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Why buy a celebrity fragrance? Because nobody has been able to package celebrity beauty, charisma, fame or charm. There are other reasons, too, like if you'd love to know the scent of Britney's favorite flower, which features strongly in her signature fragrance, or are moved by the sweet smell of honeysuckle, found in Beyoncé's perfume. Whatever your reason, here are some of the latest fragrance entries with star power:Full Story
How to get custom-blended makeupWouldn't it be the greatest luxury to have makeup prepared exclusively for your individual needs and specifications? That's what custom makeup's all about. Whether you want to duplicate an existing color, tweak what you already have, replace one that's been discontinued or create something completely original, it's possible with custom blending. The process begins with a skin-tone analysis, after which precise hues are selected, measured and mixed to create specially made color. Here are thee custom blended lines we love and what they offer.Full Story
Is this the best dress in America?Full Story
You may not think so, but its designer, Marc Jacobs, has been nominated for fashion's biggest award.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America, the style world's governing body, held their annual awards gala last night, draping the New York Public Library in glittering Swarovski crystals and sending shimmering celebs — from Sarah Michelle Gellar to Sean Combs — up the building's stone steps.
The most coveted prize of the evening, aside from the chance to get a glimpse of Kate Moss: The Womenswear Designer of the Year award, also known as fashion's Oscar.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is honouring Kate Moss, who often appears nude in photographs, for her fashion sense.Full Story
During the early 1990s, Moss fuelled the craze for waifish models, showing off her exceptionally slim frame in controversial ads for Calvin Klein fragrances.
In recent years, though, Moss, 31, became a mother and has become well-known for setting trends in her classically-eclectic British style.
I GET a creepy feeling when I visit the American Apparel store on lower Broadway.Full Story (Requires free registration)
Don't get me wrong. I like the clothes manufactured and sold by American Apparel, the seven-year-old casual clothing company. The collection - for men, women, children and dogs - is simple, efficiently designed, inexpensive and breathtakingly logo-free. The cotton T-shirts are as close to the Platonic ideal of T-shirt as you can get. And for $15, that's saying a lot.
The line is wildly successful. There are now 51 American Apparel stores in the world. Founded by Dov Charney, 36, a flamboyant Canadian, American Apparel actively promotes what its calls an anti-sweatshop policy. Every label on every T-shirt, pencil skirt and tube sock proclaims the creed, which reads in part, "All of our 1,500 employees, sewing and administrative alike, are paid fairly and have access to basic benefits like healthcare."
...The walls are stark white, meant to serve as backdrops for photographs, many of which are taken by Mr. Charney.
And this is where things get weird.
THERE is, of course, nothing like a stiletto. Spiky, dainty things, so complimentary to the foot and so alluring to the onlooker, they are so wildly uncomfortable for walking in the world that they function as a veritable badge of leisure.Full Story (Requires free registration)
Diane Von Furstenberg has been on the stiletto circuit longer than many, having embarked on an It Girl career some 30 years ago. She married Prince Egon Von Furstenberg. She invented the wrap dress. And she had so many licenses that even paper towels were scrawled with her signature. The 1980's were less, well, profitable. Today, married to her longtime friend Barry Diller, her dresses experiencing a heady revival and the Council of Fashion Designers of America presenting her with a lifetime achievement award tomorrow night, Ms. Von Furstenberg is standing glam and tall in heels again.
Starting next Thursday, June 9th, 16 very diverse, would-be designers publicly vie for Tommy Hilfiger's attention. The new CBS reality show "The Cut" will premiere with a special 90-minute episode that is sure to lure watchers in as reality TV always manages to do.Full Story
Based on Hilfiger's "rags-to-riches" tale, Hilfiger will run his contenders through the gauntlet, donning out grueling, real life design/style assignments that will make one, but break the rest.
In the first episode, contestants are split into two teams and compete in their first challenge for Hilfiger: designing two billboards in Times Square. Episode two follows the teams as they work on creating custom Lincoln Navigators for hip-hop music star Fabolous.
Testing their talent, business acumen, sales and marketing expertise, social skills, resourcefulness and sense of style, Hilfiger will ultimately decide on a winner to design his or her own collection under the Tommy Hilfiger label.
THE face gets more than its share of attention. Creams and lotions are specially made to moisturize it, protect it from the sun and erase its wrinkles. Cosmetic surgery techniques are designed to keep it looking youthful for a lifetime. And it stands to reason: Your face is what looks back at you from the mirror and what everyone else sees first.Full Story (Requires free registration)
But what about your hands? They get noticed eventually, when they rise to shake another's hand, to wave or gesture, to give or receive. And then they, too, can make an indelible impression. And so it is not surprising that hands have become a new battleground in the great cosmetic war against aging. Lotion makers have begun to put the same sunscreen and anti-aging ingredients they use in face creams - antioxidants, retinols, alpha hydroxy acids, collagen and the like - into new, more expensive hand treatments.
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