Saturday Review: Vuitton and Jacobs 'fess up

Top designers to the stars, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs, have admitted to betting an undisclosed sum of money on which of them could make celebrities wear the most ridiculous outfits in public - and charging them a small fortune for the privilege!

It follows the appearances of Madonna (left, in Vuitton) and Anne Hathaway (right, in Jacobs) in clear copies of Disney Princess dresses, right down to being made to measure an eight year old girl. Madonna denied that she'd originally bought the dress for Lourdes but the ill fitting top half and skirt bunched up in her knickers gave it away. Vuitton was seen flapping around the headscarf, but, undecided what to do, simply sprayed it with hard set hairspray, assuring Madonna she's undoubtedly start a new trend. She didn't.

Jacobs, whose just-wrap-a-bit-of-material-around-and-pinch-it-in-at-the-waist-mini look hasn't caught on at all, even amongst Primani devotees, sniggered as he revealed he bought a job lot of polka dot material he couldn't shift, which is why Victoria Beckham (left) ended up with a fifty foot train on her version of his famous design. "When Louis showed me the shoes he was selling her I cracked up - we reckon she's after an invite onto the next series of Celebrity Wiff Waff!"


It appears other designers are also getting in on the act, but this is dismissed by Louis and Marc, who say the others are so far up their own arses they really do believe they're doing the celebrity clothes horses a favour.

We asked Louis how he accounted for J Mendel sending Heidi Klum out in a sleeping bag (see right). When he finished laughing, he acknowledged that was a special one-off bet, which Mendel won hands down, costing both him and Jacobs £5000 each. "We came up with the design while away camping for a few days and wagered on who'd be the first to convince a supermodel to wear it!"

And Stella McCartney (see left) - at least with the guts to wear her own creation - riping off his special design for Leighton Meester (right)? "Oh, that, well, that was a matador and rag doll night - think vicars'n'tarts but with less class - everyone was wearing similar, really."

Vuitton, who's raked in a fortune from his adopted base in Italy, said he's now ready to retire back to Barnsley. He's going to help out in the family butcher's business and will reverting to his real name of Larry Mutton. Marc Jacobs said he'll be retiring as he's cream-crackered.