| | | | | | | | Thursday, April 6th, 2017 | | | | | | "I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed."
-Karl Lagerfeld
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-Karl Lagerfeld
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | There are always rumors afoot in the fashion industry, even more so in these days when designers hop around from label to label like they’re in demand NBA free agents. The latest gossip? That former Saint Laurent designer Hedi Slimane was headed to Chanel. The supposed game plan was that he would be tasked with building up Chanel’s men’s wear business while simultaneously being groomed to one day take over the whole shebang from Karl Lagerfeld. It makes some sense. Lagerfeld is a huge Slimane fan (he famously said he lost weight to wear the suits Slimane designed while he was at Dior Homme). What is rare however is for brands to comment on these rumors, but Chanel doesn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea. “The house of Chanel has no projects with Hedi Slimane,” Chanel said in a curt statement released to Women's Wear Daily. “Chanel doesn’t work on the launch of a Chanel men’s wear collection.” So, there you go. | | Thinking A Little Bit More About Your Advertising | | |  | | The internet prepares to enter day three of Pepsi-gate this morning. On Tuesday, the soda pop purveyors released a new ad featuring Kendall Jenner in a starring role and Skip Marley on the soundtrack. The internet criticized it as woefully out of touch and appropriative of various protest movements. Seriously, the thing was bizarre. By Wednesday, Pepsi pulled the ad (and also offered an apology to Jenner for putting her in the situation). Rosario Dawson meanwhile pointed out the eerie fact that the ad bore an uncanny resemblance to a Chemical Brothers music video she starred in back in 1999. It lambasted the idea of soda ads leveraging revolutionary imagery 18 years ago. Meanwhile, Jenner, her mother Kris, and Marley all deleted mentions of the campaign from their social media feeds (making them some of the only accounts on the internet not to have mention of the controversy currently on their timelines). What should we expect today? Maybe a statement from Jenner? Or do we expect that to be withheld for a very special episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians? It might be best for everyone to put this all behind them as quickly as possible. | | |  | | This is probably not the best newsletter for the latest in Israeli political news, and yet rarely does Israeli political news involve Britney Spears. In fact, an upcoming concert by the popstar is causing an entire election to be rescheduled. Spears is set to appear in Tel Aviv on July 3 for a mini-international Summer tour (and some of her first major engagements outside of Las Vegas in sometime). Except, oops, the country’s Labour party also had its primary elections scheduled for that date. In fact, many of the polling places are traditionally located directly actress from where Spears is set to perform. While also citing concerns over whether or not there’d be enough security to go around, the party decided to move their elections to July 4th (which, no, is not a holiday there). In other Britney news: remember how much better her Pepsi ads were than Kendall Jenner’s? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | You’re no one these days unless you have a contract with a modeling agency, but don’t worry, if you’re at all even sort of famous and have nice cheekbones you can get agency representation. Forty-two-year-old screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, here with his Olympian boyfriend Tom Daley, is now the latest boldfaced name to sign with Wilhelmina’s Celebrity Division. | | | | | | | | | | Hilary Rhoda, 30 (Hockey Wife) Zach Braff, 42 (TV’s Version of Paul Rudd) Paul Rudd, 48 (Movies’ Version of Zach Braff) | | | | | | | | |
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