The FiFi Report 276

  • “Wearing some of those outfits I wore when I was 17 or 18. Those were explosions of wrong.” Justin Timberlake
  • “It’s mostly down to lots of drinking and lots of drugs,” George Clooney laughing off questions over his age-defying looks. He is an explosion of right.
  • “It started with ecstasy. I loved ecstasy. Loved it, loved it. It was great at first, then it just went…” she mimes a crashing plane with her forearm. And crystal meth? “It ruins you.” Fergie on explosions of wrong.
  • “My Twitterberry has been down all day, which was torture at Chanel: I couldn’t have a Twittergasm during that threeway makeout session!” Derek Blasberg
  • “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.” Karl Lagerfeld’s reaction to the news that a German magazine will no longer use ‘real’ models in their magazine.
  • “She’ll be a perfect addition to the family. It’s a lot better for her to be home with me than to be made into bacon,” Paris on her new pet. Pigs are the new pets.
  • “They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore… I was shocked to see that super skinny girl with my face. Model Filippa Hamilton is eating too many chips for Ralph Lauren. Photo shop is the new fat.
  • “Standing is the new front row,” One editor who was not happy about the seating situation at Rick Owens show in Paris.
  • “Punctuality is apparently the new black,” Twittered Joe Zee, who arrived a minute late for the Louis Vuitton show in Paris.
  • “Body con is the new hem line this season” Tim Blanks reporting on the trends for style.com