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She’s just a girl

Gwen Stefani’s rock’n'roll-meets-red-carpet style takes over the world. By Michele Sponagle. Photography by Max Abadian.

From where she sits, on top of the world, Gwen Stefani might now believe the lightening can strike in the same place more than once. In the past six months, she’s accomplished more than many artists do in a lifetime.

While she experienced much success with her band No Doubt (more than 30 million records sold), it seems that the turbo boosters of fame have pushed her to even greater heights, beginning with Love.Angel.Music.Baby. Her first solo CD has already sold more than three million copies, racking up three successful singles so far (including the current radio fave, “Hollaback Girl”). Read the rest of this article »

Gwen Stefani: “I’m a very different girl than I used to be”

Gwen Stefani’s own brand of sexy-cool has made her a style icon. With her first solo album and a line of clothes she’s designing herself, Stefani races into the future. Here, the songstress talks about staying true to herself through the firestorm of fame, her hope for a baby, and the real reason she wears those big, baggy jeans. By Susan Swimmer.

After years of fronting the Grammy-award-winning band No Doubt, Gwen Stefani decided it was time to branch out. She’s “on fire right now,” and who can argue? Her first solo album, a hip-hop inspired dance fest called Love. Angel. Music. Baby, was released in November 2004 and has already gone platinum; she’s just completed a European tour; the clothing line she designs, called L.A.M.B for short, is wildly successful; and a line of accessories and T-shirts called Harajuku Lovers - directly tied to her album - is set to launch this fall. It’s no wonder Stefani’s quirky sense of cool is now the backbone of her very own fashion empire - her sexy-sweet, gender-bending looks have inspired everyone from mall rats to rap moguls, changing the way the world thinks about style. For Stefani, life doesn’t imitate art, her life is her art. Read the rest of this article »

Blonde & Bitchin’

She’s married a rock star, is in one of the collest bands ever, has her own clothing line, released a solo album and been in a movie with Leo. Anything Gwen can’t do? By Jane Bussman.

Gwen Stefani arrives at the shoot dressed as the second half of her trademark contradiction: MGM starlet meets punk. She’s wearing her own label, Lamb - va-va voom sweater, jeans that look sewn on - with a bare face and wet hair. It’s hard to square this with the photographs that are reguarly splashed across the fashion press: she always looks too perfect to be real.

Stefani does a good line in perfection, which is why this is her moment. At 35, she has graduated from much fancied face of No Doubt to star of the front rows of fashion week. She’s got a solo album and has her first movie out - playing Jean Harlow in The Aviator. “I feel pretty lucky to be me,” she says. Read the rest of this article »

It’s Gwen’s world (we all just live in it)

Bagging Brit awards, selling records by the bucket-load and generally being the über-coolest thing on the planet - it must be awful to be Gwen Stefani. In fact, professional glories aside, the past six months have been the trickiest of her life. But in a GLAMOUR exclusive she assures Sylvia Patterson that she - and her marriage - are stronger than ever.

“Oh my God,” gasps Gwen Stefani, clattering across the floor in Alexander McQueen heels. “I was gonna buy this place…”

As places go, it’s a corker. We’re high in the Hollywood hills, the view stretching across LA. This home is someone’s castle, on hire for GLAMOUR’S shoot, an enormous, French-style chateau, featuring Romeo And Juliet balconies, chandeliers and chaise longues throughout. It’s two years old, built after a fire razed the original house to the ground. It was the original, naturally, that caught Gwen’s eye. Read the rest of this article »

She wears the crown

Few mix it up like style queen Gwen Stefani. But unlike most pretenders to her throne, she’s not too precious to share her secrets. Respect.

We get a shock when Gwen Stefani walks into the room. That’s to be expected, of course,  from a peroxide bombshell rock goddess. But today, as she saunters in from the 11 o’clock sunshine to the industrial cool of an LA photo studio, we’re taken aback because she’s so, well, under-stated.

Dressed almost head to toe in her own label L.A.M.B (Mukluk-style boots being the only concession), a beanie covers her trademark hair, over-sized shades shield her face and, despite the bomber jacket, she looks daintier than her larger-than-life stage presence - kinda doll like, which is really rather appropriate for a girl with such a penchant for dressing up.

‘This is my everyday outfit,’ she says. ‘These jackets are wicked, the lining’s camouflage with little lambs - I call it Lambi Cami.’ Gwen’s got a way with words - just read the lyrics, or cute sleeve notes, on her debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby (L.A.M.B, geddit?). And as she laughs and chatters her way through our interview so enthusiastically that it’s a struggle to actually get a word in, it’s clear that not only has she got plenty to crow about, but that she’s toe-wigglingly happy with life right now. Read the rest of this article »

Everyone has a view on Gwen Stefani:

She’s a punk-rock pin-up, a female David Bowie, the new princess of pop, a style icon, a hip-hop superstar, a movie starlet, the red-carpet goddess, a cultural chameleon. Just don’t call her a faker…

“What I would say to those people,” spits Stefani in her helium-tipped Cali-purr, “is do your research. I was in a band with all guys since I was 16 years old. I’ve been in a fucking rock band touring the fucking world for eighteen years. So if you’re gonna try and erase that, then I’m gonna stick my finger right up in your face. ‘Cos you know what? I did it. And you try and be a girl and do that in 1987. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen and Pharell Redefine Music and Fashion

Gwen Stefani: Ska, new wave, rock, and rap. The outrageous white girl with punk roots - who, like Lil’ Kim, rocked pink hair and made it hot - has quietly influenced fashion and music of all genres and styles. Whether she’s teaming with fellow fashionista Eve or creatively sparring with Andre 3000, Gwen’s ghetto fabulous pass extends beyond musical borders. And she’s carried that fusion into her own L.A.M.B. (Love, Angel, Music, Baby) clothing line, bringing into fashion fold the Japanese Harajuku girls (named for Tokyo’s famous shopping district). And the beat goes on.

Style: Marilyn Monroe meets Cyndi Lauper

Known for: Blonde hair, Rasta influenced wristbands, bindi

Fashion words: “Think what money could bring/I’d buy everything/Clean out Vivian Westwood in my Galliano gown.” Read the rest of this article »

Gwen’s Secrets

Her cutting-edge evolving style inspires fashion trends everywhere. Here, Gwen Stefani speaks candidly about her evolution from offbeat rocker to chic sophisticate, her introduction to couture and why John Galliano made her cry. By Phoebe Eaton.

Her eyes cast toward heaven in one of her trademark blessed-virgin-in-ecstasy poses, Gwen Stefani is feeling secretly jet-laggy as she mambos through Harper Bazaar’s photoshoot, where three security guards are on hand to monitor the glistening piles of jewelry that - these days - Gwen’s retrosexual looks seem to demand.

Her hair is definitely platinum, her eyelashes comb-ably thick and her mouth painted a subtle, meet-the-parents pink. As she dances to her first solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby, No Doubt’s 35-year-old lead singer-songwriter shows she still has those wicked washboard abs and hard-won tummy dimples that Pilates instructors like to refer to as Apollo’s belt. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen cuts loose

The reigning queen of rock & roll is flying solo for the first time in her career, and life is pretty sweet. It’s also an emotional roller coaster.

The lobby of New York’s Mercer Hotel is a haven of downtown chic - all angular furniture in shades of eggplant, with oblong over-sized lampshades atop carved wooden posts. A wall lined with bookshelves displays volumes on Toulouse Lautrec, Robert Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol alongside studies of designers Vivienne Ta, and Salvatore Ferragamo and anthologies on modernist architecture. The place is, as Gwen Stefani puts it, “super-frickin’ trendy cool,” the kind of hotel where everybody pretends not to notice when Nicky Hilton saunters past the reception desk. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen Stefani has had our hearts for more than a decade as a singer/songwriter with her band No Doubt. Now with a new solo CD charting, Stefani is taking off as screen legend Jean Harlow in the Howard Hughes bio-pic The Aviator. “The part isn’t big,” says Stefani, “but it doesn’t matter. I’m working with the greatest people.” Don’t worry, Gwen. It won’t be long before everyone knows you’ve always been a star.