It’s no secret that Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the Darth Vader of fashion. (Remember that “60 Minutes” segment where she fessed up to telling Oprah to drop twenty pounds for her 1998 Vogue cover and then called chubby Minnesotans “little houses.”) But Anna has reached a whole new level of meaniness. According to Rihanna’s close friend, Wintour had been talking to Rihanna about doing a Vogue cover for weeks. At the Met Costume Gala on May 4th, Wintour supposedly told RiRi that Vogue “absolutely loves her and really wanted to work with her.” But as soon as nude photographs of Rihanna (maybe?) were leaked on the internet, Wintour stopped returning Rihanna’s calls.
Obviously, Rihanna is super disappointed as the cover would have been a huge deal—and not just for her career, but because so few black women (i.e. six) have graced Vogue‘s cover, including Michelle Obama, Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry, and Beyonce. [Celebitchy]
via Anna Wintour Won’t Put Rihanna On A Vogue Cover After Leaked Nudie Photos | The Frisky.
Joshua Plaut slumped in the back of Manhattan’s Supreme Court today, waiting for the judge and seemingly willing this whole affair to go away quietly. He hailed from the New York powerhouse law firm Wilson Sonsini, and Google was paying him top dollar to do as little as possible. The search giant, whose founders cling to their “Don’t be evil” motto like guns and religion, had found itself in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, a courtroom drama pitting a statuesque Vogue model against an anonymous blogger who had decided the world needed to know she was nothing but a dried-up strumpet. For a company that prides itself on ennobling the world in between bouts of record-breaking quarterly profits, this was grief Google didn’t need.
Last August, someone set up a Google blogger account and used it to create the blog Skanks in NYC, complete with photographs of New York model Liskula Cohen partying with her friends, as well as a few captioned observations about her sex life, age, and mental state. A horrified Cohen promptly got herself a lawyer and sued Google, seeking to force the company to divulge all identifying information the blogger provided when he or she registered the blog. The anonymous defamer’s attorneys challenged the suit, insisting that federal law protects their client’s online speech. Today, both sides met in court to duke it out.
The courtroom scene was Google’s worst nightmare. On the one hand, the company has come under fire for collecting personal information from its users and storing it for months; if Google gave up the blogger too eagerly, its worst critics would have another barb with which to accuse it of playing fast and loose with its customers’ privacy. On the other hand, who wants to be seen protecting some nasty, small-minded, cowardly gossip?
via Obscenities Fly In “Skank” Hearing The Big Money.
Jennifer Aniston poses in nothing but a necktie on the January ’09 cover of GQ magazine.
Weeks after complaining about her Vogue cover (which hyped her Angelina Jolie “uncool” comments) in a cover interview with Entertainment Weekly, Aniston gives a candid interview again talking about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – and their kids:
Jennifer Aniston Naked, Joking Jolie-Pitts In GQ.
By HEATHER TIMMONS
Published: August 31, 2008
NEW DELHI — An old woman missing her upper front teeth holds a child in rumpled clothes — who is wearing a Fendi bib (retail price, about $100).
In Vogue India magazine, a child from a poor family modeled a Fendi bib, which costs about $100.
A man modeled a Burberry umbrella in Vogue that costs about $200. Some 456 million Indians live on less than $1.25 a day.
A family of three squeezes onto a motorbike for their daily commute, the mother riding without a helmet and sidesaddle in the traditional Indian way — except that she has a Hermès Birkin bag (usually more than $10,000, if you can find one) prominently displayed on her wrist.
Elsewhere, a toothless barefoot man holds a Burberry umbrella (about $200).
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