Keeping Up with Lindsay (please put all Lohan news here)

[Nemova]

I love how they began the message: "Dina Lohan, diva"... Everybody's a diva these days.

 

[McClaire]

Her family, apart from her crazy dad, will never admit she needs help. She's the cash cow, they need her crazy tush to work as many functions as possible.

This honestly confuses me, I really don't see how she is a cash cow, she would make everyone way more money if she was in a decent shape and getting jobs,especially acting jobs. Talk about stepping over a dollar to get to a dime. I don't think based on what I have heard that anyone wants to hire her cause she is longer capable and dependable.

 

[Boomer]

^ I agree with you- I don't see how she can even pay her own bills, no less support others...And these substance abuse and behavior problems do have a strong family element- Codependence, denial and so on...Lindsay's family could be the poster children for the problem...

 

[Juliet]

Of course not, about getting jobs or supporting others, and wow she looks absolutely horrible. This the first time I see her look so bad and I've been keeping up with her for a long time!

It is as though she cannot even control her facial expressions and like she's hyperventilating 24/7 with how she talks / walks..It's awful.

 

[Boomer]

It is as though she cannot even control her facial expressions and like she's hyperventilating 24/7 with how she talks / walks..It's awful.

Well, she has asthma and smokes and drinks..uses all kind of stimulants- always has a can of Coke or Red Bull in her hand..that would pretty much guarantee breathing problems...

 

[Juliet]

And she has asthma?? That's really bad!! I only have allergies and smoke around me really bothers me. You're right

 

[Aoedele]

Does her mother have a job? Is her talentless sister getting any work? Don't think so. LiLo might not be making much, which we don't really know of, but she is paying her family's bills. I would also bet she owns that big Long Island house. The cow might be a bit dry, but she is their cash cow.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Some hilarious Tweets from twitter.com/cutblog on Dina's 'press conference'

We're inside the press conference for Dina Lohan's shoe line at the Trump Tower. Yes, we will have some champagne.

Shoes all over the place, some scattered tabloids on the ground, some intern-reporters. Cheese and crackers being served on paper plates.

LoveMyShoes.com founder: 'this is one of the most important days in the company's history.' Company is trying to get 'more sophisticated.'

Apparently the name of the line will not be 'Shoe-han' as the press release said. That's 'silly' and a name hasn't been chosen.

Not a full minute into Dina's speech and she's dropped her daughter's name. She's wearing YSL and, she's 'not gonna lie,' she buys Gucci.

Lindsay will help Dina design. Will the Ungaro folks be cool with that?

Lindsay sends Dina pink Ungaro heels: 'Mommy you look so hot in them.' Dina refuses because she doesn't want to look too young.

Dina is wearing an Alexander Wang vest.

 

[FrenchCactus]

haha thanks for those! So lame.

 

[Boomer]

^ Thanks for the info...! My favorite part: "Company is trying to get 'more sophisticated." - and they are proving that by hiring Lindsay's mother and serving cheese and crackers on paper plates! I hope at least it was Cracker Barrel- you don't want to look cheap...

 

[Aoedele]

JUst when I thought she couldn't be lamer...

 

[lizbabe09]

LetThemEatCake those are hilarious. The shoe-han and "She's 'not gonna lie' she buys Gucci" ones were hilarious

 

[Boomer]

^ And her daughter says she won't be wearing much Ungaro...They can join Audrey Tautou who says she doesn't really wear Chanel- the "People who just don't Get It" Club...

 

[sethii]

this thread!

I hope Ungaro are going to investigate this. Sounds like Lindsay is breaching her contract, and something tells me Shoe-Han will be selling a lot of new season cut price Ungaro

 

[sethii]

X17 XCLUSIVE - Source Tells X17 That "Lindsay Is So Close To Rehab"

 

[Eleonorah]

Michael Lohan has been tweeting about Lindsay,too... http://twitter.com/TheMichaelLohan

 

[nikita]

so i know most of us come in here and really cant find a positive thing to say about her lately and really, its mostly about her face and the weird expressions, the wrinkles and hand gestures. and i havent liked one thing shes worn recently but i was thinking like maybe im just being biased or something, i dont know. i tried to imagine mary kate or sienna or anyone in one of her outfits and i still couldnt stomach any of them.

anyway, i was talking to my sister tonight and im like have you seen lohan and shes like yeah. im like, uhhh, just yeah? and shes like yeah why? im like, have you only seen the pics on perez hilton and she was like yeah. so i showed her all the ungaro pics and didnt tell her anything and shes like 'oh my god! what the hell happened to her face?!' so, i guess its not just my bias and reading the rumors thread, haha.

sorry for the long babble but what i really came to say was like, yeah, shes been looking rough for a while but i was thinking she really didnt look this bad like a few months ago, so i went 100 pages back and it was the inglorious basterds premiere and like she wasnt looking great, but it is like a 180 from what her face looks like now. i do not get it. i mean shes been living hard for a long time, i cant understand what can make her face wrinkle like that in under 2 months. she just turned 23! i cant imagine any d**gs that can do that, at least in such a short time span. there is definitely some weird eyebrow action going on. like, i dont know, she needs to stop raising them like that. maybe thats why her face looks all crumpled? i wish i had the time or energy to post a 'before and after', lol from then to now, just to show the difference. i know all we can do is speculate, but i just find it weird. ok, im done. ive said nothing we dont already know, but i got it off my chest haha.

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^The Michael Lohan has 502 followers..
And he is friends with Jon Gosselin? talk about like minds..

This is sad, I quite like Lindsay, if I hear about her demise in the near future, I will probably cry.

 

[sethii]

The Times
October 8, 2009
Lohan’s new role is several sizes too big

Just before Lindsay Lohan’s first collection for Ungaro was panned, she talked to The Times about her designs — and the leggings inspired by Marilyn Monroe

Lisa Armstrong, Fashion Editor

I really hope Lindsay Lohan didn’t read the reviews of her first collection, which came out two days after our historic meeting (historic in that she turned up). But before we get to the gloomy bit, let’s start brightly because a mix-up over addresses (I’m on the wrong floor of the Ungaro headquarters in Paris) means that I’m a couple of minutes late and that, possibly for the first time in her career, Lindsay Lohan is waiting for a journalist. This gives me the chance to catch her working in her new job.

Yes. Shock horror. Celebrity turned designer actually does a spot of designing. Or at least a spot of looking at the clothes and saying “Great! Love it, more sequins please!” and “Is it too late to change this?” And, you’d have to concede, she says it beautifully — a bit husky (all those ****, I’m thinking) and a bit breathy with lots of very excited capital letters spattered all over the place. It’s the day before the show (co-“designed” with Estrella Archs) and the panning. Oh my GOD, she’s excited. But it’s SCARY — and yes, she does know the legacy of Monsieur Ungaro. He trained with Cristobal Balenciaga and was one of the last couturiers to have his own house and he was an AMAZING designer. OH. MY. GOD.

The Ungaro PR at the headquarters on the chi-chi Avenue Montaigne throws me a triumphant look. For ten days I had been glumly anticipating the hours I’d have to wait for Lohan not to show up, reliability not being her forte. Sure enough, the previous day’s interviews had all been cancelled, but then the PR sat her down and explained why it probably wasn’t a good idea to snub International Herald Tribune and The New York Times two days before showing your first collection on a Paris catwalk in front of A Very Sceptical audience, and Lohan apparently said: “Oh, OK then, tomorrow I’ll be on time.” And here she is, very slim (but not too skinny) in a pair of black leather leggings from her own range, a white T-shirt, black Alaïa bootees, scraped-back hair peroxided for a film she’s shooting — a very, very pretty face, but one with a lived in quality that makes her look much older than her 23 years.

She’s being circled by the entourage that always seems to follow her — a video camera (I never discovered who this crew was, I’m not sure she knew); her people; her friend the model Irina Lazareanu with whom she used to flat share and who went out with Pete Doherty; her sister Ali (a tall, goth-haired beauty); Patrick, who designs her leggings range; plus sundry extras (technicians, publicists, seamstresses, gawpers); and my tape recorder, which is practically up her left nostril. She calls Ali over to introduce her to me.

“She’s younger, but she’s like a giant, because I had asthma as a child and took steroids which stunted my growth.” There’s a brother too, although they don’t seem too sure where he comes in the running order. “I,” says Lohan, drawing herself up to the full 5ft 6in mark — so not that stunted then, “am definitely the oldest.”

There’s a stretchy texture to Lohan’s life that may be inevitable when so many people’s incomes depend on your whims. She tells me she’s going to be in Paris for a while. How long? Days, weeks? Hmm, she furrows her brow. “A long time.” She’s going to take French lessons too because she loved French at school in New York where she grew up (she was an A student, especially at maths). Oh, but then she has to go back to the States quickly to finish this film.
She seems to accept the whole circus around her, as you might if you’d been modelling since the age of 3, acting since 5 and hadn’t gone completely insane, which, notwithstanding two, possibly three, stints in rehab, she hasn’t.

Although today there are paparazzi camped outside the Plaza Athénée, where she is staying, she says they’re not always there. She can get privacy when she wants it and she says she tunes out most of the negative press. “I just don’t read it any more. I don’t go on the net. They want a car crash, which doesn’t make me want to give it to them, but nor am I going to stop myself from doing things that other girls my age would do. Of course I regret some of them. But the media now is so unhealthy. It’s like they’re waiting to devour you.”

Yup. I’d say the reviews of the Ungaro collection pretty much devoured and spat her out. One big objection is that Lohan, with all her roiling drama, represents the best — or the worst, depending on your view — of our celebrity culture. It’s one thing for P Diddy or Sarah Jessica Parker or Gwen Stefani to churn out mass market clothing lines. But Ungaro is part of France’s couture heritage. Why did Mounir Moufarrige, Ungaro’s urbane, Lebanese-born owner, not fill the vacant position Ungaro left when he bowed out five years ago with a highly trained designer instead of an actress with a reputation for getting high.

In fact, as Moufarrige stoically recites, there were several highly trained designers shoe-horned into the top post after Ungaro’s departure and all lost him a lot of money. “I couldn’t get a single journalist interested in this house for three years. Now look! They all want to come and see her.” He has a point: now his problem is to make sure she turns up regularly. “Oh she will,” he says with the confidence of man who has worked out a contract with attendance clauses. “But if it works out she’ll make millions and I’ll make more.”

That Lohan really wanted this gig is clear. She says she screamed with happiness when she finally got it, because Moufarrige didn’t just hand it to her. She turned up to their first meeting with 15 outfits she had rough sketched and then had worked into finished illustrations by a professional artist. Then Moufarrige asked her how much time she could give the label and how much more time she was planning on spending in prison [in 2007 she was convicted of cocaine possession, and driving under the influence, and incarcerated for 84 entire minutes]. She laughed and told him she’d have to see how much time she could afford to spend there. “Then I cried when I saw my office. It’s got TWO balconies overlooking the Eiffel Tower.”
Clearly Lohan loves clothes. “I’m still a total shopaholic. My house in LA is like a giant closet.” Moufarrige says the first time he visited her there he had to sit on the floor. “Every surface is covered with clothes. She has divided them all by brand.”

In more frugal circles this would be classed as a form of sickness. But maybe for her it’s a kind of constancy. She can remember her first really special dress — it was an Oscar de la Renta when she was 7; she can remember dressing up as garbage also aged 7 for a skit on Late Night with David Letterman (“mortifying, and Letterman played the clip again when I was on recently”). She has always had a lot of input into her characters’ outfits and quite a few of her inspirations for this collection came from films — Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface, Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8. But technically she’s about as qualified as my cat — which is where Archs, the trained hand Moufarrige hired as co-designer alongside his fallen movie star, comes in. Had the two met previously? No.
Does it matter “Oh I love her,” says Lohan, looking vaguely over the heads of the entourage to where Archs is silently pinning a jacket.

Let’s assume Moufarrige is a genius — because after all, it was he who had the courage to fire Karl Lagerfeld from Chloé and parachute in Stella McCartney, whereupon sales quadrupled. “And let me tell you there was outrage about that at the time,” he says. “Anna Wintour said Stella couldn’t be trusted to design a flag. And I had to get in a Savile Row tailor and all sorts to help her.” But that was a decade ago. McCartney had been to St Martins College of Art & Design. And she didn’t have Lohan’s track record for, ahem, partying. There remains something of the sacrificial lamb about Lohan’s role in all this.

Moufarrige knows that even if Lohan screws up the collections repeatedly, it’s all publicity. “There’s a generation of consumers who accept that celebrities come with a certain amount of catastrophe,” he says chirpily.

It’s easy to see why she took the job — money, quiet lull in the film career (Labor Pains, her last one, went straight to cable), although she has two more, plus a BBC documentary on child trafficking, on the go. She was in Dubai last week with Sir Philip Green’s stepson for some opening, so obviously she’s up for hire. But why in God’s name did Lohan agree to put a first collection together in three weeks, when over at Celine, Phoebe Philo has taken more than a year to perfect her debut?

“I think it all works hand in hand — music, film, fashion,” is her on-message response (the lure of several million dollars would probably be the off-message version, and the haunting suspicion that an offer like this might not come up again). “It’s not as if I have a five-year plan,” she says, “but I really think that with Estrella, who is amazing technically, we can do this with faxes and e-mail. Plus finally I have good people around me. Because for a long time I didn’t really see what was going on. I think at one point there were a lot of people around me who didn’t have my best interests at heart, but when you grow up on a film set surrounded by adults, and with responsibilities, you can’t always see how much it’s all draining you — sycophantic. Yes that’s the word I’d use.”

This is all a bit oblique, given that at one point her father accused her mother, via the press naturally, of doing drugs with their daughter, despite being her manager at the time. But Lohan says her mum’s great, her grandmother’s great. It’s all great. And more to the point, their clothes, which she constantly raided as a child, are great. “I like to think I’ve always had a bit of an eye for fashion,” she says somewhat endearingly. She no longer employs a stylist, although Rachel Zoe, with whom she used to work, is “great”. At the moment she’s into customising her Balmain. “Some of the shoulders are so big.”

If you want to get armchair-analytical about this, you could say that fashion represents renewal and that oddly, the one thing Lohan hasn’t had in her career very often is the chance to start with a blank piece of paper. Many of her biggest successes have been remakes. “That’s true, but I’d like to do another one: Butterfield 8, I love that film.” Oh yes, the one where Taylor, one of her heroines, plays a fashion model who ultimately drives her car over a cliff.

I wonder if on some level Lohan enjoys seeing herself on a doomed trajectory. Her other heroine, after whose birthday (1.1.26) her leggings line is named, is Marilyn Monroe. She chirpily shows me the tattoos on her wrists — quotes from Monroe about falling stars and needing the restorative powers of solitude. Isn’t Monroe a rather tragic soul for a 23-year-old to be channelling? “Maybe, but life’s a little bit tragic, don’t you think?”

Sensing how this might play in print, she adds: “I never felt pushed into acting. Even though it can get a bit monotonous always being on set [although strictly speaking, she hasn’t always been on set, hence some of her problems]. But the thing is, I never had acting lessons. I panic sometimes when I have a monologue but then weirdly I look at the lines and they just attach themselves to my memory.

“But, you know, this,” she says, surveying the sequins and the orange ruched leggings and the jackets hanging on the rails, “is what I really love.”
As I said, I hope she doesn’t read the reviews.

women.timesonline.co.uk

 

[Echoes]

X17 XCLUSIVE - Source Tells X17 That "Lindsay Is So Close To Rehab"

Yeah, but they're talking about this ReHab (at the Hard Rock Cafe)