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Last chance to win a super-sexy handbag at diva bingo!

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

For a little while now, the diva bingo web site has been handing out free gifts to new players when they sign up at the site. This month it’s been handbags – gorgeous, stylish bags perfect to show off on your arm or to give as a gift to a delighted friend or relative.
Getting your [...]



Nigella Lawson makes startling swimwear statement

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Whilst most tabloids focus on pictures of celebrities wearing too few clothes on the beach, the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has caused somewhat of a sensation in a top-to-toe ensemble.
Nigella wore an extremely unusual black, full length outfit which covered everything but her hands, feet and face, its resemblance to the burka prompting some gossip [...]



Vivienne Westwood celebrates 70th birthday

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

The iconic and often controversial British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has celebrated her 70th birthday this week.
After a career spanning nearly forty years, the flame-haired, punk-inspired designer is still going strong. Westwood’s empowering clothes – plus signature tartan pieces - are still as popular as ever, inspiring new trends and stirring up some much-needed controversy [...]



Rumer Willis bags lucrative Badgely Mischka Spring/Summer 2011 campaign deal

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

It has just been announced that Rumer Willis, daughter of Hollywood stars Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, will be the new face of the Badgley Mischka Spring 2011 ad campaign.
The lucrative contract has previously been handed to Eva Longoria, Carrie Underwood, Brooke Shields and the Olsen twins in the past, but this will be [...]



Lady Gaga’s controversial meat dress tops 2010 Fashion Statement list

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

In a recent feature, Time Magazine has compiled its Top 10 Fashion Statements of 2010. Can you guess who came out on top?
It was, of course, the queen of wacky fashion statements – Lady Gaga, with her controversial dress made entirely of meat. Gaga wore this creation, complete with meat-clad booties, to the MTV Video [...]



The colour of 2011 is…honeysuckle

Friday, December 17th, 2010

According to the Pantone Color Institute – the single largest influence on colour trends in fashion – the official colour of 2011 is “honeysuckle”.
You may well be wondering what colour honeysuckle actually is, and Pantone are happy to oblige. It has been described as a reddish-pink shade, one which has connotations of energy and [...]



Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively tipped to be the new face of Chanel

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Gossip Girl actress and trend-setter Blake Lively has been hotly tipped as the new face of Chanel, after she was spotted repeatedly cosying up to the fashion label’s creative director and designer Karl Lagerfeld at fashion shows.
Lively is known to be a Chanel fan, as she often wears Chanel gowns on the red carpet [...]



Beckham and Bond on board for Adidas

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Adidas is looking to build on its fashionable reputation when it launches its fourth season of Originals by Originals. In order to up the fashion stakes, Adidas has Undefeated designer James Bond on board and has teamed him up with one of the biggest names in sport and fashion – David Beckham.
The new range is [...]



Unlikely brands for great men’s fashion

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Men are pretty limited when it comes to finding decent high street clothes shops to buy gear from. The trouble seems to be that shopping in places like River Island, Topman, H&M and All Saints leaves men in the irritating predicament of going out dressed the same as every other fashion-conscious guy out there.
Unfortunately, the [...]



Calvin Klein ad pulled for being suggestive of sexual violence

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Fashion adverts are well-known for being among the most risqué that make it onto billboards and the pages of magazines, but every so often there is an ad that causes too much controversy to hang about for long.
One of the latest Calvin Klein Jeans adverts to hit the billboards in Australia has now been banned [...]