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Material Girl Takes Over Mars Bar, Lit


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Jen Carlson

Published Feb 24, 2011

Modified Feb 24, 2011


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Kelly Osbourne outside of Lit and inside Mars Bar

Recently Kelly Osbourne became a model for the Material Girl line—replacing Jenny Humphrey!—run by Madonna and her daughter Lourdes. For the shoot, they revisited Madonna's old stomping ground of the East Village, and used some of its mainstay bars as a backdrop—namely Mars Bar and Lit. Of the former, Lourdes says, "there were people drinking there and it was, like, three in the afternoon. There were some interesting people there. I think they didn't even notice that there was, like, a girl in short shorts being photographed." Check out some video from the shoot below:

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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.

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