is fed up of people turning their nose up at the contract he recently signed for Kate Moss to design a line for TopShop. Far from just a publicity ploy, it's a legitimate business move and she is "the best signing on the planet", he says...

You can excuse a girl a bit of vanity even Gwen Stefani. "If you had paparazzi outside your house, you'd make sure you looked good, too," the singer and fashion designer tells Harper's Bazaar in its May issue...

Edited by Harry Maurer In a chockablock week, private equity continued its rampage. On Nov. 19, Blackstone Group agreed to buy Sam Zell's commercial real estate unit, Equity Office Properties Trust ( ), for $36 billion including debt...

Sources confirmed that Live Nation has offered Madonna a 10-year deal worth a staggering 60m. The deal which Warner refused to match is for three records and includes concert rights and merchandising sales....

I seem to be in one of those headspaces where I need to respond to some hip hop media coverage with points that may not concern most people. So this is for the record regarding hip hop and academia...

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