Wraps come off fashion world’s ‘best-kept secret’
Movie on the way about ‘supermodel snowpocalypse’ in Chile in 1977
Top models snowed in at a highend Chilean ski resort with photographers, booze, cocaine and assorted rich South Americans. If you can’t make a movie out of that, then you’re just not trying. Now Paul Feig, who directed the new Ghostbusters movie, will indeed give it a shot.
This actually happened, back in 1977, when then 21-year-old Jerry Hall and other models, along with US$2 million worth of fur coats, were up in the Andes shooting a catalogue for Neiman Marcus.
The tale was related in Elle mag last winter, under this headline: This Drug-Fueled, MultimillionDollar Supermodel Snowpocalypse Has Been Fashion’s BestKept Secret Since ’77.
Now the Hollywood Reporter says Feig will produce, but not direct, a movie about it, for Paramount. No casting news yet. When Eva Longoria launches a clothing line, she doesn’t fool around: Eva Longoria For Women offers 250 designs, Eonline.com reports: stretch denim, pencil skirts and blazers for the office, T-shirts, and “body con dresses,” whatever they are.
She’s been working on this for two years.
“The thing that people don’t know about me is that I sew,” she told E, “and so I am really involved in the construction and the seams and the textiles and materials. … I want this line to have my DNA.”
She’s 41. Singer Ariana Grande decided it was time to break free from backup dancer Ricky Alvarez, Entertainment Tonight reports, and told the world via Twitter:
Grande, who had a hit single called Break Free, posted these comments: “Life is wild … and change is (bad word) fantastic … Change. Feeling free. Happy. Banginnnnnnn.” She erased her Instagram posts that include Ricky, ET says. And she changed her hairstyle.
They were together for about a year. Just two months ago she was telling Billboard “we’re happy.”
She’s 23.