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YEESH! Why do we think that someone who is famous is also an authority on anything?

Celebrities have people to style their hair, buy their clothes, assemble their outfits, apply their makeup, manicure their nails, scrape callouses off their feet, pack their suitcases, raise their kids, make their appointments, manage their money, design and furnish their houses, and keep said houses spic-and-span. So I can totally see the wisdom of having a celebrity design a home decor line.

Wait...no I can't.

(However, I do see this as an idea that will make lots and lots of money, so what the hell. Yay marketing.)

Well you see.. someone else designs the home decor line and _insert celebrity here_ just signs off on it and puts their name on it.

Same thing for 90% of celebrity fashion and fragrances.

Even real designers have the little people who help get the job done.

Just because some celebrities are wealthy and busy enough for all that doesn't mean they are all employing it. And it certainly doesn't mean that they might not have a talent for decorating or designing or chemical engineering.

There was once a short-lived (one issue) magazine called LivingRoom that featured Molly Sims home as the cover story. It was a different place from this with totally different everything: furnishings, style, layout. And it was a really fabulous place. She clearly likes a variety of styles and bravo to her for developing the taste to indulge each fully.

And likewise to Cindy Crawford who is involved with that RoomsToGo line she designs/endorses. Why shouldn't they indulge and display their taste? What else is it good for but to share?

Living Room!! I loved that magazine, Lady J! But I think there was only ever one issue, right? It felt like a precursor to Domino but I never understood why it didn't take off...

Anybody else know if they did a second issue???

Never mind, I'm a fool. I somehow skipped over your parantheses, Lady J...Yeah, only one issue of Living Room. A shame.

LadyJ, I totally agree with you. But wouldn't you also agree that the chance that a celebrity has particular decorating talent (or chemical engineering talent) is approximately the same as a regular person having particular decorating (or acting or modeling or chemical engineering) talent? And in both cases, the probability is rather small?

Just like we shouldn't discount a celeb's decorating talent just because they are a celeb, we shouldn't automatically elevate them, either. For example, judging from Kirsten Dunst's hideous outfits, I would not want her to design anything in my house, ever. :)

marthalena, after months of waiting for issue 2, I read that the magazine was cancelled b/c Bonnie Fuller, the EIC had jumped to US Weekly and the publisher didn't want to continue without her. So, I hold onto that single issue and snarl at BF for dashing what could have been an AWESOME publication.

mmadden, I don't know that decorating talent is rare so much as many people have never had their horizons broadened enough to discover their talent. If you're caught in the drama of day to day living, making a living, you may never realize a passion for great design. There are just so many roads to discovery and it is so easy to miss them.

Oh, but no celebs need not be exalted. I think a mag feature isn't exalting but shining a spotlight on someone for a bit. Not a huge difference btw celebs, staff decorators and "real readers" homes.

hey grace,

i was a fan of the bitten line & got a bunch of really great totally cheap pieces that i wore all summer. my understanding is that she was very involved with the design.

instyle home's been coming out regularly for the past bunch of years. molly sim's los angeles home has been featured in the regular instyle magazine; she works with a decorator.

I just bought the InStyle home today and whoever wrote this article should do some serious fact checking. Molly clearly had a designer, kishani perera, and it even says as much in the article in the mag. When I read this blog, I was shocked at the insinuation that Molly did everything herself, with no credit or mention given to the design firm that worked on this project. Next time, maybe check your facts better before doing your readers a dis-service and posting stories that leave out half the information.

molly's place looks fab! but if you read the article, you wouldn't feel "cheated" and "terribly misled." it clearly states she worked with kishani perera. so how about giving props to the designer? maybe she can put out a line!

Does anyone know where Molly Sims purchased the song wall art
"oh thinkin about all our younger year there was only you and me" thanks

The art piece was in the fall/winter 2007 issue in style home.

Jillellly- don't know if anyone gave you the answer . . . its been about eight months lol. . . the art piece was done by Matthew Heller. You can google him. He only makes one piece per song. So he won't make that song print ever again. . . The prints usually run 5K-10K dollars a pop and take about 3 months to make. . . Its a bit steep and I've heard quite a few ppl have made their own version with whatever song they choose for about 200 bucks in art supplies.