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Though Anna Wintour may not have pleased with Andre Leon Talley’s recent tome “The Chiffon Trenches,” wagging fashion tongues contend that Supermodel/entrepreneur Tyra Banks is even more perturbed by Jay Manuel’s novel “The Wig, the Bitch & The Meltdown.” The novel details the behind-the-scenes and goings on of a reality model competition, Model Muse.
According to pagesix.com, “Tyra is not happy about the book,” explained a pagesix.com insider. “There was some kind of meeting with Tyra [and] some sort of message was sent out regarding the book coming out. A couple of months ago, she asked a lot of the “America’s Next Top Model” family to not interact with Jay and to not support the book.”
We’re told “ANTM” coach Miss J had been appearing on Manuel’s Instagram Live show “Jay’s Chat,” but “all of a sudden, Jay received a call that Miss J can’t [do the chats]. He pulled out without an explanation and hasn’t returned calls. They have a close relationship and now all of a sudden he disappeared.”
Tyra’s discontent or not, “The Wig, the Bitch & The Meltdown” sales are pretty good. The original publication date of “The Wig, the Bitch & The Meltdown” was August 3.
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Out of my price range
If you love expensive sneakers, the price of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordans that recently sold for $615,000 might be too rich for your blood. That’s right, Michael Jordan’s 1985 game-worn Air Jordans’ High 1 that were worn by Jordan during a 1985 exhibition in Italy when he dunked the ball so hard it shattered the glass backboard were sold at Chrystie’s for $615,000, making the sneakers the biggest price tag for any sneakers ever sold for by an auction house.
“This is the original shoe with an actual piece of the backboard, a piece of glass, in the sole of the shoe,” said Caitlin Donovan, head of handbag and sneaker sales at Christie’s—which organized the auction with Stadium Goods, as reported in fashionnetwork.com. At the exhibition, while wearing the 13.5 size Air Jordans, Michael Jordan racked up 30 points.
Jordan’s auctioned items have been getting and going beyond top price at auction houses since the release of his Netflix/ESPN documentary, “The Last Dance.” This documentary chronicles Jordan’s years with the Chicago Bulls.
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Guess has a new guy
Italian actor/singer Michele Morrone has a new job. He is the global face of Guess Men’s. Morrone is a star of Italian and Polish films and television series.
“It’s an incredible feeling being able to have fun on set doing what I love, while having a sense of comfort that I’m now part of such an amazing family. Family and loyalty are important to me, and I want to take this brand and treat it as my own,” said Morrone, as detailed in a fashionnetwork.com article.
“Michele is an extremely hard worker, and a very ambitious and decisive man and these are all qualities I deeply appreciate. In a matter of minutes, we knew we were going to work together and a few weeks after that very first meeting, we met again in Lake Como to shoot these spectacular images,” added Guess chief creative officer Paul Marciano.
—William S. Gooch
$615,000 for a pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordans??? OMG has the world gone completley mad? They were not a good pair of trainers in the first place!