. ThinkProgress has updated their EXCLUSIVE with a correction: "It appears that Ziemer’s speech may have been plagiarized from McCain. According to the McCain campaign, the senator used these lines before Ziemer—in 1995. We regret the error." Oh we bet you do. We bet Ziemer does too, now that's been widely reported that he plagarized McCain. Boy his his face red. But there is still some scandal to be salvaged! That the speech was from 1995, which means McCain was not speaking from his heart about the Iraq war and was still lying to the American people. In a sense.
Courtesy of MTV
It's like You Got Served or Step Up 2 the Streets, except without all the interludes of terrible acting. Or Dancing with the Stars, except without Emmitt Smith doing the waltz in a tuxedo. Instead, you get moments like this one, when the mask-wearing crew Jabbawockeez faced elimination and responded with a high-energy street-dancing master class that ended with a 25-second head spin that had us slack-jawed and rewinding our DVR three times.
The show still has some wrinkles to work out: For starters, it's been obvious from the beginning which two or three crews were the best, and unlike solo singers, crews aren't going to improve dramatically in a few weeks. Plus, judge JC Chasez needs to step up and fill the nasty, tell-it-like-it-is Simon role, as adorable fellow judge Shane Sparks has already claimed the Randy Jackson say-the-same-thing-every-time role ("Y'all killed it") and rapper Lil' Mama is perfectly cast in the what-in-the-world-is-she-talking-about Paula role. If you missed this season, catch the two best crews square off tonight (our money's on the Jabbawockeez, after rival crew Status Quo choked out this ill-considered circus performance), and take heart: The show's been successful enough — the number-one Thursday night cable draw among ages 12-to-34, for what that's worth — that MTV's already ordered a second season, to premiere this summer. —Adam Sternbergh
Photo: Getty Images
After the talk we pulled aside Dr. Janata, a rumpled professorial type with Gene Wilder hair who has studied how the brain processes music for 18 years. How does the groove differ from, say, the zone? "Well, I think they're either one and the same or very closely related," he said. "Personally I think that in terms of the neural circuitry of what's happening, the two phenomena are very much the same. Although it needs to be said for the record that we haven't cleanly isolated either one, so we don't have a neuroimaging corollary where we can say this is the brain in the groove, and in the zone."
"Ninety percent of what he said in his presentation, I had no idea what he was talking about," Moby confessed in a car heading downtown. He guessed that he was invited to participate because of fundraising work he does for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in the Bronx. "You know, sometimes you go on a date and everything goes perfectly and everything flows, and sometimes you go on a date and everything is stilted and awkward. So as a musician it's the same thing." So this evening had not been an example of the groove, it seemed. He mulled it over. "Every time someone asks that, I think of the Madonna song, you know, 'Get into the Groove'?" Moby said. "Um, groove is not a word I use too often." —Andrew Goldstein
60s Mod.Photo: Courtesy of Ben Sherman
Quickie primer on PPQ: It's kind of like the British version of Heatherette. Whereas the latter has had Paris Hilton model in their shows, PPQ puts British party girl Peaches Geldoff on the catwalk. That sort of thing. After the jump, the full collection gets its big reveal.
70s rock (left) and 80s skaPhoto: Courtesy of Ben Sherman
90s Britpop (left) and 00s IndiePhoto: Courtesy of Ben Sherman
Photo: Everett Bogue
Cheat Sheet for Gossip Euphemisms
Useful Verbs For:
—Maggie Shnayerson
Work at this year's Armory Show.Photo: Patrick McMullan
That was the first sign of Armageddon at The Armory Show last night. The veteran art fair this year is under new management – Chicago’s Merchandise Mart – and also under a cloud of concern about recession. (More signs of cost-cutting: Entry fee was $30, up from $20 last year.)
The Armory Show is just one of nine contemporary art and design fairs (Scope, Pulse, Volta, Red Dot, Diva, Pool, Bridge, and Design Miami/New York) opening this week at a time when there’s more talk of Bear Stearns than bare walls. At Armory rival Scope, fair president Alexis Hubshmam says his fair is countering the downbeat mood with low prices and a bigger concentration of European dealers – “the dollar is so low now that European money and Chinese money are buying” – not to mention encouraging a change in dealer attitude. Hubshman says he told two dealers worried that the recession would dent sales to simply be friendlier to customers: “Being aloof, and the coldness of 10 years ago, won’t work now.”
At the Armory, artists in residence included Ashley Bickerton and Polly Apfelbaum. The most popular booth was Paul Kasmin’s, which was giving out apple pie as part of a witty Annette Lemieux installation that had something to do with Walker Evans, farms, and gingham. Several Whitney Biennial artists (Phoebe Washburn, William E. Jones) were on display, and all the art was by living artists.
One happy one was Chicago’s Tony Fitzpatrick, who had a well-received show at P.S. 1 last fall. Pioneer Williamsburg gallery Pierogi sold two of his pieces, for $14,000 and $17,000. “Guys in my price range don’t get hurt in a recession,” he said, smiling. — Alexandra Peers
Goooo sequins!Photo: WireImage
So what exactly happened with Fashion Week? "I feel like we're young and still growing and like, we just didn't like the elements being pushed into the wrong time slots on the calendar. You know what — Heatherette didn't start by going to fashion school," Rains explained. "We were kind of just switching backers. I saw Marc Jacobs and he's like, 'I went through 20 backers.' We just didn't want to be pushed into something we didn't really want to do." The duo confirmed they will definitely show at the next fashion week, however. Exhale; that's enough with the business stuff. "I love your sequins," cooed Rains. OMG — Heatherette loved our sequins! We can die now.
Related: Heatherette Launches M.A.C Line, Turns Into Unicorn
Lindsay Lohan is following up her crazy year by joining a cult—in a new movie role, that is.
E! News has learned exclusively that Lindsay Lohan has signed on to star as Nancy Pitman, once...
Photo: Getty Images
2. Donnie Klang, "Take You There (feat. Diddy)"
Donnie Klang (whose last name quite appropriately sounds like a basketball banging off the front of the rim) puts out his first Bad Boy single after winning Making the Band 4. Instead of making a band, all Diddy did was make a mess. [Mixtape Maestro]
3. Riskay, "Smell that Chick"
Riskay provides the tender ears of modern R&B radio with a clean version of her hilariously awesome single of sniffing out wrongdoing, "Smell Yo' Dick." But like NASCAR, it's not nearly as much fun without the car wrecks. [It's the Money Shot]
4. Joan of Arc, "A Tell-Tale Penis"
On this new track from Tim Kinsella's ever-changing band, he finally answers the musical question, "is that a throbbing severed penis in that box under the floorboard, or are you just happy to see me?" [My Old Kentucky Home]
5. Annuals, "Sore"
Releigh, NC's Annuals have decided to split an EP with themselves, just so the lead guitarist can get a chance to run the band his way. It's nice to see indie rockers learn the value of sharing. [Pitchfork]
Photo: Getty Images
Photo:
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley recently figured out a way to “play” the surviving “phonautogram,” which is basically a piece of paper with squiggles on it, and — voila! A new oldest recording ever! The ten-second clip is of a woman singing “Au Claire de la Lune,” though it sounds more like a ghost trying to scare you out of a haunted house:
We are now working to find a way to make this our new ringtone, which would make it roughly the third most annoying ringtone of anyone who works in our office. (Crying-baby ringtone, we’re talking to you.) —Adam Sternbergh
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison [NYT]
Just, ugh...Photo: WireImage
The collection features designs inspired by Ashlee Simpson’s personality, sense of style and album artwork. Each piece displays Ashlee’s signature touch and will be priced in line with Wet Seal merchandise...“I was inspired by so many fun, wonderful things as I was recording BITTERSWEET WORLD and it’s been great to carry through those inspirations into these new shirt designs,” said Ashlee. “I hope my fans love this album and rock out in these shirts!”
We are so glad we're not 12 years old anymore.
Ashlee Simpson Designs for Wet Seal to Premiere April 22nd [Business Wire via Fashionista]
Related: Pete Wentz Designs and Wears Women's Clothes
In the end, Remy Ma couldn't beat the rap.
The Grammy-nominated rapper (real name: Remy Smith) was convicted Thursday of shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub in July 2007.
She...
Photo illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images
Fall Out Boy was already contending with yet another foe on their journey, this one even worse than Hoth's ferocious Wampa monster: the menace of global warming. Thanks to increasing temperatures, the Wilkins ice shelf on Antarctica's western peninsula — the location of the island on which FOB intended to land — is cracking into pieces and collapsing into the ocean.
When reports of the environmental crisis threatening the world record — technically, threatening the world's very future — reached FOB, the band made sure to disavow any responsibility. Wentz explained to MTV News, "Someone sent (the story) to me and they're like ‘Oh now you guys are going and this ice shelf fell that wasn't supposed to fall for another 15 years.’ And I'm like, ‘We didn't even land there so that wasn't even our fault.’"
But now, the quest, sadly, is no more. It's unclear what Fall Out Boy will do now, besides return to the States and lick their wounds. Perhaps one day, Pete Wentz's simple goals — to rock the icy wilderness and slap some flipper — will be fulfilled. —Tammy Oler
Fall Out Boy Cancel Antarctic Trip Due To Bad Weather: 'It's An Utter Disappointment,' Pete Wentz Says [MTV]
Fall Out Boy In Antarctica: Antarctic Shelf Collapses. Fortunately, We Have A Reporter In The Area. [MTV]
Earlier: Can Fall Out Boy Make It to Antarctica? An Anxious Nation Waits
Forget the dance floor, these days Madonna's doing all her confessing on the radio.
In an exclusive interview with the Yo on E! satellite radio show, the newly minted Rock and Roll Hall...Bedford-Stuyvesant: Neighborhood garbage indicates an influx of stroller moms! [New York Shitty]
Brooklyn Heights: Hicks and Joralemon is a good location, but do you want to live in a sub-par house in the Heights? [Brownstoner]
Chelsea: Eight businesses on a one-block stretch of Ninth Avenue are being replaced with stores that are cooler, pricier, and less useful. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York via BlogChelsea]
Gowanus: See the future! Toll Brothers are stopping by to present their plan for housing on the canal. [Gowanus Lounge]
Harlem: Happy 350th birthday, Harlem! [Columbia Spectator via Uptown Flavor]
Park Slope: Your kid didn’t necessarily get rejected from the middle school of his, her, and your choice. They’re just in limbo, thanks to a Department of Education glitch. [OTBKB]
The view from the floor.Photo: Annie Lin
The self-proclaimed King of the South is at the mercy of the court.
Hit-making rapper T.I. pleaded guilty Thursday to federal weapons charges in return for a light prison sentence.
Exactly...
Caption
Not so much, apparently. Despite presumably good intentions, the shape issue feels more like Vogue trying to bum a ride on a politically correct bandwagon, and our girl A-Dubs is a particularly lousy hitchhiker. Her editor’s letter boldly blames designers for using scrawny models to present “a non-vivacious, homogenous ideal,” then steps all over that, in its attempt to homogenize zaftig designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte by offering them a free four-month diet and exercise plan — or, as Vogue puts it, “what some might consider a dream proposition.” Sure, some might; others might consider it rude. Vogue claims it wants them to gain “peace of mind and the energy to prosper;” the Mulleavys bluntly say Vogue thought they should lose weight. And though the designers participated — who can say no to Anna? — the fact that Vogue approached them unbidden leaves a bad taste in our mouths.
It further unravels with a piece called “Figuring It Out,” featuring five women grappling with different body types. But rather than include even one who is moderately chubby — or even mildly bloated from last night’s pizza binge — they are instead: thin; tall and thin; short and thin; pregnant but still thin; and “curvy,” which in People-speak would mean Queen Latifah, but in Vogue translates as “thin with boobs.” And though a story on plus-sized singer/actress Jill Scott looks heartening at first, it’s actually a very ordinary shopping piece that could fit in any other Vogue if the editors felt like it; its placement in this issue makes it an oblique commentary on her waistline, as if they’re pretending not to notice while silently screaming, “SEE? We LOVE big people.”
Yet, short of featuring a bacon-cheeseburger on the cover, this is sadly probably the best we can expect from Vogue. It just isn’t in the habit of realism. Because it peddles fashion and fantasy better than anyone, these clumsy attempts to soften up just feel as patronizing and ham-handed as a Very Special Episode of Blossom, but without the hats. So while we’d love to see women of various sizes in the magazine — wearing bizarre $20,000 goat coats like any other model — if it keeps feeling like an act of bored, forced obligation, we’d rather Vogue climbed back on its pedestal and left us to get our feel-good fix from Glamour. And a pizza. —The Fug Girls
Related: Anna Wintour Is Sick of Skinny Models Too
For more of the Fug Girls, check out their complete archive.
Photo composite: Wireimage; Courtesy of Cadbury Schweppes
Thirsty would-be-Peppers might be heartened by Rose's assurance to MTV that the album "will come out this year," except for the fact that fans previously have been promised the record would come out in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, and on March 6, 2007. So if you're hankering for a Dr. Pepper, you're better off visiting your local vending machine. —Adam Sternbergh
Dr. Pepper issues challenge to Guns N' Roses [Billboard]
Photo: Getty Images
The work is stage-by-stage, too. Once in Marion, Goings's team of merry-go-round men will spend "hundreds of hours" removing the original paint and painstakingly applying coat after coat of varnish in the original color, selected using vintage photos from newsreels that he has asked the public to submit as a guide. Our steeds are “very restorable,” Goings said. “They don’t have missing legs and have all their eyes and tails and ears.”
But it will still likely cost a bundle: Goings wouldn’t tell us what he's billing the city, but he did charge Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum around $1 million for a comparable job. So, how does one get into this line of work, anyway? Goings, whose business, Carousels & Carvings, plays doctor to up to fifteen rides a year (including carousels in Prospect Park and on the Santa Monica Pier), was once a furniture-maker, until he was asked to restore a park ride in his hometown. It was then he found his true passion. After all, he said, “Tables don’t have eyes, ears, and noses.” —Sarah Maslin Nir
As Leonardo DiCaprio is in danger of finding out, there's no advantage to a home court.
A Los Angeles judge has tentatively given the green light for a negligence and trespass lawsuit filed...
All Freja, all the time.Source: The Fashion Spot
The Fashion Spot: About a Boy
The Fashion Spot: A Stroke of Genius
The new season of Showtime's The Tudors premieres this weekend, and if you haven't watched, all you need to know is that it's an awesomely overheated soap opera of 16th-century English history starring young, beautiful cast members portraying historical figures who were...shall we say...less beautiful. How less beautiful? Let's take a look!
Courtesy of Showtime
Historians assure us that Thomas More looked exactly like handsome Jeremy Northam. And they're pretty sure these guys are dead ringers too:
Photo: iStockPhoto
But at 11:15 each morning at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls on Long Island, the voice of Emi Renov, a 17-year-old junior, buzzes over the intercom, gently reminding her fellow students to refrain from gossiping for the next 60 minutes.Apparently, these kids actually listen to the girl and make an effort to be human (or silent) for an hour, which is sort of sweet and adorable! No word yet as to whether poor Emi Renov has any actual friends — that's one job we would have made every effort to pass over way back when.
Weaning Teenagers Off Gossip, for One Hour at a Time [NYT]
Mick Rock, inexplicably eating his scarf.Photo: Patrick McMullan
Related: Is Kate Moss Engaged?!
LAW
• Artist Jeff Koons is being sued by his ex-wife, former porn star and Italian-parliament member Ciccolina, who says that Koons hasn't paid child support for their son, Ludwig, in nine years. Bloomberg]
• Clear Channel is suing the Wall Street banks that wanted to back out of a proposed buyout deal. [Law Blog/WSJ]
• And the wrongful-death lawsuit the family of Carol Gotbaum filed against the city of Phoenix yesterday has already been rejected. [NYT]
FINANCE
• Protesters chanting "Main Street, not Wall Street" in the lobby of the Bear Stearns building yesterday only lasted one hour before the police escorted them out. [NYP]
• One bear that's doing just fine is prudent Bear manager David Tice, whose $1.2 billion mutual fund is up more than 15 percent. [WSJ]
• The U.S. treasury secretary says Wall Street should be regulated if banks want to be able to run to the Fed in times of crisis. [NYP]
• The Atlantic hires Jay Lauf away from Wired in hopes that he will stop the 150-year-old title from hemorrhaging money. [NYT]
• The mean girls at Vogue are under fire for a) Being maybe racist and b) making cute Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy go on a diet. [WWD; NYT]
• It doesn't look like the Condé Nast headquarters will be moving to the West Side rail yards anytime soon. [NYO]
Photo: Getty Images
Yates has a strong reputation as an able jurist, and one law-enforcement source involved in the replacement process said he edged out two other contenders for the job: Eric Schneiderman, a state senator; and Dan Castleman, director of investigations for Manhattan district attorney Bob Morgenthau. —Geoffrey Gray
Left: Lagerfeld shoots Raquel Zimmermann; Right: Lagerfeld and Calvin Klein at the Waverly Inn.Photo: Courtesy of Fashionista.com, Splash
Yesterday, spies near Broadway and 25th Street saw Jay-Z and Lagerfeld at a photo shoot for the new Fendi campaign (which features the hip-hop mogul). "A paparazzo lurked from out of the shadows and started snapping away at them," said our witness, "and out of nowhere, one of Lagerfeld's guys just threw him to the ground."
We coulda told him fashion wasn't a walk in the park. Lagerfeld also shot Raquel Zimmerman for Fendi yesterday. We have video of that after the jump.
Listen carefully to the chit chat at the beginning. Not only do they mention security, they mention "tomorrow," which would be today. So if anyone sees the Kaiser playing photographer, please, for the love of Coco, take a picture on your iPhone and send it to us.
DEFENDING KARL [NYP]
Karl 2 - Karl Lagerfeld Fendi campaign shoot video [Models.com]
Claudia Schiffer takes a tumble for Karl Lagerfeld [Telegraph]
Spotted: Karl Shooting Racquel and Brad for Fendi [Fashionista]
French Pres Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: A Queen Apart.Photo: WireImage
Left: Bruni deplanes in a gray belted Dior and Jackie O-esque pillbox hat with a Dior "Babe" handbag. Note the fine tailoring on the coat. Right: Bruni changed into a gray dress and pulled her hair back when Sarko addressed Parliament. She looks…distracted; he looks really proud of his hot wife. Photo: Getty Images
Wait — was Sarko addressing Parliament or the hotness of his wife?Photo: Getty Images
The couple attended a white-tie dinner at Windsor Castle hosted by the Queen. Sarko looked delightful in Prada, while Bruni donned navy blue Dior again. Perhaps she's covering up so much to deflect attention from the Christie's auction? Still, we'd kill for the dress. Photo: Getty Images
Queen Carla [WWD]
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's state visit look: Part Jackie O, part district nurse [Times]
The demure Bruni: two parts Jackie O, one part lycée girl [Guardian]
| World : News Archives | Business | Entertainment | Sports | Technology | Science | Marketplace Audio |
| India : News | Business | Entertainment | Sports | Telugu | |
| Blogs : Humor pages | Norkay's Blog | Kids Stories | Indian Recipes | Database Tech Blog |
| Sundries : World Video Clips | Songs Clips | Indian Video Clips | |
