Lacroix + McQueen Line Please ASAP | The Awl

“If Gucci (Alexander McQueen’s 51% stakeholder) doesn’t hire Christian Lacroix to execute the ongoing, post-McQueen line of McQueen, I’ll be very gay-upset.”

“One day they had a fight about roots. Kristen [McMenamy] had arrived with black roots in blonde hair, and Linda [Evangelista] arrived with black roots in blonde hair; and both of them went mad, both saying they were first. Really, that is a big thing for models — roots! They were calling the hairdresser in New York, the colourist in New York, and I was called on as a witness to say who was the first to do black roots in blonde hair. At the time Steven Miesel [sic] was really inventing the look of the girls in this way, so I knew who was first: Kristen.”

“The first time they got together, it was the big girls versus the new girl. I remember one time backstage: Linda needed to go on the runway. She was about to put in her fake boobs and found one of them had been taken. ‘Where is my boob? Where’s my boob?’ she was screaming over and over. I think it was Kristen — it was always Kristen. Gianni’s reaction? [She mimics his angry stage-whisper.] ‘You want this, you like this, so you take care of this!’ I would be stuck in the middle. And all those girls turned out to be icons: Kate, Amber, Kristen, all icons.”