The Vintage Fashion Expo at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is the place to be this weekend. The event always attracts well known designers like Marc Jacobs and Betsey Johnson seeking inspiration, plus plenty of celebrities who love vintage clothing through the decades. Marilyn Manson met his future - now exwife - Dita Von Teese at this show. It's a great big beautiful room loaded with nostalgia and amazing wearable stuff you'll never see at a mall. (Hint: Halloween costumes!) You never know who might be ogling vintage watches next to you - could be an Olsen twin or Jason Schwartzman.
Marilyn Manson might be shopping in a supermarket near YOU! He just leased a house in the Hollywood Hills east so he could easily turn up in the Mayfair Market on Franklin. He has moved all his Nazi memorabilia and human skeletons into the house, which has been described by a neighbor as "not at all gothic - actually a cheerful, sunny Mediterranean." Presumably his girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood will join him there when she finishes the movie she's making in New York with Woody Allen.
The Led Zeppelin reunion concert in London brought out plenty of rock royalty, resulting in some provocative photos. Paul McCartney is obviously still romancing Rosanna Arquette - they came together but pretended they didn't know each other when cameras flashed. (That's a sure clue they have something to hide.) Marilyn Manson and his girlfriend arrived WITHOUT makeup - she was inexplicably dressed like a cute 1950's milk maid. Our personal favorite photo is of three generations of Scientological Presleys - Priscilla, Lisa Marie, and her daughter Riley Keough. (The Led Zeppelin bandmembers are huge fans of Elvis) - the younger they get the more goth they look. The Presley females all have those steely eyes.
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Dita Von Teese can rest assured that she did the right thing when she divorced Marilyn Manson. Her decadent exhusband has been called a satan worshipper and the possible inspiration for the Columbine shootings, but that's nothing compared to the way he treats his girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood, who just turned 20. Page Six revealed that Marilyn and petite Rachel were seen at JFK airport and SHE was struggling to schlep all the carry on luggage while he breezed through security empty handed. Girls that young put up with a lot.
Marilyn Manson attended the opening of an art exhibition of his watercolor paintings in Cologne, Germany and he took a tour of the city during the day. Imagine his surprise when he was NOT allowed to tour an historic cathedral there. Cathedral staffers REFUSED to let him enter with other tourists. Was it because of his satanic views? Because of his album called "Antichrist Superstar?" Because his art features Adolph Hitler as a transsexual? None of the above. Manson says he doesn't think they recognized him at all - they just wouldn't let him in BECAUSE HE WAS WEARING LIPSTICK!
Marilyn Manson has done a lot of bragging about his new CD "Eat Me, Drink Me" so we were surprised to learn that he'll be making a personal appearance at the Hot Topic chain store at The Block - a modest outdoor mall in Orange County. The clothing store is advertising that Manson will be there in person signing CD's on Friday, May 18, and giving away heart shaped sunglasses like his girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood wears. This seems like a significant step down - magnified by the fact that there's a Virgin record store just a stone's throw away. Marilyn Manson fans should check to see if he's coming to a Hot Topic store in THEIR neighborhood.
There is much talk about the fact that Marilyn Manson's bloody new vampire video, which will probably not be released in the US, makes unpleasant references to his failed marriage. Beside the fact that Marilyn and his new teenage girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, cavort in a duplicate of the bed he shared with wife Dita Von Teese, Marilyn shoots a lookalike Dita in the face. The video is a cruel blow for innocent Dita, but there is some justice. Since Dita is the pride and joy of many top European designers, they side with HER in this bustup and no longer roll out the red carpet for Marilyn. In other words, the freebies are drying up. Marilyn faces paying RETAIL like the rest of us! Horrors.
Marilyn Manson and his girl-toy Evan Rachel Wood (sporting Lolita heart shaped glasses) spent an afternoon at UK's horror theme park London Dungeons. The park features rides based on executions and historical murders plus live actors recreating history's most gruesome events - plagues etc. Manson, who has described the almost 20 years younger Wood as his "twin" was especially fond of the Boat Ride to Hell.
Meanwhile Manson's exwife (is it final yet?) Dita Von Teese is in Las Vegas wowing the audience at the MGM Grand in the Crazy Horse Paris show. Here she reveals that she is definitely NOT Manson's twin.
We still can't get over the Dita Von Teese- Marilyn Manson divorce. We thought they were the perfect Hollywood couple. Whatever Marilyn did or did not do to cause Dita to file (SHE doesn't talk about it) - we predict he'll live to regret it. Friends of the once-happy pair say that Dita is not only a glamour girl of the first order, but a HOUSEWIFE too! "She's a homebody - she cooks like a dream, cleans and keeps house - and she does it all in stiletto heels!" We also hear that Dita is taking the high road- she doesn't want Marilyn's money - she has her own (MAC cosmetics takes very good care of her, thank you very much!) Currently Dita is working in Europe, and we bet Marilyn is missing those home-cooked meals and black seamed stockings!
