Courtney Love has just joined a list of elite women – Cate Blanchett, Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman – as Elle Magazine’s Woman of the Year style award winner. I don’t know if this is honoring 2008 or 2009. The woman of the year is chosen by the editor, Lorraine Candy.
Best Music – Kings of Leon
Best TV Series – Gavin & Stacey
Best TV Star – Alexa Chung
Best Model – Rosie Huntington-Whitley
H&M Style Visionary – Viktor & Rolf
British Designer – Christopher Kane
Fashion Future Award – Erdem
Jewellery Designer – Lara Bohnic
Best Actor – Mickey Rourke
Best Actress – Frieda Pinto
ELLE Style Icon – Sienna Miller
Woman of the Year – Courtney Love
Outstanding Contribution – Stephen Jones
New Designer – Peter Pilotto
Accessory Designer – Rupert Sanderson
List via The Sun
I hope that this is a 2009 award, and it gives Courtney a chance to earn that woman of the year states. 2008 was not a stellar year for Courtney. Maybe she was the only name bandied about that would come to the awards show.
In 2008, Courtney Love went on an anti-Semitic rant, tried to set her 16-year old daughter up with a 22 year old Robert Pattison, started a fight with Kim Kardashian, claims that she was the trailblazer for public mental breakdowns and implied that Britney should thank her, made many nonsensical blog entries saying that her maid stole from her, that someone else stole Kurt Cobain’s financial legacy from her, that another person stole his ashes…then deleted them, she stopped eating…but didn’t have gastric band surgery, she allowed her daughter to throw a suicide themed sweet 16 party, and had a legal battle with Sharon Osbourne about who introduced Jack Osbourne to drugs. These are stories from the Celebitchy archives.
Admittedly not everything about Courtney’s year was train wreck worthy – she seems to be a reasonable parent. Frances Bean is a Rolling Stone intern and has yet to be caught taking drugs or not wearing undergarments.
At one point Courtney claimed that she had an alter ego ‘Cherry KooKoo’ who wrote her (completely manic and unreadable) blogs. Maybe Cherry KooKoo has been running the show and 2009 will be Courtney’s year. I hope so – she’s got an album coming up, and say what you you might about her personally, her music is and always has been great. This could be Courtney’s year – she had one before – remember when she was Golden Globe nominated and had a hit album with Hole in 1996-1998? We want that Courtney back please, as woman of the year.
Sienna Miller also seems an odd choice of style icon, but I guess Kate Moss can’t win every year.
Courtney Love is shown at the Elle Style Awards last night and leaving the Groucho club later that evening. Credit: WENN
Wow, and maybe they will name Chris Brown man of the year… How would she EVER be woman of the year (at least at this point in her life)… sigh
naah, maybe “Hot Mess Of The Year” …
what happened her face?
She looks so tired. Poor woman.
The standards have fallen a bit ? Like 2 or 3 thousand miles?
All the other awardees are being awarded for current/recent achievements so it looks like an end of year list, not a coming year list. How the hell did Miller and Love get on it??
This has to be a joke, right?
Elle is a serious magazine, but why are they joking right now…
Courtney is a mess…
Who makes these decisions? She is not stylish. She is a junkie whose past is etched all over her face and body. God only knows how screwed up her poor daughter is as a result.
Will this be explained anywhere? Seriously. I want to know the criteria.
I think Sienna Miller is a joke. In almost every pic I’ve seen of her she wears black leggings/skinny jeans and an oversize top, so that means lindsey lohan and half of hollywood with that outdated look should get Elle’s style icon too?! unbelievable.
And the woman of the year had to be to sell magazines and get some press.
glad to see Kings of Leon named “best music” but they must have been digging through courtney’s medicine cabinet when they named her “woman of the year”. are you kidding me?
OH I get it now — They thought they were awarding her HELL’s Woman of the Year.
WTF???