Chanel Iman And The Ford's "Supermodel of the World " Casting This Saturday!
The search for next Ford Supermodel is on and before contestants go to the open audition in NYC and LA on Saturday, they better be heed Chanel Iman's advice.
As a former contestant of the most prestigious modeling search (30 years before America's Next Top Model has aired on television), Chanel Iman represented the United States at the 2006 Supermodel of the World finals.
Her exclusive tips on how to prepare for the modeling contest will surely help:
1. Outfit: "You should wear something simple, like jeans or a miniskirt and your favorite top. Skinny jeans and a tank is the best look - you can see your figure."
2. Makeup "With makeup, it's better that you wear almost none. You can use a little bit of concealer and maybe some balm, but that's about it. Definitely clean skin with great moisturizer is ALWAYS best."
3. Hair "I would pull my hair back, so they can see my face."
4. No-nos "There are no real no-nos. Just be yourself, have fun and enjoy the experience."
Chanel Iman's career is soaring high after joining the annual global search. After getting a modeling contract with the Ford Models, she's now the highly-anticipated "Angel" of Victoria's Secrets.
Asked about the difference of Ford Supermodel of the World competition from reality TV shows, she quips, "This is real fashion - it's not scripted for the cameras. And you don’t need to be crazy to get noticed! My life changed immediately (after winning the competition)!!! I totally haven’t stopped since entering with Ford. It's been amazing and I'm loving it."
"Super Mature" Models Strip And Wink For i-D Magazine
You're gonna love these "super mature" models stripping and winking on the Winter 2010 cover of i-D Magazine.
Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, and Claudia Schiffer are super sexy. It has been 20 years and counting since these supermodels rock their gorgeous bodies on runways and magazine covers. And obviously, they still got it.
The trio went nude for photographer Kayt Jones. They sure look sultry even with one eyes opened. And those knee boots add to the hotness.
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" red carpet premiere was held on Monday night, November 16, in Los Angeles.
Fans howled at Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, or "Edward and Bella." There's also Taylor Lautner and the rest of the sexy co-stars who formed the vampire coven and the wolfpack in the second movie franchise of the Twilight series: Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli, Billy Burke, Michael Welch, Jackson Rathbone, Justin Chon, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, and Elizabeth Reaser.
Although most fans who came to the premiere were the under-20 set, Twilight fans came in all forms including a woman in her 90s "who says the exact same things as 12-year-old girls," as Robert Pattinson put it.
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" opens on Friday, November 20, and is expected to break box office records. Fans better get ready for the new movie offering. In earlier press conference, Taylor Lautner has said, "I honestly don't think they're expecting to be as heartbroken as I think they will be."
A new virtual dating game is currently out in Japan. It has caused quiet a stir as some women complained that their men are "cheating" on them by spending too much time with their virtual girlfriends.
"Love Plus" is the new dating stimulation video game that allows men to "court" several different virtual girls. And here's how the "romantic" part happens:
"If you play your cards right, one of them will start to fall for you. As you grow closer, you'll need to take your new fake girlfriend out on dates - in real time, no less - and start planning your future together. Eventually she might ask for a kiss, which requires touching her on the lips. Or perhaps she'll ask you to whisper sweet nothings in her ear, which requires babbling pleasantries into the DS microphone."
A San Francisco man shares his odd love story with Love Plus virtual girlfriend, Rinko:
"Ok, this is pretty embarrassing. The DS has a mic and a touchscreen, so... one time, she asked me to say 'I love you' a hundred times into the mic. I was on the airplane when she asked me that, so I was like, no way. There was also this part where you have to hold her hand on the touchscreen. If you touch her hand with the stylus, you get to hold her hand. And then there's the part where you have to kiss her."
WOW! It takes a lot of shame, err, "courage" to win the hearts of these virtual girlfriends. So did he actually kissed her?
"No, no! The girl's face shows up on the screen, and you have to touch her lips to give her a kiss. That's pretty weird... this is embarrassing. I'm sweating right now just talking about it."
As they say, dating is just awkward moments that require energy and focus. Consider that applicable even to the harmless yet a little disturbing world of virtual dating.
These Alexander McQueen Alien Shoes Actually Sell!
Ok. So Lady Gaga was the first celebrity to wear one of these lobster-claws. It turned out, however, that Alexander McQueen had been inundated with calls from women who want to own a pair of these crazy footwear even before Lady Gaga debuted it on her video (below). It all started after the live web streaming of the recent Alexander McQueen's catwalk show.
These lobster-claws are actually called Alien shoes. They are 10 inches high and they are part of the designer's spring 2010 collection. Apparently, they are on the current must-have list of shoe freaks and some even want to buy them as "art pieces."
"We've had lots of people showing great interest in the show's shoes... The process used to create the Alien shoes is very innovative and protected by copyright," says a McQueen spokesperson.
While the Alien shoes are designed for the rich, famous, and fashion-forward (and crazy), the label is auctioning off the sample pairs that appeared on the catwalk for charity:
"We are considering organizing a charity auction as the best way to offer them to the public."
Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Video Is Fashionably Gaga
Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" music video is fabulous, in rather crazy way. The story that goes with it is more like one of her illusions/delusions during those "high" moments:
"There's this one shot in the video where I get kidnapped by supermodels. I'm washing away my sins and they shove vodka down my throat to drug me up before they sell me off to the Russian mafia."
But the array of fashion-monster clothes plus the lobster-claw shoes from Alexander McQueen's spring 2010 collection are just fascinating. And the make-ups and hairstyles are crazy cool. And considering that she survived prostitution by burning the mafia boss in the end, it's an eccentric retelling of the tough female spirit:
"I wanted to design a pair for some of the toughest chicks and some of my girlfriends - don't do this at home! - they used to keep razor blades in the side of their mouths. That tough female spirit is something that I want to project. It's meant to be, 'This is my shield, this is my weapon, this is my inner sense of fame, this is my monster.'"
Could Lady Gaga be telling us that her fashion is for the tough female spirit? Just asking.
How far will you go for aboob job? How far will you go tomake a relationship work? Trista Joy Lathern is a 24 year-old Texan woman who lied about having breast cancer in order to raise money for a boob job. She shaves her head to look like a cancer patient, appeals to charity to help her raise money, then uses the $10,000 for breast implants.
When arrested by local police for lying and using the charity money for her breast enhancement operation, she claims she did it all for love. She wants to save her seven-month marriage.
True or not, her husband files for annulment anyway. The petition is not about the wife having small mammary glands. Instead, the husband claims his wife induced him to get married "by fraud." He also states being unaware that his wife was cancer-free when they married or when the fundraiser was held.
The woman will do anything to make things work. She's in love. But whether it's love for her man or love for breast implants, it's unworthy of the cancer lies.
And sadly, there's been small ripples to the genuine act of raising money to help real people with cancer after hearing Trista Joy Lathern's story.
Nicole Kidman opens up some aspects of her sex and marriage life in the December issue of British GQ:
"I've explored obsession. I've explored loss and love in terms of being in a grief-stricken place, I've explored strange sexual fetish stuff. I've explored the mundane aspect of marriage, and monogamy."
With Keith Urban, the 42 year-old actress describes marriage as "a very extraordinary, adventurous place to be: incredibly raw, incredibly dangerous and you're very much out at sea. You're exposed. You could drown."
"I burnt most of my journals after I remarried... You're only going to find out bad things."
Nicole Kidman's words somehow hint us that experiments with former husband is wicked.
Imagine yourself working with fellow tailors in a small town and then waking up one day to battle against one of the world's greatest fashion houses...
"You cannot imagine what it is like. You are faced with an enormous machine. You become the guilty party," says the smalltown seamstress Carmen Colle.
Carmen Colle is a 61 year-old former social worker who founded an ethical clothing company in a small town in Eastern France to provide employment for refugees. Her company, World Tricot, supplies handmade haute couture to some of fashion's leading names including Christian Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Givenchy.
She is now taking might as she battles Chanel over a crochet pattern, which she claims was used by the fashion house without placing an order. Insisting that the pattern is originally created by her own tailors, she is pushing for 2.5m Euro of damages for alleged counterfeit and breach of contract.
Since she lodged her official complaint four and a half years ago, her company has suffered with the decrease in annual sales, refusal of banks to help her, disappearance of former clients, and laying off of many employees. Colle says she has been subjected to a strategy of "pressures and manipulation."
But now that she has finally taken the battle to court, she's hoping to win the fight.
"It is not just World Tricot at stake. It is the recognition of small businesses and their creations. (Big names) treat us as things they can take up and then throw away. It's a shame for them. The greatness of a country, and the greatness of a brand, is the respect it shows for its petites mains."
Chanel, meanwhile, insists that the design was its own and says that "the making of a crochet sample on the basis of precise instructions given by Chanel's creative studio does not mean that a pattern's creation can be claimed."
To face a legal battle against an established fashion house that has become part of French national identity, it is like David and Goliath carrying not sword and slingshot but needles and threads.
But Carmen Colle remains stoic. "I will try to carry on. Whether they find me right or wrong, I have done all I can. Now it's for them to decide."
This "Dracula Therapy" Will Suck Your Old Blood Away!
"Dracula Therapy" is the anti-aging beauty treatment of the day.
Also known as Stimulated Self Serum or S3 Therapy, the facial procedure involves drawing of blood from the patient (hence the vampiric name). Then the blood's red blood cells, platelets and clear serum are separated and vitamins and amino acids are added before the serum is injected into the face.
The enriched serum can heal scars, trigger DNA repair, and give skin a younger glow. "I thought, if serum therapy was good enough for bones and soft tissue like gums, then it could do even better in the skin," says Dr. Daniel Sister, the British doctor who introduced the anti-aging facial procedure in UK.
This Dracula Therapy seems bloody awesome. Will you let Dr. Dracula suck your blood today, all for the sake of youth and beauty?
President Barack Obama's Committee on Arts and the Humanities is star-studded.
It includes the names of Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker, and Anna Wintour as members of the panel that will focus on arts and humanities education, cultural diplomacy, and economic revitalization through the arts and humanities and special events.
The committee's honorary chairwoman is First Lady Michelle Obama while film producer George Stevens Jr. and theater producer Margo Lion will serve as its co-chairs.
The list of 25 people from the worlds of arts and entertainment includes talent agent Bryan Lour, director George Wolfe, independent filmmaker Liz Manne, publicist Andy Spahn, cellist Yo Yo Ma, philanthropist Teresa Heinz, architect Thom Mayne, ballet dancer Damian Woetzel, and actors Edward Norton, Kerry Washington, and Alfre Woodard.
Photographer Ellen von Unwerth Is Haunted By A Photo
Even photographers have haunting stories to tell. Famous German photographer and director Ellen von Unwerth shares to Glamour UK that her best shot is with a "ghost model."
She has already worked with the likes of Claudia Schiffer, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera. But her favorite photo is from this woman, nowhere to be found after the pictorial.
Ellen von Unwerth recalls:
"I took this maybe three years ago, on a fashion shoot for Italian Vogue. We developed a romantic story to go with it: a woman comes back to the place where she grew up, and finds it all dusty and falling apart. We shot it in a chateau in Paris. The girl was a model, and it was the only time I worked with her. After this, she disappeared. She was from eastern Europe, Romania maybe, and even the agency could't find her again. So she's like a ghost. The picture certainly has a ghostly feeling..."
Dare to try these thrilling hair and makeup looks on fright night! You probably wouldn't be caught in it on any other days but this Halloween, consider these beauty tricks the perfect trick-or-treat.
1. Feathered Eyelashes
Good thing, it's fright night and these fluttery faux lashes translate to real life. If you do not wish to buy strips of ready-made feathered eyelashes to match your Halloween costumes, make one!
Buy real or fake feathers and cut them into tiny lashlike clumps. Dip in clear lash glue and nestle into the roots of your real lashes; gently hold in place until dry. For a sweet wide-eyed look, you can cluster the feathers toward the center of your lid. If you want to go for a mysterious look, place them at the outer corner of your eye. "It may surprise you how creepy or innocent you can become just by changing the look of your eyes,"Nars makeup pro Jenny Smith says.
2. Frizzy Hair
Play with your frizz on Halloween and make it really, really big. The thicker the hair, the better. Hair can be curled into tight ringlets and then teased for maximum volume. Use poufy clip-in hairpieces pinned underneath those curls for a big boost.
To achieve big boost at home, you can use a crimper or curling iron on your hair extensions. Make sure the extensions are heat-safe to avoid a scary fake-hair meltdown.
3. Glitters
Get sparkling, shimmering, splendid eyes for that Tinkerbell look. Use loose, finely milled face glitter to dust on your lids, brow bone, and cheekbones to achieve maximum glimmer. Prep the skin with a small amount of cream then sweep the glitter on using a soft, rounded eyeshadow brush. "This gives you a very glossy and sexy effect, and the shimmer will stay put," says Stila celebrity makeup artist Sarah Lucero.
For a cool jewel-encrusted pout, pat loose glitter on top of lipstick.
Other glitter essential: toss Scotch tape in your handbag. You might want to mop those stray glitters that fleck onto your skin or clothes during the Halloween bash.
4. Goth Lips
Black lipsticks are everywhere but not all give a glam so make sure you don't just buy one that resembles driveway tar. "Backstage at Fashion Week, I mix black Stila Smudge Pot gel eyeliner with some red lipstick to create the perfect vampy dark lip," says Lucero.
To whip up your own Goth hue, use a nice firm lip brush. This is the ideal tool for blending and applying your new wicked lipstick hue.
5. Major (Temporary) Tattoos
For a pretty fierce costume, temporary "full sleeves" tattoos would be great. Dare to make your own designs? Map out your drawing using subtle flesh-toned lip pencil. "If you're doing arm cuffs, keep in mind that you will need to draw on the arm you normally write with, so choose simple lines and shapes that you can easily re-create with your less exercised drawing hand," says MAC pro Chantel Miller.
If you don't want to make a mess, use stencils. Trace the design with water-resistant black eyeliner - your "ink". Use a small makeup brush dipped in cleanser to wipe mistakes and keep lines sleek. Mist your tattoos with aerosol hairspray for extra smudge-proofing.
6. Fantasy Wig
Be it lengthy waves or quirky hair shades, Halloween is the night for fun fantasy hairs! Get a hint from Bumble and Bumble stylist and Lady Gaga's fairy godmother, Aura Friedman:
To keep wig from messing your style, use knee-high nylon in the shade of your facial skin and stretch it over your scalp as a wig cap. This will keep the hair flat and the edges will not be easily noticed if they peek out. Instead of hiding your real hair in a pony or bun under the cap, bobby-pin it flat around the scalp, one section at a time.
It's fright night but you don't want to wish for a real horrific event. To prevent your wig from flying off, secure it by pushing bobby pins through the netting at its roots. Then add accessories. "A hair band or hat helps a wig look more natural. The hairline is usually the telltale giveaway of a wig, so if you camouflage that area, it will look more realistic." says Friedman.
According to L'Oreal, gray hair cure could be available to people in 10 years.
After spending over £581 million on research last year, the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company is now working on the breakthrough treatment that will put an end to gray hair. The hair treatment is expected to consist of an oral element backed by a hair care range, available within 10 years.
How will L'Oreal cure gray hair?
"When hair goes gray, there is a progressive disappearance of the melanocytes from the hair. While there are still melanocytes in the hair, there is still hope that it could be re-pigmented," explains Patricia Pineau, L'Oreal Research Communications Director.
Melanocytes are pigment cells that give color to both the skin and the hair.
"Hair is an enigma. It's a fiber, a material with physical properties. It is also a living organ that grows, grays and falls out. How can we fight this? Do we need a physical approach or a biological approach?"
The answer is an oral program supplemented with a hair care program, targeting graying from both the inside and out.
This definitely sounds a breakthrough in cosmetic science.
But because graying of hair normally comes with old age, L'Oreal and its gray-hair treatment will surely redefine the concept of "graceful aging." And as for those who are born with natural gray, they might also quip, "What's wrong with gray hair, anyway?"
Charlize Theron kissed a woman for $140,000 in a live auction during a gala for the charity OneXOne in San Francisco last Thursday.
When bidding stalled at $37,000, the 34 year-old actress raised the stakes saying, "For f*** sake! You can do better. There is no way I am leaving here with Jeremy Piven getting a higher bid. I've got t**** for God's sake."
Jeremy Piven has raised $280,000 from the same event.
When a male bidder upped the stakes to $130,000, Charlize Theron offered a 7-second kiss and told him, "Swine flu is going around. This is high risk kissing!"
After the male bidder, a woman raised the stakes to $140,000. The actress kissed her for 20 seconds as the audience counted down.
Charlize Theron is in a long-term relationship with actor Stuart Townsend.
"My boyfriend is not here tonight," the actress joked during the auction.
Angelina Jolie has been eyed by Ridley Scott to play Patrizia Reggiano in upcoming film "Gucci," a drama about intrigue in high fashion." Patrizia Reggiano is the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, sentenced to 29 years in prison for plotting the murder of the head of famous Gucci fashion house.
Leonardo DiCaprio, meanwhile, has been approached by Ridley Scott to play Maurizio Gucci.
No official script has been written yet, but the film is said to focus on the Gucci family in the seventies and eighties. "After an inter-family power struggle that ends with Maurizio coming out on top, things go downhill until he's eventually murdered."
In a talk with Men's Vogue ex-editor Jay Fielden at the New York Public Library, the 68 year-old redhead tells how she is worried over the very young and very thin models that high-fashion designers use.
Citing the controversy surrounding Ralph Lauren and Filippa Hamilton, Grace Coddington says that the fashion industry's penchant for thin models is getting worse with the hiring of "kids" that are much, much younger who cannot regulate their lives and more susceptible to anorexia.
"And I don't know what the answer is, except to keep on it, which we're all trying to do. Anna's trying to do it. Personally we're not allowed, at Vogue, to work with girls who are very thin, but you never know, because you could book them and think they're a certain size, and they turn up on the shoot and suddenly they've spun into this anorexic situation. And you're on the spot and you have to get the job done and you have one day to do it, and what do you do? But you try to be responsible, as Anna is."
Just because she's one of the most influential fashion editor and one of the most powerful New Yorkers don't mean she cannot go out in public wearing the same outfit.
Anna Wintour, in fact, recommends outfit repeats:
"I usually wear the same dress twenty times. I think it's always fun to have something new, but it doesn't mean that everything you already have in your closet has to be thrown out, you know? Recycle."
So if you see this famed Vogue editor wearing the same black and white floral frock, don't think it's the effect of economic recession - it's simply Anna Wintour's favorite:
"This black-and-white Carolina (Herrera) dress that I wear a lot - if you ask Carolina, she knows the one I'm talking about." How's that for a woman accused of promoting elitist views of femininity and beauty?
Check this out, ladies. The Daily Beast locates the 36 best US cities to meet the best bachelors. Surprise, surprise: NYC and LA don't rank too high!
In search of the eligible men, The Daily Beast first measured cities with at least 500,000 residents (excluding suburbs where there's higher percentage of married people.) The definition for being eligible is then set: single men between the ages of 18 to 49 (60% of the weighting). Next, cities with the highest percentage of single men with four-year college degrees are pinpointed. This would define men with brains and future earnings power (60% of the weighting). Lastly, the eligible bachelors are expected to be thriving in recreational centers so the cities with the most gyms per capita and the cities with the most number of nightlife spots per capita - bars, restaurants, clubs, and theaters - are credited (each 10% of the weighting).
Et voila! America's most dateable great guys — smart, fit, fun, and singles — are lurking in Atlanta and Boston.
See the complete list of the 36 biggest cities, ranked from first to worst:
1. Atlanta - southern hospitality and the sub-tropical breezes attract all the right men 2. Boston - ideal destination for the young and upwardly mobile 3. Seattle - tech companies draw thousands of smart, educated guys 4. San Francisco - intelligent guys with great careers are buzzing around on scooters 5. Minneapolis-St. Paul - the "Land of 10,000 Dates" 6. Washington, DC - with some of the best happy hours in the country, there's plenty of social life here 7. Austin - a haven for art and tech lovers 8. Miami - gyms and social life compensate the city's lack of educated men 9. San Diego - great tans, great hair, great bodies, and lucrative jobs 10. Denver - arts district, microbreweries, and Rocky Mountains appeal to outdoorsy singles 11. Portland, OR 12. Columbus, OH 13. Chicago - lack of gyms pulled the city down to 13th spot 14. Los Angeles - Hollywood it is! But the city doesn't attract intellectual men. 15. Baltimore 16. Milwaukee 17. Tucson 18. Houston 19. Nashville 20. Tampa-St. Petersburg - beaches make way for nightlife and men who stay in shape 21. Dallas-Fort Worth 22. Detroit 23. New York City - the country's banking capital, busy men just don't have enough time for social life in NYC 24. Phoenix 25. Philadelphia - there's just not enough men 26. Charlotte 27. San Jose 28. Indianapolis 29. Memphis 30. Las Vegas - there may be lots of singles, but they're not ready to mingle! 31. Albuquerque 32. Oklahoma City 33. Louisville 34. San Antonio 35. Jacksonville, FL 36. El Paso, TX - lack of single guys, lack of social life, lack of gyms, and nearly last in education
A new study has revealed that evenplus-size modelsare not helping overweight women with their self-esteem. On the contrary, one look at a model’s photo - skinny or plus-size – makes fuller women depressed.
The team of researchers from USA, Germany, and the Netherlands who published their findings on the Journal of Consumer Research provide this explanation:
"Presumably this is because underweight women compare themselves equally to thin models and favorably to overweight models, but overweight women compare themselves unfavorably to thin models and find their similarity to overweight models depressing."
But why is it that the self-esteem of overweight women falls when shown models' photographs?
The study suggests that it is not the body of an ultra-thin or a plus-size model that affects the woman's self-esteem, but the presentation of beauty.
Thin or fat, the models that appear on glossy magazines and commercial ads are almost always beautiful, perfect, ideal. If any overweight woman looks at these ideal images of models and she does not have a healthy understanding of the difference between fashion photography and real life, her self-esteem will plummet.
Thus the study recommends that overweight consumers should avoid looking at ads with any models — thin or heavy.
The Heelstory If you think high heels were invented for women, you should know that they actually started with men.
According to the curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, shoes with a pointed heel and a sloping pitch were first worn by men as riding boots in 9th-century Persia.
During the Renaissance period, women wore high platforms stacked heavily at the toe called chopines. They were said to rise about eight inches high and were worn in the sheer delight of displaying family wealth. These chopines later became a trend to prostitutes in Florence and Sicily.
In the 1500s, the high-heeled men's riding boot was revived by Queen Elizabeth who "acted" as a man. In the early 1700s, shorter heels started to become popular with women. By the time of the Second World War, heels started soaring higher with the discovery of using metal rods on shoes to maintain a strong and narrow structure.
Today, heels just keep on evolving as they get higher and more pointed or rounded, according to the crazy trend that echoed their history of glamour, power, oppression, sexiness, and contradiction to accepted morality.
So much was our love for heels so that designers are forever coming up with bold ideas to create high heels that would especially help women feel sexy and liberated. Lookie at these crazy Alexander McQueen's 10-inches heels, the highest footwear to strut down the Paris runway this season:
With women getting crazy over the latest high heels, it's becoming common to hear shoe designers fighting over trademark issues.
Alexander McQueen is suing Steve Madden for allegedly copying this Faithful bootie:
Women just love to wear shoes that are impossibly high, uncomfortable, difficult, and dangerous to walk in and an economic professor provides this answer: "Taller people earn more, for example, and command greater attention in social settings. And hence the attraction of high heels."
Heels injure our feet, knees, and back but we still wear them. We simply love the way they look and we love to play with our height (and our character) every now and then.
World Health Organization has recorded 340,000 swine flu cases and 4,100 deaths worldwide...
But rejoice mankind!
Haruyama Trading Co. Ltd., a leading menswear maker in Japan, has designed a suit especially made for protection against swine flu virus.
The sharply tailored suit is coated with titanium dioxide, a common light-reacting chemical that breaks down and kills viruses. The suit can also be washed several times without losing its protective qualities.
Available in navy, charcoal gray, medium gray and gray pinstripe, the anti-swine flu suit will go on sale tomorrow for £365 (around $580).
Sorry "womankind." The new swine flu defense is a suit — it is designed for men.
Take it from fetish model and burlesque performer Dita von Teese: an effective strategy for seducing men is letting them come to you - after you have set the target.
"I don't have a technique for seducing men because they're all so different. You have to know your victim. It has always worked for me to let them come to me.
"I'm not very aggressive. I don't seduce and destroy. I like to be chased, but I'm not into playing hard to get."
Dita von Teese's art of seduction is pretty simple. Instead of getting aggressive around your "victim" (the man you like, deary), back off and let him come to you.
Men generally love the thrill of the chase so... know your victim, set the stage, and let them do the hunting!
From her Thursday appearance on Chelsey Lately, Jennifer Aniston shares some smelly experience in New Jersey while filming The Bounty with Gerard Butler:
"What is with that smell? You know when you drive from Manhattan, and there's that one area?"
Uh-oh, one of Garden State's most famous residents is none too pleased to hear the girl-next-door's comment. Danielle Staub from reality TV's Real Housewives of New Jersey says:
"I would love to hang out with her. I hear she is really fabulous - but she really shouldn't say that. If you land in Newark and leave out of Newark, yeah, you will think NJ smells. But you can't judge it by one part. If it was so bad, I wouldn't be living here for 22 years."
Just to prove that New Jersey does not smell that bad, Danielle Staub, who resides in a $1.5-million home in Wayne, New Jersey (what she calls the "good smelling part"), has an offer for Jennifer Aniston:
"I will personalize a tour and take her to a fabulous lunch on me afterwards. All homemade Italian food, and a tour of all the wonderfully smelling places in New Jersey before I take you to a luncheon, my treat."
Former US President Jimmy Carter says that much of the opposition to first African-American President Barack Obama is due to racism. He says that many Whites that express disagreement with the president's leadership hold the belief that an African-American is not worthy to be in the White House:
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American."
Jimmy Carter cites the anti-government demonstrations over healthcare reform which have been almost exclusively White. There is also an increasingly aggressive tone on rightwing talk shows.
While celebrating his 85th birthday on NBC, Jimmy Carter claims:
"I live in the south, and I've seen the south come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the south's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans."And that racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that African Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."
Meanwhile, the Republican party today issued a denial saying that Carter was "flat-out wrong." According to them, the opposition was not because of Obama's skin colour but of his policies.
2009 marks the year of lost of some of the finest celebrities in the entertainment industry. Add Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze to the list.
"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,"said publicist Annett Wolf in a statement released on Monday.
The 57 year-old actor died of pancreatic cancer on Monday, September 14. Earlier this year, Patrick told in his interview with ABC's Barbara Walters:
"I'd say five years is pretty wishful thinking. Two years seems likely if you're going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I'd better get a fire under it."
A gifted actor and performer, Patrick Swayze was best-known for his lead roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost. He was People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1991.
Recently, we've heard about a Malaysian woman condemned to caning after drinking beer. These days, there's another indecency case that attracts worldwide media attention - a Sudanese woman has been arrested after wearing trousers.
Lubna Hussein has been arrested with 12 other women at a party on July. Deemed indecent for wearing the foreign clothing, they had faced the possibility of 40 lashes. Ten of the other women arrested with her have already pleaded guilty and have been whipped. But Lubna Hussein, a former reporter working for the United Nations at the time of her arrest, has sought the help of the media. With large publicity sorrounding her case, she has been spared from the lashes. Instead, the Sudanese Court charges her to pay a fine of 500 pounds ($209) or spend a month in jail.
Lubna Hussein has argued that her clothes, a pair of green slacks, were respectable and that she did not break the law. Refusing to pay the fine after her verdict, she says "I will not pay the money, and I will go to prison."
Sudan is a country with large cultural gap between the mostly Muslim and Arab-oriented north and the mainly Christian south. Indecency cases like that of Lubna Hussein is common but because of wide publicity, activists are now citing the vagueness of Sudan's Islamic decency regulations specifically on determining what is acceptable clothing for women.
While Islamists call trouser-wearing Lubna Hussein as a prostitute worthy of harsh punishment, supporters praise her for bravely speaking out against the vagueness of indecency laws in her country and giving voice to thousands of girls who have been beaten since the 1990s.
Come to think of it, while most of us are arguing whether the latest pants are sexy or not and if tummy tuck jeans are still in fashion, some people on the other side of the world are debating if they can even wear one.
Joanna Krupa's Body To Win "Dancing with the Stars"
After announcing that Joanna Krupa will join the 9th season of Dancing with the Stars, the 30 year-old model and actress has posed topless in this month's issue of Maxim magazine to win the votes of fans and be identified as the sexpot of the reality dancing competition:
"You've got to show a little bit of skin to make it fun. My job is so sexy. I've been known to do swimsuit lingerie and sexy spreads in magazines. I want to keep that going, so we'll see how skimpy the costumes will get. It will definitely be classy and flashy and hot. It won't be anything cheesy.
"Hey, whatever gets me to the finals. I'm really going to work hard at it. I mean, yeah, obviously I want to be the sexpot on the show like Gilles (Marini) was."
What do you guys think, is she worth watching for?
Milla Jovovichposes for the September issue of Maxim magazine and promotes her upcoming film "A Perfect Getaway."
Aside from attending to her flick, the 33 year-old actress and former model is also busy preparing for her wedding with longtime partner, filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson. The wedding is said to be held on August 22, 2009.
Milla Jovovich, who has given birth to her first child with the filmmaker in 2007, says she has designed the wedding gown herself that is, in her words, "super simple, but beautiful like a late 60s or early 70s white mini. It's very cute!"
