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“I’ll eat when I ‘m Dead” Daphne Guinness is not the one to emulate…

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In case you have no clue who Daphne Guinness is, she is kinds Lady Gaga before there was a Lady Gaga here is an excerpt from her Wikipedia entry: The Honourable Daphne Diana Joan Suzannah Guinness (born 9 November 1967 in Hampstead, London [1]) is an artist of Irish, English, and French descent and an heiress of the Guinness family. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1994.

Guinness has designed a range of clothing with Dover Street Market and released an eponymous fragrance in 2009 with Comme des Garçons. Guinness has collected fashion, specifically haute couture, for a number of years, and in 2010 bought the entire wardrobe of the late Isabella Blow , in her owns words, to ‘prevent Issie’s possessions becoming mere morbid memorabilia… to preserve it’. She has a fascination with armour, and in 2006 approached her great friend Shaun Leane to create a gold and diamond arm glove. Titled ‘Contra Mundum’ or ‘Against The World’, this handcrafted, intricately made objet d’art took five years to create and develop and is perhaps one of the most technically advanced pieces in the world of artisan jewels.[7]

Guinness is prominent in the fashion world as a journalist and collector of haute couture. She has an interest in the use of armour in fashion.[8] She was a model in Naomi Campbell‘s Fashion for Relief runway show for the White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti in 2010. In September 2010, NARS Cosmetics will launch a new collection dedicated to her.

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For Daphne Guinness lovers, which we might just be, it takes a lot to shock. Between the crazy clothes, the getting dressed in store windows, the dating a married French philosopher and wearing McQueen’s famous 10-inch armadillo shoes, there’s not much Daphne can do or say that would surprise us.

But this line from the New Yorker made us smile:

Teresa Alfonso, Guinness’s personal assistant, tried to get her to eat some of the pasta that had been prepared for the production team. “If I eat, I can’t work,” Guinness, who had been subsisting on Red Bull and Ensure, said. “I’ll eat when I’m dead.”

But of course. Why waste time doing something so mundane, so banal, so unartistic as putting food in one’s mouth?

 

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I know just what her Halloween Costume should be!

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Halloween Costume Ideas that are REALLY Scary

A costume called Anna Rexia? seriously like we needed help having issue, or having them flaunted…. Thank goodness they pulled it!

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Ricky’s, that ubiquitous New York City purveyor of neon wigs, graphic tees and high-end hair products, has a full line of Halloween costumes for next month’s holiday.

Shop for costumes at Ricky’s and you can go as Sexy Marilyn Monroe, a Sexy Indian Princess, Sexy Alice in Wonderland or even Sexy SWAT Team Member (women, don’t you love your options?)

Unfortunately, you can no longer dress up as Anna Rexia, the sexy body dysmorphia sufferer.

Today the Village Voice pointed out that Ricky was selling an Anna Rexia costume, which featured a “glitter screenprint” skeleton and may or may not have come with the measuring tape for your waist.

It was, paradoxically, cut for quite the busty Halloween goer, which sort of makes no sense (last we check, eating disorder victims aren’t the curviest).

William Walters, coordinator at the National Eating Disorders Association, told the Voice that he’s seen the costume before — and he’s not a fan. “It makes light of something really serious… It’s hard for us to find it funny.”

Unsurprisingly, the costume has now been pulled off Ricky’s website. As of noon today, a Ricky’s spokesperson told the Village Voice that “the store wasn’t supposed to be selling the Anna Rexia costume anymore.”

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Take a Picture it will Last Longer: Nude Phone Pics

Now I have been known to take a bikini shot to see if I am having a good body day- it may be crazy but it is true, but there is no way in this day and age that I am going to snap a nudie and if I did it would summarily be deleted! But I know from watching enough CSI, Law and Order or Criminal Minds that everything deleted is not gone. Frankly I have never been temped to take nude photos of myself, but clearly the urge is almost irresistible, even one is doing it, squeaky clean Disney stars have done it, politicians and A list actresses have done it, reality stars and wannabe’s hoping to create a scandal and become reality stars do it (well that’s kind of understandable, unconscionable but I get it) I am still really perplexed at the celebrities, athletes and powerful people who somehow end up nude in front of and Iphone camera and either send nude pictures to people or store them on computers and phones that have a way of being stolen or hacked. They risk multi-million dollar contracts and endorsement deals when these keepsakes “leak” out. Recently I was so deeply saddened when I saw the video that “Leaked” out of tennis star Serena Williams “Twerking” pantiless in her US Open outfit in front of her computer camera. I had always though of her as classy (even with her on court outburst). WTF is wrong with people? I guess it makes no sense to ask, “Who does that?” because clearly a great number of people are. The latest celebrity phone hacking incident resulted in nude photos of Scarlett Johanssonall over the internet is a just another example of why one should resist the urge to take nude photos of ones self when they are getting out of the shower. It still baffles me that people have not yet learned that taking nude photos of themselves is not a good idea. Have we not yet learned that whether you are snapping racy pics for your current partner, or engaging in sex acts in front of the camera because as Paris Hilton was the first to inform us “everyone does it” is just begging for trouble? You have to keep in mind that you will more than likely break up, or someone will get mad and in a vindictive moment post them somewhere and all of your “secrets” will be on display in perpetuity, or someone might get a hold of your phone and computer and help themselves to your personal artwork. Even people who have had a less then classy entry into the world of fame have fallen victim to the leaked nude photo epidemic. Amber Rose formerly Kanye West’s girlfriend lost contracts when the soft porn photos she took of herself got out. You see, even when the people we sort of expect it from engage in this behavior it has a bad result. Sadly it’s not just kids doing it, both men and women who have long since aged out of such idiotic behavior have been known to snap a photo of their privates. The appropriately named Anthony Weiner let technology and lust get the better of him and in the aftermath had to resign as Senator. Why on earth would someone with so much to lose risk it all, and for what? This is a plea- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE NUDE PHOTOS OF YOURSELF!!!! IT’S NOT CUTE, IT’S NOT SEXY IT’S STUPID AND CLASSLESS- AND WHEN THEY GET OUT EMBARRASSING!

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Emmy Dress Favorites!

I loved this Zac Posen Kristen Wigg wore, I think I would have liked her hair up so  that her neck was accentuated…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where this Zuhair Murad it was not a favorite but the fit on the bodice is flawless. I included it mainly  because I think that Kerry Washington looks quite thin, thinner than usual. She looks fab, but even her face looks different, I wonder what she’s up to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this Oscar de le Renta dress from Fall 2011, and I think it looks wonderfully flattering on Julie Bowen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vavavoom, Sophie Vergara is giving it to you in Vera Wang, I love that this dress is everything and yet not too much. Vera Wang knows how to dress curvy women.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zaftig Mad Men Beauty Christina Hendricks is on the right track, I love her body but sometimes when she pushes the girls up there, it can be a bit much and you lose her. This Johanna Johnson design has a good balance, I wish it was in a color though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just adore Emily Blunt, I just think that she is lovely and she looks effortlessly comfortable and chic in this navy Elie Saab

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally Miss.Winslet, also in Elie Saab. Kate really has a style, she likes the tight (almost too tight fit) it bothers some people but I rather like it it’s sort of sexy and I like that she is not super skinny it really show what she’s working with. I like the simplicity of this gown, it’s all her! and that’s the statement she’s making! Kate we got it! (and so do you!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you notice that none of these women are wearing necklaces, even with the plunging necklines, is this a trend? Who where your favorites and why if you tell me I will post them up!

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Refelctions of the Week

In case you missed it because you were getting back into the swing of school and in denial that summer is actually over…

Actress Michelle Williams transforms into Marilyn Monroe

Meet Your New Miss Universe, Miss Angola

Japan Makes it Illegal to be Fat!

Review: TLC’s Big Sexy-Big Disappointment

Dancers and Retirement- A Little Death

Dance Studio Review- Tips to start your Semester off right!

Misty Copland on being a curvy ballerina video interview

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A Size 4 Kirstie Alley Walks the Runway in Fashion Week.

Ok Kirstie ALley is Rocking it! This week she walked the runway for walking for Zang Toi during New York Fashion week looking stunning (and a little like french actress Marion Cotillard). I was so happy for Kirstie when she did Dancing with the Stars, and not only danced so well but embraced the physical benefits from shaking your booty for hours a day. The greatest thing is that it looks like she has found a balance that has enabled her to keep the weight off. She has lost 100 pounds!! It would have been easy for her to regain it when the vigorous DWTS schedule ended, but here she is months after, looking breathtaking, and most importantly happy!

 

 

love the smokey eye and beehive!

 

 

 

 

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See Michelle Williams Transform into Marilyn Monroe for New Film

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Where facially it may be easy to see Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, however her her gamine frame and indi-girl bohemian personal style contrasts greatly to the zaftig curves of Monroe. Williams will appearing in the upcoming film “My Week with Marilyn” and spoke to vogue about how she prepared herself, inside and out for the iconic role:

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“I’d go to bed every night with a stack of books next to me,” she tells the magazine in its latest cover story. “And I’d fall asleep to movies of her. It was like when you were a kid and you’d put a book under your pillow hoping you’d get it by osmosis.”

Learning the role, especially such a nuanced one, is the most important aspect for an actress’s performance, but Monroe’s public image was as much tied to her looks as her inner-self. She was a star in a bygone era that celebrated more women’s bodies in more natural shapes, which required the petite Williams to add weight to create those famous curves. As she tells the magazine, the weight went to her face, instead, and so while she learned Monroe’s walk, she had to pad herself hips to acquire the body.

Still, the normally modest Williams felt a certain transformation in her appearance and power in the role.

“But I do remember one moment of being all suited up as Marilyn and walking from my dressing room onto the soundstage practicing my wiggle,” Williams tells the magazine. “There were three or four men gathered around a truck, and I remember seeing that they were watching me come and feeling that they were watching me go–and for the very first time I glimpsed some idea of the pleasure I could take in that kind of attention; not their pleasure but my pleasure. And I thought, Oh, maybe Marilyn felt that when she walked down the beach.”

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Miss Angola Leila Lopes IS MISS UNIVERSE!!!

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SAO PAULO — Newly crowned Miss Universe Leila Lopes hopes her victory will allow her to assist her native Angola further escape its history of war and impoverishment and said she plans to focus on combatting HIV around the globe.

Speaking in a timid voice early Tuesday shortly after taking the crown in South America’s largest city, the 25-year-old Lopes said that “as Miss Angola I’ve already done a lot to help my people.”

“I’ve worked with various social causes. I work with poor kids, I work in the fight against HIV. I work to protect the elderly and I have to do everything that my country needs,” she said. “I think now as Miss Universe I will be able to do much more.”
Responding to questions, Lopes said that she has never had cosmetic surgery of any kind and that her three tips for beauty were to get a lot of sleep, use sun block even when it’s not sunny and to drink lots of water. She said her smile was her best weapon in the competition.

Asked about racism in light of the fact that she’s one of the few blacks ever crowned Miss Universe, Lopes said that “any racist needs to seek help. It’s not normal in the 21st century to think in that way.”

She deftly handled the interview question that is asked of the remaining top five contestants. She was questioned about what physical trait she would change if she could.

“Thank God I’m very satisfied with the way God created me and I wouldn’t change a thing,” Lopes said. “I consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty. I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.”

Despite battling against a home country favorite, Lopes won over the audience, speaking in the shared language of Portuguese. Angola, like Brazil, is a former Portuguese colony.

“She captivated the crowd and we were all behind her,” said Brazilian Natalie Bursztyn, 20, who was in the crowd inside Credicard Hall where the event took place. “It was great that the judges also saw what the fans saw and gave her the crown. Her dress was beautiful and she knew exactly what to say when they asked her the question about her looks.”

“I know my job and I’ll be tough, but fair,” Chung said. “You have to keep in mind that these women are not objects just to be looked at. They’re to be taken seriously. I want to choose somebody I take seriously and the world takes seriously, too.”

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Being Fat is Illegal in Japan

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How would you feel if once a month at work you were pulled into an office and had your boss measure your waistline? If it was over 33 inches, the company would be fined by the government and your job would be in jeopardy. Well this is exactly what is happening in Japan. Due to the influx of American fast food, Japanese waistlines are expanding and the government is not having it, check this out

how do you feel about this? is it going too far or a smart preventive measure?

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In Honor of…

It is disheartening to realize that often it takes a great tragedy or the remembrance of one to bring us back, even for a moment to our centers, and what in the end really matters in life. In such moments the things that occupy our minds and cause worry, fear and anxiety: the desire to be more, have more, and the internal chiding that echo in our heads, gently fall away in the presence of events that bring the true importance of life to the fore. Yes it is a bit disheartening to think that in an annual moment of silence for those lost we regain our equilibrium and see that in truth every day we have – to enjoy, endure or suffer through is in and of itself a blessing. We are, at our essence forever and always perfect, enough, beautiful, and precious. When we ourselves do not feel it, know that somewhere someone feels that way about us and if we were not here, there would be a void in someone’s life, a space where the warmth, love, laughter, and joy would not exist, only the vacuum of loss.

On this day of remembrance of those who lost, and sacrificed their lives ten years ago on that fateful day, let us take a moment to acknowledge, appreciate, and respect both them and ourselves, and the truth that every life, including our own impacts, and imprints the world we share singularly.

The only way to make the world a better place, it to be better people in it….

In Remembrance,

Theresa Ruth Howard