US Harper's Bazaar September 2007 : Kate Hudson by Peter Lindbergh

[ShoeGal4Eva]

yeah i remember that cover of hers
and why not? isntead of talentless "it-girls" i'd rather see a beauitful,talented woman who has something interesting to say.
i hope i'll see miss love on vogue someday

 

[LetThemEatCake]

yeah i remember that cover of hers
and why not? isntead of talentless "it-girls" i'd rather see a beauitful,talented woman who has something interesting to say.
i hope i'll see miss love on vogue someday

Exactly. She's been a fashion icon since the early 90's. Maybe not so much in this last decade but she was an inspiration to many, many designers from 1992-1997.
And I can tell you that in the upcoming months she'll have a cover for French Vogue.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

all scans are mine.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Um...that is quite some time ago,she is not a style icon today or has been for many years,if ever.But i dont want to get into discussion about it with you,since you are obviously a die hard fan,and this isnt a right thread to tallk about her anyway!

yeah i remember that cover of hers
and why not? isntead of talentless "it-girls" i'd rather see a beauitful,talented woman who has something interesting to say.
i hope i'll see miss love on vogue someday

I think she was on the cover of Italian and Paris Vogue alredy.
When does this issue get out,anyone know?

 

[LetThemEatCake]

^^Um...that is quite some time ago,she is not a style icon today or has been for many years,if ever.But i dont want to get into discussion about it with you,since you are obviously a die hard fan,and this isnt a right thread to tallk about her anyway!


I think she was on the cover of Italian and Paris Vogue alredy.
When does this issue get out,anyone know?

I'm her assistant, not a die-hard. And if you only know about her from negative press than surely you're probably not aware of the designers she's influenced. (Anna Sui, Versace, Galliano, Marc Jacobs)
She was to walk Versace's runway coming down the Spanish steps in what was the couture collection that was cancelled because of his death.

She has been on the cover of Italian Vogue in 1997, but never on Paris Vogue. At her show at the Givenchy headquarters she was approached by French Vogue's editor to do a cover, so I think she still has an influence. But I regress.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Courtney's Piece

Walk into Courtney Love's Beverly Hills residence, a "guesthouse" of San Simeon proportions, and she immediately directs you to her closet. "Go check it out", she says with a wave of the arm. "All of the size 8's are gone." Thus instructed, head downstairs into Love's bedroom, a Norma Desmond-style boudoir filled with porcelain dolls, massive crystals, Helmut Newton photo books, fringed lamps, two guitars, a large television playing a quiz show on BBC America...and wait.
A few minutes later, she barrels down the stairs and into the walk-in closet, explaining all it contains in a warp-speed monologue. "This side is sporty," she says, cigarette in hand, taking a sharp turn and pulling out all of her Rick Owens jackets, various tees and tanks, and a plethora of skinny jeans. Over a chair hangs a Giles Deacon bag covered in fist-size gold studs. "[Stylist] Katie Grand got it for me," Love says with a lucky-girl smile, opening the bag to reveal a similarly intimidating pochette. "Just try to mug me [when I've got] this. Ha." Then, off to the girly side, where a wall of shoes lives--Chanel heels, metallic Miu Miu's, and rare sparkly red Salvatore Ferragamo's--alongside Dolce & Gabanna dresses, tiny Azzedine Alaias, Vivienne Westwood and Chanel suits, Lanvin ("I collect Alber"), vintage Biba, and Chloe ("my daywear, my momwear, my in real life favorite"). 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."
Also, as any reader of tabloids and/or Love's no-holds-barred blog knows, she has lost some weight recently. She looks good--very good. Today she is wearing a silver Vanessa Bruno minidress and black camellia-embellished Chanel stilettos. Her hair is styled in a new-Julie-Christie-in-Shampoo-bob. She takes a seat on her bed, hits a buzzer for a Nature's Best Isopure shake ("It's vanilla. Taste it. It's fantastic, like Dairy Queen"), lights the first of many cigarettes, and starts to talk.
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!"
Their rapprochement, captured on these pages, was shot in Paris in Coco Chanel's apartment. So what were the differences between the knockoff and the real thing? "Oh, my God, massive," Love says, sighing. "First of all, the glovelets. Mr. Lagerfeld had made his out of eagle feathers with black elastic. Mine were spandex and marabou." She pauses for effect. "On the real Chanel, there was also a masterful and distinctive print. Oh, and there was a label in the Chanel one and not in the other." The iconoclast soon rears her head, however:"In a way, it's insanely subversive, because I don't think anyone has ever done fake couture before. But honest to God, I did not know. I hope it was burned." (Love assistant, for the record, was also burned:She was promptly fired.)
Love is Lagerfeld's number-one fan. "I really connected with Karl in a way I didn't think I was going to,"she continues. "From the ponytail to the image and persona, I didn't think we were going to click, but I ended up genuinely and sincerely liking the man." Love left the shoot for the Eurostar train wearing little but a Chanel lab coat and a black boater. Now she runs to grab the hat and models it coquettishly. "Look at this hat," she says. "Isn't it fantastic? It's literally Coco."
"She reacted in such a nice way [to the clothing]," notes Lagerfeld affectionately. "It's because of her being, her freedom, her sweet wildness--that this happened. She was the victim in this story."
The irony that Love is coming back into fashion--once again--is not lost on her. "The fashion world, they don't trust me anymore," she says with a weary sigh. "And why should they? I looked like crap for years." She laughs wryly, remembering when, in the early 90's, "I didn't know what a season was. Someone had to explain it to me. When grunge first hit, I only knew who John Galliano was because he made bias-cut dresses."
Love's first fashion moment was an entirely unexpected one. In 1992, she and husband Kurt Cobain were annointed grunge fashion icons even though they were shopping at Urban Outfitters. "We had a lot of money, but we could get only $500 out a day and we had no credit. I remember opening up The New York Times and there's Kurt, and he's the entire style page. And then about two months later, opening up the Times, I'm the entire style page. And we didn't understand what was happening to us."
Fashion moment number two:Versace, 1997, right after Love had won praise for her role as Althea Leasure in The People vs. Larry Flynt. "The Versaces really started courting me," she recalls of her appearance in a Versace campaign and, famously, on the red carpet at the Oscars in a blinding white evening gown. She was also scheduled to model at a Versace show in Rome, which was subsequently canceled due to Gianni Versace's death. "I would have been walking down the Spanish steps with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was thinking, I'm going to be able to tell my daughter when she grows up that at one point in my life, I was so fabulous, I wore a see-through mauve caftan down the Spanish Steps."
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.
"My rock weight," she explains, as only a rock star can,"has always been around 150 pounds." She blames her weight gain of last year on a few factors: being "out sick", a bad breakup, but also, amusingly, eating too much macrobiotic food. "My daughter and I were kind of going for it because the dessert's fantastic," she says with a chuckle. "I put on 30 pounds, and I put on another 15 from emotional depression. Then I finally get an Italian Vogue cover and I'm 182 pounds." These days, she's around 139. "I looked at last year's best-dressed lists," she notes. "I didn't have a chance of getting best-dressed at size 8.
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."
We've just been under the stairs, in a hidden closet filled with some wacky pieces---think Stevie Nicks crossed with a burlesque dancer---that Love drolly describes as having designed when "I was not well." It's a world of tulle in there, one that threatens to go up in polyester-fueled flames as she rifles through them, cigarette ash waving about. "Oh man, these are crazy bad," she says, laughing hysterically.
Love freely uses fashion as a sign of when she has faltered. Fragile after Cobain's suicide in 1994, she agreed to be interviewed by Barbara Walters. She took herself to Nordstrom in Seattle and "bought a Mugler. A silver Thierry Mugler. I thought it was the hottest thing I'd ever owned in my life. I pulled my hair up into what I thought was a chignon, and I just had eyeliner on, basically. Did you ever see Matt Lauer and Britney Spears? Well I was more Grand Guignol than that. More horror show."
She is also frank about her in-court wardrobe, when she was fighting drug charges and for custody of Frances Bean in 2005. "Court was mostly wardrobe by Anthropologie. Nothing wrong with Anthropologie, but I had the worst hair extensions in, and that was before I had dealt with the fact that I had gone a little too crazy on the lips," she says of her then-enhanced pout. She gives big props to Marc Jacobs, however, for sticking by her. "Marc has always, always had my back. Last fall he sent me his entire collection. The problem was that I could never wear that because it would alienate people. You've seen what happens when someone looks too good for court."
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."
So she won't. Instead she's going to release the album (early reports are that it's her best yet) and tour, and then it's back to the big screen. "I have to advertise. Then, when I'm about 50, I'm going to start directing. I can do it because of my rock-star job. You can command so much, and you can lead so many people, whether it's 200 or 200,000."
Love would like to get married again, too. She remembers meeting John Galliano, whom she idolized, in Paris a couple of years after Cobain's death. "I said, 'When I get remarried, will you make my dress?' and he swore that he would."
Despite her yearning for something as conventional as a wedding gown, Love will always symbolize something very different. "Courtney is perfect for what Chanel was in the beginning," says Karl Lagerfeld. "The young Chanel was a rebel."

 

[Nemezide]

thanks for scans, those photos are nice

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

LetThemEatCake,thank you so much for scans and interview,karma!
i absolutely admire this woman,a true icon of her generation and a style icon who i agree with you,influenced so many designers .who can forget her babydoll dresses and maryjanes.she's a true original,and i'm so excited bout her paris vogue cover! very much deserved!!!!
courtney +carine=magic

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

what does she mean by calling any celebs "bulimic liars" for eating fish and broccoli? that 's healthy food and if you eat tht nd excercise ,you'll maintain a good ,healthy weight,no? and isnt she eating healthy hersefl now?
sorry,i just didnt understand what she means

 

[Label Basher]

what does she mean by calling any celebs "bulimic liars" for eating fish and broccoli? that 's healthy food and if you eat tht nd excercise ,you'll maintain a good ,healthy weight,no? and isnt she eating healthy hersefl now? sorry,i just didnt understand what she means

I think she means that for a start everyone in Hollywood lies. When an actress says she eats "healthy" and goes on and on it's most likely that said actress has some eating problem. They are hiding something. It's like the whole "Blah blah was admitted to hospital because they fainted" when we all know that it's drugs related. The hollywood media like to think the public are stupid but their cover up bull sh*t stories is not cutting it with us anymore (case in point Lindsay).

Courtney just tells it like it is. Sure she has had her problems but she's straight up. And another thing Courtney always speaks out and wishes people that have problems suport. You never hear her bad mouth them she just offers herself as a person to talk to as she has been there and knows how hard it can be getting sober (case in point Lindsay).

I'm a huge fan of hers. She's part of my teen years. She totally put the babydoll dress back on the map in the 90s. I use to listen to my Live through This tape everyday I wore it out lol. I can't wait for her next album.

Thanks for posting the article and pics LetThemEatCake

 

[yalil]

When did Courtney ever say anything that made sense? She's always sounded a little bipolar or asperger to me, not that I ever took that against her.

 

[zembla]

Chloe Sevigny has an editorial in this mag too...she plays Lindsay Lohan in rehab...LOL

 

[kissmesweet]

The necklace and the shadows are so strategically placed in the first photo of Courtney.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Chloe Sevigny has an editorial in this mag too...she plays Lindsay Lohan in rehab...LOL

Really?I have to see that,it would be soooooooo refreshing to see someone like Chloe on the cover instead of Kate with the same old look.

 

[em 692]

i'm so excited to see the chloe sevigny edit
it's going to be so funny to see her mocking lohan-
but too bad she won't be able to show off her own great style...
gah- maybe the fashion crowd demands too much but they never seem to satisfy us 100%!

 

[zembla]

Hopefully Big Love keeps getting more popular and Chloe gets a cover soon...

 

[VickiB]

Once again... Tired to see the same faces in Us magazines. Tired to see Lindsay, Sienna and Kate.

 

[Blanche DuBois]

The cover is awful, why that girl? i don't even like her
I was shocked to see Courtney, I love her so much, I read the whole interview, and I love her more even, she looks great in a bob cut,
I can't wait to hear her last album, she is so inspiring to me, I used to listen all her albums when I was teen, God that woman rocks !

So Courtney and Chloe Sevigny! this seems to be a huge issue of harpers, I cannot understand why put hudson in the cover, Harpers should go more rebel, and prove what differences them with VOGUE

 

[kissmesweet]

Does anyone actually have the issue? Could they please do a review/preview?

 

[tigerrouge]

> Actually she was on the cover of one of their Sept. issues during the Tilberis' era no less, I think it was 98, and it's one of my favorite covers.

Yes! It was the 'Courtney in a chair' cover, I also loved it.