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Cuckoo for Coco

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Diet Coke teams up with Coco Rocha to promote Lagerfeld lifestyle

Coke party: Jeneil Williams, Coco Rocha and Heidi Mount (Image: Coca-Cola)

Coco Rocha has teamed up with fashion friend Karl Lagerfeld and Coca-Cola in a campaign to promote designer-sponsored, limited-edition Diet Coke bottles. Rumour has it that Lagerfeld once lost 90 pounds by consuming nothing but Diet Coke and steamed vegetables for over a year. The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports that he even has a butler to dispense the pop at his whim. We’d like to raise our own Lalique crystal goblet to Rocha and Lagerfeld, ’cause how unhealthy could it be to drink Diet Coke, as Lagerfeld notes, “every day and night?” We just hope Rocha is simply helping out her friend and lining her pockets, not reacting to allegations that she’s too fat to model. Coco, we love you just the way you are.

The Hype

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On The Hype this week: Atom Egoyan on Chloe, AGO lay offs, Broken Social Scene movie

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are the highlights from The Hype this week:

A bad week for the Canadian film industry as two major institutions close

AGO to lay off 37 after receiving $7.5 million from government

Q&A: Atom Egoyan on the making of Chloe

Toronto garbage strike at centre of Broken Social Scene movie

Kelly Cutrone to Jaclife: call me

Kristen Stewart a no-show at Toronto premiere of The Runaways

Galleries reap rewards of Ossington restaurant restrictions

Bruce LaBruce interviews Karl Lagerfeld

Greener pastures: Brody Jenner’s next Canadian conquest

DJ Jazzy Jeff signs Toronto artist

Don McKellar named Canada’s George Clooney

The Hype

The Fame Monsters

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Karl Lagerfeld opposes gay marriage, plus eight other things learned from his interview with Bruce LaBruce

Toronto filmmaker slash smarty-pants smut-monger Bruce LaBruce’s Q&A with designer Karl Lagerfeld in Vice has been circulating around the fashion media, even getting a mention in Shinan Govani’s column today. For the time crunched, nine highlights from the seven-page interview.

1.    Lagerfeld opposes the idea of gay marriage: “I’m against it for a very simple reason: in the ’60s, they all said we had the right to the difference. And now, suddenly, they want a bourgeois life.” LaBruce agrees.

2.    Lagerfeld doesn’t like to take off his glasses, which he calls “a burka for a man,” because he is nearsighted.

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Required Reading

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Lady Gaga and Rufus Wainwright join forces, designers like big butts, tighty whiteys are cool again

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Say goodbye to bold briefs (Photo by Nick Starr)

• There are wedding rumours yet again after Marc Jacobs and boyfriend Lorenzo Martone were photographed in St. Barts in front of a cake topped with miniature Jacobs and Martone figurines. Reps have denied the nuptials, saying the cake and party were in celebration of their engagement. The couple is apparently planning a March wedding, and judging by Jacobs’ penchant for grabbing headlines, it won’t be a quiet affair. [Huffington Post]

• Following the lead of such labels as Missoni and Versace, Giorgio Armani will open his first hotel in the recently opened Burj Dubai Tower, newly crowned as the world’s tallest building, on March 18. Armani plans to open other hotels in Milan, Marrakesh, Egypt, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and London. Surely this period of rapid expansion will work wonders for Armani and co., as it has for Dubai itself. [Vogue]

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Hermès accused of hoarding alligator skins, Karl Lagerfeld creates SpongeBob doll, Tom Ford disses Jason Reitman

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Tom Ford at the TIFF premiere of A Single Man (Photo by Karon Liu)

• Canadian model Coco Rocha announced last week that she’s launching her own fashion line. No details yet, but her sketches include high-waisted skinny jeans, ankle-skimming pants, and a shirt, skirt and cape. We’re not impressed with the initial designs, but if her line comes out anything like Kate Moss for Topshop (we hope, coming to The Bay), we won’t complain. [Oh So Coco]

SpongeBob SquarePants got a makeover courtesy of Karl Lagerfeld, who moulded the cartoon creature into a golden mini-Karl, complete with sunglasses, fingerless gloves, shirt and tie. The figurine fetched 1,000 euros at a World Wildlife Fund charity auction. Lagerfeld has already designed a teddy bear in his image, but fans shouldn’t wait for a Karl doll. The designer told W magazine, “Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. Frightening.” [WWD]

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Toronto International Film Festival 2009

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Latest from Yorkville: Celebs are staying inside until nightfall

Sassafraz awaits the teeming masses (Photo by Fraser Abe)

Sassafraz awaits the teeming masses (Photo by Fraser Abe)

This afternoon, we went to the secret celeb hotspot known as Yorkville in an attempt to see a few of our faves, but were shocked at the serenity of it all. The calm before the storm, perhaps? Sassafraz’s patio was nowhere near capacity. One‘s lunchtime terrace was looking sparse. Ditto for other local favourites Remy’s, Hemmingway’s and Flo’s. Like the celebs themselves, the stalkers still seem to be in hiding. The scene at the front doors of The Hazelton and The Four Seasons were all crickets and tumbleweed.

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