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Maya Gubenko – Maxim (Russia) August 2011
Jennifer Aniston for Horrible Bosses, Captain America Premiere and Miu Miu Screens Short Film
Curvy Rosario Dawson donning White Bikini for Shape August 2011 Issue
Alessandra Ambrosio Sexy for Victorias Secret Lingerie Photoshoot
Celeb Style Transformation: Gisele Bundchen
Irina Shayk – Leggy at Friends With Benefits premiere NYC July 18, 2011
Is Haute Couture the New Diversity in Fashion?
Huge Hole
Style Stars of the Week: Mila Kunis, Ashley Tisdale & Tori Spelling

Maya Gubenko – Maxim (Russia) August 2011

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:04 AM PDT

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Jennifer Aniston for Horrible Bosses, Captain America Premiere and Miu Miu Screens Short Film

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:03 AM PDT

By Chloe Schneider

It’s all about film in today’s celebrity spotlight with huge premieres taking the spotlight and attracting the stars.
We’re going from geek to chic with another huge comic book film release with the Hollywood premiere of Captain America: The First Avenger and the Beverley Hills screening of short film Muta hosted by Miu Miu both taking place yesterday.
Jennifer Aniston has been making the promotional rounds for her newest film Horrible Bosses that has been receiving stellar reviews.

Horrible Bosses Press Rounds
After looking hot in a black leather mini dress for a London photo call for her new film Horrible Bosses, Jennifer Aniston headed to the UK premiere of the film in a gorgeous stone coloured Valentino couture dress and white satin Tom Ford heels.
Co-stars Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Kevin Spacey and Charlie Day all joined the 42-year-old star who is seriously having a good year with a new love, stellar reviews for this film and her induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The film is being released in Australia on 25th of August 2011 and stars Jason Bateman and Charlie Day will be heading to Sydney for the premieres in both Melbourne (August 14) and Sydney (August 16).

Captain America Premiere
Hollywood’s El Captain Theatre was very appropriately the venue for the long-awaited premiere of Captain America: The First Avenger where main man Chris Evans joined co-stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Samuel L Jackson on the American flag themed red carpet to promote this latest Marvel comic to make the big screen.
Robert Downey Jr told ABC Local of his admiration for Evans, saying, “I think of all the Marvel characters, the one that had the biggest likelihood of kind of maybe being embarrassing if it wasn’t executed correctly is Captain America, I can’t wait to see it because people that I know in the inside track said it really did turn out well, they worked really hard and Chris delivered.”
Also in attendance were stars such as Zoe Saldana who looked stunning in laid-back Balmain, Vanessa Hudgens with a new grown-up hair do, Jesse Metcalfe looking super buff and many more.

Miu Miu Hosts Stylish Screening
We’re still on a Miu Miu high since the Sydney store opened its doors and we’re loving the news of the super stylish and star-studded Miu Miu event that took place in Beverley Hills on Tuesday.
The event was in celebration of filmmaker Lucrecia Martel’s latest short film titled ’Muta’. Held at a private Beverley Hills estate, guests such as Diane Kruger, Camilla Belle, Emma Roberts, David LaChapelle, Marilyn Manson and many more enjoyed the screening and a few gorgeous cocktails.
It was the youngsters at this event who really made the style moves with Hailee Steinfeld, the current face of the fashion house, in a week head-to-toe Miu Miu look, Emma Roberts in a stunning gold dress from the brand and a Prada clutch and heels and Ashley Tisdale in a simple but stunning white ASOS dress and Miu Miu heels.

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Curvy Rosario Dawson donning White Bikini for Shape August 2011 Issue

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:02 AM PDT

Curvy Rosario Dawson donning White Bikini for Shape August 2011 Issue

Posing in white bikini on the cover of Shape 2011 issue, curvy Rosario Dawson reveals the secrets behind her hot bikini body. Celebrated Sin City star admits she allows herself to eat everything she really enjoys. Find out how she manages to keep in so enviably hot shape then. All the highlights of Rosario Dawson's interview with Shape mag August 2011 issue.

Rosario is sure that one should eat whatever he/she wants:

The stress you put yourself through for having a treat is probably a thousand times worse for you than the sugar you just had…Whether it craves fresh vegetables or foie gras nothing makes me feel better than having something I really enjoy.

But therewith 32-year-old Sin City star admits that it wasn't always like this,

My mom was practicing vegan and raw diets years ago, so I understood healthy eating at a young age. We even belonged to the local co-op. I mean we had Spam too because we were poor and had to take whatever we could get but we stopped eating white bread when I was six.

Besides, Rosario Dawson mentions of her addiction to Pilates:

Leslie Bibb, my co-star in Zookeeper, got me into it. After just a couple of weeks, I noticed a physical change, especially in my posture. Now I stand different, I sit differently. I don't love working out, but I can honestly say I miss Pilates and how it makes my body feel. And there's nothing like it when those endorphins kick in.

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Alessandra Ambrosio Sexy for Victorias Secret Lingerie Photoshoot

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:05 PM PDT

Alessandra Ambrosio Sexy for Victorias Secret Lingerie Photoshoot

The hot Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio looks absolutely gorgeous in Victoria’s Secret lingerie but mind you, Alessandra isn’t just another pretty face, she’s a caring and compassionate person, aside from her day and night job as a sizzling super model, Alessandra Ambrosio is also an ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. This hot mommy does it all, she takes care of her baby girl, organizes charity events and looks jaw-dropping hot in lingerie, what more could a guy want? Here she is in some really hot lingerie photos and video from where else but Victoria’s Secret. Enjoy!

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Celeb Style Transformation: Gisele Bundchen

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:05 PM PDT

As Gisele Bundchen gets ready to celebrate her 31st birthday, we look back at her greatest fashion moments–from jeans and tanks to couture gowns!

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Irina Shayk – Leggy at Friends With Benefits premiere NYC July 18, 2011

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:05 PM PDT

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Is Haute Couture the New Diversity in Fashion?

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:04 PM PDT

Haute couture goes to new extremes in order to create waves globally.

As a woman who tends to wear her favorite 'uniforms' to social gatherings and art/fashion events, the realm of haute couture has never really been something that I have felt particularly connected to. Sure the artistry and pageantry is alluring and the bevy of VIPs flanking the runway is seductive, but I have always considered haute couture to be an artificial phenomenon that creates a rigid caste system within fashion rather than a stage for democratic beauty – until now. After the most recent summer fashion shows in Europe, I ask myself whether an artier side of couture might be creating a watershed moment in the future of a more aesthetically and culturally diverse fashion?

Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture 2011/2012 (photo: Le Segretain/Getty Images)

While Americans were celebrating Independence Day during the first week of July, editors, buyers, and celebrities had assembled for the Paris Haute Couture Week presentations, and despite the exclusivity of it all, the energy during these shows had a ripple effect throughout Europe and beyond. I read something on Twitter during this time that claimed, "Approximately five hundred fashionable women in the world are able to afford and become regular customers of haute couture." This estimate seemed obscene and surely did not fit with my ethos of making objects of beauty accessible to all. Who are these elite couture supporters, I asked myself, and do they really have anything to do with the rest of us?

Iris Van Herpen Haute Couture 2011/2012 (photo: Victor Boyko/Getty Images)

In reviewing the Paris collections and the exquisite handwork that went into their crafting, I had a new appreciation for the designers who aim to take their clients on ecstatic flights of fancy that honor the traditions of bespoke craftsmanship and the laborious finessing of designs. Granted the price tags for these garments must be astronomical and grossly inflated in this era of economic belt tightening, but as expressions of cultural pride and imaginative ingenuity, contemporary haute couture definitely celebrates fashion as high art as well as sustaining the historic timeline of the atelier model.

Like ethical fashion, there are quality standards that haute couture designers must adopt and abide by in order to receive the prestige of calling oneself a couture house for advertising, marketing, and participation in fashion weeks on the annual calendar. Members of the Fédération française de la couture must follow strict rules and practices, for example:

Create made-to-order couture for private clients, with one or more fittings.
Operate a workshop ("atelier") in Paris that employees fifteen people full-time.
Present a collection two times a year to the press, comprising a minimum of thirty-five runs/exits with day and evening wear represented.

As fast fashion continues to erode the very soul of creative designs and our dreams about fashioning self, it seems as if indie and haute couture designers have more in common than I might previously have surmised. To be sure, their clients and company economics are typically at opposite ends of the spectrum, but the risk-taking and the hands on methods demonstrated in their production cycles allies more than divides them, at least in the spirit of the craft. I will not go so far as to say that haute couture follows a slow fashion agenda, but the idea that fashion of this sort might be a source of national pride rather than a copyright embarrassment or garment factory nightmare, is something to view as a thing of promise.

Haute couture with culturally diverse roots at Georgian Fashion Week

Perhaps there is a philanthropic nature to the women who collect and invest in couture creations in the same spirit that blue-chip art is handpicked from galleries or costly film projects are backed by individuals who believe in a story that must be told and shared. Despite the pomp and circumstance that goes on during fashion week, the integrity of the atelier as an institution that supports endangered handwork and artisan techniques is a model that is micro in nature and historically human in scale. There are, no doubt, horror stories related to the excessive use of materials in the creation of haute couture collections, not to mention the unbridled use of "luxury" fabrics and fur and the exploitation of skilled workers. But as organizations like the EcoChic Fashions in Hong Kong as well as green showcases at fashion weeks in London, Milan, Paris, and New York continue to push our definitions of eco-luxurious couture into uncharted territory, creative diversity continues to take center stage. In many instances, we really cannot overlook the fact that cultural preservation, and in turn, timeless fashion methodologies are sustained by the very presence and persistence of the haute couture shows.

EcoChic Geneva runway finale at the United Nations Headquarters (photo: Abigail Doan)

I am reminded of the diversity represented at the EcoChic Geneva runway presentation at the United Nations Headquarters in Europe during January 2010, where the cross section of cultures, textiles, and innovative approaches to redefining couture and beauty was extraordinary. If we can work to preserve fading architectural monuments, tracts of pristine park land, and indigenous folk traditions globally, then we can also labor to sustain the diversity of garments and the role of haute thinking as an agent of change. It's the business of fashion that we should be weary of, not the persistence of the imagination or the seemingly foreign nature of biodiverse materials.

image: Iris Van Herpen Haute Couture via The Guardian

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Huge Hole

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 02:00 PM PDT

The architect and the landscape of Berlin Topotek1 thought the “Big Dig” wanting to be a huge hole leading to another part of the world. All at the Xi’an International Horticultural Exposition 2011. More visuals of this crazy project later in the article.