
More ways to look like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen besides being super skinny, wearing fur, clinging to Starbucks like your life depended on it, and dressing like Kate Hudson in Almost Famous. The Olsen sisters, who just last week became members of the Council of Fashion Designers (serious fashion biz!) signed a deal with J.C. Penney to launch Olsenboye, a junior line exclusive to J.C. Penney.
Olsenboye, which comes from MK and Ashley's ancestral name, will be available November 6, 2009 in stores and on jcp.com and will feature mix-and-match denim, tops and bottoms, dresses, skirts, shorts, jackets, handbags and shoes. Perhaps best of all, the sizes range from 0 to 15, and the prices points will range between $20 and $50. (Again, it's J.C. Penney, not Barneys.)
+ Check out photos of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsens' new line, Olsenboye. And, also, do you care?




+ British bad boy and all-around international superstar Robbie Williams is set to return with an album of entirely new material this fall, titled Reality Killed The Video Star. (RobbieWilliams.com)
+ Good for you, Lily Allen! Way to hook up with a guy who's your own age for a change. (Daily Mail)
+ 90's grrl rocker Jill Sobule lambasts Katy Perry for the first time, after keeping mum during countless interviews about the "I Kissed A Girl" brew-ha-ha, calling her "a title thieving, f***ing little slut." (Rumpus)
+ Lauren Conrad is going to be a guest judge on the next cycle of America's Next Top Model? Really? (Pop on the Pop)
+ Ashley Olsen is "surprised she didn't end up like Britney." (Marie Claire)
+ This news about Chris Brown and Rihanna makes us really sad, on multiple levels. (People)

When rappers started landing juicy acting roles, actors cried foul. "Unfair!" they said. "We worked all our lives, honing our craft, and we lose roles to rappers?" Now it seems like fashion designers are turning on "celebrity designers" who get easy access to stores and press.
According to an article in the New York Times, CFDA Designer of the Year Phillip Lim, isn't crazy about the celebrity designer craze. "You think, ‘Wow, how unfair,'" he told the Times after reading about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's plans to extend their cash cow brand into contemporary clothing with a new line this fall.
The funny thing is, the Olsen twins presented him with the CDFA award! Were his comments meant to be a direct jab at the twins?
The Times article goes on to discuss how once designers used to get stars like Madonna, Diddy, Jennifer Lopez, and Gwen Stefani to walk their shows and wear their clothes. And now, they're competing with those same celebrities in the retail space. "You could be competing against a television or movie star for a fragrance deal, and that's an added pressure for designers," said Vera Wang, whose line for Kohl's department stores will roll out this fall. "We're working really hard to keep our heads above water, and does the public differentiate, or care? Those are big questions."
What do you think: Is the celebrity designer craze is unfair to professional designers?
And speaking of musicians bringing their looks down the runway, no one does a better job of living life as a quadruple threat than Gwen Stefani, and her "Luxurious" video proves it. Check it:
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First it was Jaclyn Smith -- the O.G. "slashy" actress/clothing designer. She parlayed the fame she garnered packing heat playing the "Kelly" Angel of "Charlie's Angels" into an eponymous clothing cash cow at Kmart -- her line's sold over 300 million units since it debuted in 1985. Then Kathy Ireland made the celeb-as-brand marketing move (at Kmart too). Then we had the rash (literally) of fragrances in the '80s and '90s -- Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth. A perfume that conjured up the amalgamated aroma of the entire cast of "Beverly Hills 90210." (Mmm! Teen spirit!) The Olsen twins had a tween line probably before they could even sign their own names. Then came the rappers -- Jay-Z's Rocawear, Diddy's Sean Jean. 50 Cent's G-Unit Clothing. There's Beyonce's House of Dereon. J.Lo's… everything. Paris Hilton's garbage. If you really want to, you can smell like Britney Spears. (Check your nearest dollar store for details). Jessica Simpson's surprisingly cute shoes. Gwen Stefani's super kawaii L.A.M.B. line. Pete Wentz's Clandestine clothing line. And recently, of course, Kate Moss' much ballyhooed Top Shop line. And Lily Allen's "Lily Loves" label, lest we forget. And now… Franz Ferdinand.
So... do you want to… be amongst the elite fans rocking an exclusive Franz Ferdinand Tee? Think fast, because only the most nimble-fingered (gotta be quick with dat mouse!), in-the-knowingest fans can get their hands on these.
Here's the deal: Franz Ferdinand bassist Bob Hardy was commissioned to design an exclusive, one-of-a-kind Tee for the Domino T-Shirt Club, through Domino Records and Airside -- a U.K.-based graphic design house run by Lemon Jelly's Fred Deakin. And you can only get it if you sign up for the Domino T-Shirt Club (via Airside). Membership to the club is approximately $196 U.S. bones, and you also get three other Tees designed by the Kills, Psapp and Brazilian band Bonde Do Role, respectively. The Tees roll out on a monthly basis starting later this summer, and they're kept completely under wraps -- you won't see the design 'til you tear open the package once it arrives in the mail. (We're thinking there's a 90% chance the Franz shirt will be striped.) And once they're gone, they're gone, yo. Sign up here, and sign up now!
