- Carine Roitfeld staged her all-black runway show during the amfAR Gala featuring models Lindsey Wixson, Karolina Kurkova and Lily Donaldson in looks by Chanel, Balenciaga and Versace. [Styleite]

- True Blood‘s Grant Bowler will play Richard Burton to Lindsay Lohan‘s Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s Liz & Dick. [Deadline]

- Beth Ditto on Karl Lagerfeld calling Adele fat: “First of all, Karl Lagerfeld is not even sane…[and he] used to be this really fat, eccentric dude. He always had that fat kid fan with him too. To me, only a person who was fat could get away with saying something like that.” [Vogue UK]

- This is what the debut of Kanye West‘s mult-screen film debut at Cannes looked like. [High Snobiety]

- Happy Fleet Week, sailors! Here are some events for the queer seamen that will hopefully be in all of us. [Paper]

- Britney Spears walked out on the taping of an episode of X Factor, much like Paula Abdul did last season. And also like Paula, I’m assuming there’s a mix of meds involved. [Deadline]

- Keira Knightley is engaged to boyfriend James Righton from British indie rock band Klaxons. [Telegraph]

Ditto’s currently in Paris for couture week where she confessed that Jean Paul Gaultier‘s Amy Winehouse-inspired collection almost made her cry and gave her chills — in a good way. While in the City of Lights, the singer will attend a fancy shmancy dinner to celebrate the cosmetic collaboration as the special guest of Estée Lauder group president and MAC AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey and MAC global president Karen Buglisi. [WWD]

Chanel Iman catwalking to the beat at Bottega Veneta

Entitled Intreccio Uno, the compilation was mixed by Maier’s friend. Parisian DJ, Michel Gaubert and comes in the form of a jewel-encrusted double-disc album, available online and in Bottega Veneta stores come November.

Okay, they may have trumped us with the jewel-encrusted part, but what would you rather listen to? FashionIndie Mixtape Vol. 4 with such baller mixes as the Gossip‘s Beth Ditto covering the Aaliyah classic “Are You That Somebody?” or a smattering of French pianists and Norwegian superproducers? No offense to the French or Norwegians — at least no more than usual — but Timbaland always wins.

Plus, Michel Gaubert is no DJ Chachi. And that’s just in terms of hotness alone. #justsayin’ [Telegraph]

Chanel Iman catwalking to the beat at Bottega Veneta

SOUTHROP, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 01: Kate Moss and Jamie Hince kiss outside the church after getting married on July 1, 2011 in Southrop, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/FilmMagic)

SOUTHROP, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 01: Kate Moss and Jamie Hince pose outside the church after getting married on July 1, 2011 in Southrop, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/FilmMagic)

Knightley is just one of two cover stars, the other being James Thíerrée, a French performer who counts Charlie Chaplin and Eugene O’Neil as antecedents. The current  issue — well, really the only issue since the last Egoiste with a naked Natalia Vodianova on the cover came out 5 years ago — also features a wide range of interviews and collaborations from Roman Polanski, Beth Ditto, Diane von Furstenberg, Yoko Ono and others.

Besides coming out when it damn well feels like it, Egoïste is different from other mags in that all of the ads therein are the brainchild of its kooky editor, Wisniak, who now works from her own bed in her Parisian apartment.

To wit, the ad for Louis Vuitton sounds better than whatever they’re planning with Angelina Jolie:

The Louis Vuitton ad took Wisniak and her deputy, Eleonore Therond, a full year to create. It features a lost polar bear on an adventure with a monogrammed Louis Vuitton trunk. He embarks through the tundra with it; clings to it like a buoy in frigid waters, eventually finds shelter on a boat bound for civilization—and then, trunk in hand, crashes onto the stage of a lecture given by Al Gore on the perils of global warming.

A true rarity in fashion, in publishing and just in the pace of the modern world, Egoïste has become a collector’s item with the December 1977 issue featuring Mick Jagger recently selling on eBay for $1,100. And appropriately, you won’t find Egoïste hanging around on a shelf at Barnes and Noble; the only retailer in America that carries the mag is New York’s Rizzoli Bookstore.

Perhaps one day Keira Knightely’s cover will fetch a similar price tag. The actress and occasional Chanel cyclist may seem an odd choice considering the iconoclastic cover stars before her, but for Wisniak, it’s not about being current or on trend: “It’s about lasting. It’s like a bet to see who will still be interesting in 10 years.”  [Daily Beast]

One more pic, this time a bit more sultry:

If she weren’t a lez, I’d swear Beth was about to devour all three of these models. And is it just me, or does the guy in the back look completely lost? Thus is the magic of Ditto.

Photos: Têtu

Ditto is a size 26 and known for loving her curves. I say you go girl! Every lady should get to wear fabulous fashion, no matter what shape or size. Gaultier is very ahead of his time in thinking that size 0 is way out.

LINK LOVE: Stylelist

When it comes to sales, publicity, and making history, nudity is the way to do it! The image of Demi Moore nude and peacefully pregnant is forever etched in our minds thanks to Vanity Fair’s August 1991 issue. On the front page ofi-D’s August 2007 issue, we saw more than just a glimpse of then-rising British model Daisy Lowe — just shy of her 18th birthday, of course.

In fashion, it’s all art to us. So to celebrate our favorite of the barely theres, we’ve compiled a gallery of fashion magazine’s most notable nude covers.

LINK LOVE:PHOTOS: Fashion’s Most Famous Naked Magazine Covers

For those of you that haven’t checked your recent Twitter updates or Facebook posts, Coachella festival 2010 was this weekend and only one word comes to mind: EXHAUSTION. It all started with a phone call from a friend asking if I wanted to go the Friday it started and ended with bruises, scrapes, and an aesthetic overload of the most diverse genres of music in my head.

I got there around 10:00 pm with a welcome performance from Vampire Weekend. After that I landed front row to see my number one IDOL Jay Z and a guest performance from Beyonce. The next day was Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, front row with MGMT, Devo, and Tiesto. At least those are the ones I saw. Oh, and there was a naked guy.

When Sunday came around I was Coachella’d out but kept in mind that I still needed to see Little Boots, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. It was well worth it and I will be coming back next year for sure, but I am still glad it is only once a year otherwise I would go into a permanent party coma.

Photos By: Kristen Villa, LA Times,  AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

She tries soo hard to be ugly!Image via Jezebel

Fred Butler’s accessories have been seen in publications such as Dazed and Confused, i-D and Vogue. as well as the music world with special commissions for Patrick Wolf, Skin, Lady GaGa, Bishi, Little Boots, Beth Ditto and La Roux.

LINK LOVE: Fred Butler’s Paper Folds

Beth Ditto proves she’s mighty, mighty…

Beth Ditto speaks to Style.com about fashion.

LINK LOVE: cocoperez

Here, Beth talks about her new release called “Music for Men.”

Read the interview here

Beth Ditto claims the leggings she has designed for her plus-sized line ‘Evans’ are going to change the lives of plus-sized women.  The waistline is right under the breasts so it’s smooth and not awkwardly ‘squeezed out.’  I didn’t say it, I just quoted it.

“This is so serious for me – the shapes for a fat person have to be different. Even the stores for big girls get it wrong. With some of the designs, the people from Evans were sceptical but I was like, ‘Trust me.’ Then the model put it on and they were like, ‘Oh, I get it now.’ ”

SOURCE: My Fashion Life

Appealing to a crowd that is normally less represented in the fashion forward market, Beth Ditto is ready to release a capsule collection for Evans. The singer created a line of fashions that are much more directed for sizes 8-12 as opposed to the double zero.

LINKAGE: My Fashion Life

So Beth Ditto dishes on not being famous in the US, what it means to be a fashion icon, and why she always looks like Ray Charles put on her make-up.

QUICKLINK: BBC

We all remember Beth Ditto’s voluptuous nude body on the cover of the debut issue of LOVE magazine. The fashion world has taken Beth under their wing as their token plus-size obsession in an attempt to dispel rumors that they only put 85-pound models on their covers. Apparently Beth’s body wasn’t full-figured enough, they had to photoshop her bigger for the cover of LOVE. Click to see the excerpt from her UK Times Online interview.

“Katie Grand [Love’s editor] showed me the pictures and said, ‘Can you tell what we Photoshopped?’ I was, like, ‘No’, and she goes, ‘We made you bigger!’

SOURCE: Times Online

“Beth Ditto is a fat lesbian. She’s also a fashion “icon”. Hilarious, isn’t it? I love fashion people, I really do. They’re so… how do I put this? Stupid? Yes, that’s it. They’re so stupid. Here’s what happened: stung by criticism of their unhealthy obsession with rexy supermodels, they hit back by lionising a pathologically exhibitionist 16 stone woman from Arkansas. Clever, huh? That’ll get the feminazis off their case. How can anyone say they only promote thin women when they are so enamoured of a porker like her?”

SOURCE: Fashionista

Oh Beth Ditto in the latest issue of Attitude Magazine, tell us how you really feel. Apparently, Beth can’t get ahead without talking smack-crackle-pop about a few people in the process. I know how that feels.

“I hate Katy Perry! She’s offensive to gay culture, I’m so offended. She’s just riding on the backs of our culture, without having to pay any of the dues and not being actually lesbian or anything at all. She’s on the cover of a fucking gay magazine.”

Katy responded by selling another million records and asking who the fuck is Beth Ditto.

SOURCE: Beth Ditto Slams Katy Perry!

Saw ‘Super Size Me’ last night…Ditto!

SOURCE: oh no they didnt

Was this done on purpose, or__________(fill in with mean fat comment)!

Beth Ditto’s rebellion has caught the attention of the fashion world including some designers, such as Karl Lagerfeld and, now, Alexander McQueen- for whom the above photos were created.

Speaking with Black Book, Beth offers some insights.

Do people tell you all the time that you’ve really opened their minds to broader definitions of beauty?

Girls in general have really nice things to say—especially big girls. It’s mostly men who aren’t as open. I think men fear me sometimes. I played in Greece last summer and, I swear, when I went into the crowd, people actually ran away from me. But things like that make me really happy. You make a decision: if you are going to participate in the music industry and put yourself out there, you have to know that it’s all full of shit.

There is a lot of power in the shock of being unashamed. A friend told me that flaunting a big girl body in a punk-rock way is kind of a libertine thrill, like a drug.

It’s kind of like a drug… it’s a performance. It’s funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day—your body—can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It’s like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Are you rubbing people’s noses in their own prejudices?

I don’t really care about other people’s prejudices. I don’t take things super personally, unless it’s someone I really respect. It’s really about making an art piece out of what you’ve been handed. It is about being resourceful. When all you have is an ugly sweater-vest, cut it up and make a really cool skirt out of it! When all you have are these really hateful people, cut them up and make something funny out of them.

You’ve called gay men out in the fashion world for turning women into size 0 paper dolls.

It’s not the fault of gay men. That’s a symptom of the problem… As kids, we’re not allowed to express ourselves, because we’re put in these binary boxes of what our gender is supposed to be.

IMAGES: Black Book

LINKAGE: Perez Hilton

Beth Ditto has been transformed into a limited-edition doll that will promote her upcoming clothing line for the British plus-sized clothing chain Evans. “Ditto’s curves have been translated into pint-sized proportions,” says Vogue UK in its writeup of the doll. Surprisingly, that is possible!

LINKAGE: Jezebel via idolator

Beth Ditto continues her cover reign with the May 2009 issue of Dazed & Confused.

Great, eye-catching image — a little Rocky Horror Picture Show, a little Pop Art.

Crystal Renn strikes a pose, or two, for the current edition of Aussie Harper’s Bazaar shot by Luis Sanchis.  Proud to pose in sexy bustiers, skin tight dresses, and sheer lingerie, Renn takes inspiration from Beth Ditto, showcasing her body (she used to be anorexic and now proudly sports a size 12 figure). Stylist Wayne Gross went for an  80′s-inspired look with luscious red lips and cream-perfect skin.

Only downfall, the shadowing in a few of the shots make her look as though she has cellulite, which is def not the case. Crystal has such great legs, and I’m glad Wayne put her in so many mini dresses…

LINKAGE: Pipeline

Beth Dito paves the way for paintings of plus size women, or the other way around, as the work of Jenny Saville shows.

Read post here:  (angry) fashion: PAVING THE PATH FOR BETH DITTO

Rankin Shoots The Gossip for the May Cover of Dazed and Confused.

LINKAGE: Gossip Cover Shoot

“My favorite part of everything was the butch clothes. I mean it in the best way. Masculine is hot!”

-Beth Ditto at the Jean Paul Gaultier show at Paris Fashion Week.

From Fashion Week Daily.

Beth Ditto’s clothing line for Evans, that part of the Arcadia group owned by Sir Philip Green, which has been described as the Topshop for the “bigger lady,” will be in stores in late March/early April. Apparently, the campaign is being shot within the next few weeks.

LINKAGE: Fashionista

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We’ve got a little sneak peak of LOVE and while it is all “push the limits” and such, I can’t help wondering if Louis Vuitton actually makes clothing in Beth Ditto’s size. I know big girls need chic too, but can I get an official comment on this? Could Louis Vuitton be going plus? Or is LOVE just being a chub tease?

GALLARY: LOVE Sneak Peek

LINKAGE: Marc Love

We knew Ditto would hit the cover, but we didn’t know it would be in all her naked glory. Thank you Katie Grand for challenging what’s acceptable in high fashion. Beth, ditto.

From needles and thread to cameras and poses, Matthew Williamson is slated to model his upcoming collection for H&M. Alongside Canadian model Daria Werbowy, Williamson models pieces from his men’s collection shot in Tulum, Mexico. Unreleased at this time, the campaign, shot by photographer Solve Sundsbo, will break in May while the collection is planned to hit H&M stores sometime in April. Welcome to the world of modeling Mr. Williamson! 

Thanks WWD! 

I actually have no issue with Beth Ditto’s weight, although I have a ‘huge’ issue with the ideas of matching your hair color with your shoe choice…

The HOT MESSES

The OLD SCHOOLS

The OUTSIDE THE BOX

PaperMag has officially named it’s 25 most stylish songbirds.

“From Stevie Nicks’ billowy dresses, to Grace Jones’s power-suits, to Madonna’s Gaultier bra, to Björk’s swan get-up, female musicians have a long history of making fashion statements. These days, the current crop of songstresses, both up-and-coming and fairly established, are carrying on the tradition. To honor these women and their impeccable senses of style, we decided to compile a list who we think are the 25 most fiercely fashionable femmes doing their thing in the music biz today. As a way to keep things organized, we divided up the gals into those that rock an ethereal, very L.A. flower child look, those who go for the chic high-fashion thing, those who dress like an early-’90s club kid, those who think outside of the fashion box and those who we lovingly like to refer to as hot messes.

Here are a few:

Zooey Deschanel

MIA

Beth Ditto

Aubrey O’Day of Danity Kane

And dare I write it: Amy Winehouse. Now, how this train wreck made this list is just unclear to me!

There are very few celebrity lines I would choose to endorse, but the new plus sized line by Beth Ditto for Evans is uber exciting. The Gossip front woman has always been ready to push style boundaries and women everywhere are in need of a big girl hero, so file this under shit I can’t wait to see.

The size range will fall in the 14-32 area. Beth will also be the face of the line and has secured a nice $400,000 pay day for her efforts.