Fashion Industry Gossip: Marchesa

I love the fashion industry. I bought a Marchesa dress to wear to The Grammy's. Did I tell you about it? It was very pretty and I was happy to be the proud owner of a Marchesa dress (it was on sale). I brought it home, tried it on again and realized. OMG! I look pregnant! I kept the dress for several days but decided I just couldn't get over that it made me look preggers.

Good thing! A week before the Grammy's I saw this pic of a HUGLELY pregnant JLo in what was supposed to be my dress! *whew*


Anyway, can you believe Georgina Chapman is married to Harvey Weinstein?

Keren Craig, Harvey and wife, Georgina


THE women behind the hot, 4-year-old Marchesa fashion house are making sure everyone knows their roles in the business.

Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig - the beauties behind the brand worn by Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz and Jessica Alba - were listed until last week on the company's Web site as "co-designers" of the label, but the firm has now changed Craig's title to "co-founder."

And at a recent St. Jude Children's Research Hospital benefit at Roseland Ballroom, which raised $300,000 for cancer research and featured a Marchesa runway show, anyone who called Craig a designer was instructed to instead refer to her as co-founder, a source reports.

Meanwhile, "Georgina's brother, Edward Chapman, Marchesa's chief executive, was backstage being very specific that Georgina is now to be called the designer of the company, but Keren is her co-founder, and not the designer. And boy, was that emphasized several times," said our insider.

"The girls are absolutely the best of friends and work together without much confrontation, but it's very clear there's been some issue recently with who's who at the company. Keren is the easier of the two. Georgina is definitely wound a little tighter."

The duo met as students at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London and started the business in 2004. Chapman is now married to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

A rep for Marchesa denied any problem between the women and said they're simply making their roles clear to everyone.

"The company is growing and it's time to address each person's role, so they're defining it publicly because it's so big," said the rep. "They both did found the company, but Georgina has always been the designer and Keren works on the textile and the business standpoint. They always refer to each other that way, too."

(Source:PageSix)