Paris and Nicky Hilton headed out for a day of shopping on Robertson Blvd. Of course Paris paused to read a little of her book, “Your Heiress Diary.” You know, ’cause that’s what you do when you go out shopping!
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Oh my gosh, it’s so strange to see Benji Madden without his hat! I can’t get over it. Anyway, the duo arrived yesterday together at an exhibit (hosted by Paris and Nicky) at The Photographers Gallery.
Paris and Benji came late and left after the interviews, sneaking out through a back entrance. Benji accompanied Paris but he stood in the background while Paris did interviews.
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Tags: benji madden, paris hiltonThe official trailer of Repo! The Genetic Opera has been released, in time for the launch of Fantasia Festival 2008! What do you think of Paris Hilton in the film??
According to Fantasia Festival 2008, length of the movie is 1 hour and 38 minutes.
Repo! is a unique movie, with a difficult marketing journey ahead of them. Director, Darren Lynn Bousman, says, “Fantasia is the perfect festival to premiere REPO! I’m excited about bringing the film to such a sophisticated and enthusiastic genre audience.“
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Nicky Hilton and Paris Hilton hosted a swanky photography exhibit to benefit charity.
“The Good Life” which showcased artwork by photographers Slim Aarons and Murray Garrett even had visitors Kathy and Rick Hilton on the scene!
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Paris Hilton and Benji Madden are writing and recording the theme for her upcoming MTV show, My New BFF. How sweet is that!!
“He’s helping me write the lyrics for the song and then I’ll sing it, too,” Paris tells E!
The show is set to air soon!!!
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Only a year after she made her post-prison promise, Paris Hilton is following through and helping the less fortunate.
Paris recently made an “extremely generous” donation towards the construction of a children’s hospital in Los Angeles. Paris put in her own money to help build the new wing at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, according to hospital officials.
The money donated will specifically go towards a Children’s Centre for Cancer and Blood Diseases and will open in 2010.
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Everyone who comes to Copenhagen loves the city, the people, and the sense of “hygge” (a untranslatable term that means a propensity for comfort, domesticity, and the hearth), which can be seen in just about everything, including the casual effortlessness of the Danish lifestyle, design, textiles, food (think: cheese!), and, of course, architecture. There is an overwhelming seaside vibe as well. Bicycles are how the majority of people get around—all-black bicycles with hand-woven rattan baskets are everywhere, and unbelievably chic.
From Copenhagen proper, I departed for the Saga Fur Design Centre in the Danish countryside. The first night here coincided with the Midsummer Night’s Festival, in which everyone gathers on the seashore to burn witch effigies in huge bonfires. No one could give me a good explanation of this holiday, but in some way it marks the summer solstice.
I spent the week with a terrific group of other designers: Rim Kalai of Fendi, Mathilde Torp Mader of Sonia Rykiel, and Elizabeth Kennedy of Isaac Mizrahi. It was all about talking fashion, spawning creativity, imagination, and laughter. Each night we’d gather around the teak tables on the terrace for dinner (the Centre comes complete with an in-house chef!). After dinner, we’d go twirling through the property like dilettantes on holiday, carrying fur blankets, taking photos, and being mischievous.
Just in time for the lace trend that dominated the Fall ‘08 runways, Solstiss, one of France’s few remaining specialists in the production of lace for luxury gowns—Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, and John Galliano are all customers—is now selling to the public. The new Comptoir de Dentelle at Solstiss’ Paris headquarters offers 1,000 lace patterns in cotton, wool, linen, silk, and synthetic blends. For a minimum order of four meters, you can choose from simple cotton lace to hand-embroidered couture fantasies priced up to $400 per meter. Solstiss, Au Comptoir de Dentelle, 6 Rue Halevy, Paris, 011-33-1-42-60-90-02. By appointment only.
Ron English loves billboards. And Ron English hates billboards, too. Artist that he is, English has made a career out of this ambivalence: Some of his more notable culture-jamming exploits include mounting Ronald McDonald parodies on the unsuspecting ad space hovering over Manhattan and Dallas, Texas, and papering over Apple campaigns with his own “Think Different” riffs starring the likes of Charles Manson. So it’s rather surprising to find that English’s current project is a corporate commission: He’s one of five artists participating in Ray-Ban’s “Project Colorize,” which launches tomorrow with the 6:30 a.m. unveiling of English’s latest billboard, a Day-Glo celebration of the new rainbow-hued Wayfarer frames. Co-conceived by Ray-Ban and Marie Claire, Project Colorize also features work by the artists Tara McPherson, Scott Alger, Queen Andrea, and Toofly and will kick off with some as-yet-unspecified antics inspired by Charlie Todd’s Improv Everywhere stunts (you can watch the artists in action here). And for the next two weeks, anyone looking to soak up the complete campaign can head over to Henri Bendel, where Project Colorize has established a general occupation. And in the meantime, as he prepares for a rare bought-and-paid-for unveiling, English talked to Style.com about billboard thievery, brand hacking, and why he’s OK with doing business’s bidding.
Your notoriety as an artist comes from staging guerrilla raids on corporate branding. Didn’t you have any reservations about taking part in what is, essentially, a marketing campaign?
No, and I mean that. I wouldn’t work on a campaign for the Hummer, but I like Ray-Ban and I liked what they were proposing. You know, for me, the problem with billboards isn’t that they advertise, per se—it’s what they advertise, sometimes, and more than that, it’s the fact that billboards offer no opportunity for escape, for saying, no, I don’t want to look at that. Like, when a commercial comes on, you can change the channel, or you can turn off the TV. But if you’re driving along some highway and there’s a giant billboard up ahead, well, you’re going to see it, and on some subconscious level at least, you’re forced to take it in. And there’s nothing you get in exchange, which is the other comparison I’d make to TV, or to radio—at least with a commercial, that sponsor is underwriting a program you want to watch. What Ray-Ban is doing seems to me to be equitable in that way.
How so?
Because these billboards, they’re artworks. It’s branding, yes, but more in that sense of a corporation attaching itself to something beautiful or new or interesting by choosing to support and promote it. This isn’t something any of us are getting paid to do—all Ray-Ban’s done is set us up with an art school-type project, like, they gave us a brief, and now they’re bringing our work to the public. A campaign like Project Colorize, it strikes me as finding a nicer dynamic between the folks pitching a product and the ones getting pitched. It’s like asking for consumers’ consideration, which, from a marketing perspective, seems like a better way of engaging people’s attention.
That’s an interesting phrase, coming from you—”from a marketing perspective…”
Like I said, the thing that really bugged me about billboards was how inescapable they were, and how impossible it was to argue against whatever message they were selling. I mean argue in the sense of—bring an alternative viewpoint to the public square. But that’s also what makes billboards really effective. When I first started stealing billboards, it was with the clear idea that the best way to argue against Joe Camel, for example, would be by appropriating not only his image, but also his medium. Billboards are just as effective as a means of subversion as they are a means of promotion, if not more so. Camel actually offered to pay me to stop hacking their brand—more money than I’ve made from all my work as an artist since.
Does it feel good to know that, for once, no one’s going to paint over your billboard as soon as possible after it goes up?
Sure, but, you know, it’s funny. Over the years, I’ve developed a pretty interesting relationship with the billboard companies. There’s a guy, one of the big billboard magnates, and in a weird way we’ve come to terms with each other. I need him, and he doesn’t need me—in fact, he’d love to stop me doing what I do. But for whatever reason, and I won’t speculate, he doesn’t. Advertising is always a battle, and I guess no one knows that better than the people in advertising.
Next year Philippe Starck plans to rock the establishment with a new take on “sexy, intelligent” luxury at Paris’ Royal Monceau palace hotel. But before rebirth comes destruction, and so last night Starck joined the hotel’s owner, Alexandre Allard, in hosting a Demolition Party at which a rumored 3,000 revelers were encouraged to help banish the old. Artsy hipsters, models in glittery costumes, and a Marie Antoinette look-alike mingled with guests in evening dress as they milled through 20 rooms specially commissioned from contemporary artists who decked out the empty spaces in spray paint, neon lights, bubble machines, hologram videos, and a bathtub equipped with a churning motorboat engine. It didn’t take long for door numbers to start vanishing and the echoes of shattered glass to resonate in the courtyard. Dominique Isserman and Charlotte Rampling took refuge in the VIP lounge, while guests such as Vanessa Bruno circulated enthusiastically. “Throwing aparty like this is brilliant,” commented Bruno. “Paris needed a shot of excitement.”
