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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 16 January 2016
Fashion full-circle: Derek Zoolander hits cover of Vogue
NEW YORK (AP) — It was 15
years ago that Ben Stiller’s
Derek Zoolander first un-
leashed his signature Blue
Steel fashion face on an
unsuspecting public, and a
lot has changed.
Mega-model Gigi Hadid
was kindergarten age.
Netflix didn’t exist, let alone were shot by actual pho-
selfies. So why bother tak-
ing on “Zoolander 2,” the
upcoming quirky sequel to
his long-ago quirky “Zool-
ander?” Because, why not,
especially now that the ac-
tual fashion world is laugh-
ing out loud.
With a few more wrinkles,
Stiller’s not-so-bright su-
permodel hit the February
cover of Vogue with actual
beauty and co-star Penel-
ope Cruz. The cover and
an inside photo spread
tographer phenom Annie
Leibovitz.
Stiller tells the magazine of The first comedy wasn’t a
his first go-round with Owen
Wilson at his side: “We were
on our own — both in the
fashion world and with the
studio, too. They were just
like, ‘We don’t quite know
what this is.”
That was before Zoolan-
der and Wilson’s Hansel
crashed the Valentino
show at Paris Fashion Week
last year, bringing the usual
jaded crowd to its feet as
they strutted down the run-
way.
runaway success, released
less than three weeks after
the September 11 attacks,
though it eventually turned
a profit, but thanks to DVDs This image released by Vogue shows actor Ben Stiller, portraying
and cable, it developed a Derek Zoolander, left, with actress Penelope Cruz from the film,
loyal following. “Zoolander 2,” on the February 2016 cover of the magazine,
So what can we expect available on newsstands nationwide on Jan. 26.
this time? There’s Cruz, for
one, as Valentina Valen- (Annie Leibovitz/Vogue via AP)
cia, a motorcycle happy
Interpol agent in the fash- reasons I need to once in a ing: “There’s that saying —
ion division. while do a crazy comedy.” ‘They want a sequel until
“I’m one of those people Stiller’s crossing fingers, jok- they get one.’”q
who’s seen the first ‘Zool-
ander’ four or five times,”
she tells Vogue in the is-
sue which hits newsstands
Jan. 26. “I’ve done com-
edy in Spain, in my own
language, but I’ve always
said I want to do more
comedies in English. I do
all these intense dramas,
and all my characters are
always suffering. For many
Pull up a chair:
Season 2 of ‘Ellen’s Design Challenge’ to inspire
FRAZIER MOORE love anything that goes in a a deadline,” says DeGe-
AP Television Writer house, including the house neres, who will make the
NEW YORK (AP) — For most itself” — hatched the idea occasional surprise ap-
of us, the word “chair” for this design competition, pearance, but, as ex-
probably brings to mind a which will showcase 10 ecutive producer, mostly
single, universal image sig- candidates (up from six last watches with great interest
nifying the totality of chair- year). They will sketch, de- from off-screen.
ness. Same with the idea of sign and build innovative “My passion is design,”
“table” or “bed.” furniture with the hope of she says, which is how she
But the fact is, the range outlasting their rivals and, came up with “Design
of chairs, tables, beds and at the end, receiving the Challenge.”
other furnishings is limitless $100,000 prize. “Some of the designs on
and ever-growing, always On every episode, these the show are functional as
inspiring further innovations. competitors will face new a piece of furniture, and
Anyone doubting that is design challenges as each some of it is art,” she notes.
welcome to tune into “El- is paired with an expert The same as in her home:
len’s Design Challenge,” carpenter to fulfill that “Some of my favorite chairs
which returns for its second week’s assignment. Maybe are not really comfortable,
season Monday at 9 p.m. they’re required to make but I love the design of
EST on HGTV. a certain type of furniture. them. It’s not going to be in
“How many more ways Maybe they’re limited to my living room to actually
are there to make a cof- certain materials. Then their invite guests to sit on, but
fee table? How many more creations are evaluated by it’s going to be an object I
ways are there to make a a panel of judges, with the love having on display.”
chair?” poses Ellen DeGe- field of competitors contin- No doubt the judges will be
neres. “Design Challenge” ually narrowing. tested along with each de-
promises to shed light on “It’s got the drama of their signer, as they size up each
those questions. having to come up with creation for both its form
DeGeneres — who says, “I ideas while trying to make and its function. q