“I find this frightening and difficult. I’m going to be judged and it is scary. I’m proud of it, and if no one likes it, well, I like it.” —Yasmin LeBon on her new clothing line for Arcadia’s Wallis in The Guardian.
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Regardless of where you stand on the the habits of mass retailers ripping off designers, you have to admit that it’s pretty fucked up for Topshop to take a designer they sponsor - a championed, beloved, we might even say genius designer - and copy his clothes.
Especially when you consider the stake Sir Philip Green has in Christopher Kane. His store doesn’t just fund Kane’s runway shows, provide a venue and almost bottomless financial backing, they’ve also recruited the Scottish designer to create his own collection for Topshop.
Which is, in fact, the best way to offer his talent to the customer who appreciates it, but can’t drop five grand on a cocktail dress.
Obviously, Topshop lacks the time and money to make the dress as detailed as Kane’s SS09 collection. But if your eyes are able to discern that the dress on the left is, indeed, a color called lavender, there is no way you can deny that it desperately wants to mirror the look on the right.
And, well, you know how that makes us feel.
Kate Moss has more creative juices to offer - so she’s decided to write a cookbook.
She has, allegedly, been influenced and encouraged by Sir Philip Green’s step-daughter Stasha whose second cookbook is being released this year.
Stasha’s book consists of traditional Jewish recipes which the Daily Mirror reports Kate’s a fan of - even going so far as to guess she’s whipped up a kosher meal or two for Jamie Hince.
There’s something kind of amazing about a cookbook written by a supermodel and something even more amazing about learning that Kate Moss actually cooks meals.
The only thing better? If she started GOOP II.
“So to stir up crowds for the opening, Mr. Green dispatched promoters around the city, offering Topshop totes and gift cards redeemable for up to $500 to anyone who looked vaguely cool.
Thus the crowd at the store smacked of hipster central casting: men wearing skinny jeans and asymmetric haircuts, and wayward Gossip Girl types whose studied dishevelment suggested they were on the walk of shame.” - Guy Trebay, in the Times.
