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Main >> News Listing >> June 2004 >> Article ID 5076
 Supermodel in snit | Type: Internet Article |
| | Supermodel in snit | Jun 03, 2004 | by BERNADETTE MORRA
Summary:
An article about Linda Evangelista. Christina mentioned.
Evangelista is one of the five current spokespeople for MAC's Viva Glam lipstick, the others being Boy George, Chloe Sevigny, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.
Read on for the whole article. |
It's so easy to forget that the sun doesn't rise and set on fashion.
So when I tell my friend Leslie that Linda Evangelista won't speak to me, her response is shocking.
"Who's Linda Evangelista?" she says.
I get the same reaction from someone else and, incredulous, I explain that she is Linda the supermodel from St. Catharines.
The famous one who flunked out of the Miss Teen Niagara pageant and went off to Paris and was married to Elite Model executive Gerald Marie and dated actor Kyle MacLachlan and soccer goalie Fabien Barthez and was quoted in Vogue as saying she wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
The Linda who is still modelling, even at 39.
Evangelista was in town to host Fashion Cares at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Saturday night. The event, titled MAC Viva Glam Superstar, raised more than $800,000 for the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT).
Evangelista is one of the five current spokespeople for MAC's Viva Glam lipstick, the others being Boy George, Chloe Sevigny, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.
The full $16 selling price of Viva Glam lipsticks goes to AIDS causes and in 10 years the MAC AIDS Fund has raised more than $44 million.
In her role as host, Evangelista presented a $100,000 cheque to ACT, appeared at a news conference alongside Fashion Cares talent that included the adored 60-year-old disco diva Patti Labelle, and made a speech to the 5,600 guests seated for the show.
She was also scheduled to do an interview with me but refused because she is still miffed about one point in a glowing story I did on her last year when she received her star on the Walk of Fame. In my research for an interview then (which never happened because she stood me up just hours before deadline), I discovered that Evangelista has made some canny real estate investments and said so in my piece in order to make the point that it is possible to have both beauty and brains.
The next time I spoke to her agent Didier Fernandez he was furious about my having included financial details (which had already been reported in another newspaper, by the way). Fernandez was quite explicit in his rage and apparently the sentiment has not waned.
MAC's response to all this? Lots of apologies.
I'm told this happens all the time in New York. It's part of the whole celebrity thing.
What's disappointing is that someone who has been so blessed feels justified in putting a personal gripe before the goal of raising as much money and awareness as possible for the cause.
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MODEL MANIA: Brett Rothrock knows exactly who Evangelista is. The 19-year-old aspiring model paid $536 to meet the star at Fashion Cares. "It was surreal," comments Rothrock, who had stumbled upon the opportunity during a Fashion Cares auction on http://www.ebay.ca. "I hung out with her all night in her room, backstage, and at the after-party. It was really cool."
Rothrock hails from "right in the middle of nowhere" Shelbyville, Illinois, population 5,000. "I did a report on models in my senior year. I think they are all great Cindy, Christy, Naomi. But Linda stuck out. She seemed the most glamorous and elegant. She's the only one who is a true supermodel, who has never made a CD or movies or calendars like a lot of others have. And when I was researching on the Internet, she is the only one I wasn't worried about dirty pictures coming up."
When Rothrock alerted his mother to the auction, "She said, `You have to go', and all my friends, who are not into fashion, were behind me, too. They said nobody ever gets to meet their icon."
Mom, a child development consultant, paid for the auction bid, the $400 (U.S.) flight from St. Louis, and two nights at the Hilton. Was it worth it?
"It was so much more than I expected," Rothrock raves. He, Fernandez, Evangelista, her mother, two brothers and some old school friends spent a good chunk of time chatting before and during the show in a meeting room above the main event.
"There was a couch, some sandwiches, fruit and cookies, a TV monitor so Linda could watch the show, and a table with gifts. She ate a little but not much. I think she was a little nervous before the show, as anyone would be. She wanted things to go well. She was practising her speech. It was important to her.
"After the show, we went to the after-party and we danced for about half an hour. Quite a few people asked for her autograph and pictures of her. She was nice about it. I would have been tired."
When the evening drew to an end, "She gave me her personal e-mail but asked me not to show it to anyone. She said to keep her posted on how the modelling goes. She was a lot like I thought she would be down to earth and fun."
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BLACK OUT: Evangelista wore a black lace one-shoulder Lanvin dress on Saturday night, accessorized with lots of diamonds (a watch, hoop earrings, a chunky pave ring), high, round-toe pumps, glossy red lips and a La Perla thong (a reporter for one of the gay magazines just had to know).
New York drag queen Lady Bunny, in a minidress bearing a gold Playboy bunny, declared her ensemble "Salvation Armani" and Depends.
Otherwise, colour dominated the event, with Pucci-type prints, glitter eyeshadow, pink sequins, metallic hot pants and that was just on the men.
The runway was just as lively with 11 sparkly knit dresses borrowed from London's Julien Macdonald and a couple of disabled models from Sue Charness Talent with their legs stuffed into latex mermaid tails and their wheelchairs jazzed up with palm trees, starfish, aqua lamι and shells.
There were also, as is always the way, so many bare butts that the stylist Maha had a man's nude thong stuffed into his back pocket, just in case. "There's always a shortage backstage," he sighed.
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SHOP TILL YOU POP: I can't imagine a more eclectic bazaar than at Fashion Cares, where in one corner you have a sofa and coffee table from Sears and in the other, a camouflage-print sex harness swinging from the ceiling. The latter device was part of a silent auction package that included a white toilet, some brightly coloured lamps and modular furniture. The grouping was valued at $7,000 but when I happened by, there was only one bid, for $1,500, from a guy name Larry. |
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