Archive for May, 2008
The name of this Vogue Italia editorial is “I Feel Love,” but the irony is that there is shattered glass everywhere. Some kind of crazy love. In this one particular shot, Natalia Vodianova is licking a shard of broken glass. Ouch! She looks like a madwoman seeking attention when no one is giving it to her. It’s fabulous when fashion thinks outside the box, even if it means breaking the box. Just, do NOT try this at home. I have a feeling it looks more fabulous than it feels.
May 28th, 2008
The Giantto Group, a prominent Los Angeles-based jewelry company specializing in original custom jewelry and exclusive timepieces, launches and expands the entire Giantto timepiece collection and Von Dutch Watch collection worldwide.
Just returning from Basel World 2008, The Giantto Group will also be at the 17th annual JCK Las Vegas 2008 (booth no 31089), which will be held on May 30-June 3rd.
On June 1st, 2008 Sunday, Joanna Krupa, super hot supermodel, will make an appearance at The Giantto Group booth at the JCK exhibition.
Joanna will also be hosting an exclusive VIP event at The Bank nightclub in the Bellagio hotel Sunday night.
She has done cover shots for Maxim, Playboy, GQ, and FHM, just to name a few, and is in talks with The Giantto Group to be the new official spokesmodel for the group, following Adrianne Curry.
Pam Rodriguez just shot the cover of Lowrider magazine and flaunted a couple of blinged out sets of the new Giantto jewelry collection and timepieces; she is also scheduled to make an appearance at the exhibition and the event Sunday. Pam is also set to be iced-out by the famed LA jewelry powerhouse for an upcoming cover of DUB magazine.
These ladies and many more celebrities will also stop by the Hard Rock hotel in San Diego, CA June 27, for another lavish Giantto bash. For an exclusive VIP pass to the JCK party, please make sure to visit the Giantto group at JCK booth no 31089.
The Giantto Group also debuts new high-end jewelry line including the necklace featured on VH1’s “Rock of Love” and unveils all the latest models from the Giantto timepiece collection, like the all-new rose gold T7, while simultaneously revealing the newest from the Von Dutch Watch collection like the Swarovski Crystal Spiral series.
May 28th, 2008
Top model Kim Alexis is set to host a new reality TV contest searching for the top aging beauty to walk the catwalk.
The model/actress will host TV Land’s “She’s Got The Look,” a model-searching show for new recruits 35 years old and above.
She tells the Los Angeles Daily News, “It’s a chance to enhance women over 35 who still look good and feel good about themselves and want a second chance at something.”
“They may have stepped aside for family or for love, but always wanted to try it.”
The winner of the show will get a second chance for a supermodel career. She will sign with Wilhelmina Modeling Agency and she will get a spread in Self magazine.
Supermodel Beverly Johnson will join her in the show as one of the three judges. Celebrity stylist Robert Verdi and Wilhelmina President Sean Patterson will also serve as judges.
“She’s Got The Look” will premiere on June 4.
May 28th, 2008
George Michael is working on a single with the Dita Von Teese.
Von Teese, who was married to goth rocker Marilyn Manson from 2005 to 2007, revealed that she’s making music with the former Wham! singer - and said it will be highlight of her career.
She says, “I’m a huge Wham! enthusiast and this will be the highlight of my career.
“I’ve been perfecting my routine.”
35-year-old Von Teese, real name Heather Renée Sweet, is a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress.
May 28th, 2008
British model Kelly Brook has been named as the star with the best bikini body in a new poll, beating Halle Berry and Elle MacPherson to the top spot.
The poll, conducted by Debenhams department store, asked men who they thought had the best ever bikini body. There were 2000 participants.
Brook, 28, came in first, while Halle Berry - who infamously appeared topless in the film Swordfish, and showed off her bikini body in the James Bond film Die Another Day - came second.
Ursula Andress, who is now 72 and starred in the film Dr No in 1962, came in third.
Underwear queen Elle MacPherson was fourth, while Raquel Welch came fifth - just ahead of Marilyn Monroe.
Debenhams’ top five bikini bodies:
1. Kelly Brook
2. Halle Berry
3. Ursula Andress
4. Elle MacPherson
5. Raquel Welch
May 28th, 2008
The British tabs are detailing Naomi Campbell’s two different male party partners at Cannes with great relish.
And I’m not talking about Stefan Gabbana and Domenico Dolce, the fashion designers the former supermodel is posing with in the photo above.
The Daily Mail ran several photos of a “curly haired man” Campbell was seen dancing veeery closely with at the Dolce & Gabbana party late Friday night.
Guess the Brits didn’t recognize famous Hollywood producer Lawrence Bender (”Kill Bill,” “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction”) and good friend of Arianna Huffington.
OK, he’s no P. Diddy or Dennis Hopper, also at the VIP bash.
But “unidentified curly haired man?”
That’s gotta sting.
May 27th, 2008
When it comes to speaking his mind, Roberto Cavalli doesn’t hold back. This has never been more apparent than in a recent interview with the Telegraph’s Celia Walden.
Conducted on board Cavalli’s luxury yacht in Cannes, the Italian designer gives his views on everything from Madonna, to Kate Moss’s collections for Topshop.
May 27th, 2008
German supermodel Heidi Klum and her singer husband Seal renewed their marital vows in a Hindu ceremony on their third wedding anniversary.
India was the theme of the wedding that was held at Mexico’s Costa Careyes beach early this month. Indian priest Pandit Shailesh Tripathi was especially called from Indian holy city Varanasi to conduct the ceremony.
Apart from the ceremony, everything about the function was also Indian. For one, the wedding mandap was decorated in Indian motifs.
The bride and groom as well as the guests were reportedly dressed in Indian dresses like banarasi saris, lehenga, sherwanis and kurtas.
Heidi Klum was dressed like an Indian bride in lehenga-chunni and wore exquisite jewellery. Seal wore a black sherwani.
According to a newspaper report, Pandit Tripathi performed elaborate poojas like Ganesh pujan and Navgarh pujan. Heidi and Seal also did saat phere.
Heidi’s parents were also part of rituals like Kanyadaan (giving away of the bride) and Paon Pujai (washing the groom’s feet).
Heidi and Seal have known Tripathi since their visit to India last year. The couple was mesmerized by the Vedic mantras that Tripathi chanted in Kashi. Later, he had also conducted a special Ganga Puja (done for married couples) for Heidi and Seal.
May 26th, 2008
Well, we know she’ll be ready if her boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio ever gets up the nerve to propose! Bar Refaeli looked stunning as part of a bridal fashion show yesterday.
The Israeli-born supermodel was spotted burning up the runway at the Puerta De Europa Bridal Fashion Show at IFEMA in Madrid, Spain.
Refaeli modeled a number of dresses, each one just as spectacular as the rest. And when you figure how much time it takes a bride to prep for just one dress, Bar definitely had her work cut out for her.
As of late, she’s been spotted in the South of France, attending the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival, as well as doing a photo shoot.
May 26th, 2008
It’s a prospect to strike fear into the hearts of airport staff and personal assistants everywhere: Naomi Campbell, but 30ft tall – more than twice the height of a double-decker bus.
The hot-tempered Campbell is to be immortalised in a series of sculptures that will create a lasting, if controversial, monument to her status. She has been posing for the photographer Nick Knight, who is using three-dimensional scanners to create the sculptures.
Campbell ranks among a handful of supermodels who can be identified purely by their first names. But in her case, a reputation for intemperate behaviour tends to overshadow her work on the catwalk. She was arrested on a plane last month after her complaints at the loss of her luggage during the Heathrow terminal 5 fiasco were deemed too vociferous. She was also ordered to attend anger-management classes by a US court after admitting throwing a mobile phone at her housekeeper in a fit of temper.
Despite this, Campbell has remained one of the most popular British models of her generation, with perhaps only Kate Moss exceeding her fame. Knight said he wanted to create a unique sculpture of “one of the most famous and beautiful women in the world”.
He said: “Photography is changing completely, and one of the things that’s doing this is 3-D scanning. You get a 360-degree view of her, and because it’s all digital, that data can be used to output real objects. You can lay one image over another and create sculptures that would never have been conceived if you were chipping away at marble.”
He scanned Campbell “straddling the barrel of a large tank” which will form one sculpture. Another will be a “circle of three Naomis, like The Three Graces”, but designed to be viewed from within the circle and in a darkened room.
Mr Knight is still to decide what material to use for the sculptures, with alabaster and glass fibre both possible. “When you are modelling one of the most beautiful women in the world, the choice of materials is important,” he said.
He hopes to have the sculpture ready by the end of the year but is still considering how it will be unveiled. When asked if it could be installed at the entrance to Terminal 5, as a symbol of the nation’s rage over lost baggage and delayed flights, he simply laughed.
May 25th, 2008
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