by wildcherry on Monday, March 8th, 2010 | Design, Entertainment, News | No Comments

Below are the Pictures of the women and their dresses that makes it to the list of “the Best and Worst Dressed at the Oscars 2010″.

Best Dressed at the 2010 Oscars

The 10 ladies topping our best dressed list of 2010 include:

10. Amanda Seyfried in a gorgeous Armani Prive floor-length off-white gown

9. Anika Noni Rose in a jewel-busted cream gown that literally lit up the red carpet,

8. Sandra Bullock who dazzled in a light gold, jeweled dress,

7. Demi Moore who looked subtly sexy in a ruffled light coral number,

6. Helen Mirren who donned a perfectly age-appropriate strapless gown in a body that would rival any woman in her twenties,

5.Kate Winslet won looked chic and sexy in a figure-flattering silver floor-length gown,

4.Queen Latifah who rocked a light purple pastel number with jeweled detailing around the bust.

3.Twilight star Kristen Stewart who shocked everyone last night in a feminine deep navy strapless gown.

2. Belongs to the amazing Meryl Streep who looked fresh and glowing in a white, full-sleezed, floor-length gown and a white clutch.

1. The top spot for the 2010 Oscars best dressed is none other than Penelope Cruz who looked smashing in a deep red, gorgeous strapless gown.

Worst Dressed at the 2010 Oscars

The special lady who stole the top spot of worst dressed on our Oscar 2010 list is none other than country songstress Faith Hill who’s black, floor-length gown and thigh-high slit looked more appropriate for working the corner than it did the red carpet.

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by wildcherry on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Design, News | No Comments

Today Marc Jacobs live-streamed his Fall 2010 fashion collection where he showed just why he is the fashion king. Gray played a major role, along with metallic silver and gold for evening, then yellow became the highlight in girly dresses. Faux bows on dresses (love that the bow theme is still strong), plus faux-fur trimmed coats and gray striped coats whisked down the runway as models clutched ever so delicate chain-strapped handbags while the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” played for the entire show.

There were some suits, including a three-piece menswear plaid one and a gray-flannel culotte version. The seats at Marc Jacobs Fall 2010 show and the rest of the set were wrapped up in brown craft paper with one big box-like structure sitting at the end of the runway. The lights dimmed and everyone scrambled to their seats. The paper (curtain) on the box suddenly got ripped away and behind the curtain, there were 56 models stood and all standing in neat little rows.

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by wildcherry on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Design, News | No Comments

The popular British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead Thursday morning at his home in Green Park, London. The real cause of McQueen’s death is not yet identified but there are some speculations that the fashion icon took his own life by hanging. His death took place a few days after the loss of his mother.

Alexander McQueen is a famous fashion designer who designed outfits for popular personalities like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Prince Charles.

Someone from McQueen’s office released a statement telling, “At this stage it is inappropriate to comment on this tragic news beyond saying that we are devastated and are sharing a sense of shock and grief with (McQueen’s) family.”
Alexander McQueen was 40.

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by nate on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | Design, Entertainment, News, World | No Comments

Hollywood Stars and Celebrity Magazines, they normally attract our attention a lot. It’s one media that a lot of people can’t take their eyes off. This article talks about how the “New Hollywood Stars” might spark controversy in their publications. Read below:

One thing magazines love to do is call dibs on who will be the new “It” celebrities in the year to come. Sometimes they pick stars whose careers are destined to take off, occasionally they make incredible calls with near-nobodies who later become A-listers, and usually the majority of their picks fade into oblivion. While we’d like to think celeb bible Vanity Fair puts a great deal of thought and planning into its annual “New Hollywood” issue, this year the editors really limited their scope when it came to choosing the next big stars. (Or perhaps they overemphasized the “Fair”? ) Every woman on its new cover is extremely thin and very, very white. Unless Vanity Fair considers one redhead to be diversity, we feel the need to cry foul.

-shine.yahoo.com

Though it’s true, Young Hollywood is predominantly Caucasian, we can think of a slew of non-white, non-rail thin actors who made a splash this year (Gabourey Sidibe from “Precious” anyone?). In the accompanying article, Vanity Fair writer Evgenia Peretz calls out the young cover stars by their best attributes: “downy-soft cheeks,” “button nose,” “patrician looks and celebrated pedigree,” “dewy, wide-eyed loveliness,” “Ivory-soap-girl features.” Roles for black, Asian, and Latin actors are scarce in Hollywood, but surely Sidibe,  Zoe Saldana of “Avatar” and “Star Trek,” and Freida Pinto of “Slumdog Millionaire” are having their moment. Vanity Fair may have been looking for the most promising batch of talent for their issue, but they should have been looking for a diverse group of women as well.

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by nate on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 | Automotive, Business, Design, News, Tech/Gadget, World | No Comments

Dreaming of having a great car that would cost appr. only $8,000? Read below:

“Tata Technologies Ltd., the global engineering arm of the Tata group conglomerate, brought the tiny car to Detroit as a publicity stunt for the engineering group. Tata officials, while maintaining that they couldn’t speak for Tata Motors, maker of the $2,500 Nano, said they were involved with the Nano from concept until it launched last July in Mumbai.

They wouldn’t say when the Nano might arrive in the U.S. or how much it might cost here, although Ratan Tata, chairman of the group of Tata companies, has said it should be ready for U.S. distribution in about three years. Tata Motors already has made a European version of the four-seat car that will cost about $8,000 when it debuts in 2011, and a Tata Technologies official said privately that the U.S. version is expected to have a comparable price. The official did not want to be identified because the price has not been made public.”

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by nate on Friday, January 15th, 2010 | Design, Entertainment, News | No Comments

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by nate on Friday, January 1st, 2010 | Design, News, Science, Tech/Gadget | No Comments

If you recently tweeted about how you were chillaxin for the holiday, take note: Fifteen particularly over- or mis-used words and phrases have been declared “shovel-ready” to be “unfriended” by a U.S. university’s annual list of terms that deserve to be banned.

After thousands of nominations of words and phrases commonly used in marketing, media, technology and elsewhere, wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University on Thursday issued their 35th annual list of words that they believe should be banned.

Ripe for exile is “sexting,” shorthand for sexy text messaging, a habit that has caused trouble this year for public figures from politicians to star athletes.

Similarly, list makers showed distaste for tweeting, retweeting and tweetaholics, lingo made popular by users of the popular Twitter networking website. And don’t even get them started on the use of friend as a verb, as in: “He made me mad so I unfriended him on Facebook,” an Internet social site.

One list contributor wanted to know if there was an “app,” short-hand for “application” popularized by the mobile iPhone’s growing array of software tools, for making that annoying word go away.

Male acquaintances need to find another word than “bromance” for their friendships, and the combination of “chillin” and “relaxin’” into “chillaxin” was an easy pick for banishment.

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by nate on Friday, December 4th, 2009 | Business, Design, News | No Comments

Sun-Maid recently decided to join Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth’s in giving the female face of their product a substantial makeover from a young, early 20th-century girl into a buxom, modern young woman, leading some to say that the newly made-over raisin girl looks like a Barbie Doll in Amish attire.

Since 1915, the face of Sun-Maid has been Lorraine Collett Petersen, who, according to the company’s website , “was discovered drying her black hair curls in the sunny backyard of her parents’ home in Fresno, California.” Petersen was then asked to pose for a watercolor painting holding a basket of grapes while wearing a sunbonnet. In the years since, the company has tweaked its trademark design occasionally to keep up with the times, but every variation has always been based on the original pose by Petersen. The new computer-animated version of the Sun-Maid girl currently featured in television advertisements is a departure from the classic design that harkened back to a time when “life was much simpler, more rural, a lot less hectic.”
Naturally, the revamped look hasn’t gone unnoticed, rankling both ends of the political spectrum. The blog for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard noted that the new Sun-Maid girl looks “as if Julia Roberts decided to don a red bonnet and start picking grapes,” while the feminist website Jezebel.com remarked that it looks as if she’s had “some implants.”

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by bintangkecil on Friday, November 13th, 2009 | Design, Entertainment, News | No Comments

Jason Wu is a Manhattan-based American fashion designer who designed Michelle Obama’s famous gown on inauguration night.

Michelle Obama was introduced to Wu by André Leon Talley, Vogue Magazine’s editor-at-large, who had been advising the future First Family on their appearance. She bought four dresses from Wu early in the year, wearing one of them for a segment on Barbara Walters Special shortly before the November 2008 election, prompting many in the media to consider her his “career-launcher”.

She wore another, a custom-designed one-shoulder, floor-length white chiffon gown, at the inaugural balls on the night of President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Appearing on the cover of Vogue, Obama once again wore a Wu design, a magenta silk dress. Upon her arrival in London during the First Lady and President Barack Obama’s first official European trip, Obama wore a chartreuse silk sheath dress designed by Wu; the next day she wore a Wu coat during her visit with the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. On April 2, Obama paired a “traditional looking” teal Wu dress with a blue-patterned cardigan designed by Junya Watanabe to her visit to the Royal Opera House.

In an interview with the Washington Times, the designer reveals that he’s never met the first lady.

“I’d definitely love to in the near future, but now I’m really, really busy working on my pre-fall collection and moving to my new studio space,” Wu said.

Below are pictures of Michelle Obama wearing Jason Wu’s designs:

“It’s really exciting to see the first lady promote her fashion in such a good way. I’m always excited to see what she wears, whether it’s by me or not.”

This video below was an interview with Jason Wu back in Jan 2009:

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by nate on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | Attraction, Design, News, Places to Visit, World | No Comments

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