The interesting thing about the Cannes Film Festival is that the attendees range from bona fide, A-list movie stars to a bunch of (barely) C-list party girls, who are mostly there for the late-night bashes and to rub shoulders with eligible or semi-eligible rich dudes. So last night’s Cannes de Grisogono party was a sight to behold with a wide range of red-carpet walkers.

Heidi Klum wore a black, slinky, low-cut gown with bizarre, dragonfly-inspired earrings and bracelet. The dress is rather shapeless, and Heidi’s eyeliner is too heavy. Perhaps the look would have beens lightly better if she’d opted for tumbling locks instead of a severely-pulled back look. I’m consistently amazed at how a supermodel who hosts her own fashion-based television program can get it so wrong most of the time.

Tara Reid is still prowling around (and is probably drunk) as well. I have no earthly idea why she’d wear a dress that looks like this. This gold-embelleshed, sheer monstrosity must have been picked out by that 60-year-old jewelry designer who is (allegedly) paying her way throughout the festival.

Kelly Brook probably won this red carpet contest at this party with a snug red gown that covered up most of her assets yet revealed a sizeable portion of her back. Not everyone can get away with peplum, but Kelly pulls it off marvelously.

Milla Jovovich still seems really “off” this year at Cannes, where she usually brings it in a huge way. Here, she’s going for old school glamour and does better than she did with her sloppy On the Road premiere look, but that’s not saying much.

Paris and Nicky Hilton went for vastly different dresses, and the result was … interesting. Paris actually doesn’t look terrible here even though her gown’s fabric might have been pulled from the curtains of the Waldorf Astoria. Nicky looks uncomfortable as hell in this black leather number with matching stiletto heels. Ouch.

Ivana Trump demonstrates quite well that money doesn’t equate to class. Without even taking that awful dress into consideration, the jewels, the eyeliner, and the lips all add up to way too much tackiness.

Victoria Silvstedt looks like a cheap hooker in this satiny, pink, floor-length number that truly looks like it belongs in the bedroom. I try to refrain from saying that about anyone, but here Victoria’s earned it.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

I’ve never wasted much thought on Nicky Hilton, who seems to make a life out of following Paris and their mother around for paparazzi-filled dinners as well as laughing at Paris’ obnoxious jokes. Although I will admit that it was rather amusing when Nicky dissed Chloe Sevigny’s horrific clothing line. Other than that and compared to her sister, Nicky stays pretty lowkey and quietly dated David Katzenberg for about four years until they split about four months ago. Since then, Nicky’s really had trouble getting her mojo back as evidenced when she was stood up by Jared Leto for a lunch date. Jared Leto, really?

This week’s In Touch has a story about how Nicky’s dropped in excess of 15 pounds since her big breakup. Since she was already pretty small, the tabloid alleges that her friends are concerned and planning an intervention:

She drinks a lot of coffee but doesn’t eat,” says Nicky’s friend. “No one has confronted her about it yet but they will if she continues to lose.”

It’s been more than four months since their fomance ended, but Nicky Hilton still isn’t over her ex-boyfriend David Katzenberg, and she has the weight loss to prove it. Always on the the thinner side, a friend reveals that Nicky has lost more than 15 pounds since David, 28, dumped her back in July, and the unlucky-in-love heiress continues to lose weight. “Nicky was blindsided when David ended their raltionship after four years,” her friend says, “When he told her they needed to talk, she was expecting an engagement ring, not a kiss-off.” In addition to her love woes, the friend says that Nicky, 28, is also worried about her career as the offers aren’t coming in these days like they used to a few years back. “Nicky wasn’t focused on her career when she was with David, but now she is,” the friend says. “It’s causing her some angst and affecting her appetite.”

[From In Touch, print edition, December 12, 2011]

Ah yes, the classic “break-up diet.” I’ve been prone to those myself, for nothing kills the appetite quite so well as realizing a significant number wasted years with the wrong person. Nicky does look a lot thinner these days. Here she is on 7/30 immediately post-Katzenberg:

And here’s Nicky on 10/17, cutting a noticeably slimmer figure:

Photos courtesy of Fame

For whatever reason, Chloe Sevigny has always been considered to be some sort of “it girl” for weird, hipster alternative culture and fashion. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because she’s seemingly fearless while attending events like this year’s CFDA fashion awards (as shown above) in really ugly dresses or indulging in belly-bearing Rodarte. Really though, when I think of Chloe these days, I am instantly reminded of Kaiser’s words while covering last fall’s MoCA event: “Chloe Sevigny was there. Of course. And she looked like a total a–hole. Jesus, Chloe.” That sounds about right for most of Chloe’s outfits.

Of course, someone in power has decided that Chloe was fit to design her own fashion line. In the spirit of promotion, Chloe sat down with Bullett Media to discuss her clothing passions and also gave them a sneak peek at her line. Here are a few glimpses — the line is obviously geared towards a younger crowd, and a few of the staged shots are, um, slightly disturbing with far too much of a “Lolita” vibe going on:

Here are a few excerpts from the accompanying interview, in which Chloe reveals that she’d rather have Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi wear her clothing than boring old Nicky Hilton. Chloe also pays lip service to The Situation being asked by Abercrombie & Fitch to not wear their clothing. Chloe also sort of disses the “Jersey Shore” guys, which doesn’t make much sense because she was spotted earlier this year hanging with DJ Pauly D. Maybe there’s some bad blood of the one-night-stand variety there? Who knows. Onto Chloe and her weird-ass fashion talk:

On Always Being An Outsider: I grew up in a really wealthy community and even the young girls would flaunt their wealth and ostracize girls who didn’t come from money. There was this one girl in particular who was the queen bee at school, and she would have the other girls tie her shoes. Me and a few other girls would go up against her. My parents were a little bit like outsiders, so I became friends with outsiders too: the daughters or sons of alcoholics and kids from divorced families, which then bred rebellion. From a very young age, I knew that I wouldn’t run with the preppy pack. I knew that there was something different in store for me.

On Her Ultimate Clothing Wish: I’ve always fantasized about finding a ’70s Yves Saint Laurent jumpsuit or a big, comfy dress, and wearing it for the rest of my days.

On Her Guilty Pleasure: God, I don’t really have one. I see all the movies, but I don’t think that’s really a guilty pleasure-that’s just supporting my industry. I was a huge American Idol fanatic for a while when I had a TV. I love reality TV.

On Jersey Shore: I think it’s really depressing that people are propping these people up as celebrities. The way they behave is embarrassing, and I think it’s kind of diminishing our culture. Most reality TV people behave like pigs, and it’s unfortunate that they get put on pedestals for doing so.

On How She Prefers Snooki Over Nicky Hilton: I read somewhere that Abercrombie & Fitch offered to pay The Situation not to wear their clothes-but who am I to say who should be wearing mine? I do remember someone saying that…what’s Paris Hilton’s sister called? Isn’t it Nicky or something? Anyway, she apparently talked to someone about my first collection, and was like, ‘I don’t get it.’ I was like, Good! I’m glad she doesn’t get it. It’s not for her. Besides, what’s there to get with clothes? So if Snooki wants to wear my clothes, go for it. I think she’d look a lot better in them. She’s probably just so used to certain things, you know. I have to admit, I do find that JWoWW sexy in a really weird way. It’s like that sexy, dirty kind of girl—not dirty, but like a hot mess. We’ve all gotten too drunk and acted crazy at parties, but I don’t maintain that and I’m kind of fascinated by those girls who do.

Why She Created A Fashion Line: I’m pretty sure everybody knows that I make it all just so I can wear it!

Who She’d Love To Dress: It would for sure be one of the Fanning girls. I don’t think I’d faint, but I would get excited.

[From Bullett Media]

Oddly enough, Terry Richardson wasn’t the photographer on the shoot (instead, it’s James Orlando), which surprised me because Creepy Terry and Chloe are so tight. As to Chloe’s dream of dressing Dakota Fanning, that doesn’t surprise me either, for this shoot exudes an aura that is not unlike that of Dakota’s recently banned suggestive Marc Jacobs ad. And both Fanning sisters just did a mutual shoot with Terry too. So basically, the perviness has come full circle here. Ugh.

Back to the point that (I think) Chloe was trying to make when favoring Snooki over Nicky. Part of this comparison stems from the fact that Nicky dissed Chloe’s clothing line, which presumably sparked the interviewer’s line of questioning. Still, it’s unquestionable that Snooki wearing something would give a designer much more exposure at this point than boring old Nicky Hilton, who basically does nothing. Say what you want about the “Jersey Shore” kids — at least they did a little something to reach their level of trashy fame instead of merely being born into a rich, trashy family.

Here are more glimpses of Chloe’s fashion line (and you can see the rest here). Well, it’s certainly not dull stuff, which is about all I can say in favor of these clothes:

Photos courtesy of Fame and Bullet Media

I’ve always sort of liked Nicky Hilton, although my general warmth towards is probably because she simply looks normal and well-adjusted compared to her sister. You know what I mean? Stand her next to Paris, I’m always going to pick Nicky. Put Nicky alone, and I’ll barely care about her. Anyway, this story doesn’t do much to make me like Nicky. Nicky has been single ever since she and David Zatzenberg broke up over the summer – I’ve been slightly surprised that she hasn’t relaunched herself with some big new relationship, but once again, she’s not Paris. The Enquirer claims that Nicky was tying to make something happen with Jared Leto, though. Fortunately and unfortunately, it’s a no-go, because Jared couldn’t even be bothered to show up for their “date”.

Ever seen a celebutante seethe?! Sitting in the Chateau Marmont garden waiting for hunky date Jared Leto, socialite Nicky Hilton – after telling the restaurant manager: “Show Jared Leto to my table when he arrives, he’s my lunch date” – sat down and waited… and waited… and then started to feverishly text and dial her delinquent date, who’s managed to show up on time for assignations with glamour girls like Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson – and Nick’s own sis, Paris Hilton.

Shockingsly, Leto was still a no-show after a whipping 90 minutes, and Nicky – looking ready to explode – abruptly grabbed her purse and stormed out!

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

That IS embarrassing. It went down at the Marmont too, which means there were probably some high-profile witnesses to Nicky being stood up. It makes feel bad for her for two reasons: one, she got stood up. Two, she was happy to be going on a lunch date with Jared Leto. Rough. That boy is… rough. Not in looks – in looks, he’s still Jordan Catalano. In attitude, though, it’s all try-hard and sad and uncomfortable. He probably thought it was funny that he stood her up. Gross.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Gwen Stefani was decked out as Cinderella for a party at Kate Hudson’s house over the weekend. She looks like a little girl playing dress up, complete with heavily applied blue eyeshadow, bright pink blush and pink lips. I have to give her credit for taking the look as far as she did, with stacks of necklaces, an updo with a tiara and a feather purse. She really went all out and she’s not hanging out of that outfit too much either. Bitch loves her makeup though, and she put it on with a trowel here.

Here’s Zooey Deschanel barely trying. At first I thought she was Duchess Kate in that outfit, but her hair is all teased out and she’s carrying that fake martini. Radar is claiming she’s “dressed as a woman from the 60s.” Hopefully she had someone specific in mind. This looks like one of those “group costumes” where everyone dresses up around some loosely formed theme and it’s hard to tell exactly who they’re supposed to be unless you see all of them together. They look like they’re having a bachelorette party. (Update: Thanks to those of you who pointed out that they’re supposed to be Valley of The Dolls characters!)

Nicky Hilton was little Red Riding Hood. That was boring when Kim Kardashian did it last year. This is how you do Red Riding Hood.

David Spade is… a cowboy who fell in some manure?

Casey Affleck was a hunter. At least he dressed up.

Topher Grace either didn’t bother or has a really weak ass costume.

Jessica Alba was a sexy witch. Such a mom costume. Throw on a hat and a wig. It looks like she has a veil with some spiders on it, and she probably tried harder than I’m giving her credit for.

Gwen Stefani owns them all and she knows it. I wonder who her friend is in the hair band costume.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

I always forgot that Nicky Hilton has had a boyfriend for years and years. Honestly, though, I rarely think about Nicky. She’s the quiet Hilton sister, and I want to believe she’s smarter and nicer than Paris Hilton, but who knows? Anyway, Nicky was able to maintain a four-year relationship with David Katzenberg, son of DreamWorks mega-mind Jeffrey Katzenberg (coughcoughMONEYcough). David and Nicky have split up, but there doesn’t seem to be any kind of scandal with cheating or jumpoffs or anything.

Nicky Hilton has quietly split with longtime boyfriend David Katzenberg after four years, Page Six can exclusively reveal.

Nicky and David, the son of DreamWorks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg, have gone their separate ways, despite hopes from her family that the two would eventually tie the knot. Sources tell us the split was amicable and happened after their work pushed them in different directions.

One friend told us, “They broke up quietly after four years together. The main reason was that they have been busy with their work schedules, and it has made it difficult to spend time together. Nicky has been back and forth traveling overseas a lot with her business. She has recently been in Asia promoting her jewelry line, and David is starting a new production company. Their schedules never seemed to match.”

The friend added, “There is no scandal or any third person — they remain close friends, they have been friends since they were teenagers.”

Despite the split, sources say Nicky and David talk regularly and have been tweeting one another.

Jeffrey, a creator of MTV series “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” has set up KatzSmith Productions with Seth Grahame-Smith. He recently told Collider that the two are working on another MTV-scripted comedy and “trying to cross over into feature-land.”

“Right now, we’re just getting off the ground,” he said. “We have a comedy spec that we’re going out with soon. Seth is working on his next book. There’s a lot of stuff in the air right now, so we’ll see how things land and where they fall.”

Reps for Hilton and Katzenberg declined to comment.

[From Page Six]

Do believe that two hard-working, professional people can just split up because of schedules? Sure, I do. I’m not sure if that’s really what happened here, but who knows. I tend to think that the Katzenberg family probably wasn’t thrilled with the idea of David marrying anyone named “Hilton” but if David and Nicki have been friends for forever, maybe that didn’t matter. Still, I tend to think that they probably broke up because they just got to the point where they were either going to get married or end it all, and Nicky wanted to marry (or her parents wanted her to marry) and David’s family was all “Hell to the NO.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

A bunch of members of the insanely dysfunctional Hilton family went out to dinner last night, including Paris, her sister Nicky, her aunts Kim and Kyle Richards, Kyle’s kids and her husband, Mauricio. Paris is still looking very pregnant, and even more so here, and it’s telling that we’re not really going to focus on that and are going to gossip about her aunts instead. We know that Kyle is an abusive catty bitch and that Kim is a wacky alcoholic (after their appearance on the first season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) and from the looks of these photos, nothing has changed there. Kim is red-faced and looks blotto and Kyle is typically smug. I suspect that if Kathy wasn’t wealthy in her own right and had joined the fray on Real Housewives we’d see that she has a similarly unhealthy dynamic with her two sisters.

Judging from these photos, Kim and Kathy are doing fine but Kyle is still being standoffish with Kim despite Kim’s attempts at being conciliatory where she had nothing to be sorry for. We’ve heard that all the members of the first season of RHOBH will be returning next season, so I’m sure we’ll see more of Kyle treating Kim like crap.

And we’ll soon see Paris, Kathy and maybe a little of Nicky on whatever reality show they have brewing with Charlie Sheen’s ex wife, Brooke Mueller. I doubt it will be half as interesting or drama-filled as RHOBH. It probably won’t even do half as well as that Kardashian mess, as much as I can’t stand those people. Paris is old news now.

So who do you think arranged this little paparazzi outing? Kyle, right?

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

Nicky Hilton is quite the badass. Not something I ever thought I’d say about a Hilton – male or female – but it appears to be true. Last night, for reasons completely unknown, Hilton was outside an IHOP. I’m guessing she probably just walks by there to mock the regular people who can’t afford to pour platinum syrup on their diamond-encrusted pancakes or something.

While outside the IHOP, a homeless man accosted her, and Nicky took him down. Actually, he pushed her over, and Nicky got right back up. And then placed him under a citizen’s arrest. See, totally badass.

Don’t mess with Nicky Hilton! After being pushed to the ground by a homeless person at a West Hollywood IHOP at 5 a.m. Saturday morning, the heiress made a citizen’s arrest, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore confirms to Usmagazine.com.

“One of our deputies was at the IHOP, having a coffee break, and noticed a waitress run outside because there was a commotion,” Whitmore tells Us.

Another deputy was then called “because there was a misdemeanor battery that involved Nicky Hilton and a man named Michael Broadhurst,” adds the spokesman.

The 50-year-old homeless person “came up behind Ms. Hilton and pushed her. She’s OK, but she was desirous of prosecution. She said, ‘I am placing you under citizen’s arrest!’”

Whitmore says it was a dual effort by both Hilton and the two deputies to arrest Broadhurst, who will appear in court April 21. TMZ.com first broke the story. “It is my understanding that she is OK,” Whitmore tells Us. “A battery is just an unwanted touching.

[From Us Weekly]

Is it weird that I now have the hots for Nicky Hilton a little bit?

TMZ’s original story was a little scant on the details, and didn’t mention that there was a police officer inside the IHOP. I thought Nikki actually somehow detained the guy until cops showed up, which would have been impressive. I’m not sure that declaring, ‘I am placing you under citizen’s arrest!’” actually means much when cops are twenty yards away. But, I give her credit for having balls, nonetheless. She probably didn’t know a cop was inside the IHOP, or she would have just called for them. That was a gutsy move.

According to TMZ, the guy told cops he was Nicky’s boyfriend. That probably didn’t do much to dissuade Hilton from pressing charges.

Here’s Nicky Hilton attending a Jimmy Choo luncheon in Beverly Hills on Friday. Images thanks to Splash.

Nicky Hilton doesn’t have anorexia, it seems she just doesn’t take a good photograph. She can look super-skinny sometimes, notably in these pictures, but Paris’ little sister denies having an eating disorder.

Hilton, who has been dogged by Internet speculation about recent weight loss, hit back at the reports. “There’s no truth to any starvation, eating disorders, rumors,” she told People Tuesday at her Nicholai fashion show, part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in L.A.

“I think the press has been printing a lot of pictures of me from unflattering angles,” added the 24-year-old designer. “My friends see the pictures and they’re like ‘Oh my god are you okay?’ And then they see me, and they’re like ‘Oh … ‘ It’s really not that interesting or true.”

People

I have a huge amount of sympathy for celebrities having their photo taken. While a glamorous shoot for a magazine gets re-touched and looks fabulous, sometimes you look at a cover and it is hard to identify who the celebrity is, they’ve been altered beyond recognition.

Paparazzi shots are even worse, because they can get those totally unflattering shots of your skirt sticking with static to your behind, the light behind your legs highlighting the fact you need a shave, or looking particularly thin. While some of us might love the pictures that make us look skinny, it seems that for the slimmer members of the population you stop looking slender and just look unwell.

Nicky has a new fashion collection out this week, called Nicholai. Sister Paris was in attendance at the show, wearing a dress from the collection, with her latest accessory, Benji Madden. She wore one of Nicky’s creations and said it was one of her favorites.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures of Nicky’s show on Tuesday, including some of her fashion designs.

I’m pretty sure the Hiltons have the combined IQ of a ferret. They seem to think there’s something really admirable if they ever do anything bigger than sitting on their collective asses and being paid for going to parties. One could certainly argue that Nicky Hilton is the lesser of two evils: she seems to have a bit of a brain in her head, but again it’s hard to know if she’s actually semi-smart or if an avocado would seem smart when standing next to Paris Hilton. If nothing else, Nicky seems to say that she’ll do things and then actually follow through, unlike Paris – who we’re still waiting to see if she’ll go to Rwanda (please God!). Nicky has styled herself as a fashion designer, and seems to have actually worked pretty hard at it – I don’t get the impression that she’s one of the hundreds of stars just slapping her name on someone else’s work. And apparently she’s making her boyfriend David Katzenberg, pretty proud. You’d think she were launching a space shuttle or something. Though for a Hilton, this is pretty close.

“Talk about fantasy fashion: ‘It’s Disney, princess-inspired and very fun,’ Nicky Hilton said of her spring Chick by Nicky Hilton collection that helped kick off Los Angeles fashion week. In attendance for Hilton’s first runway show was the 24-year-old designer’s personal Prince Charming (of nearly a year), David Katzenberg, also 24. After arriving an hour early for the event, he told PEOPLE, ‘I am very proud of her. She worked hard on it.’

“When it came time for the designer to take her walk down the runway for the event’s finale, Katzenberg gave her a kiss on the cheek and white roses, then said, ‘I was extremely impressed.’ Nicky’s parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, also sat ringside to show their support. ‘Nicky is so passionate about her fashion. It’s exciting to see her show,’ they said before the show began. Others who were there included actress Jaime Pressly. But noticeably missing: Nicky’s older sister, Paris.”

[From People]

Ohhh, let’s hope there’s a feud going on between Nicky and Paris. I remember Nicky making some sarcastic comment a while ago regarding Paris getting out of jail, and the two haven’t been spotted together lately. I think Nicky at least gets that Paris is bad for her image. No one ever says that name and then a hush of respect falls over the room. Normally you say “Paris Hilton” and a rush of herpes falls over the room.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Nicky at her fashion show on Sunday. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Update by Celebitchy: Here are some pictures of the fashion show. Her designs are surprisingly elegant, with simple lines and a 40s flair.