I don’t really know how this happened, but shocking recent pictures of Tara Reid have emerged. Shocking because she’s so thin? No. So bloated in the face? So very clearly on eight kinds of drugs? Nope. Shocking because she looks decent. Non-totally-freak show ugly. Dare I say even almost normal?

Tara showed up to the premiere of The Women on Thursday evening looking most presentable. I forgot what a pretty girl she can be if only she tries a little. Now I sound like my mother. Next I’ll be screaming at Tara to put down the damn Rolos while tears actually well from my eyes. Anyways, Tara was looking quite nice. You can tell her inner whore was just aching to burst out – quite literally. He nipples were barely restrained. Still, considering they were barely restrained, they were still tucked properly in their respective places (or so I assume).

And the fact that she’s gotten a decent amount of press for simply showing up and not looking like absolute trash… well things are really looking up for Tara.

Here’s Tara at the LA premiere of “The Women” at Mann’s Village Theater on Thursday. Images thanks to WENN and PR Photos.

Project Runway’s venerable mentor and fashion maven Tim Gunn, who recently got his own show on Bravo, has weighed in on the recent, bizarre jeans trend started by Scientolowife Katie Holmes. This is the wretched trend of pegging and rolling the pantlegs of your jeans. Those of us who lived through this trend in the 80s are still shuddering at the memories- many of them captured in blackmail photos that will no doubt find their way into the hands of our children. Gunn is equally baffled by this re-emerging trend.

Tim Gunn is never shy about his opinions on Project Runway — calling a dress a “pterodactyl out of a gay Jurassic Park” isn’t exactly holding back. And when PEOPLE talked to the debonair fashion expert at the Tide and Downy Total Care Launch Party, he expressed his disapproval of Katie Holmes’s recent penchant for fall’s new baggy jeans. “I have to say, Katie Holmes has become so much more sophisticated in so many ways, but I think she’s in a dip right now. I can’t explain it.” Gunn actually sees the adaptation of the new look as a move back towards her younger look, saying “She ascended from this tomboyish waif look to an incredible sexy sophisticate. We realize how much style she’s capable of. I don’t get it.” But for those of us who are digging Katie’s baggy look (also spotted on Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston), Gunn does give us hope. “With the right shape, it can work very well.”

[From People]

I agreed with Tim right up until that last sentence- NOBODY looks good in pegged jeans. Except maybe hobos. I am mystified by all the horrid 80s trends that are being resurrected- mostly by people who are too young to know better. While school shopping for my daughter, I’ve seen leg warmers, oversize sweaters, and polo shirt dresses- all staples from my days in middle school. All of them are hideous, but the pegged jean takes the cake. This is a trend that should have stayed dead, and I hope that women don’t blindly follow this handful of misguided celebs. Ladies- it’s not a good look.

Katie Holmes is shown out in NY on 8/23/08. Credit: Fame Tim Gunn is shown below on 3/17/08 and in the header bubble on 1/10/07. Credit: PRPhotos.

Apparently, you don’t have to be famous, talented, have taste, or even know how to design clothing to have your own line anymore. If you have ever been on television, even if it’s only on one of those gossip shows “Worst Dressed of the Year” specials, you too can have your own clothing label. Non-actress Tara Reid, who is more well known for her drunken antics than any films she’s starred in, was seen pimping out her new line of hoochie wear over the weekend in Las Vegas.

Tara Reid has turned her personal style into a clothing line called ‘Mantra’ so that you and all your loved ones can get her look without having to shop on Hollywood Boulevard.

The washed-up star’s collection of t-shirts, dresses, bikinis, ponchos and hoodies priced at $65-180 will be decorated with beads and charms that tell a different ’story’ about the wearer, such as ‘I’m not wearing anything under this’ (see above). Tara elaborates in a statement:

* ‘It’s about putting into the universe what you want in life: Red means love, pink is friendship, green is lucky, black is protection. You’re gonna have a story when you wear this bikini or when you put this dress on: You’ll either get love or meet a new friend or you might meet a guy.’

[From Pacific Coast News]

Oh, Tara. I really wish I could stop making fun of you, but you just make it so darn easy. But then again, if Heidi Montag, the most vile of all famewhores, can have a clothing line, I suppose it’s fair game for Tara as well. At least she actually had a career at one time. Which reminds me: are any of those “American Pie” kids doing anything these days? Will we soon see that kid who played Stifler coming out with his own line?

Tara Reid is shown at Christian Audigier presents ‘When I Move You Move’ tradeshow held at Caesars Palace in Vegas on 8/26/08. Credit: Judy Eddy / WENN. For photos of her new line, see Pacific Coast News

Gwyneth Paltrow has confused the crap out of animal rights supporters by signing on to promote Italian designer Tod’s. Not only does the line use fur – Gwyneth is pictured draped in it. It’s especially confusing because Paltrow has said she’s a vegetarian (though she does eat fish) and follows a stringent macrobiotic diet. Her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, is also a vegetarian.

The Hollywood star has been signed up by Italian designer Tod’s and is pictured draped in fox fur and wearing fur-lined boots feature in the company’s latest advertising campaign. Miss Paltrow, 35, who is married to the Coldplay singer and vegetarian Chris Martin has won praise for her impeccable green credentials and is a fan of holistic practices and yoga.

The decision to endorse Tod’s, a luxury goods company which also uses ostrich and snakeskin in its products, and describes itself as “refined, understated luxury, impeccable taste and enviable quality”, has come as a shock to animal rights campaigners. Mark Glover, director of Respect for Animals, said: “Gwyneth Paltrow should be ashamed. I can only assume that Paltrow either is ignorant of the facts or lacks human decency and compassion.”

Friends have said that Miss Paltrow’s decision will jeopardise her close friendship with Stella McCartney, the designer and the daughter of Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, the animal rights activist. Miss McCartney does not use fur or leather in her designs and supports People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta).
A spokesman for Peta said calls to the actress had been rebuffed.

[From The Telegraph]

Gwyneth appears in ads for the brand’s upcoming fall and winter collection. It’s important to note that this isn’t technically hypocritical, at least by strict definition. Gwyneth has said she’s a vegetarian, not a vegan. If she were a vegan and promoting fur, that would be one thing. Many people argue that being a vegetarian and still using/wearing animal products is in itself hypocritical. But they are technically two different (though related) ideologies, though it’s not hard to understand the argument. I’m not a vegetarian, though I still wouldn’t wear fur for a multitude of reasons. Gwyneth has decided it’s okay for her – but I guarantee you she’s going to catch hell for it.

Photos are from Tod’s website.

It must be a cool existence to be Matthew McConaughey’s son. You have incredibly attractive parents. Lots of money. They’re pretty easy going. You get to chill with celebrities. And you know from birth that you’re probably going to be pretty damn hot when you grow up. Little Levi McConaughey has it made. And last night he made his first trip down the red carpet – in a car seat, but nonetheless. I bet it was a really nice car seat.

Matthew McConaughey’s month-old son Levi made his red carpet debut on Thursday. Along with his proud pop and mother Camila Alves, the tot attended a bash for Alves’ new handbag line, MUXO, at Kitson in L.A.

McConaughey, 38, walked straight through the red carpet, carrying the baby (who was nestled in a car seat covered with a plush yellow blanket) and took him inside. “[Levi] was gonna stay home, but then he said, ‘Dad, mom, I wanna go support mom’s purses!’” Matthew joked with Entertainment Tonight. “At 30 days old, he’s talking about stuff like that!”

In a two-part interview on CNN’s House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta (airing Aug. 9 and Aug. 16), McConaughey reveals that they took their son to a recent John Mellencamp concert. Dad says his son “is equipped to be around the sights and sounds of people.”

[From Us Weekly]

A John Mellencamp concert? Really? I wonder if they have a special baby pillow to commemorate “Baby’s first hearing loss.” I’m assuming they were in some kind of private box or something, otherwise I can’t think of many other things that could be more harmful to a new baby than a rock concert. And that whole thing about, “I wanna go support mom’s purses” – while utterly adorable – is going to get Levi a lot of hell on the playground. But he’s got a decent chance of growing up to look like his dad, so I’m sure he’ll forgive him the one embarrassing joke.

Here’s Matthew and Camila at the “Muzo” handbag launch Party at Kitson last night. Images thanks to Fame.

What woman in her right mind would want to buy shoes designed by Paris Hilton? Unless she was designing some specialty line made for women with very large feet (Paris wears a size 11), or drag queens, I can’t imagine who would possibly be interested. The shoes are actually not ugly, though they don’t strike me as anything special either. And I’m guessing Paris didn’t have a thing to do with them, other than slapping her name on the box.

Paris Hilton debuted her new fall shoe collection at the Las Vegas Macy’s Fashion Show on Tuesday.

Paris, dressed in a soft, baby-blue gown, showed off her trendy new shoes at the event.

The new collection features a wide range of footwear, everything from platform stilettos, pumps and knee-high boots to flats, t-straps, and ankle boots.

Paris was inspired by the high-fashion runways in New York, London, Paris and Milan. The shoes mix “all things girly with a whole lotta rock-n-roll,” according to Thevegaseye.com.

The first 300 people that purchased Hilton shoes between July 19 and July 29 at the fashion show were given the opportunity to meet the star and receive a signed photo when she appeared in person on Tuesday.

Paris Hilton Footwear Collection shoes are sold at Macy’s, Kitson, Bakers and online at Zappos.com and Endless.com. Suggested retail prices range from $59 to $195.

[From All Headline News]

Paris has often lamented her size 11s – which are relatively large considering her height is generally reported to be around 5’7 to 5’7 ½. She’s noted that many of her favorite designers don’t carry shoes in her size and have to custom make them for her. I doubt they’d do that for the average buyer, so everything considered she’s pretty lucky.

Here’s Paris at the launch of The Paris Hilton Footwear Collection At Macy’s Las Vegas on Tuesday. Photographer: Chris Connor; Images thanks to WENN.

Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn and Michael Kors are my vice every Wednesday. Project Runway is the jewel of Bravo and launched several catchphrases thanks to Tim urging contestants to “make it work,” while last season’s winner Christian Siriano killed us with his overuse of the phrase “hot tranny mess” and the word “fierce.”

Now that the beloved fashion reality show has found a new home with Lifetime, rumors of a sabotage have begun to rumble. The premiere episode of the last season on Bravo was, to put it nicely, dreadful. The challenge was a throwback from the first season. Contestants had to create an outfit from raw materials found from a grocery store. The group of halfwit style aficionados all chose a table cloth instead of fashioning a jumpsuit from ramen noodles and floss. Where is the wow factor and challenge, not to mention actual talented designers?

The typical media frenzy shilling the show is also missing. Of course, a budget for a show that has served it’s purpose has dwindled. It is being said that Bravo is trying to “kill” the show before it is yanked away to swim in the seas of “television for women” flanked by Golden Girls reruns.

Theories have been put forth that Bravo doesn’t really want to spend money on a show that it’s losing, but I don’t buy it. Look at all the promoting they did for their silly A List Awards. That was only for one night, and you’d have thought the pope was coming to town there was so much fanfare. There are still advertising and branding dollars to be made here, and Bravo has to know that.

[Gawker]

Along with the sabotage rumors come spoilers. Leaks to Wikipedia early today revealed the next 4 eliminations. The chart containing the contestants who have been eliminated popped onto the site. Since the news of the spoilers on Wikipedia started to spread the chart been removed, but you can still see it on Gawker (spoilers). So is it real or is the work of some hoax-driven maniac out to take the mystery out of Project Runway?

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Here is your guest judge spoiler alert! I hear they have employed Apolo Anton Ohno to fill the judgment seat just in time for the Olympics. Brooke Shields will follow with a jungle themed episode and RuPaul finally scores a spot. I am not sure why LL Cool J is deemed worthy to participate, but I am hoping there is some shirtless-ness involved. Finally, Diane von Furstenberg, Francisco Costa and Cynthia Rowley rescue Michael Kors from the celebrity hell.

I am pretty sure that with Natalie Portman guest hosting the next episode and Rachel Zoe clawing her way on we should put the show on suicide watch.

Heidi Klum is shown “leaving ABC Studios after appearing on ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’” on 7/15/08. Credit: Ray Filmano / WENN

An Access Hollywood segment on Avril’s new clothing line
Avril Lavigne has a new line of clothing for juniors in her unique cotton candy ‘tween punk style. Clothing is affordably priced at from $24 to $58 USD and is available at Kohl’s stores in the US. The line includes cap-sleeved t-shirts with skull prints, tight-fit hoodies with purple and pink zebra and leopard prints, and even a hoodie with little ears on it.

Avril named the line Abbey Dawn after the childhood nickname given to her by her dad. She explains that “My alias name was always Abbey Dawn in my hotel rooms.” Avril describes the way she designed the clothing as “I can literally come up with anything I want to wear and then it’s made and I get it.”

Avril says “the inspiration for Abbey Dawn came out of my closet. It’s who I am and what I think is cool and anything I’d wear.”

There are probably plenty of 9-12 year-olds who want to dress like Avril. You can get her clothing at Kohl’s stores and online at Kohls.com.

Here’s a promotional video for the line.

And here are actual items of Avril’s clothing from Kohls.com. These were all co-designed and approved by the 23 year-old Canadian “rocker,” who says it’s hard to name her favorite piece since she loves them all so much.

No one has contacted or encouraged us to promote Avril’s clothing line.

The initial interest in Victoria Beckham and Lauren Conrad’s attempt at fashion has started to wane. Famous L.A. boutique, Kitson, has nixed Lauren’s line of predominantly knit jersey clothing. As the celebrity allure has plunged so have the sales. The store owner begged her to promote her collection. After Conrad’s reps failed to make an attempt at saving the line it was dropped from the celebrity-frequented store.

Sales were lackluster,” Kitson owner Fraser Ross told us. “Initially it was great.” Ross tried to get Conrad to do a personal appearance in the store but said her people couldn’t figure out a date. “They need to realize it’s no different than selling your album, your TV shows, your movies. You have to keep promoting it.

[NY Magazine]

Victoria’s Beckham’s 2008 menswear line is also struggling. The collection, dVb, will not even make a holiday debut at Kitson. A rep for the fashion line confirmed that while everything is currently running on schedule, there will not be a launch at the boutique. Kitson is having trouble selling Victoria’s brand of overpriced jeans and this could explain why they’re not planning to carry an additional line from the Wag.

New rumors say that her men’s collection is a “disaster.” Her name is being pulled from marketing for the jeans in a last ditch effort to encourage sales. Meanwhile, her rep states that it will still be called dVb by Victoria Beckham.

We contacted Kitson — the first place in L.A. to market the duds — and they told us they have “nearly 600 pairs” of the jeans left over from their original stock from April 2007. And even some of Posh’s favorite stores — like Maxfield — have dumped the line into their second-tier stores, and major department chains, we’re told, have had “dismal sales.”

[TMZ]

This is what I don’t get about celebrities. They think because someone dresses them in trendy and stylish garb they should design clothing. That’s like me deciding to write a screenplay because I blog. I guarantee every scene would feature Jake Gyllenhaal shirtless and sweating.

Victoria Beckham is shown fixing her hair when out to dinner with her husband at Il Sole on 7/14/08. Credit: WENN. Lauren Conrad is shown at the ‘Paws for Style’ charity event on 7/15/08. Credit: L. Gallo / WENN

Jennifer Lopez seems absolutely intent on making sure her five month old twins Emme and Max turn into little divas as soon as humanly possible. J-Lo is going to pretty extreme lengths to make sure the kids know absolutely nothing of normalcy, or have even the vaguest concept of modest living. According to the Sun, J-Lo doesn’t let them wear any of their outfits more than once.

Even by Jennifer Lopez’s extravagant standards, this takes some beating…

The actress apparently insists on dressing her five-month-old twins in new designer gear every day.

We’re told: “Jennifer was approached by a charity and asked to donate some dresses for a celebrity auction. She agreed and donated a gorgeous £5,000 frock.

“She also offered some of Max and Emme’s clothes, telling organisers that she never lets them ‘repeat’ outfits.

“But the auction deals only in adult clothes. Jennifer told them it was a shame, as some items cost over Û1,000 (£500) each.”

[From the Sun]

That is really, really terrible. Lopez has also been widely reported to be a bit of a germaphobe about the babies, insisting on surgical masks and ridiculous amounts of hand sanitizers for anyone around them. Perhaps that plays into her insistence that the tots not wear anything more than once.

If nothing else she could donate the clothes to any charity for kids. It doesn’t need to be some fancy celebrity auction. She could do it just to put clothes on another little baby’s back. On Friday Celebitchy pointed out that the twins “probably have their clothes changed as often as their diapers, modeling designer outfits and tiny cashmere sweaters around the house while perfecting their haughty stares.” Sounds spot on.

Here’s Jennifer and husband Marc Anthony receiving an honorary award from the Milan town council in Italy on July 1st. Yeah, I find that confusing too. Images thanks to WENN.