Birth right

Well will ya look at that! H&M, budget saviour of teenage girls and throwaway fashionistas, knows where Windhoek is! AND Walvis Bay! It is, you must admit, quite astounding what young lady Pitt-Jolie (or is that Jolie-Pitt) has accomplished in her short life. For I can only explain this latest H&M window display, a sandy homage to Namibia, to baby Shiloh Novel Jolie Pitt (or Pitt Jolie) - the most anticipated baby in celeb land in about 20 years! Just like it has been said that war is God's way of teaching American's geography, this little excercise may well be his way of highighting the case of Africa amongst celebs and fashionistas.


Of course, did you hear just how irate it made the Hollywood set? Humpf, they moaned, "what's wrong with our hospitals?" Now, now, no need to get jealous, but I suspect that this latest celeb birth may give rise to several copycat arrivals. After all, they're not the most original of people, celebs, are they. Just think about baby names. Gwynnie got great coverage with Apple, Jamie cemented his foodie status with Honey Poppy and now, desperate for some exposure, any exposure, one of the ex-spice girl Mels has Bluebell Madonna (bestill my beating heart...). But baby names are so last gestation. Time to move on and start at the very beginning, so to speak, with the birth. Mark my words. Scan the pages to see which celeb is the next to pop and my guess is some obscure little spot of land will find itself printing out a new passport for its newest citizen.

But I wonder: will any of them choose Iraq?