The XX Factor: What women really think.



  • Long Live the Disaster That is Lindsay Lohan


    A post by DoubleX writer Erica Kawalek:

    Lindsay Lohan launched her debut collection as artistic director of Ungaro on Sunday. As soon as the last model existed the runway, snobby editors stormed out the door. Lohan was in tears. That the clothes would be widely panned was no surprise, of course. WWD called the collection "an embarrassment," "cheesy and dated" with an "overworked" heart motif. Style.com said the show quickly “devolved into a bad joke of a fashion show, one with questionable color combinations, ‘bad eighties’ draped silk jackets and drop-crotch pants, old-fashioned and ill-judged fur stoles, and, yes, tasteless sequin pasties.”

    The looks were inelegant, off-trend, and styled with about as much je ne sais quois as a drunk teen let loose inside a Forever 21. But you know what? I loved this fashion show, and I think that it was a genius move—promotional and otherwise—by Ungaro CEO Mounir Moufarrige ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

     

  • "Real Housewives of Atlanta" Catwalks Right Over "Project Runway"


    Real Housewives of Atlanta.Hanna, I'm with you that last night's Proj Run was a lackluster event. But the thing that's really going to make me stray from Heidi and Tim is their competition: Lifetime is airing the show at the same time as Bravo airs Real Housewives of Atlanta ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

  • High Comedy for Lohan


    Lindsay Lohan has an eHarmony spoof ad up at Funny Or Die, which New York's Jessica Pressler rightly credits as performing "the awesome feat of getting you to re-like" the busty redhead in spite of the mess she has become—or rather, because she is so self-aware of said mess. Deadpanning to the camera, Lindsay describes herself to potential blind dates: "I'm a workaholic, a shopaholic, and, according to the state of California, an alcoholic, as well as a threat to all security guards if they work at hotels." Oh Lindsay. You make a total disaster look so good.
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