Lindsay Lohan Does ‘The Sunday Times: Style’
Lindsay Lohan, budding fashion designer extraordinaire, is featured on the cover of the Style section of the UK newspaper The Sunday Times … in her coverstory interview, Lindsay opens up about the recent Ungaro fashion show that she “oversaw” and was described by pretty much all accounts as a disaster. Lindsay, aware of the way she seems to be targeted by critics, brushes off the negative reviews and seems happy with her place in the world of Fashion. Here is Lindsay’s Sunday Times: Style coverphoto and some excerpts from the coverstory interview/article:
You look like a good girl, but we all know you are bad,” goads the photographer Ellen von Unwerth, as she snaps Lindsay Lohan vamping it up on the floor of her room at Hôtel Plaza Athenée in Paris. Lohan revels in this reference to her notoriety, and pouts harder, throwing back her waist-length, newly blonde hair (the result, she reveals, of two 12-hour days in the salon). The room looks like the aftermath of one of those home-alone teen parties advertised on Facebook that then gets horribly out of hand. Chaos rules. Designer clothes are strewn everywhere; most of them from a sweep of the Emanuel Ungaro boutique that Lohan made upon her arrival in Paris, walking away with an estimated £90,000 worth of free clothes. Shoes, make-up, jewellery, even a stray lampshade obscure the hotel carpet. Her passport is in here somewhere. She’s been looking for it for days. Frankly, I’m surprised Lohan’s got the energy even to raise a smile. It’s been a trying week. She’s in town for her new gig as artistic advisor to the once-revered house of Emanuel Ungaro. How much work that actually involved was revealed when her catwalk show was roundly drubbed by the fashion community the following day; as her new fashion sugar daddy, the CEO of Emanuel Ungaro, Mounir Moufarrige, put it: “They knifed us.” With no formal design experience, it was hardly a surprise, but there is a logic behind fashion’s new Faustian pact. Lohan brings notoriety, press (good and bad) and a worldwide audience to a house that has been on the skids for years. If that can be translated into sales, the brand’s future could be secure. Moufarrige won’t reveal her pay package, saying only that it is “quite enough. It’s expensive”. Given her unpredictability, it is also a risk. Her fragility, says Moufarrige, “has been factored in”. It needs to be … The big question for anyone interviewing her is: will she actually turn up? Lohan had already cancelled several interviews during her stay in Paris. The day before our shoot, I’m told Lohan has been rushed to hospital with food poisoning. (The night before, she’d been to a Mario Testino party and was hanging out with Daphne Guinness.) Despite her fragile state, confirmation of our meet and shoot finally comes through just before midnight.
Around noon, Lohan makes it out of her room and into the hotel lobby; late, bizarrely, because she wanted to tidy up her suite before we arrived (yes, our pictures are the “after” shots). She’s obviously tired, and her wet hair suggests she’s just woken up, but she is here.
Wearing a ruched black Emanuel Ungaro minidress, thigh boots, a sequined black beret and a large Chanel scarf (she’d treated her 15-year-old sister, Ali, to a shopping spree there earlier in the week), the first thing you notice is how tiny she is, then what a large bosom she has. Her pale skin has been sprayed the colour of a ginger-snap biscuit and the lines etched into her freckled forehead make her look at least 10 years older than she is. She orders an iced water in a voice honed by too many cigarettes and a lifetime of late nights. When she sniffs, which is often, she refers to “my allergies”.
Despite all these signs of fatigue, she talks at breakneck speed, racing though sentences and peppering them with California-isms. “I’ve always been really interested in, you know, the fashion industry, and I really have a great appreciation for designers, and all the work that goes into one piece of clothing, and how expressive it can be,” she announces. Of her role at Emanuel Ungaro, she says: “This is more personal to me. It is more about who I am and what I want to say as a person through clothing.”
And what exactly does she want to say? Her efforts, pulled together in three short weeks with her design partner, Estrella Archs, resulted in a parade of teeny ruched party dresses, scattered with heart motifs and rhinestones (left). It was fun, young, but not ground-breaking. Lohan appeared dazed and emotional as she took her catwalk bow, her big, wide eyes filled with the kind of grateful tears that suggested Disney had made all her fashion dreams come true. “It was such a surreal experience and I think I was emotional probably for the entire week, but when we walked out, it was a good feeling,” she says.
In the scrum backstage (one journalist crawled on her belly, between the legs of the photographers, merely to get a quote from the starlet), she said that the whole experience had been “like a fairy tale”. Then after this soaring high came a crashing low. The reviews began to flood in and the dream became a nightmare — a familiar pattern for Lohan. The industry bible, WWD, called her efforts “an embarrassment”; others were not so kind.
After the jump, check out some a few photos from this Sunday Times article, find out how Lindsay dealt with the harsh reviews of her Ungaro fashion show and find out what she’s got planned for the future …
If she is hurt by the reviews, then she’s doing a sterling job of hiding it. “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I didn’t expect everyone to be completely loving the collection. It is the same with everything I have done. I knew that people were going to target me. I am a target. I don’t know why I am, but I am, and I accept that. I just don’t pay attention to it.” If Lohan has any hope of making her new fashion career work, then she’ll have to put the time in. “I feel I am on the cusp of something new. I just need to be here more,” she acknowledges. So does she have a plan? “Oh, God,” she says, in horror. “I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t like to think ahead” …
A quiet life is not on the cards. She sometimes tries to avoid the attention, telling me how she likes to visit her favourite restaurant on Robertson Boulevard in Hollywood in disguise. Another trick is to use a fellow A-lister as a human shield. “The other night, at the Testino party, Kate Moss was walking out. I saw her leaving and was, like, ‘Go now!’ I was walking behind her. She went one way and took the photographers with her. I went straight to my car.”
But Lohan lives in the eye of the storm. With her career and personal life in permanent flux, the only constant in her life is chaos. Of the paparazzi, gossip and controversy that stalk her, she says: “I don’t notice it. There are times when it drives me nuts, but it’s been going on since I was 13. Ten years. I don’t know if I can change it. When I don’t give people opportunities to write something, they make something up. It’s flattering that they are that interested in me. They build you up to take you down.” All in a day’s work for Ms Lohan.
HMMM … it kinda all looks the same, sounds the same. How many times have we seen this photoshoot? How many times have we heard her say the same sorts of things in previous interviews? As much as she would like to believe that she is in control, it really sounds like she really is NOT in control … she just seems to be going with the flow, taking on projects that are being made available to her (ie. creative director of a major fashion house) in place of the projects that are not being made available to her (ie. acting roles). I’m not sure what it’s going to take for her to really find focus and, hopefully, success. Until she really buckles down and settles on something to do well, I fear she’s gonna float from thing to thing … stumbling all the way.
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October 26th, 2009 at 9:53 am
She’s an idiot if she doesn’t fully comprehend why she’s a target. Lindsay makes herself a target on purpose. I don’t know why celebrities don’t understand. I do realize that they’ll be a target no matter what but this is silly.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I actually feel very sorry for Lindsay. She has the most horrific fame whoring parents, who don’t seem to care for Lindsay the person. They just seem to care for the fame/wealth/attention that she brings to them. I wish she’d find someone to help stabilize her or get her into a program to really help her. If she doesn’t get it together soon, I’m afraid she’ll go down the same path as her idol Marilyn Monroe. Like some kind of self proficy.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:56 am
oops self fulfilling proficy.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Lindsay needs help. Immediately. She looks like she is 50 years old! I am really disappointed in her mother. Her mother thinks her behavior is normal!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Dear Lindsay,
How in the hell do you not understand why you’re a target? How about you stop partying like a crazy buffoon/doing drugs/looking like a hot mess and start regaining a career of some sort/becoming a role model/staying out of the public eye/becoming respectable because if you keep on this path of partying hard and constant immaturity/lack of acknowledgement as to why you’re a target in the media, you’ll never get out of this rut that you’re in and you can consider your film career goodbye.
With pity,
M
October 26th, 2009 at 10:33 am
she looks like shit.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Yeah, it’s sad. On the other hand, she must somewhat enjoy the debauched life she leads. Would I trade my boring-ass day job and broke circumstances? Yeah, probably. (Although maybe not if I had to have that horrible plastic-surgeoned mouth.) Nevertheless it’s sad because she didn’t get a chance to grow up in a normal way and doesn’t seem to have loving people around her. I hope she finds a way to connect with reality at some point and get some grounding.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Narcissist. She truly believes in the idea she’s a target.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I only recently realized what a beautiful eyecolor this girl has. I guess I was always too distracted by her bad hair/skin/clothing… Poor girl… I feel sorry for her sometimes, just because her parents are such freaks… how COULD she be normal??
I also wonder what she’s been staying wasted on, lately…
October 26th, 2009 at 11:26 am
It’s not even funny anymore someone plz send this child to Jamie Spears plz.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Oh and car crash is that a nice way of saying trainwreck???
October 26th, 2009 at 11:31 am
sooo..is she supposed to look like a drugged out hooker that doesn’t know where she is? cuz if she is…they’re dead on with this shoot!
October 26th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Interesting that she kept sniffing her nose and talking super fast – anyone catch that?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
SO, sniffing all the time, talking at breakneck speeds, always late or not showing up, being rushed to the hospital… doesn’t really sound like she’s still clean and sober, does it?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
haha b, we’re on the same wavelength
October 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
It scares me to think that this was the same star from ‘Freaky Friday’ or even from ‘Mean Girls’. This girl has really let herself go.
I almost feel sorry for her… sort of.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
B and Ella, I was thinking the same thing! Sniffing, talking super fast…..hmmmm. I am not usually a big fan of her dad, but he does seem to be the only one trying to help her.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Cocaine is a hell of a drug OK
October 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Someone please help this girl. I agree with JadedKitten please send her to Jamie Spears. A conservatorship with her parents would be useless, they didn’t pay attention to anything but getting a chunk of her paycheck when she was younger. Lets face it both of them would fight each other to the death to get the kind of money Jamie Spears is making per month to babysit Britney, but at least it looks like it’s working in her case.
This girl is going to either OD or kill herself if someone doesn’t help her soon. Do it before she drags Ali down with her.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Oh and what is wrong with that mother letting someone that is so unstable take a minor to a foreign country?
October 27th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Lindsay Lohan’s out there, riding the storm of celebrity notoriety and you know what? She’s having a blast. But of course, nobody’s gonna leave her alone. So why should she care? She’s seen more, done more and experienced more than most 23 year-olds and later on in her life it’ll probably translate into wisdom. Right now, she’s too young to care and why should she? People will slate her whatever she does. I’m impressed that they’ve kept her on and Ungaro, because maybe long term, this is just what the jacked-up world of high fashion needs: a whimsical devil-may-care starlet to bring in the next generation
October 28th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Whambam you took the words right out of my mouth, but made is sounds so much better. On my own side note I think she’s a hot mess, daring enough to not give a shit and putting it out there. I don’t think she wants our pity, live your life lady.