The NY Post’s Rush and Molloy ran the following blind item today:

Which floundering pop star is hoping a clothing line will rehab her nonexistent singing career?

Coincidentally, floundering pop star Avril Lavigne announced that her new clothing line “Abbey Dawn” is set to launch in Kohl’s department stores mid-summer. Coincidentally! Us Weekly says

The threads (ranging from $24 to $48) mimic the singer’s signature skater-girl-chic style and include hoodies, jeans and tees in bright colors and skull and zebra patterns. Lavigne, who had a hand in collaborating on designs, plans to wear the line during her Best Damn Tour, which launches this month.

For a limited time only, buy a pair of glittered Converse or fingerless gloves and receive a travel-size pink hair mascara FREE! And with every purchase over $100, you’ll receive your very own Abbey Dawn brand plastic tubing and medical-grade double-lined bag — yours to keep! Now you, too, can have the Insufferable DouchebagTM look made famous by pop’s punk princess. Coming to Kohl’s July 2008!

Airbrushed in this month’s Maxim:

Check out Avril Lavigne and friends leaving the Villa Lounge in West Hollywood on Saturday night and looking just a little bit tipsy. As it turns out, Avril had cancelled her concert over the weekend because she didn’t feel well . Yeah, I bet.

In other news, Avril Lavigne was recently honored at the AG Hair Cosmetics’ 8th Annual Best Canadian Hair Awards for her pink highlights. She won the award for the best hair do among Canadian musicians. Wow, they they finally have music in Canada? Way to go!

Punk rocker Avril Lavigne is featured in the pages of Maxim magazine and she shows her glamorous side once again — as she has time and time again over the last six months. I know the Avril purists out there probably do not want to hear this, but Avril is now “main stream.”

Say it isn’t so!!! Hey, she’s been in Arena, and now Maxim, so what’s next?

Avril Lavigne is featured in the June 2008 issue of the German version of Maxim magazine. And, as usual, most of the photos found in foreign magazines in foreign countries are recycled from the US versions. If you missed Avril’s original photos in Maxim, these found in Germany are not all that different.

What else can I say? Avril still looks radically sweet in these pics!

Hilary Duff may have been in show business for a decade, but she’s never gotten used to tangling with her fellow celebutantes. “It’s hard to find people who don’t feel like they’re in competition with you,” she tells Allure in its May issue. But while Duff, 20, may try to stay out of the fray, she can’t help but chat – a little, anyway – about some of her peers. She dishes to Allure about Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus and Avril Lavigne:

• On Lindsay Lohan: “Supposedly, I stole Lindsay Lohan’s boyfriend [Aaron Carter.] We were, like, 13! And I’ve never stolen anyone’s boyfriend! I don’t know how you do that! . . . She was talking about it and I wasn’t. It made us both look bad and put up a big weirdness. Really she was just a girl my age. We are fine now, by the way.”

• On Miley Cyrus: “We don’t have each other’s phone numbers. But when she meets me, she’s excited. It’s cute – I see a lot of myself in her.”

• On Avril Lavigne: “I said something about how she didn’t like her fans dressing like her, and how she should appreciate that because it’s a compliment. She called me a goody-goody [Lavigne called Duff a 'mommy's girl' in Newsweek] Everyone is trying to prove who they are, and their position. So, I’m ‘the good girl.’ She’s ‘the bad girl’ or ‘the party girl.’ Sarah Jessica Parker doesn’t take her clothes off, but she’s not a ‘good girl.’ [Adult actors] don’t get tagged like we do.”