Marc Jacobs

By Jenna Designer Sophie Théallet has won the $200,000 Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Award. "Thank you for making my American dreams come true," said she. [Style.com]Skating at an outdoor rink in London, Lily Cole knocked over a small child. [Daily Mail] Adriana Lima and Marko Jaric have announced the bi...

By Sadie Waris Ahluwalia is a jewelry designer, man-about-town and regular in Wes Anderson films. That's why he can dress like he's guesting on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Men of the hour: Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone. And maybe I'm just really used to the kilt, but it's the shado...

By Jenna Lindsay Lohan's first collection for Ungaro has been derided by yet another industry heavyweight: Emanuel Ungaro himself. The designer, who sold the business that bears his name in 2005, says Lohan's work was "a disaster" that left him "furious." [Independent] Glamour editor Cindi Lei...

By Dodai Sure, the onetime Marc Jacobs model first posed for Teen Vogue when she was 12. And after the photo shoot, she took a pair of custom-made kid-size Marc Jacobs combat boots: Dakota Fanning: New Moon's New Vamp, Dakota Fanning Teen Vogue Cover Shoot Photos, Dakota Fanning's Fashion Timelin...

By Jenna UK Harper's Bazaar named Stella McCartney its best-dressed woman of the year. [Telegraph]Georgia May Jagger is rumored to be the next face of Versace. [Fashionista] Former Prada women's wear designer Rodolfo Paglialunga is now at the helm of the revived house of Vionnet. Let's hope this w...

By Dodai With buzz about plus-size models and Precious star Gabourey Sidibe rocking fantastic ensembles on the red carpet, it seems that we may finally be getting some positive coverage of larger women — and maybe the idea that fashionable = thin is beginning to break down.

By Jenna Here are leaked pictures of Lindsay Lohan's spring campaign for 6126. The images were shot by reality-TV-star photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani. [Gone Hollywood] That was quick: Steve Madden has finalized a deal with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to manufacture shoes and accessori...

By Jenna Rumors are flying that Lindsay Lohan is donating her time (except for any free clothes she snags) as Emanuel Ungaro's new "artistic director." This gossip item, however, doesn't spell "Emanuel Ungaro" correctly, so its veracity may be questionable. [Fox 411] Ungaro C.E.O. Mounir Moufarri...

By Jenna Victoria Beckham is out at Armani, and Megan Fox is in. The actress has just been photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for next January's Emporio Armani underwear and Armani Jeans campaigns. [WWD] Amber Valletta has a clothing line, and Saks Fifth Avenue will donate $250,000 to bre...

By Jenna No one wants to see curvy women," says Karl Lagerfeld, who has struggled with his weight. "You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly." [News.com.au] Meanwhile, Christian Louboutin gave Barbie a much-needed slimmi...

By Jenna Move over, David Beckham: Cristiano Ronaldo is posing in the spring Armani underwear campaign. [AP]Beckham, who says he decided not to renew his Armani contract, is said to be looking to launch an underwear line of his own. [WWD] A fit model who worked at Guess? for three years is suing the co...

By Sadie It wasn't hard to guess who Marc Jacobs' inspiration was for the Spring 2010 Louis Vuitton woman:

By Jenna Handbag model Lily Allen performed live at the farming-themed, hay-strewn Chanel show this morning. [Fashionista]Claudia Schiffer has formally announced she will no longer do any runway modeling. She plans to fill her downtime with a trip to Iraq. [Sun] Marc Jacobs' and Viacom's flacks...

By Jenna Lady Gaga, in a show of uncharacteristic sartorial restraint, wore a chiffon-and-human-hair Holly Russell dress that more or less covered her legs to an awards show. She thanked her publicist. [WWD] Marc Jacobs loves people wearing his clothes. Even knock-offs: "Even when I see a copy, so...

By Margaret Ungaro's CEO says Lindsay Lohan was appointed creative director because, "Celebrities today attract lots of attention and having a moving, dancing, swinging, living doll is, we hope, going to bring down the age group at Ungaro while keeping the DNA." Linds has been working with Spanish...

By Margaret Does Jay-Z reference Anna Wintour in his song "Empire State of Mind"? The line in question is: "caught up in the in crowd/now you're in-style/and in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out." [Fashion Week Daily] Earlier today it was reported that Michael Vick had resigned with Nike...

By Margaret Marc Jacobs is rumored to have signed on to appear on Kept, Logo's gay version of The Real Housewives. An open casting call will be held soon in New York to find other "high-powered (openly gay) playboys." [N.Y. Daily News] The Italian fashion world wasn't pleased with foreign reviews of Milan...

By Jenna As predicted, Beyoncé will have a fragrance by springtime. For the rights to her name, Sasha Fierce is set to earn up to $20 million over the next three years. [WWD] Marc Jacobs didn't invite Madonna or Lady Gaga to his runway show — they asked to come, and he acquiesced. Would have been pretty aw...

By Jenna Marc Jacobs could only offer platitudes about his collection to reporters last night at the Lexington Avenue Armory. "Life is a cabaret," he said. "All the world's a stage!" But the heavily Japanese-influenced clothes evidenced far more original thought.

By Jenna Colin Firth won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in former Gucci designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, A Single Man. [Vogue UK]Did Louis Vuitton make a $590 knock off of this New Balance sneaker? [WWD] If anyone had told me Courtney Love was going to perform at the Alexand...

By Jenna There's a rumor going around that Peter Som is set to become the first creative director of Tommy Hilfiger. [WWD]Thom Browne is launching two new lower-priced lines for Spring 2010. [WWD]Mark your calendars! She by Sheree, apparently some design offspring of a Real Housewife, is coming t...

By Jenna Katie Holmes can add another feather to her designing cap: creative-directing new uniforms for the Church of Scientology. Holmes and Tom Cruise apparently had creative oversight of the religion's new threads, offering direction to designer Richard Tyler. [Daily Mail] For some reason...

By hortense Lady Gaga was booed by her British fans yesterday after showing up 20 minutes late to her performance and then having to cut her set short as a result. Maybe they were just saying boo-urns? [TheSun] The singer's set was cut short in the middle of her performance of "Pokerface," and though she...

By Jenna Katie Holmes made the cover of AnOther Magazine — along with Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moss, and Natalie Portman. [DesignScene]Apparently, we're supposed to support Gwyneth Paltrow's absurdly high-priced clothing line for Zoetee's because the profits are for charity. [People] Those pi...

By Jenna Model Liskula Cohen has confronted the woman revealed as the author of a hate-blog directed against her. Cohen told the woman that she forgave her, but the blogger did not apologize — probably because a defamation suit is pending. [P6] Brett Favre is going to be the new face, and presumably b...

By Sadie It's so unfair. If most of us wore this, we'd be dismissed as "nerd whose Little House stage has lasted a weirdly long time." Whereas, Alexa Chung is protected by the auspices of high fashion! Here's one thing I've wondered: has kilt-wearing taken off since Marc Jacobs started doing it exclu...

By Jenna Gwyneth Paltrow's clothing line with Zoetees is hitting stores this month. The collection includes tee shirts, studded tank tops, and a grey oversized blazer — fine basics, but there's no indication why the line should start at £100. [Elle UK] Earlier this year, Katy Perry, desirous of a f...

By Jenna They said it would never happen, but a judge ordered that Google reveal Liskula Cohen's anonymous online tormentor. The model sued Google to find out who was behind a hate-blog about her, in order to file a defamation suit. [NYPost] Marc Jacobs does not "enjoy", "look forward to," or antici...

By Jenna And that's without mentioning these slideshows, which feature such up-to-the-minute subjects as Angelina Jolie's old modeling photos — saw those in In Touch last April — and Marc Jacobs' Fall 2009 collection, which walked at New York Fashion Week last February. What, Resort is too fres...

By jenna This is what Gisele Bundchen looks like, pregnant — only not, because London Fog retouched her stomach flat again. Is this the world's first prenatal airbrushing? [WWD] Oh man, how weird must it be to have your boyfriend of years dump you the day before your birthday, and then still have to g...

By jenna Change! Stately old American Vogue is apparently seeking to revamp itself. Says Wayne Sterling, the mag wants "a new circle of models, an influx of fresh, young photographers and a desire for 'unpredictability' in the stories." Unpredictability. In Vogue. [TI] Marc Jacobs has added two pr...

By jenna At last, a celebrity with a realistic outlook on her whatever-line: "Unless you need it, it's just stuff," says Alicia Silverstone of her collaboration with Ecotools. [WWD] Paris has a Musée de la Contrefaçon, where counterfeit and genuine goods are lined up and displayed, side-by-sid...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Christian Siriano is collaborating secretly with Starbucks. He won't say on what, but isn't speculation fun? Maybe he's changing the uniform to something fierce, with ruffles. [The Cut] Christian Lacroix might have found a buyer. The firm Bernard Krief Consultants has announced its int...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Model turned cookbook author Sophie Dahl is getting her own cooking show on BBC 2. Dahl says her show will cover on the "emotional" side of food. "It's cooking with an anecdotal thread, irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw." [Sun] Tilda Swinton will be the Spring 2010 face of Pring...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel It's riveting to watch one of Chanel's couture looks being made. Whatever one thinks of the design, the craft of couture is magic. The concentration in the atelier flou's eyes as she makes the toile is an inspiration. [The Cut]David Lauren thinks now is as good a time as any for Ralph Lauren to l...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Style.com]Shoe designer Jimmy Choo says you should wash your feet in warm, salted water every night before you go to bed. Also he says that Malaysia is beautiful and you should visit. [Daily Mail]In case you're not already reading BryanBoy, plus Susie Bubble, the Sartorialist, Jak & Ji...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Roberto Cavalli's and Gianfranco Ferré's Fall 2009 campaigns are also out. In the sense of "On the Internet," not in the sense of "In the magazines." [FWD] 50 Cent's new fragrance deal, for the scent "Power", is unusual in that the star is not simply licensing his name to a company. He actually...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel How cool are these Charlie Brown New Balance sneakers? Cool enough that we wish they weren't just for kids. [WWD]A London artist has created Kate Moss and Agyness Deyn paper dolls which look frighteningly like the real thing. [Pipeline.Refinery29] Your daily dose of the horrible: America...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Having lost the women's wear prize to the Mulleavy sisters, and the accessories award to Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs won only the International Award, which had been pre-announced. The consolation of already having a bunch of CFDAs to his name m...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Marc Jacobs, man of 31 tattoos, on his latest: "Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf with 3-D sunglasses on." [Style.com] Add Jacobs-helmed Louis Vuitton to the list of brands that are sticking with what works: Australian model Catherine McNeil, face of last year's resort ca...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Belgian designer Martin Margiela — who holds a spot somewhere between Steven Meisel and Howard Hughes on the spectrum of fashionable recluses — and his namesake company may have parted ways. A member of the label's design team says that the man himself "has not been present since last seas...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Luz Keeping Madonna Warm [P6] Liz Rosenberg, Madonna's Lying Flack [Gawker] Cleaning Up [P6] Seen and Heard [NYDN] Jesus Luz Won't Appear In The Louis Vuitton Campaign, Enjoys Dinner Dates With Marc Jacobs' Fiancé [The Cut] Madonna And Marc Jacobs In Liars' Corner [P6]

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel But Jesus Luz won't be in his fall Louis Vuitton campaign. "Why is everyone asking me about him? He's not modeling for me. I don't do menswear," said the designer. He did say, however, that Madonna and Steven Meisel are shooting the campaign right now, right here in New York. "She's the ultimate...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Madonna allegedly got her friend Marc Jacobs to write the INS and say model boy-toy Jesus Luz was a necessity to his label and deserved a US work permit. [Daily Express] Jesus Luz also had a rough time backstage at his last runway gig, the Jeffrey Fashion Cares AIDS benefit in New York. Says one...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Anna Sui, who is being given the Geoffrey Beene lifetime achievement award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, talked to Style.com for the occasion about New York's garment district, which has been threatened by rent rises and zoning changes, not to mention the increasing nu...

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel Stella McCartney designed some t-shirts for a British charity and got besties Gwyneth Paltrow, Claudia Schiffer, and Keira Knightley to wear them for the ad campaign. [Telegraph] Aw, Twiggy goes shopping with her daughter, Carly. "If I come out of a changing room and she says, ‘Muummm!’ t...

By Sadie Katie Holmes is the new face of Miu Miu. Srsly? [New York Magazine] Marc Jacobs' company has been accused of bribing a state official so the designer "could get a desirable venue for his fashion show." They're paying $1 million in fines. [TMZ] In happier news, Marc is open to marriage! Even if C...

By Sadie Who was the first lady-elect wearing? Narciso Rodriguez. [Style.com] Marc Jacobs cancels his annual holiday costume party (this year was "Rock and Roll Circus")in deference to the economy. Last year he went as a camel toe. [ElleUK] Following the success of its Go!International collectio...

By Dodai In addition to the stale stories, there are the covers. Even though I'm aware that they are not the same kind of magazine — American Vogue is mainstream, where Paris Vogue is truly just for fashion die-hards — I can't help but compare covers and state how much more fun, more interesting, cool...

By Sadie It's official: Project Runway saved from a fate worse than death, aka Lifetime Television for Women. [NY Mag] "Ironically, runways in the nation that brought us an all-black Vogue were not only less diverse than New York's but disappointingly white." [Shophound] The sale of YSL's art col...

By Sadie Mini moguls Mary Kate and Ashley are dipping their tiny feet into the world of fashionable footwear. They're teaming up with Steve Madden to add a shoe line to their Elizabeth and James label. [ElleUK] Weirdly, model Twiggy's husband calls her Twiggy too. [Daily Express] Moddles fall all ov...

By Sadie Andre Benjamin is a huge anglophile, vegetarian. [Guardian] J. Crew rips off Gossip Girl aesthetic. They wish they were a parent's worst nightmare. [Deep Glamour] For those who enjoy smelling like the dead, House of Creed premieres a new Jackie O. scent, "Love in Black," described as a "viole...

By Sadie Stein In Ariel Levy's profile of Marc Jacobs in this week's New Yorker, we see the designer as Ugly Duckling-turned -swan, shlumpy nebbish now chiseled hottie. In the past decade, Marc Jacobs has become a household name — a celebrity as known for his parade of relationships and struggles with su...

By Sadie Screw the conventions: it's official. Obama and McCain are now paper dolls. They've been drawn by renowned artist Tom Tierney, "who casts the candidates and their spouses as ready-to-dress paper people, each with about half a dozen wardrobe changes (oddly, Barack Obama's daughters Mal...

By SadieStein Whom to believe?! Page Six? "Marc Jacobs is a newlywed. The designer and his hot Brazilian love, Lorenzo Martone, were married in a civil solidarity pact Sunday in France. "He's totally excited," said an insider. "He said he's head-over-heels in love with Lorenzo. His life is coming togethe...

By InternAnna This month a couple of interesting ads float up from the sea of heteronormativity that is the women's magazine. The new Marc by Marc Jacobs campaign, appearing in Lucky and elsewhere, features male model Cole Mohr in a variety of rather cute frocks. Missoni also plays with gender in its spre...

By Moe Behold: the punk pencil skirt, brought to you by Marc Jacobs. Everyone knows how Marc Jacobs invented grunge, but not everyone realizes he was one of the co-founders of punk as well. That is why his plaid at $238 is so affordable compared to Dolce & Gabbana's; he wants the kids to be able to...

By Sadie Stein L'Oreal gives Penn scientist fellowship which "provides support to postdoctoral women scientists who are undertaking cutting-edge research with practical applications." Wait, didn't Nine West just give Penn some money, too? [Eureka Alert] All other animals used up, the big jewelr...

By lesleyarfin Is Chloe Sevigny is never not working? The Big Love star and Opening Ceremony fashion designer is coming out with a limited edition tome based on her first OC look book. "You can flip all the clothing around. You can kind of, like, mix the heads with the bodies," OC's Humberto Leon tells New Yor...

By Jennifer Kristin Davis is pissed about the injustices she faced making the Sex and the City movie: "It's in the contract that we get to keep our outfits, which is a fantastic thing, except that, for me, all of my outfits were samples. I kept my running pants, which I love and wear them a lot, but I was like...

By Jennifer The trouble with last night's party at the Met, if I may speak frankly, is that it was a little like being sucked into a sequined wind tunnel. It started with a little breeziness before the superhero displays—Oh, hey, Narciso and Claire! Hi Liya! Alessandra! Isaac! Diane! Tom!—and then, su...

By Jennifer Says Marc Jacobs on the bride-to-be, "I'm really happy for her. She's a great girl. I just think Scarlett is great and I hope she is very, very happy. She's super funny. I love a smart, ballsy, New Yorker and that's what she is. I wish her the best." And by "the best" he clearly means, "Do why didn't tha...

By jgerson Why is there this division all of a sudden between people in support of me and people against me? How did this happen? I haven't done anything to anybody! I look at Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano—everybody has their shtick. And just because this wasn't my shtick two years ago, it's a proble...

By Dodai The "Fashion & Style" section of Today's New York Times features a story about the Juergen Teller photographs Marc Jacobs uses for advertising purposes. The ads are unlike ordinary fashion ads because the photographs are raw, overexposed and kind of mysterious. Cathy Horyn writes,...

By Jennifer Can we please discuss the placement of Victoria Beckham's breasts in the latest Marc Jacobs ad? [Sassybella]Minnie Driver is still solvent, y'all! At last week's L.A. Prada party last week she announced: "I'll have you know I dressed myself tonight. These are my own Prada clothes which I ca...

By Jennifer And designer Isabel Toledo on what she does: "I try to interpret things. A garden can have a shape and I interpret that." [WWD, sub req'd] English model Daisy Lowe (aka - bastard lovechild of Gavin Rossdale and Pearl Lowe) is like the new Agyness and everyone wants her "style." [Vogue UK] Marc J...

By Jennifer Does it get more all-American than Ralph Lauren? I think not. So why doesn't Senator Clinton take a page out of the Ellen DeGeneres handbook and go for some men's tailored pieces? That should erase any doubts about answering that damn phone at three in the morning. And yet, it's important for...

By Jennifer Poor chivalrous BF-of-Marc-Jacobs Jason Preston! When he tried to stand up for a girl who got a drink thrown at her at a club, Preston got something worse thrown at him: a punch in the face. $10 says Marc incorporates a black eye makeup look into the Spring 2009 collection. [Page Six]

By Dodai Designers are raiding vintage shops (and David Lynch flicks?) for ideas, producing quirky, glamourous clothes, worn defiantly disheveled." That's the conceit of a "Retro Fabulous" fashion story shot by Mel Karch (and edited by Tracy Taylor) in the March issue of Marie Claire. The resul...

By Jennifer International Herald Tribune fashion critic and former MJ nemesis Suzy Menkes really liked this season's (punctual!) (we're still getting over that!!) Marc Jacobs show: "It was such a good show, I would've waited three hours for it." Tell that to Robin Givhan's dog, Suze. [Fashion Week D...

By Jennifer Rachel Zoe threw a total shitfit upon being denied entrance to the fashionably punctual Marc Jacobs show Friday night. There is justice in the world! [NY Mag]"I'm tempted, but no one else is drinking. I don't want to be the tacky one." Gretchen Mol on the champagne bottles that greeted front r...

By Jennifer Project Runway held its finale fashion show this morning. We were there. Pictures begin going up in ten minutes.Oh models: We love when they try to help the people! Irina Lazarau has been sporting a t-shirt for Angelina Jolie's Global Action for Children backstage while getting made up for s...

By Jennifer While it might be easy enough to assume that the fashion industry has too much on its mind today -- what with the opening of the new Gucci flagship on 5th Avenue and the fashion shows of Badgley Mischka, Rodarte, J. Mendel, Matthew Williamson, Behnaz Sarafpour, Tory Burch, and Narcisco Rodr...

The new Marc Jacobs ads featuring Victoria Beckham have finally been made public. And they're awesome. Also: We seem to remember a certain Glamour magazine beauty editor who took to doing this with a Gucci bag. [WWD, 1st item] Madonna swears that the Fox News reports aren't true and that she d...

By Jennifer Jay-Z just bought a small London fashion house Artful Dodger, which may explain why he's been stocking up on European currency. [Mirror UK]Cosmetics company Jan Marini is being forced to take its Age Intervention Eyelash Conditioner off the market because it apparently contains the sa...

By Jennifer Video! Marc Jacobs interviews Jennifer Jason Leigh, still has blue hair. [MySpace]More proof that everything is better in Japan: a machine washable suit will be introduced early next year. [USA Today] Alyona Akhmadullina, 29, is the biggest up-and-coming designer in Russia. Seeing tha...

By Jennifer You may not recall this inconsequential blip on the screen of recent fashion history, but chronically-late designer Marc Jacobs showed up more than two hours late for his September New York fashion show, and a handful of people were annoyed, and so now Marc has apparently thought up a sol...

By Jennifer Lily Allen, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlotte Casiraghi, Natalie Imbruglia, Thandie Newton, Claudia Schiffer and Emma Watson are all expected to attend the Chanel pre-fall collection in London tomorrow. Wait: Natalie Imbruglia is still around? Remember when she dated David Schwimmer? [WWD...

By Jennifer The rumors are true! Victoria Beckham is the face of Marc Jacobs' spring 2008 collection and has already been shot by Juergen Teller for her print ads. Fashionista says it means Posh is now "officially and undeniably cool." Others within the fashion community are, um, bound to disagree! Bu...

By Jennifer Marc Jacobs wants a reality show, and Project Runway's Tim Gunn wants it for him. "The whole thing's sort of egotistical, I suppose, but I do find myself entertaining," says Jacobs. And says Gunn, "God knows Marc has a fascinating life, and he looks great. I'd watch." Well, if it has Tim's vote... [...

By Jennifer Designer John Varvatos has bought the space formerly occupied by rock club CBGB's to open a new store. He's the one who designs clothes for Converse, which is that super-hip iconoclastic footwear brand owned by Nike, and... Move to North Korea if you hate capitalism so much! [Fashion Week Dai...

By Jennifer Remember how, before Sofia Coppola was a fashion icon and Marc Jacobs muse and celebrity spokesmodel for numerous fashion labels, she actually worked in fashion and had her own clothing line? Yeah, well the clothing line actually still exists, in Japan. [Sassybella]

By Jennifer American Apparel does Halloween costumes. Because gold lame leggings and tie-dye unitards are everyday clothes for some people. [American Apparel] The Chanel bike we showed you yesterday? It has a crossbar! Which confirms what we've long suspected: Krazy Karl hates women. [Sassybella...

By Jennifer OMG! International Herald Tribune fashion critic Suzy Menkes and designer Marc Jacobs have somehow settled their seemingly-insurmountable differences! After their tiff in New York over Marc's really late fashion show, Marc left Menkes a Marc Jacobs T-shirt with a pretty bow on her s...

By Jennifer Holy fuck, Stella McCartney better find a pretty good way to explain to us how shoes made from pleather cost $595. [FabSugar]Bestest Fashion Week Quote of the Season: "Stefano [Pilati, Yves Saint Laurent designer]'s still the designer right?" --Kanye West at the YSL show. We wish we'd bee...

By dodai In Marc Jacobs' collection for spring 2008, the designer showed clothes with shoes that were a wee bit unusual. Yesterday, Erin Kelly described them in the Daily Mail: "A chunky, four-inch heel nestles horizontally just under the ball of the foot. Where you'd expect a heel, there is nothin...

By Dodai Code red! (Or, um, a more fashionable crimson?) Tom Ford has issued a verbal smackdown to all of France: The man who brought us NC-17-rated perfume advertising says that London, not Paris, is where the hot fashion is coming from these days. Ford, who was head designer at Gucci for a decade, i...

By Jennifer NY Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn continues to stick up for homeboy Marc Jacobs on her blog, disclosing that he personally dressed all of the models in his much-delayed show and that "if you're always under pressure, I suppose you're going to be more sensitive to the things you absolute...

By Jennifer Dita von Teese: The new face of Cointreau. It's about time someone thought to make the direct connection between taking your clothes off and drinking. [Sassybella]Victoria Beckham had a spot of tea with ELLE's creative director Joe Zee and editor-in-chief Roberta Myers, eh? Do they want...

By amparry We'd never thought we'd say this, but Marc Jacobs is having a non-drug-induced meltdown moment! Two days after his Spring 2008 collection went up two hours late and most critics railed on his designs, the designer hit back at critics in an interview with WWD. With rumors flying that he was s...

By Dodai Blind item! "Which troubled, hard-partying Lollapalooza performer cleared out a bathroom over the weekend in Chicago and then smoked what our spy-in-the-stall swears was a crack pipe?" FYI — Lollapalooza performers include Iggy Pop, Ben Harper and Amy Winehouse... [Gatecrasher, last...

By Jennifer True Religion denim is making the grand, yet inevitable, business model leap into the world of fragrance. Which reminds us of someone who once told us that it's time to wash your jeans when you can smell your own crotch. Now you can just take advantage of lifestyle brand synergy! [WWD, 3rd ite...

By Jennifer Marc Jacobs trashes John Galliano to his trainer at the gym and he's not exactly subtle about it. Because there's really no better way to combat "superior talent" than "rock hard abs." And by "better" we might mean "gayer." [Sassybella]

By Jennifer The burning questions over Chicago's recent anointment as cool fashion city still loom: Is Chicago designer Maria Pinto cool because she dresses Michelle Obama? Or are Obama and Pinto made cool because they're from Chicago? The world may never know. [WWD, sub req'd]

By Jennifer Swarovski Menswear Winner: Rag and Bone Actually, we take it back: Marc Jacobs' loss for Womenswear Designer of the Year wasn't the most awkward event of the evening: The Rag & Bone kids winning the Swarovski award for menswear when they were the only nominees in the category was.

By Anna Marc Jacobs is not out of rehab. According to WWD, Jacobs had an "off day" on Sunday to celebrate his 44th birthday go shopping with Naomi Campbell. And, of course, Amanda de Cadenet. [WWD]

By Anna New Chloe designer (and former Lego champion) Paulo Andersson says his collection is based on the idea "of a girl who steals from her mother". We knew we were destined to become a fashion muse! [WWD] The top 5 fall collections viewed online, according to Women's Wear Daily: Marc Jacobs, Mic...