In the featured article, we learn that Jennifer Meyer, the jewelry designer and wife of Tobey Maguire, has known Kate since childhood (her dad was the agent of Kate’s mom, Goldie Hawn). In high school, Jennifer recalls Kate getting sent home for wearing her skirts too short. Scandalous!

Kate also sounds off on the paparazzi enraging her.

“They’ve become an entity to themselves,” she says. “But eventually they’ll implode. They’re creating a house of cards that will inevitably fall. These are not nice people. When you’re taking your child to school, and they’re trying to get on school property to get a picture, it literally makes you want to just smack them.”

During the interview, the 29-year-old actress gets defensive at the suggestion that she lacks range.

She says,

“I could be in an interview and people would keep going, ‘So why do you always do romantic comedies?’ Do I want to do darker roles? Of course. It has to be the right thing, though. I’m not just going to, like, make a movie that’s, Oh, she’s a whore, prostitute, and heroin addict.”

Kate’s next rom-com, Bride Wars, costars Anne Hathaway and opens next Friday, January 9.
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Ecco Domani released the 2009 vintage of the winemaker’s eighth annual Fashion Foundation awards.

The recipients are Lyn Devon, Matthew Ames, Cushnie et Ochs by Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, and Ohne Titel by Alexa Adams and Flora Gill in the women’s design category. Corpus, by Jerrod Cornish and Keith Richardson, was honored for men’s design, and jeweler Monique Péan won for accessories.

The foundation’s inaugural award for sustainable design went to Bodkin Brooklyn designers Eviana Hartman and Samantha Pleet, who create bags out of old leather jackets.

Each emerging label received a $25,000 grant to help showcase its collection at New York Fashion Week in February. The form of showcase is uncertain, as the cost of a runway show generally exceeds the cash value of the prize, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America has urged emerging designers to consider presentations this season.

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Is there anyone in Hollywood not wearing Current/Elliott jeans at the moment? Miley Cyrus is the latest in a very long line to be snapped in a pair of their jeans.

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Kate Moss continues her holiday vacation in Thailand with boyfriend Jamie Hince, daughter Lila Grace and friends on Surin Beach on Sunday.It appears the supermodel has recently suffered an injury to her right hand as it is bandaged up. It also seems Miss Moss left her bikini top at home as her breast is clearly exposed out the side of her dress.

Meanwhile, she insists she isn’t pregnant, and the beer in her hand would appear to confirm that fact, but the way she was rubbing what appeared to be a bump beneath her baggy top did nothing to dispel rumours that Kate is, indeed, expecting her second child.
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Marks & Spencer is this week expected to report its worst Christmas sales figures since Sir Stuart Rose took the helm after what has been a bloody trading period for retailers.Next and Debenhams are also expected to report sales declines in their January updates but analysts think that like-for-like falls will be most marked at M&S, with sales down by at least 5.5% in the third quarter. Some fear that the decline could be as steep as 9.6 per cent.

If underlying sales are down more than 6.3%, that would be M&S’s worst quarterly performance since 1999.

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Amazing beauty Daria Werbovy stars in a new Roberto Cavalli ad campaign and looks stunning in the designer’s flowy dress.Story Covered by:thefashiontime

“Superman” beauty Kate Bosworth graces the new issue of Tank magazine, a UK publication.The beauty shoot was done by photographer Todd Cole.

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Kate Moss keeps on posing for ‘Just Cavalli’ ad campaigns. As you probably remember she’s been the face for autumn-winter campaign and it is no wonder she graces the new spring-summer 2009
campaign as well.
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The Chanel supremo said it was “childish” to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal.

German-born Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was “an industry who lives from that”.

Hunters in the north “make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting”, he said, “killing those beasts who would kill us if they could.”

Animals should be killed “nicely” if at all possible, said Lagerfeld, who admitted to being queasy about eating meat.

“I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive,” he said.

He concluded: “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”

In an interview on the Radio 4 Today programme, Lagerfeld also said the issue of size zero models was insignificant compared to the “zillions” of fat people.

Doctors have criticised the use of size zero models, saying it has contributed to a rise in eating disorders among girls who feel pressured to conform to this idea of beauty.

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Let’s take a break from talking about people not spending money and turn to those who are basically blowing bills out the door with a fan. Adidas is launching its first global ad campaign in 60 years for Adidas Originals, starring David Beckham, Missy Elliott, and Russell Simmons. Originals is the brand’s fashion-y line of athleticwear. The ads show people dancing at a crowded party. “The campaign and the people that are in it are on point with [teens’] needs,” says the U.S. marketing director for Adidas. So apparently the needs of twentysomethings who prefer David Beckham without his shirt have gone unnoticed.

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Hilary Riva has been awarded with an OBE.

The chief executive of the British Fashion Council received the award as part of the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Riva has held her position at the British Fashion Council for two years and in that time she has helped to unearth and develop new fashion talent.

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The predictions that Spring 2009 ads would be all about commercial models that can sell product are indeed coming to pass; Versace pulled out not one, but two big guns for their campaign — Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss, shot by Mario Testino against the never-can-fail beachy blue background.Story Covered by:fashionologie

If you can’t afford anything on high-end online shopping site Net-a-Porter, 2009’s your lucky year. Because in February founder Natalie Massenet is slated to launch a Net-a-Porter’s outlet site, the Outnet. Think heavily reduced designer goods à la Bluefly. We’re pretty excited about this one. Then again, with all the sales these days, it seems like the world is our Bluefly.

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Oscar De La Renta’s Spring ‘09 campaign featuring Raquel Zimmermann

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For Spring ‘09 you’ll be seeing model Heidi Mount as the face of Chanel once again (she did Resort 2008), she also opened and closed the Spring ‘09 RTW show in case you didn’t notice. It was featured in the ELLE UK February ‘09 issue.
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The DailyMirror have reported that the tide of public opinion turned against Paris Hilton when she visited Oz.“The tw-it girl was paid piles of cash to monkey around during a New Year Eve’s party on Australia’s Bondi Beach. But locals were unimpressed and flung handfuls of sand at her. Strewth!”I never thought I’d say this but Poor Paris Hilton. It must be extra painful since it’s the New Year.Paris Hilton went with best pal Kim Kardashian, the reality stars wore super shiny LV beach bags. More pics after the jump … Read the rest of this entry »