Archive for April 30th, 2007
Lily Allen is on a rampage! First she verbally attacked stick thin Posh Spice, and now the British singer is going head to head with fashion icon Kate Moss.
Lily just launched her exclusive range of clothing at New Look just seven days after Kate Moss’s collection hit Topshop. But Lily isn’t threatened by Moss. She’s convinced that her line will do better because she is a better role model than her stick thin rival.
When asked what she thinks of Kate’s clothing Lily reveals, “I’ve seen a couple of pieces - they look cool. Would I wear them? Me, personally? I don’t think I’d fit in them.”
Lily reveals her own collection is for real girls with real curves. The singer took the lengths to mention on her website WhatLilyLoves.com, “All my dresses are super-girly but that doesn’t mean you have to be size zero. “The more curves the better! Fashion is for everyone, not just a load of super-skinny models.”
April 30th, 2007
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen has reportedly ended her contract with lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret.
Bundchen’s sister confirmed that the highest paid model in the world quit as the lingerie line’s ‘Angel’ after the company refused to raise her annual salary from 5 million dollars.
According to a source, the company does not care about Bundchen going away as her demands were shocking and unacceptable.
“Her demands were outrageous. She got a new lawyer who was unrealistic,” New York Post quoted the source, as saying.
“Victoria’s Secret doesn’t care. They have five new hotter, younger girls debuting next year. And they won’t have to deal with any craziness,” the source added.
Bundchen’s representatives and the company have both been silent over the issue.
The Victoria’s Secret Angels are the spokespersons for Victoria’s Secret. Current Victoria’s Secret Angels include Oluchi Onweagba, Selita Ebanks, Adriana Lima, Izabel Goulart, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, and Heidi Klum, who will probably come back from a baby-pause.
April 30th, 2007
Supermodel Naomi Campbell says she’s now at peace with a former editor of the Daily Mirror for printing photographs of her leaving a drug counselling session six years ago.
Campbell won a privacy infringement lawsuit against the The Daily Mirror over the pictures in Britain in 2004.
The legal case led to a public spat between Campbell and the newspaper’s then editor Piers Morgan.
Campbell agreed to be interviewed by Morgan for the magazine GQ in its April issue. Asked about the interview by Prestige Hong Kong magazine in its May edition, Campbell said she agreed to it against the advice of her friends and enjoyed it.
“I don’t hold grudges and had moved on,” the model was quoted as saying.
“Three years later when we did sit down, I felt we were two human beings who actually shared something pretty big in common, a very high-profile court case. I found it really interesting, particularly since I also got the opportunity to ask Piers a few questions and make him sweat a bit,” Campbell reportedly said.
In the interview for GQ, Campbell admitted taking drugs, but maintained The Daily Mirror was wrong to have run photos of her leaving drug counselling.
April 30th, 2007
FASHION bosses are bracing themselves for a stampede tomorrow — when Kate Moss’s designer range goes on sale.
Topshop chiefs believe thousands will try to get their hands on the clothes when they are launched nationwide.
Kate’s collection makes its debut at the chain’s flagship store in London’s Oxford Street tonight, when it is rumoured the supermodel will pose as a shop window mannequin.
After the special four-hour launch, the range is rolled out in 225 stores nationwide tomorrow.
Topshop is limiting purchases to five items per person in a bid to prevent shoppers making a quick profit on eBay.
Groups will be let in to browse the designs for a maximum 20 minutes, and try on up to eight garments each.
Supermodel Kate, 33, was reportedly paid ?3million to create her fashion range.
It includes 50 designs, with prices ranging from ?12 for a vest top to ?150 for a leather jacket.
April 30th, 2007
Women in Britain just keep getting richer, setting a record high in the Sunday Times Rich List.
The number of women in the top 1,000 wealthiest people in the country rose by 20 per cent this year to 92 regardless of the entry bar being raised to 70 million pounds to account for what the newspaper describes as a “rising tide of wealth”.
Women who make it into the overall richest people include Jacqueline Gold, founder of High Street sex shop Ann Summers, who together with father David and uncle Ralph reaches 133 with a ?550 million fortune; Swede Cristina Stenbeck, who inherited her father’s Stenbeck media empire, a new entry at number 205 with ?387 million; and Caroline Nash, who has made 70 million by cornering the market in motorcycle insurance, at joint 949.
Another new entrant is Irina Abramovich, who reputedly made 155 million from her divorce from Russian billionaire and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, landing her at 452nd place.
And despite predictions that her career was over when she was dropped by Chanel, Burberry and H&M following cocaine allegations in 2005, supermodel Kate Moss tops her spectacular come back with a first entry into the who’s who of 100 wealthiest women.
The Croydon-born British Fashion Awards Model of the Year, whose new collection is expected to provoke a stampede in London’s Oxford Street Topshop tomorrow, is thought to have earned 30 million in 2006 alone through lucrative contracts with giants such as Virgin Mobile, Longchamp, Stella McCartney and Calvin Klein.
She is valued by the Rich List at 45 million pounds including property assets - among these a ?2 million Cotswolds home - meaning she scrapes into the top 100 women at joint 99 with LK Bennett shoe boss Linda Bennett.
Other new entries into the women’s top 100 wealthiest include Meena Pathak, the woman behind one of the country’s most successful food companies - Patak, at 28 with 205 million; website Bebo founder Xochi Birch, at joint 43 with 150 million pounds, and Champneys health farm head Dorothy Purdew, at joint 55 with ?105 million.
The 19th annual Sunday Times Rich List, which describes itself as “the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland”, is based on identifiable wealth such as land, property and other assets such as art and shares, but does not include bank accounts, which are confidential.
April 30th, 2007