Media-Whore D'Oevres



(Jade Jagger & Co. via papermag)

"TOD’S and London's Whitechapel Art Gallery attracted a veritable slew of models, bankers, art collectors and party lovers to its annual Art Plus Film Party last night. Guests like model-of-the-moment Agyness Deyn and her partner in partying designer Henry Holland enjoyed seafood, sweets and Laurient Perrier Champagne all night while Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant DJ-ed from his black MacBook." (Papermag)

"The economy shed 63,000 jobs in February, the government said on Friday, the fastest falloff in five years and the strongest evidence yet that the nation is headed toward — or may already be in — a recession. Labor Picture in February Manufacturers and construction companies, reeling from the worst housing slump in decades, led the declines in payrolls. But the losses were spread across a broad range of businesses — including department stores, offices and retail outlets — putting increased pressure on consumers’ pocketbooks." (NYTimes)

"US Navy (USN) expeditionary strike group has been deployed to the eastern Mediterranean in the wake of increasing tensions between Lebanon and Syria. The strike group is led by the Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship USS Nassau and includes the Austin-class amphibious transport dock USS Nashville, the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Ashland, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Philippine Sea and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Ross. The six vessels left the United States on 19 and 20 February, the navy said. The destroyer USS Cole - which was seriously damaged in a terrorist attack in Aden in 2000 - is already in international waters off the coast of Lebanon, accompanied by two refuelling ships." (Janes)

"Who's a lucky girl? Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker received an expensive gift from pal Mario Lopez as the two lunched together in Hollywood.With her basket ball star husband Tony Parker away on work duties, Eva, 33, joined Mario for an outdoor lunch at Café Med in LA.Dancer and TV presenter Lopez turned up with a gold necklace in a Cartier bag for the already pampered Hollywood star." (Thisislondon)

"Somali-born model turned rights campaigner Waris Dirie has been found alive two days after she went missing in Brussels prompting a police hunt, Belgian authorities said Friday.The 43-year-old naturalised Austrian, a UN ambassador in the campaign against female genital mutilation, went missing in the early hours of Wednesday after getting into a taxi outside a hotel in the Belgian capital.A spokesman for the local prosecutor's office said she had been found in Brussels on Friday afternoon, but he could give no immediate information on where she had been since she went missing or on her physical state.The Belga news agency reported that Dirie had been found 'safe and sound'." (AFP)