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In what is being called The Curse of The Devil Wears Prada, the stocks of the parent companies of paid product placements in the box office blockbuster have taken a bounding since the film was first released.
These include costly cameo appearances by Calvin Klein, Tiffany & Co., Starbucks. Smith & Wollensky and Barnes & Noble.
"The share prices of brands that got placement in the movie have almost all slumped more than the wider stock market in recent weeks -- possibly reflecting a new caution about discretionary spending among American shoppers.” Reuters reported.
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Karl Lagerfeld is still infatuated by Lindsay Lohan. In a recent Extra interview the German uberdesigner revealed his true gushing feelings. “[When] you see her in a crowd, you see only her face," he said of Lohan. "She has what Elizabeth Taylor had, something very special, something you can't buy, can't learn. Something inborn.”
It is very much an open secret that if Lagerfeld had his way Lohan would be the next face of Chanel.
<<Self portrait by Carl Lagerfeld.
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Naomi Campbell had another close brush with the law last week. The Sun reported that the 36 year-old Supermodel was temporarily arrested by London Police for disturbing the peace after shouting and swearing outside the home of her former boyfriend, Prince Badf Jafar of Dubai.
The incident took place at 3am when she went to collect her possessions. She was later released without any charges.
Last week Campbell trashed the Prince's yacht to the tune of over 50,000 dollars when it was moored off the Italian Riviera. Across the pond, the scrappy runway Diva has no less than 3 separate assault related cases before Manhattan courts.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's next film Blood Diamond, a Sierra Leone based thriller set against the background of a civil war financed by conflict diamonds, is said to be so threatening to the diamond industry that they are in full gear trying to offset negative fallout expected from its release this winter. Diamond Cartel De Beers has prepared a $15 million dollar war chest to counter any damaging impact on its precious stone sales. The World Diamond Council has appealed to the film producers to rewrite the ending to mention the implementation of a certification process to ban the controversial gems.
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While 41 year-old Linda Evangelista appears nude, pregnant and proud on the upcoming cover of Vogue magazine most people are asking about the father.
While Evangelista has hinted that it is a mysterious unnamed architect she is dating, the word on the street is it was a turkey baster. It is widely believed that the former Supermodel underwent artificial insemination.
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Former sex kitten and French icon Brigitte Bardot wants to move to Sweden in protest of France's refusal to adapt a Swedish resolution to improve the living conditions of minks being bred for the fur industry.
The reclusive 71 year-old, who definitely shows her age, runs a foundation to protect animals. She was quoted as saying,
"Perhaps I will leave France to finish my days in Sweden, since today, I feel much closer to Swedish sensitivity than to the French insensitivity."
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