Friday round-up: Rodarte at Harvey Nichols; Paris Hilton sued; Fergie for X Factor?
Rodarte currently has its States of Matter exhibition at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), but Harvey Nichols says that UK shop-goers need not feel as though they’ve missed out. It has an installation on the first floor, created by set designer Fiona Leahy, with an abundance of northern Californian redwood and a […]
Why aren’t we happy that Jennifer Garner is the new Miss Marple?
Annie Leibovitz Above Jennifer Garner models the Gap’s Product Red parka—not really whom you’d expect to see as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. There were two interesting casting decisions made this week in showbusiness. One was generally favoured and both we and British Vogue reported it: the casting Karen Gillan, Doctor Who’s Amy Pond, as […]
Nikki Reed, Shiloh Fernandez, Keri Hilson, other celebs support H&M’s Fashion Against Aids ’11
Sebastian Kim The 2011 edition of Hennes & Mauritz’s (H&M) Fashion Against Aids initiative has been announced, with a larger celebrity support. The campaign is backed this year by Akon, Penn Badgley, Selma Blair, Shiloh Fernandez, Sky Ferreira, Ginnifer Goodwin, Keri Hilson, the Misshapes, Nikki Reed, and Scissor Sisters. The unisex FAA […]
Vanessa Hudgens ups the glam at UK Sucker Punch première
Above Vanessa Hudgens looks decidedly un-Disney as Blondie in Sucker Punch. Zack Snyder’s action–fantasy film Sucker Punch has had its UK première, with Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Jamie Chung and Oscar Isaac among the celebrities attending at Leicester Square. Director Snyder brought much of the production team from his earlier success Watchmen […]
Karen Gillan to play 1960s’ supermodel Jean Shrimpton in BBC bio-pic
BBC Karen Gillan, who came to fame with her Amy Pond role in Doctor Who, will play Jean Shrimpton—‘the Shrimp’, one of Britain’s most iconic models of the ’60s—in a BBC film to be shown on BBC Four. We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on the four-year love affair between Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. […]
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes promote The Kennedys, while Lady Gaga thanks fans for her birthday
Copyright ©2010 Kennedys Productions (Ontario) Inc. and Zak Cassar Leading celebrity news today: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have headed on to the red carpet to promote Holmes’s mini-series, The Kennedys. Holmes said she had some concerns when the mini-series was scrapped by the History Channel, but it will now be broadcast on the […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor is late for her own funeral
Dame Elizabeth Taylor was late for her own funeral—at her own request. In accordance with her wishes, the 79-year-old actress’s service began 15 minutes after the publicized time. Dame Elizabeth has been laid to rest at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, after a private service held outside Los Angeles. […]
Elizabeth Arden, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Vanessa Hudgens pay tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Arden, which licensed Dame Elizabeth Taylor’s name and likeness for its fragrances, has issued a statement on the actress’s passing. ‘It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress, activist and businesswoman. As her business partner in the fragrance industry, we have held her in […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor: a style icon remembered
We’ve thought about it and other than praising her charity work raising money for Aids, there isn’t a better tribute we can make to the late, great Dame Elizabeth Taylor, DBE, than showing her at her peak. Below is a video of her in Las Vegas with then-husband Eddie Fisher, in 1959. This video […]
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open: having themselves a ball
Joe Scarnici While film buffs look to Hollywood as the physical embodiment of America’s “good life”, Indian Wells (two hours from LA without traffic, and just east of Palm Springs) takes on a similar glow when the BNP Paribas Open comes to town in March. Instead of rolling out the red carpet, of course, the […]
