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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

New Victoria's Secret Costumes Revealed

The Portrait of an Angel, Fireworks and Ice Angel costumes have all the ingredients that we're used to seeing from the best-dressed lingerie models in the business. Peacock feathers, dipped-hem fringed crystals, and a dramatic jewels are just a taster of what we can expect to see from the show on November 10.

Just two weeks to go, momentum has well and truly started to build for the extravaganza that is the 2015 Victoria's Secret show. This year there is plenty to take note of - 10 new Angels, big-name performers and a return to its native New York for the show (and 20th anniversary) - and now we can exclusively reveal what three of the costumes will look like.

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Eleanor Lambert – NYFW

Ms Lambert founded the first fashion week, formerly known as “Press Week” in 1943. Press Week could not have come at a better time, because of World War II, fashion industry workers were unable to travel to Paris, and America wasn’t known for anything related to fashion like France was. The very first fashion week distracted from French fashion and shined a light on American fashion. Lambert wanted a chance to showcase the talents of American designers to journalists and publications that constantly ignored their work and after the first show, she got her wish. What once was overlooked became recognized and featured all within a week.

Press Week wasn’t all that Ms. Lambert had a hand over. Her main goal was to change how the world looked at America’s style and fashion, Press Week was an excellent platform, but more needed to be done if other countries were going to take America seriously. The International Best Dressed List, the Coty Fashion Critics’ Award and the Council of Fashion Designers of America are three stylish contributions developed and organized by Ms. Lambert.

Many nicknames she has been given there is no denying her magnitude in the fashion industry: The Innovator of American Fashion. The Empress of Seventh Avenue.

A mere idea became a goal which transformed into what we now know as New York Fashion Week. A week dedicated to the talented, stylish offerings of many American designers, with hoards of journalists, bloggers, social media mavens, street style photographers and fashionistas alike, strutting the streets of New York in February and September; a far cry from the Plaza Hotel in 1943. Eleanor’s mission was clear, she proved to the world that America could be just as fashionable as any other country, and I believe her mission was accomplished.

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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Pope Francis got a new pair of shoes

The shoemaker Petrit Kozeli

Tirana- Albania / Mantova -Italy

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DiD, a Hong Kong toy company makes Nazi doll that looks just like Bastian Schweinsteiger

German footballer and Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger is considering legal action against a Hong Kong toy manufacturer that has made Nazi dolls that look just like him.

Other dolls on the toy maker's website bear a striking resemblance to famous celebrities

The dolls are produced by Dragon in Dream (DiD) a toy manufacturing company that specializes in producing "realistic, lifelike" action figurines, according to its website.

DiD's website was quickly disabled following the revelations, but the original site featured a doll labeled as "WWII German Army Supply Duty -- Bastian" that came complete with a uniform adorned with a swastika-bearing eagle.

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Bastian's management company advised lawyers in Germany this week to begin legal proceedings, according to German newspaper Bild, with one media lawyer calling the doll a "clear violation of Schweinsteiger's personality rights."

DiD's phone went unanswered on Friday and it could not be contacted for comment by email, but the company previously told the newspaper that it was a "complete coincidence" that the figurine looked like the footballer.

"We thought all Germans look like that," DiD said. "Bastian is also a very common name in Germany."

Exploration of other products on the DiD website before it was taken offline revealed a series of other remarkable coincidences, with advertised figurines that bear a striking resemblance to Daniel Craig, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro and Johnny Depp, among others.

Daniel Craig

Matt Damon

Ed Harris

Robert De Niro

Johny Dep

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Monday, October 19, 2015

Karl Lagerfeld Photos Are on Display in Paris

Karl Lagerfeld

Un portrait de Dorian Gray

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Karl Lagerfeld Photos Are on Display in Paris (never Seen before)

At Paris’s Pinacothèque de Paris gallery, Lagerfeld’s photographic endeavors are the subject of a new exhibit, open now through March 20, 2016.

There’s seemingly no end to Karl Lagerfeld’s pursuits: Designer, publisher, photographer, collector.

Co-curated by Eric Pfrunder, Chanel’s image director, and Gerhard Steidl, the publisher who partners with Lagerfeld on the “7L” series, the show provides an expansive look at Lagerfeld’s photographs.

Laid out in the spacious galleries are editorial shots of Anna Ewers, self-portraits, and never-before-seen snaps of Lagerfeld muse and model Baptiste Giabiconi. Many of the works are in black-and-white and even more are contemporary renderings of Greek myths—you’ll as soon find Abbey Lee, Bianca Balti, and Giabiconi re-enacting Daphnis and Chloe as you’ll see Heidi Mount lounging in a Vermont field wearing head-to-toe Chanel.