Edited by Lester Brathwaite
If you believe the world will come to an end tomorrow — MAY 21ST! — or that Judgement Day is nigh or are just hoping for bobbly-headed aliens with light-up fingers like I am, you don’t want to be caught unprepared at the moment of truth, now do you? Here are 10 items you should have before mounting one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (I like Pestilence best).
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Founded in 1977 by 26-year-old French eccentric Nicole Wisniak while living in her bed at her parents’ apartment and rolled out every few years since, Egoïste finally returns with Keira Knightley on the cover of issue Number 16.
Edited by The Fashion Web
Barack Obama to sit in on The View.
So Barack Obama is going to be a guest on The View. That is more than interesting. Surely, this was David Axelrod’s idea. Considering how down the line Obama’s ratings have gotten and while I am at it, Axelrod’s recent outing on the Sunday talk shows was less than stellar. Yup, it is time for yet another achy-breaky PR blitz the goal being to Re-Hail to the Chief. Granted, this is probably the worst financial time on the planet and the Administration is doing whatever it can to help our economy, but the war in Afghanistan is putting the nail in the second term coffin. We are on the verge of Viet Nam, the Nixon years, like I am sitting here. Having lived through the Moratorium in 1969, the mood in the country was such that we had had just about enough of the politics that were killing off our troops. Granted the numbers are much different, but when read about the corruption in the Karzai Government, the drug dealing Taliban running rampant, well, people are getting really pissed. My guess is that the US is in for the biggest cut of that pie, which is why we are still there. Oil and drugs man. That’s what we live for.
I just wonder if Barack will join the ladies for that opening segment, Hot Topics, where they bitch and moan about things in the “news”, or as I like to call it…Bitchin’ Kitchen. Imagine if Obamski was including in the real nonsense that these gals obsess on like Kim Kardashian’s Tweets, Al Gore’s Masseuse-Gate, Lindsay Lohan’s Mug Shot, Snooki’s Pay Raise. Now that would be riveting television. Instead, we are about to be fed a pre-determined, all holds barred, propaganda-fest, where Barack will try to sell us on his decision to stay in the Poppy Capital of the world so that we can protect Gross Baboons.
Edited by Saynt
Louis Vuitton decided to donate 15 percent of all sales from its U.S. Web site that day to The Climate Project, the non-profit organization founded by Al Gore.
They first partnered with The Climate Project in 2007, when it started
making donations on behalf of some of the personalities in Vuitton’s
Core Values advertising campaign.
The campaign has featured the
likes of Catherine Deneuve, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, Sean Connery,
Keith Richards and Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola.
“Over the
past few years Louis Vuitton has voluntarily made efforts to reduce the
impact of its activities on the environment,” Daniel Lalonde, president
and chief executive officer of Louis Vuitton North America said. “In
addition we are proud to be able to support The Climate Project.”
LINKAGE: WWD
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
Interesting interview I found courtesy of TimesOnline.
At 64, Keith Richards hasn’t mellowed. With Shine A Light, Martin Scorsese’s documentary on the Rolling Stones, recently released, he could focus on the autobiography he is co-writing with James Fox, the author of White Mischief. Or he could begin cataloging his 3,000 guitars. Either way, he won’t worry much about the planet, despite starring in the recent Louis Vuitton ad, for which service Vuitton donated a fee to Al Gore’s Foundation.
“I’ve been invented by the media. I’m just a minstrel. I didn’t want to be a rock star, just play music. I realized that to do that, you had to be famous. It has nothing to do with wanting to be a star.”
“Bill Wyman is the biggest dandy. But Charlie Watts is the most stylish member. He spends his time on the beauty and the cut of clothing. There he is on Savile Row, and I’m the fashion icon? When I got older I wore my old lady’s clothes. If you notice, all the buttons are the other side.”
” I wore whatever my mother put me in when I was little. Boring shorts and wee T-shirts. I wore school uniforms. I hated brown shoes. I started dressing up when I had to find what fitted. Fashion thinks more about me than what I think about it. I just wore what I wore and people noticed. The sexiest thing a woman could wear? Being stark f***ing naked.”
“Show me a woman who is faithful, and I won’t believe you.”
“I don’t do underwear. I never do the washing. How would I know whether my clothes stink? I throw them away.”
“I love books … a well-dressed mind! Patrick O’Brian, Milton and Shakespeare are my favorite writers. And then the Bible. King Lear is my favorite character who isn’t insane. It’s only people who are insane who think they’re not.
“Skulls remind us that underneath it all, we are all the same. Beauty is only skin-deep.”
“I can’t say I’m bothered about the fate of the planet. I got a guitar case out of Louis Vuitton. They paid me a lot of money and it’s all going to charity. I’m going to charity.”
