Naomi Campbell

Several sources say that photographer Steven Meisel recently shot Madonna for the spring Louis Vuitton campaign. [WWD] 

As everyone scrambles to find new job, the classic interview suit might be making a comeback. [NY Times]  

Jon Hamm appears very un-Don Draper-like in the new Gap ads, smiling and being hugged by his girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt. [Racked]  read more »

Bravely disregarding their own safety, travelers at Kennedy Airport booed temperamental model Naomi Campbell as she cut in front of around 200 people to go to the front of the passport checking line. Ms. Campbell's lawyer says the special treatment was for "security reasons." [R&M]

Sam Perry, the random campaign worker whose shoulder Oprah Winfrey was photographed crying on during Barack Obama's acceptance speech, will appear on her show today. [US Weekly]

More to look forward to in the new administration: Designer Elie Tahari said "[Barack Obama] could be a male model...I think the fashion industry will have a ball with him. They will have so much fun because he is built so well. They all love to dress him and I’d love to dress him too." [WWD via The Cut]  read more »

Victoria Beckham has been announced as the face of Emporio Armani underwear collection for women; her husband, David Beckham, has been modeling for the men's collection. [Vogue UK]

Ms. Beckham is also reportedly running in the New York City marathon this Sunday. [NBC via Racked] 

Designer Tom Ford will make his much-awaited directorial debut with A Single Man, an adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, and Matthew Goode. [THR]   read more »

Gisele Bundchen is putting several pieces of jewelry—including a colored diamond ring estimated to bring in $15,000 to $20,000, and a diamond pendant necklace estimated to fetch up to $150,000—up for auction at Christie's. The jewelry is believed to be gift from her former boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio. [WWD]

Anna Wintour's Obama fundraiser that also featured Sarah Jessica Parker was disappointing, because 400 guests were packed in like "sardines." But! At least there is a video of Ms. Wintour speaking. [Pierce Mattie Public Relations New York & Los Angeles via The Cut]  

Designer Giles Deacon sent a series of models in Pac Man helmets down the runway for his show yesterday. [Vogue UK]    read more »

Next week, Opening Ceremony will put American designers aside in favor of featuring young Japanese designers whom owners Humerto Leon and Carol Lim discovered on their travels through Tokyo. [WWD]

Naomi Campbell's billionaire Russian boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, bought her a $18.5 million penthouse in Brazil. [P6]

Tom Ford is co-hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the Beverly Hills home of the Creative Artists Agency’s Bryan Lourd, and Michelle Obama is slated to attend. [WWD]  read more »

Temperamental supermodel Naomi Campbell was reportedly sentenced to 200 hours of community service this morning and ordered to pay about $5,000 in fines after pleading guilty to assaulting an airline pilot and two police officers in April.

Campbell, who received community service and anger management therapy for attacking her assistant with a cell phone last year (apparently it didn’t take), allegedly subjected British Airways Captain Miles Sutherland to a barrage of verbal abuse and accusations of racism after being told that some of her baggage had not made it onto the plane.

Campbell had faced a six-month jail term and fines of almost $10,000 for the incident.

I felt like such a turd on the night of Monday, June 2. “Turd’” is a very underused word. At some point soon I will dedicate my life to restoring it to popular usage. In the meantime permit me to elaborate on the circumstances that occasioned this unpleasant feeling.  read more »

Designer Yves Saint Laurent died at home in his apartment in Paris yesterday at the age of 71. [NY Times]

Tatum O'Neal, who wrote a memoir in 2004 about her drug addiction, was arrested for buying crack on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning from a homeless man. [NY Daily News]  read more »

Who knew supermodel Naomi Campbell, a relatively new contributing editor at British GQ, would land the Latin-America beat? For her first interview, Ms. Campbell sat down with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez—but that, it now seems, was just the beginning.

Next up: a meeting with Fidel Castro, the increasingly reclusive aging leader of Cuba, which is in the works, according to WWD. (She’s already met the bearded bad boy, back in the 90s.) While she waits to firm up the details on that particular têt-à-têt, Ms. Campbell is working on securing a chitchat with Argentina’s newly elected female president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Considering rumors that the British-born phone-flinging fashionista began a love affair with Mr. Chavez following their meeting, her M.O., the fashion paper suggests, could be to help realize the politico’s vision for a united South America. All this comes, too, at a time when U.S. relations are becoming increasingly strained with Argentina.  read more »

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, British GQ’s new contributing editor, kicked things off at the magazine by interviewing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. In the four-page interview, Mr. Chavez talks about his fears that President George W. Bush wants to kill him, his dream to unite South America by 2020 and how the world is currently watching America’s decline.

Ms. Campbell does manage to keep the interview—which will appear in the February issue, on newsstands this Thursday—upbeat overall, reports WWD. Among other things, Ms. Campbell’s introduction reveals Mr. Chavez’s love for singing. “If he wasn’t the president, he’d be a very successful Latin singer,” writes Ms. Campbell, who calls the South American politico a “rebel angel,” later adding that of all the world’s leaders, Mr. Chavez thinks Fidel Castro is the most stylish. “[H]is uniform is impeccable … and his beard is elegant,” he says.

It seems Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton are spearheading a full-scale revival of the Amazonian supermodel frenzy from the 90’s. In this Style.com clip, Mr. Jacobs, 44, who became creative director of the French fashion label in 1997, explains the aesthetic behind Louis Vuitton’s Spring-Summer 2008 campaign.

According to Mr. Jacobs, the veritable king of cool around these and most other parts, it was his collaboration with artist Richard Prince that really formed the basis for the entire collection. “What about this idea of Louis Vuitton after dark?” Mr. Prince apparently inquired of the clothing macher, whose mental light bulb was then flipped.  read more »

Our friends at Curbed already pointed out the "awkward photoshop job." But the awkwardness was not fully realized until diving into The Real Estate's archives.

This photo appeared in the promotional materials for Cipriani Club Residences. It was delivered in a handsome tote bag that was given out by children (dressed as old-fashioned paperboys), following Mary J. Blige's performance at 55 Wall Street.

Under the original photo the tag reads, "Cipriani Club member Naomi Campbell with Giuseppe Cipriani and guest."

Must be quite a letdown for our suave guest who always wears his sunglasses at night.  read more »

One minute, you're drinking and laughing with supermodels, and the next minute you wind up on the cutting room floor of a luxury real estate magazine.

-Michael Calderone

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