But Aren't Makeup Ads About Making Women Feel Bad So They Buy Dumb Products?

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel  |  May 13, 2009 | 3:30pm
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  • Freida Pinto and Evangeline Lilly are new faces of L’Oreal. To mark the occasion, Lilly said she’s proud “to represent a brand whose ambition is to…contribute to the fulfilment [sic] and well-being of everyone.” [PRNewswire]
  • After long construction delays, cash-strapped Roberto Cavalli has opened his $30 million designer night club in Dubai. The floors are black quartz, and Swarovski crystals dangle from the ceilings, for that pre-recession look. [WWD]
  • Designer Hussein Chalayan, for his part, sees the future, and it looks like you wearing his ugly sneakers for Puma. [Dazed Digital]
  • The pop star Estelle, who recently designed a handbag, now wants a shoe line. [WWD]
  • Giles Deacon is expanding his business. A new manufacturing deal with Italy’s Castor Srl will allow his label to reach more than 120 stores worldwide, compared with his current 38, and to do pre-season collections. [Elle UK]
  • Pharrell Williams, and Takashi Murakami. Making art, together. [WWD]
  • Sophie Dahl, who recently published her first cookbook, is rumored to be in talks to present a food show for the BBC. [Metro UK]
  • The Elle Decor of cokey hipster creatives, The Selby, shot Julia Restoin-Roitfeld‘s New York apartment. Look only if you can stomach a designer shoe collection with a total sticker price in the tens of thousands before noon. [The Selby]
  • Christian Siriano, who has made Heidi Klum some clothes to wear during her fourth pregnancy, demonstrates the way not to talk about a high-profile client after the fact: “I think she’s trying to cover it a little this time. She’s getting older and wants to be more sophisticated, not casual. She’s trying to keep it a little quiet.” Klum’s trainer, David Kirsch, shows the proper deference and positivity: “Why should she do anything differently? She had a beautiful body all throughout her pregnancies. She’s very disciplined and dialed in to being healthy.” [People]
  • Sessilee Lopez credits last July’s all-black issue of Italian Vogue, which featured her on one of its four covers, with “resurrecting” her career. [The Cut]
  • Topshop is on the hunt for more retail locations in Manhattan. [NY Observer]
  • Competitor H&M is making its latest designer collaboration, with Brit Matthew Williamson, available in more of its stores than ever before. The Swedish chain has 1,700 stores worldwide, and Williamson’s summer collection will be stocked in 1,600 of them when it launches this Thursday — compared with the 200 stores that previous collaborations with designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney had reached. [WSJ]
  • The H&M line is also Williamson‘s first foray into men’s wear — something he might continue under his own label, if the mass-market collection goes over well. [WWD]
  • Rick Ross wore a pair of Louis Vuitton sunglasses on the May cover of XXL magazine — and promptly received a letter from the company informing him they were counterfeit. “Louis Vuitton did not grant permission to Mr. Ross or to whoever did make the sunglasses to use our trademarks,” wrote a miffed company spokesperson. Ross says the glasses are real, but that he had an L.A. jeweler add 14 karat gold accents to them. Which befits a style named “The Millionaire.” [WWD]
  • Macy’s, ever neighborly, expands its inventory whenever a competitor within its ambit fails, in order to lure the bankrupt chain’s former customers. [WSJ]
  • Nordstrom is being sued by a group of former employees who allege that the company stole their sales commissions. When an item is returned by a Nordstrom customer, the commission originally paid the salesperson is deducted from that worker’s salary — but thanks to Nordstrom’s lenient return policy, in practice this policy means that items bought, and commission accordingly paid, months earlier can suddenly be rescinded. Nordstrom settled a racial harassment lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for $292,500 last month. [Fashionista]
  • eBay has won the lawsuit brought against it by L’Oreal, meaning the auction giant has no legal responsibility for counterfeit products sold through its site. [WWD]
  • Liz Claiborne reported a loss of $91.4 million in the first quarter of this year. This was much steeper than analysts had expected, and the company’s share price fell. [Reuters]
  • If you want to fly like Superman, this leotard worn by Christopher Reeve — with reinforced slits for wires — might get you started. [Mirror]