Linda Evangelista recently revealed in a court filing that the father of her 4-year-old son is not, as she’d claimed previously, “a Manhattan architect,” but is in fact François-Henri Pinault — husband of Salma Hayek, father of her 3-year-old daughter, and one of the richest luxury tycoons in the world. Now in a new filing, the supermodel’s lawyers have revealed that they are seeking $46,000 a month in child support. The judge in the case says that would be the biggest support order in New York family court history. Pinault, who is worth an estimated $11.5 billion, runs the conglomerate that owns Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Bottega Veneta, among other brands. According to Evangelista’s lawyers, he donates $50,000 a month to an $11 million trust fund for his daughter with Hayek, but has never paid a cent for the care of Evangelista’s son. Evangelista — who herself is worth around $11 million — wants, among other things, $175,000 a year for ex-police security and drivers, and $80,000 for a round-the-clock nanny. [NYPost]
Glee‘s Dianna Agron is in a fashion spread in the new Flaunt. [E!]
This fall’s major luxury ad campaigns include three that feature very young celebrities: Hailee Steinfeld, 14, is the face of Miu Miu, Elle Fanning, 13, is the face of Marc by Marc Jacobs, and Dakota Fanning — who herself fronted Marc Jacobs when she was 13 — is now the 17-year-old face of Marc Jacobs’ Lola perfume. This has various people Very Concerned about The Children and such. What these people are not concerned about, at all, as far as we can tell? Prada — which calls Miu Miu its “little sister” — shot a 13-year-old girl for its seasonal campaign. Her name is Ondria Hardin, she is pictured here at right, and she’s a model from North Carolina. (She has turned 14 since the Prada ads were shot.) We suspect that it’s because she’s a model, and not a celebrity, that nobody particularly cared to report on her age. Models commonly begin their international careers at age 13-14. With proper supervision, a fashion shoot isn’t necessarily an inappropriate place for a young teenager to be, but all of this alleged concern strikes us as bogus insofar as it extends to the famous teens who moonlight in this industry, but not the relatively anonymous (and much less privileged) girls who work in it every day. [NYPost]
Philadelphia-raised Sessilee Lopez, who has been modeling since she was 14, says it took a long time for her to realize she had “made it.” Even a cover of Vogue Italia, which she bagged back in 2008, didn’t quite do it. “But then one day, I got recognized when I was back home by some, like, thugged-out, gangster dude. And I was like, ‘Wait, how does this guy know about me? He’s not in fashion.’ But he said, ‘You’re the girl from here who made it. You made it! Know that! Own that!’ He took a picture on his phone and said, ‘I’m going to put this on Facebook.’” Also, once Christian Siriano — whom Lopez calls one of her favorite designers to work with — put her in a dress that was so tight she couldn’t sit down. “It was this feathery number. I was like, ‘Can I sit?’ and he’s laughing like, ‘Bitch, do you know how many hours I spent plucking those birds?’” [WWD]
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