God bless Lindsay Lohan, nothing seems to be going right for that girl. I wrote a while back about celebrity models, and Lindsay was one of the stars that had dipped her toe in the fashion pond; now it seems that she has dunked her whole foot in.

The design house Emanuel Ungaro has hired Lohan to work as their Creative Director in a multiyear, multimillion pound deal, in a bid to inject some youth and energy into their line (and get some attention, if some critics are to be believed). Her debut collection was shown in Paris a couple of weeks ago, and goodness, has she had an absolute panning and a half for it. It has only been over the past few days that Lohan has defended herself and the collection, saying that she still has a lot to learn.

Lindsay has been working with the company’s chief designer Estrella Archs, who admitted that the collection was very rushed, in fact they only had three weeks to create it. I don’t even think that Coco Chanel herself could have created a good collection in three weeks. Lohan and Arch’s bow at the end of the show was described as not ‘radiating chemistry’. I personally think that if looks could kill, from the one on Estrella Arch’s face (above), there could have been a front row fashion show massacre.

The most common word that the critics have been using to describe Lohan’s efforts is ‘disastrous’. The main colours throughout the show were hot pink and orange, and there was an unusual amount of heart shaped nipple stickers going on. Some models were even given larger heart shaped stickers to wear on their foreheads. Hmmmm.

The chilly press response has been likened to the kind of behavior expected from the characters of Lohan’s most famous film, Mean Girls. Moreover, it seems that some of the fashion industry feel offended by Lohan’s collection, with one critic writing, ‘No one ever said that fashion was brain surgery. It’s a different discipline altogether. But it is indeed a discipline and a commercial art, a fact variously muted and underscored by the celebrity infiltration of the last decade.’ Oh dear.

So the fashion world didn’t like it, but Ungaro are still planning to keep Lohan on, and she has another collection due in January. When asked about this collection, Lohan replied that she thought it was in March. Erm, good luck Lindsay!

Celebrities have been part of the fashion world for a long time, whether they are designing their own clothing line, or modeling for a fashion brand. They offer designers publicity that they might not have gained by just using a model. I’m sure we can all think of campaigns where famous faces have stared up at us from our magazines; I’m thinking Scarlett Johansson for Dolce and Gabbana and Keira Knightley for Chanel just for starters.

They’ve sat on the front row of fashion shows all over the world for years, but now they are slowly infiltrating the catwalks and strutting their stuff just like the professional models. This isn’t an entirely new idea, Madonna pushed a pram (I don’t know why either) down a Jean-Paul Gautier runway in 1994, but it seems that the trend is growing. I don’t mean Charity Fashion shows either, I mean full on, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter shows in the fashion capitals of the world.

But with the millions, ok maybe thousands of celebrities that there are today, sometimes it’s easy to forget that maybe they started off as models. Like Daisy Lowe, was she a model first? Or did she become famous then become a model? Same with Pixie Geldof, I saw her in Vogue but I can’t remember if she is just merely one of those celebrity offspring who fell into modeling. Both these ‘models’ have walked in major shows for fashion Dame and all round eccentric Vivienne Westwood, so surely they must be good.

Alexa Chung also walked for Westwood for the Spring/Summer 09 Shows, Lindsay Lohan was the star attraction (apart from the clothes of course) at Dolce and Gabbana’s 08/09 Milan Show and Victoria Beckham has had a couple of jaunts on the catwalk, including walking for Roberto Cavalli in Milan.

It makes you wonder though, should they be up there? Or should celebrities stay firmly seated during fashion shows? Models have already lost the major fashion magazine covers to famous actresses and singers, surely the catwalk should remain the sacred stomping ground of the professional model. But then again, Cindy Crawford did try to act.