Courtney Love

[ang]

Why would anyone want to wear anything designed by Courtney Love?
What will it be, white tshirts sprinkled with cigarette ash and vomit, with a smear of red lipstick? Eew.

[Alexis Machine]

ang said:

Why would anyone want to wear anything designed by Courtney Love?
What will it be, white tshirts sprinkled with cigarette ash and vomit, with a smear of red lipstick? Eew.

Don't forget the hole over the breast to help complete strangers in restaurants to suck on your nipples.

[manray]

She is so sorry! The way that she constantly bags on other women just shows a level of insecurity that is pathetic, especially for her age. Gwen Stefani is just her newest target, but we have seen her criticize other women over and over again for not being as "edgy" and "brave" as her. Say what you will about Gwen Stefani, she hasn't carved herself up repeatedly to look like some bloated and shrunken cartoon version of a woman. Some of Courtney's music has been great, but that is all in the past. Every time she threatens us with a comeback, she comes up short. It's like she squandered away all her anger and intelligence for a shot at being a pretty starlet. Having failed at that goal, she tries to deflect by doing the whole "she's pretty, but...." thing that makes her seem like a bitter little high school girl.

[mochakitty]

Courtney in September's Harper's Bazaar.

Pictorial (scanned by LetThemEatCake):

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Some quotes from her interview:

Tucked away in one corner are two exquisite Victorian lace dresses, customized in Love's rock 'n' roll Lolita style, which represent the first pieces of a lingerie inspired label she plans to launch next year with L.A. designer Claire La Faye. "It will be called Dirty Blondes or Never The Bride. We dont know yet," she says. And then, on the left, the big, empty rack where those size 8's used to hang.

If cleaning out the closet is an all-too-obvious metaphor for where Love, 43, is right now, it's a singularly appropriate one. She's been on a mission since she was "out sick", as she half jokes about her last stint in rehab nearly two years ago, and she's amping up for the upcoming release of her long-awaited solo album, Nobody's Daughter . "It's the first time I've written sober," she says,"the first time I've written from a really deep, dark place."

We're here, ostensibly, to discuss what shall hencefore be named L'Incident de Chanel. Earlier this year, Love and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, attended Paris Hilton's birthday party, Love wearing a black minidress with a white fringed applique on the front and matching fingerless gloves that an assistant had found for her. The dress was, in fact, a knockoff of a Chanel couture piece---"a Canal Street fake"--and Love had no idea. The fallout was swift:the dress hit the press, word reached Karl Lagerfeld at the Chanel atelier, and one miffed couture client who had ordered the original promptly canceled it. Love was mortified. "I wrote Mr. Lagerfeld a letter, an in-depth apology," Love explains, clearly still embarrassed. "I offered to pay for the dress, throw him a party, do whatever I needed to do to make up for this horrific thing." Mr. Lagerfeld himself is more sanguine:"Poor girl, she had never seen a real couture dress. Someone made her believe it was the real thing. It's not her fault;it's the fault of a horrible stylist!"

Fashion moment number three:the shredded Dior couture dress from John Galliano's infamous "homeless"' collection that she wore to the Golden Globes in 2000. "[Stylist] Arianne Phillips talked me into wearing that," she recalls. "I remember one day when Meryl Streep was next door at Carrie Fisher's house. I sent it to her in an Armani bag and said, 'Meryl, this is too conservative for me.' "

Love is also aware that a large part of the reason designer clothes are currently arriving at her door is that she can now fit into them. "I've lost a lot of weight, and I've done it through being quite disciplined," she says. A few times a year, Love visits a clinic called WeCare for "colonics and fasting. Some people think it's about weight loss, but it's about detoxing." On Love's new menu: two Isopure shakes a day, "then I have fish and macrobiotic food. By the way, I hate reading magazines where the actresses are saying, 'Broccoli and fish, broccoli and fish.' You liars. You bulimic liars.

Love credits friends Trudie Styler and Gwyneth Paltrow for, among many other supportive girlfriendy things, reminding her of the hard realities of the glamour business. "They were like, 'Duh, you have to walk around advertising what it is they're going to get." She takes another sip of her shake. "But I'm not going to become this shrill virago who's been on a diet for 12 years and hates life. I love food."

A lot of people are sticking by Love this time. "You know, Michael Stipe has this theory that I kept stuff in for 10 years and it all just rose to the surface. And I cracked. And I cracked in public, and so I lost all my credibility, " she says reflectively. "For many years, I took pills. I felt like I had this dirty secret. Other people can have glasses of wine and things because they're normal people who can do things like that. But if you're allergic to that stuff, you just are, and you can't."

[twitches]

Wow. Name-drop much?

And how many times has she said in interviews that her next batch of songs are from "the first time I've ever written sober"? I could swear we've heard that before...

[Mutagen]

"I remember one day when Meryl Streep was next door at Carrie Fisher's house. I sent it to her in an Armani bag and said, 'Meryl, this is too conservative for me.' "

If she weren't such a general fuckup, that would kinda be funny.

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Is there any evidence that Trudie Styler and Gwyneth Paltrow are friends of hers?

[viridian]

I have a feeling that Courtney counts any star as a friend if they've ever attended the same party or even exchanged greetings once. She's a name-dropper extraordinaire.

[venusdiva429]

Someone got mad overtime for all that airbrushing. No way does that broad look that good.

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venusdiva429 said:

Someone got mad overtime for all that airbrushing. No way does that broad look that good.

Damn straight! And I want my very own personal airbrusher.

Courtney Love? I've been over her since...Well, since practically forever. She's more a novelty act to me than anything else.