My Favourite American Designer Heatherette. The designs are fabulous, funky and a whole lot of fun.
Friday, 28 September 2007
Backstage @ London Fashion Week 2007
One of my Favourite Designers Gavin Douglas.
His designs are fierce.
WATCH HIS SPACE!
His designs are fierce.
WATCH HIS SPACE!
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Cokehead Kate
Twelve months on, "brand Kate" has a lower profile after a number of her most lucrative deals, including those with Agent Provocateur and Coco Chanel, were quietly axed.
She entered last year's autumn season with a record 18 major contracts, earning her tens of millions of pounds.
She entered last year's autumn season with a record 18 major contracts, earning her tens of millions of pounds.
This year the total is down to 11 and these include three own-brand lines - a clothes range for Topshop, a fragrance for Coty Inc and a third for celebrity hairdresser James Brown, an old friend.
Last October's Vogue carried six campaigns fronted by Moss from the likes of Dior, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
Next month's edition has none, even by those brands that still employ her.
Burberry uses model Agyness Deyn, 20, and Louis Vuitton's face is actress Scarlett Johansson.
Coco Mademoiselle uses 22-year-old Atonement star Keira Knightley.
The actress is also on the magazine's cover, a position Moss has enjoyed 24 times, the last in April.
Experts believe 33-year-old Moss is not the force she was, but is far from finished.
Francesca Newland, deputy editor of Campaign magazine, said: "I see her slightly waning now - but from a very great height. She is still going to be everywhere."
A senior industry source said:"You could say she's past her peak but her peak is not determined by her, it's determined by her ability to sell clothes.
"No one is yet seriously saying she's lost it."
Last October's Vogue carried six campaigns fronted by Moss from the likes of Dior, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
Next month's edition has none, even by those brands that still employ her.
Burberry uses model Agyness Deyn, 20, and Louis Vuitton's face is actress Scarlett Johansson.
Coco Mademoiselle uses 22-year-old Atonement star Keira Knightley.
The actress is also on the magazine's cover, a position Moss has enjoyed 24 times, the last in April.
Experts believe 33-year-old Moss is not the force she was, but is far from finished.
Francesca Newland, deputy editor of Campaign magazine, said: "I see her slightly waning now - but from a very great height. She is still going to be everywhere."
A senior industry source said:"You could say she's past her peak but her peak is not determined by her, it's determined by her ability to sell clothes.
"No one is yet seriously saying she's lost it."
Sergant Beckham V Sergent Cruise!
Victoria Beckham is usually the one handing out fashion tips.
But it seems she borrowed her latest sartorial statement from the husband of one of her best friends.
The Spice Girl raised even more eyebrows than usual when she left Los Angeles airport dressed in a military-style jacket and peaked cap.
The outfit bears more than a passing resemblance to the on-set costume worn by Tom Cruise in his new film Valkyrie.
But it seems she borrowed her latest sartorial statement from the husband of one of her best friends.
The Spice Girl raised even more eyebrows than usual when she left Los Angeles airport dressed in a military-style jacket and peaked cap.
The outfit bears more than a passing resemblance to the on-set costume worn by Tom Cruise in his new film Valkyrie.
Cruise - husband of one of Mrs Beckham's closest showbiz friends, Katie Holmes - adopted the look for his role as Hitler's failed assassin Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
Both outfits included tight-fitting grey tailored jackets cinched at the waist with a distinctive belt, finished off with business-like leather bags.
For Posh, the clothes were designed to get attention at a time when her profile is in decline. After arriving in California amid a storm of publicity, her hoped-for career in Hollywood has yet to materialise.
A source close to Victoria said: "Things are not really going as she had planned.
"Victoria has a small cameo in Ugly Betty.
"She wanted a much bigger role in that - and indeed a lead role in any show at all.
"Katie Holmes had been helping her with scripts and perfecting her acting but even that has not helped the situation.
"Victoria had hoped to be picking and choosing presenting roles too. She had wanted perhaps to guest host on Larry King - in the way that Heather Mills did. But that has not worked out either.
"She had been hoping that the documentary about the Beckhams moving to America would be made into a series, but it was cut right back too.
"Victoria had also set her sights on getting the cover of American Vogue but that too has proved elusive. Basically she pinned her hopes on offers of work coming flooding in but that just has not happened."
Meanwhile New York trend magazine, Radar, voted Mr and Mrs Beckham number 1 in the Overrated Top 100 last week.
The survey concluded: "He's an overpaid soccer star; she's a pointless collection of body parts."
Both outfits included tight-fitting grey tailored jackets cinched at the waist with a distinctive belt, finished off with business-like leather bags.
For Posh, the clothes were designed to get attention at a time when her profile is in decline. After arriving in California amid a storm of publicity, her hoped-for career in Hollywood has yet to materialise.
A source close to Victoria said: "Things are not really going as she had planned.
"Victoria has a small cameo in Ugly Betty.
"She wanted a much bigger role in that - and indeed a lead role in any show at all.
"Katie Holmes had been helping her with scripts and perfecting her acting but even that has not helped the situation.
"Victoria had hoped to be picking and choosing presenting roles too. She had wanted perhaps to guest host on Larry King - in the way that Heather Mills did. But that has not worked out either.
"She had been hoping that the documentary about the Beckhams moving to America would be made into a series, but it was cut right back too.
"Victoria had also set her sights on getting the cover of American Vogue but that too has proved elusive. Basically she pinned her hopes on offers of work coming flooding in but that just has not happened."
Meanwhile New York trend magazine, Radar, voted Mr and Mrs Beckham number 1 in the Overrated Top 100 last week.
The survey concluded: "He's an overpaid soccer star; she's a pointless collection of body parts."
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Size 00000
This is the latest shock image to jolt the fashion industry into action over the problem of anorexia.
The picture of emaciated Isabelle Caro, 27, an anorexic who weighs just 31 kilos (4 stone, 12lb), has been displayed on Milan billboards as the city celebrates its fashion week.
Caro, who is French and has her own blog site, said that she had suffered from anorexia since she was 13 as the result of a "difficult childhood".
The picture of emaciated Isabelle Caro, 27, an anorexic who weighs just 31 kilos (4 stone, 12lb), has been displayed on Milan billboards as the city celebrates its fashion week.
Caro, who is French and has her own blog site, said that she had suffered from anorexia since she was 13 as the result of a "difficult childhood".
She added: "I've hidden myself and covered myself for too long. Now I want to show myself fearlessly, even though I know my body arouses repugnance."I want to recover because I love life and the riches of the universe. I want to show young people how dangerous this illness is."
Should size zero models be banned from the catwalk? Join the debate, comments below...
The campaign was paid for by Italian clothing company Flash & Partners to publicise a fashion brand for young women called Nolita and the photograph was taken by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani.
Flash & Partners said in a statement that Toscani's aim was "to use the naked body to show everyone the reality of this illness, caused in most cases by the stereotypes imposed by the world of fashion".
Many people blame the fashion industry and the obsession with stick-thin size zero models for the rise in cases of anorexia.
Calls for action within the British fashion industry led to a full-scale investigation into the problems by a panel of experts this year.
The report by the Model Health Inquiry, which was published last week on the eve of London Fashion Week, made 14 recommendations including requiring models to pass medical checks before being allowed on the catwalk and barring appearances from those under 16.
Unveiling the report, chairman of the inquiry, Baroness Kingsmill, slammed the fashion world for allowing young girls to be exploited. "Just because modelling is seen as glamorous, [the industry] seems to think it is outside normal health and safety issues," she said. "It is time it started taking care of its workers."
But London has failed to go as far as Madrid and Milan, where the authorities have banned the appearance of ultra-skinny models on catwalks by forcing models to carry certificates proving they are healthy.
The move, which dominated Milan Fashion Week last year, followed the death of 22-year-old model Luisel Ramos, who collapsed at a show in Uruguay. It was claimed she had gone days without eating properly.
Speaking at the time, Tiziana Maiolo, Milan's city council official in charge of promoting fashion, said: "We will work together with modelling agencies, with the chamber of commerce for fashion and with doctors to ensure that the agencies and stylists do not favour this phenomenon of anorexia.
"I don't think men want to see skeletal women and I want to say to women who are fuller- figured there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. They are undoubtedly the prettiest women about and the most intelligent."
Despite this, fashion designers in Milan dismissed fashion as having anything to do with the illness. Commenting on the poster Giorgio Armani said he thought such a shocking image was 'opportune' as a way of making people face up to the dangers of anorexia, which he said had little to do with models on catwalks.
He added: "Anorexia has reasons which are not linked to fashion. Even people who take no notice of fashion get anorexic."
Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said: "Finally someone is saying the truth about anorexia that it has nothing to do with fashion but is a psychiatric problem.
"We have always maintained this despite all the political campaigns on the argument."
However, Italy's health minister Livia Turco backed the campaign and said: "The disturbing image of Isabelle Caro could open an original channel for communication and encourage people to shoulder their responsibilities in the area of anorexia."
Sunday, 23 September 2007
M&S Shotter
Supermodel Jodie Kidd has been dropped from a lucrative advertising campaign with High Street giant Marks & Spencer over her drugs-fixing scandal.
The 28-year-old supermodel, who was caught selling drugs to undercover reporters, has yet to be told that her £250,000 contract with the store to advertise its credit card and financial services will not be renewed.
Jodie was one of the company's high-profile signings along with Myleene Klass, Twiggy, Erin O'Connor and Lizzie Jagger.
But the store confirmed it would no longer be using her for any campaigns – with one source saying: "M&S doesn't do drugs. Period."
How Sad Is She?
Whilst watching Big Brother 8, I never warmed to Chanelle. For reasons such as her rudeness, sympathy craving tears, and endless tantrums.(a bit like Nicky from BB7).
Towards the end of her stay I wanted to see her go even more and so did Big Brother(I believe).
But now she's out, I want her back in there so I don't have to see her and her cheap imitations of Victoria Beckham.
It all very laughable to see Chanelle pouting and posing like her idol but I do believe she looks desperate and idle.
Ok, even me, myself look at fashion from the likes of Victoria Beckham but I try to make it my own. But one key fashion commandment for everyone should be aware of is that ''WHAT SUITS SOMEONE ELSE, MAY NOT SUIT YOU!''
Chanelle-GET A LIFE.
Towards the end of her stay I wanted to see her go even more and so did Big Brother(I believe).
But now she's out, I want her back in there so I don't have to see her and her cheap imitations of Victoria Beckham.
It all very laughable to see Chanelle pouting and posing like her idol but I do believe she looks desperate and idle.
Ok, even me, myself look at fashion from the likes of Victoria Beckham but I try to make it my own. But one key fashion commandment for everyone should be aware of is that ''WHAT SUITS SOMEONE ELSE, MAY NOT SUIT YOU!''
Chanelle-GET A LIFE.
She Finally Shuns size 0
Nicole Richie who is 5 months pregnant
was spotted on holiday in Hawaii.
Sporting some meat on those bones of hers.
She looks so much healthier and it is also in
the best interest of her unborn baby.
Women should embrace and own all their womenly
assests, such breast, hips, and bumper.
Saturday, 22 September 2007
My Mamma Loves 50 Cent
My Mother and I were having a conversation about The MOBO awards, then the conversation turned to No-show 50 cent.
Well my Mother did surprise me she said that she 'loved 50's music' but then she also revealed that the only track she knew was 'In The Club' but she did add that he was very charming, articulate and handsome 'you hardly ever see a good looking black man like that anymore' to my surprise she also said that he would make a brilliant actor.
This all came from a woman who takes no regard to rap music because of violent lyrics and The 'N' word.
I think she secretly fancies him, if I'm honest.
Remember The Great
The last month was the 10th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary Fela Kutti
He is always respected and remembered in my heart.
PS: Don't listen to the Devil who says this great African man died of aids, it lies in order to try and tarnish him beautiful name.
xxx
Charlotte Church Gives Birth!
Charlotte Church has given birth to a daughter at home - with proud boyfriend Gavin Henson at her side. The babies name is still unknown
Friday, 21 September 2007
Naomi's Fashion Show For Flood Victims.
Before the show began and before individuals announced they were donating any of their personal wealth, Campbell's catwalk show had already raised £500,000, half of its £1 million target.Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief show attracted names ranging from Princess Beatrice and her mother Sarah Ferguson to footballer Rio Ferdinand.
And supermodel friend Kate Moss donated £25,000 to the cause.
Seven dresses sold after the event - the finale to London Fashion Week - raised a total of £176,000 following frenzied bidding from the audience.
And supermodel friend Kate Moss donated £25,000 to the cause.
Seven dresses sold after the event - the finale to London Fashion Week - raised a total of £176,000 following frenzied bidding from the audience.
TheTwins Do Catwalk
The 18-year-old twins were runners-up in Big Brother 8, and have since launched their careers in showbusiness, covering a version of Aqua's Barbie Girl, posing in bikinis for various magazines and turning up at any party or awards ceremony going.
But this must have been the highest point for the pair, collectively known as Samanda, as they walked the catwalk for Campbell's Fashion For Relief show, to wrap up London Fashion Week. The Fashion For Relief show attracted pop stars, actors, royalty, footballers and supermodels to the catwalk for the good cause.
And they though they may not have been the obvious choice, the leggy twins looked quite at home on the catwalk, in their matching strapless mini-dresses and high heels
But this must have been the highest point for the pair, collectively known as Samanda, as they walked the catwalk for Campbell's Fashion For Relief show, to wrap up London Fashion Week. The Fashion For Relief show attracted pop stars, actors, royalty, footballers and supermodels to the catwalk for the good cause.
And they though they may not have been the obvious choice, the leggy twins looked quite at home on the catwalk, in their matching strapless mini-dresses and high heels
Carrie Gets Her Man In The New Sex And The City Flick!
Pucker up, Big boy: Carrie smooches her man on set this week
the most impractical shoes for walking on a New York pavement.
It must be Carrie Bradshaw. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker this week stepped back into her role as the Cosmopolitan-swilling columnist.
She and her fellow cast members began filming the movie follow-up to Sex and the City, more than three years after the TV series finished.
The cinema version picks up their story four years on.
In these pictures Miss Parker, 42, is seen in a passionate embrace with Mr Big, played by Chris Noth, 52.
According to on-set sources, the pair were filming a scene where they were house-hunting together.
She is carrying a quirky handbag in the shape of the Eiffel Tower, perhaps a reference to the TV finale, in which the couple declared their love in Paris.
Around four million watched that episode when it was shown on Channel 4 in March 2004.
Despite many pleas from fans, the Sex and the City film was delayed — reportedly because of rows over money between Miss Parker and costar Kim Cattrall.
But now Parker, Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon are all reprising their roles and are thought to have negotiated fees in excess of £3million.
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson, from the musical Dreamgirls, has joined the cast and will play Carrie's assistant.
The film is due for release in Britain next summer.
Pictures below
The Tragic Mobo's TONIGHT!
If anyone is interested The Mobo's is being aired again tonight on BBC1@ 11.35pm.
New PlayBoy Store
Playboy will make a grand return to London today when it opens its biggest worldwide store on Oxford Street.The famous bunny girls and Playboy casinos were an inescapable part of 1960s culture in the capital but the last venues were closed in 1981 when the Government withdrew their gambling licences. Hugh Hefner founded Playboy magazine in 1953, marketing it as “the handbook for the urban male”.
A bag emblazoned with swastikas has been taken off the shelves at fashion chain Zara.The Spanish business has been forced to apologise after getting inundated with complaints about the £39 item.The holdall style bag had four green swastikas stitched in alongside images of bike's, animals, and plants.19 year old Rachel Hatton of Ashford, Kent, bought one of the bags before spotting the offensive symbol.She returned the bag and had her money refunded.The swastika - actually an ancient good luck sign for Hindus and Buddhists, was used by Adolf Hitler as the emblem of Nazi Germany
Thursday, 20 September 2007
New Hip Hop Albums to be released!
Havoc Album: The Kush release date Sept 24th
Eve Album: Here I Am release date
Will.i.am Album:Songs About Girls releas date 25 Sept
Supermarket Scam
Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Asda said they were examining a report from the Office of Fair Trading.
Five dairy processors were also accused of the collusion, which allegedly led to overcharging of an estimated £270m.
The OFT said the figures broke down as 3p extra for a pint of milk and 15p extra per quarter pound of butter.
The overcharging, between 2002 and 2003, also led to customers being allegedly overcharged 15p per half pound of cheese.
Five dairy processors were also accused of the collusion, which allegedly led to overcharging of an estimated £270m.
The OFT said the figures broke down as 3p extra for a pint of milk and 15p extra per quarter pound of butter.
The overcharging, between 2002 and 2003, also led to customers being allegedly overcharged 15p per half pound of cheese.
Jay-Z Comes out of retirement
On the surface, the idea of a new Jay-Z album made up of songs inspired by a new big-budget movie and timed to coincide with that movie's release sounds like a terrible mistake in the making. Unless I'm forgetting something, the last time a rap group tried to tie in an entire album with a new movie (not counting straight-to-video rapper-produced stuff like Choices or whatever) was Public Enemy's He Got Game soundtrack album, an unfairly dismissed and ultimately pretty good work (still love that title track, Stephen Stills and all) that nonetheless was anything but a high-water mark for its creators. Jay's new album is going to be based on American Gangster, a big Ridley Scott period-piece crime movie
What A Wuss!
Gordon Brown has threatened to boycott a major international summit if the Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is allowed to attend.
Mr Brown described the situation in the former British colony as "appalling and tragic" and accused Mr Mugabe of abusing his own people.
He said he would not attend a December meeting of the African Union and European Union in Lisbon if the Zimbabwean leader was on the guest list.
He said he would not attend a December meeting of the African Union and European Union in Lisbon if the Zimbabwean leader was on the guest list.
Duplate Drama Series 2...
Fresh from the inbox...Dubplate Drama is proud to announce that the second series of the smash hit show is now in development. We’d like to thank everyone who’s supported us so far please keep it coming. As you’d expect, series 2 is gonna be bigger and better, tackling an even wider range of issues. But we need YOUR help. As series one showed life’s complicated out there. There are choices, decisions and dilemmas everywhere you turn. But here's where your choices can make a difference.We need YOU to help with our storylines. We’ve teamed up with the UK’s biggest information web site www.thesite.org to bring together young people from across the UK to discuss and shape our storylines. It’s another world first taking interactivity to the next level.
Begins Thursday September 20@ 12:30am channel 4.
Fashion of the 80's
The Clothes Horse Ambassadress of Fashion
Throughout her brief life Princess Diana supported many British designers especially Arabella Pollen, Bruce Oldfield, Amanda Wakeley and Catherine Walker. Initially the Princess of Wales was encouraged by staff of Vogue to pursue a particular look.
As the 1980s progressed she gained confidence in her own fashion style and became more and more elegant as she began to understand what suited her. Diana became an icon in fashion history.
Diana started to wear clothes by international designers of her own choice including Versace, Christian Lacroix, Ungaro and Chanel.
Throughout her brief life Princess Diana supported many British designers especially Arabella Pollen, Bruce Oldfield, Amanda Wakeley and Catherine Walker. Initially the Princess of Wales was encouraged by staff of Vogue to pursue a particular look.
As the 1980s progressed she gained confidence in her own fashion style and became more and more elegant as she began to understand what suited her. Diana became an icon in fashion history.
Diana started to wear clothes by international designers of her own choice including Versace, Christian Lacroix, Ungaro and Chanel.
The 80's
Power Dressing
1980s fashion history is memorable and quite distinctive. A variety of fashion looks ran parallel to each other in the 1980s. Women of this era began to feel they that really could at last choose from one of the many contrasting looks available. The fashion look that was the most powerful over the decade was the wide shoulder. Fashion history reveals that the 80s fashion look was a tailored look. It was hard to go anywhere without at least a jacket, but preferably a complete suit. This was influenced by several movements including media influence on 1980s fashion through the popularity of TV dramas like 'Dynasty' and 'Dallas'. Costume dramas brought fashion into real everyday eighties life.
1980s fashion history is memorable and quite distinctive. A variety of fashion looks ran parallel to each other in the 1980s. Women of this era began to feel they that really could at last choose from one of the many contrasting looks available. The fashion look that was the most powerful over the decade was the wide shoulder. Fashion history reveals that the 80s fashion look was a tailored look. It was hard to go anywhere without at least a jacket, but preferably a complete suit. This was influenced by several movements including media influence on 1980s fashion through the popularity of TV dramas like 'Dynasty' and 'Dallas'. Costume dramas brought fashion into real everyday eighties life.
While Foxy Brown begins serving a jail sentence for violating probation, her manager says the rapper isn’t pregnant, despite earlier reports to the contrary. Brown was sentenced last Friday to one-year in prison for violating 
probation that stemmed from a 2004 fight with two manicurists in a New York City salon. In August, defense lawyers told the court that Brown was three months pregnant. But in a statement released on Wednesday, her manager, Chaz Williams, said: “And to the pregnancy rumors, this is the official statement: She is not pregnant.” Meanwhile, Brown has kept silent on the issue in a recent press statement announcing her upcoming album, “Brooklyn’s Don Diva,” set to drop on Nov. 20.
probation that stemmed from a 2004 fight with two manicurists in a New York City salon. In August, defense lawyers told the court that Brown was three months pregnant. But in a statement released on Wednesday, her manager, Chaz Williams, said: “And to the pregnancy rumors, this is the official statement: She is not pregnant.” Meanwhile, Brown has kept silent on the issue in a recent press statement announcing her upcoming album, “Brooklyn’s Don Diva,” set to drop on Nov. 20.
Director of football Avram Grant and assistant manager Steve Clarke will take charge of the Chelsea first-team after Jose Mourinho's three-year reign sensationally came to an end.
Mourinho, who ended the Blues' 50-year title drought in his first season in 2005, had attended a screening of Blue Revolution, a new documentary about the Roman Abramovich years, just hours before the news broke.
London Fashion Week refuses to ban 'size 0' models from catwalk
By Geneviève Roberts
Published: 26 January 2007
Dangerously thin models will not be banned from catwalks at London Fashion Week, despite an appeal from the British Fashion Council to use "healthy" models.
Last September, Spain introduced rules banning models with a Body Mass Index (BMI) under 18 appearing on the catwalk in Madrid. This followed the death of the Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos, who died of heart failure after eating nothing for days.
Two months later, the death of the Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston was linked to her battle with anorexia nervosa.
Milan followed Madrid's lead while Paris described it as a "non-issue", but despite pressure from politicians and physicians, ultra-thin models will not be prohibited from appearing during London Fashion Week. Instead, a task force will draw up a voluntary code of practice to promote the use of models larger than the American size zero (British size four), who are aged 16 or over.
By Geneviève Roberts
Published: 26 January 2007
Dangerously thin models will not be banned from catwalks at London Fashion Week, despite an appeal from the British Fashion Council to use "healthy" models.
Last September, Spain introduced rules banning models with a Body Mass Index (BMI) under 18 appearing on the catwalk in Madrid. This followed the death of the Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos, who died of heart failure after eating nothing for days.
Two months later, the death of the Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston was linked to her battle with anorexia nervosa.
Milan followed Madrid's lead while Paris described it as a "non-issue", but despite pressure from politicians and physicians, ultra-thin models will not be prohibited from appearing during London Fashion Week. Instead, a task force will draw up a voluntary code of practice to promote the use of models larger than the American size zero (British size four), who are aged 16 or over.
Diminuitive purple pop star Prince had fashionistas at London Fashion Week on their feet after he staged a surprise performance at Matthew Williamson's catwalk show.
The American singer, who is playing a series of concerts in London at the 02 Arena, at first appeared to be only a front row guest at the spring-summer 2008 collection.
The American singer, who is playing a series of concerts in London at the 02 Arena, at first appeared to be only a front row guest at the spring-summer 2008 collection.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)