Nicole Kidman, with child, was dumped this week as the face of Chanel [MC], though she still holds on to the Guinness record for earning the most money per minute, with her 30-second $3.71 million Chanel No. 5 advertisement. Replacing Kidman is someone 11 years her junior: the twenty-nine-year-old Audrey Tautou, who is French, like the fashion house, and an Oscar nominee, to her predecessor’s Oscar winner status. Tatou’s deal is rumored to be worth over $8 million [DM], which is nearly what Kidman’s standard $20 million movie price tag has been reduced to, thanks to The Stepford Wives, The Invasion, and The Interpreter.
• Courtney Cox doesn’t have the much of an ass.
• Coco Chanel probably never planned on Pamela Anderson wearing her designs or anything she made being shown in Vegas.
• OK! continues to be the magazine of choice for stars not secure enough with their career prospects to abstain from selling wedding pictures to pay for their future children’s college education.
• Smart thinking: Slash wouldn’t let his kids near Michael Jackson.
• Celebrity babies: People find them interesting!
• Jossip’s New Year’s party in pictures, with pink stars.1
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The Daily Telegraph last month thought they were being cheeky when they floated a story about Nicole Kidman, saying her endorsement deal with Chanel – to promote its Chanel No. 5 fragrance – was a farce, since she actually preferred the Jo Malone scent. Turns out, the $15 million cheque the designer label wrote to Kidman’s frozen face comes with litigious counsel!
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It’s no secret that couture models (a.k.a. glorified clothes-hangers) are putting their malnourished bodies under dangerous amounts of strain due to a steady regimen of chain-smoking, compulsive exercising and liquid dieting, as well as the misguided impression that a protruding ribcage is this season’s “must-have accessory.”
But now, a gripping ad campaign in the current issue of Harper’s Bazaar showcases a new, heretofore undetected health risk for the elite supermodel: jaundiced yellow skin.
So far, this latest affliction (deemed “beyond glam” by fashion insiders) seems confined to high-fashion runway walkers and the pretentious designers who dress them, but there’s no telling how soon it will spread to the pages of more lowbrow fashion advertisements, including (but not limited to) ads for Target, Contempo Casual, Dress Barn, H&M, and Sarah Jessica Parker’s bargain basement line, “Bitten.”
When reached for comment, bored, disinterested sounding fashionista types staunchly defended the new look, rolling their eyes and explaining in curt, matter-of-fact tones that, “Sallow is the new white.”
More evidence of this shocking/controversial phenomenon, after the jump.
While us nerdy media bloggers were reading Memo Pad, the boys over at Queerty were actually paying attention to the fashion coverage in Women’s Wear Daily (what would we do without them?) And what is this we hear?
Chanel is punking Reese Witherspoon on her (may we say, fabu) Golden Globes dress. Jossip is not too happy, folks. While we may take a different stance on the lovability of that Kirsten Dunst, we totally agree with their analysis of this atrocity.
… those sneaky French beeotches over at Chanel tricked our dear Reese Witherspoon into wearing a three year old dress they claimed was vintage to the Golden Globes! Every fashion queen knows that three years does not equal vintage.
Of course, Reese’s rep stood up:
Nancy Ryder, is said to be so angry at Chanel for giving her a recently recycled gown that she’s vowing not to accept anything from Chanel again - or let her other clients, including Jennifer Lopez and Renée Zellweger, wear anything from the French couture house.
We said it before, and we’ll say it again. Don’t phunk with our Reese, or we’ll stop buying knock-off Chanel change purses from Chinatown. Ha!
No No Chanel [Queerty]
REESE’S CHANEL HAD WORN LOOK [Page Six]
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