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BEYONCE IS BACK?

Beyonce Shoots A Video For New Single!!

While Britney & Gaga have been busy battling it out on the charts the last few weeks, Beyonce has been hard at work behind the scenes working on her own triumphant comeback. As a matter of fact, a new Beyonce single is just around the corner as you can see from these shots taken from the top secret set of the music video that she filmed this week! Looks like Queen B is gearing up to release another “girl-power” anthem but from the looks of these photo’s… It’s gonna be a bit more militant than the light hearted “Single Ladies“. Now let’s just hope that she doesn’t rip off Kelly Rowland’s“Commander“.

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GWEN THE FACE OF L'OREAL

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Following in the footsteps of Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, Gwen Stefani has announced that she will be the next face of cosmetics giant L'Oreal Paris.

"I can't believe I get to be one of the L'Oreal Paris girls," said the singer. "I love playing dress up, on stage or shooting videos, it's always been one of my favorite parts of being in a band. And to get to work with such a modern, talented group of people is really exciting."

Stefani, who has previously spearheaded two fashion lines and a perfume brand, will make her L'Oreal debut with a campaign for the Infallible Le Rouge lip color.

The singer's first TV ad will premiere during the Golden Globe awards telecast on NBC on January 16.

Meanwhile, the 41-year-old Stefani is focusing on new music, as her band, No Doubt, has officially begun recording their first album in almost 10 years.

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TOM FORD - BEYONCE ON THE CATWALK

Actress, singer, entrepreneur, wife -- overachieverBeyonce just can't stop adding to her resume. The first images of the superstar's runway debut have hit.

During New York Fashion Week in September, designer-turned-film-director Tom Ford held a super-secret presentation for his anticipated return to womenswear -- featuring a gaggle of famous femmes walking in the looks.

Beyonce, Lauren Hutton, Julianne Moore, Stella Tennant and Daphne Guinness all trotted out in Ford's ultraglam gear, with Harper's Bazaar U.K. getting exclusive photos from the show, shot by Terry Richardson.\

Image courtesy of Harpers Bazaar.

Keep A Child Alive | Images

Pregnant Alicia Keys dazzles at Keep A Child Alive benefit... while the other guests are blown away

With only one month to go, pregnant Alicia Keys could be forgiven for wanting to stay home and put her feet up.

But the passionate star was dressed to the nines last night to host the annual Black Ball for her charity Keep A Child Alive in New York.

This year A-listers such as Whitney Houston, Sade, Beyonce and husband Jay-Z, Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson, and Jennifer Hudson braved the high winds to raise funds for HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Beautiful: Pregnant Alicia Keys looked gorgeous and in love on the red carpet at the Keep A Child Alive Black Ball with new husband Swizz Beatz

The 29-year-old dazzled in a strapless grey lace Dolce & Gabbana gown with her hair elegantly swept up. She kept her footwear sensible though, in a pair of glittering flat sandals.

Alicia radiated happiness as she posed on the red carpet with husband Swizz Beatz, who she married in August in France.

Her rapper husband, real name Kaseem Dean, affectionately rubbed her baby bump and gazed at the Empire State of Mind singer.

Above: Whitney and J-Hud embrace

Hot competition: Swizz Beatz may want to watch out for charmer Usher, who flirted with a blushing Alicia for the cameras

But he may want to watch out for notorious charmer Usher, who also sezied his chance to pose with the beautiful mother-to-be. The singer flirted and kissed a blushing Alicia, who looked thrilled by the extra attention.

And while Alicia looked picture perfect on the red carpet, her big name attendees did not manage the same dignified entrance.

Celebrities like Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson, actress Jane Krakowski, Whitney Houston and Sade almost got blown away by the incredible 50mph winds, that left them struggling to keep their hair and couture downs in place.

Above: Whitney Houston looking like she did in 1993.

Blown away: The rest of the guests, including Jane Krakowski (l) and Sade (r) struggled with the 50mph winds on the red carpet

Power players: Whitney Houston and couple Arpad Busson and Uma Thurman looked excited to be at the event, despite the weather

Uma wore an unflattering burgundy gown with sequinned jacket and flat sandals, while Whitney Houston kept it simple in a chic black cocktail dress.

Sade, who rarely attends public events, wore a striking white floor-length dress with a slashed neckline and slits. She performed at the ball, along with Alicia, who took to the stage to duet with Jay-Z.

Miss Keys announced ahead of this year's event that she aimed to raise $1 million. She founded the organisation in 2003 with agent and activist Leigh Blake, and acts as Global Ambassador.

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.

Drab and glam: Uma's bizarre red carpet poses didn't help her unflattering outfit, while Beyonce showed her how its done in an eye-popping pink gown

Star power: Alicia caught up with pals Whitney Houston and Jennifer Hudson and while Beyonce stuck close to husband Jay-Z at the dinner in the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York

The platinum-selling artist revealed the charity's next campaign, 'Buy Life' will recruit stars such as Lady Gaga, Katie Holmes, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West to take part in an advertising campaign that will feature in magazines, bus stops and the Internet.

Her celebrity friends will model T-shirts with an imprinted barcode that smart-phone users will be able to scan from the ads and automatically donate to the charity.

'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?' Keys said this week.

'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.'

Don't strain yourself: Alicia and Jay-Z provided the entertainment, though Jay-Z looked concerned that Keys might go into labour when hitting the high notes

Check out 24 photos plus video from the unforgettable night below.

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

Whitney Houston

Cissy and Whitney Houston

Sade

Usher

Usher and Alicia Keys

Clive Davis and Janelle Monáe

Jay Sean

Janelle Monáe and Beyoncé

Beyoncé

Beyoncé and Usher

Jay-Z and Beyoncé

Jennifer Hudson

Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson

Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Whitney Houston

Alicia Keys and mother Terri Augello

Janelle Monáe

Alicia Keys and Janelle Monáe

Alicia Keys and Sade

Alicia Keys and Sade

Jay-Z

Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz

Alicia Keys and Jay-Z

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Tom Ford | 100 Guests Only | Beyonce

Tom Fords comeback is sending shockwaves through New York fashion week.

He invited only 100 people to the show, which was held in his Madison Avenue menswear store instead of the Lincoln Centre, where the rest of fashion week is based.

He persuaded Beyoncé and Julianne Moore to model and narrated the show himself. But the move that has raised the most eyebrows was the decision to ban all photography apart from pictures taken by his in-house photographer, the controversial Terry Richardson. Richardson's photographs of the event will not be released until 2011, when the clothes go on sale. Until then, no one beyond those present will know what the clothes look like.

To have Beyoncé model in your show when only 100 people get to see the image sets a new standard for the meaning of power in the fashion industry. By pulling off this coup, Ford has infused his new line with the very highest cachet. But more significant for the fashion industry is the fact that Ford, returning to women's fashion after several years, is questioning the entire value system of maximum exposure round which it is currently built. Ford is a lifelong provocateur (this is the man who art-directed the infamous YSL advertisements of a naked Sophie Dahl, back arched and eyes closed, which caused a tabloid outcry), but he is also an extremely astute businessman. When he left Gucci in 2004, he did so with a personal fortune of $200m (£130m), having managed his stock options cleverly as the company rose.

The first Tom Ford womenswear show does not appear on any schedules for New York fashion week, and no embossed invitations were sent out. Instead, each guest received a phone call asking them to come to the store at 6.30pm on Sunday. There, they were met by a phalanx of handsome greeters in Tom Ford dinner suits, holding oversized black umbrellas as the succession of yellow taxis and town cars pulled up on Madison Avenue. Inside, gilded bamboo chairs were packed tightly beneath huge vases of orchids, and waiters proffered very strong, very cold vodka and tonic.

The rumour mill had been working overtime with stories of celebrity models slated to appear. When Bart Freundlich, the film director husband of Julianne Moore, took a seat with their eight-year-old daughter, Liv, on his lap, followed by Solange Knowles, sister of Beyoncé, who settled into a front row seat next to Ford's longterm partner, Richard Buckley, some of the more outlandish rumours began to seem probable. As the lights dimmed, Ford took up a position at the end of the runway, his business partner, Domenico de Sole, standing discreetly in an alcove behind, and told the audience: "I am very proud to show you some wonderful clothes – I think – worn by some of the world's most inspirational women."

The 32 models included Beyoncé, Moore, Lauren Hutton, Hollywood producer Rita Wilson and artist Rachel Feinstein Ford, impeccably dressed in a black tuxedo and black silk knit tie, provided a suave, tongue-in-cheek commentary. "Ladies and gentleman, Miss Joan Smalls ..." he said, introducing one of the catwalk's current stars, "... who I think just turned me straight."

Later, when Beyoncé, dressed in a black fishnet cocktail sheath embroidered with audaciously sparse gold and silver sequins, turned with a wink to show off her famous back view to the audience, Ford added: "And now, I'm definitely straight."

"The whole event was a series of incredibly luxurious gestures," said Sally Singer, who recently left American Vogue to edit T, the style magazine of the New York Times. "It was a deliberate decision to restrict access to an experience. The mood he created in that room was about how women want to feel in their clothes. He is catering to a very luxurious customer, and that customer will love the idea that the clothes were shown on the most powerful beauties in the world, and only in front of the most powerful critics. It's a reaction against the mass and rabble that the industry has become."

Carine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue, whose daughter, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, appeared in the show, called it "amazing, chic and very, very funny. Just like Tom".

Ford's decision to use a range of models and non-models, women of different ages and body shapes, struck a chord with both audience and models. "These are the women who would really buy and wear the clothes, and they look fabulous in them," Singer said. "They are beautiful, but they are also beloved women – women who have a history and who have meaning to us." It was the older, more voluptuous women, such as Wilson and Feinstein, for whom the audience whooped the loudest. "The atmosphere backstage was just incredible," said Manchester-born, one-time supermodel-turned-musician Karen Elson. "It felt like we were representing all the real, sexy women out there who love great clothes. We each felt like we looked the best we were ever going to look. We were in heaven."

The clothes seemed to distil the various lives of Tom Ford into one tightly edited collection. The black leather biker jacket worn by Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and the leopard-print trouser suit on Amber Valletta recalled the sharp, sexy tailoring of his early Gucci collections. The suede trenchcoat and silk smoking all-in-one worn by Lou Doillon evoked the classic Parisian smoulder of YSL.

Classic vintage-inspired eveningwear, including a fringed, floorlength, degrade dress on Moore and a blood-orange, shredded-tulle opera jacket on Feinstein, hinted at the Hollywood world in which Ford has most recently been immersed as the director of the award-winning film A Single Man. The emphasis on absolute luxury – the women wore earrings of feathers dipped in 18-carat gold, and carried hand-painted python clutch bags with clasps of precious stones – suggests that Tom Ford womenswear will have similar price tags to the notoriously expensive Tom Ford menswear.

"That was so much fun!" said Beyoncé after the show, as models and audience mingled and all around the great ice queens of the fashion industry broke into rare smiles, and accepted glasses of champagne. "Good," said Ford, cool and collected among the hubbub. "I think fashion should be fun."

In other news apparently Carine Roitfeld skipped out on Victoria Beckham‘s presentation yesterday morning, claiming she was too busy preparing for Tom Ford‘s top-secret show to attend.

Which makes total sense–Ford’s presentation was a huge undertaking. But what’s maybe more interesting is that the formatting of the shows was nearly identical, says our source.

We love Tom and we love VB, and of course we love Carine, so we’re not about to get in the middle of this. But it is an interesting thought–remember what happened last Paris Fashion Week?

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