Lindsay Lohan says she has an eye for fashion, calls acting monotonous

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The Times Online has a sort of funny/sort of sad interview with Lindsay Lohan. It took place two days before she showed her massively panned first collection for Ungaro. It’s sad to hear the optimism Lohan had before the show, but again, sort of funny (in what I will admit is a mean-spirited way) that she’s so out of touch and delusional as to think she could do most of her fashion/style/design work via email and fax.

The article portrays her as vapid but likely well-meaning. But likely dumb and naïve. Mostly things we already knew about Lohan. It does seem like the job designing for Ungaro genuinely meant a lot to her, and she was as psyched as anyone would be to get it. But work doesn’t seem to really register for Lohan no matter what, and it’s clear that Ungaro’s owner only brought her on because she’ll bring attention and money to the label, which he was losing a lot of when he had qualified people working for him.

The Ungaro PR at the headquarters on the chi-chi Avenue Montaigne throws me a triumphant look. For ten days I had been glumly anticipating the hours I’d have to wait for Lohan not to show up, reliability not being her forte. Sure enough, the previous day’s interviews had all been cancelled, but then the PR sat her down and explained why it probably wasn’t a good idea to snub International Herald Tribune and The New York Times two days before showing your first collection on a Paris catwalk in front of A Very Sceptical audience, and Lohan apparently said: “Oh, OK then, tomorrow I’ll be on time.” And here she is, very slim (but not too skinny) in a pair of black leather leggings from her own range, a white T-shirt, black Alaïa bootees, scraped-back hair peroxided for a film she’s shooting — a very, very pretty face, but one with a lived in quality that makes her look much older than her 23 years

…Although today there are paparazzi camped outside the Plaza Athénée, where she is staying, she says they’re not always there. She can get privacy when she wants it and she says she tunes out most of the negative press. “I just don’t read it any more. I don’t go on the net. They want a car crash, which doesn’t make me want to give it to them, but nor am I going to stop myself from doing things that other girls my age would do. Of course I regret some of them. But the media now is so unhealthy. It’s like they’re waiting to devour you.”… Yup. I’d say the reviews of the Ungaro collection pretty much devoured and spat her out.

…Ungaro is part of France’s couture heritage. Why did Mounir Moufarrige, Ungaro’s urbane, Lebanese-born owner, not fill the vacant position Ungaro left when he bowed out five years ago with a highly trained designer instead of an actress with a reputation for getting high… In fact, as Moufarrige stoically recites, there were several highly trained designers shoe-horned into the top post after Ungaro’s departure and all lost him a lot of money. “I couldn’t get a single journalist interested in this house for three years. Now look! They all want to come and see her.”

That Lohan really wanted this gig is clear. She says she screamed with happiness when she finally got it, because Moufarrige didn’t just hand it to her. She turned up to their first meeting with 15 outfits she had rough sketched and then had worked into finished illustrations by a professional artist. Then Moufarrige asked her how much time she could give the label and how much more time she was planning on spending in prison [in 2007 she was convicted of cocaine possession, and driving under the influence, and incarcerated for 84 entire minutes]. She laughed and told him she’d have to see how much time she could afford to spend there. “Then I cried when I saw my office. It’s got TWO balconies overlooking the Eiffel Tower.”

“It’s not as if I have a five-year plan,” she says, “but I really think that with [co-designer] Estrella [Archs], who is amazing technically, we can do this with faxes and e-mail.

… “I never felt pushed into acting. Even though it can get a bit monotonous always being on set [although strictly speaking, she hasn’t always been on set, hence some of her problems]. But the thing is, I never had acting lessons. I panic sometimes when I have a monologue but then weirdly I look at the lines and they just attach themselves to my memory… But, you know, this,” she says, surveying the sequins and the orange ruched leggings and the jackets hanging on the rails, “is what I really love.”

[From the Times Online]

Overall the article does make me feel badly for Lohan, though that is clearly not its purpose. You have to read the thing in its entirety to really get the feeling that this does matter to Lindsay and she does believe in herself. And it makes me feel like a total bitch to be like, “Yeah, but you shouldn’t.” But… um… yeah, but you shouldn’t. How else do you put it? She did a terrible, terrible job. As excited as she was for the perks and the prestige, she was still trying to do a lot of it with faxes and email. I do think she has an eye for fashion, but it’s too hit-and-miss. She gets most of the credit for bringing back the legging (or blame, depending on your opinion). But most of her outfits look like she rolled out of bed and didn’t just put on the first thing she found, but actually rummaged around for the dirties combo she could come up with.

Lohan barely talks about acting throughout the interview, with the exception of that last paragraph about acting being monotonous, and a mention that she has to go back to the U.S. to finish filming something. It seems like she’s over the movie business, and that’s probably a good thing because the movie business is over her, too. But she still has a long way to go before she’ll get any credit in the fashion industry.

Thanks to reader Oxa for the tip!

Here’s Lindsay and her sister Ali with some friends in Paris yesterday morning. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

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  1. the original kate says:

    yeah…everything is monotonous when you’re coked out of your head.

  2. Livia says:

    That eye for fashion that she has – is it a blind eye…?

  3. BitterBetty says:

    Mocking her stupidity aside, I’m happy for her. she’s got a paying job to go to every day. maybe it’ll give her a sense of worth and purpose she’s been lacking for some time now, being unemployable and all.

  4. Bodhi says:

    Sorry, but I don’t feel bad for her at freaking all. She had EVERYTHING & lost it all by behaving like the spoiled little bitch she is.

    I’d LOVE to hear her reaction to the fashion vomit she spewed on the runway. I’m people “just didn’t get it”. Seriously, if that crap is what she works hard on, … hooker is screwed & might as well take that place on UK’s Celebrity “term used loosely) Big Brother.

    ps: I love my leggings 🙂

  5. ruru says:

    an eye for fashion? She’s been wearing the same dull legging and t-shirt combination for the past 3 years.

  6. Praise St. Angie! says:

    Argh! Those lips! She’s become a parody of herself.

  7. Lita says:

    I’m usually compassionate to people that are really screwing up but she is beyond belief. After I read comments on CB about her having such promise in Mean Girls I actually went and watched (just on youtube) – she was not at all a convincing actor. But coming down however many years she has done nothing successfully since then. That’s it. And she wasn’t even good in it! I get that she is troubled but the mind doth boggle. That she apparently doesn’t have even a glimmer of self realisation is what gets me. I guess she is just really stupifyingly dumb – like *really* dumb. That’s all I got by way of explanation!

  8. GatsbyGal says:

    The day Lindsay Lohan has an eye for fashion is the day I eat my hat. And how would she know what acting is that? I’ve seen her in movies, but I’ve never seen her acting.

  9. Red Riding Hood says:

    I think she can act,in freaky Friday she was good. She was never exceptional but she had something that caught people’s attention, a spark, charisma.

    Her addictions have obviously ruined her, not sure her fashion will work out so let’s see, but I dread to think what will happen if this fails and she continues to live the lifestyle she is currently living. Drugs are ageing her so badly she has ruined her looks, and is rapidly losing any sparkle she once had.

    I actually feel for her a bit after reading this and her parents press statements over last few days.

  10. Westender says:

    I wonder if the reason she is turning her back on acting is because the movie studios can not get insurance for her? Her “rumoured” drug use and tabloid antics would probably scare off many studios and also make it difficult for insurance coverage.

  11. Bambi says:

    I think it was Moufarrige who used the term “superconsumer” to describe Lindsay Lohan.

    The word is more apt than he maybe realized– she is not productive or creative– she exists to consume, and her consumption becomes a performance. Whether it’s sex partners, cars, drugs or clothes, she seems to require massive amounts of everything, damn the consequences.

    But thus far, there does not appear any evidence within Lohan of the passion needed to create something. Acting lessons require discipline. She has never taken any. Being on set is too monotonous. Design school requires discipline. She has never been to design school. Her personal assistant is the one who actually designed the leggings in Lohan’s 6126 line.

    Lohan is a superconsumer who eats money and attention and drugs and $h*ts drama. I don’t know if she can be anything other than this.

    Lohan has always struck me as a vain and arrogant person– I remember watching Mean Girls and thinking she had been miscast; everything about her screamed “mean girl.” (I spent six years at a private all-girls school, so I trust my instincts on this). It probably bothers me less than it does the average person that she’s destroying her looks and falling from power. The world would be a nicer place with fewer people of her ilk lording it over everyone else.

  12. ToddRH says:

    When one of the best directors in the business, Gary Marshall, has to sit down with her and “talk” about her work ethic…and it doesn’t stick…she’ll never do anything substantial in “acting”.

    I really hope she doesn’t get worse or (God for bid) die because it will just raise up the parent’s and kid sister’s public image.

  13. lrm says:

    yea,freaky friday was good…and herbie wasn’t bad either…she can hold her own with seasoned,older actors….
    Didn’t merril streep say she had a remarkable talent that was natural?
    so,maybe she has potential but certainly has not chosen to do anything with it….
    and probably will not.

  14. Nebraska says:

    It would be cool to see Lindsay Lohan do a project with Jennifer Jason Leigh!

  15. Lita says:

    I said no other “successful” which I thought Herbie wasn’t and tbh forgot about F/Friday which presumably did quite well, so fair call on pointing them out. My main points were that I don’t think she was ever a good actor and that the self delusion ref her multi-talents flabergasts me. So on my slow Sunday evening, in an effort to be objective, I just Youtube’d a bit of Herbie and remained unswayed! Subjective, but I see mediocre acting in unchallenging roles; teens interracting with a movie backdrop. Nothing about it stands out. It isn’t that she is awful, just not good. In fact it was sort of worse watching Herbie because she played it much the same suggesting she is maybe one of those actors that just has ‘one role’. To make this a fair assessment I’d have to watch some of that Georgia Rules movie. But I guess I’m not that interested in being fair to Lindsay Lohan and have had enough of her, even for a slow Sunday evening!

  16. mollination says:

    You know what’s tired besides:
    a.) lindsay

    b.) lindsay thinking she can get honor and prestige without putting in the hard hours

    and

    c.) those designs

    ?

    It’s this whole “I’m just doing what a regular (put Lindsay’s age here) does, and I’m tired of being punished for it.”
    Her mother and her have been saying this line since she was 17 years old! “She’s making the same mistakes any 17 year old does!” … “I’m 20 years old, is it illegal for me to dance on tables once in a while?” (which by the way, yes, lindsay it is illegal when you’re in a 21+ club). “I’m 23, weren’t you doing the same things when you were my age? I’m not apologizing for it!”

    She’ll be saying this until she’s 33. If she lives that long.

  17. ar says:

    where are her sunglasses from???????

  18. Nicole says:

    My prob with all of these young Hollywood starlets is the ego and sense of entitlement they all have. I’m sorry, but Lindsey has had so many people try to tell her to change her lifestyle and she doesn’t seem to care. It doesn’t look like she even wants to get her shit together. I have a hard time finding sympathy for people like that. She has the money and resources to get the best treatment.
    I think she’s a good actor, not great, but good. My personal faves from that generation are Evan Rachael Wood and the fantastic Ellen Page.

  19. Lway says:

    It’s “monotonous” because she can’t act. I’d rather slit my wrists than watch any of her movies.

  20. Hieronyus Grex says:

    Everyone disses the job they were crappy at to begin with, why should LiHo be any different ?

  21. Jessica says:

    Is that dark haired girl her little sister???? OMG

  22. Fat Elvis says:

    “Herbie” was a good movie?

  23. Weeble says:

    Bless her heart — the poor, poor urchin. I feel badly for her.