Jennifer Lopez donned a black, strapless mini-dress from Marc Jacobs’ Spring/Summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection for Louis Vuitton to attend a book party for her makeup artist, Scott Barnes, in New York on Wednesday night.
She wore the dress with a pair of Satin d’Orsay Années Folles heels from the Christian Louboutin Spring 2010 collection, and finished her look with a small, black clutch.
Below, see how it was styled for the runway.
Music for Relief has put together an impressive lineup of artists for “Haiti, Download to Donate”.
“Haiti, Download to Donate” is a mixtape of original songs to support the Haiti relief effort.
Artists include: Linkin Park, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, Slash, The All-American Rejects, Hoobastank, Kenna, Enrique Iglesias and Lupe Fiasco.
Download the album, and donate whatever you can no matter how large or small to help. Click here to get started and to learn more: Download to Donate.
Music for Relief is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to victims of natural disasters and prevent such disasters. Since its beginning in 2005, Music for Relief has raised over $3 million for victims of multiple disasters across four continents and planted over 810,000 trees to help reduce global warming. Music for Relief was found by the band Linkin Park.
Source: Look to the Stars – Download Music To Bring Relief To Haiti
There is no love being shown to Maria Sharapova’s green negliglee-inspired tennis dress (pictured below) at this year’s Australian Open. It looks like “she ran into a peacock,” one commenter wrote on the Busted Racquet blog. “That hideous dress was a portent of things to come,” another commenter wrote, alluding to Sharapova getting bounced out of the tournament in the first round with a stunning loss to Maria Kirilenko.
Worst of all? The strange-looking green tennis dress, which featured a flimsy, mesh-like slip thing (for lack of a better word) layered over her tennis dress was designed by Sharapova, who sketched the dress herself, just like a real fashion designer. (Watch Sharapova describe how she designed the dress in this video.)
What do you think — love it? Hate it? Whatever your thoughts, brace yourself for many more of Sharapova’s tennis dress creations to debut this year: Nike is launching its “Maria Sharapova Tennis Collection,” touting Sharapova’s status as a “fashionista” and “champion.” You can buy this one for $110.
After last year’s recession-reserved red carpet styles, the 2010 awards season is showing us a crop of much more daring choices.
The colors covered the range and included whites, neutrals, bold brights and blacks coupled with romantic details like beading, dramatic drapes, pretty ruffles and delicate flounces.
Everyone was a lot more comfortable taking a risk. Most of those risks paid off.
Here are OpenFashion.com’s top 10 best dressed and a couple of honorable mentions.
The Top 10
Drew Barrymore’s champagne Atelier Versace gown:
image from the WSJ.com - (l-r) Donna Karan; Norma Kamali; Ralph Lauren; Getty Images; Donna Karan; Getty Images; Elie Tahari; Tommy Hilfiger
One benefit of having a fashion blogger who is also a tech geek and tech blogger is more topics! I just wrote a post over at The Next Web titled: 20 Fashion Apps for the iPhone. Of course, you can check it out there (in fact, please check it out there too.)
Here I get to sort through that list with more of a fine-toothed comb. For you lovelies, I’ve ranked them by iTunes ranking and have thrown in five more I think look good.
Here you go!
When it comes to gifts, isn’t it better to receive than to give? (C’mon, tell the truth.) Especially when the gift is so outlandish and frivolous that you just can’t justify buying it for yourself. Take, for example, the first item on our list of 5 Quirky Fashion Finds You Should Get Someone to Buy for You:
1. Comme des Garcons Barbie. They didn’t make Barbies like this when we were little. Designed by Rei Kawakubo, this limited edition Barbie debuted this Christmas wearing a graphic floral-patterned dress with large, bright “Jingle Flowers.” ($360)
2. Goyard Canvas Laptop Briefcase Bag. It’s no fun carting your laptop around in a basic black, neoprene sleeve, is it? The Goyard laptop bag, with its signature chevron design and bright green color, screams technology and fashion. Best yet? You can find one for a mere $909. That’s a steep discount from the original price of $1,800.
Reversible Infinity Scarf
I have to admit between it just being incredibly cold for the last few days in Manhattan and seeing a great post about infinity scarves on Coutorture, I need to have my say on these great winter accessories.
I’ve seen these around. I just love them. The best real-world wearing of one was when I saw Travis McCoy at a party a few weeks ago.
This season I’m running around with two puffer coats with the best hoods on earth, so I’ve not bought an infinity scarf for myself. However, I’m getting weak. When I’m weak, that means I start browsing around online to see what’s out there, so let me share my online browsing with you. Read the rest of this entry »
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) named Ellen DeGeneres and Tim Gunn Woman and Man of the Year for 2009. They were chosen because of their exemplary examples in promoting causes that PETA supports.
In 2008 Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, decided to go vegan. In the pursuit of this choice, Ellen has also been active in educating the public on veganism:
…ever since she and her wife, Portia De Rossi, decided to ditch all animal products in 2008, Ellen has made sure that her wildly popular talk show includes features to raise people’s awareness of animal issues.
In addition to educating the public via her show, PETA also notes that, “Ellen also created pages on her Web site that feature insight, info, and tips about cruelty-free living. Visitors can find recipes, read about why Ellen went vegan, learn where to shop, and more.”
The man of the year is Project Runway’s Tim Gunn. As mentioned, Tim narrated the PETA video named “Fashion Victims” in 2009.
The connoisseur of class, the guru of good taste, the titan of tact (I could go on all afternoon with these) narrated our video exposing skin-crawling atrocities suffered by animals who are slaughtered for their pelts, and the media have been buzzing ever since. Tim recently told the L.A. Times, “Wearing fur is like wearing a big sign reading, ‘I’m in favor of inflicting cruelty and pain on animals as a fashion statement.’ Unspeakable torture is inflicted on dogs, cats, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, minks, and myriad trapped, helpless creatures in the name of fashion—yes, dogs and cats.”
In addition to that Tim Gunn is the chief creative officer for Liz Claiborne and there is “zero fur” in that line. In addition, they credit the absence of challenges involving fur from Project Runway to Tim’s influence.
Maybe this will influence more notable names in fashion to openly reject fur.
What do you think? Will Gunn’s influence more fashionable people to reject fur?
Source: PETA.org’s Blog – The PETA Files – PETA Names Man and Woman of the Year
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