“She [Lindsay Lohan] was bought in to Emanuel Ungaro to raise the brands’ profile and raise perfume sales. But because she has been talking to the press and making up excuses she’s out after one season. She was suppose to get $1 million for it but she got nothing.”

– at the Qantas Spirit Of Youth Awards 2009 awards in Sydney tonight where some of the Southern Hermisphere’s fashionable movers and shakers were.

Meanwhile the founder himself has come out to say a few choice words himself to AFP.

“I am furious but I can’t do anything about it,” fumed the designer, who emphasised that he no longer had any contact with the house which bears his name since he left in 2005. The house now belongs to an American investment company.

Ungaro said he regretted that the fashion house he started “is in the process of losing its soul.”