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* Claudia’s wedding tortoise!
* Calvin’s coffee chart!
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>> Set pieces <<
Question of the day
 

Thanks for all your emails about fashion types. Today we want to hear about your stories from film sets. Whether you’ve been rubbing shoulders with the movie elite, slumming it on a self-funded indie production, or anything in between – we want to hear what you’ve got up to on set.

Today’s Question: What are your best movie set anecdotes?

Send us stories to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll dish out some digital goodies to the best ones.

Nominative Determinism of the Day: Congratulations to the newly appointed chair of the Foodservice Equipment Association… Steve Hobbs!
>> Dirty Diane <<
The importance of the right look
 

The fashion industry is often depicted as being a nest of petty, egotistical, emotionally immature vipers – but it’s not always that bad. It can be much worse.

At Diane Von Furstenburg’s offices in New York many of the staff can go days without their boss deigning to speak to them because Diane declines to address anyone who hasn’t turned up for work wearing DVF. Instead she’ll shoot dirty looks at them until they choose something from her own collections for the workplace.

Calvin Klein kept colour charts in the kitchen of his office so that assistants could make his coffee to the exact strength specification.
>> Rainbow correction <<
Richard Of York GREY BLACK in vain
 

Tom Ford is well known for his understated personal style, and he appears to have passed it on to the next generation too.

A few years ago, Tom’s son was learning the Colours Of The Rainbow song at school. Afterwards the class were all tasked with drawing their own rainbow. At the end of the day, when Tom arrived for pick-up, the teacher collared him for a quick chat.

She wanted to discuss the drawing his son had produced because, while he had got the shape of the rainbow well enough, he’d coloured the whole thing in different shades of grey and black.

“I am turned on by dangerous men, or men who are forbidden, but I hate men in shorts. That touristy look doesn’t do it for me.” – Claudia Schiffer
>> Living the dream <<
Kipping with Karl
 

Among his many eccentricities, Karl Lagerfeld was notorious for snoozing in the middle of meetings. A hairdresser who was once called into Chanel to work on one of Karl’s shows remembers being midway through explaining their grand vision for the catwalk’s styling, when it became clear that Karl had quietly dozed off.

The hairdresser wasn’t sure whether or not they should continue for the benefit of everyone else present, but the instruction came: “We wait.”

So everyone sat in silence for 40 minutes waiting for Karl to emerge from his slumber, whereupon he picked things back up exactly where they left off.

A sleight of hand magician hired to work a celebrity party a few years back met his match in Kate Moss. She enjoyed his tricks, but they failed to have the desired wow factor because Moss kept forgetting which card she’d picked.
>> Fashion scraps <<
A few loose threads
 

* George W Bush’s niece, Lauren Bush, married the son of designer Ralph Lauren. Making her Lauren Lauren.

* Donatella Versace had her passport photo taken by Steven Meisel.

* Linda Evangelista can play the accordion.

* As wedding gifts, Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Vaughn exchanged a pair of tortoises.

* John Galliano’s instructions for all drinking water: must be Evian with a single lemon slice, cut to exactly 4mm, squeezed once, then dropped in.

* To preserve her anonymity, Naomi Campbell has used the pseudonym “Oprah Noodlemantra” to check in at hotels. Cindy Crawford uses the slightly more plausible “Ann Walker”, while Tyra Banks is “Heather Kelly”.

Anon writes: “I sat next to Liz Jones at a fashion show in Paris. I said hello; she ignored me. Next week she wrote a piece about how vile fashion people are.”
>> Quarantunes <<
#171: Styled Out
 

Today’s ten tracks are loosely based around the theme of fashion, beauty, style and clothing. You get a point for every track title you can correctly identify, plus another point for each of the artists/bands you can hear.

Ten songs, twenty points in total.

[Play it here]

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>> Hmmms <<
A couple of quick things
 

Dog playing fetch with the darts on TV
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John Waters is giving the Baltimore Museum Of Art 372 pieces of art; getting the toilets named in his honour
[A fair trade]

AI generated Pokemon
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Thanks to: KB, JL, anon, bitch_with_the_accent, LW, AN, BH, gentlemanthug, monstris
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