Daphne Guinness Didn't Mean To Call Victoria Beckham "An Ugly Pig"

Daphne Guinness, the heiress who wears clothes, told a newspaper writer she thought Victoria Beckham was “an ugly pig! Downbeat, miserable and awful. Of course she’s going to make money — she’s backed by Simon Fuller. I don’t have anyone! She annoys the shit out of me.” [Vogue UK]
Or did she? Guinness took to her Twitter page to call the article “badly executed, false, and typical of a journalist that has not researched anything,” referring to reporter Camilla Long. “The article was AWFUL, really inaccurate, I work so hard ang [sic] this is the kind of shoddy treatment you get. I am beyond hoffified [sic].” And also: “I feel like killing myself, I was stabbed in the back by that journalist.” Guinness disputes the quote, too. “And for the record I not only admire Victoria Beckham but know her and like her. My point was that I do most things alone without a backer.” There’s more. “I would never call anyone an ugly cow, not my words.” [@therealdaphne]

Rihanna is looking pretty Ariel-tastic on her Annie Liebovitz-shot American Vogue cover. [Fashion Bomb Daily]

Fashionista points out that the Dolce & Gabbana dress on Emmanuelle Alt‘s brand new Vogue Paris cover — her first as the magazine’s new editor-in-chief — has already been featured on two spring covers: Vogue Germany’s and Vogue Spain’s. It’s that infernal gold Balmain dress, all over again. [Fashionista]

James Franco, his smirk, and his armpit hair star on the new cover of Vogue Hommes International. [TLF]

• Chloë Sevigny says she just went six months without shopping. “I’m not trying to buy any clothing. I went for six months without buying anything, so I’m trying in general not to consume much.” Why? “I was trying to be happy in my own skin without having to have something new to wear. I’m so sick of having so much stuff that I’m trying to get rid of.” [The Cut]
• Emma Watson has indeed been signed as a face of Lancôme. Mario Testino will be shooting her ads. No word on whether she signed for a squillion dollars or a trillion bajillion dollars. [WWD]
• Stella McCartney and Lily Cole — who has written op-eds against the tertiary tuition hikes in the U.K. — are among the donors to a legal defense fund that will aid any student who is arrested or fined for taking part in demonstrations against the increases. [Vogue UK]
• Petra Nemcova, who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami but had to spend months learning to walk again, considered quitting Dancing With the Stars because of the tsunami in Japan. But then she realized she could provide more meaningful help to the people of Sendai by passo doble-ing on a reality show. “This is really ‘Dancing With A Purpose’ for me,” says the Czech supermodel. [NYPost]
• Abbey Lee Kershaw on modeling: “I have much more to give than a pretty face. It’s great for me now, don’t get me wrong. The surprise element keeps it exciting; it’s taught me how to adapt in all sorts of strange situations. But I won’t do this forever; I have other things in mind. I’ll always be involved in some form of creative expression, be it art, music or dance. One day, I’ll have a lot more tattoos and probably some odd hair colours, too.” [Herald Sun]
• More Natalia Vodianova/Justin Portman divorce rumors. [P6]
• A veritable Hef of the Roaring Twenties, Selfridges department store founder Harry Gordon Selfridge had Hungarian identical twin vaudeville performers Rosika and Jansci Dolly as lovers. [Vogue UK]
• Ann Taylor is changing its name to Ann Inc. [WWD]
• Cathy Horyn‘s favorite collections of the season were Proenza Schouler, Jil Sander, and Junya Watanabe. [On The Runway]
• Apparently, new Barneys New York C.E.O. Mark Lee — who comes from the green and discount-averse executive pastures at Gucci — is trying to kill the Barneys Warehouse Sale, because it is so downmarket to offer end-of-season goods for sale at less than full price in any kind of “warehouse” environment. [NYPost]
• An exhibit of around 120 articles of Christian Dior couture from the house’s archives is opening next month in Moscow. [WWD]
• After Louis Vuitton sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Danish artist who drew a picture of a malnourished African child carrying a Louis Vuitton monogram bag and a Chihuahua dog, and printed that picture on t-shirts, Internet hacking group Anonymous decided to target the company. Louis Vuitton’s site is still up and Anonymous’ suggested Google search, “Louis Vuitton whores,” is not trending on Google right now. So. [Buzzfeed]
• Cosmopolitan‘s new iPad app includes recordings of men moaning, so you can “Decode His Bedroom Sounds.” We see potential off-label uses for this. [WWD]
• Prada made sure to produce few enough of those horrendous $795 creeper-platform-Oxford shoes that they sold out in New York, hence ensuring the publication of this “Ugly shoe sells out in New York” article. All publicity, etc. [NYPost]
• Amanda Hearst works as an associate market editor and a blogger at Marie Claire. She has a Chiweenie (“he’s half Chihuahua, half Dachshund”) and wears a lot of black designer clothes. [NYTimes]
• This is what some fashion show invitations look like. [Style Bubble]
• Moderately entertaining representative sentence from a party write-up: “Representatives for Hince — who is engaged to Kate Moss — and Mosshart had informed press beforehand that they would be allowed a single question for both rockers (as long as it was not about Moss), but the offer was rescinded at the actual event. As WWD’s question would have most likely been, ‘Why only one question?’ it was not a insurmountable loss.” [WWD]
• The Globe & Mail asks why it is, exactly, that one year on from stories like this one and this one and this one, Terry Richardson is still working for top fashion clients from Vogue to H&M? Good question. [Globe & Mail]