Alexandra Owen premières her Little Black Dress brand
Sopheak Seng Above The Alexandra Owen Little Black Dress models, in a tableau style. Below Designer Alexandra Owen. Jack Yan The little black dress has long been a wardrobe staple for every woman. From Chanel, to Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the allure, sophistication and chic of a little black dress […]
Clearing out those virtual cobwebs
Hopefully, after three hours of tidying up and link-checking, we’ve weeded out the dead links in our magazine links’ section. If you have any good suggestions for new links who are willing to swap with us, please let us know—we ask that they not be content mills or filled with affiliate links, but contribute something […]
France’s “war of the pageants” comes to a head this weekend
Conflicts in most countries over two beauty pageants might stem from the rivalry between Miss Universe and Miss World—and even then they are far and few between. But France’s new rivalry—dubbed la guerre des Miss—which has caught the attention of the media there, has a very different foundation. France has a general acceptance of […]
George W. Bush promotes Decision Points at Facebook
He never had much of a chance to talk about it during his administration, but here is former US president, George W. Bush, championing corporate social responsibility as he promotes his book, Decision Points. We also never thought we would have in the same sentence: Bush, Facebook and California, but here we are: as part […]
Susan Stafford: a life well spent
From top Kato Kaelin with Pat and James van Patten. Billy Davis, Susan Stafford and Marilyn McCoo. Sean Kanan and Michele Vega. If you are a classic TV enthusiast or a person of a certain age, you will remember ’80s juggernaut game show Wheel of Fortune. Before Vanna White spent the decade turning letters with […]
The changing style of Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton is very much in the news as HRH Prince William popped the question this week, revealing his mother’s sapphire and diamond engagement ring. Our colleagues in London have examined the changing styles of Miss Middleton in the above video. Middleton does have fashion credentials as an accessories’ buyer for Jigsaw. The report […]
Left Our simulation of our Lucire Nokia Ovi app with our news items. Above Nokia’s screen shot of the new Lucire app. While we continue to wait for Apple to approve our Ipad application (how many months has it been now?), Nokia, thankfully, has Lucire’s Ovi app ready to go after four working days. […]
Patrick Demarchelier shoots Miranda Kerr pregnant and nude for W
Patrick Demarchelier Australian model Miranda Kerr, best known to some as a Victoria’s Secret “Angel”, has posed nude for Patrick Demarchelier while six months pregnant with her and husband Orlando Bloom’s child. The photographs appear in the latest W. Kerr follows in the footsteps of numerous celebrities who have had nude portraits done […]
The Alexander McQueen–Hells Angels fashion fiasco explained
On October 25, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corp. took a different route when confronting someone with a ‘problem’ instead of the usual threaten-and-get-’em routine—going so far as to hiring intellectual property attorney Fritz Clapp from the central district of California. ‘There’s no doubt in my mind the designer had seen the death head mark,’ he […]
Ssangyong revives Korando nameplate for small SUV
It takes a lot of guts to use one of your company’s old nameplates and to apply it to a new type of car altogether. Ssangyong, which had been on the brink for years, has been given a new lease of life by Chinese automaker SAIC, which took over the firm six years ago. […]
