Archive: September 19th, 2008

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With her hit NBC Show My Name is Earl in its fourth season and her 16-month-old son Dezi “all over the place,” Jaime Pressly decided to shut down her “passion project” clothing line, Jaime Collection, she told PEOPLE Thursday. “Before I had the baby, I could do My Name is Earl 12-14 hours a day and have a clothing line. But having three full time jobs, the most important being a mom, something had to give. Obviously, I can’t get rid of the show, and I’m certainly not getting rid of my son,” Pressly joked. But fans of Pressly’s feminine sophisticated aesthetic need not fret. “I’ll do it again some day, I’m sure,” she says. “But with someone else’s money, where I get to design and not worry about controlling the company.” For now, though, Pressly is focused on her son. “He’s speaking Spanglish. He’s adorable,” she says. “He’s the greatest thing I’ve ever done.” – Lisa Ingrassia

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If there are two things that Hollywood’s biggest stars love, it’s stylish shoes and worthy causes. And the Stuart Weitzman-sponsored celebrity-designed shoe auction is combining the two — and letting everyone from Hilary Duff to Jessica Alba get creative and give back. Twenty-nine of your favorite fashionistas have customized and autographed the sole of a Stuart Weitzman pump, which are up for auction online only between now and September 30th, with 100% of proceeds going directly to support ovarian cancer research. And while we’re feeling partial to Jessica Simpson’s bedazzled creation above, click over to stuartweitzmancelebrityauction.com to check out looks by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rachel Bilson, Blake Lively and more to judge for yourself. Then place your bid and get in on giving back.

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Jude Law denies he’s a fashionista, but he sure does know how to rock a tailored suit. At the opening of Bourdon House, the ‘London Home of Alfred Dunhill’ on Tuesday night, the face of the brand paired his navy single-breasted suit with, in his own words “a really cheap T-shirt.” It’s a modern take on dressing up, but he’s a traditional guy at heart, telling PEOPLE: “I think men lost something when they stopped wearing hats and suits,” reminiscing back to tales of his grandfather who would wear a full three piece suit and hat every day to work in his candy shop. “A hat is also something slightly effeminate, the way you wear your hat, it’s very personal — I love the quaint traditionalism of that.” His two sons (Rafferty, 11 and Rudy, 6) stand to inherit more than just their dad’s sense of style, as he’s a self confessed hoarder and has several items in storage for his boys, such as the tuxedo he wore to his first Academy Awards. And then there are some more unusual items: “I keep many clothes from my films. My favorite is my plastic suit from Artificial Intelligence: AI,” confessed the actor. “I kept the whole suit and actually when you look at it, it’s disgusting, it really is a piece of plastic.”