Are Paris and Nicole worthy of Harpers Bazaar?

The high-fashion shoot accompanying the cover feature on Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in this month's Harpers Bazaar, paints the scene of a jewellery heist... successfully making a mockery of their real-life legal troubles. The two certainly have been partners of crime of late, as the headline suggests.

The story is littered with responses from Richie claiming the media make a much bigger deal about pretty much everything in her life, than what is really true. And while this may be the case, I'm still not buying the sweet and innocent act. She is quoted as saying: "I eat everything. I always have... I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't really thin at one point, because I was. But it had nothing to do with not eating." Then what did it have to do with Nicole? The copious amounts of drugs you were snorting at the time?

Hopefully now that the news of her pregnancy to Joel Madden has been offically confirmed, we will see a more refined, and classy Nicole. And hopefully, more genuine than her bestie Paris's post-prison demure act.

I just wonder if a fashion magazine of such high stature does any damage to its sales by posing these two socialites on the cover. Surely their older readership has heard enough nonsense about the Hollywood duo in the pages of the weekly gossip mags - they don't want to associate them with high-end fashion. They may have enviable wardrobes, and Nicole is seen as a bit of a style icon by many 20 somethings across the globe, but does that really warrant a shoot in a magazine of such class?

At least the girls know their fame is fickle and being famous for nothing has no substance. At the end of her interview, Nicole says: "You know what? I even said to Paris the other day, 'I feel like I'm getting sick of us', and she said, 'I do too'." Well said.

Notes on Glossy Paper