KEEP A CHILD ALIVE BLACK BALL TONIGHT

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Keep a Child Alive provides with your help, first class AIDS care and support, care for orphans, food with a healthy dose of love and respect to the Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Aunts, Uncles, Sons, Daughters, Husbands, Wives, Friends, Neighbors, and Lovers affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.


The event takes place tonight. Check back later for images of the fashions and special performances from Alicia keys, Sade and more.

To Alicia Keys, celebrities have become commodities that can be tapped for good.

To that end, the Brooklyn native will Thursday announce a new campaign to raise more than $1 million for her AIDS charity, Keep a Child Alive, at its annual Black Ball New York charity event.

Deemed "Buy Life," the organization will recruit celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Katie Holmes, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West, as well as Ms. Keys and her new husband, producer Swizz Beatz, to model for an advertising campaign placed in magazines, bus stops and on the Internet.

Each celebrity will be photographed wearing a T-shirt that says "Buy Life" with an imprinted bar code. Using scanable technology, smart- phone users will then be able to scan the bar code from the ads and automatically donate to the charity.

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ALICIA KEYS

"The whole idea is that if you're spending $100 on a pair of shoes or everything else we spend money on that we don't really need, why not use the money to save a life instead?" Ms Keys says. "We can completely redefine the ultimate symbol of consumerism. Life is precious, we want to fashion it as the must-have purchase of the season, the one item that no one can be without."

Ms. Keys, who is 29 years old, launched Keep a Child Alive seven years ago with agent and activist Leigh Blake. Since then, the pair has raised $20 million toward funding anti-retroviral drugs and other treatments, clinics and orphan care in South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and most recently, in India.

Nationwide, however, AIDS organizations have reported a sharp decrease in federal aid and donations. For instance, the New York Community Trust, the largest private funder of New York City nonprofits, saw private funding it receives for AIDS-related causes drop to $1.7 million in 2008 from $2.3 million in 2003.

"People talk about a fatigue and want to know why there is no movement in this pandemic," Ms. Keys says. "But we see positive results every day so we just have to show people how we change lives, stress the work people do and to help people feel a part of something real and important."

One of the ways Ms. Keys says this is possible is to continue to find innovative ways to engage donors. The group was one of the first nonprofits to utilize text-messaging for fund-raising, launching its "Text ALIVE" campaign in conjunction with Ms. Keys's "As I Am" concert tour in 2008. Through texting, she raised more than $800,000.

ROBERTO CAVALLI 40TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY

ROBERTO CAVALLI 40TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY with guests Leona Lewis, Heidi Klum, Kylie Minogue & Naomi Campbell donned their finest frocks to celebrate the designer's 40 years in the fashion industry at a glam Parisian party.

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Roberto Cavalli: Spring/Summer 2011 Milan

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Rihanna New Album Cover

Let’s get Loud! Rihanna is burning up on the red-hot cover of her fifth album in five years, arriving November 16. The Barbados beauty keeps her eyes closed in the close-up photo, smoldering with her flaming red hair, luscious lips, and “Rebelle Fleur” neck tattoo.

The project is already in high gear with the electro-pop single “Only Girl (In the World)” sitting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, while a video for the follow-up “What’s My Name” was shot over the weekend in New York City.

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TREND FOR WINTER 2010 GLOVES

Ok ladies there is a big trend alert for Winter 2010

Gloves

How to wear your new gloves this autumn.


The rules for wearing gloves in autumn/winter 2010-11 are simple - stick to sexy soft leather and suede.

Go elbow-length - leave long or scrunch down your forearm.

Colourwise, anything goes - from metallics and two-tone styles, to light shades of mulberry and Air Force blue.

 O yes and of course, classic black is still a winner.

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ALEXANDER McQUEEN 2010 WINTER HIGHTOPS

WoW  I want myself some...

For the Fashion crazy and brave, Alexander McQueen presents 2 printed high-tops, An iconic McQueen signature with skull and bones is done in a pinkish hue, As the second model features a chainmail motif.

Both styles include a diagonal zipper for easy removal. "Now where do i buy mine"

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Sarah Burton gives in-depth interview to WWD about McQueen

Sarah Burton gives in-depth interview to WWD about McQueen

 There has been Much mystery surrounding the House of Alexander McQueen since its founder and namesake died earlier this year. Although Mrs Burton was named as McQueen’s successor quite soon after the tragedy, the designer has not courted publicity but taken a ‘business as usual’ attitude, creating the pre-collection and one-off bespoke outfits for the likes of Lady Gaga. 

Today Sarah Burton speaks at length for the first time, to magazine WWD.

Telling us about what we can expect from the brand in the future, Sarah explains that the outrageously theatrical catwalk shows will not be one of them, because 'that was very much Lee’s territory — the spectacular show, the designer said  'In that way, I can’t try and pretend to be Lee.'

Sarah Burton also sees herself as different to her predecessor in that 'I don’t think "the next collection" has to have as much angst in it. I think it will become softer,' from the McQueen headquarters, complete with an upright polar bear in the lobby, 'There will always be this McQueen spirit and essence. But, of course, I’m a woman so maybe more from a woman’s point of view. There’s always got to be some darkness, because otherwise you don’t appreciate what’s light,' she continued. 'I’ve had a training in darkness, but I don’t feel that it’s necessarily a personal thing to me. I’m a bit lighter.' 






Lighter? Less macarbre? No big showy shows? Rather than try and pull off an inauthentic photocopy of McQueen’s creative identity, it sounds like Burton has identified the core values and aims to nurture and reinforce these, while creating collections from her own point of view.  She listed them as - 'definitely tailoring, incredible dresses, embroideries, prints — and the sexiness,' she said. 'A lot of designers are afraid of sex. Lee was not. It’s about a piece of clothing you put on and you know you’re wearing McQueen.'
Another thing that will remain will be McQueen’s incredible techniques of working with textiles and pioneering of new methods. Now Paris fashion week is already starting, it's making us anticipate the Alexander McQueen S/S ’11 show more and more!

Sarah Burton tells us she has spent her entire working life at Alexander McQueen. When she joined in 1996, she had yet to graduate from Central Saint Martin’s college and the designer was about to land the prestigious Givenchy  job, and at the time, he was so poor that he couldn’t afford to heat the studio!

She recalls how 'she would have to hand in her college projects, but then she would flying to Japan to do the licensing that week with the handbags and handkerchiefs,'.

McQueen hired Burton on graduation in 1997, and her responsibilities grew to include menswear, accessories, footwear and other categories. 'It was like a family. It was just so inspiring. There was a real lack of hierarchy here, which I loved about Lee.… You had the freedom to be creative. To me, it’s about a team.'

It’s now been only seven months after McQueen’s untimely death. Burton has more than enough to keep her busy – indeed she describes herself as a workaholic, and her hobby as 'McQueen’ as well.

Describing her boss, mentor and working ‘husband’ she said 'He was such a lovely man, and his mind never switched off.… He was so important to me. You just wanted to make him happy, look after him' Burton said. 'Although I felt that I protected him, now I feel that he protected me.'

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Teri Hatcher Heads Back To Superman/Smallville

“Smallville” producers have snagged Teri Hatcher to play Lois Lane’s mother Ella in the eighth episode of the season. Teri Hatcher, who played Lois Lane in “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” is the latest member of the Superman legacy to appear on the show. Past appearances from past Superman dignitaries have included Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure, and Dean Cain.

Hatcher will play Lois Lane’s deceased mother. In the episode, Lois finds old videotapes of her mother. Hatcher currently stars on “Desperate Housewives” and is best known for her roles as Lois Lane and her appearances on “Seinfeld.”

This is the tenth and final season of “Smallville.”

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Gareth Pugh Fall Winter 2010 2011 Fashion Show Preview

Folks, check out the new FW2011 Collection by Gareth Pugh. All I can say is WoW!!!!!


I so want some of those pieces.



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DSquared2

DSquared2

Go Geek chic all the way with a few masculine twist!! 

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DOLCE & GABBANA READY-TO-WEAR 2011 WITH LOVE FROM SICILIAN

Dolce & Gabbana Ready-To-Wear

Sicilian Sensuality – unsurprisingly from Dolce & Gabbana – the collection was almost entirely in white. The inspiration, the Pair told us, was the “sensual kind of elegance and tradition that characterises the typical trousseau of Southern Italy”.

It had the signature sex appeal of Dolce & Gabbana  – old fashioned underwear cut so tight that even these girls bulged out of it – made romantic by acres and acres of heavy white lace, as if they’d seen the potential in their grandmother’s lace curtains and given them a whole new purpose.

The show started with an clip of black and white photographs of people and places that the Dolce woman has experienced – with Madonna, star of the current ads – as a central character. Then the lace floorlength dresses through which sexy underwear could be glimpsed, lace-fronted playsuits under frilly house coats, shift dresses striped horizontally with alternate lace and chiffon, flippy skater skirts, and pretty drawstring milkmaid tops – all worn with wooden wedge heels smothered in the same white lace. It was all the house signatures swathed in white lace, making for an incredibly romantic hit show

An occasional black outfit – one particularly gorgeous scoop-fronted long sleeved dress – reminded us that virginity isn’t always the Dolce & Gabbana girl’s primary concern, and a touch of leopard print, for chiffon dresses also featuring white appliqué lace, ensured that the print that is all over the front rows this season will be just as big next summer.

At the end, the lace spawned glittering embellishment adding a disco effect to the bright white innocence – “like snowflakes in an ocean”  and they were right: each one was slightly different.

Finally the army of models paraded back out together in their underwear – a finale that never fails to impress. With Kylie, Naomi Campbell and Jade Pinkett Smith in the front row to prove it, the Dolce & Gabbana team hit headlines again.

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ROBERTO CAVALLI, GOES CRAZY AT MILAN FASHION WEEK..

Roberto Cavalli, Went wild in his Just Cavalli diffusion line show at Milan Fashion Week.

He turned a mirrored catwalk in an old market, just off the Piazza del Duomo, into an exotic playground for Rhinestone Cowgirls, and jetset hippies.

 

The models appeared in leopard-spot and zebra-print chiffons, trimmed with sequins; bleached, frayed, and embroidered denim; metallic snakeskins; and flounced floral maxi-dresses, lavished with lace.

The collection, the first of several celebrations to mark his 40th anniversary in fashion, took in inspirations from Africa, the Wild West, and the holiday hotspots of Ibiza and Mykonos.

De luxe denim jeans and shirts were ripped, bleached, singed with fire, embroidered, and encrusted with crystals. Skintight jeans and fringed cowgirl jackets came in pink and lime snakeskin.

Python-print chiffon tunics, awash with frills and flounces, topped floral or palm-print silk harem pants, and gold-printed leather jodhpurs.

"Viva Maria" maxi-dresses came in tiers of flamenco-look lace, and peasant-blouses embroidered with mother-of-pearl and crystals, were worn with matching shorts.

All were worn with the highest heels - in a collage of snakeskin, suede, metallics and beading;tribal necklaces in agate, silver and gold; and crocodile-print leather and denim Stetsons.

Cavalli promises to top the collection with his main line, which will be shown in Milan on Monday.
Next week, in Paris, the designer will stage a celebrity-loaded, glitz 'n' glamour party during the prêt-à-porter season to celebrate his four decades as the king of the no-holds-barred jetset style.