- Emily Blunt told British Elle that Photoshop is over-used. “I don’t like it when they stretch you out and make you all long and skinny. It makes you look like a Barbie. Who the hell looks like that?” [Elle UK]
- After his View appearance, Barack Obama popped round to Anna Wintour‘s house for a dinner where each guest is believed to have paid $30,400 to spend one and a half hours in the POTUS’ presence. “It was great,” said Tory Burch. “I love Obama,” said Harvey Weinstein. “It was amazing,” said Patrick Robinson. The evening raised around $1.5 million. [WWD]
- Iggy Pop, who rarely wears shirts, has a t-shirt line. “I don’t have great taste in clothes, so I don’t wear much of them,” he said. “When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. And if I really feel like getting formal, I’ll put on board shorts. I own about a dozen pairs.” Also, once in the early 1980s, he blacked out a front tooth before a concert. He explained, “I had to open for Flock of Seagulls, and it was the hair gel, and the long hairdo, and the rigidity of the skinny early eighties ties, fake drum machine, faux-irony vocals, and I hated it. So with the tooth out, I was trying to show my kinship to thieving gypsies, drunk itinerant bluesmen, pirates — stuff that had fluidity and humanity. That was the idea.” A picture from that night is now immortalized on one of the aforementioned shirts. “I asked that the cuts and the fabric be a step up from schmatta at a merch stand at a concert, and they definitely are.” [The Cut]
- Lady Gaga, shot by Nick Knight, made the September cover of British Vanity Fair. She rocks long grey-blonde hair and little else. [Design Scene]
- Beyoncé is guest-judging an episode of Britain’s Next Top Model. [Catwalk Queen]
- “Friends” of Lance Bass and Lorenzo Martone say the former pop star is “creepily obsessed” with Marc Jacobs‘ ex, but that the couple is also not serious. Which is it? [NYPost]
- S by Shakira is the sultry songstress’s stab at selling smelly stuff. [WWD]
- Newlyweds Coco Rocha and James Conran were shot for a story in American Vogue. [Modelinia]
- The September issue of Australian Vogue is said to be dedicated to Catherine McNeil, who has not only the cover but three editorials inside. [Frockwriter]
- And the cover looks pretty damn amazing. [@Nextmodelsnyc]
- Unsurprisingly, Olivia Palermo wants a clothing line f her own. Of Whitney Port‘s, she says, “I don’t think I need to be forced to support anyone’s collection through my production team. I’m my own brand.” [Fab Sugar]
- Terry Richardson tripped down to Seaside Heights to take pictures of the Jersey Shore stars’ best features, like Pauly D‘s hair, Snooki’s boobs, and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s abs. Also, Snooki apparently goes to Da Club with hairspray in tow, just in case. [Terry’s Diary]
- “We’re not trying to take Juicy away from being a casual brand. But my vision is to take things out of the box of just sportswear or leisurewear,” says Erin Fetherston, who is now the creative consultant for Juicy Couture. Her first collection, which features dressy holiday attire, treats the company’s signature velour almost as though it were velvet. [WWD]
- Edward Enninful got his start in fashion as a model. On the differences between the American and Italian editions of Vogue: “It’s a very interesting world. With each step, you think you know how things work and then you get to American Vogue and think you don’t. Anna is beyond a genius at her job,” he says. “The beauty of Italian Vogue is that it is about how to create stories that could touch people and say something with a lot of pages.” [Vogue UK]
- Tim Gunn says Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia, and Michael Kors are “crack-smoking judges.” At one point, he “intervened” in a judging panel. “I’ve never witnessed a season where I felt so disabled by what the judges have decided,” he continued. Does Project Runway really have to stoop to this kind of reality-TV manufactured confrontation? The new season of 90-minute episodes premiered last night. [StyleList]
- Yesterday, whoever is in charge of the Lane Bryant Twitter account decided it was really important to pick on a popular blogger. The company posted a link to a t-shirt in Natalie Perkins‘ CafePress store, which bears the slogan, “Does my fat arse look fat in this?” “Is this really necessary?” asked Lane Bryant. “We say NO!” Way to misread your customer. [Fatshionista]
- M.A.C. now says all profits from its ill-conceived collaboration with Rodarte, which featured nail polishes named things like “Factory” and “Juarez,” will go to “newly created initiative to raise awareness and provide on-the-ground support to the women and girls in Juarez.” By some estimates, several thousand women factory workers in the troubled border city have been murdered since the 1990s; 4,000 people have been killed in Juarez in the last 18 months. It is statistically the most dangerous place on earth, outside of active war zones. [The Cut]
- A retail and marketing research firm has identified five “shopper personalities,” all of them stupid. The write-up reads like a Cosmo quiz: “Shop-a-Lot Sue” “loves to shop” and hunts bargains online! “I’ll Pass Patty” out-earns Sue but thinks “smart shopping is no shopping”! “Bubble Barbie” has loads of credit card debt but is susceptible to “attractive displays of new products”! [WWD]
- Bebe has added a petite section to its website, but selections are limited, and the brand has no plans to sell petites in stores. [Bebe]
- If you are in the uniquely vulnerable position of being a lingerie-seller in Gaza, in addition to the blockade and the general hell of living in Gaza, here is one more barrier to conducting your business: Hamas has decreed that no women’s underthings may be displayed in shop windows. For the morality, and such. The police will also be investigating you, since what kind of decent man would engage in such a dirty, dirty trade as selling women’s panties? [JPost]
- Buoyed, like many athletic companies, by the World Cup, Puma‘s net profits rose 16%, to $57.2 million, during the second quarter. [WWD]
- Gucci parent company PPR‘s revenues and sales were up on last year during the first six months of 2010. Net income grew 113.3%, to $535.9 million, from $252 million during the same period last year. [WWD]
- Hugo Boss‘s sales rose 7% during the second quarter, and the company returned to the black. [WWD]
- Bulgari, bucking the trend of luxury companies showing huge profits, settled for merely reducing the amount of its year-on-year loss during the first six months. In 2010, it lost $10.2 million. In the first half of 2009, it lost $53.8 million. Slow claps for Bulgari, everyone. [WWD]
- Remember, ladies: Your short skirt could cause a car crash. [Telegraph]
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