After rumors circulated that Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper were more than just friends, new pictures of Cooper with Renee Zellweger have arisen and Jennifer is not liking it one bit. Us Weekly is claiming that Jennifer feels rejected and upset that Bradley dumped her for Renee. A friend of Aniston's told US, "She wanted to turn her date with Cooper into something...she honestly feels screwed over." The friend added that Jennifer "doesn't see what Renee has that she doesn't." Although Jennifer Aniston is upset, friends say that she will get over it quickly. "She had a major crush on him and she let him know. He didn't reciprocate. She is fine. She's used to being single and in work mode, and she's used to rejection."

Apparently, though Jennifer Aniston is not waiting too long to get over Bradley Cooper. Crew members for her the new movie she is filming with Gerald Butler say that she and Gerald are getting friendly off the cameras. In between taping scenes for The Bounty Hunter, Gerald was seen giving Jennifer a kiss and were acting like they were more than just friends. The sources also claim that the two were seen sneaking off to Jennifer's trailer and are doing their best to hide their love affair on the set.

In other celebrity hookup news that does not involve Jennifer Aniston, it appears that Heroes star Hayden Panettiere has moved onto to a new man. She was seen hanging out on the beach with Pink Taco and Viper Room owner Harry Morton wearing a sweater and jeans and looking quite comfortable with him. Morton is not new to dating actresses as he dated Lindsay Lohan before her stint in rehab. Panettiere sure likes to date older men as the actress only turns 20 this month and yet all of the men she has dated have been at least 26 years or older, with most of them in their 30's. What is the appeal of the older man for her? Could it be money, because Morton is filthy rich!

Sources:
www.usmagazine.com
www.tmz.com

Rock & Republic will be showing at Spring 2009 New York Fashion Week on September 6, 2008, and I hope to be there in person, as last year I watched their fashion show on a video screen in the lobby of the main tent at Bryant Park, due to a series of parking mishaps that left me locked out of the Carolina Herrera show, which was my A-list invitation for my very first Fashion Week ever. It turned out okay because immediately afterwards I got myself into Nanette Lepore without an invitation by sweet-talking Nanette's mother, but that's a story for another day.

Rock & Republic, the brainchild of CEO and creative director Michael Ball, is best known for their fit-oriented, sleekly modern denim, but they've branched out quite a bit, first into what I would call club wear, and now they're launching a cosmetics line just in time for fall. Side note to laypeople: the fashion shows - at least the RTW, couture works differently - are labeled 6 months in advance, so a fashion show that takes place in September 2008 is Spring 2009. Confusingly, however, cosmetics lines are labeled with the actual current date. So Rock & Republic's new Fall 2008 cosmetics line will debut at Spring 2009 Fashion Week, in September 2008. (And everyone wonders why I'm so easily confused - half my brain is taken up with stuff like this.)

The women's wear in Rock & Republic's Spring 2008 show featured a long, lean silhouette reminiscent of Bianca Jagger in her Studio 54 days. For those of us above a certain age, virtually anything called "modern" harks back to our childhood, but it was a gloriously glamorous era that I remember through a haze of nostalgia so I couldn't like it more. In some ways, the men's line was less appealing to me, because it harked back to John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, but Michael Ball is currently collaborating with Julia Restoin-Roitfeld on Rock & Republic's first major ad campaign for the September magazines, which will be coming out in a couple of weeks, so expect amazing things from them in the very near future!