Archive for September, 2007

Richie Sambora was all smiles Wednesday night as the rehabbing rocker stepped out with his fellow Bon Jovi bandmates to be honored by the Recording Academy’s New York Chapter.

Sambora, who’s been receiving ongoing treatment, declared, “Welcome to the record business rehab.”

Before accepting the honor along with the band, Sambora, wearing a black suit and looking rested and happy, told Foxnews.com’s Roger Friedman, “I’m sober, I’m good.”

Of his time at the Cirque Lodge in Utah (where Lindsay Lohan is also receiving treatment), he said, “I’m going back just to do finish this weekend. I figured, why not get to the bottom of this and really understand it?”

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If you already had a wee hunch the world was going to hell in a hand-basket, your suspicions would have found ample confirmation in the dark, depressing duds trotted out by designers at the Spring 2008 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York, just concluded.

If clothes can be pessimistic, these were.

“Part of the way [my] collection is constructed has to do with the post-apocalyptic world,” says Yeohlee Teng, designer and creative director of the Yeohlee line. “[My] collection is about my vision of [the] future, [what clothes will look like] when the world is destroyed and we are without machines to make the clothes.”

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Richie Rich, designer of contemporary women’s wear line Heatherette, knows how to grab the attention of a fickle fashion crowd.

“One year, we had a ‘Babes in Toyland’ theme, so we created a dress made entirely of stuffed animals,” he says of a recent collection. “That was definitely one of my favorites.”

Rich isn’t the only designer to send attention-grabbing pieces down the runway. During the men’s Spring 2008 collections in Milan last summer, John Galliano swathed his models’ bodies in bullet-proof vests. For his subsequent couture show in Paris, dresses were so intricately embellished they each weighed at least 40 pounds. Creations seen this week in New York include a wooden bathing suit and a 50-carat canary diamond necklace.

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