Sick of the post-Emmys coverage yet?
Even if you only a watched a smidge of the entertainment shows the past two days, you know more than enough.
Where to get knockoffs of Emmy dresses: ABS and Faviana. (They look cheap to me).
What was bleeped from the telecast ("god-damn" and "screw"). (Oy vey).
And all about the parties: apparently cry-baby Kanye (who parodied himself on the show) did surprise sets at both the TV Guide after-party at Les Deux and Justin Timberlake's concert on Sunday.
(I went to JT's show on Monday, more about that in this week's Nightranger).

As promised here's some tidbits about the party I attended, The People/Entertainment Tonight soiree at the Disney Concert Hall:
Duran Duran were the highlight. Seriously, Simon Lebon's vox sound just like they did back in the '80's. The band smartly stuck to the hits, only debuting one new one, called "Falling Down" from their new release, fittingly titled (for this crowd), "Red Carpet Massacre." Lebon said the band worked on it with Timabland and Justin Timberlake (Isn't JT also on Reba McKintire's new one? These two may be talented, but gawd, who won't they pimp themselves out to?). Speaking of which...

Celeb sightings:
Debra Messing (chatting with America's Next Top Model's Miss Jay) looked stunning in white, but her train was getting mighty dingy by mid-bash.
Larry Birkhead (see photo, which I shot on the Red Carpet) has the bluest eyes I've ever seen. He's cute, but like a deer in the headlights.
The Insider's Pat O'Brien is orange. (But you probably already knew that).
Tori Spelling looks amazing after just having a baby! (Don't they all?)
Gerri Ryan (not sure what show she's currently on, but she was on Star Trek) loooves Duran Duran. She was quite literally dancing under Lebon's crotch the whole set, her loaned diamonds and pearls shimmering under the lights.

And for the party perks:
A Godiva chocolate bar! Pure heaven.
Patina Catering. Yum.
Free Maybelline makeup and Garnier face cleansing products.

And the 5 lb goodie bag (which we scored!):
Sarah Jessica Parker's new perfume, candles, candy, cookies, more makeup and skin products, DVDs, gift certificates for massages and facials, CDs, and the book guaranteed to make us all feel guilty about the party's many indulgences- Skinny Bitch (basically a mean-spirited vegan cookbook).
SCREW that. I say as I bite another Godiva, and it tastes GOD DAMN good too...

Read more about the party in a star-crossed edition of Nightranger (also covering everything from Har Mar Superstar's pilot shoot to World of Wonder's "Celebritism" exhibit), out tomorrow.

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Gorgeous getups or no, I just can't sit through another 3 hours of E! pre-Emmy red carpet coverage this year-- even if Ryan Seacrest has moved from kissing asses outside of the event to actually hosting it.

UPDATE: APPARENTLY HE DID BOTH! WHAT KIND OF ENERGY PILLS IS THIS GUY ON? I WANT SOME!

(I will however, watch the beginning of the show as I get ready for the People magazine Emmy after-party at the Walt Disney Concert Hall...more on this tomorrow).

Anyway, you'll find billions of blogs a baggin' on the bounty of overpriced (and loaned) gowns, jewels and shoes that parade into the Shrine today, especially if you like 'em vicious.

Meanest of the mean? Who else? Face-lift fiend Joan Rivers and spawn Melissa, who've been fired from TV Guide and banished to the web, which seems to have made their bites extra bitchy. (Guess it's easy when you don't have to face the celebs, huh?)

So far they've compared America Ferrera to the Good Year blimp, made fun of Sally Field's osteoperosis and made a racist remark about Eva Longoria getting married for a green card.

Just like when she was on TV, the old bag gets it all wrong: Longoria's from Texas and her hubby's French, so he's the foreigner. I'm all for inappropriate, no holds barred humor (I love Sarah Silverman) and I know Joan was one of the first female comedians to really go there, but this just feels bitter and forced. Might be time to hang up your Golden Hangers ladies.

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Kitson is about to get some fierce competition... Intermix, the über popular NYC fashion boutique has announced it will open its first West Coast shop on Wednesday, September 26th (despite what you may have heard from Daily Candy).

When I lived in NYC, Intermix was THE place to go for up-to-the- minute designer pieces, I would often spend hours drooling in the relatively small space on 5th Ave. crammed with Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and tons of others.

Now, we can head to the 5,000 square foot shop on Robertson and spread the drool.

Intermix
110 N. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, (310) 860-0113
Store Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Yeah, Kanye West keeps it real.
First his Bush comments on the Katrina telethon, then his stance on the MTV/Britney debacle. (One word: “exploitation.”)
He was also the first to admit the whole 50 Cent beef was a stunt to sell records. (And by the way, why did so many new records come out on Sept. 11? Kinda morbid if you ask me…)
Despite K’s candor though, he bugs me. Must he cry like a baby every time he doesn’t win an award? (This would actually be funny, if he wasn’t being serious).
And must he continue to wear sunglasses (even if they are Jeremy Scott shades) at night?
Hope someone tells him you have to be on TV to win an Emmy,
(he’s performing on the show this Saturday).

Long before rap music was anointed the soundtrack to disenfranchised youth, a li'l English band called The Sex Pistols dissed its leaders and honed a rebel yell that nobody has matched since. I got to meet the ringleader, the one and only Johnny Rotten last week (Kanye take note: instead of coveting statues for the trophy case, just do your own thing; someday MTV will give you an honorary award and you can snub them like the Pistols did The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame).

Anyway, see what Johnny's up to in this week’s Nightranger.

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No, it's not the name of some Japanese bukkake film, Tokyo Hardcore, is a series of clips presented by Tarina Tarantino to launch her latest collection. Tokyo Hardcore the jewelry line was inspired by her first trip to Japan—lots of crystals, sparkle, and neon colors of the Tokyo skyline.

Tarantino's catalogues are like works of art, like mini coffee table books, the last one Hollywoodwonderland featured Ileanna Douglas, in black white and silver metallic, in an old classic car, big dark sunglasses, draped in Tarantino pearls and lucite.

To keep us in suspense until the latest catalogue is released, you can view snippets of Tokyo Hardcore on buzznet.com, starring AFI frontman and straight-edge guru Davey Havok and Queen of the Internet Jeffree Star.

It’s a story of insane love, intense desire for fame, obsession, betrayal, and murder.

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Hey it happens. I guess. Agent Provocateur's got your areolas covered with their nipple balm, called Titillation. The "nipple refresher" also comes with a lip plumper for those "high traffic areas." But you might want to consider taking it easy with those nipple clamps...

$40, available at Bloomingdales, www.agentprovocateur.com

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By Lina Lecaro

She had a lot of people rooting for her.

But Britney Spears' opening performance at the MTV VMAs tonight -though not the trainwreck some said it might be- was just... blah. Talk about going through the motions. Her moves were robotic, her outfit unflattering, her lip-syncing half-ass...

And where was the much-touted Criss Angel collaboration? Maybe if she disappeared into thin air during the performance or did some other mind-freaky feat, all would be forgiven... maybe.

Anyway, I'll leave it to every other blog out there to bash Brit more. In fact, I'm gonna say something nice: her makeup and blue contacts looked, uh, kinda pretty.

As for the show itself, MTV really made an effort to try something different, featuring performances from different suites throughout the Palms Hotel. Nice to see the rockers and the rappers joining forces ( Gym Class Heroes and Fallout Boy, Timbaland and Linkin Park, Ceelo and Foo Fighters) and props to Justin Timberlake for pointing out the pitiful fact that despite its much-hyped music awards show- the channel doesn't even show videos anymore.

Fashion-wise, I expected a lot more glitz with the show being in Vegas. As usual, the rap dudes pulled out the bling, the rock dudes donned their ratty tees and only a few femmes conjured anything close to Lady Luck: Rhianna (all her getups were great, except the flesh-colored hose), Paris Hilton (channeling Christina Aguilera in leopard D&G), Jennifer Garner, Mary J. Blige, and Sarah Silverman (not her outfit, her comedic balls). Gawd I love her.

I was invited to a few VMA-related Sin City bashes myself, but after watching the show from the comfort of my couch, I'm glad I stayed put. MTV.com has so much crazy coverage on its site, you almost feel like you were there... minus tomorrow's hangover.

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The MisShapes: style revolutionaries or hipster hair/skinny jeans/80’s revisionists simply in the right place at the right time? I’m not sure. But, I will say this- the striking, early-twentysomething NYC club promoter/ DJ trio’s new book documenting the wild looks that made their club so fabulous, is an extremely fun flip thru. It’s not ground-breaking and probably doesn’t deserve all the kudos it’s getting from the fashion world, but it does capture the youthful exuberance of the club scene. And for LA fashion heads like moi, it also amplifies the New York mystique.

Read more in this week’s Nightranger.

SC: How did you guys come up with idea to do a book?

G: It wasn't really a conscious decision initially. It wasn't until about one year into the party did we start to notice similarities in the photos to images from books like We're Desperate and Fruits. At that point we thought it would be cool to really push that aesthetic and get great fashion portraits on the walls. About a year ago, I was transferring my files to a hard drive and realized we had over 200, 000 images. It was then I thought we really needed to do something with them other then just have them on the site. It would have been such a waste to let them disappear into the ether of the World Wide Web.

SC: How long did it take you to go through all the photos?

I've been editing them since the beginning for the web, but like say Mark Hunter, we know those photos like the back of our hands, for it only took me a few months to go through everything.

SC: What is the difference between LA and NYC nightlife-wise? What are the similarities?

I think it really depends where you go out to. There are great parties in both cities. I think New York has a bit of an advantage because it's a city that lends itself to a younger audience. There are more colleges and universities in New York than LA, and New York has the advantage or convenience. It's so easy to get from party to party, and in LA there are only a few things really going on at night and most of those places cater to an older audience, bottle service crowd or celebs. However because LA has that disadvantage, you end up with incredible house parties, and DIY type gatherings. I think each has its charm, but New York for me has a more riotous fun energy to it.

SC: Who from your NYC crew is traveling on the tour with you?

Myself, Greg.K and Leigh (The Misshapes), Sophia Lamar, Jackson Pollis, Pink Enemy and about 20 of our friends from both new York and LA.

SC: Why no IDs/names of people pictured in the book?

Well for one, I think it would be impossible to correctly ID everyone; there are thousands of people in there! Secondly it's not so much about a who's who, it's about everyone as a collective, the style and stories you might imagine behind the anonymous faces. We put a kind of list of musicians and artists on the back as a type of "where's waldo".... like find your favorite musician...

SC: What do you want people to "get" out of the book? Is it just about the fashion or something more?
For us it's about a few things. A document that shows a wonderful period in fashion and nightlife in New York City for both us and thousands of others who were a part of Misshapes, a fun picture book for those who couldn't be there, simply to enjoy the faces and style of various individuals, and if nothing more, a great example of young people immigrating to the greatest city in the world to cultivate something bigger than themselves... something I think so many people living in smaller cities dream about.

SC: Misshapes club still going on right now?

It is. Every Saturday and one off events on a regular basis both in New York and around the world. Dates are on www.myspace.com/themisshapes

SC: Future projects for all 3 of you? (Heard about an H&M ad...)

Yep, in the H and M ads for the Cavalli collaboration, we have a satellite radio show this fall, the book tour finishing here in America then Canada and into Europe for the fall, and then Asia later in the year. Plus all our fashion week obligations in New York, London, Milan and Paris. We have an exhibition in Paris at Colette and another in Japan later in the year. We are also expanding our (web)site to be more interactive with more content outside of the Misshapes photos. We really want to help promote other new acts, bands and artists.

SC: What are each of your fave tunes to spin right now?

Phillipians, Similou, The Teenagers, M.I.A and the new Siouxsie record Mantaray.

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Sure, this is Brooklyn, but couldn't it easily be Silverlake? Echo Park? Ah, hipsters making the world a smaller place, one MySpace profile picture at a time...

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Happy Labor Day lovelies! Party hearty but don't drink and drive or you may be forced to rock one of these with your fiercest footwear. The shoes are from YSL and the anklet, well that's from SCRAM. Wanna know whose working the crazy combo and actually still looking pretty classy? (Unlike Lindsay Lohan, who donned hers with gold heels and a bikini= trashy).

Read the last graph of this week's Nightranger to find out.

And yeah, it's just a coincidence that we posted two shoe shots in a row. Let the foot fetish links commence.

Photo by Lina Lecaro

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