Miss France 2011, Laury Thilleman, given a heroine’s home-town welcome
Laury Thilleman has been given a heroine’s welcome as she returns to her home town of Brest, in Bretagne, Saturday, after winning Miss France 2011. Nineteen-year-old Thilleman, a management student, has been thrust into the limelight since her win in Caen on December 4. She has relocated to Paris for her reign. She […]
Calvin Klein’s new Melbourne shop; ShopSavvy ’11; Sopheak Seng’s top picks; and travel in Asia
Calvin Klein has opened a new jeans’ store at the Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne, Victoria. According to Calvin Klein, it’s the second-largest free-standing Calvin Klein Jeans store in Australia, with 131 m², selling the brand’s designer jeans, accessories, underwear, watches and jewellery. Meanwhile, ShopSavvy has published its 2011 guide in New Zealand. ‘By […]
Gok Wan returns to TV with new show on January 18
Gok’s Roadshow will première on Channel 4 on January 18, with a six-part series. Stylist and author Gok Wan (whose autobiography, Through Thick and Thin [left], recently hit bookshelves) will ‘take over an entire town with his pop-up catwalk,’ says the production company, Remarkable Television, part of Endemol. ‘He’ll be treating the local community […]
Ford previews 2011 Territory with official illustration
While we get ready to announce our Car to Be Seen in for 2011, Ford has released a surprise drawing for the next Territory SUV. This was an SUV we were prepared to hate in the early 2000s, till we got behind the wheel of the very earliest models in 2004. And we instantly […]
Mario Testino photographs Prince William and Kate Middleton in official portraits
Mario Testino Mario Testino has photographed HRH Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton in their official engagement portraits. Testino was a personal friend of the Prince’s mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and considered to be one of her favourite photographers. It was Prince William who made the request of Testino, […]
New Zealand launches its own Bridal Fashion Week
Taking a leaf from successful bridal couture shows such as Pronovias in Barcelona, New Zealand will launch its own bridal week in Auckland next year. Local names will appear alongside Cymbeline and Ruben Perlotti at the New Zealand Bridal Fashion Week (BFW), according to organizers. Gloria Vincent, director of BFW, says the event […]
Barbara Morel wins first Miss Nationale, in France’s “war of the pageants”
The second national beauty pageant to take place this weekend in France, Miss Nationale, has seen 19-year-old Barbara Morel, Miss Provence, crowned at the Salle Wagram in Paris last night. Morel was presented with her crown by former Miss France (2001) and local politician Élodie Gossuin in front of 600 guests. Morel is […]
Miss Bretagne, Laury Thilleman, wins Miss France 2011
Breaking news: Miss Alsace, Delphine Wespiser, crowned Miss France 2012 Miss Bretagne, Laury Thilleman, has won Miss France 2011, it was announced at the Zenith at Caen last night. The popular pageant, hosted by veteran actor Alain Delon, was broadcast live on TF1 and was estimated to have attracted eight million viewers. Thilleman […]
Miss France releases new video of 2010 winner, Malika Ménard
Election de Miss France 2011: Spéciale Malika Ménard, Miss France 2010 In the build-up to the Miss France telecast on Saturday night, French network TF1 has released a video featuring last year’s winner, Malika Ménard. The Miss France pageant, now run by Silvio Berlusconi’s Endemol, is going all out with a multimedia campaign. Visitors […]
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 […]
