Ungaro founder ‘furious,’ calls Lindsay Lohan’s line a ‘disaster’

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Next up to pile on Lindsay Lohan’s bad few weeks, we have Emanuel Ungaro. He’s finally gone on the record about what he thinks of Lindsay’s line for his fashion house (which he no longer runs), and not surprisingly, it isn’t good. Ungaro agrees with everyone else: it was deplorable, embarrassing, and a complete bomb. He had nothing good whatsoever to say about Lindsay, and he seems downright depressed about the state of the fashion line that bears his name.

“Lindsay Lohan’s collaboration was a disaster.” That’s the blunt assesment [sic] given by Emanuel Ungaro, the founder of the couture house that hired the actress to advise them on a fashion line last month.

“I am furious but I can’t do anything about it,” fumed the designer during a meeting on Monday night at a film festival in Lisbon. Ungaro, who no longer has any contact with the fashion house that bears his name, said his creation is “in the process of losing its soul,” as a result of the Lohan hiring.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star, 23, worked alongside designer Estrella Archs as a style consultant and debuted her first collection during Paris Fashion Week last month. The work was almost universally panned as an “embarrassment” by the international fashion press.

Ungaro said his isn’t surprised that his fashion house is faltering. “That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.”

Lohan’s history of hard-partying along with various legal squabbles have derailed her once-promising film career. The shift to fashion was seen as a fresh start for the troubled star.

[From PopEater]

You hear that? Lohan actually kills souls. I think that’s essentially what Emanuel Ungaro is saying. And that makes sense: once your own is dead, you’ve got to feed on someone else’s. This isn’t exactly breaking news: Lohan’s line was criticized by absolutely everyone. And sadder still, she honestly had no idea it was coming. Two days before the show she gave an interview to the Times Online in which she talked about how hard she worked and how she has an eye for fashion. Embarrassing, to say the least.

Clearly, Lindsay doesn’t have a future in fashion. She doesn’t have a future in acting. She released that one album once, but being a successful singer takes at least as much hard work as an actress, and she couldn’t keep up with that. So what’s a girl to do? I’m no expert, but whenever I’ve got nothing on my plate, I like to go chill at a rehab facility for a few months. That’s just me though. I’m not mentioning it because everyone says Lohan has to go to rehab or she’ll be dead in six months. I just really, really like going to rehab, so I suggest that everyone who’s got some extra time go to rehab. Rehab.

Here’s Lindsay leaving a restaurant in L.A. yesterday. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.

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  1. Maja says:

    I really don’t get why everyone is bashing Lindsay now! It’s not like actually “design” anything. How I understand it, she showed up when everything was said and down, nodded and took some freebies.

  2. Nicole says:

    Is no one else noticing how PREGOOO Lindsey looks? I bet u the dad is that Sam-Ron look alike she hooked up with right aftr Sam!!

  3. luna says:

    anyone stupid enough to work with lohan deserves whatever they get…

  4. LolaBella says:

    Is that a baby-bump??! God help us all if this woman is pregnant in the fucked up state that she’s obviously in.

  5. Samantha says:

    I am totally going to be irritated when she does something drastic like off herself and then have to read a bunch of articles about how “tragic” it is, how sorry everyone has “always” felt for her, wocka wocka. It will be another Anna Nichole situation. No one could stand her and the second she died everyone suddenly had nothing but love.

  6. Megan says:

    Well, what were they expecting? She has no real fashion experience, and an “eye for fashion”? B*ITCH PLEASE!

  7. nAynAy says:

    When they hired her, they knew what kind of baggage she came with. It’s not really fair to completely blame her that the line was a disaster. I’m sure she contributed to it, but it wasn’t all her fault.

  8. Novaraen says:

    Lindsey…Meth is BAD!! Get yourself straight and YES…GO TO REHAB!

  9. Firestarter says:

    Who in the fuk thought it would be a good idea to hire her in the first place? Someone with orange skin, ratty looking hair clad only in leggings and a tunic is not what I would consider a great choice to create a line and generate interest in a fading clothing line.

  10. grisgris says:

    This leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Didn’t the guy who is the head of Ungaro now say something to the effect that he knew it was a bad move and they were doing it for the publcity? No one seems to hold Estrella Archs at fault for her participation in the line. As head designer shouldn’t she bear some responsibility in editing poor designs? Granted, I don’t think Lohan was suitable for this position from the start, but it feels like TPTB at Ungaro knew that and decided to feed her to the sharks for whatever media attention it might bring their troubled house.

  11. whoa says:

    she seriously looks pregnant! i am usually not one to throw around a statement like that but holy canoli, she really does! she also looks like she’s not f-ed up in that picture.

  12. Novaraen says:

    She’s not pregnant…just bloated from massive drug use. No one wants to go near her right now to even talk to her, let alone get her knocked up. LOL…the idea!

  13. LolaBella says:

    Nah…I take it back…she can’t be pregnant; because if she was Dina would have called Michael to blame him for it and Michael would have recorded the phone call and sold the tape to Entertainment Tonight under the guise of ‘I’m so happy I’m going to be a grandpa!’

    Ugh and Ugh!

  14. crash2GO2 says:

    I’m still thinking her liver is failing, and that bloat is fluid build-up in her abdomen called ascitis. Although, now that I’ve taken a second look, her bottom looks like it’s fuller too – kind of that pregnant weight look. Wow, what a disaster if she is. 🙁

    Lindsay is an easy scapegoat to blame for the fashion failure IMO. She wasn’t the only one involved, and the word was originally, that she barely had anything to do with it.

  15. Just a Poster says:

    Well her name is quite the hot topic right now. I say BS on Ungaro! He just wants his name out there right now.

  16. jdao says:

    I just feel so bad for her. She is on this downward spiral and can’t seem to get it together. It’s not like she’s stupid. It’s hard to watch someone in so much pain!

  17. Ruby Red Lips says:

    Its prob coz she has actually eaten something, and her body isn’t used to it so her stomach is bloated out.

    Hope to god she isn’t preggers, not only coz the baba would be born with serious damage due to drug intake, but also beacuse if she is, it would only be for publicity as everything else is going so badly for her.

  18. fizXgirl314 says:

    Does anyone think that maybe her fashion line is being criticized because it’s Lindsay Lohan? I mean, did she ever have a chacne? I can’t imagine it was THAT bad considering some of the well known disasters that have survived in the fashion industry… I think no one is ever going to be willing to give this kid a chance and that’s kind of sad… well, maybe give it some time and some rehab… who knows…

  19. Tia C says:

    @ whoa – that’s what I was thinking.

    She looks pregnant and …dare I say it… sober. I hope she IS sober if she’s pregnant! It probably is just some kind of bloat, like other posters have said here, but it has been looking lately like she’s sportin’ a baby belly… Yikey McYikersons…

  20. california angel says:

    Um…hate to say it out loud, but i swear that’s a preggers bump.

    Edit: agreed whoa

  21. Firestarter says:

    No, I think her line was criticized because it looked like shit.

  22. lucy2 says:

    At this point, anyone who hires Lindsay to do anything needs to get their head examined and has no one to blame but themselves when it fails catastrophically.
    Why is she getting the blame when professional “designers” allowed that to go out the door? Even if Lindsay had wanted it, they could have said “No and get out”. She was just looking for a payday for more drugs anyway, I seriously doubt she cared about the fashion line.

  23. javelin says:

    Ungaro could always change his name to Tim Gunn, and call it a day.

  24. gg says:

    Jeeze nobody coulda seen this coming … 🙄

    File this one under: Duh?

  25. Jojo says:

    SHE IS PREGNANT FOR SURE!! EVERY RECENT PIC OF HER SHOWS A BABY BUMP. GOD HELP THAT BABY!!

  26. Bodhi says:

    I totally understand why hes pissed! The fashion house bears his name & he doesn’t have control over what they do. They’ve been on the down slope for years & they thought that this was gonna be their big comeback. I still can’t fathom why they picked her in the 1st place; everything she touches turns to shite (but of course it isn’t her fault…). What in the hell did they expect!

  27. Rio says:

    I’d bet $10 that’s not a baby bump, but on-the-way-to-becoming-irreversible liver damage. She looks waxy and jaundiced, and it’s not the spray-tan, either.

  28. snowball says:

    E. Ungaro is a douche. Almost to the same level as that Gosselin creature is a douche.

    He sounds just like that other moron fashion designer who peed on any woman who was bigger than a size 0.

    Ungaro doesn’t have control over his “brand name” because he chose to give it up. He doesn’t get to cry to the playground monitor now that he wants his turn on the swing back.

    I changed my mind. Ungaro isn’t a douche, he’s a peckerhead.

    Linds, you’re having a real crapper of a week. I’m with Jaybird. Give the finger to everyone who whines about you and backstabs you by spending a nice long vacation in rehab.

  29. ligeia says:

    if she is pregnant maybe she can be like nicole richie and turn her life around for good? she was a royal fuck up too before she had a baby and look at her now…
    i think this girl is getting way too much negative media coverage lately and she isn’t even doing anything.

  30. Jag says:

    Totally agree with you, grisgris.

    Additionally, I was thinking that I wouldn’t buy a thing designed by Archs if she thought that was a good line, and Ungaro has jumped the shark anyway, as far as I’m concerned.

  31. TwinkleToes says:

    Like the cheesepuff Oleg Cassini, he’ll put his name on anything.

  32. ccoop says:

    And on an incredibly shallow note… I totally want that turquoise bag. Yes, I am now going to hell on the express bus.

  33. Sue says:

    It was a stretch to imagine she could actually design leggings or spray tan…why would a legit designer throw away an opportunity on a wasted life….and not a hand up to a design student instead?

  34. NFLer says:

    Did chicky ever really have a line of clothes or just endless ugly ass leggings?