Courtney Love's Closet Tour With Scott Lipps: Vintage, Marc Jacobs, Nicole Richie & More (VIDEO)

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Who knew Courtney Love owns (and loves) a Nicole Richie dress? We did, after taking a tour of her closet with good friend and Hole drummer Scott Lipps. The owner of modeling agency One Management, who also has an it-girl centric photography website PopLipps, stars on E's "Scouted" and is our newest blogger, chats with a Meadham Kirchhoff-clad Love in the video above.

The two discussed her new clothing line, Never The Bride, which was designed with Pippa Greenbank in London. Love's collection is made out of re-purposed pieces ("This is antique, vintage means lurex" she explained of the offering) and rooted in her love of Edwardian dresses and materials. Although Greenbank does much of the draping and sewing, each piece has Love's signature: "In the hem of all the dresses there’s a ruby and it says c***." Some have more unique touches, however, "I took one of Kurt's robes and I cut it up into little bits and embroidered on it. On the Kurt robe dress I put ‘tell me it doesn’t hurt, tell me it doesn’t hurt.’ Which is I think what people say during sex."

Never The Bride, which Love hopes is not a self-fulfilling title, is designed for a contemporary Courtney Love. "This is the stuff that I would wear if I was young enough to not look like Bette Davis in Whatever Happened After Baby Jane?," Love explained. "One time I was standing at the Mercer and Karl Lagerfeld goes, ‘What are you doing in this tutu?’ and I say ‘I have a record coming out.’ So Lagerfeld says to me, 'you are not getting laid in a tutu.' And Lady Amanda Harlech, who I adore who works for Karl, goes 'Courtney, you’re really not getting laid in a tutu.' And I realized, you know, that I did look like Baby Jane Hudson."

In addition to priceless antique pieces, Love is an avid supporter of contemporary designers. "I'm really big on Vivienne Westwood," Love exclaimed as she rifled through her closet filled with Alexander McQueen, Chloe and Prada, "even though my boob has popped out twice now in Westwood." Wardrobe malfunctions aside, Love's closet is full of surprises, much like the singer herself.

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11:06 PM on 02/27/2012
I can't decide which one of these two is the most freaky to look at. Why is she posing here as a Fashionista? Most of the time in her career she went around looking like a Hobo Train Rat high on cheap cooking wine.
03:59 PM on 02/27/2012
What??? I thought this was going to be some sort of quirky comedy gag . . . well, actually, it is, though perhaps unintentionally.

OK, maybe it's just a very slow Monday news day and all that, but a tour of Courtney Love's closet?????

If anything, madame Love herself is perhaps the real antique amongst her odd antique fashion closet collection . . . but I digress
10:27 PM on 02/18/2012
Wish she had the focus to design a vintage collection - she has a great eye
10:14 AM on 02/18/2012
She is a strange, strange woman!
07:09 PM on 12/26/2011
She killed Kurt Cobain!
CHUXKLES
Independently, non-dependent
07:07 PM on 12/24/2011
"Celebity's Closet has surpsring dress"

BUMMER....here I thought it was going to say Brad, Mel, or Justin came out of the closet!!
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Lois37
08:43 AM on 12/24/2011
Gah! Why is she smoking around those great clothes? Nicotine turns everything YELLOW!
12:50 PM on 12/27/2011
No kidding, I was thinking the same thing.
02:37 PM on 12/23/2011
Wow it must be nice to be an heir to the Bausch & Lomb empire & fortune so you can get high
anytime you want and make god-awful clothing that gets showcased as 'fashion' on the net.
Its always hysterical when the wealthy & spoiled pretend they're 'just like us' or even worse, 'experts'..
Bull
01:08 PM on 12/23/2011
pretty cool stuff, i like it!!
10:54 AM on 12/23/2011
Lordie, what an oinker.
01:06 PM on 12/23/2011
You certainly are, I think C. Love is way out there and says/does/acts like we'd all like to sometimes. I seriously doubt her days are filled with "fun". I think she's so funny, and so far from the mould most people think they have to fit into.
09:54 AM on 12/23/2011
What in heaven's name would I be interested in Courtney Love's closet or anything for that matter?
11:51 AM on 12/23/2011
guess only YOU could know why you read this story and even took the time to COMMENT on it
11:13 PM on 12/22/2011
Ok, now let's see what's in the walk-in medicine cabinet.
12:47 AM on 12/23/2011
She's so broke & So poor & "Nirvana" true members steal from her & yet she has enough cloths to cloth a small colony in Africa!
Billquit
Christ message
10:04 AM on 12/23/2011
If only she could get some of that money back from those plastic surgeons.
10:55 AM on 12/23/2011
BULLSEYE!
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ArjenBoatsma
No such thing as too much coffee.
08:53 PM on 12/22/2011
The surprise: she actually HAS underwear!
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freddsky
Dreams and omens of my future, like a sculpture...
08:41 PM on 12/22/2011
Glad it's not a "lab." ODAAT, Court!
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luvbrothel
Slower Traffic Keep Right
08:36 PM on 12/22/2011
She forgot to hide that note to El Duce.

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