Naomi Campbell Launches Italian Denim Collection With Fiorucci

Supermodel, tabloid star -- now Naomi Campbell can also add "designer" to her resume.

As Vogue Italia reported today, the iconic model has just introduced a 15-piece capsule collection of denim for Spring/Summer 2012.

The collection is a collaboration with Fiorucci, a company with strong Italian roots. That may have been what inspired Campbell, in her interview with Vogue Italia, to draw a quite interesting parallel:

Jeans are perfect for travelling -- you can wear them with a pair of trainers or flip-flops if you want comfort or heels if you want to look sexy. Jeans are like pasta -- basic, but you can interpret them differently each time and play with the accessories.

We're not sure Naomi has ever even eaten pasta, but we'll go with it. The line also includes five graphic t-shirts featuring vintage Naomi Campbell covers from i-D magazine, which made its own Italian debut at the Fiorucci shop back in 1982.

Check out a few of the new tees below and head to Vogue Italia to read the rest of the interview.

Comments

[logic-a-go-go]

03:10 AM on 06/25/2011

LAME! Lame, lame! Pathetic attempt to be clever, and so not clever at all!

[misslege]

07:30 PM on 06/26/2011

Get a grip.

[gemini68]

09:24 AM on 06/23/2011

I get what she was TRYING to say. She just could have phrased it better- or in her case, maybe not.

[Passenger57]

09:05 AM on 06/23/2011

What do I have to say to get her to lob an iPhone5 at me...?

[peachfuzz]

08:57 AM on 06/23/2011

Each pair of jeans comes with a special cell phone pocket with easy access, in case you need to throw a phone at people several times a day. And some 'get out of jail free' cards.

[Passenger57]

09:15 AM on 06/23/2011

LOL!
For an extra $50 you can get the "Locked And Loaded" Edition jeans :
Multiple pockets with old cellies already in them...

[peachfuzz]

09:40 AM on 06/23/2011

ha ha ha! extra ammo!

[The Unawriter]

08:19 AM on 06/23/2011

To Naomi Campbell, EVERYTHING is like pasta. Step 1: Boil. Step 2: Throw against wall.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:54 AM on 06/23/2011

Jeans are like pasta? Maybe, but I still find it easier to hit domestic staff more reliably with a well-thrown box of pasta than a pair of jeans.

[Dana Nicole]

06:22 AM on 06/23/2011

Naomi and possibly Cindy Crawford are probably the only two models who have ever eaten pasta.

[veritas88]

07:38 PM on 06/23/2011

Tyra Banks too.

[AllSheWantsIs]

05:43 AM on 06/23/2011

Just what we need - another celebrity line.

[copelli21]

10:57 AM on 06/23/2011

The woman has a lifetime of experience in fashion.....it's her life since she was a teenager.

I think that puts her a bit ahead of the curve of other "celeb designers."

[AllSheWantsIs]

01:06 PM on 06/23/2011

Touché. You have an excellent point.

Moreover, she's got great style and doesn't need a stylist to dress her.

[RationalCaliGirl]

03:29 AM on 06/23/2011

She's right.

[Lozange]

10:33 PM on 06/22/2011

No one ever felt the need to quote model adages.

[Fleurdamour]

10:19 AM on 06/23/2011

Right? Look what happened when they gave Tyra Banks a microphone.

[Dan Braunstein]

08:15 PM on 06/22/2011

...and if you get mad you can throw them at people!

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

07:13 PM on 06/22/2011

Sweetie, just put on the clothes and pose for the photographer. No need for words.

[leftyirishwoman]

06:30 PM on 06/22/2011

Naomi Cambell has never eaten a carbohydrate, much less pasta.

[Phoebe917]

11:11 PM on 06/22/2011

you don't know that. i eat pasta, not all of the time, but i am as slender as i was when i was twenty. and now i am 55.

[Sunflo]

02:53 AM on 06/23/2011

Agreed. Besides I think Naomi works out, she has a fit and well-toned body.

[AllSheWantsIs]

05:43 AM on 06/23/2011

Carbohydrates don't make you fat; it's how you prepare them.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:56 AM on 06/23/2011

It's more of a volume thing, darling.

The Campbell diet's real easy to follow: lift box of pasta. Replace on shelf. Repeat every evening.