Chatter: Kate Moss

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

-- Kate Moss on why the tastiest things in life are free -- and potentially eating disorder inspiring.

Previously > Chatter: Dolly Parton

It's a MUNNYWORLD After All

Unable -- or refuse -- to grow up? If you're in New York City this weekend indulge your inner child and head to Kid Robot's MUNNYWORLD custom toy exhibit at the Eloquent Delinquents Gallery, 41 Wooster Street, NYC.

The three day event, running from November 13-15, celebrates the launch of Kid Robot's all-new do-it-yourself toy line at the world's most prestigious custom vinyl extravaganza and will feature over sixty international artists.

To ensure you get first dibs on the collectible pieces you can't live without, drop by the opening night party on Thursday, November 12, from 8-10 pm. There will be DJs, drinks, and the chance to meet some of the most important artists in the game.

Previously > Rosie O'Donnell Puts Her Munny Where Her Craft Is

Hummer: Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Video

The video for "Bad Romance," the first single from Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster, the re-release of her debut album The Fame packed with eight new tracks and due out on November 24, debuted today and it's nothing short of fan-fucking-tastic. Since arriving on the scene a little over a year ago, Gaga has been known for her berserkly spectacle-acular fashion, videos, and performances and "Bad Romance" proves that while some naysayers think her initial success was a fluke, she apparently always has more to give, push, and/or peddle and isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

The pop star recently told MTV, "there’s this one shot in the video where I get kidnapped by supermodels... I’m washing away my sins and they shove vodka down my throat to drug me up before they sell me off to the Russian mafia,” but that's only the beginning. With Gaga as the queen leading her colony of white vinyl humanoids through a variation of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance routine, a pink-tressed Gaga with giant anime eyes, a polar bearskin rug worn as a cape (among 48,532 other costume changes), and the return of her famous flame-throwing bra from her Much Music Awards performance (this time used for a much more nefarious purpose than merely entertaining her fans), the video left me wanting a cigarette, a shower, a nap, and another 18 hours of footage.

To see our '50s B horror movie–inspired photo shoot with Gaga from our September issue, click here.

To read our September Lady Gaga cover story, click here.

-- NOAH MICHELSON

Previously > Gagaian Symbolism

Project Runway: The Beginning of the End

You know you’re just marking time in an “off” season of Project Runway when suddenly everyone watching the show in your living room starts wishing they’d bring back Suede. Remember him? Third person-talker? Lots of hair product? Annoying?

I know, narrow it down.

But that’s what you start craving when a season kicks off with promise and quickly turns lifeless. I can barely talk about it to friends this time around because they’ve all dropped out as viewers. But not me. I’m devoted.

And for my devotion I am rewarded in this final challenge episode with a shot of a hotel room full of female contestants, all stressed out and finally becoming aware of the vague dislike they feel for each other, halfheartedly and half-wittedly trying to verbally joust for the cameras when, in a perfect world, they’d have been full-on BattleBots-ing it by episode 3. It’s a limp exchange wherein they coyly assign dog behaviors to one another without naming names. Like, “Some quiet dogs are mean,” and “Some cute dogs will bite you,” and “Oh yeah, well you’re like that tiny dog that lives in Paris Hilton’s purse and is really adorable and eats fancy dinners and has a nice Louis Vuitton collar and… oh wait, am I supposed to be insulting someone right now? Line, please?”

Mostly I just want one of them to turn into Tyson the Skateboarding Bulldog. Because I need something, anything, to happen in the next week or two, before Irina goes home with the whole thing.

OK, highlights:

Project Runway: Stop Copying Me!

Photo: Mike Yarish/Lifetime Networks, 2009

In the same way that dog owners begin resembling their 12 year-old pugs or hostages wind up marrying their kidnappers, the designers are learning how to make clothes that resemble one another’s garments in ways that would be shocking if this season were more interesting. But for that to happen we’d need to bring back some Jubilee Jumbles-level insanity. And that’s probably not going to happen.

Remember how, back in the golden age of Runway, there was that knock-down drag-out between Jeffrey and Laura where she accused him of having help with his final collection? And it got all heated? And it was exciting to watch that? And you gave a shit about what might happen next?

Yeah those were the days.

If Meana-Irina (that’s apparently what they’re calling her in the workroom) ran this joint -- and she should -- then Althea would have taken her advice and gone right up to Logan last night and said, “Where do you get off stealing my idea from a few challenges ago of making a vampire-cape-stand-up-neck-thingie out of zippers, FAG?”

And that would be great because Logan is like the one straight guy to ever be on this show. If you want to make a heterosexual male who also happens to be a fashion designer/hair stylist/interior designer/nurse/kindergarten teacher lose his shit and pull some Law-Abiding Citizen-level revenge on you, accuse him of sucking a wiener. It’s totally effective, especially if you’re a woman because that means there’s no chance he’ll ever get to hit that.

But then there’s the speed-bump of how Irina merely encouraged Althea to make a snippy comment about it to Logan, instead of going full-on Firestarter. Which makes me distrust Irina’s ability to really throw down when the table-throwing imperatives of good reality television demand it.

Second speed-bump: Irina then turned around and accused Althea of lifting her Aspen sweater from last week’s challenge. And here’s the thing about that, and I think Terri from last season said it best: “MAN UP.” There are about seven million women’s sweaters out there. Other designers are going to create them too. Shit, if you get your work out there for people to see and enjoy, Forever XXI is gonna knock it off faster than you can say “child labor.” So slow down your bitchface and focus on making your own work better than everyone else’s. It’s not like anyone’s going to touch you for the rest of this show anyway. You’ve essentially already won the season. You can chill.

Okay, status update: Meana-Irina just missed winning the challenge thanks to Meana-Nina not liking her brocade dress; Logan got sent home for zippertardation; Gordana is worn out and flailing, creating outfits as depressed as she is; and Christopher thinks that his repeated failures are the result of the judges simply not “getting him.”

So, yeah, let Christopher stay, especially if he’s going to keep making barfy stuff like this week’s red carpet gown that guest judge Kerry Washington believed had feral Dickensian urchins named “Ignorance” and “Want” hiding under its hugely ruffled, floor-dragging hem. Hell, put him in the final three. That’d shake shit up real good.

-- DAVE WHITE

Previously > Project Runway: Get Out Irina's Way

Project Runway: Get Out Of Irina's Way

Mike Yarish/Lifetime Networks 2009

I wish:

1. We could just fast forward to the Bryant Park episode and watch Irina’s, Althea’s and Carol Hannah’s final runway shows.

2. The challenges involved more than photo ops at Michael Kors new Rodeo Drive store, some generic pictures of Aspen they got from Getty Images and the throw-away instructions of “Think about an inspirational locale!”

3. The locale choices had been more idiosyncratic, Los Angeles-specific and actually challenging: the La Brea Tar Pits, a stripper-gear shop on Hollywood Boulevard, a soul-destroying pitch meeting in some generic office on the Paramount lot, notoriously scuzzy hustler bar The Spotlight, Oki Dog, or this kiosk I saw once at the somewhat-downmarket Crenshaw Plaza Mall where you can get your photo portrait taken and then digitally superimposed onto another picture of a huge brandy snifter.

4. That Christopher had decided much, much earlier than this episode to finally show the judges that he has, in his words “a sophisticated side, a high-style side” because really, why wait until later in the season to really pull out the big guns and wow them and -- oh, wait, sorry, he didn’t do it this episode either.

5. Althea’s Saint Tropez-themed outfit had been made entirely of cocoa butter.

6. That Irina would really turn up the bitch volume. Nicolas said she was a bitch. And then Carol Hannah carried the burden of actually saying “she didn’t come here to make friends” instead of Irina having to lift a finger to address that cliché herself. And occasionally we hear stinging critiques of other designers made by Irina while on interview-cam. But mostly we see her being quiet and doing her work, or, more damning, actually laughing with the others in a group pow-wow and being friendly. I’m worried that she’s not living up to her potential.

7. Milla “Resident Evil” Jovovich would come back week after week if she’s going to toss off lines about Logan’s half-effort garments like, “If the show were called ‘Project I Didn’t Mind It’ then he would win.”

8. Ali MacGraw weren’t doing commercials for Macys. If you don’t know who that is then go put “The Getaway” in your Netflix queue. Not the one with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. The real one. With Steve McQueen. Who was a man.

9. For more self-aggrandizing contestants next season, ones who’ll spout bullshitty stuff like Nicolas did upon finally being given the Auf: “Because of my over-the-top style it’s been very hard to break into the fashion industry.” Uh-huh.

10. That Nicolas could be brought back each week and eliminated again and again. He’s the first person all season whose demise I was looking forward to with anticipation rather than a bored, “Oh good, s/he’s gone.” Now I’m going to miss being annoyed by every single thing about him. That’s the cognitive dissonance-based burden reality television places on us all, the sweet pleasure of hating.

-- DAVE WHITE

Previously > Project Runway: Diamonds on the Crotch

Project Runway: Diamonds On The Crotch

Photo: Mike Yarish/Lifetime 2009

Has your DVR been sitting on this season’s episodes until you have time to sit down and see them? Think you’re going to get around to that as, one by one, all your friends say things like, “They dumped the two weirdest designers on the first two episodes. There’s not one stand-out or person to love/hate.” You know you won’t go back and watch all those episodes. But I can catch you up on who’s left standing:

Gordana -- German mom. Occasionally makes something worth looking at. Currently exhausted. Is having some kind of breakdown. Can’t get black dye from the last challenge off her hands.

Logan -- Straight guy. Wears those knit caps all the time, the ones you see on preemies in baby-ICU. Is always “in” but rarely creates anything memorable. Based on show editing, has no discernible personality.

Carol Hannah -- Blonde, nice, somewhat quirky, could wind up at Bryant Park, thinks Logan is dreamy. Logan seems not to notice this major thing about her. Baffled by the challenge, somehow pulled it out and won.

Bob Mackie -- Guest designer and challenge-giver. Legendarily sequins-and-headdress-addicted creator of outer-space-wear for Cher and wacky costumes for Carol Burnett. If you don’t know who Carol Burnett is then you grew up in a generation that was spoon-fed entertainment product tailored to your demographic and most likely just watched the same VHS copy of “The Lion King” over and over.

Chris March -- Costume designer from two seasons ago. Not on this episode. Watched it last night, though, and screamed “FUCK MY LIFE!” at his TV.

Shirin -- Was presented, in earlier episodes this season, as one of the more talented designers. Tear ducts at the ready. Okay, not more so than Gordana. Won a challenge when circumstances seemed to doom her. This week she’s badmouthed by front-runner and other double-“I” contestant Irina and can’t seem to get it together at all. Loses the challenge. Gets sent home.

Quickies: Gaga Tour Dates, Lindsay Learns a Lesson

> Lady Gaga will appear in Beyoncé's "Video Phone" music video, wearing... wait for it... "something wild." Meanwhile, dates have been announced for her Kanye-less holiday season tour, dubbed "The Monster Ball" and kicking off November 27 in Montreal. "Bad Romance," the first single from the re-release of her debut album, The Fame, now titled The Fame Monster, will make its radio premiere on Monday.

> It's patisseries -- not pasties -- the French are so keen on -- a lesson Lindsay Lohan learned the hard way after her debut collection for Ungaro was received less than perkily at Paris Fashion Week. She blamed the total taste meltdown on "coming in so late and having not that much time to do a whole collection," i.e., a good old failure to make it work.

> Breaking: A-Ha, the Norweigan pop group that gave us "Take on Me," the third greatest one-hit wonder of the '80s, has announced that it will disband after a 2010 world tour. Also breaking: A-Ha still exists.

> Daniel Radcliffe, aka BFF of OLJ, has purchased a new townhouse in the West Village. It was reportedly built by a sailor and has a sick yard. Shoulda snatched this one up too while he had the chance.

> Meghan McCain created a Twitter flitter when she posted a picture of her, um, current reading material.

Photo: Getty Images

Previously > Quickies: Fun, Games, and Screenwriting Gays