I have two sisters who I love more than anything in the world, so it always warms my heart to see sisters having fun together, whether they’re fake ones in movies or television or actual tennis phenoms on the red carpet. This display of familial affection occurred yesterday in NYC at the launch of Venus Williams’s clothing line, EleVen. These chicks love clothing lines, don’t they? More after the jump.
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It’s sort of unbelievable, but someone is actually ! A Detroit reverend said that the woman dragging Star’s name through the mud over her alleged failure to fulfill her obligations to a non-profit is out of her mind.
“Star is the victim here,” says the Rev. Horace Sheffield, who claims his own nonprofit, the Detroit Association of Black Organizations, was duped by the woman making accusations against Jones. Last week, Jones was portrayed on Detroit’s WXYZ-TV as a diva who reneged on a deal to make a Super Bowl weekend “empowerment” speech to a nonprofit that helps overweight girls. But as Page Six reported, public records show the charity’s director, Sharon DuMas-Pugh, has a history of financial troubles, including bankruptcy and failure to file tax returns.
I said it before, but the girls at Full and Fabulous were surely better off without Star’s form of “empowerment.”
By now, you might have heard about the hubbub surrounding the diva-like demands Star Jones’ made when asked to speak before a nonprofit for overweight girls during Superbowl weekend earlier this year. People at Full and Fabulous claim that Star took their money and never showed up for the speaking gig, choosing to party-it-up in Detroit with Al on their dime. Star vehemently denies the charges, saying they didn’t fulfill their contract. But what about the , Star?
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I’m not sure what it is — I’d hazard a guess that it has something to do with not being attached at the hip to Irv Gotti and Ja Rule — but I have a newfound appreciation for Ashanti all of a sudden. She looks good, she sounds good, and she has seriously weakened her association with The Inc. I like that.
She glammed it up at Denise Rich’s Angel Ball last night along with lots of others. Check out more pics after the jump.
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I’m not sure what message Star, Al, and Co. are trying to convey in this shot — I’m thinking carefree, youthful, drunk, Miami-beachy — but Star, among others, is a bit to old to make it believable. You’re on Court TV, for goodness’ sake. Put your leg down.
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Out of the celebs in attendance at Friday evening’s Baby Phat/KLS show in NYC, the only one who might actually be caught dead in any of the B.P. get-ups on the runway is Remy Ma, who was probably salivating thinking of stuffing herself in that pink denim bedazzled suit. They rest came to see and be seen. See them and some looks from the show after the jump.
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Super-designer Tracy Reese (shown here with Veronica Webb, Deborah Cox, and fashion industry maven Bethann Hardison), showed her glamorous, retro, resort-chic collection earlier today at Bryant Park. After the jump, check out her famous guests, some runway shots, and the scene backstage.
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It was the era of the Supermodel — you know, when they all went by their first and last names but certainly didn’t need to — think Naomi, Christy, Linda — and claimed they didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
New York Fashion Week shows were more glamorous (read: they weren’t sponsored by Olympus or Mercedes Benz and were held in lofts, clubs, and restaurants instead of tents). And Sam Fine was behind the scenes — at Geoffrey Bean, Fernando Sanchez, Tracy Reese, Todd Oldham, Isaac Mizrahi, etc. — giving the models faces to match their designer looks or rushing from show to show with Naomi and Tyra.
It was the first half of the ’90s when Sam Fine both assisted the late Kevyn Aucoin and worked the shows on his own. Those were the good ol’ days… that he doesn’t really want to go back to.
“It’s a fun gig, but I leave it to the young at heart and the ones that really love fashion,” he told Stereohyped.
And it’s not like being a celebrity makeup artist, which is the the job Sam Fine graduated to when he left the fashion show world, is any less glamorous. Or that much different.
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It was nice of Kim Porter to release her sons to her ex for the weekend, so they could dress up in miniature white Diddy outfits and shades with their brother Justin and hang out at an event they are all too young for.
Diddy’s annual white party was Sunday at his Hamptons estate, and makes it sound a lot cooler than it looks in the pictures.
Sources inside told Page Six one unfortunate man was made to strip off his cream-colored pants in the street, in exchange for a pure-white pair provided by Diddy. The over-the-top soirée, held at Diddy’s East Hampton waterfront mansion, featured painted geishas strolling the grounds, Polynesian dancers, a jazz band and a circus performer twirling six spinning rings. Mariah Carey, Star Jones and hubby Al Reynolds, and Donna Karan were among the celebs who managed to follow the rigid dress-code regulations. Others included Lil’ Kim, Lorraine Bracco, Brooke Shields, Tommy Lee and Russell Simmons.
Check out the pics, minus Mariah Carey, who skipped the red carpet it seems, after the jump.
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As it turns out, Star Jones didn’t get to ask Isaiah Washington about the controversial stem cell issues surrounding his guest role on the Bionic Woman on the premiere of Star Jones on Court TV today. That’s for tomorrow’s show. Instead, she busied herself asking Isaiah Washington about his traumatic family life, using a cheesy extended metaphor about football to describe Isaiah’s F-word scandal, and, along the same lines, asking him why he didn’t use an “umbrella” if he knew “rain was coming.” The latter sounds slightly sexual, but unfortunately for the entertainment value of the interview, it wasn’t. Check out part two after the jump.
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