On the town

• Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson were hurried out of Tom Ford's Madison Avenue store when they arrived close to closing. "Well, are you going to buy anything?" the manager asked, not realizing who they were.
• Hilary and Haylie Duff stocked up on Missoni shoes and Tom Ford sunglasses in Miami over the weekend - and actually paid for their loot.
• Verizon Wireless has withdrawn its sponsorship of Gwen Stefani's tour after opening act Akon was videotaped performing simulated sex onstage with a 15-year-old in Trinidad.
• Sex & the City alum Cynthia Nixon will kick off the ninth season of Law & Order: SVU, appearing as a woman with multiple personalities thought to have abused her baby.
• Lawyers for Lindsay Lohan are demanding that the British newspaper News of the World produce the videotape they claim shows the actress snorting coke.
• Rosie O'Donnell has her eye on Bob Barker's gig at The Price is Right, but the outgoing host "is adamant that Rosie not get the gig," according to a source.

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SJP takes digs at Gwen and young Hollywood

Sarah Jessica Parker took a dig at fellow celebrity designer Gwen Stefani while promoting her new fashion line, Bitten. Parker described Stefani's work as "much more avante-garde, definitely high fashion" to Glamour mag and added, "I don't want to do that for women, because that's not their lives... You're going to be able to buy $200 worth of clothes, leave that store with six bags and be able to pay your utilities and take your kids someplace special for their birthday." Parker has been open about growing up in a poor family, and tells the mag, "I got all of my oldest sister's hand-me-downs. And by the time I inherited them, they were really out of fashion." Parker also took a swipe at young Hollywood starlets: "Look how celebrities are acting these days," she said. "People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar, and I find it awful."
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