Imaginary Socialite

Hannah will not reveal details on her meeting with Leith Clark, but she does give us Karen Elson on Lula’s next cover. So in love. So Alice in Wonderland, too…

[SADIE COLES - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Things to do with Alex & Chloe’s dead rat necklace, as seen at the spectacular Grey Ant show and gifted, somehow, to me…

a) Send it to Sarah Polonsky as her final piece of swag.

b) Send it to Damien Hirst as a type of homage and/ or an dinner party invite.

c) Send it to [insert ex boyfriend here]

d) Send it to you, if you’ll email me and tell me what in the world you’ll do with it.

am.i@imaginarysocialite.com

[VALESCA HERMES - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Shocked I didn’t notice it sooner…

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Jen, 29

First floor: sells designer sex toys

Second floor: serves decadent dinners

Third floor: styles dirty rockers and debutantes

Fourth floor: smoking. duh.

[RACHEL BILSON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Let’s reflect for a moment on the redundancy of a giant Marc Jacobs homage in the middle of the Lower East Side (and above Shop, the most overpriced store there)! It’s sort of like a surgeon general ad in the lung cancer ward of the hospital, or perhaps a poster for marie antoinette in Francis Ford Coppola’s living room…

Also, the headline bugs me: it says Manic About Marc but it would be so much better if it read Marked by Marc.

Okay, moving on…

[AMY MILLAN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Just when you thought reality TV gets you nowhere… which seemingly cool person, unscathed after their scandalous show, is featured in the next Abercrombie catalogue?

a) Alison Kelly from PRunway

b) Kim Stolz from Top Model

c) Whitney Port from The Hills

d) Jacinda Barrett from The Real World

e) Nobody, this is just a pathetic excuse to feature girl crush Alison Kelly (again)!

[LISA KLINE - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Ryan, 29

Behind Ryan on the mannequins are the following:

a pair of naughty French knickers
some hipster slung suspenders
a vintage lace kimono nightie

Underneath Ryan’s suit is also one of the following. Guess which and you might be crushing on him even more…

[CHRISTIE BRINKLEY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Like most girls in their 20s who treat irony as a lifestyle, I’m hyper in love with Elle… which is why I find it so confusing that two stars in a row flaked on their cover interviews with the magazine…

First Ms. Lohan makes writer Andrew Goldman jet to The Gansevoort, then to The Mercer, then to London, then finally to his iBook where he writes one of my favorite sentences ever: “I was taking a trip through Lohanland, and if I had to pen a travel article on my stay there, it would be one-word short, and in the diction of its indigenous people: whatever.”

Now Drew Barrymore follows suit , canceling on Alexandra Jacobs in similar form until she finally calls her from Portugal, cooing, “I hope you aren’t cross with me.” She later meets Elle - inexplicably - in a restaurant at LAX. Yes, like the airport.

So now the real question: do celebs only blow off Elle, or is Elle the only magazine gutsy enough to call them on it? Which makes me love it even more…

[GILLES BENSIMON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Spotted on the subway: a creamy Stam bag, apparently containing a very urgent Blackberry message. Call me crazy, but to me, it looks like she’s typing, “Hey, I just bought this bag from a van outside of Rockefeller Center… It was only $30 but I had to pay them in McDonalds hamburgers…”

What do you think she’s typing?

[STINE GOYA - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Kentucky Woman she shines in her own kinda light
You look at her once
And a day that’s all wrong is now right…

Also: she’ll be shopping at Paris Fashion Week for new lines, so keep a lookout!

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From the magazine pile on my desk this morning…

Jeremy and Josh conquer Gotham’s In List!

And Brandon nurses Gotham’s street cred in their society pages…

Sean Dack flickers on Paper’s party section…

Brandon (again!) and Sarah share a downtown royalty moment in Cultural Sushi!

And finally, The MisShapes dish about their latest road trip in Intersection - note Leigh’s correct use of animal print and Geordon’s correct use of sunglasses at night…

[RYAN McGINLEY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Blood is the New Black needs a male fit model! If you are…

*cute
*in Southern California
*okay with being paid in t-shirts

MySpace the girls with your photo and your phone number.

And speaking of fit models, didn’t you think the boys at Burberry looked particularly fit today on Style.com? I really want Fenton Bailey as my boyfriend. I think I might smile too much for him though. Sigh.

[SARAH MANLEY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

The first-ever Nylon book is now for sale! Buy it and discover the answer to this question: which Imaginary Socialite obsession does not appear as an example of Nylon street style?

a) Pete Doherty, listed merely as “Peter, 26″
b) Caroline Trentini, labeled “Caroline, model”
c) Domique my London baby, wearing “a bag from the Fashion East party”
d) Cory Kennedy, innocently called “underage party girl”

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