All Douglas/Zeta-Jones Wedding Plans Are Classified Information
After Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas became a public item, her fashion stylist, Fati Parsia, started getting calls from designers asking, “Are they engaged or not?”
And of course, the two actors are famously engaged, so you can imagine the race to design her wedding dress, though Parsia is keeping tight-lipped as to who is calling or is a front-runner to dress one of the highest-profile brides-to-be.
“She is going to be the most beautiful bride of the millennium,” said Parsia, who helps clients choose their wardrobes for public and private events.
The Los Angeles-based stylist has also worked with Kim Basinger and Annabella Sciorra. She’s worked with Zeta-Jones for a year. “I’m just very low-keyed. I think quantity is overrated,” Parsia said.
Even though Zeta-Jones has been in the spotlight a relatively short time, she is already a Hollywood fashion icon. “There’s something magical about Catherine,” Parsia said. “I just think that she has so much class and she’s so sexy.”
Unfortunately, like any good stylist, she was mum about the rest of her client’s life, including the star’s wedding plans. She refused even to go off the record. “You’ll hear it from Catherine and Michael.”
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The Golden Globe Awards (scheduled for Jan. 23) have been called a dress rehearsal for the Academy Awards (set for March 26), and they are: More and more fashion designers are jockeying to dress Globe nominees, including Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank and Sigourney Weaver. New York designers Amsale Aberra and up-and-comer Angel Sanchez are in town from New York hoping to snare some business. And reps from Concord Watch are hosting a round-table Saturday with several stylists to offer their wares for Oscar show-bound stars this year. Last year, Concord lent host Whoopi Goldberg a $500,000 watch to wear during the ceremony.
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Who hasn’t read a product warning label and thought how ridiculous? For the past three years, the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch in Southfield, Mich., has sponsored a Wacky Warning Label Contest.
This year’s winner, reported the Associated Press, is Bonnie Hay of Plano, Texas, for nominating this label on an iron: “Never iron clothes while they are being worn.”
Hay won $500 and a copy of the book “The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America,” by lawyer Philip K. Howard.
We’d much rather see labels like: “Never wear while feeding children” or
“Remove tie while pouring condiments.”*
Zale Corp. announced this week it has struck a deal with WeddingChannel.com (https://www.weddingchannel.com) to have the online bridal registry sell its jewelry exclusively on the Internet. The company said it will eventually add all its brands, including Gordon’s Jewelers and Bailey Banks & Biddle Fine Jewelers, to the site.
