She looks calm, collected and ready to take on the world .
But Jennifer Aniston’s visit to London may be a timely escape from a ‘violent’ stalker who believes he is in a relationship with her.
The actress has been granted a restraining order against Jayson Peyton, 24, who was found lying in wait for her with love letters, a sharp object, a roll of duct tape and a list of baby names for the child he hoped they would have.
Before being caught, he spent more than a week prowling the shops and restaurants she frequented in the hope of tracking her down.
But while Peyton is being held for psychiatric evaluation, Miss Aniston was in the UK for a much sweeter reason - the launch of her own brand of perfume at Harrods.
The 41-year-old described the fragrance as ‘a sexy clean smell that reminds me of the ocean’.
She spent an hour talking to thousands of fans who had turned up to see her and signed their bottles of the £23.50 perfume with a permanent marker.
Wearing a pretty figure-hugging nude dress embellished with bow detailing and strappy sandals, Aniston looked the perfect Hollywood star.
She revealed she works out at the gym seven days a week to keep her body in peak condition.
There was some confusion about the name of Aniston’s new scent as it was originally marketed as Lolavie.
But it is now called simply Jennifer Aniston – The Debut Fragrance.
Speaking about the scent earlier this year, Aniston said: ‘It’s been a year-and-a-half journey.
I’d been asked to do things before, and it never felt organic. ‘And it’s turned out to be an extension of myself as opposed to slapping my name on something.
‘Miss Aniston’s fragrance will vie for space in a crowded celebrity perfume market. But she does have head start on model Kate Moss’s Vintage Muse, Halle Berry’s Reveal,and Antonio Banderas’s The Secret which will all launch next month.
British supermodel, Naomi Campbell, has travelled from her London home to move to Moscow. She has made the move to be with her Russian billionaire boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, known as the ‘Donald Trump of Russia.’ The model announced Wednesday,
“I live in Moscow now permanently and I really love life there. I’m really happy and things are just going really well. You know, I just don’t know how many more catwalks I’m going to do from now on. We’ll just see.”
Perhaps if the model is taking a step down from the catwalk, she will continue on with her behind the scenes philanthropy efforts. Opening London Fashion Week, Campbell put together a Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show on Monday, February 12, to raise money for the victim’s of the Haiti earthquake. Celebrities, models and designers came out to support the cause; Rachel Zoe styled all of the looks, and Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss and Donna Karen were among the many famous faces in attendance and walking in the show. Coinciding with the event, Campbell also teamed up with famed British designer, Vivienne Westwood, to design a t-shirt with proceeds going to the White Ribbon Alliance. The t-shirt was first unveiled at the Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show, and was then showcased again during Westwood’s Red Label catwalk show, Monday, February 22.
Campbell has previously staged her Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show in New York City, and has plans to organize another show in Moscow.
Kate Moss (left), Annabelle Nielson, and Naomi Campbell at the Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show
Model Natalia Vodianova and Harper’s Bazaarco-hostedthe first London Love Ball. The event took place last night, Tuesday, February 23, at The Roundhouse in Camden. Celebrities, fashion designers and models attended the art auction, held to raise money for Vodianova’s charity, The Naked Heart Foundation. The Charity works to provide assistance to underprivileged children in Russia. Among the famous faces at the event were Kate Moss, Leona Lewis, and Stella McCartney.
New Year’s Eve in London is the biggest night of the year with millions of people flocking to the centre of the capital to enjoy the nightlife and the top night clubs hosting their most extravagant celebrity parties.
Although 2009 has been much publicised as a bad year for the economy the best London clubs are still pulling out all the stops with VIPs expected to be arriving in limousines and enjoying the events, popping Champagne bottles, as they normally would during the festive season.
These are clubs regularly frequented by A-list celebrity clubbers such as P.Diddy, JLS, Girls Aloud, Jay Z, Kate Moss and Beyonce where entry is controlled by strict guest lists and the crowd is mostly made up of elite clubbers more used to gracing the pages of Tattler than The Sun.
James WJ Wilson, Director of Forbidden London Clubs, one of the leading promotion companies in London’s club-land believes the top bars and clubs have everything to look forward to as he forecasts a great Christmas and New Year in the West End.
“London is the most fashionable city in the world and despite Gordon Brown’s best attempts to derail the economy, the nightlife – bars, night clubs and restaurants – particularly at the top end of the market, are still performing well.”
“People are perhaps not spending at the same level as they were two years ago, maybe we’ve seen the last of the bankers splurging £30,000 on bottles of Cristal Champagne for now, but overall most of our clients are wealthy and still want to enjoy themselves. In my opinion there is no better place to do that than at the best events in London which are hosted by the top clubs and promoters.”
Lord Dave West, owner of the HEYJOCLUB in St James’s is well known publicly thanks to his Cherie Blair assisted battle against the smoking ban and his penchant for bright pink suits; he echoed this view.
“I own one of the top clubs (HEYJOCLUB) and one of the best restaurants (Abracadabra Russian Restaurant) in Central London and we are finding that the high-end customers we entertain are still enjoying spending their money on fine food and fine wines”
“Many of our best clients are Russian and the government has not managed to ruin everyone’s fun yet, they’re still spending.”
With Christmas and New Year’s Eve just round the corner and most companies still planning on rewarding their staff for what could be considered a difficult year, things are looking bright for the glamorous London clubs the VIPs and celebrities love.
The middle of the week – or as the our New York cousins like to call it, ‘Hump Day’ – will never be the same again as one of the top VIP nightclubs in London, Vendome – based on Piccadilly in Mayfair, launches Vendome Wednesday this week.
There will be live music from former Libertine and Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty (the ex-boyfriend of model Kate Moss) and no stranger to rehab. Clubbers can also expect the best tracks from the London club chart from top DJs Kitt Proudfoot, Ollie Collins and Rich Stone.
If that wasn’t enough, there will be complimentary cocktails all night courtesy of Belvedere IX super premium vodka and no doubt plenty of bottles of fine champagne from the bar being popped and poured.
Leading makeup brand Rimmel London has taken on two fresh new faces, Georgia May Jagger and CoCo Rocha.
The models will appear along side Kate Moss, Lily Cole and Sophie Ellis Bextor in advertising campaigns early next year and no doubt will be partying with them at top London clubs, Boujis, Chinawhite and Maya, which celebs are often spotted at fueling gossip columns in the London papers!
Both girls are fast establishing themselves within the modeling world. Miss Rocha has previously worked with fashion brands Calvin Klein and Gap, and Miss Jagger has recently graced the cover of style magazine Vogue.
Stephen Mormoris, of Coty Beauty, said: “Georgia May Jagger & Coco Rocha were obvious choices to represent the Rimmel brand.”
“Their modern beauty & aspirational styles are complementary to the strong personalities of our existing ambassadors and will help Rimmel to continue to broaden its image and extraordinary growth worldwide.”
Dirty Pretty Things rock star Carl Barat – a former Libertine and band mate of Kate Moss’s ex Pete Doherty – has narrated and features in a documentary film about the demise of the London Docks. ‘No Place/Good Place: The Rime Of The Modern Mariner’ is due to premiere at the East End Film Festival in April 2010.
The film’s score was composed by former Dirty Pretty Things guitarist Anthony Rossomando.
The movie’s premiere will take place at the St Anne’s Church in Limehouse in the English Capital, with a Rossomando-led band set to play the score live. The date of the event is yet to be revealed.
The documentary describes the myths and folklore surrounding the London docks still believed by many modern mariners. It will be screened in selected London cinemas in addition to being shown at film festivals in Europe and the USA next year.
Celebrity model and fashion designer Kate Moss has joined the Performing Rights Society – which protects UK musician and songwriters’ rights – fuelling rumours she is about to embark on a recording career with current boyfriend Jamie Hince of The Kills who, gossips claim, is putting together a new band.
Miss Moss, a modern day cultural phenomenon, has previously co-written songs which made the charts with ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty for Babyshambles, provided vocals for Primal Scream and has played DJ on many occasions at top clubs and parties.
A spokesman for the Performing Rights Society confirmed Kate had joined the organisation and went on to say that it was a ’smart move’ as she could now collect royalties from her past works.
A top model, fashion princess and now a rockstar, is there nothing this girl can not do?!
She looks calm, collected and ready to take on the world .
