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Lu Parker Out on the Town
Posted on 08 Jul 2011 at 4:34pm
Fashion Stylist Dalit Gwenna does Kimberly Cole
Posted on 06 May 2010 at 12:35pm
Fashion Stylist Dalit Gwenna does Kimberly Cole
Having spent her life immersed in the world of art, fashion, and design, stylist Dalit Gwenna – www.dalitgwenna.com – has been able to label herself as “one the edgiest clothing stylists working today.” With an obsession for sequins, tulle and lace, Dalit has brought her creative twist to everyday style. Dalit’s clients range from glam pop stars and socialites, to business professionals and everyday fashionistas. Her fresh and unique eye allows her clientele to be ahead of the trend while remaining effortlessly chic.
As a fashion insider on both the east and west coasts, Dalit has had her creative hands in all cracks of the fashion industry. Currently, Dalit is responsible for styling Forever 21 Inc.’s worldwide window directive.
Dalit has been featured in WWD, WFIT TV, TV Lesson, HollywoodWorx, Cliché Magazine, LA’s The Place, Apparel News, LIFE, 944, Agenda Magazine, TV Hits Australia and Look Book LA.
Dalit Gwenna Fashion Stylist & Costume Designer
Posted on 17 Jan 2010 at 1:33pm
Dalit Gwenna Fashion Stylist & Costume Designer
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Zara Terez Handbags
Posted on 20 Jul 2009 at 7:34am
They say you can tell the true character of a girl by the attention she pays to her accessories. The all important accessories – shoes, jewelry, and oh yes, the handbag. New York based designer, Zara Zimmerman, knows this rule all to well. After noticing the lack of novel bags on the market, Zara launched her line Zara Terez to fill the much needed gap in the fashion industry. Her hand-made, Italian leather duds are structured with the class and sophistication of your Upper East Side socialite, but her bags’ linings scream Hollywood glitz.
- Zara Terez Fashion
Whether it’s her Sunset Park satchel lined with Warhol and Liechtenstein prints, the basic Nolita clutch that literally “spangles” when you reach in for your lipstick, or the 14th Precinct holster that you simply throw over your shoulders, Zara knows exactly how to make your morning or evening carry-all functional and fun. Zara Terez styles have been toted around town by the likes of young Hollywood such as Paris Hilton, Ashley Tisdale and Hillary Duff. Even more exciting for all you fashion insiders (and lovers), buzz around tinsel town is that an A-List west coast launch is in the works for early August.
See you there? Maybe, if you’re lucky.
You can pick up your own Zara Terez handbag at any Nordstrom’s nation wide or at www.zaraterez.com.
contact adriana@blinkpr.com for all press inquiries
Emma Watson’s ‘Marilyn’ moment: Dress flies up, exposes underwear on London red carpet
Posted on 08 Jul 2009 at 8:13am
“Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson may be getting into high fashion with a new Burberry campaign, but last night she made an unintentional style statement.
Battling the elements at the London premiere of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the 19-year-old’s dress flew up to expose her nude-colored underwear beneath her designer gown. But little Hermione Granger seemed unphased by the wardrobe malfunction. Good thing she was wearing a pair of granny panties, rather than going commando like many of her colleagues in Hollywood have been caught doing in the past.
Watson’s male co-stars didn’t have the same problem with the windy weather, but a heavy downpour soaked actors Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, who play Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, respectively, in the film, despite having umbrella holders accompany them down the red carpet.
Watson managed to keep her 1970s Ozzi Clark gown relatively dry as she made her way down the red carpet. The vintage gown, which had a waist-high slit allowing for the actress’ very own Marilyn Monroe moment, was the latest high-fashion move by the British actress.
In addition to becoming the new face of Burberry for their Fall 2009 ad campaign, Watson was recently photographed by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfield for a French magazine.
Perhaps the budding British actress is considering a future in fashion? The actress is reportedly taking a break from her acting career to study at Columbia University in the fall.
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‘Housewives’ | Dressed to Kill
Posted on 25 Jun 2009 at 7:20am
Last night, on the incredibly confrontational finale of Bravo’s short, bitter season of “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” Dina took a tour of Teresa’s newly completed parody of a house. Dripping with faux Roman touches and onyx, it’s the anti-Falling Water. Then it was time for a dinner party with the full cast at an appropriately rococo restaurant called Lu Nello (yes, two words). Over the course of the six-episode series, rage coiled deep in the breasts — often augmented — of the five ladies of Franklin Lakes, and it was clear to all that this would be the moment of reckoning. But one question went as yet unanswered: What to wear to the last supper?
Danielle Staub: The most martial and sanguine of the group, Danielle chose a clingy, stringy black tank top that exposed her toned Madonna pipes. With an obvious bone to pick, Danielle meant to intimidate the enemy with a display of arms.
Teresa Giudice (left): The hostess Teresa and her new bubbies were zipped up in a ruched, strapless hard-to-maneuver-in dress. Perhaps not the best battle gear. The only parts of her body with mobility were her arms and hands, which she used to great effect in the final moments, overturning the table in a scary outburst of gesticulation and F bombs. (See video below.)
Dina Manzo: (next to Guidice) A bit of the Trojan horse, Dina chose a sweet-looking blue ombré rosette dress from Alice+Olivia from which to launch her withering attacks.
Caroline Manzo: The big sister and matriarch of the Manzo clan, Caroline wore a military-inspired dress: a khaki wrap number with sleeves rolled up. Caroline meant business.
Jacqueline Laurita: The peacemaker for most of the show, Jacqueline wore a royal-blue Cleopatra dress with Egyptian detailing, no doubt trying to portray some sort of aloof equanimity.
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Adele in the Fashion Spotlight
Posted on 21 Jun 2009 at 9:57am
When Adele takes the stage at the Hollywood Bowl next Sunday alongside Etta James, it will be a dreamgirl moment. More than her stint at the famed BRIT School, the performing-arts breeding ground that also spawned Amy Winehouse, Adele credits her prodigious talent to the high priestess of soul, whose albums she listened to religiously in her bedroom as a teen.
But style, not song, first hooked Adele (born Adele Laurie Blue Adkins). At 13, she spotted an Etta James CD in a bargain bin at the HMV store in her native London. She had never heard of James but was instantly smitten. “Her blond weave and her catty eyes and her curves and her tight gold shimmery dresses, and just that attitude in her face and figure — I was like, ‘Oh my God, to die!’ ”
Replace the blond weave with a brushed-out beehive and the shimmery dress with a baggy “jumper,” as she calls her oversize sweater, and Adele could easily be describing herself: a soul diva for the MySpace generation. Her figure, hair and liquid-lined eyes confer a retro swing that her dressed-down cool simultaneously refutes. When she thrusts out her hand to show off the 16-diamond Tiffany ring she gave herself for her recent 21st birthday, it’s clear she’s patrolling the border between streetwise girl and glamorous woman.
Lounging in the courtyard of the Greenwich Hotel in Manhattan, a far cry from her South London roots, Adele sips an espresso and drags on a Marlboro Light, exhibiting a poise that belies her years — more Beyoncé than Britney. That outsized confidence is matched by outsized features: down-pillow lips, gem-green eyes, flame-red mane, rosebud complexion, heart-shaped dimpled chin. She exaggerates nature with plenty of nurture. “Oh, I love looking like a drag queen,” she gushes. “Hair back-combed beyond belief, eyelashes galore, heavy contour. And I love my big, square, ghetto nails.”
Her body is also big, if we’re talking fashion-world metrics. Adele says she weighs 11 stone (154 pounds) and wears a British size 14 (size 12 in the U.S.) Does she feel pressure to slim down? “I’ve been the same since I was 15 and went on the contraceptive pill. I’ve got this far without looking like Britney Spears. I think I can go a bit further,” she says with a satirical bite worthy of Jay McInerney.
Despite some to-be-expected snarkiness about it in the blogosphere, Adele’s voluptuous figure is working in her favor. If a chance record-store encounter was her fashion awakening, her christening was landing a four-page spread in Vogue for this past May’s annual “Shape” issue as the “curvy” icon. Topping that, Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor in chief, dressed her for the Grammys in a custom Barbara Tfank black satin dress belted to show off her waist, with a Stephen Russell 19th-century diamond brooch perched atop her generous décolletage.
Adele walked away from the night with two Grammys, and the event also placed her irretrievably in the fashion spotlight. Which is not entirely where she wants to be. “I’d much rather dress comfortable than become a trendsetter. I’d much rather be like this,” she says, gesturing at today’s outfit: a striped H&M baggy sweater over black American Apparel leggings, ankles peeking out of Chanel ballerina flats.
“I’m not that fussed about fashion,” she says bluntly. But she’s hardly ascetic. She raids the racks of Topshop, H&M and American Apparel for basics. She names Donna Karan, Moschino and Vivienne Westwood as beloved designers. Her London apartment is too tiny to accommodate her shoe and bag addiction — Louis Vuitton, Gucci, tons of Manolo Blahnik and Chanel — so she keeps stuff in storage at her dad’s place. “I get bored of things after two months,” she says. Yet she has an adult savvy about investment pieces, like her seven Chanel bags. “They’ll be nice to have when I’m older,” she says. “My favorite Chanel I could probably still buy in 30 years.”
Siren in waiting
Adele has come a long way since her early grunge days. More recently, she has shed kewpie bangs for the side-swept beehive that’s now her signature — “a neat housewifey one, not like Amy Winehouse’s,” she explains. Her go-to trapeze shapes are yielding to tailored silhouettes.
“When she walked into my studio, she reminded me of Lynn Redgrave in ‘Georgy Girl,’ ” says Tfank, a Los Angeles designer who is creating Adele’s outfit for the Hollywood Bowl. Tfank saw a ’50s Hollywood siren waiting to be tapped. “She needs to show her body, not hide her body,” the designer says. “She is more like Marilyn Monroe, who said, ‘This is who I am.’ ”
For her part, Adele says, “Barbara brought out that thing of me wanting to dress up. People my age in the public eye — a lot of them are, like, sluts.” In the July issue of Nylon, she parades her newfound look: black, waist-defining dress with three-quarter length sleeves and knee-skimming skirt, black tights, vertiginous heels.
With the demands of stardom eating up her calendar — she has spent more than a year touring her debut album, 19, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide — Adele has enlisted a stylist, Gaelle Paul.
“The first time I met Adele she was in this incredible Ralph Lauren poncho,” Paul says. “She was like, ‘Can you believe my friends said this looks like a dishcloth?’ I thought, ‘She’s rad!’ ”
Paul caters to the singer’s classic-bohemian balance: “Very simple dresses from Prada look great. Anything Chanel fits her like a glove. Edgier labels like Isabel Marant speak to her hippie side.”
These days, there’s no shortage of A-list labels clamoring for a piece of Adele. Isn’t that the ultimate fantasy, to be lavished with swag from the fashion gods? Adele enjoys the spoils, but is careful to maintain the rights to her image. “If they give me free stuff, I have to wear it. But I’m not into being an advertising board,” she says.
She would consider a fashion campaign but has zero interest in runway posturing, à la Beth Ditto, the lead singer of the Gossip, who sat in the front row at the most elite shows of Paris fashion week this spring. And don’t expect her to follow J. Lo’s lead with a line of denim or fragrance. “I don’t want to do ‘Adele by Adele’ perfume!” she wisecracks. As for singer-songwriter Duffy’s star turn in a Diet Coke advertisement? “I think it’s selling out,” Adele says, though she’s quick to praise Duffy’s beauty. “I wonder if they did a Coke advert if they would do a voluptuous girl,” she says with tongue in cheek.
Adele may not give a toss about fashion-industry norms, but there’s no denying they remain the elephant in the room. When Ditto lands the debut cover of Conde Nast’s new biannual Love, it still reads as provocation. Sure, Ditto was naked, but arguably what grabs attention are her resplendent ripples (the accompanying article put her weight at 170 pounds). Adele sloughs the whole thing off: “That cover was phenomenal. But if that’s controversial, I think it’s . . . lame.”
She is similarly proud of her Vogue appearance, and dismisses the rumors first generated by Perez Hilton that the pictures had been Photoshopped: “Who doesn’t get airbrushed? No one says anything when some skinny, blond, , white-teeth girl gets airbrushed. Honestly, I’ve never looked that glamorous in a photograph. I was lying on a bed in a Michael Kors coat with my legs hanging out!”
To Adele, the equation is simple: Confidence equals good style. Asked who inspires her, she cites Beyoncé, because she knows how to dress her body; Sarah Jessica Parker, for pulling off gutsy clashes; Sharon Stone in the movie “Casino,” Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich,” Michelle Pfeiffer in “Scarface” — all characters with a fearless self-possession. “The most important thing is the way that someone carries themselves. If they feel comfortable, they carry themselves differently,” Adele says.
She practices what she preaches. “There is nothing apologetic about the way she looks. It’s very celebratory,” says Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, who escorted Adele to the Grammys. “She might have reservations about showing some parts of her body, but I think she’s a very healthy role model because she’s sort of, ‘Take me as I am.’ ”
Busy masterminding her second album, Adele is determined to remain honest, in her music style and her fashion style. She refused efforts to be paired with what she calls “dirty pop” producers because it doesn’t suit her any more than Winehouse’s cut-off jeans or Duffy’s pin-up frocks do. “I’ll just put my foot down and be like, ‘No, I don’t like that,’ ” she says. For her Devil Wears Prada moment, she even challenged Wintour’s initial notion to put her in a tight dress. “I was like, ‘I’ve got five bums, one extra belly. I’d rather do one that just flows over the bad parts.’ ”
Fans respond to that empowering stance. Heavyset girls crowd around her tour bus and praise her for helping them feel comfortable being themselves. “I think it’s that I’m not trying to look ‘normal,’ ” Adele says. “I don’t feel the need to look good all the time. I want people to see me how I am.”
So what will Adele wear to meet her hero at the Hollywood Bowl? She and Tfank are plotting something similar to the Grammys ensemble: a flocked black taffeta dress, this time with an open neckline and a cascading back, and likely diamonds galore.
But for the record: “I still love my leggings and jumpers,” Adele says. “I would probably wear that if Barbara wasn’t making my dress!”
Organic Makeup Artist | Courtney Wolfe
Posted on 11 Jun 2009 at 7:15am
Courtney Wolfe, the fresh, innovative, witty, Professional Makeup Artist grew up in South Carolina with a taste for nature and organic living. Now she has made her way to California as Beverly Hills premiere Organic Makeup Artist at Chi Organic Spa.
As a young girl Courtney would sneak into her mothers vanity to giver her friends makeovers at sleepovers. She was a makeup artist at heart. Now she can create anything from beautiful bridal makeup to experimental avant-garde looks. She is best known for her custom blended lip shades.
While in College earning her Bacherlors in Psychology Courtney worked as a makeup artist for extra money. “I wanted to become a therapist because I love helping people, in a way I still am. I want each client to feel beautiful so I take extra steps in discovering the exact look they want for their special day.”
Courtney moved to NYC after college and decided to pursue her career in cosmetics. She began working with models and stylist creating unique pioneering looks. Courtney now works with numerous musicians, celebrities designers, and models in Los Angeles and is becoming the next it girl in the makeup industry
Working in the industry Courtney began to discover women were unable to wear certain products because of allergic reactions to ingredients so she began researching her products. “I didn’t feel comfortable using products on women that caused break outs or eventually led to premature aging, cancer or tumors. It was shocking to learn of all the chemicals in common products that women use on a daily basis.” Even worse is the FDA doesn’t regulate cosmetics so just because a line says they are natural doesn’t mean free of preservatives or chemicals. Animal rights is also important to Courtney and she realized that the majority of popular lines say they don’t “test” on animals when in fact they still use animal by products in their cosmetics.
Having a product that is vegan, paraben free, organic and bismuth free is of the utmost importance to her. Courtney believes outer beauty is a reflection of inner health and balance. She only uses 100% natural and organic ingredients that harness the life-giving energy of plants and minerals. Courtney’s moto is it’s “The art of natural beauty”.
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Savvy Style: Getting Real with You and Your Clothes
Posted on 07 Jun 2009 at 4:18pm
By Barbara Horowitz, a savvy stylist
“No eating out, shopping or using your credit cards for 7 days.”
What would you do if you had to take this challenge? You are not the sum of your stuff. I invite you to look at the state of your own economy and be the change you want to happen today. Are you ready to consider how you have been doing things may not be how you want to do it anymore?
Here are a few questions I would like you to try to answer:
* Do you shop every day?
* Do you have more than you can deal with in your closet?
* Do you feel overwhelmed and feel you have nothing to wear?
* Do you shop on sale because it’s such a deal?
* Do you continually buy the same shape over and over?
* Do you buy clothing just to return?
* Do you have price tags or unworn clothing in your closet right now?
* Do you feel you’re trying to keep up appearances but have no idea how you would like to look?
If you answered even one “yes” to any of these questions, no worries. You can change. You can live a happier, less stressful life if you know how to create your outer appearance in line with your inner you.
One thing I was taught as a young girl I use everyday in my business today is how to make the clothing that my parents purchased each season into many different outfits. My mother also taught me not to look at labels — but to look for style.
If you think that you would like to learn how to use what you have, learn how to make your clothing dollars stretch, then you might want to try this simple exercise this weekend.
Here is your challenge: I want you to go into your closet and get real with yourself. Summer is around the corner – so it is time to clean up your old thought patterns and create new ones.
Grab a large garbage bags for alterations, donations and resale. Your clothing has value and the longer you hold on, the less value it has. If you never thought about selling your clothing, start now. It’s the most “eco-nomical” way to feed your shopping habit. Clothing isn’t an investment; but how you buy it and when you sell it is.
Get ready to change. If you’ve had clothing longer than 3 years for a women and 5 years for a man, take a VERY hard look at each item. Does it still have value in today’s trends? Keep in mind that staying current and ageless has nothing to do with being trendy. Accessories last much longer in your wardrobe while clothing has a shorter life span especially for women.
Are you attached? Did you spend a lot of money on an item? Consider your local high-end resale stores and begin buying and selling regularly each season. FYI-There is nothing more green for the planet than recycling your clothing.
How do I know if my clothing is out of style? Great question. Pick up your favorite fashion magazine: Do you own anything on the pages? This is the best way to figure out if you need an update. If you do have similar styles as seen on the pages of your favorite mags, GREAT NEWS. You simply need new ways to look at what you already own before you go out and consume. Know thyself and know what to do with your wardrobe.
I’m here to help you through the process. And, therefore, I invite you to send me 4 pictures of you in your favorite outfits.
1. Work
2. Weekend
3. Evening
4. Shlep
These 4 pictures are like having a crystal ball. Immediately, I will know what to suggest to get you on your way. You will be shocked by the results …
Barbra Horowitz is a professional personal stylist working all over the country. While Barbra does work with celebrities — it’s the role of “the people’s stylist” that gives her the most joy. Barbra is the Special correspondent for British Vogue.com and the author of the book/dvd “Closet Control” by Sterling press.
Comedian Chelsea Handler and Styx Frontman Tommy Shaw can be seen on Barbra’s you tube channel-closet “Control”– http://www.youtube.com/closetcontrol, which has been viewed 130,000 times and climbing. In the past, Barbra has interviewed fashion luminaries such as Cameron Silver from Decades, Supermodel Tracey Ross, Josie Maran-Daniella and Gilby Clarke and many others.
Visit her blog, “So you Think you have Nothing to wear” at http://www.barbrahorowitz.com/girlsblog, which serves up the best fashion at prices you can afford.
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Wal-Mart unveils new fashion line with Miley Cyrus
Posted on 03 Jun 2009 at 1:09pm
LOS ANGELES, June 3 (Reuters) – Major retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) unveiled plans on Wednesday to launch a fashion line with Miley Cyrus, linking itself to a top teenage pop star at about the time back-to-school shopping begins.
Cyrus, the star of the hit Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana,” will team with designer Max Azria, of BCBGMAXAZRIA, to create a line of budget-friendly items: graphic tees, tops, pants, shoes and accessories, all under $20.
In a statement, Wal-Mart said the line will reflect the rock-n-roll roots of 16-year-old Cyrus, who has scored musical hits with her Hannah Montana albums and enjoyed strong success at film box offices with her “Hannah Montana: The Movie.”
Her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, is a country singing star in his own right, famous for his country tune “Achy Breaky Heart.”
Fashion designer now becomes the latest title for the teen star, who has singer, actress and author already under her belt. “I love creating looks that are all about personal expression and individuality,” Cyrus said in a statement.
The line is expected to hit Wal-Mart stores in August, just in time for back-to-school shopping, and Wal-Mart also is sponsoring Cyrus’ North America concert tour that starts in September. (Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Steve Orlofsky)
* Teen star Miley Cyrus launches Wal-Mart fashion line
* Line’s items priced below $20, to hit stores in August
* Wal-Mart also sponsoring Cyrus next concert tour
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