The Hill's resident fashionista, Lauren Conrad, is taking over THE WORLD!!! Radar magazine puts L.C at the top of their March fashion issue, naming her as one of the "fashion elite." Her claim to fame? She's a Teen Vogue intern. She was on...MTV (A former "surf groupie" they call her, yikes!). I'm all for The Hills and have been warming up to her particularly lately, but beating out Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld in a fashion power list?! This is hearsay! What is this world coming to?
We really do get the icons we deserve. In 1968, it was Jackie Kennedy. Fast-forward to 2008 and our aspirational logic has imploded, thanks to a 22-year-old former surf groupie whose mind-numbingly banal—and yet, strangely fascinating!—life as a Teen Vogue intern is cataloged on The Hills, MTV's most lucrative invention since the music video. Through the power of basic cable, the coffee-fetching ingenue has been catapulted to instafame. Rumor has it that LC so upstaged her bosses that they're trying to stuff the front-row genie back in the bottle, severing their ties with the reality series. But Conrad, said to be landing at a new glossy this year, is unstoppable. Millions of tweens believe passionately in her fairy tale, and they all get allowances. The Lauren Conrad Collection launched in September 2007, featuring a 10-piece line of camera-ready dresses best accessorized with a caramel tan and a blank stare. Roll your eyes, but Conrad, in her pearls, headbands, and empire-waisted floaty dresses, is the mild-mannered muse of the moment.[Radar]
