Chic Report

Ready for some TGIF-apropos nail news? Not one to follow trivial trends, essie is finally getting into the nail wrap game. It’s about time! The talon experts have rolled out Sleek Stick Stickers available in 12 designs ranging from “Don’t Cheetah On Me” (animal print, obvi) to a blinged-out pattern entitled “Glam It On”.

Romeo Beckham proves he’s got his daddy David’s genes and energy in the new promo vid of Burberry’s Spring campaign directed by Christopher Bailey and shot by Mario Testino. Little Becks is all smiles as he “crashes” a shoot (video-bombs? campaign-bombs?) featuring Cara Delevingne, Edie Campbell, Charlotte Wiggins, Charlie France, and Max Rende. Now if only Romeo could get his mommy Victoria to try this smiling thing a bit more.

Tsk, tsk. According to Page Six, Valentino is in the naughty chair with his neighbors in the Swiss Alps ski resort town of Gstaad because he blasted Madonna dance tunes just a wee too loud at his New Year’s Eve bash. How very dare! “A number of residents complained to the police as it was echoing around the mountain, and one officer went to speak to someone at the gate of Valentino’s chalet. But it didn’t seem to make much difference, and the music just carried on,” a source told the publication.

Elle, yes! The new year is off with a bang for Andrej Pejic who has landed the cover of Serbian Elle’s January issue. Pejic’s dressed in Jean Paul Gautier on the cover and is featured in a spread as a man and woman. It’s the first time that a transgender mod has been on the cover of Elle, and it’s particularly poignant because the 21-year-old is a native of Serbia. Nice!

Oh, hello! Equinox and Terry Richardson are back for round trois of their notorious and naughty “By Equinox” campaign that kicks off 2013 with a gal in her undies jumping on a naked hottie. Classic Terry. Shot at the Stahl house in the Hollywood Hills, the notes for the campaign state that the ads “gives viewers an intimate peek into the lives of the other half – where provocative and playful meet at their luxurious weekend escape.” Who has the keys to that joint?

We fell in love with Jennifer Lawrence after catching her awesome performance in Silver Linings Playbook. Now we officially want to be her BFF after her blunt comments in Vanity Fair’s Feb issue about being a thespian. “Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid,” Lawrence tells them. “Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies.

Annie Hathaway (absolutely divine in Les Misérables!) covers the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK shot by David Slijper. The future Oscar winner (trust us, loves!) talks about her newbie husband Adam Shulman to the Brits telling them she fell for her guy right away: ”I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life.” Isn’t that precious? Hathaway will next be seen in the biopic of Liza Minnelli’s life story. (We kid, we kid, but that picture is soooooo young Liza.)

Chic’s life hasn’t been the same since body language expert Patti Wood has come into our world. We showed her this pic of Anna and Marc to find out what’s really going on when the photogs are snapping away.

If Chic knows one thing, it’s that being really, really rediculously good looking is a hard hand to play. Take David Gandy for example. The top male model has suffered tremendous pains in the ‘biz all because he’s a man…a very sexy man. “People still just think Zoolander,” David Gandy reports to UK’s Sunday Times Style.

Chic has a confession! Stella McCartney’s pre-fall 2011 collection made us swoon like a pre-teen at a Bieber concert. Gone were the popped-collar denim separates and Hampton-approved prints of spring. (Sad? Non!) In their place, was a modern bent on classic Stella-isms we’ve always adored: boxy double-breasted overcoats, lacy party frocks, mannish blazers tailored to sophistication, and knit sweater dresses swathed in vermillion, midnight, camel, and emerald. For fall, expect more ladylike dressing from Ms. McCartney accented with edgey metal-trimmed handbags (like her famous Falabella in “ox blood” crimson) and capes. Lots of capes!