Posts with tag Australia

Nicole Kidman doesn't have to try too hard to look stunning on the red carpet. She's tall, thin, and poised, and that takes care of quite a bit of it. However, when she takes a bit of a chance, as she did here for the Paris premiere of her newest film, "Australia," she makes a major impact.

Always the risk taker yet ever so elegant, Nicole Kidman dazzled in this Dries Van Noten number at the premier of her new movie Australia. Can you believe this broad was just pregnant? How do they do it?! ("They" being insanely skinny celebs who pop out babies and maintain a size 2 figure.)

Blake Lively, in addition to being a Gossip Girl, is also a gorgeous girl. And at 21, it's appropriate for her to risk some kookier fashion choices. The young fashionista succeeds more often than she fails...but here, at the New York premiere of Baz Luhrmann's epic film Australia, she fails.

The stars rule the stars. So what's in store for your favorite celeb? Find out in our regular feature, Ho'roscope. The glamor, the sex, the money troubles can all be understood through the astrological powers that really run Hollywood.

Granted, the Australian Dancing With The Stars pair of actress Charli Delaney and her professional dance partner Csaba Szirmai are wearing ballroom dancing costumes. Lurid colors, fringe and spray tan residue are de rigeur, and part of why we watch.

On the other hand, Csaba's pose is incredibly creepy. While we applaud his desire to claw off Charlie's neon sequined tie (which is almost so wrong that even the Samba can't excuse it) his facial expression screams, "I'm going to chew through your beaded top and feast on your lady lumps!"

Cannibalism is never in style, not even on the dance floor. Not even in Australia.

Nicole Kidman is no stranger to high fashion. The very tall and very thin actress was once the face of Chanel's legendary No. 5 scent and boldly strutted down the red carpet at the Academy Awards in an amazing Balenciaga creation that got her alot of flack from celebrity journalists for its brilliant avant-garde design.

While Nicole may not be wearing either Chanel tweed suits or Balenciaga gladiator wedges in her upcoming film Australia, the proud Aussie will be donning custom Ferragamo shoes in the flick.

On the collaboration with the film's costume designer Catherine Martin, James Ferragamo says: "My grandfather, Salvatore Ferragamo, began his career working in costume design for the American Film Company, a precursor to Twentieth Century Fox, so it is only fitting that we carry on his name and our company's heritage by collaborating once again on a film from Fox."

You can see the beautiful evening sandals, riding boots, and classic wedge styles in all of their glory when the film drops this November.

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OK. Oscar winner and former Chanel babe Nicole Kidman is pregnant. She's been so for a couple of months now. So we're kind of unsure as to why Vogue felt compelled to splash the "Pregnancy Update" cover line right under her chin on their July issue, but whatevs.

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.

Dads don't get a whole lot of respect. We know this and we feel the pain. We blame Michael Keaton.

That is why our discovery of BUMP was such a surprise. BUMP, in the case of this Australian company, is actually an acronym for Babies Under Manufacturing Process. They carry an array of t-shirts geared towards the belly, be it the blossoming baby bump or the sympathy (and/or beer) filled gut on the dad-to-be.

Do you see better fashion on the ride to work than you do in Vogue magazine -- or are you stuck with JC Penny's, and dreaming about H&M? While it's certainly possible to be stylish anywhere, the fashion-forward tend to flock to a few choice locations around the globe. But where?

Forbes magazine has recently ranked the "World's Most Stylish Cities," and while some of them -- like New York, London and Paris -- are obvious, there's a few on the list that might surprise you. Here's the top 10 -- did you city make the cut?

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Unless you look like Angelina Jolie circa 1999, it can be hard to get excited about swimsuits, and exposing so much naked flesh to the beach/world. But if we did get worked up about hot new swimwear, we would be tipping designers Damion Fuller and Fern Levack (aka: design house Hot Bondi Swim) as the people to watch.

The talented Aussie couple showed their swimwear designs at Rosemount Australian fashion week for the first time this year, and to their surprise, they have been asked to show in Miami in July as well -- one of only twenty design teams to receive an invite. "My immediate reaction was to pour a good stiff drink!" Fuller told Australian Vogue.

Australian Fashion Week is coming to close and some of the final shows are helping it to go out in a big way. Akira is one of those.

Now that's what we're talking about! Alex Perry brought it to Australian Fashion Week! We love every single dress we saw.

WTF? Toad bag? Don't you mean "tote bag?" This is crazy talk.

This is not a "tote" bag. No. This is a toad bag. From Australia. Like Fosters pretends to be.

Has anyone ever looked at a toad and thought "mmmm...handbag?" WTF?

It's Fashion Week in Australia (AFW) and there is a scandale brewing down under about underage models.

Billed as the next big thing, 14 year old Polish model, Monika Jagaciak, aka Jak, is walking in her first show at AFW. Like all school age models, Jak was required to get a note from her parents and her school principal that said she was allowed to miss school.

Even with this explicit permission, people are still up in arms that this type of "career" exploits and overly sexualizes very young girls.

Well, duh.