Trader in Asia

Common to Tour With John Legend, De La Soul (Pitchfork) With Be having just hit stores, Common is promoting the absolute shit out of it. For the next week or so he’ll be in record shops on the East Coast signing copies of the new album and just generally spreading good, soulful vibes. Who’s afraid of scary movies? (Boston Globe) Melissa Macero thinks Pinhead is a classy guy. Sophisticated, even. The spiky-faced, gravelly voiced prince of pain from the “Hellraiser” movies isn’t raunchy and crass like Freddy Krueger, she says, or a pound-’em-to-pieces meathead such as Jason Voorhees. Not so posh (Khaleej Times) There is one sentence in Victoria Beckham’s book that made me laugh out loud. It’s the bit where she claims that her ultimate style influence is, wait for it, Audrey Hepburn. Posh is wearing thin (Daily Mail) As Mrs Beckham brings out her book on style and claims Audrey Hepburn is her ‘style icon’, SIMON MILLSasks: Why would anybody want to look like this emaciated footballer’s wife? Dress for excess (The Palm Beach Post) When your clients include the uppermost members of global high society, wearing a cheap, ill-fitting suit is not an option. Party with spooky savings (Toronto Sun) Nab deals on seasonal wares such as cozy comforters and winter boots No ordinary designer label (Gulf News) A snatched conversation with Ray Kelvin calling from Hong Kong airport just moments before catching a flight was a fitting introduction to the man who prefers to remain out of sight. Queen fatale: There’s something about Marie (Independent) Here we go again, losing our heads over Marie Antoinette. The cake-fixated clothes-horse whose rumoured appetites are widely held to have resulted in the French Revolution appears on screens this Friday in the much-anticipated film by Sofia Coppola. Marie Antoinette, sporting a head of hair which would put Marge Simpson in the shade, is played by Kirsten Dunst. Her “sprite-like spirit and Taking on Victoria’s Secret (Fortune Small Business via Yahoo! Finance) At 9 on an overcast morning, controlled chaos reigns at the headquarters of lingerie merchant Bare Necessities. An unusual team of consultants has just taken over the company’s unadorned conference room in Avenel, N.J. Glamour’s Big Book of Dos & Don’ts (ABC 7 Chicago) Ashley Baker, Glamour’s Associate Style Editor, goes over Glamour’s Big Book of Dos & Don’ts.