The owner of this LV wallet will soon be a guest on Deal or No Deal.
Whether she needs the money for graduate school, for her first home, for a major mob bribe, or for the latest Carolina Herrera collection… well, that’s a question that goes along with the accessory, huh?
For reference, the Burberry scarf is real, though as we’ve lately learned, interns often scrub floors in them so they’re really no indication.
[JORDI SCOTT - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Everyone knows Gemma Ward is gone for Fashion Week, but maybe you didn’t know this:
She’s in NYC right now.
If you want a Gemma sighting before she goes filming in Australia and becomes a big movie star, here are the suggestions… hang out in the East Village… find a place that sells Australian beer… kidnap Caroline Winberg and hold her for ransom… or show up at one of two Fashion Week parties tomorrow night - one with Polaroids, one with cars - where she might just pop in.
More later…
[KAREN YAMPOLSKY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
We have a crush on Tess, 18, because she wore Ugg boots on Saturday and they looked good because she loved them.
We have a crush on Tess, 18, because she listens to We Are Scientists way too loud.
We have a crush on Tess because we saw her in Teen Vogue.
We have a crush on Tess because when snipey girlfriends leave mean MySpace messages, she doesn’t delete them. Instead, she reads them out loud to us in East Village studios, and that makes it even better.
[GEMMA KHANG - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Who sent Ben Sherman these cupcakes?
a) Alex from Franz Ferdinand
b) Ricky from the Kaiser Chiefs
c) Lily Allen
d) Sam from Top Chef, and he baked them too!
[ELLIE WALSH - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Although we didn’t make the Factory Girl premiere last night, this is what we heard from some lucky little fashion kids…
“Sienna is amazing!”
“The giant metallic balloons in the party scene look just like that Gareth Pugh installation in LA!”
“Mary Kate Olsen got cut! She’s in the background, but only once, and no lines.”
Oh dear. I’m honestly disappointed - I wanted to see MK in all her grown-up, yoga devoted, style icon glory.
Instead, I’ll have to deal with this tribute - a protest, if you will, to whomever cut her out - with MK, some hearts, and another iconic image: Coke, as drawn by Andy Warhol himself.
(come on, you know, like soda. stop it!)
[LILLIAN HANCOCK - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Rumor has it some Real or Fake posts were projected in a lecture hall this morning and shown to law school students. The reason?
Apparently a big shot law professor reads The IS - it fits into her course on fashion and intellectual property.
Theoretically, that should make her an expert on these Chanel Boots, which walked right by us this weekend. Are they real? Are they fake? Or do we need a textbook to find out?
[OLGA REI - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Elle, 17
Elle would like to set the record straight:
She is not the author of the Preps for Breakfast blog.
However, she is the person who inspired the entire Gossip Girl series, as well as select parts of Mean Girls, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, 200 Cigarettes, and - strangely - Lost in Translation.
So now you know.
[DOO.RI CHUNG - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Memo to the London kids, or those looking to flee there:
Morgan O’Donovan, the incomparable photographer and infamous party boy, needs a roomie for his beautiful new house.
The flat is in Bethel Bethnal Green, and it’s so cute I can’t believe a straight boy decorated it. Living there costs 550 a month, plus bills, but if you pop into Morgan’s bed once a week and do a little sparkle, he’ll probably skim some rent off the top.
Email him - morgan@diamondrodgers.com - if you’re into it.
[DANE COOK - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Ways to get this t-shirt from The Casting Director…
*Polaroid 200 girls in 5 hours
*Walk in six inch heels without looking down
*Play in a band called The Virgins
*”Hi, I’m Coco, nice to meet you!”
Monica Botkier might be giving out her Devon bags tomorrow night, but everyone knows this is the real status Get…
[HALEY BENNETT - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Imaginary Socialite: Here, let’s read tea leaves.
David: Is that slang for “let’s make a giant mess on the table?”
Imaginary Socialite: Totally. So look into the cup and tell me what you see.
David: Sienna Miller.
Imaginary Socialite: Of course.
David: Don’t you see it?
Imaginary Socialite: I see a dragon playing electric guitar and the Moulin Rouge.
David: Here, turn it to the right… now?
Imaginary Socialite: Um, now I see a bikini. Like a vintage bikini?
David: Me too! And Sienna Miller’s in it!
Imaginary Socialite: Okay. We are never playing this again.
[AKIKO OGAWA - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
When not causing trouble at Spence, Samantha enjoys mopping floors with Diet Coke so the models won’t slip when they practice catwalking. It’s a little trick she learned last year at Balenciaga, when the runway was so dangerous, it reminded German models of the Autobahn.
But perhaps the most curious part of Samantha’s scrubbing is her accessory - a Burberry scarf that’s thisclose to dropping on the floor. Would you wear a Burberry scarf to clean up?
Then again, if plaid scarves are really over, maybe it doesn’t matter?
[LINDSAY PIERCE - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Reid, 21
Formerly known as: Kastyn
Formerly lived in: Canada
Formerly shot for: Flare
But it’s her first runway season, so that’s alllll about to change.
Bonne chance, Reid!
[MISSY RAYDER - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
These shoes, Marc Jacobs, my size, $400.
[ANNE WATSON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE}
Cathy Horyn’s fashion blog for the New York Times went up this week.
It is shear sharp and illuminating, with style adventures written like they’re no big deal. Of course not; it’s just Karl Lagerfeld’s kitchen and you happen to be there.
Maybe the best part of the whole thing is the comments section, not because of their content but because of their democracy - with a click, anyone (anyone!) can leave their thoughts under Cathy’s writing. Sure, it might be the internet version of layering H&M under Hussein Chalayan, but perhaps that’s the point.
[GREG KINNEAR - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Jean Harlow is not Shalom Harlow… but she would have looked great in couture.
Runners Up: Burberry is not Blackberry; Lauren Davis is not Lauren DuPont; Lucy Liu is not Lisa Ling is not Lisa Love…
[THANKS ASHLEY! HAPPY FRIDAY XO]
