March 4, 2008

Paper magazine toasts La Lohan

Beams of blazing March sun added extra warmth to Lindsay Lohan's newly auburn hairdo today, at a lunch held in her honor by Paper magazine. The gathering, held at the Sunset Marquis hotel, was to celebrate Paper's much-talked-about "Girl, Interrupted" cover interview with the newly-sober Lohan. The story was penned by my good friend Steffie Nelson, to whom Lindsay admitted she had recently experienced a dry spell, work-wise. ""Now I know what it's like to be an out of work actor - and how much it scares me," she said in the story.
In the spread (in which she's blonde), Lohan wears several pieces from Jeremy Scott's Spring/Summer '08 collection, which we saw on the runway at L.A. Fashion Week last October. Jeremy Scott (pictured, with Lohan) shot the images of Lohan for Paper, and was there at the lunch, taking snaps of the 80-or-so guests with his own, heavily-Bedazzled Polaroid camera. Also there was super-talented costume designer Arianne Phillips, who made my day by saying she is a regular Stylephile reader. Right on!

It was a fashiony crowd, and many were, quite appropriately, dressed in Jeremy Scott. Like style writer Rose Apodaca (pictured) for instance, who rocked a JS sweater with some seriously hot pink sling-backs, and an enormous rose ring that she swiped from her design store, A+R. The store is being transformed into a Gen Art pop up shop for three days, featuring clothing made by Gen Art alumni and three fresh Gen Art designers. More on that soon!
I chatted with teen queen fashionista Cory Kennedy, who was wearing a Jeremy Scott tire-track dress, and had just come back from Paris Fashion Week. (So young and so fabulous. Sigh.)
I was introduced to Paper founder David Hershkovits, whom I recently name checked in the Stylephile, as he is writing for Kenneth Cole's new socially-conscious blog, the AWEARNESS blog. Read it!
I also said hi to Paper's founding mother and editor Kim Hastreiter (here's a cute photo of her with photographer Mark Hunter). Hastreiter has this strong, earth mama energy about her, very much in keeping with her nurturing

tendencies toward young, emerging artists and tastemakers.
The whole event (where no alcohol was served - perhaps to respect Lohan's sobriety?) was put together by the formidable Kelly Cutrone, founder of New York publicity firm People's Revolution. Kelly has dyed black hair, which we chatted about briefly (I've been having issues with my own dyed black mop). Someone recently suggested she lighten hers to a "pretty" shade of honey brown. Her response? "Hell no! I don’t do 'pretty'!".
(FYI: She's pretty.)
Read the Paper magazine interview with Lindsay Lohan here.
Buy Jeremy Scott here.
Click here to listen to the New Yorker interview with Kim Hastreiter of Paper magazine.

(Story by Caroline Ryder, Editor, The Stylephile)

March 4, 2008 in LOS ANGELES | Permalink

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