March 11th, 2010
Posted by Veronica Valter
There were lots of talks about Lindsay’s involvement into the creative process of Ungaro brand. She had been reported to be leaving it and then all the rumours were slammed. Now we again return to this topic and finally we can state that the 23-year-old no longer works for Ungaro.
The actress didn’t attend the show of the label at Paris Fashion Week. When asked why she wasn’t there, Lindsay replied:
Because I don’t work for them anymore. There’s legal things going on; I can’t really discuss it.”
The brand’s owner Asim Abdullah confirmed the news saying that Lindsay was “not involved” with the latest collection.
It’s not easy for her to read or hear about this. And she must be feeling really upset. Sorry for you, poor girl.
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March 10th, 2010
Posted by Veronica Valter
John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld are designers who present their shows monumentally, with chic and splendor. Of course they cost lots of money and take many efforts but they definitely become memorable. Don’t you remember McQueen’s monster show? Or last season’s Chanel show with all that straw and playful activities? Yes, you do! And you will remember the Autumn/ Winter 2010/ 2011 show, too. Why? Because I bet you have never seen so much ice and water in Grand Palais.
The theme of the collection was the global warming or ‘the global cooling’ as Lagerfeld called it, and its effects on our lives. Male and female models had to walk on a wet surface of the runway sometimes sending little droplets of water to the front row where stars like Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Paradis were sitting.
The huge chunks of ice on the stage were absolutely real as were the models strutting in head-to-toe coffee-colored yeti suits and shaggy snow boots. The line was more couture than ready-to-wear though I am sure it would have lots of fans living in normal climate.
The amount of fur amazed everyone but PETA activists should not call Lagerfeld bad names, the fur was fake.
The designer told The Telegraph:
It’s so good now, technical advances are so perfect you can hardly tell fake fur from the real thing. Fake is not chic – we have got a new Chanel tweed to stop copies – but fake fur is.”
Only best models were chosen to wear the luxurious pieces on the catwalk including Freja Beha Erichsen, Lara Stone, Abbey lee Kershaw, Coco Rocha, Sasha Pivovarva and others.
Brown tweeds, capes, bonnets, furry trousers, coats – all had a level of lavish elaboration usually reserved for haute eveningwear. Accessories were perfect. Jewelry was very similar to little pieces of ice, sparkling and mysterious.
More Chanel here…
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February 24th, 2010
Posted by Veronica Valter
Lindsay Lohan thinks her name on clothes makes those cost cheaper. The actress-turned designer understands that her personal problems and the fact she’s been to rehab a few times disconsider her a lot.
She told America’s OK! magazine:
I’m the first to say that in certain situations, my name will cheapen things because that’s what people have made of it.”
The 23-year-old had to deny plenty of rumours she had been blacklisted from New York Fashion Week. Besides, she suffered the embarrassment of her designs for fashion house Emanuel Ungaro getting criticized by fashion experts.
However, designing is what she finds very attractive for her. She even calls the effect it has on her as “therapeutic”. Creating outfits gives Lindsay the opportunity to express herself.
She said:
Fashion is something that’s so expressive in so many ways – within film, within music, within daily life. It expresses how you feel that day and the character you’re playing. I really appreciate and respect it. It’s something that’s not only a hobby of mine, but it makes me feel good. It’s really therapeutic for me, actually – the designs.”
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January 27th, 2010
Posted by Veronica Valter
The Haiti tragedy has shocked everyone and people all over the world do what they can to help the sufferers. Celebrities and ordinary people have joined forces to solve the problem.
Lindsay Lohan couldn’t stand aside. She decided to raise money for the earthquake-stricken Caribbean country by selling her leggings chaper and donating all the proceeds to the Save the Children organisation.
Lindsay told People magazine:
It is truly horrible what has happened to the people and children in Haiti. I believe every company should do their part to help by donating what they can. Please help us do our part for the Children of Haiti by purchasing this 6126 legging. I am proud to announce that we are giving 100 per cent of the proceeds to Haiti’s children through an organisation I am passionate about, Save the Children. ‘Fame’ leggings will retail for $65, originally $90, for a limited time only to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.”
Save the Children is the leading independent organization that’s working on improving the lives of children in need in the United States and around the globe.
Jessica Simpson makes her contribution through the Tennessee-based charity Soles4Souls selling her shoes. The singer, actress and now designer is working with her friends Cacee Cobb and Ken Paves to gain 50,000 pairs of shoes in 50 days for the victims.
She said:
Let’s do everything that we can for the tragedy in Haiti.”
The Haiti tragedy has shocked everyone and people all over the world do what they can to help the sufferers. Celebrities and ordinary people have joined forces to solve the problem.
Lindsay Lohan couldn’t stand aside. She decided to raise money for the earthquake-stricken Caribbean country by selling her leggings chaper and donating all the proceeds to the Save the Children organisation.
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January 7th, 2010
Posted by Veronica Valter
It seems that this girl literally attracts trouble. After such a pressure with Ungaro collaboration she is again involved into an unpleasant situation. This time she hasn’t done anything wrong except being too credulous.
Lindsay has been working on her leggings line expansion when the sketches for her new pieces were stolen. The worst part of this story is that her friend did that to her. The actress-turned-designer claims that it is her longtime pal Patrick ‘Pootie’ Aufdenkamp who took her drawings and now uses those for his own line.
Apparently Lindsay feels furious. But she knows it is her fault she was so trusting. And the so-called ex-friend is planning to launch his line this coming February.
A source said:
Patrick stole Lindsay’s sketches for her new 6126 clothing line. He is now running off trying to do his own line. And telling people he’s going to fashion market week in NYC on February 18 to debut his line. It’s horrible. He was her best friend. He has always used her, and she’s been warned to never trust him. Lindsay is a good friend and likes to see the good in people. She didn’t want to believe how bad Patrick’s energy was, and how false his friendship has always been with her.”
Patrick and Lindsay have been close friends for seven years and the star admits she’s been hurt by his betrayal.
Read more…
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January 4th, 2010
Posted by Veronica Valter
Lindsay Lohan who has become one of the most discussed celebrities thanks to her Ungaro collaboration is planning to expand her 6126 line.
The actress is to include other than leggings items of clothing, such as jackets, dresses, and trousers in lace, cashmere and leather. It is expected that the collection will feature up to 100 pieces. The range in price will be huge and the most expensive item is going to be a leather jacket.
Besides, Lindsay made it public that futher expansion of the line is planned in 2011. The collection will be added with a range of accessories like bags, jewellery and shoes, as well as cosmetics.
Kristi Kaylor, principal in 6126 LLC in Beverly Hills, said:
We’ve had amazing success with the leggings line. We have a great business with Neiman Marcus and several hundred great specialty stores. DNAM Apparel was the perfect partner to work with 6126 and grow it as a lifestyle brand. We’re launching the full clothing collection next year, and a cosmetics line, handbags, shoes, jewellery in spring 2011.”
It’ll be a young contemporary price point with contemporary styling. We’re conscious of it in the sense that we have great price points and quality products. The vision is to offer customers something that they don’t have in the marketplace today, items that go back with leggings: blazers, dresses and tops.”
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December 18th, 2009
Posted by Veronica Valter
Mounir Moufarrige has decided to stop working at Emanuel Ungaro brand. The Lebanese-born businessman realized he needed to concentrate on his other business.
Mounir had been the chief executive officer of the fashion label since 2006. He has recently felt huge pressure due to the fact he had brought Lindsay Lohan in as ‘artistic director’ of the brand. As you remember Lindsay’s debut was seriously criticized.
Moufarrige will focus on other work now but he will still be a member of the company’s strategic committee and have an opportunity to oversee certain projects and decisions.
Marie Fournier has been selected as Ungaro’s new general manager and since now on she will coordinate all the work in the company.
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November 27th, 2009
Posted by Veronica Valter
We have written that Lindsay Lohan’s involvement into the work of a famous brand Ungaro was critisized a lot by both the team and customers. Even the founder of the house Emanuel Ungaro couldn’t stay aside and expressed his discontent with the choice of a celebrity. And according to rumours the actress was to be asked to leave the label.
However, Ungaro’s CEO Mounir Moufarriage slammed rumours Lindsay is to be axed by the French fashion house. He insists she is still very much involved into the creative process.
He commented:
As we speak, she is in New York in shoots with Ungaro. The decision to appoint her was controversial, but then fashion is controversial anyway, and you need some novelties and you need to test some new ideas.”
He also told the press Lindsay’s association with the label has increased sales even though the Spring-Summer 2010 collection is not yet available in stores.
He told WWD:
There are some girls out there that whenever they move, whatever they wear, they attract attention, even if they make mistakes. It’s all publicity. We’ve got a celebrity and it’s a new concept, which we’re going ahead with. Ungaro, let’s recognise it, was a dormant brand, and now everybody’s talking about it today, so the level of awareness has improved greatly.”
Well, bad PR is good too, at least it ‘improves the level of awareness’. I’m glad Lindsay is no more under fire.
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November 21st, 2009
Posted by Veronica Valter
Passions run high with Lindsay and Ungaro fashion house.
It has been rumoured that Ungaro’s chairman is desperate to undo a contract with the actress as soon as possible.
As you probably remember Lindsay has been a fashion consultant for the label and helped to create the Spring-Summer 2010 collection. The line was called ‘a disaster’ by fashion journalists and experts. When the collaboration continued it caused a row with chairman Asim Abdullah and CEO Mounir Moufarrige.
A source told the New York Post:
Asim wants her out now. Department stores in the States have already told him they won’t be picking up the line if Lohan remains a collaborator, so it’s a serious issue. Mounir wants to keep her on because it was his idea to hire her in the first place. He’s trying to save face.”
The founder of the label, Emanuel Ungaro, who has no contact with the fashion house since his 2005 departure, said hiring Lindsay was a huge mistake.
He commented:
I am furious, but I can’t do anything about it. It is in the process of losing its soul.”
Well, this information hasn’t been confired by the label in any way. A spokesperson for Ungaro’s chairman denied any rift between him and Mounir.
The representative said:
Such an insinuation is totally absurd.”
But there is no smoke witout a fire. It is quite possible that the actress will be asked to leave. If it happens I’ll feel really sorry for her. To tell you the truth, I do feel sorry for her even now. iIt must be a real pressure to hear these things every day. Hope she won’t act the fool.
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November 13th, 2009
Posted by Veronica Valter
Emanuel Ungaro is furious with Lindsay Lohan’s involvement into the work of the house.
The designer is worried but cannot do anything. He doesn’t have any control over the label he had originated since he sold it in 2005.
As you know Lindsay’s debut in designing wasn’t much succefful, it was even named “a disaster”. Fashion experts slammed the Spring-Summer 2010 collection the 23-year-old helped to make as “underwhelming” and “non-skilled”.
However, the actress called it ‘a dream come true’.
Emanuel Ungaro feels angry but helpless.
He said:
I’m furious but there isn’t a thing I can do. I have absolutely no link with that house.”
Ungaro is in the process of losing its soul. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.”
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