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Jennifer Connelly at the Premiere of 'He's Just Not That Into You' - StyleFoul!

Filed under: Celebrity Fashion Mistakes, Red Carpet Trends

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    The NME awards are notorious for eccentric fashion choices, but none of them could compare to the outfit "created" by "music artist" La Roux. Wow.

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    Naomi's extra-long gown at the Vanity Fair Oscar afterparty seemed familiar. So we checked and, sure enough, we had seen it before -- on Daryl Hannah in the 1984 hit movie Splash!!

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    Michelle Monaghan sports an orange Louis Vuitton dress with a sequined side cut out. And tulle. And net. And mesh. And matching LV shoes with feathers. Will it ever stop?

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    Keira Knightley's smug expression is just begging us to judge this outfit that's somehow too small and too big at the same time.

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    We just have two questions: Why is Tilda Swinton wearing the human flesh dress made by serial killer Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs? And couldn't she at least have it tailored to fit her?

    Neither the color green nor those unfortunate shoulder pads are helping Jennifer Connelly look any healthier on the red carpet -- girl needs to eat!

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    Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, went pattern crazy while playing with the puppies at the Metropolitan Police Dog Training Centre in Cornwall, UK.

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    Up-and-coming Australian actress Teresa Palmer is drop-dead gorgeous. The shiny hair, the bright, expressive eyes, the thin-but-not-scary-skinny body ... she seems to have the whole package. Except, maybe, for the whole dressing for the red carpet part.

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    The thing is, we love the fit of this dress -- it's super flattering and classy. And Teresa shines in light colors, so the white and beige is beautiful. But seriously, what is the deal with the beige bra cups?

    Should we get past the weird boob accessories since we love the rest of the look so much? Or are those a deal breaker?

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    Of course Teresa isn't the only celeb who suffers from the occasional red carpet flop. Scarlett Johansson clearly has her off days.

    Oversized gold coat, check. High waisted pants that are way more frumpy than fashionable, check. What the heck was Scarlett Johansson thinking when she wore this outfit to the photocall for The Spirit in Madrid? This outfit is old lady-ish, and not in the sometimes hip Mary-Kate Olsen kind of way.

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We've been hearing rumors for a while about Jennifer Connelly and a dramatic weight-loss. From her appearance at the premiere of "He's Just Not That Into You", we're going to confirm that she's gone too far. And her outfit didn't help matters.

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Shenae Grimes - Casual, Risque, Slender Style

Filed under: Clothing, Jeans, Celebrities with Style



Shenae Grimes is determined to shake that anorexic-diva rap. Recently the 90210 star addressed the rumors again, insisting to People Magazine that in person she "doesn't have any bones sticking out."

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Size zero is out - curves are back in

Filed under: Celebrities with Style

Here at Stylelist we try to make sure we do a good job of covering fashion for all sizes. We can't say that we were ever big fans of the super size zero trend because of the insane amount of pressure it puts on normal non-celeb women to be unhealthy in their quest for thinness. So, we're relieved to hear cries from the rooftops that size zero is back out and curves are back in!

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Actresses and models use shocking tactic to stay thin

Filed under: Runway Trends

Nicole Richie used to send emails to people saying nobody over 100 pounds would be allowed into her parties -- and there would be scales at the door. Coco Rocha said that designers would tell her, "The look this year is anorexic. We don't want you to be anorexic, we just want you to look it." And just recently, sources reported that the CW network sent out a memo saying that the girls on the new 90210 need to stay under 110 pounds. So, the girls of Hollywood have had to come up with a new method to stay on top of this sick trend.

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How skinny is too skinny for TV?

Filed under: Style in the News, Celebrities with Style, Celebrity Fashion Mistakes



Here's a quick answer to that question. If you're on the cover of US Weekly, with the headline "TOO THIN FOR TV" across your chest? Then you absolutely are too thin.



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Organic obsessed? You may be orthorexic.

Filed under: Fashionable Food

This month's Teen Vogue features an article on orthorexia, which experts say is an obsession with eating only "good" foods.

Orthorexics may stick to a stringent raw-foods diet, become obsessed with their sodium intake, or even subsist on homemade, organic baby food. (In other words, orthorexics are consumed by their food, rather than the other way around.)

One girl quoted in Teen Vogue even says, ""I can't help but look down on my friends when they give in to temptations like pizza or ice cream."

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Victoria's Secret model blasted for "back fat"

Filed under: Runway Trends, Style in the News




This is a model from the Cia Maritima runway show at Sao Paulo Fashion Week. Next to this nearly anorexic figure, we suppose anyone would look fat.

Because while the fashion industry claims to have realized the error of its ways -- denouncing ultra-skinny models, and learning to love the "real women" of the world -- it turns out those revelations must have been a passing fancy. Karolina Kurkova, a Victoria's Secret model, appeared in the same show, and response has been scathing -- just because of a little cellulite.

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Top model Coco Rocha admits to taking diuretics

Filed under: Style in the News


Stories like this make us sick -- not as sick as the models, though. Coco Rocha attended the CFDA conference on "The Beauty of Health," which was held to address problems with eating disorders in the fashion industry. While there she spoke out about the pressure to lose weight and how it drove her to take diuretics, amongst other unhealthy things she did to her body.

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The French step in to stop anorexia

Filed under: Style in the News


Apparently those French women who don't get fat? Turns out some of them have anorexia. And the government is stepping in to try to stop it.

The Guardian UK reports that the France's lower house of parliament adopted a measure that makes it illegal to "incite extreme thinness."

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Men really do prefer thin women

For a long time now there has been a problem in the fashion industry with clothes that are too tiny, being worn by models that are too thin, walking down runways that are probably too small. This, in turn, has affected the average celebrity who now also feels the need to wear a size zero in order to fit into designer sample clothing. And that has now changed the way we regular women feel about ourselves as well. The pressure from society and the media to be smaller and smaller is more intense than ever!

But, one thing has remained constant in during the thin is in era. Normal men have professed their love for normal size women. Polls are always coming out claiming that men prefer real women with curves, or that guys like a girl with a little meat on her bones.

Not so, says Amanda Fortini, in this month's Elle Magazine. At 5'6" she actually got down to about 100 pounds, and says that men were actually much more into her at that weight. I was actually shocked to hear what she had to say about her experience as a super thin waif of a woman. Amanda wrote, "Many men, I quickly learned, really do like frighteningly lean women, whatever they may claim to the controversy. As an average, medium-size young woman, I was unremarkable, innocuous. As a skinny slip of a thing, I was something of a sensation. In restaurants and at parties, men flirted at me extravagantly...As a male friend once put it to me, semifacetiously, 'A little anorexia is hot.'"

Turns out that Amanda actually had a tropical parasite in her intestines, digesting her food for her. Hmm, are parasites the new binge and purge?

Anyways, men, I'd love to hear what you think. Is it true that someone who looks a little anorexic is hot? Be honest!

Via Big Fat Deal.

Secret to Brittny Gastineau's success? Try anorexia

Filed under: Style in the News, Celebrities with Style

There's a zen koan that says if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Now I don't know anything about meeting Buddha, but I can say that if you meet a model on the road who says she loves to eat, don't believe her -- especially if she's ex-reality TV-star Brittny Gastineau.

The raven-haired Gastineau recently told Jay Leno's "Ross the Intern" that she stayed thin through anorexia.

Was she kidding? Well, if you trace Gastineau's incredible weight loss over the past year (I don't -- I honestly didn't know who she was until thirty minutes ago), you'd probably conclude that she was speaking the truth. But still, the confession seems awfully weird.

One thing is certain, admitting to an eating disorder is not a good way to jump start a modeling career, which her friends say is the motivation behind her shrinking frame. Even though most agents and designers would be chomping at the bit to get a 5'11 girl who weighs just 105 pounds, I doubt anyone is willing to touch her now that she's publicly admitted she's an anorexic. The fashion industry can't continue to exist as it is without putting forth the illusion that models its healthy and naturally thin. The fact is once a model says she's sick, the gig's up.

Too thin models, has anything changed?

Filed under: Runway Trends

smoking modelsModels have always been on the top of the controversy list. There is Naomi Campbell knocking people out with cell phones and Kate Moss' love drama with rocker Pete Doherty – but the real drama lies in the pencil thin no-name models that grace the world's runways.

Last year there was a lot of talk about models being too thin. Some countries considered banning underweight models from runway shows. The question is did it work? Are models putting on weight?

The answer, unfortunately, is no. A New York Times article called "Still Too Thin, and Getting Younger" reveals that not much has changed in the fashion industry saying that ".One might be startled to find, scattered on the makeup table alongside the iPod and the Motorola SLVR (a device that electronics blogs approvingly call the anorexic phone), other currently common tools of the trade like Vicodin, clenbuterol and Marlboro Lights."

In case you didn't know, Vicodin is a prescription painkiller that is used in the fashion industry as an appetite-suppressant. Even more horrifying, clenbuterol, which is a steroid that showed significant weight loss in horses (yes, horses people), is being used by models to keep their weight down. Then there is the ever popular nicotine (cigarettes), which also acts an appetite suppressant.

Sounds like the perfect recipe for death to me -- all of this for a career that, if you are lucky, will span for eight years. It's so very sad.

Young Versace "battling anorexia"

Filed under: Celebrities with Style

Amid growing concern over eating disorders within the fashion industry, it's now been revealed that Allegra Beck Versace, the 20-year-old daughter of Donatella Versace, is anorexic. The news was released in the hopes of clarifying some of the rumors circulating throughout the media -- including that she was under 24-hour supervision in a medical and psychiatric facility.

In fact, a spokesman says that Allegra is living at home in the United States, where she's currently a student.

Fortunately, according to her parents, "She is receiving the best medical care possible to help overcome this illness and is responding well."

While this news isn't surprising, some say neither is the fact that Allegra is anorexic in the first place. Growing up in the fashion industry -- in particular in the highly image-conscious Versace household -- did the fashion heiress ever stand a chance?

Spain cracks down on anorexia

Filed under: Runway Trends, Events: On the Scene

Two weeks ago, the CFDA announced a new set of guidelines to discourage eating disorders in the fashion industry. Wimpy at best, grossly inadequate at worst, CFDA's regulations seemed to tread almost too lightly on the controversial relationship between fashion and public health.

Across the pond in Spain, the game plan for curbing the tide of eating disorders is much more aggressive. On Tuesday, the government, the textile industry and a group of prominent fashion designers released a comprehensive agreement to promote healthy bodies and body images. According to the new agreement, size 46 (U.S. equivalent size 14) clothes will no longer be considered plus-sized. Models in Spain will also be required to wear at least a size 36 (US size 4) in order to participate in runway shows.

The only thing that seems a little unclear about these regulations is how the rules will be practically enforced. Will there be officials from a governing body? Is it self-regulation?

Other than that, however, I think this is a step in the right direction. You'd be hard pressed to find a model on the runway that is any bigger than a size 34, so if the sample sizes grow to size 36, presumably the models will eventually follow suit. If the designers are on board with the agreement, I don't think there is any reason to suspect that this won't be a successful measure.

Rules of the road: New York Fashion Week

Filed under: Runway Trends, Style in the News

On the Today Show this morning, representatives from the CFDA announced new industry-wide guidelines for models. The decision to make these regulations was spurred by last season's controversial crackdown on underweight, unhealthy cat walkers in Europe. While the American guidelines are not technically rules, the CFDA says they are the first attempt towards responsible self-regulation in the fashion industry. The CFDA says that it can't fully assume the responsibility for something as complex as eating disorders, but they do hope to begin campaign of awareness with these new standards.

The new guidelines include:
  • educate models, parents, designers and agencies on the early warning signs of eating disorders
  • models must seek help if they have an eating disorder
  • those with eating disorders cannot model without a doctor's approval
  • supplying healthy meals, nutrition and fitness education backstage and on shoots
Well, there you have it. The fashion industry decides they need to take action and what do they do? They come up with the flimsiest set of regulations imaginable, all of which are voluntary and none of which have any enforceability.

I mean come on -- fitness and nutrition education? I'm so sure that a bunch of underage girls who barely understand English are going to pay attention to some nutritionist when they have the option of doing a line of blow in the bathroom or popping a handful of amphetamines with their diet coke.

Way to bunt it, CFDA!

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