Report: Christian Lacroix Will Create Special Couture Collection for Schiaparelli. Amid rumors that Rochas designer Marco Zanini would be appointed to helm Schiaparelli’s re-launch comes more news about the revival of the brand: French designer Christian Lacroix has been tapped to create a 15-piece couture collection as a “one-time tribute to Elsa Schiaparelli,” writes The New York Times ’s Suzy Menkes . Lacroix has been missing from the design circuit since 2009, when his namesake label -- once famous for its flair for fine prints and Edwardian-era romance -- faced liquidation. He’s since channeled his colorful talents towards designing a paper goods line and creating costumes for ballet repertoires across Europe.
Lacroix was careful to tell Menkes of his Schiaparelli project: “It is not a return to fashion. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Met Gala Smack Talk: Pros vs. Cons. After complaining to USA Today last week that the Met Ball was "un-fun," Gwyneth Paltrow shit-talked the gala some more during a drunken dinner in New York with two Australian radio show hosts known as Kyle and Jackie O , who apparently won a meal with her in some sort of contest. After confessing that she was drunk, Paltrow discussed how dreadful the ball was and then expounded on her recent adventures in vagina-shaving. You can listen to the full recording below, but we've transcribed all the salient parts. Rival Yves Saint Laurent films wage fierce communications battle. French Designer Yves Saint Laurent died nearly four years ago, but rival film companies are battling it out over who has the right to shoot his biography and who is allowed to portray the clothes that set the fashion agenda for a generation.
With high-profile hires, big-name designers and dark hints of legal action, the two camps are pressing ahead with plans to tell the story of the man who became a global fashion icon. Few attendees at the EFM this week can have failed to notice the fierce communications battle being waged by French sales companies SND and Films Distribution over rival biopics, Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent and Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent.