Beauty Updates!

For Mara Hoffman's 2011 swimwear fashion show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Miami she showed off makeup inspired by Amazonian warriors.  Make Up Forever Alliance served as the key makeup artists for the show and they used a lip brush to paint on small white dots starting from the outer corner of the eye to the the top of the cheekbones following the natural shape of the eye and over the bridge of the nose.  The hair was done by TRESemme and featured a very messy fishtail braid. 

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Makeup face chart

Besides the makeup, the swimsuits were a psychedelic kaleidoscope of colors!

NARS Fall 2010 Collection features Daphne Guinness as their muse (and replaces Marcel, the French spokes dog, aaw!) and says their line is "Old Hollywood meets futuristic".  It is filled with bold colors like vibrant blues, regal purples, shimmery yellow, deep browns, and bright reds.  Available here and now!

Ad featuring Daphne Guinness

Makeup company Fresh has launched a trio of fragrances 'Eat, Pray, Love' inspired by the best-selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert and soon to be released motion picture 

Eat: inspired by Gilbert's travels through Italy and smells like a mixture of lemon, basil, plum, caramel, meringue, and vanilla

Pray: inspired by Gilbert's travels through India and smells like mango and sandalwood with other undertones of exotic spices

Love: inspired by Gilbert's travels through Bali and smells like fruity and floral 

The Alice and Olivia and MAC collaboration is finally available here!

Updates

Vena Cava designers Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai are partnering up with Bloomingdales in-house line Aqua for a capsule collection.  Designs will debut in fall and will less than Vena Cava's mini line Viva Vena (clothes are all less than $200).

Nicky Hilton will be coming out with a 3-collection line of costume jewelry this fall after teaming up with Titan Brands.  Pieces will sell for wholesale from $35-$480.  The jewelry will be on http://www.endless.com/ exclusively.  Hilton says her inspirations for the line are her mother, grandmother, and all the different and inspiring places she has traveled.

Upcoming season Gossip Girl Style

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester arrived on set the other day wearing these too cute outfits!

Cute pup!  And amazing brown bag...

High gladiators, plaid shirt, short shorts, black blazer, and a pop of color with her red bag to complete the look

But what's more important is what is being worn on set!!

Blake in a Diane Von Furstenberg multicolored batwing silk dress and tan Pierre Hardy heels while Leighton wore a leopard print Gucci dress, black Courtney Crawford pumps, and the Alexa bag by Mulberry.

Leighton in a blue floral printed Erdem dress and a Nancy Gonzalez bag

Leighton in a Moschino dress with cherries on top and watermelons on the bottom and Louboutins and Blake wore a Georges Chakra dress, fedora, and tan oxford flats.

Blake Lively in a black and white printed Jenny Packham flowy dress with bright turquoise beading

Leighton Meester in an Oscar de la Renta dress, orange Nancy Gonzalez bag, and Louboutin shoes

Leighton in a purple and black beaded Gucci dress and black Louboutins

Blake in a black short and vest top, LAI pink crocodile belt, colorfully sequined Haute Hippie 'Bowie' jacket, Pierre Hardy heels, and silver quilted Chanel clutch

Leighton in a red ruffled Oscar de la Renta gown, Roger Vivier clutch, Ernesta Bow Louboutin sandals, and Harry Winston necklace

Blake in a gold Emilio Pucci blazer, white Joie tank, bright blue cropped Tibi silk pants, and Brian Atwood coral studded heels

Leighton in a lime green eyelet trimmed matchin short and jacket piece by Oscar de la Renta

Jessica Szhor in a printed Nanette Lepore dress, True Religion denim vest, Stuart Weitzman studded clogs, and Aurelie Bidermann necklace (unknown fringed bag)

Kelly Rutherford in a purple Reem Acra pre-fall 2010 gown, CC Skye bracelet, chunky gold Aurelie Bidermann necklace, ASAH earrings, and Kotur clutch.

Who can forget Blairs "minions"?  All wearing Betsey Johnson

Updating from my phone....having trouble getting internet connection.  Sorry fashionistas!!

Saturday Splurge and Who Wore What Best!

Sorry everyone, been on vacation for the past week and did not have time to blog!

Splurge!

Elizabeth and James shredded loose sweater for $295

Who Wore What Best


World of Calvin Event in Berlin

AnnaLynne McCord in a tight fitted blue dress, strappy heels, and a nude clutch

Zoe Saldana, the new face of Calvin Klein, attended the event in a mint green one-shouldered, cutout mini dress with pointy white pumps

A photo from the new Calvin Klein ads featuring Zoe Saldana

Diane Kruger in a sleeveless white shift with funky white heels, plain silver clutch, and red lips.  Looks amazing, as always

Kristin Cavallari at the Hills finale red carpet event in a Zuhair Murad asymmetrical nude silk chiffon and lace bandage minidress covered in jewels.

More Haute Couture

Elie Saab, a fan of La Fenice (which means the Phoenix), a legendary opera house in Venice was inspired by the name and the story of the phoenix burning to the ground and rising from the flames three times.  What came out of that inspiration were fiery red gowns, ruched velvet like the curtains at La Fenice, red silk tulle and chiffon, gold and intricate crystal beading, red ostrich feathers; everything was opulent.  Saab said, "If a woman doesn't want 'rich', she doesn't come to couture".

Flame printed chiffon gown

Gold and intricately beaded

Gorgeously ruffled

Red velvet and beading

Jean Paul Gaultier is known for his daring and dramatic taste in fashion.  But this show surely made top 10 most dramatic with a striptease from Dita Von Teese at the end of the show!  His show was an obvious tribute to glamour, especially so from the 1920's, while his models held cigarettes in cigarette holders, wore turbans (my favorite!), red lips, mink furs, lots of black and leather, and an almost dominatrix feel to the whole thing.  

All bundled up with straight black pants, fishnets, patent leather pumps, a very large cocktail ring, cigarette holder and big turban

Glamorous in a trench coat with matching red tights, heels, turban, and of course, lips

This is my favorite with beading on the sheer material and a tight ruched skirt

Feathers, jewels, and all around glamour galore with the brown elbow length leather gloves, flashy jacket with a high collar, fishnets, ankle strap heels and a shaped turban

The tallest turban yet paired with a more understated outfit than the rest with a bit of bright white fur

Dita Von Teese throwing her dress wayside!

The runway for designers, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Picciolo Valentino's show was nestled away amongst the trees of the Grand Palais where the models strutted out of a transparent blown-up plastic frog with fangs.  The apparent theme was the vast blue ocean showcased with blowup fish handbags, scaly dresses, delicate skin and sometimes bare feet, and vibrant colors.  However, it seemed that the Valentino house was targeting a much younger age group than ever before with mini very mini hemlines and especially with young celebrities like Jessica Alba, Claire Danes, Olivia Palermo, and Natalia Vodianova in the front row.

Lots of detailing in this bright white skirt and jacket.

Very childlike slash schoolgirl but pulled together in a way I would wear it.  With the sheer overlay lace near stomach and a mini ruffled bubbled skirt the outfit is quite darling.

A mermaid's dream gown with netting on the bustier and shells and beads atop the sheer fabric. The mint green is beautiful and all flows evenly down until the ruffled train.

Not just a mermaid, but a mermaid princess' dream with slashes of silver resembling seaweed all over the sheer pink fabric.  The pink bow gloves perfect the look.

A classic red Valentino dress with a mermaid train.  Plain and absolutely classic.

Who Wore What Best This Week?

Who Wore What Best

Olivia Palermo looked amazing in this printed magenta dress with a leopard belt and silver clutch at the Elie Saab Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2010 Show

Jessica Alba in Paris during Haute Couture week

Jessica Alba in a flirty Christian Dior dress and white pumps and the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2010 show

Natalia Vodianova, Claire Danes, and Jessica Alba all wore Valentino to the Valentino Haute Couture Show 

Jessica Alba in a red ruffled red Valentino gown, feather beige clutch, and a butterfly diamond bracelet at the Valentino Garavani Archives dinner party in Versailles

Jessica Alba looked darling in a mini white Chanel dress with red belt and lacy Christian Louboutin booties

Blake Lively and Anna Wintour looked tan and girly at the Valentino Archives Dinner

Kate Moss in a Stella McCartney one-shouldered black dress at Mario Testino's "Kate Who?" Exhibition in London