Elizabeth Arden, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Vanessa Hudgens pay tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Arden, which licensed Dame Elizabeth Taylor’s name and likeness for its fragrances, has issued a statement on the actress’s passing. ‘It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress, activist and businesswoman. As her business partner in the fragrance industry, we have held her in […]
Cheryl Cole and other celebs rub shoulders with royalty at the Prince’s Trust Awards
Cheryl Cole, Philip Schofield, Steve Jones, Christine Bleakley and a very on-trend Kimberley Walsh were among the celebrities at the Prince’s Trust Celebrate Success Awards, presented in association with L’Oréal Paris. Naturally, on everyone’s minds was the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29. It was Cole’s first […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor: a style icon remembered
We’ve thought about it and other than praising her charity work raising money for Aids, there isn’t a better tribute we can make to the late, great Dame Elizabeth Taylor, DBE, than showing her at her peak. Below is a video of her in Las Vegas with then-husband Eddie Fisher, in 1959. This video […]
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open: having themselves a ball
Joe Scarnici While film buffs look to Hollywood as the physical embodiment of America’s “good life”, Indian Wells (two hours from LA without traffic, and just east of Palm Springs) takes on a similar glow when the BNP Paribas Open comes to town in March. Instead of rolling out the red carpet, of course, the […]
Getting Uma Thurman’s Ceremony hair
It’s nice to see Uma Thurman continue to make the news—this time through celebrity hairstylist David Babaii, who gave the actress her look at the Los Angeles première of Ceremony. To achieve the look, according to his PR: ‘Babaii prepared Uma’s freshly washed and conditioned hair by massaging a dime-size amount of Couture Colour […]
Charity calendar brings 1940s’ pin-up style into the 2010s
Mandi Lynn Pin Up for Prems is a charity calendar with a difference. Born out of a desire to help the Neonatal Special Care Unit of Hutt Hospital, which specializes in caring for newborn babies and helping parents during and after births, mother and businesswoman Georgia Wright and renowned Wellington photographer Mandi Lynn came […]
Kate Winslet dons Stella McCartney; Cheryl Cole remains on Simon Cowell’s list for US X Factor
Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet wears Stella McCartney to the première at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York of Mildred Pierce, her new HBO series, in which she stars opposite Guy Pearce. She accessorized her look with a bag from Calvin Klein. Winslet compared her experience making the TV mini-series to a five-hour […]
Melbourne Fashion Festival coolly closes among the icebergs
The final L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival showing, hosted by Yen magazine, was held off-site at Shed 4, a short walk around the dock from where the main shows went down. In the grungier setting, spectators sat on plastic stools that resembled upturned trash cans arranged in a large swooping S. White cardboard “icebergs” jutted out […]
Manfred Baumann shoots the 2011 Miss Austria contestants
Manfred Baumann Above, from top, left to right All contestants. Carmen Stamboli. Elisabeth Thomas. Eva Hager. Anna Fleiss. Julia Hofer. Hannah Strauss. Anna Scheiber. Katharina Vinzenz. Lisa Bernhauser. Magdalena Thanner. Margareta Krajinović. Natascha Knava. Romana Martinović. Sabrina Konrad. Suana Djulić. Tanja Kriegner. Vanessa Hassler. Vanessa Lehner. Katja Schuh. Photographer Manfred Baumann has sent us quite […]
Karen Walker and Kate Sylvester glitter and pop at L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival
Tonight’s L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival runway, sponsored by Frankie, featured Kiwi darlings Karen Walker and Kate Sylvester and stirred up a little home sickness before I had even arrived at the event. Luckily, as is always the case, the ‘rah rah’ quickly distracted me from it. My accomplice and I had arranged a PR […]
