[Ecouterre]

A complimentary pair of The Row sunglasses! Hurry! You don’t want to miss this deal.

Sidenote: Is it just me or is that water bottle shaped like a flask?

Photo: Daily Mail

The good doctor warns that Bo-Bo is only licensed for the treatment of moderate to severe haggardness and should not be used in adolescents who, for the record, don’t even have wrinkles but facial expressions and, also for the record, “the two are not the same.”

See expressions lead to wrinkles, which is why the real key to anti-aging is being emotionally dead inside.

Doc McKeown points to the recent Faux-Tox scandal (totes ©ing that) starring Sheena Upton as Kerry Campbell, the negligent mother who doses her 8-year-old daughter with Botox to keep her smooth as the day she was born — which in this case was not too long ago — as a case of society’s unhealthy relationship with the needle.

While Campbell née Upton was only doing it all for the publicity (See! I’m a good mom, give me my kid back!), McKeown likens the drug to a status symbol for the younger generation — just look at the not-at-all disturbing Teen-Toxing craze.

Bling, Benzes, Birkins and Botox.

But beauty, the doctor insists, is like a fine wine that gets better with age…and he is about to pop a cork over Liz Taylor in her mid-30s:

“While Taylor was clearly always a beautiful woman from her teens onwards, arguably her looks did not reach their peak until she was in her mid-thirties. Had Botox been available to Taylor in her early twenties, would she have ever reached that same level of mature beauty for which she will now always be remembered? I suspect probably not.”

Meanwhile, someone give Dr. Darren McKeown a box of tissues, a copy of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and close the doors. [The Telegraph]

Jodie King and her mother at their home in Bow East London.Pictures for Closer Magazine for a Botox feature.

- And not at all coincidentally, Anna Wintour is now a museum board member.

- Gisele is the most super supermodel in the world and future supers can only pale in their already pale comparisons.

- Isabella Blow‘s posthumous wardrobe will live on thanks to Daphne Guinness and a generous, completely justifiable use of the Guinness fortune.

- Hindu’s were up in arms — all 4 of them! — over a swimsuit bearing the goddess Lakshmi.

- The Schwarzenegger-Shrivers are now sans a hyphen (okay, it was never there) and a  marriage (nor was that).

- A fashion mag so rare you might be dead before it comes out again. Particularly since the world is ending any day now.

- Get your library cards out, Gaga wants to talk about…reading.

- This June John Galliano will be spelling couture : C-O-U-R-T…cause that’s where he’s going…court.

- Like that great poet — what was his name, oh yes, Biggie Smalls — once said, “Mo Money, Mo Problems.” Those problems just involve cutting back on the Birkin allowance.

Pics of the packs after the jump.

Some celebs tapped to design the bags include: Salma Hayek, Matthew McCounaghey, Shakira, Eva Longoria, Sheryl Crow, Jade Jagger and Slash.

While we’re at it, can we do something about that hideous t-shirt/short combination? I get the explorer theme and all, but a safari jacket never hurt anyone.

For those not in the know, Hermes’ Birkin bag was named after Jane Birkin in 1984 after the then president of Hermes, Jean-Louis Dumas, spotted the stunning actress struggling with her luggage on a plane. Half of the Birkin’s je n’est ce quoi comes from Ms. Birkin’s name. So who, if anyone, we wonder, will hold the honor of having Hermes’ next it bag named for them? We have a few ideas.

Possibility 1: Lady Gaga
Gaga is probably the only person alive able to alter a Birkin bag without committing a serious crime against fashion. If the brand were trying to move towards an edgier aesthetic, Gaga would be the obvious choice.

Possibility 2: Katie Holmes
There will never be another Jane Birkin, but Katie Holmes’ cropped do and chic wardrobe, paired with her extensive Hermes bag collection, make her (and maybe even fashionista daughter Suri) a good candidate.

Possibility 3: Carla Bruni
A French made bag may best be named after a French beauty. As the prime minister’s wife, and a model, Bruni would suit both an ad campaign and product perfectly.

Possibility 4: Queen Rania of Jordan
She’s stunning, she’s smart, she’s powerful, and she’s always perfectly accessorized. Queen Rania of Jordan, simply based on her Hermes-esque style, could be just the woman to fill the job.

Possibility 5 (and our personal favorite): Carine Roitfeld
As one of the most important people in the fashion industry, the French Vogue editor in chief is an obvious choice for the bag’s name. She’s the epitome of a taste maker and exudes French-classiness.

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