napoleon perdis
Do YOU Have What It Takes To Bitch Alongside Napoleon?
12:29PM Clem Bastow | Napoleon Perdis, largely through his association with Australia’s Next Top Model, has become one of those “industry” types you either love to hate or hate to love; I find myself in between, except when he is fabulously sparring on the AusNTM final three contestants to slag each other off while in the chair (most memorably clapping his hands and shouting “I LOVE IT!” after getting Alice to lay into Steph in Cycle 3), then I just love to love him.
Anyway, his Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics line has become big news in the States, so it seems he’s taken advantage of his growing overlord celebrity status and whipped up an Apprentice-esque reality/doco show.
After an exhaustive search, Perdis has found a protege to run his business in the US – with every step filmed for a documentary reality series.
Get Your Face On has followed the extravagant and entrepreneurial life of the former Parramatta powder prince.
The series will introduce the Aussie dynamo, who waves his magic brush over 59 stand-alone stores and 800 outlets across the country, to US audiences.
Provided it involves making wannabe models up to look like Amsterdam hookers and then having them pose in the front window of your flagship store, I for one am excited to see what Napoleon and his bronzer brush bring to the world of reality television. More » 
Australia’s Next Top Model 4 Round-Up: Seductive, Sexy And Hydrated
3:36PM Clem Bastow | Perhaps a case of ‘difficult second episode’ for this week’s installment of Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 4. Traditionally “makeover week” provides some quality tears and tantrums (who could forget Cycle 2’s Louise crying about her “fire-engine red”), but they’re a bit of a boring bunch this year. Only Alex came up with the goods, psychotically rocking back and forth and telling every man and his dog that her “Cleopatra” look was “a step backwards when it should be a step forwards.” She shut up when Jonathon told her “I’ll give you something to cry about later…” More »
Napoleon Perdis’ Associates In Self-Promotion Shock
11:18AM Clem Bastow | Defamer Australia readers who are long-term viewers of Australia’s Next Top Model will be familiar with the fabulous Napoleon Perdis, the self-made make-up maestro who is never short of a few words to say about his “brilliant” new range that is inevitably In Stores Now (though we also adore him for encouraging the Cycle 3 cat-fight between Alice “WINNER” Burdeu, Jordan “Game On Moles” Loukas and Steph “Morocca” Hart, then sitting back and clapping his hands, shouting, “I love it!”).
Thus, we weren’t surprised at all to see that Perdis’ powers of self-promotion are rubbing off on his young Academy protegees, who have had fingers wagged at them after their ‘Napoleon Perdis’ t-shirts were spotted front-and-centre at various fashion events, which is the fashion equivalent of, dunno, parking your “FORD” emblazoned ute at a Toyota-sponsored footy match.
Napoleon Perdis is exclusively aligned with David Jones, so it puzzled a number of Myer folk and the Foxtel crew when a dozen girls, wearing T-shirts with the cosmetics king’s name emblazoned across them, sat beside the stage for a Holeproof underwear fashion show.
The same bunch of girls, by the way, were also sitting in the same seats last week at Myer for Jennifer Hawkins’ fashion parade appearance.
“They asked us to take our T-shirts off or cover them up,” said one of the girls from the academy.
“We came down here to see the latest fashions. It’s part of the training.”
This story is even more entertaining if you imagine the young student crying as she says, “We came down here to see the latest fashions”, as though she’s a Depression-era scamp who just wanted to look at the pretty people for a while before returning to the dustbowl to renovate wooden pallets.
And, really, all this has done is to remind us HOW TOTALLY EFFING PUMPED WE ARE FOR AUSTRALIA’S NEXT TOP MODEL CYCLE 4!!
Ahem. More » 