Heidi Klum appears as one of People Magazine’s Most Beautiful issue, which is no surprise. But this image is. As per the Drop-Dead-Gorgeous-women-trend du jour, Klum decided to appear in the issue, completely free of make-up. Or fancy lighting or retouching. And the result is surprisingly ….plain? Which makes it a really lovely image. It’s [...]
April 2010
Um. They can take their clothes off. Here is the lovely Gillian King, shot by ex-South African photographer, Kevin Mcintosh. Perhaps at Atlantis. For WWD Magazine. The editorial is, apparently a beauty story, but, as COSMO Features Editor, Cathy Lund points out, what treatment, innovation, product or beauty advice, exactly, is she illustrating? I’m thinking [...]
It is excellent when South Africa is responsible (even in a small way) for producing world-beating anything. District 9 was one such thing.. The less said about that horrible kitsch, amateurish Wereld Beker anthem …the better. So. On to some good news. Our very own, (only slightly Canadian) Neill Blomkamp made Time’s 100 most influential [...]
Reports in from that extremely authoritative source, the supermarket tabloid, US Weekly, that Brad Pitt threw his toys out his …er, crib, when he saw that Jennifer Aniston had scored a prestigious Architectural Digest cover, for her newly renovated LA home. Apparently, in their divorce settlement, custody of Architectural Digest covers went to him. How [...]
As regular readers of this blog will know, I am not a fan. Neither of the original TV series or the film, which seemed, to me, like the longest 2 and-a-half-hour shoe commercial, I had ever endured. Line me up against a wall and shoot me, SATC fans, but I can’t love a confection, where [...]
The last week has brought nothing out-pf-the-ordinary in the chaotic, sad life of Lindsay Lohan: Allegedly spat at by her ex-girlfriend, Samantha Ronson, she retaliated by throwing water in her face. Her father, the un-lovely and un-loved Michael Lohan, “visited” her at home, which resulted in police arriving and was quickly followed by her firing [...]
Or…childhood, what’s that? This adorable $2 600 “toy,” The Little Tykes Young Explorer, (a mini-computer and “workstation” with a cubicle design,) will train your baby wage-slave to be a white-collar drone. It’s just what children need, isn’t it? Marketed at pre-schools, it aims to discourage the “little tykes” from running around, climbing, getting out in [...]
…doesn’t stand a chance. The Tribe are NOT known for our contribution to the fine cuisine of this planet. At the risk of being run over by a massive 4×4, while the other Mommies cheer, the next time I venture to the school gates; the food we bring to the party is…oh well, shemzich.* Unless [...]
Dodai, on Jezebel writes this week that everyone we think is pretty, has had plastic surgery. I think she has her tongue firmly in her un-filled cheek, as the Jezzers usually do I hope so. Another week, another outbreak of plastic surgery stories. And none of them pretty. Some of my opinions are a disgrace [...]
Frances Bean’s badly-behaved mother looks surprisingly lovely in this spread for Spanish fashion mag, Vanidad. Shows what the wicked fairies of fashion can do when they set their minds to it. Soft focus, miracles, fairy dust and prettiness. Via Fashion Gone Rogue Tweet
