Documentary series coinciding with Christian Dior’s 70th anniversary starting February 9 on More4
Top: Maria Grazia Chiuri takes a bow after her first collection. Above: From the archives, Christian Dior himself measuring a model. With Christian Dior celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, with a feature appearing in an upcoming Lucire and an exhibition at the NGV, it’s the perfect time to take a look back at one […]
Dimitrios Kambouris, Kevin Mazur, Christopher Polk, Stefanie Keenan, John Sciulli, Emma McIntyre, Matt Winkelmeyer, Frazer Harrison The 23rd annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday, honoured outstanding performances from 2016 in film and television. From the moment the ceremony began, the stars wasted no time diving […]
Olivier Borde De Grisogono held its Divine party last night at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes, and in the style that one would expect from founder, creative director and CEO Fawaz Gruosi, it was the A-list place to be on the Riviera. Plenty of celebrities showed up on the seventh day of […]
Sonam Kapoor, Natalie Portman, Li Bing Bing, Natasha Poly, Laetitia Guarino shine on Cannes’ day 4
Andreas Rentz Neilson Barnard Natalie Portman’s directorial début, A Tale of Love and Darkness, is an adaptation of Amoz Oz’s novel, looking at the founding of the state of Israel when he was a boy. Wearing a strapless black-and-white Dior dress with a full skirt from the spring–summer 2015 collection, Portman evoked the house’s postwar […]
Pascal Le Segretain Andreas Rentz Venturelli The Festival de Cannes, the 68th Cannes Film Festival, kicked off Wednesday at the Palais des Festivals, with plenty of glamour from the red carpet, as well as big names. Catherine Deneuve, the iconic French actress, stars in the opening-night film, Le tête haute (Standing Tall), and appeared before […]
Miss Bourgogne, Marine Lorphelin, crowned Miss France 2013
Miss Bourgogne, Marine Lorphelin, is Miss France 2013, succeeding Delphine Wespiser. Lorphelin, 19, hails from Charnay-lès-Mâcon. She is 1·76 m tall (5 ft 9 in). She is in her first year of medicine in Lyon. Her interests are art, painting and fashion. She is a regular gym-goer. Lorphelin was originally crowned Miss […]
Oscar night gowns: Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow make it black and white
The 84th Academy Awards were, as always, a great venue for A-list gown-watching. Looking every inch the movie star, Angelina Jolie wowed in a black Versace gown with a thigh-high split. Michelle Williams donned a bright red strapless Louis Vuitton gown, while Emma Stone also went with red, in Gimabattista Valli. Natalie Portman […]
Natalie Portman issues statement severing ties with John Galliano
Above Actress Natalie Portman, photographed in her Miss Dior Chérie advertisement. Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman, the face of Miss Dior Chérie, has issued a statement condemning the anti-Semitic words of John Galliano, creative director of Christian Dior. Portman issued her statement after a video surfaced on a Murdoch Press website, showing a drunk […]
Oscar coverage: from the red carpet, to Colin Firth, to Melissa Leo’s swearing
Our coverage of the Oscars begins here, with highlights from Colin Firth’s, Natalie Portman’s and Melissa Leo’s acceptance speeches. The King’s Speech won best film while its star Colin Firth took the best actor prize at the Academy Awards. The movie took four honours in total, including best original screenplay for David Seidler and […]
Colin Firth accepts his BAFTA as The King’s Speech sweeps awards
Getty Images Above The King’s Speech star Colin Firth, after his earlier win at the Golden Globes. Below is Colin Firth’s acceptance speech from the BAFTAs, after winning best actor for his role as King George VI in The King’s Speech. The clip, from ITN, is courtesy of BBC1. Firth joked that director […]
