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.
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.
Last Wednesday, the relaunch of LondonVIP club Chinawhite on Winsley Street in Soho proved memorable for many - including Prince Harry, who watched ex-love Chelsy Davy get too close for comfort to renowned playboy Hugo Taylor after the pair enjoyed a few glasses of Champagne together.
Celebrity gossips claim that word got back to Harry that Hugo made a play for his former girlfriend at the relaunch of the London night club and the young prince - third in line to the throne - was furious at the news…
A source said: “Hugo had told a number of pals that he’s got his eye on Chelsy, and as they are all in the same circle of friends it got straight back to Harry.”
Hugo, known as ‘Fagin’ by friends, is a new club promoter for Chinawhite - alongside Forbidden London Clubs of course - and has been linked to Princess Eugenie and model Saskia Boxford.
Chelsy and Harry met in 2004 and were together for five years. They split at the beginning of this year and have been linked with a number of other people - namely, for Harry, TV presenter Caroline Flack - but finally sorted out their differences and got back together last month.
Despite seeing other women, the prince was apparently “gutted” when Chelsy called off their romance. The course of true love never did run smoothly…
Brian Duffy, one of the most dynamic and inventive photographers of the 1960s, made up ‘The Black Trinity’ with friendly rivals Terence Donovan and David Bailey.
This trio were amongst a group who kept bumping into each other at the same clubs in London’s West End districts of Soho and Mayfair - a heady mix of actors, pop stars and “jelly men”, criminals who used gelignite to blow safes. It didn’t seem strange that photographers like Bailey and Duffy could take pictures of the Beatles and the Krays.
They snapped the celebrities of the day - pop stars, actresses and models. The Lennons, the Caines, and the Twiggys were captured in black and white, frozen for posterity in prints.
After more than a twenty years at the cutting edge of photography, Duffy vanished from the London scene as rumours spread that he had burned his negatives.
Ever the anarchist, Duffy had indeed begun this destructive, yet cathartic procedure one afternoon in 1979 thankfully not all the negatives were destroyed.
Now, forty years on, and after three years of painstakingly archiving the surviving images, Brian Duffy will display his photographs for the first time at the Chris Beetles gallery on Ryder Street in Mayfair / St James’s between Wednesday, 14th October and Saturday, 7th November.
The exhibition - an extraordinary body of work that powerfully documents the vibrancy of London in the ‘Swinging 60s’ - features 60 virtually unseen portraits, fashion photographs, and personal pictures by a man who, with his two friends, revolutionised the photography business.
Girls are not the only thing Katy Perry has been kissing (and liking)! After hooking up with celebrity love machine Russell Brand at the MTV Video Music Awards the two can’t get enough of each other.
Reports claim romantic Russell sent Katy a text message containing a love poem and begged her to write one back. The pop princess / gossip queen replied with a photo of her cleavage with the word ‘poem’ scrawled across.
Brand, obviously impressed by the gesture, whisked Californian Katy on a trip to Thailand for a week of fun – which the celebrity twittered was ‘magical’.
Poems, breaks at luxury hotels and snap shots of special places; who said romance was dead! Usually Russell is more used to charming beautiful models and groupies at top London clubs and other London events.
Posh Spice, aka Victoria Beckham, was spotted in Mayfair on Monday night looking somewhat frail, giving some of the waif-like models a run for their money.
The press were on hand to see the style icon go to Vogue magazine’s Fashion Week private London party at top restaurant Le Caprice in Mayfair last night. Of course she was surrounded by hordes of photographers swarming for celebrity pictures. She was papped taking a call on her mobile phone - which might have made more sense if she had actually held it the right way round, instead of talking into the battery.
Celebrity 95.8 Capital Radio presenter, ex-girlfriend of actor George Clooney Lisa Snowden is usually the epitome of cool, but it was a different story at the Britain’s Next Top Model end-of-season party at the Cafe de Paris on Coventry Street in Soho last weekend, on the Saturday.
Rumour has it that the former model let her hair down so successfully that she had to be helped into a chair. We have been told that the party got underway after several bankers spotted Lisa at the London nightclub and sent over five Magnums of Champagne to the VIP. The bankers then asked to be moved next to her. Apparently she even turned down a marriage proposal from one of them.
But it was a good night for the Cafe de Paris as models from the reality show, presented by Lisa, spent £15,000 at the bar on cocktails, vodka and Champagne.
Celebrity singer, Pussycat Doll Kimberley Wyatt, went wild last night at top London VIP club Vendome Mayfair on Piccadilly in the salubrious area of Mayfair.
The beautiful pop-star is rumoured by gossips to have splashed out over £1,400 on champagne and cocktails at the bar for her friends as they chatted in the VIP club, and happily posed for celebrity pictures with fans.
On this occasion Pussycat Doll Kimberley had more stamina than bandmate Ashley Roberts, who spent the evening in her luxury hotel room at the London Metropolitan, while partner Leo DiCaprio partied the night away with glamorous models at Whiskey Mist, also in Mayfair, to toast the club’s 1st birthday.
Top Fashion Brand LIPSY hosts their Midsummer party this Wednesday at London VIPClub Movida. There will be a champagne reception with Moet Rose at 9.30pm, with many celebrities and models rumoured to be attending. Expect to party until the early hours. Please contact Forbidden London Clubs for guestlist.
So why not take a trip to Mayfair and enjoy the night with Pimms cocktails, and a top DJ playing sizzling summer house music. Be sure to be on the VIP Guest list for this ultimate event at this exclusive club, a favourite with many a celebrity.
