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Twilight Boosts Pale Make-Up Sales
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Health & Beauty, News, Sales,
Twi-hards are having an effect on the beauty industry now, having set a new trend for pale make-up.
Sales of pale foundation have reportedly shot through the roof since the release of the latest film The Twilight Saga: New Moon and some cosmetic companies claim they’ve seen a 200 per cent rise in customers buying pale make-up. According to the online beauty shop FeelUnique.com, their current best-selling product is a pale pink illuminating powder by Bare Escentuals called Mineral Veil. L’Oreal have also seen their True Match powder in Rose Ivory increase in sales by 133 per cent.
Pale skin - which is now deemed a must-have look - has been seen on the face of celebrities in recent months. Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts recently launched a make-up range for paler skin. She said she’d created her range because she knew how difficult it could be to find the right sort of look with the products already out there.
“For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud. I was tall, skinny, with red hair and the whitest skin you’ve ever seen - standing next to four of the most gorgeous girls in Britain. Hopefully I can help a lot of girls out there to look their best.”
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Quote of the Day: Tom Ford on Acting
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Celebrities, Fashion Designers, News, Rumors,
“You know, I used to act when I was younger, but I quit. I did it from about 17 to 24. I was too self-conscious. I didn’t like it. I wasn’t in control.”
- Fashion designer and budding film director Tom Ford on why we’ll never see him on the opposite end of the camera (not surprising, either).
(Make sure to check out other notable quotes.)
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Famed Mia Farrow Haircut Was a Mistake
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celebrities, Hairstyles, Rumors, Women,
Vidal Sassoon says Mia Farrow’s famous cropped haircut was done by mistake.
The world-famous hairdresser was flown to Los Angeles by filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was directing the actress in 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby, and asked to give her a new look.
Mia, however, had had an argument with someone close to her and had taken the scissors to her hair, leaving Vidal with a difficult task.
He revealed, “I said, Mia, you’ve really ballsed it up. I’m going to have to go very short.” The pixie-like crop became one of the most sought-after looks in the world and millions of women copied Mia’s style.
Vidal also revealed that he was “impossible” to work with when he was younger because he was so obsessed with hair: “I was impossible. It was all hair, hair, hair. Ricci Burns (60s hairstylist and now a fashion designer) said that I was quite mad and impossible to work with.”
The Extraordinary Lily Cole
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Health & Beauty, Models, News,
Lily Cole can thank her “porcelain doll” face for landing a role in a feature film.
The British model, who is known for her pale complexion and auburn curly hair, can thank her “extraordinary” looks for helping her land the part in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
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Christian Louboutin Goes Psycho
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Fashion Designers, Sales, Women, Footwear,
In honor of his new boutique on Robertson Boulevard, famed shoe designer Christian Louboutin wrote and directed a short film starring Elisa Sednaoui and Miss Robertson.
The film, titled Psycho-Logic, begins very much like a fashionable homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho; however, the latter part of the film brings to life an envisioning of what it would be like to experience in shoe heaven (I want to go!).
Read More | Fashion Week Daily
Designers, Celebs Flock to Coco Avant Chanel
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Celebrities, Fashion Designers, Fashion Shows, Women,
Despite the fact that Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a show lined up for New York Fashion Week, celebrities and designers alike got their Chanel fix with the New York premiere of the biopic Coco Avant Chanel.
The film’s stars, Audrey Tautou and Alessandro Nivola, joined director Anne Fontaine for a night away from the fashion week craze. Rachel Bilson, Ciara, Estelle, Adriana Lima, Jason Wu, and Candace Bergen were among the other guests in attendance.
Tautou felt a strong connection and conviction with her subject, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel: “I really don’t see any other designer who has had such a destiny as Chanel. A movie [about a different designer] shouldn’t be made.”
The film makes its way across the US in limited theaters next Friday, September 25.
Read More | WWD
Rodarte Sisters Have Eyes for Film
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Fashion Designers, News, Women,
Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the brains and heart behind Rodarte, have an eye for more than fashion.
Horror film fans themselves (think Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, and Hellraiser), the sisters have ventured into the media world, signing with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
In a statement released by the Beverly Hills-based agency, they plan to “advise the label on opportunities in publishing and film and identify potential strategic partnerships and sponsorships.”
In light of fashion-meets-film’s success with the Vogue-centric The September Issue, I have no doubt that the Rodarte sisters will outperform our expectations in whatever endeavors they pursue in publishing and film—I just can’t wait!
Rodarte’s PR agency since 2005, Black Frame, is expected to continue with the brand’s global marketing.
Read More | WWD
The September Issue Makes History
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Celebrities, News, Women,
Well, it seems as if Anna Wintour’s Letterman stint paid off.
Opening in six New York City screens this past weekend, The September Issue raked in $240,078. With $40,013 per screen, R.J. Cutler’s Vogue documentary nabbed the second-best per-theater average of any 2009 film and the fifth-best documentary opening in history (right behind Paul Provenza’s The Aristocrats).
With Wintour going so far as waiting in a common line to catch the film, let’s hope that it scores more when it opens in limited screens across the US on September 11.
Read More | The Cut
Polaroid Instant Film lives again for one last time with Urban Outfitters
Posted by Mark Rollins Categories: Cameras, Hot Deals,
For those of you who are still lamenting over the death of Polaroid film more than a year ago, you can rest assured that you can still purchase the last of it, along with a Polaroid ONE600 camera, at Urban Outfitters. There are only 700 pieces of these limited-edition sets available, so if you want one, you might wanna go take care of that.
Read More | Dazed Digital
Kodachrome, R.I.P.
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Cameras, Corporate News,
Because of poor sales, Eastman Kodak has decided to take our Kodachrome away. No more greens of summer when the stock that is left sells out, probably this fall. The film first came out in 1935 and was a huge hit, but now accounts for less than 1% of the company’s market. Most camera owners opt for digital and newer film technology and although the company claims to be nostalgic, it still comes down to profit.
Read More | Physorg
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