As the first black model to grace the high fashion catwalks, Naomi Campbell can certainly be proud of her success.
But as she took to the catwalk for her Fashion for Relief charity show she had a definite point to make.
The show is being held in Africa for the first time and Naomi was keen to attack “the developed world’s discrimination against black models”
Backstage at the event she told the Daily Mail: “Where do we see a woman of colour in an advert? It’s quite blatant.
“There’s definitely space for more black models but has there been enough effort? It was getting better but it’s slipped back this year.”
Naomi strutted her stuff in a variety of colourful designs, with beads, peacock feathers and chunky jewellery made by local designers and was joined by a number of aspiring models all currently competing to become the new ‘Face of Africa’.
Campbell’s previous Fashion for Relief shows have raised as much as $1 million for relief from natural disasters and this year’s event in Dar es Salaam will go to support maternal health.
The supermodel added: “Women of colour who have had a great experience in life need to share their experiences with others. The world is not made up of blonde hair and blue eyes. We need to share ourselves.”
source: rubyroom.aol.co.uk
November 14th, 2009
Supermodel Cindy Crawford is at the centre of a blackmail plot involving a photo of her daughter bound and gagged.
The picture, showing eight-year-old Kaia tied to a chair, was allegedly used to try to extort ?60,000 from Cindy and husband Rande Gerber.
German male model Edis Kayalar, 26, is accused of repeatedly threatening to sell or release the photo.
He faces up to two years in jail after being charged with extortion in LA. However, he is now believed to be in Stuttgart.
The image was allegedly stolen from the child’s former nanny, who took it as a “prank” when the girl was seven.
Gerber paid Kayalar ?600 in cash for the photo but he allegedly demanded more.
Cindy’s spokeswoman Annett Wolf said: “We intend to pursue any and all available legal action.”
source: mirror.co.uk
November 14th, 2009
Something weird is going on in Nome, Alaska. Unsolved murders, suicidal freak-outs, a bunch of people having eerie, similar nightmares, and a spooky white owl.
Ukranian-born former supermodel Milla Jovovich plays psychotherapist Abbey Tyler, who’s got a personal stake in getting to the bottom of the mystery.
The title, like the doctor’s conclusion, refers to the “fourth kind” of encounter with alien life forms. The first kind is a sighting. The second is evidence. The third is an actual alien meet-and-greet, as in “E.T.” or “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The fourth is abduction – you go bye-bye into the sky, against your will.
Sometimes, as Abbey discovers, abductees get to come back. But they’re damaged goods, both mentally and physically, with their memories erased about the horrors they experienced.
In an unorthodox opening, Jovovich, as herself instead of the character she’s about to portray, approaches the camera, much like the star of a play greeting the audience before curtain rises. She explains that what you’re about to see is “based on actual events” which occurred in Nome several years ago.
What’s more, she says, the movie incorporates “real footage” – sessions Dr. Tyler videotaped with her patients, police dashboard cams, cable-TV interviews. Some of the footage, Jovovich warns, is disturbing.
But is it real? As the movie unfolds, it often runs a split screen with “actual” footage on one side and the reenacted scene on the other. Though we never see any aliens, we hear chilling recordings and see people supposedly under their control, contorting, levitating, making strange noises and looking like they’re about to pop out of their skins.
Most viewers are going to have a hard time believing their chain isn’t being yanked. Internet debunkers offer compelling evidence that “The Fourth Kind” is one big hoax, one loosely based on a factual missing-person investigation in Nome a few years ago that actually had nothing to do with close encounters of any kind.
The truth, as they used to say on “The X Files,” is out there. But don’t go looking for it in “The Fourth Kind.” Craftily blurring the lines between fact and fiction, it leaves you with more questions than answers – and a couple of genuinely creepy scenes that, even if you dismiss them as so much Hollywood hoo-hah, may very well show up again in your nightmares.
source: hidesertstar.com
November 14th, 2009
