Archive for August, 2006
Justin Timberlake respects supermodel Kate Moss because he remembers what it was like when the media reported that he smoked marijuana. Moss was at the centre of a drug scandal last autumn after a British newspaper published images of beauty allegedly snorting cocaine. The “Rock Your Body” singer claims people should do what is right for them and not try and impose their values on others. He says, “I remember the first time it was reported that I smoked pot. “I was like, ‘Y’all don’t?’ That’s why I sort of respect Kate Moss. “I think you lose once you start trying to analyse what people like. “So I’m like, ‘I hope you like how I live, but if you don’t, you don’t!’”
August 21st, 2006
The sad fact that there are no pictures of Luisel Ramos on the web, induced us to publish a few images of the deceased fashion model.
Luisel died of heart failure while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week in Montevideo, Uruguay (read here for the full story).
May your soul rest in Peace
God Bless your family
August 21st, 2006
Supermodel Kate Moss has upset hundreds of Muslims in New York - and doesn’t know it. A huge Calvin Klein advertising poster - showing the supermodel topless and grabbing a shirtless man - has been put up opposite a mosque in the East Village district.
Worshippers are upset by the image because under Islamic law, Muslim men are not meant to look at naked or scantily clad women unless they are their wives.
Meanwhile, Kate is reportedly planning to marry rocker Pete Doherty after he bought her a diamond engagement ring.
The couple were seen kissing last Friday at the recording of British music TV show Transmission and Kate was wearing a huge vintage diamond ring on her engagement finger.
Friends of the supermodel have revealed the ring was a present given to her by junkie rocker Pete last week.
They also said that when Kate attended Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie’s wedding two weeks ago she told them: “It’s going to be me next.”
August 20th, 2006
Supermodel Lily Cole demonstrated that she is not just a pretty face yesterday when she secured a place at Cambridge University after scoring straight As in her A-levels. The 18-year-old scored top grades in three A-levels - English, philosophy and ethics, and politics - at Latymer Upper School in west London. Cole, who has already earned a reported ?10million ($30m), has deferred the start of her degree course until 2007, when she will study social and political sciences at King’s College, Cambridge.
“We expected her to get the grades,” said a spokesman for the ?12,000-a-year school, which saw record numbers of pupils winning places at Oxford and Cambridge this year.
The flame-haired teenager shocked the modelling world by announcing her determination to go to university even though it could cost her millions in lost fees.
She was offered a conditional place after achieving straight A grades in her AS-levels in English, history, drama and philosophy last year.
Cole was plucked from obscurity in 2002 at the age of 14, when she was spotted by modelling scout Benjamin Hart walking through Covent Garden after enjoying a burger and chips with friends.
Fighting her initial suspicion that she was being followed by a “dodgy guy”, she agreed to attend a photo shoot and was later signed to Storm Models, the agency of the catwalk legends Kate Moss and Cindy Crawford.
The following year she was photographed by Steven Meisel and has since been captured by some of the world’s leading photographers, including David Bailey and Craig McDean.
She went on to feature in European, north American and Asian editions of Vogue, and was named Model of the Year at the 2004 British Fashion Awards.
When Cole announced her decision to continue her education, her grandmother Maud Cole said: “We have always known that Lily had brains as well as beauty.
She just wants to get on with her studies without too much fuss.”
August 19th, 2006
There’s no telling or understanding what might happen when a supermodel and a horse meet. But luckily Karolina Kurkova used her supermodel powers to channel her inner horse whisperer while visiting a horse farm in Cadiz, Spain earlier this week.
Kurkova was quite taken by her long faced friend, Don Padrito, as she gushed and petted the Spanish stallion.
But don’t expect the Czech beauty to trade her Victoria’s Secret angel wings for a horse saddle anytime soon. Because despite her horse love, Kurkova admitted she doesn’t even know how to ride a horse.
We hope Don Padrito finds it in his heart to forgive her.
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Thanks to TMZ.com and Aol.com.
August 18th, 2006
Let us be clear what this article is not about. It is not about photographs of Kate Moss with cellulite on her thighs, some of which have appeared in British tabloids in recent weeks. Nor is it about the impact of her lifestyle and alleged drug-taking on the condition of her skin…
(what are a few spots when you’ve got a face like that?), or her taste in men — all of which have emerged as familiar themes of the past few months.
This is about a fall of a different kind - about style, pure and simple. For the past 15 years, Moss has had only to step outside her front door for a new fashion trend to be launched. Now she appears to be losing her extraordinary sense of style, and there is a succession of outfits that arguably proves it.
In fashion terms, ever since the first photographs of her by Corinne Day appeared in the Face in 1990, Moss has been unassailable. Her outfits have shown an impressive fashion intelligence at work, her choice of clothes always educated as well as intuitive. When, for example, she wore a rippling yellow vintage dress to a party in New York three years ago, it was ‘a statement moment, the beginning of a more feminine silhouette’, according to Jo Elvin, editor of Glamour magazine. But Moss also got people talking about the long-forgotten Jean Desses, the couturier thought to have created that dress; it was the fashion equivalent of name-dropping a great author no one else has read.
Look at the photograph again now, and the outfit seems a no-brainer — what could be easier to assemble than dress plus shoes and bag? It seems hard to imagine after three summers in which the frock has dominated, but that easy yellow belter helped to spur the return of the dress to the high street. At the time, the catwalks were full of separates, Marc Jacobs was showing miniskirts with primary-coloured tights, bootlegs and 80s sweatshirts were outselling all else at Topshop.Moss’s ability to hold our attention with an image has always been partly about her looking fantastic in that moment, and partly about the fact that she is usually one step ahead of the next. ‘She has that supreme confidence,’ says Elvin. ‘Where we would open our wardrobes and shy away from something that looks a bit weird, she goes for it. One of the reasons she is so admired is that she always does something experimental, and I think she hates the idea of anyone else dressing her.’ Moss has never had a stylist.
Even when she famously arrived at a party in London in 1993 in a sheer silver dress, accessorising it with a cigarette in her right hand, a bottle in her left, and with a pair each of knickers and nipples shimmering through the cloth, it was the shape of those pants that held the eye: a low-rise of impeccable cut and incongruous modesty. She has a great eye for line, a keenness for surprise.
Contrast all this with Moss’s current public image. Two years ago it would have been impossible to suggest there was anything as monolithic as a Kate Moss look. This summer not only has there been one, but it has not shown much progress from last summer’s. Examine the evidence and one image occurs more than most: Moss at a festival, long legs bolted at either end into a pair of raggy denim hotpants and a peculiar, loosely collared set of ankle boots, an outfit that had its genesis at Glastonbury last year.
Silence the voice in your head that says her legs look fantastic in those shorts: this is not about her body, it’s about her clothes. A belt hangs low around her hips. And while this might in itself seem like a harmless enough detail, it looks dated, recalling all those big belts with peasant skirts that flip-flopped relentlessly down high streets last summer. Historically, Moss has always led rather than followed fashion and, having done so, swiftly moved on. She wore Balenciaga before people were talking about it; she put ballet flats with skinny jeans; she helped gold jewellery to supplant silver, and was even responsible for the reintroduction to respectable wardrobes of the humble welly. Now it seems that she has stopped moving, and we have stopped following, and not only because there are few things in fashion as alienating as a pair of hot pants.
‘It’s quite rock ‘n’ roll,’ says Angela Buttolph, contributing editor of Grazia magazine. ‘Hotpants are small, you can just fold them in a bag, take them anywhere. She’s leading a really nomadic lifestyle. It’s as if she just jumps in them and goes out the door. But I think people are getting bored of the hot pants. She’s hardly worn anything else.’
And Moss is not the only one who is making the outfit look familiar. A strikingly similar pair of hot pants is being given an intensive summer workout by Victoria Beckham. The printed top and low-slung belt Moss wore to the O2 festival in June recalled Sienna Miller’s boho fixation of last summer. There are other similarities: another Moss seasonal staple, the long T-shirt belted and worn as a dress, has also been sported repeatedly by Beckham, as has the waistcoat worn with nothing underneath. Moss, in short, is dressing like the people who have always dressed like her.
‘Usually she’ll do something, everyone else will do it — and then she’ll do something else,’ says Buttolph. ‘Normally it’s held that Posh jumps on a look and Kate jumps in the opposite direction. But she’s still wearing hot pants while Posh is. If you were looking for the next thing at the moment, you wouldn’t be looking to Kate Moss.’
When, on September 15 last year, grainy pictures of Moss allegedly snorting cocaine appeared on the front page of the London- based Daily Mirror, it looked as if, at 31, her career might have come to a premature end. In fact, nothing could have been further from the truth. Her earnings have trebled in the months since. New contracts with Virgin Mobile, the luxury leather goods brand Longchamp, Stella McCartney, Calvin Klein and Roberto Cavalli alone are thought to amount to around GBP6 million. Yesterday she appeared on her third Vogue cover in six months. Rather than heralding the beginning of the end, the scandal has served only to invigorate her career. But if Moss is more in demand than ever at work, away from it, in civilian clothes, she has never looked less inspiring.
So why has she started dressing badly? Perhaps we need to trace a familiar path in search of the culprit, to the doors of her boyfriends. There has been much talk about the damaging effect of Moss’s relationship with Pete Doherty on her health — but what about the havoc her relationships are wreaking on her wardrobe? When she wore a grey two-piece trouser suit with a long-sleeved white T-shirt poking out of her jacket sleeves, it was hard not to see the influence of Doherty. On more than one occasion recently she has sabotaged her outfit with a necktie that bears an uncanny resemblance to the trademark of her friend Russell Brand.
‘This is always a difficult one to talk about,’ says one fashion executive at a glossy magazine who does not wish to be named. ‘People really close ranks around her. But in fashion terms, she really is hanging herself with that little noose around her neck she insists on wearing.’
Does any of this matter? Well yes - and not just to her. Without Moss striking out in stovepipes, for example, Topshop’s skinny Baxter jeans would not have averaged UK sales of 18,000 a week since their release last August. For years, Moss has been the highest and most reliable measure of fashion, as lauded within the industry as she is outside it.
It is because she looks so fantastic that she can make so much money and wield such influence without ever having to say anything memorable. Crucially, Moss does not speak about her work, never gives interviews and, until her recent TV commercial for Virgin Mobile, most of us would never have heard her voice. Her clothes are her language. She lets the world form an opinion of her through what she wears and how she looks. So if she wants to remain as powerful in our wardrobes as she is on the catwalk, she needs to let go of those rock’n'roll outfits. Either that, or next summer we will all be wearing pixie boots and hot pants.
August 17th, 2006
German supermodel Heidi Klum was delighted to discover she is pregnant for the third time, because her husband Seal prefers her with a bump.
The 33-year-old has been pregnant for the majority of the past three years she gave birth to Flavio briatore’s daughter LENI in May 2004, before welcoming her husband’s son Henry into the world last September (05). The couple’s second child is due in December (06).
She says, “(He) finds me the most beautiful when I’m pregnant.”
August 16th, 2006
In the ’80s and ’90s British model Heather Stewart-Whyte was known as one of the faces of Gucci. She also modelled for Versace, Yves Saint-Laurent, Armani and Victoria’s Secret.
She made headlines through her marriage to French tennis star Yannick Noah as well. They divorced later and Noah became a singer.
Now the 36-year-old former supermodel’s name is again in the news, but for a very different reason.
Her half-brother, Don Stewart-Whyte, was one of the 24 persons held in the UK in connection with the alleged terrorist plot to blow up jets in mid-air. Two were later released.
Stewart-Whyte, 21, was reportedly a regular happy-go-lucky youth. He later converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul Waheed. His personality also changed completely, according to Mr Paul How, his boss at the nightclub where he worked.
Six months ago he married a Muslim girl, reported The Sun.Ms Heather’s mum was married to Stewart-Whyte’s dad Doug but the marriage ended three decades ago. She married again and took her two daughters to live with her new husband. Ms Heather’s looks soon got her on to the cover of Elle, Vogue Paris and Marie Claire which ultimately led to her modelling career. She modelled for Lagerfeld, Christian Dior and Maybelline too.
Her step-dad didn’t want to acknowledge any links with Stewart-Whyte. He told The Sun: ‘We really don’t want to talk about the guy. My wife has had no contact with her ex-husband for 30 years or so. I brought Doug’s girls up as my own and they have never seen their half-brother.’
It is not likely that they would want to have anything to do with Stewart-Whyte now. Mr How described his change to The Sun.
He said: ‘He was a typical lad who enjoyed a drink and was always willing to help. Then out of the blue he came and said he had converted to Islam and could no longer work behind the bar.’
Neighbours too told of how Stewart-Whyte became a changed figure after his conversion. He lived in Buckinghamshire with his widowed mother. Acquaintances said he had become less friendly.
One neighbour told The Guardian: ‘He grew a long beard and had shaved his head. The people he was hanging around with were different.
‘He doesn’t speak to anyone around here since his conversion. We don’t know what he does nowadays.’
Meanwhile, the mastermind of the plot, which was supposed to be on the scale of the 9/11 attack, is thought to be Birmingham-born Rashid Rauf, whom the UK police dubbed Mr Talibrum, after the Taliban.
Rauf, 29, who used the alias of Matiur Rehman, was held in Pakistan on Wednesday, UK media reported.
He is suspected of having organised the training of seven British suicide bombers who aimed to blow up jets and kill thousands.
He left Birmingham in 2002 after his uncle was found stabbed to death, reportedly the result of a family feud. The murder was never solved.
Rauf’s brother Tayib, 22, was among the suspects held.
It is now believed that the bombers were planning to board flights leaving the UK for the US, carrying explosives in soft drink containers. All are believed to have visited Pakistan.
Security chiefs are investigating whether Rauf indoctrinated the plotters during ‘bonding’ trips such as camping, canoeing and walking, reported The Mirror.
Two videos have been recovered showing the suspects boasting about their missions, reported The Sun.
Pakistan newspaper Daily Times reported that money sent by a UK charity for quake rehabilitation was used to fund the terror plot.
August 15th, 2006
Supermodel Christy Turlington, who helped launch Maybelline’s “Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Maybelline” tagline in the early ’90s, is back as the global face of the brand.
The model will help the brand target women ages 35-plus, according to the company, beginning with a TV campaign and print campaign for Maybelline’s new Instant Age Rewind Cream Foundation. She also will appear in ads for Superstay lip color. The effort will be helmed by Maybelline’s agency, Gotham, New York.
The first spots, which debut Aug. 21, show Turlington out and about in New York City. The 15- and 30-second ads will run on all major national and cable networks. Print launches in September issues of beauty and lifestyle publications and run as full page and spread ads.
Instant Age Rewind Cream Foundation is the newest addition to Maybelline’s Instant Age Rewind franchise.
August 14th, 2006
Supermodel Kate Moss looks stunning in the new Calvin Klein jeans campaign. The 32-year-old supermodel stars in the autumn 2006 campaign with Irish model and actor Jamie Dornan.
The black and white adverts are sexy and the energy between the couple comes across on camera. Photography duo Merta and Marcus shot the campaign in New York in April.
Dornan, ex- boyfriend of Keira Knightley, admitted he was nervous at first but said Moss was brilliant to work with.
He told Grazia magazine;” She’s been doing this for years and is basically in a league of one when it comes to model’s profiles. I mean to be able to maintain that level of intrigue and interest is amazing.”
August 13th, 2006
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