Ungaro Owner Scouting For New Designer

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Emanuel Ungaro ditched artistic adviser Lindsay Lohan after a well predicted disastrous first collection last October but now it would seem they're scouting for a new head designer. Since the founder retired in 2004 there's been countless designers hired and fired.

The owner-Asim Abdullah and his management team were spotted having lunch on Friday with English designer Giles Deacon at Le Relais Plaza on the Avenue Montaigne.

Ungaro has declined comment and Deacon could not be reached for comment (not by me, by WWD-duh).

I only feel bad for Estrella Archs, the current head designer because it must have been unbearable to work with with that mangy trail of cat sick Lohan. I mean, the bitch put pasties on the runway. However, Archs has had one season under her belt without the input of Lohan and it was still kinda shit. It lacked energy, vibrancy and French sex.

Abdullah has said his goal is to make the loss-making firm “sustainable” by 2011. Honestly, as much as I love Giles I just don't think he'll do anything for the brand. They need hype, not British quirk. Can you imagine if Alexander Wang or Proenza Schouler were hired? They might be totes wrong for the brand but they'd have editors clamoring. [WWD]

So I went to a strip club in LA and the strippers wore pasties and I was like that's so hot. So um yeah, that was my inspiration. You got any blow?-Lindsay Lohan

EMANUEL UNGARO SPRING 2010

The Emanuel Ungaro spring collection designed by Estrella Archs and Lindsay Lohan as 'artistic adviser' was according to the press; embarrassing as a streaky orange fake tan, questionable, old-fashioned, tasteless, lacked finesse and my personal favourite, a train wreck. ButCEO Mounir Moufarrige got exactly what he wanted: press coverage.
The collection was hastily put together in just three weeks and it showed. Dresses were very simple and appeared poorly constructed. I feel sorry for Archs because she actually designs her own signature line which is very beautiful. Take a look here. It's interesting to see this particular collaboration get so much criticism where as others have merely slipped under the radar. Louis Vuitton invited Kanye West to design a range of shoes and no one batted an eyelid (except for me).
I think this type of collaboration is hilarious and a good antidote to serious fashion. It won't last either, it's not as though Lohan will be rubbing shoulders with Wintour, Jacobs, Elbaz et al, right?