Gisele Is the Highest-Paid Model’Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid models is out. Gisele nabbed the number one spot, earning $35 million over the past 12 months.
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Spring’s Floral Frocks Are Really Quite GarishVictoria Beckham wore a floral frock to her birthday last night. We didn’t like it, but we haven’t liked most of the floral frocks the celebrities have been wearing since spring arrived.
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How Carla Bruni Saved Dior; Daniel Craig Is Best DressedCarla Bruni Sarkozy’s all-Dior wardrobe during her London visit was worth $1 million in advertising for Dior; GQ crowns Daniel Craig its best-dressed man — John McCain never had a chance.
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Celebrities Get Obscenely PhatGoing to a Baby Phat show feels a bit like going to a nightclub. The prospect of a big ol’ spectacle gets everyone to tease up their hair and put on something shiny — one woman showed up in a dress that had mesh strips that went all the way up to her butt cleavage — and stand around sipping drinks, bopping their heads to the dance music, and craning their necks to see if that really is Jeremy Piven over there, or if it’s just some dude who hates to shower. It’s such a tornado of humanity that we couldn’t even make our way to the bar, and as you know by now, that says a lot.
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Selita Ebanks Works the Shows and the PartiesDuring this week of weeks, Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks reports on Fashion Week from her elevated — and fabulous — perspective.
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Dude, the Trovata Party Was Totally ChillDesigner John Whitledge, showing his second solo outing since he and his three CFDA-winning Trovata co-founders split ways, celebrated at Tunnel’s former location not with bitchy put-downs, but a groovy party straight out of sixties-era Brazil. Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction fame played a three-song set while Capoeira dancers busted athletic moves in crisp white Trovata pants (not a split pair among them). Meanwhile, white-clad lady models wearing head scarves mingled in the crowd.