The Daily Tonic: Men In Shorts

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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”.

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]

Dog playing fetch with the darts on TV
[See on Twitter]

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
[See on Vice]