Yesterday's news that the Versace Group would be cutting 26% of their international workforce-350 jobs-is deeply upsetting especially considering you can't google "Versace" without "Cunanan" coming up and especially considering their porcelain Medusa obelisk that they made in that one Rosenthal collabo was the hot sauce and matches my Medusa ashtray. (YES.) Versace USED to be cool. It was Linda Evangelista and Biggie Smalls and now it's not. Now it's old-timey-melanoma-white-pants-Euro and it's fun on some "look at me I'm smoking Capri's while wearing frosted coral-colored Revlon nail polish because I'm a fucking cut up" but is otherwise just super tragic. I mean, seriously, why isn't there a citizen's arrest happening on the coccyxtastic behind of one Allegra Beck Versace, a.k.a. Donatella's daughter, a.k.a. the classic type-a anorexic who holds a majority share of the company but can't grip it with her hands BECAUSE SHE IS JUST THAT HUNGRY. Hunger is bad for business.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Too scared of potato chips to eat.
Versace and D&G have always struck me as tacky and ephemeral.
Brooks Brothers; Calvin Klein; and YSL are reliable and restrained in my humble opinion.
Of late I have been loving Tom Ford and Burberry.
I speak only for Menswear though.
ew, unnecessary colons.
Oh man I remember a time when I LUUUUUUHED Dolce & Gabbana. It was ages ago when they were bridgey and you could find their stuff pulled for British teen fashion magazines like J17 and they'd be alongside Red or Dead. Sighsies. I was 12.
Red or Dead! I was obsessed.
I luh you.
Oh, you have to Google you some Billy Reid and fall in love again.
I assume you mean stuff akin to this gorgeousity:
http://www.selectism.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/billy-reid-autumn-winter-2009-4.jpg
referring to both the suit and the beautiful creature it clothes.
i need another picture of that arm. is that her arm? is it obscured by a hanging tassel or something? seriously - is it an optical illusion or is her arm just the circumference of her bone?
i believe this person has conquered hunger, now she just can't function because her body is eating her brain so as to ignore the hunger.
it's a tassel, but whoa!
holy christ, i google image'd this girl and tassel or no tassel, her arms are really that frail. this girl needs like 24 hour supervision and a feeding tube.
She needs some Sara Lee and flat screen TV.
She's been quite sick with anorexia for a while now; it's really, really sad.
It might be a trick of the photo, but her arm appears to be narrower than Donatella's nose.
It's definitely narrower than Donatella's lips. Egads.
That is one overpriced dildo.
Also, don't be an ass, Mary. Allegra has been in and out of rehab for her anorexia and apparently she just can't beath it. I can't imagine having a beloved, close relative die and being made his heir (and by extension your own mother's boss) while you're still in your early teens was an easy thing for her to deal with.
Fine, but what's the excuse for all that makeup?
I'm not being glib, but anorexia does lead to bad hair, nails and skin.
Maybe?
Dude. Do you not see the mother?
That's exactly what they were saying about someone who OD'd on heroin the other night on the TV. They had a hard life? And so they... shot heroin until they died?
Anorexia is treatable. And yes, she's totally been in and out of rehab. So: she should be back there--IF she's currently anorexic. (She may currently not be! I don't know her!)
also: she WAS in her early teens when her uncle died. she's not any more. anorexia is a horrible thing and not exactly easy to overcome, but i wonder if her eating habits are kind of valourised by those around her. and i don't know if having your uncle die and inheriting his business is the worst thing to ever happen to a person in this life. it's kind of like the people who excuse michael jackson by saying "well, he didn't really have a childhood" -- so didn't lots of people! the difference being that not everyone has the endless funds and free time to get any treatment they could want.
on the plus side, she is probably really attractive to iguanas.
It's like mocking someone for being schizophrenic or having any other psychological or mental affliction.
i don't necessarily disagree with you but the schizophrenics i know have people around them making damn sure they stick to treatment and aren't being trotted around to fashion shows while extremely ill.
Not totally. 10% die.
Fair play. There is something very assy and jerky about this write-up but seriously, how long has Allegra been this sick? When was she not this sick? She's been "undergoing treatment" but to date I don't believe she's been hospitalized. I'm not all, Oh Allegra maybe you should try HARDER at CONTROLLING your eating disorder. I'm saying that here's another spotlight on the company that she will be linked to, can somebody please sack up and handle business because girl has been scary for a LONG TIME.
There is something very fucking right about this. You're a cut up.
She looks better in this picture than she did when she was at Brown.
Eat fats, die young.
I'm middle aged and can't remember a time when Versace was cool. How old are you?
Eurotrash; Miami; Malibu.
Linda, Christy, Naomi, those trashtastic plates with the fake heraldic designs, the fake heraldic prints on everything, rock n' roll, huge besequinned, studded, stained-glassed and breastplated gowns, perfecto biker jackets...
George Michael before.
Elizabeth Hurley. 1994. Safety Pins.
That dress made me so want to be Hugh Grant, or straight, or both. Sigh.
Versace leather motorcycle vest. Not Hell's Angel. Not Leather Daddy. But kind've French and tailored to make any dude look like he was packing worked pecs over a 30" waist. Circa 1992. Nowadays my nephew has fashionita gals trying to get a sniff of his armpits in that thing.
Bastard Children: Ed Hardy/Christian Audigier/Mark Nason
Every time I see Donatella, I feel a pang for Mya Rudolph's impersonation. Come back, Charli Coffee!