San Francisco Fashion Week 2011: when beauty meets technology. Australian department store Myer hosted Big is Beautiful fashion launch during Sydney’s Fashion Festival 2011 on Tuesday, hiring plus-size girls to model outfits by various labels. Sydney Fashion Festival, known as Mercedes-Benz Sydney Fashion Festival (MBFF Sydney), is Sydney’s premier fashion and lifestyle event and i…
Gwyneth Paltrow was named the world’s most beautiful woman by People magazine, which praised her “timeless look”. However, Gwyneth Paltrow, 40, received a barrage of abuse on Twitter after being crowned People magazine’s Most Beautiful Woman 2013. Gwyneth paltrow beat actresses Jennifer Lawrence, 22, and Amanda Seyfried, 27, to the top spot, and snatched the title from her best friend Beyon…
…ected her trophy. On her way from collecting the prize she was congratulated by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who previously pleaded guilty to assaulting the pop star before the Grammy Music Awards in 2009. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong also appeared at the ceremony, where he was mobbed after inviting fans to come up on stage. Billie Joe Armstrong looked fully recovered after being taken…
Lady Gaga is notorious for her love of outlandish heels so she will probably be in the front of the fashionista queue to get her hands on the latest pair of fantastical footwear. The “front heel” Scary Beautiful shoes were designed by South African student artist Leanie van der Vyver as a critique on the fashion industry’s quest for perfection. Dutch shoe maker René van den Berg fabricated…
submerged. One passenger has accused Captain Francesco Schettino of drinking in one of the ship’s bars on the night the vessel ran aground, before taking control after the crash. Monique Maurek, 41, from the Netherlands, said: “What scandalized me most was when I saw the captain spending much of the evening before we hit the rocks drinking in the bar with a beautiful woman on his arm. “Most…
The 80s singer Sinitta’s high-profile romances with Brad Pitt and Simon Cowell have been discussed often, but she kept her mouth shut when it came to comparing their prowess in the bedroom. Sinitta, 43, gushed about the then-twentysomething Brad Pitt’s body when she was quizzed by her I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmates. But Sinitta wouldn’t be drawn on wh…
nd another short concave curve as it descends into the ankle. The outside of the perfect leg has a much longer, smoother convex curve. The study looked at depictions of beautiful legs from as early as 2,000 BC in Greece and found “the shape and distribution of the curves of such ancient legs are exactly the same as those of men and women models today!”. …
…ace. “But if you can’t have fun as an ageing sex symbol when you hit 60, I don’t know what will become of you.” Raquel Welch has been married four times and has a son, Damon, 51, and daughter, Tahnee, 49. Raquel Welch has said: “I am playing grandmothers in movies now. I’d like to be one for real, but my kids are not co-operating with me.” …
…d talk of an Oscar for his portrayal of a Wall St. financier in his latest film Arbitrage. Richard Gere was previously married to supermodel Cindy Crawford and wed Carey Lowell, a former Bond girl, in 2002. …
gence.” Florent Massonneau added: “Valerie did not have an easy childhood. Her father loved her very much but he was disabled. He lost a leg in the war. “And he died young, too young. She was not even 21.” Florent Massonneau lives around the corner from the council house that was Valerie Trierweiler’s childhood home, in the working class district of Monplaisir. Her mother Jeanne still lives there….
Are you looking for the best vacation spots in the world? New York City and The Hamptons; Paris and Dublin; Australia and Japan are just a few of great places to vacation, but take a peek at the following 5 locations for families, couples and friends vacations. Tilos, Greece Photo by commons.wikimedia.org user Chrischerf Tilos is one of the most beautiful yet overlooked islands off th…
Glass Beach, located near Fort Bragg in Northern California, used to be the place where residents brought all forms of their trash starting with 1949. At the time, the standards for where and how people can deposit their trash were much lower and less regulated. In the early 1960s, officials begin to regulate what was dumped on the beach, first putting a stop to toxins and then to everything when…
the teen magazine, she landed a record deal with Arista and began putting together her first album. Whitney Houston released her self-titled debut album two years later, in 1985, which sold more than 25 million copies internationally and paved the way for her to hit the big-time. The touching photographs only make the star’s untimely death seem even more tragic, and they are unearthed as it is re…
BER Monday 3rd: Tomorrow we go to Rome to accept Golden masks or Silver masks or whatever, for being rich and infamous, I suppose. That’s a splendid fracturing bore to look forward to. Tuesday 4th: The award evening was monstrous. For about ¾ hour, endless hard-faced breastless models paraded before our bored eyes an extraordinary tasteless concourse of fashions. Then every performer in It…
Miley Cyrus announces that she is engaged to The Hunger Games actor Liam Hemsworth. Liam Hemsworth, 22, proposed to the former Disney princess on May 31 with a 3.5-carat diamond ring from jeweller Neil Lane. Miley Cyrus, 19, told People magazine: “I’m so happy to be engaged and look forward to a life of happiness with Liam.” Australian magazine WHO reports that the ring is a cushion-cut dia…
…by introducing her little girl Penelope Scotland Disick on the front of Us Weekly magazine Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to daughter Penelope Scotland Disick in Los Angeles on July 8th, weighing 7lbs 14oz. And shortly after the birth, her famous siblings took to Twitter to express their love for the new addition to the family. Kourtney Kardashian’s sister Khloe wrote an entire blog about ho…
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan proves why she was once called “the most beautiful woman in the world” in new images for a jewellery advertising campaign. The Bollywood star looks radiant and slim with glowing skin as she poses in traditional Indian wedding dress in one picture and wrapped in gold fabric in another for the pictures for Kalyan jewellers. The former Miss World, who is married to Abhishek Ba…
ple are turning to one of the greatest symbols of the Victorian era. Corsets are making a comeback. Rigby & Peller, the Queen’s brassiere-maker, says sales of traditional corsets in May were 45% up on 2011. Ebay has reported a 185% rise in the number of corsets being sold over the last three months, with 1,900 listed over the period. It says most corsets are bought in the UK (40%), the U…
Krystle Campbell has been identified as the second victim killed in the Boston Marathon terror attacks on Monday. Krystle Campbell was a 29-year-old steakhouse manager who went to the race every year. Doctors initially told her father, William Campbell Jr., that Krystle had survived the bombing and was undergoing surgery but had mistaken her for her friend. William Campbell spent 12 hours believi…
As one of the richest young heiresses in the UK, Tamara Ecclestone posed for Playboy magazine opting for a spattering of diamonds to maintain her modesty. Tamara Ecclestone, 28, is seen with sparking crystals on her breasts, holding a larger crystal on her lower body to ensure she didn’t display too much. Wearing just a pair of sky-high metallic heels, the socialite lays on top of a crystal…
…prematurely weighing just 2 lb 10 oz. Doctors found there was minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in the womb. “They told us they had no idea how she could have survived,” her mother Rita Velasquez, 45, a church secretary, said. “We had to buy dolls’ clothes from the toy store because baby clothes were too big.” Doctors could not make a diagnosis so they prepared Lizzie Velasquez’s p…
e are four possible outcomes for Amanda Knox today: 1. Conviction upheld and she serves remaining 22 years 2. Conviction upheld and sentence increased to life 3. Conviction upheld and sentence reduced 4. Conviction overturned and she is released from prison…
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan may have been criticized in her native India for not losing her baby weight fast enough, but she looked nothing short of dazzling at the AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala in Cannes last night. The Bollywood actress, 38, lived up to her title of “the world’s most beautiful woman” in a gold embroidered sari and coordinating tailored jacket with Mandarin collar. Aishwarya R…
…ht it wouldn’t be good to show off the first lady so I stopped,” quipped Ellen DeGeneres after quitting. “I thought this looks bad that I’m going to beat her. I’m 54 and you’re 48.” First Lady Michelle Obama was challenged to a push-up contest on Ellen DeGeneres show during her California tour for promoting her health agenda During the show, Michelle Obama also revealed s…
Jacqueline, an obese model whose picture was unwittingly used in an advertisement for an extra-marital affairs website has spoken out about the apparent “exploitation” of her body. Jacqueline, the supersized model has slammed Ashley Madison and the advertising industry for “body shaming” and promoting infidelity. Writing on Jezebel.com, Jacqueline, the U.S. size 32 model s…
North Korea releases Chinese fishing crew The Chinese fishing crew seized by North Koreans two weeks ago has been freed along with their boat, reports say. The 16-man crew was taken captive by unidentified North…
China urges North Korea to release Yu Xuejun's fishing boat captured for $100,000 ransomChina has called on North Korea to secure the release of a fishing boat and its crew seized earlier this month. Owner Yu Xuejun said the vessel had been in Chinese waters…
Zahra Shahid Hussain funeral: Murdered PTI's vice-president buried in KarachiThe funeral of the murdered vice-president of Pakistan's PTI party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, has been held at a mosque in the country’s capital, Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain…
Imran Khan blames MQM's Altaf Hussain for Zahra Shahid Hussain's killing in KarachiFormer cricketer Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's PTI party, has blamed one of his political rivals for the killing of PTI vice-president Zahra Shahid Hussain. Zahra…
Zahra Shahid Hussain shot dead in KarachiSenior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's…
North Korea fires short-range missiles from its east coastNorth Korea has launched three short-range missiles from its east coast, South Korea's defence ministry said. Two missiles were fired on Saturday morning and one in the…
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