‘Idol’ exit Q&A: Michelle Delamor explains her choices in song and fashion
Posted by Lucky on Mar 6, 2010
Michelle Delamor got booted off Idol last night for her uneven rendition of Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open,” but the 22-year-old Miami native hasn’t lost hope. Delamor chatted with EW about last night, why she chose a Creed song, and what was up with those gloves.
EW: How are you feeling today?
MICHELLE DELAMOR: Yesterday was pretty [...]
Fat chance: Don’t expect fashion industry to change pin-thin standards any time soon, say insiders
Posted by Lucky on Feb 19, 2010
The latest outrage over rail-thin runway models isn’t likely to spark any sudden changes in the $100 million fashion industry.
“Let’s be realistic,” says Steven Kolb, executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
“Fashion shows are fantasy … and to be a model you have to be thin to begin with.
“There are healthy models [...]
New York Fashion Week: Playing it safe, but still luxe
Posted by Lucky on Feb 18, 2010
To look at the sheer amount of fur, designer boots and handbags being toted around the Bryant Park tents and on the runways during Fashion Week, you wouldn’t suspect America is in the midst of a recession.
But the looks shown here twice a year to media and buyers aren’t the mass-market clothes that wind up [...]
Victoria Beckham defends fashion designers’ right ‘to use thin models’
Posted by Lucky on Feb 18, 2010
Beckham, who has just received positive reviews for her fashion collection which premiered on Sunday during New York Fashion Week, said: “Most of these girls are naturally thin.”
Speaking on American daytime show ‘The View’, she said: “And I don’t think we should be discriminating against someone because they are too thin or too curvy or [...]
At NY Fashion Week, girls will be boys
Posted by Lucky on Feb 15, 2010
NEW YORK — Fashionable women would do well to raid their boyfriends’ closets come fall, judging from the looks shown Sunday at New York Fashion Week.
Menswear influences were everywhere during the week of previews, from the trendsetting runway of Alexander Wang to the typically ultra-feminine Victoria Beckham, who included trenches in her fall collection, shown [...]
NEW YORK — The models auditioning for New York Fashion Week were undeniably thin. But it was only after the fashion industry started worrying about too-skinny models that casting agent James Scully began asking their age.
Posted by Lucky on Feb 11, 2010
As another round of runway shows kicks off on Thursday, fashion insiders are again taking up the cause of emaciated models, this time with a new target to blame: youth.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America hosted a panel discussion Tuesday night on changing the standard model “sample size,” part of the health initiative it [...]
When New York Fashion Met the World
Posted by Lucky on Feb 11, 2010
GEOGRAPHY has always been a convenient form of branding in Manhattan, where Madison Avenue, Broadway and Wall Street are shorthand for career tracks as much as they are addresses.
As the home of New York Fashion Week, Bryant Park is, to much of the world, synonymous with fashion. That is a fitting distinction since its wide-open [...]
Emma Watson turns wild for photoshoot
Posted by Lucky on Feb 5, 2010
Harry Potter movies, Emma Watson showed a wilder side of herself in a recent photoshoot.
The 19-year-old star donned smudged eye make-up and smeared lipstick as she wore a collection of quirky couture in an eight page spread for the new issue of America’s Vs magazine, Daily Mail online reported.
The high fashion shoot features a very [...]
Paul’s writings set trend for spiritual fashion
Posted by Lucky on Feb 5, 2010
Some weeks back I was reading a previewabout New York City fashion shows. I found out what’s anticipated to be in and what’s out for the up coming season. I saw what’s cool and what’s hot for the women’s wear for this next season.I read about lipstick, flowers pinned in your hair to make a [...]
[Read More]Kelly Cutrone’s fashion battle plan
Posted by Lucky on Feb 1, 2010
Kelly Cutrone delivers Madison Avenue by way of Sun Tzu. “The fashion industry is war, which is why we have a take-no-prisoners kind of attitude,” she announces at the beginning of her reality series “Kell on Earth,” which premieres Monday night (Bravo, 10 p.m.).
For the last couple of years, Cutrone, the founder and owner of [...]
Emma Watson weaves fashion magic as she unveils her new fair-trade clothing range
Posted by Lucky on Feb 1, 2010
Glance at a recent copy of Vogue, any of 2009’s best-dressed lists or front row at the shows, and one fact is unmistakable: the fashion world just can’t get enough of Harry Potter star Emma Watson. She may have grown up in a Hogwarts uniform, but she’s blossomed into everyone’s favourite British starlet and looks [...]
Acid-washed is an ‘ironic’ fashion, never meant to flatter
Posted by Lucky on Feb 1, 2010
When I wear my new acid-washed jeans, my boyfriend says I look like Jon Bon Jovi and starts whistling Whitesnake songs. He also said that I look like a Spitting Image sketch featuring Rod Stewart. What can I do?
Drifter, Lonely street of dreams
Drifter, I like the sound of your boyfriend, or at least the sound [...]
Ugly Betty gets the axe as America Ferrera falls out of fashion in the States
Posted by Lucky on Jan 28, 2010
It’s ugly news for the millions of fans of Betty Suarez and the stylish staff of Mode magazine.
ABC has officially pulled the plug on Ugly Betty, starring America Ferrera, saying the last episode will air in April in the U.S.
While the announcement today came as a surprise to fans, industry sources said the once ‘it’ [...]
Miss America contestants hit Fashion Show’s catwalk
Posted by Lucky on Jan 25, 2010
The 2010 Miss America Pageant contestants make an appearance at Fashion Show on Jan. 23, 2010. Miss Nevada Christina Keegan is at center.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Miss America Pageant contestants yesterday walked the runway at Fashion Show on the Strip. Lynn Hackerman Weidner, 1971 Miss New Jersey and a member of the Miss America [...]
Scissors at dawn: The BBC’s new fashion drama Material Girl is another battle of good versus evil
Posted by Lucky on Jan 14, 2010
Fashion, fashion, fashion. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do!” cries Ali Redcliffe, a young designer and protagonist played by Leonora Crichlow in the BBC’s new drama Material Girl, which airs tonight. “Does that make me a bad person?”
Yes, Ali, it does. It irrevocably and overwhelmingly means you will never, ever [...]
