$260 navy blue suede court shoes from LK Bennett. It was a dress she has worn before – exactly a year ago today – when she made a trip to Prince Edward Island during her tour of Canada in 2011. Kate Middleton looked to have referenced tennis style from 1920 with her Wimbledon outfit choice It is a style that has also been worn previously by Sarah Jessica Parker. The Sex And The City…
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Lady Gaga is understood to pay record price for a gown by her late friend Alexander McQueen. Lady Gaga have set a new high for a McQueen, bidding £85,250 ($136,400) in a sale which saw her facing rival bids from institutions and couture collectors from around the world. She was among bidders, from 21 countries, who paid almost half a million pounds for items from the personal collection of Daphne…
Jun 28 2012 | Posted in
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…as tennis star Andy Murray, who also won gold at the London Olympics. Kate Middleton’s decision to honor the engagement after being forced to cancel her last four public appearances is a sign that the 30-year-old is slowly recovering after spending several days in hospital with hyperemesis gravidarum earlier this month. Aides said the duchess, a Team GB Ambassador, was keen to attend to pay tribut…
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Judy Garland’s dress worn in the Wizard of Oz has sold for $480,000 at auction in Beverly Hills. The price for the blue and white gingham pinafore dress was in line with expectations, Julien’s Auctions said. A similar dress worn during tests for the classic 1939 film fetched $910,000 in 2011, Reuters reports. Auctioneer Darren Julien said the difference in price was due to the fact that few…
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Kate Middleton was left red-faced after the gusts lifted up her polka-dot dress, drawing attention to her thighs. The Duchess of Cambridge was caught out by the wind as she arrived at the wedding of friends William van Cutsem and Rosie Ruck Keene, in south Oxfordshire, just over a week ago. Seemingly unaware that her skirt had blown up, revealing her shapely legs, Kate Middleton, 32, gripped her…
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Pink impersonator Zoe Alexander took the rejection a little too personally, resulting in what turned out to be the most shocking audition ever to take place on The X Factor. While the scenes were filmed earlier this year, Zoe Alexander’s audition was seen for the first time on last night’s premiere episode of the new series of UK’s X Factor – showing the full extent of the foul-…
Aug 19 2012 | Posted in
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…k which sealed the deal. In the gold corner, Cameron Diaz was a column of light in a retina-searing Stella McCartney gold dress which she paired, rather cheekily, with the hairstyle made famous in her 1998 smash hit movie, There’s Something About Mary. And Jessica Alba offers a masterclass in how to really shine, without looking like a gaudy street hoarding. She added a frisson of Hollywood…
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illem-Alexander, her eldest son, would succeed her. The abdication and the investiture of the new King, at that time Prince Willem-Alexander will be 46 years old, will take place in Amsterdam on April 30. He will reign under the name King Willem-Alexander. In the interview, the couple spoke about their lives, about Willem-Alexander becoming king and about the way forward for the Dutch monarchy. Th…
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Princess Maxima’s entrance into the Dutch royal house was a sensation, and now she the queen consort of King Willem-Alexander, with the abdication of her mother-in-law Queen Beatrix on 30 April. While her family’s links to a fallen dictatorship were scrutinized by parliament, the Argentine charmed the nation. So how did this unconventional princess captivate a country so committed to…
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Willem-Alexander has been sworn in as king of the Netherlands in an enthronement ceremony at Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) following the abdication of Queen Beatrix today. Willem-Alexander became the country’s first king since 1890 when his 75-year-old mother signed the abdication deed earlier on Tuesday after 33 years on the throne. Huge crowds of orange-clad partygoers are in Amste…
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has abdicated and handed the throne to her son Prince Willem-Alexander. Queen Beatrix, 75, signed the instrument of abdication in Amsterdam after 33 years on the throne. Crown Prince Willem-Alexander has now become the country’s first king since 1890. Huge crowds of orange-clad partygoers are in Amsterdam to pay tribute to the popular queen, who maintained a…
Canadian bride Maria Pantazopoulos has drowned during a photoshoot as she posed in her wedding dress in water at a Quebec park. Real estate agent Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, drowned after her dress got wet and she was dragged into the river near a “violently” rushing waterfall in Canada. Friends said she had been taking part in an increasingly popular ritual called “Trash the Dress”, in which brides…
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Jennie Garth’s ex-husband Peter Facinelli and new girlfriend Jaimie Alexander arrived at the premiere of the comedy-crime movie Pain & Gain holding hands on Monday. Peter Facinelli, 39, wore a dashing light gray suit with an open-collared white dress shirt to watch the film, which is about bodybuilders who turn to crime. Jaimie Alexander, 29, radiated sophistication in a striking red d…
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Beatle in November 2007 and it was announced on 6 May 2011 that the two had become engaged. Nancy Shevell and Linda McCartney, Paul’s first wife, were pals. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 30s, around the time Linda was losing her battle. The two women became then close friends. Nancy Shevell is a breast cancer survivor. Nancy and her ex-husband Bruce Blakeman knew Paul McCartney, his…
Kim Kardashian denied that she wore a shapewear garment beneath the black Stella McCartney dress she was spotted in two nights ago in Paris. Kim Kardashian, 31, wrote on her blog yesterday: “That’s exactly how I bought it with those nude panels inside. So no Spanx here!” Despite her denial, the reality star has long proved a fan of shapewear. Kim Kardashian has been photographed on several…
Jun 21 2012 | Posted in
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Norwegian Swimming Federation announces that champion Alexander Dale Oen has died in the US, aged 26. Alexander Dale Oen was found collapsed in a shower late on Monday after training in Flagstaff, Arizona, Norwegian media say. Officials said he had suffered a cardiac arrest. Emergency services arrived at the scene within minutes but were unable to revive him. Alexander Dale Oen won gold in the 10…
Britney Spears and Jason Alexander were married for a mere 55 hours in 2004 before their union was annulled, and now he has opened up about their short-lived marriage, insisting that he was in love with the singer. In a new interview with ABC’s 20/20 show, Jason Alexander says that the decision to end the marriage had not been his. He said: “I was in love with her. … I feel like she felt th…
Alexander Lebedev, the Russian mogul unleashed a flurry of punches on oligarch Sergei Polonsky during a TV debate on the global economic crisis. Alexander Lebedev is a Russian billionaire who owns two British newspapers, The Independent and London Evening Standard, and also his empire includes a third of airline Aeroflot and Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. In front of an astonished studio audien…
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s classic novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published 50 years ago this month. A short, simply-told tale about a prisoner trying to survive the Gulag – the Soviet labor camp system – it is now regarded as one of the most significant books of the 20th Century. “It was still dark, although a greenish light was brightening in the east. A thin,…
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…ot garment it was out of stock. Bargain hunting fashionistas rushed to buy the £38 ($59) dress that fits the Duchess of Cambridge even though she’s currently six months pregnant. Kate Middleton, 31, teamed the black and white dress with a black Ralph Lauren jacket as she toured the Warner Bros film studios with Princes William and Harry. Kate Middleton’s TOPSHOP dress she wore today at the…
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A model in an advert for Bloomingdales appears to have lost her entire pelvis thanks to some creative use of Photoshop as she presents the latest sweater dress. The description for the Max & Cleo turtleneck sweater dress says it “boasts a waist-cinching belt for the most flattering fit”. Models tend to be on the skinny side, but it looks like this woman’s belt has managed to squash her…
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Russian media mogul Alexander Lebedev has been charged with hooliganism in Russia after he punched fellow guest Sergei Polonsky during a TV debate last year. Alexander Lebedev, who owns Britain’s Independent and Evening Standard newspapers, faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. In September 2011, he knocked former real estate businessman Sergei Polonsky off his chair during the he…
Sep 26 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » ctronics, which could be used in radar and surveillance systems, weapons guidance systems and detonation triggers. A Houston FBI statement names six men and five women as suspects, ranging in age from 31 to 58. Under US sentencing guidelines, Alexander Fishenko faces more than 12 years in prison if convicted on all of the charges. Federal prosecutors, who laid their charges in a court in Brooklyn,…
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Kara Koskowich, a 17-year-old student from Canada, decided she would recycle unwanted paper, making her own prom dress using old maths homework. Kara Koskowich cut, sewed, glued, and eventually tailored a one-shouldered dress out of 75 pieces of algebra formulas. She told CBC News: “For me, [prom] is not a big, spend your money, you have to look this nice, you have to fit into this mould of grad….
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The Duchess of Cambridge wore what she had assumed was a traditional national dress to an event celebrating Solomon Islands’ culture…only to later discover that the dress was actually from the Cook Islands, some 3,000 miles away. Kate and William were meant to have dressed as Solomon Islanders to the party in the capital of Honiara on 16 September, part of their Diamond Jubilee tour o…
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