Victoria’s Secret Models

Victoria’s Secret Models

Jun 2nd, 2010 by mayan

Ever fancied attending a lingerie-model party before?

Well, I have, and judging from what was on show during Victoria Secret’s “Revealing of the 2010 What is Sexy List” at Victoria’s Secret Party, I now wish I could attend one of these parties every other day! The industry’s sultriest and most tempting models were on show during this party, celebrating the occasion as they always do! If you are wondering who actually attended the party, we will let the pictures do the talking for us!

Victoria Secret’s very own lingerie models made it to the red carpet, and allow us to introduce some of them for your benefit….

The ultra-gorgeous Miranda Kerr led the battalion, and looked absolutely stunning in ultra-short mini dress that showed off her physique to perfection. She arrived alone without beau Orlando Bloom, and looked ever-ready to mingle with the crowd.

The insanely beautiful Australian-model Miranda has been with Victoria since 2006, and has captivated the hearts of Americans not only with her cute dimples, but also supremely-sexy body that has made her popular as the next Elle MacPherson!

Hottie Rosie Huntington-Whitely is barely 23, but she has already modelled for Victoria since 2006 when she walked alongside the likes of Adriana Lima and Gisele Bundchen in Los Angeles at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

This gorgeous babe is now officially one of the coveted Victoria’s Secret Angels, and who could argue that she does not belong? Just browse through her various shoot pictures, and you would see just why she is close to being offered a role to replace Megan Fox in the upcoming blockbuster Transformers 3! Now is that news or what?

Not to be missed, Victoria’s other angels also made the grade, most detectable of which was Candice Swanepoel who looked superbly beautiful just like her pictures.

And before I forget, the dazzling Doutzen Kroes.

Amongst other celebrities that made it for the party included Paris Hilton (would there be a party without her?), Camila Alves, Julie Benz and Michelle Trachtenberg, making the party a much more exciting affair for those who were in attendance. Let’s hope they make it a monthly affair now.

Formal Hair Styles for Women

Long, flowing hair is a great match for strapless formal dresses because it brings so much attention to the face and upper body.
Long hair also adds a youthful twist to formal wear (unlike a stiff updo) so it’s a great way to look updated and modern.

Here’s how to wear long hair with a formal dress:
• Keep the volume under control with products designed to add texture and shine: structured curls (the kind you get with old-fashioned hot rollers) are out. Instead, opt for long loose waves or silky, stick-straight hair.

• Long, sexy hair becomes the accessory, so go easy on other jewelry around the face. Earrings — which need to be oversized diamond studs or chandelier earrings to be seen with long hair — are all you need. Skip the necklace.

• Take daytime hair into the night with a beautiful hair ornament or a look that is partially pulled up or back away from the face.

Modern Updo

The biggest formal fashion mistake most women make is to pair a gorgeous dress with a frumpy, overly structured updo.

For the runway, hair stylists often choose an updo that features a high chignon that has loose ends.

The modern updo looks sleek but not too perfect, which adds to its appeal.

Trendy Headband

The headband took runways by storm at recent fashion shows. Paired with either long slick hair or slightly teased retro hair, the black headband is a great way to update even the most basic little black dress.

Fast Fashion Couture in Paris

The designer — the latest in Hennes & Mauritz’s lineup of high/low collaborations that started with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004 and has included Stella McCartney, Comme des Garçons and Victor & Rolf — has brought his kooky femininity to the Swedish “fast fashion” chain.

The aim is to offer to a far greater audience Lanvin’s wit and fantasy, using bold prints, playful ruffles and vivid colors like sunshine yellow, alongside imaginative creations in black. In other words, to bring the haute style that Mr. Elbaz sends out on the Paris runways to a wider world.

“But I was thinking about the definition of luxury and about H&M, and I wanted them to go up rather than Lanvin to go down,” says the designer of what he calls “an interesting exercise in high street and high fashion.”

Mr. Elbaz said that he wanted to do “taste branding” and to work out “how we can do it for €99.99,” referring to the typical price level of a garment in an entire collection that includes accessories, shoes and a 20-piece menswear range.

Although the clothes go on sale across the world, Hennes & Mauritz has a particular reason to welcome the collection to Paris: a new 2,800-square meter, or 30,100-square foot, store on the Champs-Élysées, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel — the first time a “fast fashion” chain has followed the architectural route. The concept of a dedicated store that creates a city landmark has mostly been reserved for big names such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton or Prada.

With pale limestone, contrasting with dark fittings, the store stretches over three levels, creating a streamlined background that is flexible enough to create a constant flow of change. The modernist interior is a backdrop to the clothes — but with a techno twist: LED screens creating projections as if the sidewalk and the store flow into one other. The lighting effects were even more dramatic when vivid colors were projected on the façade at the opening celebrations last month.
With 140 stores across France and 11 in Paris, H&M is incontestably for everyone — the opposite of the elitism that is at the core of couture. Mr. Elbaz admits that he had previously been wary of collaborating with fast fashion.

Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel Fashion Show Paris 2010

The Spring/Summer Collection by Karl Lagerfeld. At the Chanel spring/summer fashion show in Paris Karl Lagerfeld really did not adorn himself with borrowed plumes.

There was no need: featherlike details were a big part of many of the outfits from the Chanel spring/summer collection. Model Karmen Kass paraded along the 350 meter long cat walk wearing a dress with the floaty featherlike material.
The show was bombastic and pompous as always: models like Abbey Lee, Lindsey and Freja presented Karl Lagerfeld’s newest Chanel creations for the coming summer season in a replication of the Jardins de Versailles.

In accordance with the setting live music was played by a classic sym.

Elle Magazine Celebrates it's 25th anniversary

One of the top fashion magazines in the world, ELLE magazine celebrated its 25th anniversary in New York on Tuesday night, Oct. 26, with the launch of a new book, “The ELLEments of Personal Style,” featuring advice and wardrobe suggestions from 25 of their favorite style icons, and a performance by Grammy Award-winning artist and ELLE icon Estelle.

Featured icons in the book, like Diane von Furstenberg and Padma Lakshmi, offered up their style advice and secrets on the red carpet.
“I think the only style advice I can give or receive is just to being happy with who you are and just go with it,” said von Furstenberg.

Designer Nicole Miller said she loves Penelope Cruz, and would follow Cruz’s style advice without thinking.

Christian Siriano, the young designer who has been dressing top stars left and right as of late, including Estelle and “Mad Men”‘s Christina Hendricks, has his own favorites when it comes to personal inspiration.

Rising Designer: Angela Chen

A Fashion designer named Angela Chen wasn’t even born when the movie The Blue Lagoon came out in theaters in 1980, but just one viewing inspired the Vancouver designer’s spring collection. “I saw the movie this summer and fell in love with it right away,” Chen said. Taiwanese-born Chen, 27, moved to Vancouver at age seven and originally launched her line as Orange in New York in 2007 after graduating from Parsons the New School for Design. This was a labor of love she worked on after-hours, even managing to sell some of her pieces into Soho boutiques and onto a few of the famous. Chen says that Kirsten Dunst, Allison Pill and Chloë Sevigny have all worn the line. Three years and several successful fashion shows later, Orange has been changed to ‘OR’ by Angela Chen, with the spring collection hitting the runway at LG Fashion Week in Toronto.

One doesn’t often think of The Blue Lagoon as a fashion movie. Child star Brooke Shields’ character Emmeline relies on a loincloth and, for modesty’s sake, her long hair to make a fashion statement. But it wasn’t the one makeshift dress Emmeline fashions from her lone trunk that inspired Chen. It was the actress herself. “It was the first time I had seen Brooke Shields when she was so young and not just in pictures,” she says of the early Shields who was all gangly tanned limbs, wild hair, strong eyebrows and innocence. Although the palette of Chen’s Spring/Summer 2011 OR collection was also inspired by the movie’s sun-drenched sky, sand and sea, the cold, rainy weather that welcomed Chen to Toronto on the eve of her runway show was less than sun-drenched. Models huddled in the drizzle outside her publicist’s downtown office, anxiously waiting for this interview to be over and the runway casting to begin.
To evoke a carefree island mood, the collection relies heavily on fine French linen, sourced at some expense through a fabric rep who had seen her Vancouver Fashion Week collection. It’s pretty and ethereal, but in a nod to Chen’s pragmatic side, doesn’t rely on less than practical floaty chiffon tricks to convey the carefree mood. Instead, there are fluid flax-colored linen gowns for beachy weddings and details like delicate spaghetti straps, intricate smocked bibs and tiny pleats. One demure dress pools around the knees; another is a floaty, ankle-grazer in pale ombré, as though the bottom had dipped into a lagoon of blue dye. For fun, there’s a little romper.
In addition to usual sources like Carolina Herrerra, Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui, famous New York fashion studios where she worked before moving back to Vancouver, Chen says she pays close attention to Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong fashion. “I love all their really simple things, the Zen feeling of design and the little detail here or there.” That’s reflected in Chen’s own taste for asymmetric pleats and draping. They’re also the kinds of slightly off-kilter designs that Shield’s Emmeline might have fashioned out of those Victorian linen dresses that washed ashore, since she’d never laid eyes on a fashion magazine.

KEITAMARUYAMA by Keita Maruyamaon at the Japan Fashion Week

Keita Maruyama, a young Japanese Fashion Designer showcase her collection during the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo held on October 19.

A graduate of Bunka Fashion College (Bunkafukuso Gakuin), Maruyama has had a fascination with fashion since childhood. After working as a freelancer designing clothes for entertainers, he debuted as an independent designer in 1994 and has his first show in Paris three years later.

Maruyama’s designs are quite different from those of the older established Japanese designers. In this sense, he is not so readily recognized as a Japanese designer in Europe. He uses more obviously Oriental motifs and “introduces the essence of the kimono” into his designs. He would like to increase the popularity of the kimono among young Japanese, and launched a kimono collection in the autumn of 1999, although he is aware of its limited practicality in modern life.

Maruyama’s line are designed to “end up in an antique shop rather than a museum”, being passed on rather than simply consumed. Abroad, his designs are available in the US and Europe as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan.