Tabloid mag tries to shock France with party photos of beauty queens
In a move which will help boost Geneviève de Fontenay’s Miss Nationale pageant’s standing, French gossip magazine Closer has published photographs of Miss France 2011, Laury Thilleman, kissing another woman at a party organized by the business school where she studies. Thilleman had earlier stated that she had nothing to be ashamed of, but […]
Emmanuelle Alt confirmed as editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris
Above Vogue Paris’s December 2010 issue, which turned out to be one of Carine Roitfeld’s last as editor-in-chief. As predicted several weeks ago, Condé Nast has named Emmanuelle Alt as the editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, succeeding Carine Roitfeld. Alt, formerly fashion director at the magazine, will begin her new role on February 1 with […]
Miss France, Laury Thilleman, keeps things natural when it comes to beauty
Miss France 2011, Laury Thilleman, has been endearing observers in France with a series of interviews, most recently in a chat session with netizens on the website for Ouest-France. And it’s the nude beauty look that she favours, keeping things as natural as possible. She says that she washes her face with soap […]
Blogs are good for fashion, as long as we can find them
Above Journalist Simone Werle’s Style Diaries: World Fashion from Berlin to Tokyo uncovers the fashion blogosphere and the personalities behind some of the influential blogs. (Click for Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Deutschland.) The first time I encountered a fashion blog, I thought it was pretty crap. All its ideals aside, blogging, initially, seemed to […]
Céline’s Phoebe Philo wins Designer of the Year at 2010 British Fashion Awards
Rightster Above, from top Designer of the Year Phoebe Philo. Supermodel Naomi Campbell wearing Alexander McQueen, receiving an award commemorating 25 years of her career. Céline designer Phoebe Philo has won the prestigious Designer of the Year accolade at the 2010 British Fashion Awards, beating off Erdem and Christopher Kane, held at the Savoy Theatre […]
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 […]
TAFE Sydney’s Fashion Design Studio shows end-of-year parades
Above Alison Parker, Tina Johnson and Lauren Mitchell. TAFE Sydney’s Fashion Design Studio’s 2010 end-of-year parades were held on November 17 at the Carriageworks, featuring over 100 outfits from all three stages of the Studio’s course. The judges of the competition—designers Marnie Skillings, Gary Bigeni, Friedrich Gray’s Ben Pollitt, and the (Australian) Sunday Telegraph […]
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 […]
Liam Gallagher, Fearne Cotton, Brendan Cole and others attend Drapers’ awards
Last Wednesday, Drapers held the 20th anniversary edition of its awards at Grosvenor House in London. Guests included Liam Gallagher, a bow tie-wearing Fearne Cotton, Reggie Yates, Jimmy Mistry, Come Dancing‘s and Strictly Come Dancing‘s Brendan Cole, accompanied by his wife Zoë, and Flavia Cacace from the latter show. In the above video, […]
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. […]
