No Doubt Rock Steady

Back in the writing studio together today. LA is so warm and summery outside. This new song is deliciously grey and rainy though. Tom

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Gwen Stefani took Kingston and Zuma out for an afternoon at the park in Beverly Hills, February 15th.

Gavin Rossdale treated Gwen Stefani to a Valentine’s Day lunch at the British pub Fox and Hounds in Studio City, February 14th.

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale were out spending an afternoon with their son Zuma in Beverly Hills, February 13th.

I also added ~100 HQ photos from L.A.M.B. Presentation during Fashion Week.

Gwen Stefani On Her Most Romantic Moment, Her New Perfumes and the Va-Va-Voom Makeup at L.A.M.B’s Fall 2010 Show.

Gwen was in New York this week to both prep for her LAMB line presentation and to promote her latest Harajuku Girl summer scent, Sunshine Cuties. When I caught up with her sat there, she was surrounded by dozens of her cute little fragrance bottles. (Side note: I want them all!) We talked about fragrance (of course), makeup (natch), her LAMB show (it is fashion week after all) and…Gavin! (Since it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow I think it’s okay to take a moment to swoon.)

GLAMOUR: The new fragrances are so cute! Which one is your favorite?
GWEN: It’s so hard to choose, but they’re all really cool, aren’t they? And they’re a lot lighter than the last ones we did. I think anyone can wear any of them.

Do you wear all of them?
What I’ll do is I will get really into one, wear it all the time, then I try something new, and then, I’ll get into that one. I don’t switch every day. I’m the same with clothes, I’ll get really into these pants and wear them a lot until I get into something else.

What’s the coconut scent mean to you?
I just always liked the smell of coconut, I like that whole Hawaiian Tropic thing. Growing up I was never super into perfume. (It always made me feel a little bit sick!) I always was more into lotions and oils: I had this coconut lotion that I loved so they incorporated that into it.

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Gwen Stefani and Zuma arrive at LAX, February 13th.

Gwen Stefani and Zuma at JFK Airport, February 12th.

Gwen Stefani’s Fashion Week presentation Thursday at Milk Studios wasn’t just a preview of her military and punk-inspired fall line for L.A.M.B. — it was also a sneak peek of what’s brewing in the singer’s head for the next No Doubt album.

First was her choice of a DJ: Jeremy Healy from Haysi Fantayzee (of “Shiny, Shiny” fame), who had mash-up duties on her 2006 single “Wind It Up” (combining her song with “The Lonely Goatherd” from “The Sound of Music”). As the models — all identically made up in bangs and brushed out curls, smokey eyes, and dramatic red lips — strutted down a runway that was more skate ramp than catwalk, they did so to mash-ups of songs like “Warm Leatherette” and “I Eat Cannibals.”

“We just had a lot of the stuff that I like, [from the] ’80s, you know, everything I like,” Stefani said after the show’s end. Under other circumstances, that wouldn’t be noteworthy, except for the fact that No Doubt’s currently on a crash diet of one-hit wonders. Though Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young had started working on the next album while Stefani was unavailable (due to various solo album and mothering duties), now that they’ve re-teamed, they’re scrapping some of the early work and started fresh a few weeks ago.

“They were doing stuff before,” Stefani said, “but things are kind of starting over, you know what I mean? We might revisit some of that stuff, but it’s the same old chase. It doesn’t matter how we get there — we want to get there, we will, and we’re having fun doing it.”

Part of the fun is revisiting songs from their youth, as Stefani and Kanal did during sessions for her solo albums. “We always do that. I think everyone does. The last few weeks, we’ve been listening to the worst of the ’80s, in the sense of bad but good,” she laughed. “Pop songs, one-hit wonders, nifty songs, things like that. You just go back and find things that you love, and try to figure out how they made them. We just listen to good songs, and then writing our own stuff, we try to pull it out wherever we can.”

Foremost on the playlist right now? “What was the last thing I was listening to?” she paused, thinking. “Lionel Richie. I love him.”