Imaginary Socialite

To: am.i@imaginarysocialite.com
From: amanda@nanettelepore.com

Hi! Just saw Laura from Project Runway out & about in the garment district. I’ve nannied three little boys, can’t imagine how she handles five in stilletos!!

Did you get to go to that show? Any predictions for us your loyal readers?

xoxo,
amanda

Yes, I have some Project Runway predictions. I think Tim Gunn will win and Heidi will come in second… oh you mean the contestants? What are their names again?

[JEAN YU - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

My darling David needs an intern at a major fashion magazine – the same major fashion magazine that once featured Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley together on its cover; not the same major fashion magazine that once was lampooned by Anne and Meryl.

If you would like to work with him – and, you see, he’s quite a hauttie – send him a message detailing how you are… available 3 full days a week for free… in college or at least pretending… extremely organized… able to distinguish Marni from Miu Miu… fluent in fax machine, copy machine, and Starbucks.

You must also be able to use the Polaroid in the sample closet with a certain flourish of brilliance…

[ELFIE SEMOTAN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

…but really, the only thing that mattered about last night’s Top Model episode was that the twins are horribly ugly, the twins are eternally fascinating, the twins will suffer some Chekhovian fate where the one who hates modeling will win and the one who wants to model will become a grape farmer, and the twins had to pretend they had eating disorders in their first very silly photo shoot. Did I say pretend to have eating disorders? Oh wait…

[DEENA ABDULAZIZ - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Or: Backstage At Biba… a Bella Freud / Tim Burton Production…

[CHRISTINA RICCI - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Uses for Jay McCarroll’s giant sunglasses…

a) double punch ladels at 33 crosby
b) shared ashtrays at tenjune
c) food and water bowls for monkey and lydia
d) a new boustier for amanda lepore

[SIR PHILLIP GREEN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

The JS telephone bag is supposed to be a commentary on our Big Brother society, the constant sense of paranoia that comes with always being connected, and the parallels between our quasi-military state and that of the McCarthy Era.

But really, it makes me want to watch that scene in Bye Bye Birdie where Ann Margaret and all the teenagers are singing on the phone in punchy poodle skirts.

Going steady, going steady, going steady, steady for good…

[FENTON BAILEY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

First The MisShapes show up on Style.com’s street style section, now the lovely Keegan Singh, east village stylist and threadbare jean preacher, who appeared – with Julianne Moore, Virginia Smith, and Julia Restoin Roitfeld – on the Sartorialist’s fashion week roundup.

Two questions:

1) who’s the familiar looking girl on his right?
2) what does keegan actually do, besides make every girl smile?

Fill us in…

[SCOTT BORBA - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Tracey, 26

Shops for a living
Likes pink champagne
Eats at fashion parties
Obsessed with the dress that won’t die

Wait a second… is this the real imaginary socialite?

[SAMANTHA COHEN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

And here it is, fresh runway pics from Gareth Pugh’s London show today. The trench is rather impeccable actually (jeans, flats, and a wifebeater underneath?) and the model… well… it’s a good thing he found her on MySpace.

Unless…

Hey Kate, is that you under there?

[CARMEN HAWKE - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Last Friday, jet-set designer Zaldy was with Gwen at the L.A.M.B. show, deep inside the West Village.

This Tuesday, Zaldy is…

a) in Trafalgar Square dressing the Scissor Sisters
b) in Connecticut cooking with his mom
c) in Gavin Rossdale’s closet for an image consultation
d) in Montauk with Rufus Wainwright. Surfing. Duh.

[AMY MILLAN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Clay, 35

Clay runs a chess club in a blue bar wedged between a river and a Gehry building. It meets on Monday nights at 9 and it comes with a lot of tequila and perhaps some vodka drenched olives, and one boy who will almost certainly beat you (but you’ll love it).

If you can find it, you can play…

[CHRISTINA APPLEGATE - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Fellow Anglomaniacs,

Begin your London Fashion Week obsession with this little pop quiz about our favorite beer guzzler, Gareth Pugh. Where did Gareth and his stylist, Dazed & Confused cutie KT, get the models from this year’s show?

a) They’re all the girlfriends of Babyshambles members
b) They’re all the Russian imports from Storm
c) They’re all the register girls at Top Shop
d) They’re all from MySpace!!!

[JOAN MacDONALD - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]