Naomi Campbell Sobers Up, Puts Down The Crack(Berry)

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel | April 10, 2009 | 3:30pm

Naomi Campbell: “Some people can handle a drink or a line of cocaine, but I’ve finally come to realize that for me, it’s all or nothing — and it has to be nothing.” [E! Online]
Even Campbell’s bons mots are more fun to read than this toothless interview of Stella McCartney. “We love your Spring collections in particular. Do you prefer warm-weather dressing?” is a such a softball it must have hit the ground with a pathetic squish. [FabSugar]
They could have engaged the famously vegan designer on the topic of eco fabrics, for one. Pharrell Williams just launched a new company, Bionic Yarn, which makes textiles out of plastic bottles. “We want to do everything from high-end luggage to high-end denim, to university caps and gowns to Parks Department uniforms,” said the star. [NYDN]
On Thursday, there were already 15 men lined up outside a sneaker boutique in Las Vegas, in anticipation of the store’s launch of Kanye West‘s Air Yeezy sneakers. Those don’t go on sale until Saturday. “I’m having the time of my life,” said 30-year-old Wesley Ramos, as he braved what UPI’s reporter described as “the chilly wind chill factor.” (It got down to 35 with wind gusts of 58 mph in Vegas on Thursday night.) Another man, 29, was on his honeymoon. [UPI]
This man treats Nylon as though it were the artifact of an alien culture obsessed with headbands and ducking nimbly under the advertising/editorial cordon. (Which is pretty much how we read it!) “The art direction is first-rate hipster,” notes the reviewer, on the occasion of the mag’s 10th birthday, but it “is filled with enough awkward syntax to wear out a grease pencil, not to mention such errors as tense switching and missing punctuation.” Twenty-six interns, and nary a copy-editor. [MediaPost]
Uniqlo, the Japanese fast-fashion chain that’s pushes an aesthetic that’s like a less sexist American Apparel, is going gangbusters in the recession. Sales have risen 13% at the company in the last six months. (The chain keeps costs down by manufacturing in low-wage countries like Cambodia.) [BBC]
A company figured out a way to provide special content just for flatscreens in bars. And what did they come up with? Images of Karolina Kurkova, Gisele Bundchen, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy strutting down the runway in lingerie. [P6]
Former model Donna Michelle Anderson, who is biracial, writes about what it was like to see “No ragazze di colore” (“no colored girls”) signs at castings in Milan. And she thinks it’s entirely fair for Michelle Obama to forgo Calvin Klein‘s and Donna Karan‘s offerings (the two American designers were among several to complain recently about being ignored by the fashionable first lady) given the two each used virtually entirely white runways casts for their last shows. [HuffPo]
Billy Joel‘s wife Katie Lee spends a lot of time with the designer Yigal Azrouel, who is a) straight and b) hot. THEY MUST BE HAVING AN AFFAIR!!! [National Enquirer]