The lighting is really just too good in many of these pics. Is December afternoon sun just the Platonic ideal of outdoor lighting? Inquiring minds wish to know. In any case, the lighting was exceptional for showing off celebs’ new Saint Laurent bags. They are the obvious favorites this week and most weeks it seems this season. Is Saint Laurent making an appearance on your holiday wishlist? Or have other new designer goodies caught your eye?
Anne Hathaway
Here’s Anne Hathaway, on the set of a movie currently filming in Brooklyn. Her character is carrying a Chloé Faye Bag, and I don’t know what film this is but I now have every plan to see it.
Emma Bunton
Baby Spice is making the rounds to talk about all things Spicy, of course. Here she is outside of Global Radio in London with a fetching Céline Belt Bag.
Jenna Dewan
Jenna Dewan recently enjoyed a well-lit lunch date in LA with this lovely brown suede Saint Laurent Bag.
Maria Sharapova
Here’s tennis star Maria Sharapova, navigating her way around LAX with a bulky Dior Book Tote.
EJ Johnson
EJ Johnson is quite fond of his exotic Hermès bags (and he owns several). Here he is fielding the paps with his exotic Hermès Kelly Bag.
Nicky Hilton
I am completely in love with Nicky Hilton’s winsome floral Saint Laurent College Bag. Nicky, when you’re done with it, I’m happy to take it off your hands.
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale was recently spotted in LA with a Louis Vuitton Bumbag, which is quickly becoming a classic…again?
Victoria Beckham
Finally, we have Victoria Beckham, carrying a hot red suede style from her own label, naturally. Don’t miss the security guy in the background happily snapping away!
Anne Hathaway is carrying a Chloe Faye–not a Drew.
please avoid using images of clearly anorectic celebrities in your blog posts (Victoria Beckham) to perpetuate the already heavily skewed image of healthy body image. It would be a great start towards social responsibility.
As someone who is naturally as skinny as VB, I take offense to this. I have a very similar build/frame and have a perfectly healthy body. I don’t feel any pressure to be or look any certain way. I am just myself. If we are to accept a variety of body types as representative of the rainbow of bodies that exist in reality, well, the skinny body type is also one of those that we must accept and not shame. Nowhere on this post is VB’s body perpetuated as some Platonic ideal of perfection for us all to slavishly copy. She’s just a woman who happens to be thin who, most importantly, is carrying a nice bag.
Unless you are Victoria, her doctor, or her close family/friends, you DON’T KNOW the state of her health, and are in no position whatsoever to call her “clearly anorectic”. She could be suffering from other health issues; it could simply be genetics; it could be that raising four children, running a global business, travelling, etc. are also keeping her on the move and slender. Whatever it is, you have no right to call her anorectic.
And even if she is, as a woman who’s always photographed, should she stop going out in public? Should she hide out in her home and not go to work or walk her kids to school to avoid her photo being taken? This is a pap shot of her walking out of a building. It’s not a glamorized ad to sell handbags. She’s not flaunting her slender body (she’s actually all covered up!), she’s just going about her daily life. And here you are judging her health and body as she does it. How are you any better than those who fat-shame women and drive them to eating disorders?
I have a friend every bit as thin as Victoria Beckham and she eats me under the table. The girl CANNOT gain wait. She hates it but she’s built that way. Her mom and dad are both tall and slender too. Some people are just. thin. Too thin for what the world (dumb people like you, kate) wants, but they can’t help it. Jesus, can we just stop criticizing everyone for every damn thing?
*weight*, not wait
Don’t just jump to conclusion, you don’t know that she’s anorexic. Some people are just naturally thin. I have friends who eat very healthy and live a healthy lifestyle but are super skinny. Skinny shaming someone is just as bad as fat shaming.
Suck it.
Please suck it when it’s your sister or daughter who has this picture of VB up on her wall as her #thinspo and believes that this is the ideal of beauty. If we continue to post these images and glamourise them with no conversation on how ill this poor woman looks then we become part of the problem. This is coming from a professional who looks after young women/men with eating disorders day in and day out.. these images are not innocuous-this is the psychosocial etiology of the illness.
God , you ARE a Moron.
Let’s erase and eliminate ANYTHING and everything that may cause another individual distress because they aren’t that, or own that, or whatever the case may be. Let’s just erase it because it may offend those that don’t have it.
You are truly an idiot. I lust over half these bags on this blog. Should they not post them because not everyone can have them and may feel bad about it?
Btw, #1, no one puts pictures up on their walls anymore, and #2 , fat Kardashian asses are the looks that’s desirable these days.
Step out of the eighties…
Who says she is beautiful ONLY because she is thin?
She is just beautiful ..period.
Your the only one here with a hang up about it.
I have 2 daughters BTW and neither of them could care less.
So now PB is going to ban all people that are too thin in YOUR opinion because it someohiw offends you?
STFU!
But does she really look ill? Apart from her thinness, she’s not presenting other physical symptoms of anorexia. Her hair looks shiny and healthy, her skin looks great, her teeth don’t look discolored. Even an actual doctor can’t and WON’T make an anorexia diagnosis based on photos alone, and yet somehow you can?
Yes, you look after young people with eating disorders and it must be difficult seeing them suffer through this. I certainly appreciate your point of view here. But it doesn’t give you license to pass judgment on a woman’s body and her health. Your comments can just as well drive a slender person towards their own ED, in the same way that fat-shaming does.
Haha, I probably have every symptom in the book for anorexia except for being skinny!
Your hypocrisy on this subject is alarming, especially if you are a licensed clinician. Recovery for those with ED is not removing triggers, it’s providing and developing healthy coping mechanisms so that those with disorders can live amongst the humans. You are encouraging a public forum that roots itself in style and fashion and accessories (appearances) to remove images of style icons. You are saying the general public is responsible for others’ mental health conditions. You are saying people with ED are obsessed with judgment based on looks and weight yet this is what you have just done to a woman whose value is much higher than what the scale says. You have indeed diminished her value to only that of her appearance instead of having amazing role model qualities as a wife, mother, fashionista, designer and businesswoman. Lastly, there are plenty of women out there who eat and eat and eat and cannot for the life of them put on a pound of weight. Myself included. Perhaps I should become agoraphobic and take down my IG for fear I might be responsible for influencing someone negatively? Perhaps we should also remove ads for alcohol and celebrities drinking as that might trigger alcoholics? Or all the pricey handbags we reveal here because that might trigger shopping/ spending addicts?
lol.
Regardless of what is causing her extremely slim figure, anorexia, thyroid gland-problems, or whatever else, not any illness should justify trying to censor people from the public view. She is just a person, like everybody else. We can’t ask her to hide or for others to not recognise her just because of her weight.
Companies using severely underweight women for selling things by having them posing in sexualised adds, or walking the catwalk showing off the latest fashion, for young girls and women to be inspired, that’s another story.
Exactly. She’s walking out of a building, not starring in an ad where she’s flaunting her skinnyness. She is always photographed wherever she goes, is she not supposed to go about her daily life because she’s very skinny? So only celebrities and public figures with a healthy body weight (what does that even mean?) should go out in public because everyone who is overweight or underweight is promoting an unhealthy body image/lifestyle?
This! So reasoned and the distinction clearly explained. Kudos.
If nearly 20% of the US population has mental illness each year, probably plenty of the posted pics of celebs and the like are rife with clinical issues. I think some are more obvious (extrinsically identifiable) than others. And IF she is indeed anorexic (or other eating/ process disorder) which should be a diagnosis only given by medical or mental health professionals, perhaps tolerance for everyone who has issues would be a better platform? I don’t think the above pic is glamorizing anorexia, quite the opposite. Like others said, it’s sad. Just because the world can “see” her struggles as evidenced by her appearance doesn’t mean the others pictured here don’t also struggle as well (just can’t see it so readily). Anorexia also comes with a host of other identifiers, where just being super thin isn’t a qualifier on its own. Sallow, jaundiced skin, sunken & yellowed eyes, hair on the face, thin and brittle hair that is falling out etc are more evident signs of a serious eating disorder other than just “weight”.
I agree, Victoria Beckham looks very ill to me. The picture just made me sad. I think those types of pictures, as you said above, should not be shared.
So people who are slender look “ill”? Even if they have shiny hair, healthy-looking skin, and are not manifesting any other physical symptoms of illness?
Nicky Hilton’s coat is SO cool (assuming it’s faux- if it’s not that BOOOO that coat blows!)!
It’s crazy to see the amount of shaming on this blog. From women about women but no one says shit when Rebel Wilson is parading around with her Alexander McQueen bag. Over weight is just as unhealthy as underweight. If you’re gonna call it out, don’t just do so because it’s fitting to YOU. Don’t be a hypocrite. Worst kind of people.