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Naomi Campbell caught out by the wind

mija — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:57:35 +0000

When dressing to impress, Naomi Campbell has her choice of the world’s top designers.
But even the most expensive clothing can’t help when a sudden gust of wind appears.
The supermodel, 40, was left exposed when her skirt blew up as she arrived at her hotel in Venice.
Her lowcut black sundress already left little to the imagination, with cutout panels showing her legs.
But the wind lifted it even higher to expose her underwear, in an unflattering moment as she headed into her exclusive hotel.
Naomi is in the Italian city for the annual film festival.

Last night she hosted the Uomo Vogue Hosts Dinner For Quentin Tarantino.
And in her black mini-dress she appeared to have recovered fully from her earlier malfunction.
The festival opens on Wednesday with a triple-header of Golden Lion-winner Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Hong Kong director Andrew Lau’s The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen, followed by a special midnight screening of Robert Rodriguez’s Machete.
Amongst the 79 films being screened at the festival are Sofia Coppola’s highly anticipated Somewhere and Ben Affleck’s sophomore directorial effort, The Town.
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Blooming Miranda Kerr reveals her tiny baby bump for the first time

mija — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:53:52 +0000

She married in secret and kept the happy news that she is expecting under wraps for as long as she could.
But now that she and husband Orlando Bloom have confirmed that the Victoria’s Secret model is pregnant, Miranda Kerr has revealed her small bump for the first time.
In a video to promote her new organic skincare range Kora, 27-year-old Miranda’s burgeoning baby bump is obvious while she practices yoga.
And while mere mortals would be quite pleased to have her figure even at four months pregnant, the slightly protruding stomach is an obvious change from her usual diminutive figure.
It appears that the Australian supermodel will be following in the footsteps of her former Victoria’s Secret colleague Gisele Bundchen, and will maintain her enviable figure through her pregnancy.
Miranda speaks on her virtuous lifestyle in the video, Miranda Kerr’s Organic Life with Kora, but manages to avoid the preaching tone that has irritated so many of Gisele’s critics.
‘Kora is about nurturing your core, your inner and outer self – your mind, your body and your spirit. Kora is a choice in how we live our lives,’ she says.
‘We can choose to fill our bodies with nutrients through eating organic foods. We can choose to value our bodies through exercise whether it be yoga, running or whatever appeals to you; By taking the time out to really relax and rejuvenate and reflect.
‘I live in one of the busiest cities in the world and I’m travelling constantly, yes I’ve chosen to create my own organic lifestyle that no matter where I am I can apply this lifestyle.’
Both Miranda and Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle, with Miranda, who hails from country town Gunnedah, dreaming of a quiet life one day.
‘My ideal situation would be to live on a farm in a solar-powered house with a hammock and a vegetable patch,’ Miranda said in past interviews.
‘When this is all over that’s where I’ll be.’
The couple married suddenly and in secret in a romantic, intimate ceremony in Anguilla last month, fuelling speculation that Miranda was pregnant.
Their fans didn’t have to wait long before the announcement came.
Orlando was beaming at a press event for his new movie The Three Musketeers earlier this month. ‘I’m really excited about it, it’s great,’ he said.
But the actor, 33, will be forced to spend much of the pregnancy away from his new wife, as filming will be taking place in France and Germany.
‘I’ll go home as often as possible,’ Bloom says. ‘She’ll come out here too.’

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Plus size Crystal Renn works her magic in sexy photoshoot

mija — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:48:29 +0000

She may be plus sized, but it appears no one in fashion is marginalising Crystal Renn.
The model, who currently features in a host of campaigns from Chanel to Evans, continues to succeed in challenging stereotypes – using her curves as an asset in an undustry where size zero is often the norm.
Looking every inch the smouldering siren in a photoshoot for Look magazine, it is refreshing to see a supermodel in High Street clothing.

Sporting suspenders and sexy underwear, Crystal, 24, oozes enviable confidence for a model who has battled anorexia.
‘When I was told I need to lose 10in off my hips, I decided to go on a diet and soon lost 35lbs’, she told Look, ‘but then my weight plateaued, so I began exercising for up to eight hours a day, eating only vegetables and drinking large quantities of Diet Coke.’
It wasn’t until Crystal’s weight plummeted – and her hair started falling out – that she began to change her lifestyle.

Now a healthy size 14, the U.S-born brunette stays in shape with yoga and hiking – but eats healthily as often as she wants.
Since her career debut as a plus-size model, Crystal, who has since walked the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier and Chanel and graced the cover of Bazaar and Elle.
Crystal, confused by public fascination with her figure, said: ‘Other people care a lot more about my weight than I do. I just want to live my life.’

She is however keen on dropping industry labels.
Despite finding recent success, Crystal has always rejected the plus-size tag.
And it seemes the divorced campaigner is definitely part of a new trend for curves – as even Hollywood appears to be catching on with curvier stars such as Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and reality TV star Kim Kardashion refusing to submit to the pressure to be stick-thin.
Crystal said: ‘Let’s get rid of straight size and plus size. It’s bulls**t. Just say model. Full stop.’
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Straight-A schoolgirl joins Rosie Huntington Whiteley in Burberry model line-up

mija — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:43:14 +0000

Nina Porter may have just been awarded six A* and five A grades in her GCSEs, but the schoolgirl landed an even more impressive coup earlier this summer, as the new face of Burberry.
The 16-year-old, who is the face of the brand’s debut make-up range, follows in the footsteps of Emma Watson and Kate Moss, joining new Transformers star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in the current campaign, which was shot by Mario Testino.
Porter, who returns to school this week to study A-levels in art, photography and textiles, said that she was equally excited about both achievements.
She told the Evening Standard that modelling was ‘a hobby on the side’ and that she was hoping to study fashion design at university.
‘Modelling is really good because it helps me to understand the fashion industry,’ she said.
‘My parents, who have been really supportive, pointed out that modelling would be a good way to meet people who have done what I would like to do.’
She told Vogue.com how she bumped into the top fashion photographer soon after her casting.
She said: ‘I went to the Frieze Art Fair, and [Mario Testino] was there. He recognised me and came over for a chat – that was great as I was to shoot the campaign a few days after.
‘He is always charming and friendly which makes it much easier to relax and enjoy the experience.’
She added that the other models on the shoot, which included Lily Donaldson, who also attended Camden School for Girls, were both ‘really easy to work with’.
Porter was spotted by a scout from Select model agency at the Clothes Show two years ago. Since then, she has appeared in a campaign for Miu Miu as well as both British and US Vogue.
Emma Watson featured in a series of images for Burberry last year along with her brother Alex.
The campaign has been credited revitalised the brand, with sales for that year soaring by 23 per cent.
Watson has since taken a break from her modelling duties to concentrate on other acting projects as well as her degree at Brown University in the U.S. but is expected to work with the label again in the future.
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Refaeli upset by skinny models

mija — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:40:09 +0000

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli admits she gets extremely upset when she sees wafer-thin models.
Rafaeli, 25, whose curvy-yet-toned body is the envy of women all over the world, hates seeing young girls look so unhealthy and wants them to be encouraged to put on some weight, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
‘I get so sad when I see 15-year-old pale, extremely skinny models at the agency looking all shaky and hungry. When will it end?,’ she posted on her Twitter page.
source: sify.com

Super mum Cindy Crawford enjoys lunch with her model family

mija — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:39:44 +0000

She’s one of the most glamorous women in the world, has recently shot a new fashion campaign and runs her own beauty and home furnishings businesses.
But as if she wasn’t lucky enough, supermodel Cindy Crawford has a gorgeous family to boot.
The 44-year-old mother showed off her beautiful brood when she went out for lunch with her husband Rande Gerber and their two children Presley Walker, 11, and Kaia Jordan, nine, at Latin restaurant Cafe Habana in Malibu, California.
Wearing short black shorts, a patterned loose-fitting top – although with her body surely she doesn’t need to cover up – aviator-style sunglasses and studded sandals, Cindy looked groomed with not one of her long, perfectly-brushed hairs out of place.
And her daughter Kaia Jordan clearly looks up to her famous mother as she took fashion tips form her mother.

Wearing a brightly-coloured smock top, cut-off denim jeans which showed off her tanned legs and sporting flip flops and earrings the youngster had obviously been copying Cindy’s style, although what the supermodel thought of her daughter’s tomboyish baseball cap is uncertain.
Lucky Kaia seems to have been passed her mother’s good genes too, inheriting Cindy’s chestnut hair, full lips and dark brown eyes.

And while her daughter shows every sign of blossoming into a mini-Cindy, the super model’s son has got good looks all of his own, with his fair skin, hazel eyes and thick blond hair.
To complete the picture perfect family is Cindy’s chiselled former model husband of twelve years, 48-year-old Rande, who co-owns a chain of successful bars with his brother Scott across America.
But the star, who along with Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell was one of the original supermodels in the 90s, insists that she suffers from the dreaded orange peel like mere mortals.
She told Ladies’ Home Journal that she has cellulite.
But on close inspection of these pictures the mother seems to have none.
The relaxed star could not have looked more different from a recent photo shoot which saw her sexily sprawled across a bed dressed in lingerie and heels.
Cindy, who quit modelling in 2000 to concentrate on her personal range of beauty products and home furnishing, was persuaded by Moscow department store TSUM to model for their a Autumn/Winter ad campaign.
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Karolina looks hot in shorts

mija — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:30:03 +0000

Karolina Kurkova makes a nerd’s dream come true in a hilarious short film from the FCU: Fact Checkers Unit series.
The eight-episode run, a spin-off of a 2007 short featuring BILL MURRAY, sees pedantic magazine minions Russell (Peter Karinen) and Dylan (Brian Sacca) on various missions to establish celebrity facts.
In our exclusive preview, the geeky duo set out to discover whether Victoria’s Secret model Karolina wears 125 SPF sunblock.
And Russell goes gaga when the bikini-clad beauty asks him to put some cream on her back – and then invites him to lick it.
The first short film, which saw the fact checkers attempting to discover whether Bill Murray drank milk by breaking into his house, became a web classic.
The eight new episodes of FCU can be seen on SyFy Digital.
source: thesun.co.uk

Carla Bruni branded ‘prostitute’ by Iran

mija — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:26:20 +0000

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been branded a �prostitute� by Iran after she publicly attacked the country for threatening to stone a woman to death.
France�s First Lady is part of a campaign to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two.
She is accused of cheating on her husband and then helping to kill him, and is now facing capital punishment for her crimes.
Ms Bruni-Sarkozy, who became President Nicolas Sarkozy�s third wife two years ago, has signed a petition calling for Sakineh�s release.
Last week the former supermodel said: �I just can�t see what good could
come out of this macabre ceremony, whatever the judicial reasons put
forward to justify it.�
Addressing Sakineh directly in an open letter, Ms Bruni-Sarkozy wrote: �Why shed your blood and deprive your children of their mother? Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you�re a woman, and because you�re an Iranian? Everything within me refuses to accept this.�
But Kayhan (which means �Universe� in English), the Iranian daily newspaper which acts as a mouthpiece for the country�s ultra conservative Islamic regime, has now accused 42-year-old Ms Bruni-Sarkozy of being a hypocrite.
An editorial in the paper points to her chequered love life, which has included numerous relationships with high-profile celebrities.
Entitled �French prostitutes join the human rights protest,� the article
singles out Ms Bruni-Sarkozy and Isabelle Adjani, the French actress and
friend of the First Lady who is also calling for Sakineh�s release.
Kayhan aims to �defend the ideology of the Islamic Revolution� and is directly under the supervision of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad�s government.
Iranian state television also attacked Ms Bruni-Sarkozy for her support for Sakineh, saying she was using it to try and justify her own immorality.
The Elysee Palace had no formal reaction to the slurs in the Iranian media, but an insider said Ms Bruni-Sarkozy was �deeply shocked� by the personal attack.
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Kate Moss to pull out of Topshop as Sir Philip Green’s 19-year-old daughter steps into the spotlight

mija — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:19:13 +0000

She has taken on and beaten younger women for two decades, but it seems supermodel Kate Moss has finally met her match – the boss’s daughter.
Miss Moss is winding down her clothes-designing partnership with Topshop boss Sir Philip Green to allow the tycoon’s teenage daughter to take her place.
The model will launch her 14th and final collection for the billionaire’s high street store in October, just weeks after 19-year-old Chloe Green starts training with the company.

The teenager is determined to launch her own clothing range and Sir Philip has arranged for her to work at Topshop’s headquarters in London’s Oxford Street.
But the decision is said to have caused tension between the retailer and 36-year-old Miss Moss, who has just celebrated her 30th Vogue cover.
Such was the success of their partnership, Sir Philip once claimed he had ‘two daughters’ – Chloe and Kate. Miss Moss has earned ?3million and millions more in revenue for the retailer thanks to the popularity of her designs.
However, Chloe has harboured dreams of being a fashion designer since she began helping her father choose new collections for his outlets at the age of ten.
She has frequently been seen alongside Miss Moss at fashion shows around the world.

In an interview last year, Chloe said: ‘Hopefully, one day I might design a “Chloe Green at Topshop” range. I’ve not really thought it through yet. But I don’t think it’s asking too much.’
She is said to accompany her father to his offices twice a week to learn how he runs the business.
A Topshop worker revealed: ‘Kate has made us hip, but we’ve heard there’s been a falling-out over the boss’s daughter.’
A fashion insider said: ‘Kate Moss’s range has not been selling at the same rate that it was and was in danger of running out of steam.
‘At one point she was doing six collections a year but they cut it back to two a year because they could not sustain it and that is when it started to falter.
‘Chloe has been a fully fledged fashion diva since the age of 15 and sits on the front row at catwalk shows. She has grand plans to have her own fashion range.’
Sir Philip has denied having a row with the supermodel. He said Miss Moss had too many other work commitments to continue working with Topshop.
Miss Moss’s designs include bags, shoes belts and dresses, with prices ranging from ?12 for a vest top to ?150 for a cropped leather jacket.
Sir Philip said: ‘Kate has done 14 collections with us. It has been fantastic for us and fantastic for her, but they take more and more time and she cannot do this full-time any more.’
Miss Moss also designs handbags for Longchamp, has her own fragrance range and has been signed up for Spanish fashion house Balenciaga and French designer Isabel Marant.
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Matt Smith cuddles up with model Lowe in Ibiza

mija — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:12:48 +0000

So far, it’s been his on-screen sidekick who has got Doctor Who fans hot under the collar, with her famously short skirts.
But now Matt Smith has put on a steamy display of his own.
The 27-year-old actor was spotted canoodling with model Daisy Lowe on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
The pair had split after a three-month romance.
But the TV Time Lord took the 21-year-old lingerie model off for a romantic break and they appeared to be wasting no time getting reacquainted with one another.
Within hours of arriving, the couple were having fun in the sea, at one point sharing a passionate embrace.
Smith and Daisy were first said to have been introduced by Jaime Winstone, the actress daughter of Ray Winstone in Camden, North London.
Smith broke up with Brazilian actress Mayana Moura last year.

Daisy, who is the daughter of fashion designer Pearl Lowe, has become one of Britain�s most successful models.
She will shortly make her debut as the cover star of the British edition of Vogue magazine.
Smith’s boss, Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat, yesterday recounted the first time he saw Karen Gillan, 22, who plays the Doctor’s companion Amy Pond.
The statuesque redhead has proved a hit with viewers.
But Moffat said that when he first saw her, in video footage, he thought: ‘She is really good, except she is so wee and dumpy.’
He said he later passed her in a corridor and realised she was a ‘giant flame-haired goddess’.
It was announced yesterday that next year’s series will be split in two, with seven episodes shown in spring and six in autumn.
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