THE KARDASHIANS ARE LAUNCHING BEAUTY

by TOMMYE FITZPATRICK / Courtesy of elle mag

Fresh off the heels of Kim Kardashian’s latest fragrance launch, she’s just announced a new beauty venture—this time, with her sisters. Together, they’re launching a cosmetic line called Khroma Beauty.

“Makeup has been an essential part of our lives for so long,” the sisters told E!. “Like fashion, it’s always changing and evolving just as we do and we can’t wait to share this new venture with our fans!”

According to the release, the products—think a “Million Dollar Mask” made with 24k gold dust, a lipgloss holster meant to be worn like a garter on the thigh, as well as eyelashes, mascaras, and compacts—aim to help “emulate the eyes, lips and complexion looks for which Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe are famous.”

A special holiday assortment hits Ulta stores in December, with a larger array launching in early 2013. A preview of the products, after the cut.

GUCCI NOW HAS A HORSE

by TOMMYE FITZPATRICK / Courtesy of Elle mag

Karl Lagerfeld may have a new cat—with its own Twitter handle, no less—but Gucci has also acquired a new animal: a horse. The house, which has long been associated with equestrian chic, renamed the stallion Guccio after house founder Guccio Gucci, WWD reports. Unlike Karl’s cat Choupette, Guccio is not so much a pet. He may make an appearance at the Olympics—or at least, that is the hope: he’s currently residing in Holland, at the stables of Edwina Alexander, currently the world’s top female horse-jumper.

LOUIS VUITTON GETS DOTTY WITH JAPANESE ARTIST YAYOI KUSAMA

Louis Vuitton has a long history of iconic artist collaborations under Marc Jacobs’s direction: there were Stephen Sprouse’s graffiti bags in 2001, Takashi Murakami’s colorful monogram bags in 2003, and Richard Prince’s joke-printed bags in 2007. Now, the brand is pairing up with a new artist: Yayoi Kusama.

Jacobs first met Kusama in 2006, when she presented him with a monogrammed Vuitton bag painted all over with her signature polka dots. Now that the two are teaming up in a bigger way, those same dots will be covering everything from trenchcoats to silk pajamas to watches and hitting Vuitton stores on July 10—just in time for the Whitney Museum’s Kusama retrospective which opens two days later. A second installment of the collaboration—monogrammed leather goods covered in Kusama’s tentaclelike “nerves” motif—will hit in October.

“Her energy is just endless,” Jacobs said of the Japanese artist. “Through the painstaking sort of obsession in each of her canvasses and installations that she’s created, you see this world that never ends. I guess that’s what I admire and that’s what I respond to in terms of feeling for her and for her work… For many people who don’t look at art or go to galleries, or maybe they’re not aware of Kusama’s work, there will be a new venue, a new place to see this work and to come to appreciate it through the eyes of Louis Vuitton.”

See one more image of the collection after the jump.

By Elle /by TOMMYE FITZPATRICK

How to Trim Your Own Bangs

Have your bangs become a bit of a burden? You’re not alone. This style requires a lot of mane-maintenance. If they’re growing out at an alarming rate, we suggest learning how to snip them yourself. Celebrity hairstylist Angelo David of Angelo David Salon in New York City shares a few simple foolproof tips on keeping your fringe looking fabulous at all times.

• Step 1: Starting with dry hair, section off a triangular section in the front, starting an inch or two from the crown of the head.

• Step 2: Using a fine-toothed comb, evenly gather hair in the front, letting it fall on the temples.

• Step 3: To create a blunt bang, hold hair taut with your fingers and slowly cut horizontally across, cutting a quarter inch at a time. (Make sure your scissors are sharp to make this process seamless and concise.) To create a wispy, textured look, twist the hair you’ve sectioned off a few times and hold it taut between your fingers. From there, begin cutting the ends at a 45-degree angle.

• Step 4: Don’t cut too much at once, and stop to check your work in the mirror regularly. You can always do additional trimming, if needed.

WISIN & YANDEL AND JENNIFER LOPEZ “FOLLOW THE LEADER”

WISIN & YANDEL AND JENNIFER LOPEZ
“FOLLOW THE LEADER”
HISTORIC WORLDWIDE TWITTER VIDEO PREMIERE THURSDAY MAY 3RD
 
THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE ON TWITTER
THAT WILL INCLUDE CELEBRITIES

THE LANDMARK EVENT MARKS THE FIRST BILINGUAL TWITTER CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY

OFFICIAL TEASER KICK–OFF CAMPAIGN FOR VIDEO PREMIERE AIRED THIS MORNING
ON ABC’S GOOD MORNING AMERICA

VIDEO ALSO TO PREMIERE ON MTV HITS, MTV TR3S, MTV HITS LATIN AMERICA, MTV LATIN AMERICA, VH1 MEXICO, VH1 ARGENTINA AND VH1 BRAZIL AND DIGITALLY ON VEVO
FRIDAY, MAY 4TH

MIAMI, Florida (May 2, 2012).  Grammy-winning, top-selling Latin music duo Wisin & Yandel and international recording artist, actress and superstar Jennifer Lopez will continue to raise the bar, when they premiere the video for their new single “Follow The Leader” via Twitter on Thursday, May 3rd, marking the first time that Twitter partners with major artists for an exclusive worldwide video premiere campaign.  This also marks another first for the social media giant, the very first Twitter bilingual campaign.

Beginning at 7am PT/10am ET Jennifer Lopez  (@JLO) and Wisin y Yandel (@wisinyyandel) will begin a series of tweets that will LEAD their FOLLOWERS to the music video premiere destination on Twitter.   TV celebrities Ryan Seacrest (@ryanseacrest) and Ellen De Generes  (@theellenshow) and music superstar Enrique Iglesias (@enrigue305) are slated to play along too.  #FollowTheLeader.

Projected to reach 50+ million followers, the campaign kicked off this morning with an official teaser live on ABC’s Good Morning America where they announced the set up of the Twitter “game”.

Beginning Friday, May 4th, VEVO will digitally premiere “Follow The Leader” on their site, while the video also makes its full-length television debut, when it premieres exclusively on MTV Hits, Tr3s, VH1 Latin America, MTV Hits Latin America and VH1 Brazil beginning at 6am/EST.
Wisin, Yandel and JLO shot the video for "Follow the Leader" in Acapulco, Mexico, under the direction of Hollywood director Jessy Terrero.  The action-packed video has the recording artists practicing Parkour, the physical discipline of efficient/dynamic movement around obstacles which is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

"We loved working with Jennifer on the video.   She handled everything like a trooper. . . shooting in the intense heat, attempting her own stunts and all the time having a blast," said Wisin.  "The video is action-packed, has Acapulco in the backdrop and of course the beautiful and incomparable JLo. We hope all of our fans love this video as much as we do," added Yandel.
"Follow the Leader" was written by Wisin & Yandel, Jennifer Lopez and the Bloodline Sisters and produced by Jonas Saeed & Niclas Kings.  It was recorded in Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. The single debuted on iTunes Latin’s Top 5 and is topping radio station playlists throughout the country. It has also reached #1 in six countries in Latin America. This is the first single off the duo's upcoming album "Líderes" which is set to be released in June.  "Líderes" also includes collaborations with music superstars Chris Brown, T-Pain, and Timbaland.

Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin & Yandel embark on a North American tour summer hitting nearly 20 cities nationwide starting July 14, 2012. The tour, promoted by AEG Live will go on sale beginning Friday, May 4, 2012 at www.ticketmaster.com.

About Wisin & Yandel
Worldwide top-selling Latin urban music artists, Wisin & Yandel have been hugely successful during their 13 year career as a duo. They have garnered numerous multi-platinum certifications in the United States and Latin America and dozens of prestigious awards including a Grammy and two Latin Grammys. On tour, Wisin & Yandel have proven to be a force to be reckoned with, becoming the only artists in the Urban Latin Music genre to sell out both the Staples Center and Madison Square Garden in the US. Wisin & Yandel’s shows are nothing short of exhilarating.  The duo travels with their 10 piece band, 8 dancers, and a state-of-the art audiovisual show; but the true stars, absolutely are Wisin & Yandel and their unique brand of Latin urban music, a fusion of genres and styles delivered with a power and passion that no one in their musical genre can match.  They have recorded and shared the stage with many of the biggest artists in the music industry, including: Enrique Iglesias, 50 Cent, Ricky Martin, Pitbull, T-Pain, Romeo Santos, Aventura, Akon and Nelly Furtado, among many others. The duo's next album "Lideres" will be released in June and features collaborations with superstars Jennifer Lopez, Chris Brown, T-Pain and Timbaland.  For updated information on Wisin & Yandel, visit: www.wisinyandelpr.com, www.facebook.com/wisinyyandel, or www.twitter.com/wisinyyandel.

About Jennifer Lopez
International icon, Jennifer Lopez is an entertainer, recording artist, film actress, producer, fashion designer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.  Lopez has sold over 55 million records worldwide and has starred in multiple # 1 box office films including The Wedding Planner and Monster-In-Law.   She has achieved global landmark success and broken records when it comes to her music.  Last year, "On The Floor" became the Most Watched Music Video by a female artist in the History of YouTube, with a staggering 1/2 billion views!     JLO's music has impacted every continent in the world, transcending borders and languages.   The music and her celebrity has struck a common thread with all generations and all "walks of life."   With #1 singles, #1 albums, #1 music videos, #1 TV series, #1 box-office smashes, Jennifer Lopez is the definition of an icon.   The Wedding Planner was the nation's top grossing film, in 2001, while her album, JLO, was #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.  The two simultaneous #1 honors made Lopez the first woman in history to have a #1 movie and album in the same week. 2012 will mark another first, embarking on the most extensive concert tour of her career.

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Photo: Luis Carmona

Media Contact, Wisin & Yandel:
Jennifer J. Nieman, The Nieman Group

Media Contact, Jennifer Lopez:
Mark Young, The Fame Factory

Jean Paul Gaultier’s design debut for Diet Coke is unveiled

French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier has given the soft drink's bottles an haute makeover.

BY Olivia Bergin

No, your eyes are not deceiving you; we reported last month how French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is this year's creative director for Diet Coke, and here are the fruits of his labour.

The ‘Day’ and 'Night' bottles, available from Harvey Nichols from April 16

The enfant terrible of Paris Fashion Week has conceived two bottle designs, named 'Day' and 'Night' - which harbour all the design elements of his famous fragrances. The feminine corsets are there in the 'Night' design, while 'Day' features the Breton stripes Gaultier has spent 35 years making his signature.

British actress Gemma Arterton helped Gaultier unveil the new styles at an event in London last night.

Fashion fans will be able to snap up the stylish beverages from Harvey Nichols stores nationally from April 16, but look out for the chic collector's set - which includes a limited-edition iconic Diet Coke glass featuring a blue and white stripy motif.

A third bottle, entitled 'Tattoo' and inspired by Gaultier's love of body art, will be released later in the year.

Designer Jean Paul Gaultier with Gemma Arterton. Photo: Rex

Gaultier follows in the footsteps of maverick Karl Lagerfeld, who was Diet Coke's designer-in-residence last year, as well as designers Matthew Williamson, Gianfranco Ferrè, Marni, and Roberto Cavalli.

SPOTTED: VUITTON’S ATTENTION TO DETAIL

It’s not unusual to see crews of artists inside the windows of luxury boutiques on a seasonal basis, but to see skilled artisans work their magic on scaffolding? Only in Paris — and only Louis Vuitton.  We stumbled across the not-yet open Vuitton Joaillerie store on the corner of the Place Vendôme on the Rue de la Paix after Balmain’s fall show.  At least six people were hard at work, affixing individual gold, pin-sized dots to the already sketched design.  If they put that much work into the cardboard barriers, we can’t wait to see what they do with the boutique.

Is There Life After Modeling?

I found this article interesting for those who are in the Modeling Field.. Check it out 

Karolina Kurkova, Angela Lindvall, and Coco Rocha plot the future of their relevance.

Courtesy of New York News Mag/ By Jada Yuan 

High above New York on the 21st-floor balcony of the Cooper Square Hotel, German television is filming Karolina Kurkova teaching ten aspiring models how to walk a runway. “It literally looks like we’re walking on skyscrapers!” the Czech native, 27, says in enthusiastic English that later will be partially dubbed over in German. The girls, plucked from a Deutschland-wide search, at least pretend to understand.

Battling stiff winds and language barriers, Kurkova demonstrates three runway walks: high fashion, couture, and “show,” which basically means pretending to wear giant Victoria’s Secret wings—a technique in which Kurkova is quite expert. Then, to the delight of the Teutonic producers, she gets her heel stuck between floor slats. Her fumbling to free herself is a moment that, along with the many times she bursts into tears eliminating girls, will be played on repeat in stridently dramatic European promos.

The show, called Das Perfekte Model (The Perfect Model), is Kurkova’s first step toward building the kind of career that keeps a model in the spotlight after shoots have dried up. The greatest post-modeling successes in the past decade have been Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks. And not surprisingly, Kurkova and her producers are billing Das Perfekte Model as a toned-down, “documentary-style” counterpart to Klum’s second-best-known TV-hosting gig: the megahit Germany’s Next Topmodel (itself derived from Banks’s Top Modeljuggernaut).

Looming in the background of every model’s career, even one as thriving as Kurkova’s, is the inevitable fear: aging out. The thirst for fresh faces in modeling is so intense that the Council of Fashion Designers of America has issued a plea for designers and modeling agencies not to let girls under 16 walk at New York Fashion Week. Not everybody complies.




So what’s a woman shunned from a girl’s world to do? Try acting (Milla Jovovich, Amber Valetta, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks), play music (Karen Elson,Irina Lazareanu, Banks again), become a photographer (Helena Christensen, Banks again), start a beauty line (Miranda Kerr), start a yoga line (Christy Turlington), start a clothing line (Kate Moss, Erin Wasson), start a jewelry line (too many to count), start a furniture line (Cindy Crawford), get a bachelor’s in comparative religion and Eastern philosophies (Turlington again), run a charity (where to begin), run for Estonian Parliament (Carmen Kass), marry rich (Stephanie Seymour, Christie Brinkley), or become the First Lady of France (Carla Bruni).




In dance, another industry ruthless in spitting out its genetically gifted workers, there’s actually a foundation for “career transition” funded by the Newhouse family. Modeling has no such safety net. “You’d be stupid not to think you have a shelf life,” says Iman, 56, who now runs a $25 million cosmetics company. “I knew I had to become a brand. And that brand was me.”


But the trick for Kurkova and two other models who are thinking hard about their futures—Coco Rocha and Angela Lindvall—is how to build a populist brand without screwing up their still-active careers as high-fashion models.




Put another way: Can a QVC line ever coexist with the cover of Vogue?




The youngest of the three is Rocha, age 23, who’s big enough she got a shout-out in a Kanye West song; Tyra Banks has called her “the queen of posing.” Rocha thought “modeling was just going to be a summer thing and then I’d go home,” she says. “Then I went to Asia. Then I worked with Steven [Meisel].” Now she even has friends like Karlie Kloss, 19, arguably the most famous face of her generation, joking that girls in Rocha’s class (“the old-lady crew,” as Rocha calls them) have stuck around too long. Yet Rocha is convinced she’s found modeling’s holy grail for longevity: social media. “Once I started making noise, I thought, I’m not going anywhere.”




Making noise certainly worked for Heidi Klum, 38, who started her career in 1992—too late to be a supermodel and too curvy to be a waif. Clothes “would get stuck on my boobs,” Klum says. She wound up doing catalogues until she “nagged and nagged and nagged” Victoria’s Secret. She got a publicist, who helped her get Sports Illustrated, which led to Leno, which proved she could do TV, which led to Project Runway and her becoming far more influential in fashion than she ever was as a model.




It also worked for Cindy Crawford, 46. Against her agents’ advice, she took an unpaid job as the first host of MTV’s House of Style, which gave her a new, large, male fan base that led to a huge campaign with Pepsi. “I definitely made a choice to go more all-America,” she says. “I felt that was my brand.”

PRINCE ROYCE WINS FOUR 2011 PREMIO LO NUESTRO AWARDS MAKING HIM ONE OF THE TOP WINNERS OF THE NIGHT

PERFORMS BRAND NEW HIT SINGLE

“LAS COSAS PEQUEÑAS”

ON TELEVISION FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

MIAMI, Florida (February 17, 2012).  Latin music’s hottest breakthrough artist, Prince Royce, reached yet another milestone last night at the twenty-fourth annual Premio Lo Nuestro Awards by taking home four awards, making him one of the biggest winners of the night alongside Shakira, who also garnered four awards.

Royce, who had received five nominations, won in the following categories: Collaboration of the year, Tropical Song of the Year, Male Tropical Artist of the Year and Contemporary Tropical Artist of the Year.

“Tonight has been a dream come true for me. I want to thank my fans who are responsible for granting me this amazing honor, as well as my record label, my work team, the radio stations and retail that continue to support me every day.” Royce expressed.

Royce also performed “Las Cosas Pequenas” (“The Little Things”), the first single off Royce’s second bachata álbum “Phase II”, which drops on April 10^th.  Just a week after its radio release, the song is already a hit, having debuted at # 1 on the Tropical Songs chart and # 4 on the Latin Songs chart (across all genres) in the United States & Puerto Rico according to Mediabase and Billboard.

The twenty-two year old singer/songwriter’s phenomenal success is unprecedented in the Latin music industry.  Royce closed 2011 having garnered eleven #1s on Billboard’s Year End Charts, including: #1 Latin Album of the Year; #1 Hot Latin Song of the Year (for Corazón Sin Cara), #1 Top Latin Artist – Male; and #1 Hot Latin Songwriter of the Year.  With his self-titled debut album, he has been certified triple platinum in the US and Puerto Rico and has received four 2011 Latin Billboard Awards; three 2011 Premio Lo Nuestro Awards; four 2012 Premio Lo Nuestro; four 2011 Premios Juventud Awards and two Latin GRAMMY nominations (2010 & 2011).

Prince Royce is signed to Top Stop Music, an independent boutique record label and management firm founded by Gregory Elias and Sergio George.

For more information on Prince Royce, visit: www.princeroyce.com, www.twitter.com/PlanetRoyce, and www.facebook.com/PrinceRoyce.

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Media Contact, Prince Royce:

Jennifer J. Nieman, The Nieman Group, 305.335.3054, jennifer@niemangroup.com  

One of My Favorites from New York Fashion Week Fall 2012 CAROLINA HERRERA!!

Hey Hey Fashionistas!!! February is one of my favorite months not only because it's the month of Love also because is when one of my favorite fashion Weeks takes place in NY!!! Here is one of my favorites shows from from NYFW Fall 2012...