Anna Wintour, a little late on the boat down river Denial in her claims that she's not leaving Vogue or getting replaced by her french counterpart Carine Roitfeld, in a Devil Wears Prada reenactment.
'I have no plans to leave American Vogue now or in the foreseeable future,' said Vogue editor Anna Wintour as she was walking out of the Plaza this morning.
Well, at least the lady doth not protest too much? When Wintour was asked this question last month, she just told the reporter to go away, fueling even more rumors that she was facing an imminent replacement.
So what would it take for Anna to split from her editrix posish?
• Jennifer Aniston on Uncoolgate '08: "I was just surprised that Vogue would go so tabloid. … I was bummed. But you almost expect it. Big deal. Done. Next." [PS]
• Sarah Jessica Parker's son has some crazy hair. [ICYDK]
• Anne Heche is pregnant, because there aren't enough babies in Hollywood. [Yeeeah]
• In case you were too busy last night watching Miley Cyrus ruin Christmas at the Rockefeller tree lighting, here's the Victoria's Secret fashion show. [HT]
• Er, nevermind, Nene is not being evicted. Kim's "low budget bitch" comment was wrong. [DListed]
• Sean Preston and Jayden James enjoyed their day at FAO Schwarz with the paparazzi in tow. [INO]
Hockey player, Vogue intern and lovable d-bag Sean Avery has gotten himself into a bit of trouble with the NHL for some not-that-bad comments he made before a Dallas Stars game on Tuesday night. You see, Sean used to date actress Elisha Cuthbert and model Rachel Hunter before passing them along to other league players, and apparently he's a little perturbed about the situation, calling the women his "sloppy seconds."
So what did the league do? It suspended Avery, because that's not overreacting or anything. Maybe we just don't watch enough sports to understand the rules, but this seems a bit … harmless?
• The many faces of drunk Christina Aguilera, red lipstick included. [CityRag]
• All Angelina Jolie comments aside, Jennifer Aniston's Vogue interview is a fairly good read. [PS]
• OMG you guys! Joe Jonas has a new girlfriend! Squeee! [Yeeeah]
• Jesse Metcalfe recovered from his Monaco fall just in time to be photographed in a wheelchair by the paparazzi. Stay strong, Jess. [DListed]
• Adam Sandler's a father (again). [ICYDK]
• Lauren Conrad's former Hills flame is creeping down the Hollywood ladder, as all good famewhores eventually do. [INO]
Oh, Jennifer Aniston, no. No no no. Why, after four years, would you even think about opening your mouth to a national publication about the rumored feud between you and Angelina Jolie? This just reeks of desperation and lends entirely too much credibility to the naysayers who claim you're bitter and resentful.
All of this nonsense is the result of Jen "icily" telling the newest issue of Vogue: "What Angelina did was very uncool." This, in light of Angie's recent revelation that she and Jen's ex-husband, Brad Pitt, fell in love during the making of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, contrary to earlier reports that the romance started only after filming.
Unfortunately, Jen's friends aren't helping matters. One is even calling this middle school feud "hugely significant": "This interview shows that Jennifer is no longer afraid of Angelina." No, actually, it shows that Jennifer still can't let this whole thing go.
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After 80 years of selling garbage adorned with the characters of a viciously anti-Semitic cartoonist, the Walt Disney Company has arrived at a conclusion: sticky kids and country folk in Donald Duck t-shirts don't have lots of money for the taking, elitists do. And elitists don't like their overpriced, useless crap to be covered with Goofys. Move over, Vera Wang, and say hello to Disney Couture!
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Like a Wizard of Oz cast member in Bizarro World, Anna Wintour has spent its whole life making itself into a cold tin shell with a high heel where its heart should be, so it can't feel love. But if it could, according to the New York Post, it would feel it for Gerard Butler: "'She thinks he's amazing,' a source said. 'She talks about him all the time.'"
Oooooooh! If this is true, it means that the Wintour is so totally over its summertime crush on sunken-eyed tennis pro Roger Federer. Butler needs to hurry and trade a joint-oiling session for some Vogue coverage before Wintour Number Five's eye wanders again.
Related: Isn't "amazing" overused?
Today is kind of a milestone of mine, because it's my one year anniversary at Jossip HQ. I started out as an intern over at Jossip.com for a few months before being moved over to Mollygood full-time, so it's not my real first anniversary yet, but I'm sentimental and celebrate anytime I can. I remember showing up at what I have dubbed The Tiniest Starbucks In The World across the street from Bryant Park to interview for the internship and staring across out the window at all of the celebrities and models (and Nigel Barker!). I hadn't a clue I would be there a year later, which is what made this Fashion Week exciting for me. CONTINUED »
The Republicans are right: These goddamn celebrities just will not leave politics alone and go be celebrities! Look at this frickin' Alaskan governor, for instance, prancing about the pages of Vogue in ridiculously expensive winter wear. Is she for real? Earth to governor: You're a politician, lady, not Cindy Crawford!
See, this is exactly why I'm voting for McCain. Because he has made it well known that he is sick and tired of this horseshit. He's ready to take a stand against the ridiculous, flashy dog-and-pony show politics has…wait, what? What? Oh, for fuck's sake.
One more after the jump.
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Later this fall, when the sales data for Vogue's September issue is available, we might all have a good laugh about how terrible it did on the newsstand because Anna Wintour put Keira Knightley on the cover, even though when she appeared on the magazine last June, it was among the year's worst-sellers (405k newsstand). To be fair, Knightley was seen dressing an elephant in Louis Vuitton.
Remember that Vogue-King Kong controversy that ambushed the media chattering classes back in March? Anna Wintour and Annie Leibovitz were gouged by politically correct knives for repeating a racist and stereotypical image of King Kong and a lady of liberty, making cover star LeBron James look like a screaming ape next to a helpless (though smiling!) Gisele Bundchen. Now that the dust has settled, it's time to look at how Americans at large viewed the issue. In a word, poorly.
Suddenly, after several years of being at the bottom of the fashion heap, black models are back on top. In a big way. Not only are they exclusively populating the pages of this month’s super-hyped Vogue Italia, Wintour & Co. also begrudgingly gave them some attention. At Milan’s Men’s Fashion Week, the designers of Dsquared used a group of models, led by Tyson Beckford, made up almost entirely of black men. And rumor has it that Lanvin’s show next week has an “all-ethnic lineup.”
Last night, a handful of celebrities who seemingly had nothing in common gathered to honor — what else? — fragrance. The Fifi Awards, known as the Oscars of the fragrance industry, honored such achievements as best packaging and presented Vera Wang with a hall of fame award. But the real show was on the red carpet, where everyone's favorite D-listers (think Danity Kane and Minka Kelly) gathered to have their pictures taken and answer such hard-hitting questions as, "What are you wearing?" CONTINUED »
Here’s a World War I enlistment poster (via) from 1917, famous from its era, that encouraged men to sign up with the army to fight the German enemy. (Interestingly, the Germans found it so convincing, they Nazis used the same concept for their own World War II poster.)
It’s hard to imagine Wintour or Leibovitz, or their staffs, in all their years studying photos and imagery, never came across this poster, or understood its racial ramifications with the ape carrying the helpless Lady Liberty.
The all-important Vogue, star of The Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty, is in hot water with the pro-life movement for featuring a fashion shoot and interview with Lori Campbell, a woman who once had a partial-birth abortion. The laugh a minute evangelists are outraged at Campbell's decision, despite a doctor's assurance that her fetus had no chance at survival. The marriage of difficult personal issues and high-fashion has the pro-lifers even angrier (and for all the wrong reasons).
Campbell was clad in high fashion in a picture alongside her story about being "advised by her doctors to have an abortion 22 weeks into her pregnancy after being told the baby would not survive." One blogger complained, "The gruesome procedure of partial-birth abortion has been given a style makeover by the world's most influential fashion magazine."
Boy do we hate to take Vogue's side on anything, but you leave us no choice, psychos. Thanks a lot.
BUT HE'S DEAD "Naomi Campbell has officially found a new vocation: as an investigative journalist. Having been granted an audience with Hugo Chavez in October for a piece in GQ, the magazine's editor…has revealed he has a whole host of political firebrands in line for the supermodel to grill. Next up? Fidel Castro."
We've given wealthy corporations rap, punk rock, Johnny Cash, skateboarding, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, lobster, graffiti and jeans—can't we keep cowboy for us? Seeing Hermès scarves on the ranch just ain't right.
After the jump, more from Charlize Theron's new Vogue shoot.
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