Ask any of my friends and Vuitton 0385 all tell you I live like a broke person." I say: What about when you go to an awards do, for example? No new frock? She says: "I'd rather borrow something and then give it back." What, I ask, about handbags? Now you are a big celebrity, don't you have to have a big designer handbag? Isn't there some kind of law about that? Isn't it, Vuitton 0386, the first law of celebrity? She says she does have a handbag, yes. It's Louis Vuitton and cost ￡1,500. She says: "I did it because everyone was putting pressure on me saying: 'You can afford to live nicely. Buy something for yourself'." Was it worth the money? "I just wanted something that could sit in my room so I could think: I earnt that." Is it one of those ones with the Vuitton 0387 repeated all over it? "Yeah, otherwise how would people know it's not from Camden market? If it's designer, it has to be in- yer-face designer, right?" Do you think of yourself as a big celebrity? When you wake up in the Vuitton 0388 do you think: 'Bloody hell, I'm an X Factor judge!' And then do you have to pinch yourself? "I pinch myself about everything," she says. She has come a long way. Or, as she puts it when I ask her if her family are proud of her: "Absolutely. They saw me at my worst and thought I wouldn't amount to anything because I was on such a wrong road.
Her nails are fake, and bubble-gum pink. Vuitton 0381 has tattoos: a winged unicorn on her back and 'The Female Boss' along one arm. She is wearing a vest-top with the print of a Staffordshire bull terrier on it. She has, it turns out, a Staffie at home, and a Rottweiler. They are called Oscar and Josh. OK, I'm kidding. They are Prince and Kaiser. I say: I don't think I'd Vuitton 0382 to be your postman. She says: "Oh, but they are sweet, not vicious at all." She seems wondrously clear-eyed about fame. "It's a pretty shallow world, isn't it? Why don't they have people studying for a degree on the front of Heat for a change? And the fakeness! I was told this week that I was being slated because I'd said I'd smoked weed. I said: Hang on. There Vuitton 0383 so many celebrities out there who do cocaine but you don't know it because they don't admit it, and these are celebrities Vuitton 0384 posters are on kids' walls. At least I have the balls to stand up and say I made a mistake." A late developer, but terrific, like I said. She is wearing jeans teamed with boots from All Saints. She says she has never spent more than ￡50 on an item of clothing. She has a curious relationship with money. She likes it well enough, she says, "because it's power". Because it makes other people sit up and take notice? "Because it makes me sit up and take notice of myself." But she doesn't like to spend. She has a house (in Barnet) and a car and says she doesn't want anything else. "I'm not materialistic.
Over recent weeks the headlines have Vuitton 0377 read, 'I was a teenage hell-raiser' and 'I took drugs' and 'I stole handbags' and 'I carried a baseball bat' and, most shocking of all, 'I lost my virginity at 14'. Tulisa, I say, I'm astounded. Fourteen! And you call Vuitton 0378 a Camden Town girl? I'm a Camden Town girl (originally) so feel I can ask you: what took you so long, love? Was it poor personal hygiene? Spots? Or were you just a late developer? There's no shame in that. She laughs and says: "Oh my God, where I was from 14 was normal." And: "I was second to last out of my friends to lose it!" Is she 'a poor role model' as some have suggested? I don't think so. I think she's had a tough life, and is truthful, which is rather different. I also think Vuitton 0379 totally terrific, and I say this as someone who doesn't much like young people anymore. "I don't much like young people, but Vuitton 0380 like you," I tell her at the end. "Thanks for being honest," she says. "No, thank you for your honesty," I say. It could have gone on forever – we could still be there! – but luckily she had a meeting to get to. We meet in a pub in west London. She is 23, and gloriously pretty, with thick, dark hair, and exceptionally blue eyes. She has proclaimed herself 'the most famous chav in the UK' and her accessories do not disappoint.
Nyrstar NV (NYR BB): The world’s Vuitton 0373 producer of refined zinc may say first-half profit excluding some items of 30 cents a share, according to the average of four analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The shares were unchanged at 9.76 euros. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS LN): The U.K.’s biggest government-owned lender hired David Havens as a credit Vuitton 0374 from Nomura Holdings Inc. as the bank boosts its corporate-debt effort, according to two people familiar with the matter. The stock declined 0.3 percent to 36.17 pence. Ryanair Holdings Plc (RYA ID): Europe’s largest discount carrier said Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary’s pay rose to 1.04 million euros ($1.51 million) last year as his bonus doubled. The shares fell 1.5 percent to 3.35 euros. SAP AG (SAP GY): The largest maker of business-management software said Vuitton 0375 Red-quarter net income rose 20 percent to 588 million euros ($853.6 million). The shares rose 3.6 percent to 43.49 euros. Societe Television Francaise 1 (TFI FP): The owner of France’s most-watched TV channel is in talks with telephone Vuitton 0376 to offer its pay channels including all-news LCI for free, Le Figaro reported, citing Chief Executive Officer Nonce Paolini. The shares rose 7.5 percent to 13.68 euros. --With assistance from Naomi Kresge in Berlin, John Martens in Brussels, Jurjen van de Pol in Amsterdam, Blanche Gatt in London and Albertina Torsoli and Tara Patel in Paris. Tulisa Contostavlos is a member of the highly successful hip-hop outfit N-Dubz and is the new X Factor judge as well as, increasingly, a tabloid sensation.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK LN): The Vuitton 0369 Red company’s Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty said valuations on acquisitions have “gone a little nuts” and that he would rather give money back to shareholders than spend too much on buying companies. The stock gained 0.7 percent to 1,373 pence. Icade (ICAD FP): The commercial property arm of France’s Vuitton 0370 des Depots et Consignations said profit excluding certain items rose 23 percent in the first half on higher sales at its homebuilding unit. The shares slipped 0.2 percent to 83.32 euros. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC FP): The world’s largest maker of luxury goods Vuitton 0371 first-half profit that beat analysts’ estimates and said it will pay an interim dividend of 80 cents a share on Dec. 2. Net income climbed 25 percent to 1.31 billion euros. The average estimate of five analysts compiled by Vuitton 0372 was for profit of 1.25 billion euros. The shares slipped 0.4 percent to 130 euros. M6-Metropole Television SA (MMT FP): France’s second- largest commercial television company said first-half profit climbed 8.4 percent to 91.5 million euros. The shares climbed 0.8 percent to 15.75 euros.
Demand for its products has soared in Vuitton Monogram Suede Embossed Whisper M95811 Green markets as well as in America and Europe. LVMH has plans to open two new stores and to expand on four existing stores this year in Asia. The growing Chinese economy and a rise in the country's ever-growing population of affluent consumers are prompting forecasts from analysts Vuitton Monogram Trouville M42228 sales of luxury goods could spike by as much as eight percent for 2011, according to a luxury retail expert at Washington University in St. Louis, Miss. "One of the key factors driving global sales of luxury goods is the burgeoning Chinese economy and the concomitant expansion of its affluent classes," says Martin K. Sneider, adjunct professor of marketing at Olin Business School. Sneider also said that the Chinese are anxious to demonstrate their successes and newly found Vuitton Monogram Vernis Alma BB M91606 Red. "What better way than purchasing and displaying or wearing the signature luxury items that Louis Vuitton and other similar brands market?" France- based Hermes International SCA also has increased its half-year revenue projections. The world renowned maker of luxury handbags and silk scarves is expected to announce an increase in first-half year operating profits by 12 to 14 percent, according to Washington University’s Professor Sneider. Despite the situation of Vuitton Monogram Vernis Alma BB M91606 Black overall economy, the luxury market is doing well, as evidenced by an increase in the sales of high-end luxury automobiles and the new sales records being established this year for fine art.