Archive for April 3rd, 2009
Plano, Texas – JCPenney will launch a home collection this fall built around one-time supermodel Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford Style, to debut in September, will encompass in bedding, window coverings, bath, decorative accessories, table top, area rugs, lighting and wall décor. Furniture will be available in select markets.
The announcement comes as JCPenney is beginning to roll out its latest home concept, Artesia, a global-eclectic brand for the neo-traditional customer that will be set by April 17.
Cindy Crawford Style will focus on “providing a clean, fresh approach to traditional style with beautiful designs and stylish accents,” according to the company.
“This brand is another example of our strong commitment to our home business,” said Ken Hicks, president and chief merchandising officer, JCPenney. “During this challenging economic environment, we are focused on adding innovation to our assortment and creating a strong portfolio of stylish, high-quality, affordable home merchandise with brands and assortments that address our customers’ diverse lifestyle needs. This will ensure that when the market turns, we will maintain our advantage as a leader in the home business.”
“As one of the most recognized women in the world, Cindy’s roles as wife, mom and businesswoman bring an understanding to what JCPenney customers’ lives are like and what they desire in a home: a sensible, approachable style that allows them to live comfortably and easily entertain friends and family,” said Jeff Allison, evp of home at JCPenney.
Promotional prices for the collection will begin at $169.99 for a queen comforter set, $49.99 for 400-count sheets and $29.99 for a blanket/throw; $129 for furniture; $119.99 for wall décor; $69.99 for lighting; $69.99 for area rugs; $59 for accent furniture; $29.99 for window coverings and $23.99 for window hardware and accessories; $24.99 for decorative accessories; $23.99 for decorative pillows; $24.99 for table top items; and $9.99 for a bath towel.
source: hometextilestoday.com
April 3rd, 2009
Pop star Lady GaGa has won plenty of attention for her eccentric look and now Paris Hilton wants a piece of the action.
The limelight-loving heiress bore more than a passing resemblance to the Just Dance singer on a photoshoot at Duke’s restaurant in Malibu yesterday.
She wore in a pair of metallic futuristic shades, skimpy black dominatrix-inspired outfit and sharp bob with thick blonde bangs.She’s not the first star to copy Lady GaGa’s look – singer Christina Aguilera was accused of stealing her fashion style on numerous occasions while the New Yorker was still just a little-known newcomer on the scene.
Lady GaGa, real name Joanne Stefani Germanotta, said at the time: ‘Well, it was very flattering when it happened.
‘She’s such a huge star and if anything I should send her flowers, because a lot of people in America didn’t know who I was until that whole thing happened.’Christina denied she was taking inspiration from her, saying: ‘I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman. I just wasn’t sure.’
Paris happily waved to admirers from the balcony as she took a break on the set and later changed into a little black sequinned dress, Ray-Bans and shoe boots.
The 28-year-old is tanned and rested after recently returning from a romantic holiday in Hawaii with her new boyfriend Doug Reinhardt.She wrote on her MySpace blog last week: ‘We had so much fun and it was so relaxing and romantic. I LOVE Hawaii!’
Reinhardt, 24, who starred in the popular U.S. reality show The Hills, is apparently hoping to start a family with Paris.
According to America’s In Touch magazine, he said: ‘I’d love to have some mini Parises one day.
‘Paris would make a great mom – she’s my angel princess.’
source: dailymail.co.uk
April 3rd, 2009
After two years of the world watching their every move, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and superstar quarterback Tom Brady tied the knot last month. Bundchen opened up to Vanity Fair recently about the brand new marriage, but it was other comments about her husband’s son, John Edward Thomas, that caught the attention of many readers.
“I understand that he has a mom and I respect that,” Bundchen said of the son from Brady’s previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynihan. “But, to me, it’s not like because somebody else delivered him that’s not my child. I feel it is, 100 percent.”
The comment touched a nerve with many mothers who believed that, as a stepmother, she crossed a line.
“I think every mother’s first reaction is, ‘Whoa, whoa.’ That is not something you should be saying,” divorced mother Kathy Laviani told “Good Morning America. “There’s that boundary. They are not yours. It’s no disrespect but that is what they have to realize.”
Since her divorce seven years ago, Laviani learned from personal experience what it can be like to be the biological mother of children being cared for by another woman.
“She’s fallen in love with their dad,” Laviani said. “She is going to redecorate the house. I’m picking up the pieces of our heart and trying to glue those pieces together.” Laviani can still recall her primal reaction to bumping into the stepmom, Brenda, with the kids.
“I still get emotional and teary-eyed about it because, wow, someone stepped into my role for an hour,” she said. “I didn’t want a step-woman in my life. I don’t need a step-woman in my life.”
Laviani said that even simple family rituals became unexpectedly tense.
“The first time she came to one of my son’s Little League games, I remember I threw my hair in a ponytail and was in jeans and a sweatshirt that has the school logo on it, typical mom,” she said. “There she shows up and she is in her nice attire, business suit, high heels, hair is done, makeup, and you look down and think, man, does she have to show up looking like this?”
But Brenda said stepmothers are misunderstood. Her version of the baseball game story is very different.
“I brought my dog with me and she started petting it. And I had just a short flash of sort of territorialness,” she said. “I caught myself. Because I realized, at that moment, that’s how she probably feels every time she sees the kids get in the car with me.”
Brenda said her stepson Garrett wouldn’t really talk to her for nearly a year, like many children that struggle with divided loyalties after a divorce.
Both women said the lessons over seven years have helped soften the strain.
“You’re offering everything you have to a child that might reject you, that might not want you around,” Brenda said. “So it’s a leap of faith to be able to handle that type of a situation. So, my stepkids taught me that sometimes you just take a leap of faith and it’ll work out.”
source: abcnews.go.com
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