Lindsay Lohan was profiled in the London Sunday Times over the weekend – but the interview is actually from Lindsay’s disastrous Paris working vacation, where she did her “work” for Ungaro. The photographs from the Style magazine are ridiculous. It’s as if they were trying to make her look even more cracked-out with the raccoon-eyes and the whole “topless grasping a teddy bear” thing. The interview is pretty ridiculous too, and the writer seems to know Lindsay’s a f-cking mess. Before we even read a word from Lindsay, the writer prefaces the whole disaster with stuff like “Lohan revels in this reference to her notoriety, and pouts harder” and “Lohan brings notoriety, press (good and bad) and a worldwide audience to a house that has been on the skids for years”. Translation: Lindsay Lohan is a mess, that’s why people are still reporting on her. It’s a long piece, so I’m just going to chop up what I think are the most interesting parts:

What Lindsay’s Paris hotel room looks like: The room looks like the aftermath of one of those home-alone teen parties advertised on Facebook that then gets horribly out of hand. Chaos rules. Designer clothes are strewn everywhere; most of them from a sweep of the Emanuel Ungaro boutique that Lohan made upon her arrival in Paris, walking away with an estimated £90,000 worth of free clothes. Shoes, make-up, jewellery, even a stray lampshade obscure the hotel carpet. Her passport is in here somewhere. She’s been looking for it for days.

What Lindsay looks like “despite her fragile state”: She’s obviously tired, and her wet hair suggests she’s just woken up, but she is here. Wearing a ruched black Emanuel Ungaro minidress, thigh boots, a sequined black beret and a large Chanel scarf (she’d treated her 15-year-old sister, Ali, to a shopping spree there earlier in the week), the first thing you notice is how tiny she is, then what a large bosom she has. Her pale skin has been sprayed the colour of a ginger-snap biscuit and the lines etched into her freckled forehead make her look at least 10 years older than she is. She orders an iced water in a voice honed by too many cigarettes and a lifetime of late nights. When she sniffs, which is often, she refers to “my allergies”.

Lindsay on the fashion industry: “I’ve always been really interested in, you know, the fashion industry, and I really have a great appreciation for designers, and all the work that goes into one piece of clothing, and how expressive it can be.”

Lindsay on working with Ungaro fashion house: “This is more personal to me. It is more about who I am and what I want to say as a person through clothing.”

Lindsay on taking the catwalk bow: Lohan appeared dazed and emotional as she took her catwalk bow, her big, wide eyes filled with the kind of grateful tears that suggested Disney had made all her fashion dreams come true. “It was such a surreal experience and I think I was emotional probably for the entire week, but when we walked out, it was a good feeling,” she says.

Lindsay on the bad reviews: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I didn’t expect everyone to be completely loving the collection. It is the same with everything I have done. I knew that people were going to target me. I am a target. I don’t know why I am, but I am, and I accept that. I just don’t pay attention to it.”

Lindsay on her future in fashion: “I feel I am on the cusp of something new. I just need to be here more. Oh, God, I don’t know [if I have plans for the future]. I don’t know. I don’t like to think ahead.”

Lindsay name-dropping: “The other night, at the Testino party, Kate Moss was walking out. I saw her leaving and was, like, ‘Go now!’ I was walking behind her. She went one way and took the photographers with her. I went straight to my car.”

Lindsay on “the paparazzi, gossip and controversy that stalk her”: “I don’t notice it. There are times when it drives me nuts, but it’s been going on since I was 13. Ten years. I don’t know if I can change it. When I don’t give people opportunities to write something, they make something up. It’s flattering that they are that interested in me. They build you up to take you down.”

[From London’s Sunday Times]

The article also has quotes from Mounir Moufarrige, the CEO of Emanuel Ungaro. He says that Lindsay was paid, but he’s very cryptic about the whole thing. He says Lindsay’s pay package is “quite enough, it’s expensive”. He also says that Lindsay’s “fragile” state “has been factored in”. After hearing from this guy, I do think Lindsay was paid in some way for her work – perhaps it was in unlimited clothing, or maybe it was just cash. But I still think she’s a jewel thief!

Thanks to CoverAwards for these magazine photos. Lindsay is also shown at a fundraising event last night in LA. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures