Lindsay Lohan: All About The Sex?

Over the past few years, Lindsay’s career has gone from teen-queen to wannabe lesbian to “oh, that fool”. Despite this, I like Lindsay, and I usually don’t like train wrecks; I think they’re sad and pathetic. But, I’d love to see Lindsay admit her problems, seek help (sticking with the treatment this time) and make a Britney Spears worthy comeback. However, judging from one of her new flicks, Lindsay is still going out of her way to demonise herself in Hollywood.

Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story (a film by Matthew Wilder) is about the first pornographic actress to earn mainstream recognition. Parts of the script were leaked to some publication in America and apparently the script is “downright harrowing”.

“As you might expect, the story is full of sex and filthy language — but there’s also shocking violence. You’ll find child abuse, three orgasms, two beatings, intense humiliation and a bloody car crash — all in the first 32 pages alone.”

Like, does Lindsay honestly think this is the type of movie that will launch her back into the public’s good graces? It sounds terrible, not because of the script, I imagine it’s going to be a very emotional and difficult film to watch, but because it’s dirty, cheap and sleazy. Yes, we know there are situations like that the world over, but we don’t want to see America’s (once upon a time) Sweetheart playing the lead, and we certainly don’t want to see a low budget movie about a glorified prostitute!

“The first disturbing scene involves a young Linda being smacked in the face by her mother, who also burns her daughter’s hand with a Bic lighter. This is page 10 —- in other words, within the first 10 minutes of the film.”

I won’t be surprised if the film goes straight to DVD or is one of those artsy, independent films that no-one hears about. Whatever the case, Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story is not for the faint hearted or those of us who have happy family situations.

Proenza Schouler Jeans: Worth The $550 Price Tag?

I wrote about the Proenza Schouler/J Brand collaboration jeans in the first edition of The News: Fashion Buzz. Well, they’re here. Well, not here in Ireland exactly, but on sale.

The graffiti’ed skinny jeans come with the (ridiculous?) price tag of $550 and specific care instructions such as, carefully hand wash and never iron. A lot of work for just a pair of jeans, right? Well, number one – they’re Proenza Schouler (the IT designer of the last decade and quite possible the next one) and two – the design is hand painted. Begging the question:

Are these scarily over-priced jeans or an extremely affordable work of art?

Decide for yourself at www.proenzaschouler.com.

Review Of Machete: “Lindsay [Lohan] Is Nude The Whole Time!”

By now, I’m sure most of you have seen the infamous snap shot from Lindsay’s other new movie Machete, where she’s dressed in a nun’s costume holding up (presumably) a machete.

Well, according to Jezebel.com, an anonymous tipster saw Robert Rodriguez’s Machete and has this to say about it:

“I saw Machete… but Lindsay is barely in it. She’s nude almost the whole time and she has a videotaped ménage-à-trois with her mother and Danny Trejo in a pool. Her father pulls her out of a drug den type situation and confesses [to a priest] lustful thoughts about his daughter. I don’t know if the small role was tailored to her.”

Like the movie about the prostitute, eh, I mean ‘porn star’, this movie probably won’t be Lindsay’s ticket out of social Siberia when it comes to Hollywood.

Like, is she blind or what? Does she honestly not see that these type of film aren’t going to endear her towards anyone other than pimple teenage boys, serial killers and incestuous families from God only knows where?

Lindsay: Cop On! The public really want to like you again but you’re making it impossible for us to take you seriously!

And Finally, A Little Taste Of Taylor Heaven

Taylor Momsen (GOD!!!) returned to the set of Gossip Girl last week to begin filming for the grand return of Jenny Humphrey to Manhattan’s Upper East Side half way through the show’s fourth season. It’s about time!

I honestly don’t know if I’m going to be able to sit through that looser Serena whine and moan at Blair (who I now hate for being such a bitch to Jenny in the season three finale) about her endless love troubles and ‘daddy issues’, while Dan raises his love child with Satan (Georgina Sparks) and Chuck and Nate have it off with every high end call girl in Chuck’s little black book without Jenny right there to dilute it all and add a touch of normalcy to the whole thing. She’s the only one who isn’t a raving sociopath!

Seriously, will the first half of season four be worth my time if the only characters left that I like are Rufus and Lilly, and little Eric, of course (except when he said mean things about Jenny to Rufus)?

Uh, I don’t know.

The new season kicks off in Paris, after which Blair finds it hard to settle in in Columbia University and Dan struggles to play daddy, all the while, not telling his own daddy about baby.

‘Ooh, how original and creative.’

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

The past week in the world of fashion, celebs and all things publication worthy has been somewhat unusual. There aren’t any really juicy new scandals, no adoptions, no deaths – not that I hope for deaths – but things are kind of slow.

But, before I rant and bitch about how boring our celebs have been over the past seven days, a little old news.

Versace Couture

Everyone knows I adore Versace. I worship Donatella Versace and pray each night that I’ll wake up to discover that my life is nothing but a sad dream and that I’m actually Donatella’s second son. Needless to say, I’m still praying.

When Donatella presented the Spring/Summer 2010 Atelier Versace collection during haute couture week (the end of January), Hamish Bowles (European Editor-at-Large for Vogue) spoke about metallic gowns adorned with “chunks of Swarovski crystal, swags of fine silvery chains and hologram discs to give a Paco Rabanne-esque edge.” The collection, modelled by Polish model Kasia Struss, is a masterpiece. The phenomenal dresses are viewable by appointment only but you can see pictures of the heavenly dresses at Fashionologie.com.

Katie’s Cup Cakes

Katie Holmes (the better half of Tom-Kat) is currently working on her newest flick, The Kennedys, a History Channel production where Katie plays Jacqueline Kennedy. The thirty-one year old actress is apparently a fan of Isabelle’s Curly Cakes, as she had the Red Velvet and Grasshopper flavoured cakes delivered to her at the Toronto set.

See, I wasn’t joking. Slow. Who cares if Katie Holmes likes cup cakes?! Seriously. Why do the American media report such boring crap?! My guess: Tom lets Katie eat something that isn’t designed, manufactured and endorsed by the International Association of Scientologists.

Too Cool For Schouler

Proenza Schouler’s label creators and design team, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, opened their Autumn/Winter 2010 show with eccentric, graffiti covered jeans, which are the product of a design collaboration with high end denim label J Brand. The jeans come in black or blue, are high waisted and of the skinny variety, appealing to Proenza Schouler’s already young demographic, and cost $550 from New York high end department store Bergdorf Goodman (which is constantly references in the CW’s hit show, Gossip Girl).

Fun fact about Proenza Schouler: the name for the label, launched in 2002, came from the maiden names of the creators, Hernandez and McCollough. It’s always nice to see people who care so much about their mothers, especially when in almost every American TV show, the characters loathe their mothers and dread their visits.

LiLo: Dancing Her Way Back To Stardom?

Carrie Ann Inaba, judge on the American version of reality show Dancing With The Stars, would like to see Lindsay Lohan dance her way back into Hollywood’s good graces.

Carrie Ann was at the Dizzy Feet Foundation’s celebration of National Dance Day in L.A. on August 1st when she told People magazine, “Lindsay is my number one pick [for next season]… I want her so bad.”

The reality show judge proceeded to fall to her knees and clasp her hands in prayer and pleaded, “Please, Lindsay Lohan, come on our show!”

I’m thinking someone is a little desperate, or a serious attention seeker.

Carrie Ann continued to explain, “I think it would be great for her. She’s so adorable. I think she needs a second chance and it would be a wonderful way to show the world she can pull it together.”

Uh. Americans and their second chances. I do feel quite sorry for Lindsay, being in prison and all, but honestly, is she ever going to cop on to herself? She’s so young and it’s such a shame that she’s such a car crash.

Apparently, judge Inaba hadn’t heard the rumour about Mel Gibson’s estranged ‘baby mama’, Oksana Grigorieve, trying to get on Dancing With The Stars.

People magazine concluded their piece by saying, “Perhaps it’s time for a DWTS spinoff. Let’s just call it Dancing With the Trainwrecks.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Spotted – In True Gossip Girl Fashion

This made me sick. This is the type of stuff that you hear about people eating up but don’t actually believe that anyone really cares about.

Gossip Girl star Blake Lively was spotted enjoying dinner last night with her long term boyfriend, fellow Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley, at the Market Table restaurant in Greenwich Village in NYC.

Aren’t they supposed to be a ‘happy couple’? Like, why would you go out to a restaurant notorious for paparazzi with your lover when the two of you look like a pair of sour grapes? That’s just asking for gossip. You’d think Blake and Penn would have had enough drama while filming the fourth season of the hit CW show. By the looks of things, I’m thinking these young starlets are either on the verge of breaking up or their relationship is all for publicity. They never look happy when they’re spotted together. If I liked Blake or Penn, I’d care. Turns out, I despise Serena and actually get angry when Dan takes up valuable Blair time on the show.

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

Giorgio Armani’s new face for beauty is film actress Megan Fox.

Giorgio Armani has chosen Megan Fox to ‘incarnate his vision of beauty. She embodies the spirit of the women of today: free, confident, and seductive. Her beautiful features reveal femininity, sensuality and strength’.

Watch out for Ms. Fox when the campaign kicks of this October.

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

I was lucky enough to attend the launch of Coast’s Autumn Winter collection yesterday where I met the lovely Karen Koster as she was about to film for Xpose.  I’ve met Karen a couple of times and she really comes across as a genuinely nice person, probably a favourite Xpose presenter here at wow.

Karen looked taller than her usual petite self wearing a serious pair of nude platforms teamed with a dress from Karen Millen and black opaques.  She looked fantastic especially considering she admitted to getting ready in the taxi!

Below is a sneak preview of what to expect modeled by what must be two of the tallest women in Ireland (that coming from a mini person!).  Expect tailoring, metallics, sequins, feathers and yes great dresses.  We’ll bring you more on that later…

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

I had the pleasure of meeting one of Ireland’s nicest and well known stylists at the launch of the Warehouse Summer ’10 Collection last week.  Cathy O’Connor is the kind of woman you watch on TV and instantly warm to, she has that likeability factor as Simon Cowell would say that so many people on TV try hard to have but miss it completely!  Cathy is regularly on our little screens working with XPose, Ireland AM and RTE from time to time.

Well rest assured ladies she is as nice if not better in person, really friendly and open to being pestered as she was trying to suss out the new collection – will come to that in a min!  Cathy was dressed top to toe in black and feeling the heat as it was one of the first warm days we had.  Thigh high boots coupled with a parka style coat cinched in at the waist with a thick black belt made her look effortlessly cool as opposed to overly styled.  Cathy said she loved the collection and was trying on several items that day so with her seal of approval I followed suit!

To sum up what to expect from their collection… tees, stripes, pastels, lace, chiffon, denim, floral, fabulous collection of dresses and playsuits.  Accessories were also impressive with bib necklaces, chunky bangles and quirky pieces that all the stylists (most well known) were snapping up on the morning.  I had know intentions of shopping so left with… a fitted short linen jacket with stripe detailing on the cuffs, leggings, three tees in pastel shades one with ruffle detailing on the shoulders, two stripe dresses (to wear as tops!) and a leather detail bangle – not bad considering the ‘not buying anything’ mantra running through my mind on the way in!

So to conclude, 1. Cathy O’Connor gets the wow.ie thumbs up as all round nice gal and 2. check out the new collection at Warehouse

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

 Loading ...

Jessica Simpson is the cover for the May issue of ‘Marie Claire,’ in which claims the photo was taken “with absolutely no makeup or retouching.”

“I don’t have anything to prove anymore,” Jessica told the magazine. “What other people think of me is not my business.”

She looks fresh-faced and gorgeous, but no makeup at all? Not even a little bit? You decide

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

We were feeling the excruciating embarrassment for all these fallen ladies here when one of the girls pointed out how no-body watching bothered to help them up – shame on you all!  Naomi Campbell pictured at her best above, that’s all we’ll say about that.  Working our way to the top spot, these should cheer you up as we creep closer to a long weekend

3. Oh… where to start?  How about we start with model Tiiu Kuik tripping over a pair of Oscar de la Renta trousers – in fairness it was bound to happen!  We hope these death traps went out with a health warning.

2. Moving swiftly on to Carmen Electra at the Max Factor Fashion Show and no doubt wishing she had stayed in bed!  Nice to know it’s not only models that succumb to this risk.  This cartoon banana skin style ‘slip up’ came just as she was confidently strutting her stuff and throwing out kissing to the adoring crowd – oh the shame! Check out the over eager assistant rushing to help only to end up flashing the crowd herself…

1. Our number one has to be from Vivienne Westwoods Paris Fashion Week, not once but TWICE the poor girl almost planted her face permanently on the runway.  You’ve got to love the casual flick of the hair as she emerges after both falls.  ‘Nobody will notice if I just flick my magic hair’!!  Sure.

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

It is the most stylish event on the Irish Fashion Calendar and the socialites and stars did not disappoint!

Taking their cue from Hollywood… the stars that got it right on the night kept the dresses simple and elegant, accessories to a minimum and barely there makeup.

You’ll remember from The Oscars, that bangles and chandelier earrings were the must-haves for jewellery, while statement necklaces were nowhere to be seen, gold and neutral hues ruled the red carpet and hair and makeup was minimalist.  Well, the VIP Style Awards certainly followed suit.

Total Xposure contestant and Assets model Ruth O’Neill looked beautiful (it’d be hard for her not to!), the dress reminded me of the paired back subtlety of Kate Winslets’ Yves Saint Laurent dress at The Oscars. It was simple and classic… if a little bit old for her.  Although it could have done with a bit of an iron before she left her house!

And can we say va-va voom… Glenda Gilson is certainly no wallflower, and with her private life recently being splashed all over the press it was great to see her basically stick two fingers up to the world and dress to kill!  She looked sensational in a bejeweled red dress with cut-out detailing and won the most stylish award!  Refreshingly she really sticks to her own rock-chic style while presenting on Xpose, wearing jeans, boots, rocker t-shirts, leather jackets etc.  She is true to her own style which makes her deservedly most stylish of the year in my eyes too.

There was one big trend that a few stars picked up on, which is the underwear/outerwear trend that is everywhere on the catwalk and high-street this season!

Sinead Desmond kept the lace overlay quite subtle and feminine, which is why she pulled it off superbly, and with a daring neckline the dress was made more exciting and reminiscent of a corset vibe.

But other guests who attempted the lace look weren’t so successful, the lace was either too dark, too much, or too heavy and they ended up looking more like they had been caught up in Spiderman’s web, than his love interest, heroine Mary Jane.

Yes, there are always a few misses at these events too and unfortunately the beautiful Rachel Kavanagh was another guest who got it wrong.  It firstly was something I would expect to see on a mother of the bride, or at least someone forty+ years Rachel’s senior.  The kimono style print and matching wrap-over was reminiscent of a 60’s housewife’s nightwear, and for someone so young and pretty it was a pity to see her drown herself in this outfit.

Anna Daly looked sensational… talk about hitting all the trends in one!  Ruffles down the train (but subtle), the gold hue ivory worked perfectly against her skin tone, and the unique butterfly/waistcoat effect on the bodice of the dress as well as the open back with jeweled spaghetti strap details, made it a statement number!  With the dress having enough detail she kept jewellery to a minimum with just one big bangle.  According to one Irish paper she had actually recycled her wedding dress for the event… well talk about recession proof and being ahead of the times!  Top marks.

But the star that stole the show in the style stakes was adopted Irish star, Michelle Heaton… a dress stunning enough to be seen on The Oscars red carpet.  (In fact it was nicer than most of The Oscar dresses we saw!)

The dress flowed in a teal blue chiffon with crystal cap sleeves and small crystal belt detail, she kept the accessories to a minimum and let the dress do the talking!  Her hairstyle was inspired by old Hollywood glamour, with sweeping waves and a side parting, and she also kept her makeup very natural and let her true beauty shine.  Although she arrived with her friend Katie Price, who was hounded by the paparazzi, it was Michelle’s timeless look that stole the show!

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

On the back of her recent Brit award for Best Female Artist, which she accepted whilst wearing an orange afro wig, Lily Allen has revealed that she is quitting music for the foreseeable future (two years is quite seeable but we’ll let her away with that one) in order to pursue the different pathways life has to offer.

As face of the Spring/Summer ’10 Chanel campaign, Lily joined a long list of singers and actresses who have gone before her in the hop from one business to the other, such as Emma Watson for Burberry, Chloe Sevingy for Chloe and indeed her own collection for Opening Ceremony. But what better way to hone your love for shopping by turning that talent into a business venture. Lily will channel the creative juices that were once used for gold-chained melodies to a more down to earth job, such as running a shop.

The boutique Lucy in Disguise which will be co-run with her sister, will offer customers items which they can hire rather than splurge on. She insists her ideals are politically flavoured, stating that “It’s about making fashion democratic”. Surely it’s not just a way to keep the money flowing whilst her music career is on hiatus and a way of finding use for her abundance of designer gear that has be thrown at her in recent years. “It’s about getting really nice clothes but letting people rent them for affordable prices so they can go out and feel like a million dollars and it won’t cost them a million dollars.” Let’s hope it won’t end up looking like the costume shop where that dreadful luminous wig was found.

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend

Can you imagine popping over to Kildare Outlet today to grab a pizza and a pair of socks only to find yourself standing next to Elizabeth Hurley and a couple of freezing Irish girls in bikinis!  Mad Ted.  Well that’s exactly what happened to anyone there today around lunch time.

We had A-List celebrity Elizabeth Hurley down in Kildare opening her Beach Boutique at Kildare Village Outlet, going the hole hog with a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by a stint as sales assistant to anyone not depressed enough about having to get into a bikini!

To commemorate the launch, Elizabeth donated 100% of sales of a special Pink Bikini to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation & Professor John Crown’s Cancer Clinical Research Trust in Ireland – good for you Liz!

What else can you expect to find at Ms. Hurley’s boutique… Cutler & Gross sunglasses and Philip Treacy hats sold exclusively at the boutique.

We loved Liz’s ensemble, particularly her platform peep toe wedge shoes, however she may have regretted not opting for something a little warmer, there’s a fierce chill in that Kildare wind!

• Recommend on Facebook
• Tweet about it
• Tell a friend