Marc Jacobs is considered the bellwether designer of American fashion. So, what’s the outlook for next spring? Um, a lot of lingerie? Jacobs presented his spring collection late Monday night to a packed crowd that had been waiting in the Lexington Avenue Armory for two hours. (Celebrities such as Victoria Beckham and Sheryl Crow didn’t [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about happy, sunny clothes at New York Fashion Week as spring collections are previewed on the runway. But until the Anna Sui show, there hadn’t been many signs of happy, sunny models. Apparently all it takes to make the catwalkers come to life are colorful wigs, playful clothes and [...]
Carrie Underwood flawlessly worked the black and white thing better than Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen combined. The American Idol alum rocked both color fashions on the red carpet and on the stage at the Conde Nast Fashion Rocks Concert at New York City?s Radio City Music Hall on Thursday. What rocks better than her [...]
SCRAM anklets were made to monitor the alcohol intake of people, especially if those people have outstanding DUI arrests or whatnot. But in the case of rapper Eve, having a SCRAM anklet on doesn?t mean she can?t have fun. The rapper still managed to make her way around a plethora of parties during Fashion Week [...]
Novak Djokovic had seven set points in his first championship final that will likely haunt him for a while, rare moments when he exposed Roger Federer as fallible. In the end, though, the charismatic Djokovic crumbled in straight sets, a 20-year-old from Serbia more comfortable offering impersonations appearing continuously on YouTube than the prime time [...]
Foxy’s just been caged. Hours after being indicted for an alleged BlackBerry assault, a New York judge on Friday sentenced hot-tempered hip-hop diva Foxy Brown to a year in the big house for a series of probation violations. I am so sick and tired of these little rich B**ches getting away with everything. How many [...]
Amanda Peet is almost in pain with joy over her first child, she reveals “I’m so happy, I can’t bare it,” the actress says. “I’m so in love with her.” Daughter Frances Pen was born Feb. 20 to 35-year-old Peet and her husband, screenwriter David Benioff, 37. But Peet admits that the early days were [...]
Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C’s and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, died Thursday. He was 71. His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mailed statement that Pavarotti died at his [...]
Hip hop mogul Sean ?Diddy? Combs may have moved his annual White Party from St. Tropez to East Hampton, New York but that didn?t mean that he was willing to shift the rules around too. The number one rule: wear white or go home. Most of the partygoers which included Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Donna [...]
star Macy Gray is launching her own plus-size fashion line. Her range, entitled Humps, will launch in stores in the U.S. early in 2008 She says, “It’s actually for voluptuous, curvaceous girls, girls with thighs and hips.” I think they could have called it ANYTHING but “HUMPS.” Oh well. . . coming soon to a [...]
Gossip star Beth Ditto has hit out at the music industry for ignoring feminist icons in favor of male bands.I think she’s a whining feminist. Beth, put some clothes on, lose 50 pounds and stuff. Or else men could seriously be ignoring you for good. Like why can?t things even out of wee bit in [...]
Pop superstar Cher is nursing three broken toes after reportedly falling down stairs at her Malibu, California mansion. The If I Could Turn Back Time singer, 61, fractured the three middle toes on her left foot after tumbling down concrete steps on August 15. Must have really hurt and would have had some tears flowing [...]
Pete Seeger has the Joe Stalin blues. Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that’s as scathing as any tune in the folk legend’s long career. “I’m singing about old Joe, cruel Joe. He ruled with an iron hand. He put an end [...]
