The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were satisfying on so many levels: Jimmy Fallon rocked as host; some of our favorite actors like Edie Falco, Jane Lynch and Kyra Sedgwick (left) took home gold statuettes; and the fashion parade on the red carpet didn’t disappoint.
While we find America’s Next Top Model a guilty pleasure, we relate much more to the just-as-gorgeous over-35 contestants on TV Land’s She’s Got the Look, which premieres its third season tonight. Selected from thousands who applied, 10 women ranging in age from 35–54, including a bus driver, a prosecutor and a grandmother of six, compete for a prize package that includes a contract with Wilhelmina Models. (Photo credit: Kristian Dowling/PictureGroup)
A sneak preview of Eat Pray Love at an event celebrating the vendors partnered with the film had us salivating over the abundant food, exotic locations and sensuous romance in the screen adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir about her travels of self-discovery to Italy, India and Bali, Indonesia. The lush beauty of each locale leaps right off the screen — and makes us want to book a trip to all three!
After a survey of our overflowing closet, we’ve instated the “nightclub rule” — for one new item to enter, another has to leave. So as our wardrobe’s official bouncer, we’re excited to learn that shoppers who donate a pair of gently worn jeans to a bebe retail location receive $25 off the price of a new pair from bebe’s denim collection through July 31. The used jeans are donated to someone in need through Clothes4Souls, a new division of Soles4Souls, the international shoe charity we told you about when the nonprofit donated new and used shoes to Haiti following the devastating January earthquake.
We’ve scored deals on designer clothes, home furnishings and even luxury travel accommodations, thanks to sample sales. But our email inbox is getting overcrowded and we can’t keep track of all the items available on the growing list of discount sites. So we were intrigued to hear about MyNines.com, a “sample sale aggregator” of about a dozen sites that offer deals in fashion, jewelry, accessories, beauty, wine, travel and sports gear.
Now that Earth Day has come and gone, it may be easy to forget those promises we made to always consider the environment. What better way to remember the importance of being green than enjoying the outdoors with a picnic? But dining outside often creates a significant amount of garbage, especially if we use plastic forks, paper plates and disposable cups. So we plan to picnic this year using biodegradable tableware, such as the WASARA collection available from Branch Home, and packing our food in an eco-friendly picnic basket. To ensure the greening of our picnics, we’re going to incorporate eco-friendly recipes, such as the ones found in Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods (Wiley, 2010).
Hollywood’s elite turned out in force to honor filmmaker Mike Nichols at the 38th Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award gala, and with one A-lister after another, we almost got whiplash trying to keep up. We were all about the fashions, and some of them really earned that “A.” There was Annette Bening of the forthcoming The Kids Are Alright, stunning in turquoise blue satin, on the arm of dashing-as-ever husband Warren Beatty, and Diane Sawyer (Mrs. Nichols), out from behind the news anchor desk in an elegant black and silver gown with matching wrap. Brothers & Sisters’ Calista Flockhart, who recently wed Harrison Ford, rocked a figure-hugging knit column in a signature Missoni print.
We know many fashionistas who would kill to work at a magazine like Vogue or as a stylist to stars like Kate Winslet and Liv Tyler. But Stacy London, who did both, confesses she prefers her latest job as co-host of TLC’s What Not to Wear. “For me, it’s much more fulfilling and has led to a much deeper understanding of what style can do for people,” she says. When we caught up with London at a recent Discovery Channel press party, looking chic in a black sheath by Australia-based Asian designer Yeojin Bae, she was eager to share some of her best style tips and shopping strategies. (Photo credit: Brian Doben/TLC)
We’re all for taking care of our girls even in these tough economic times — and apparently we’re not alone! American women spent more than $8 billion on bras last year (a whopping $2 billion increase since 2004), according to the market research firm Mintel. One reason for the bra bonanza is Oprah. Ever since her famous “bra intervention” shows in 2005, more women have been going for proper fittings and discovering that they’ve been wearing the wrong size bra: typically a band that’s too big and a cup that’s too small.
We suspected the minute we walked out the door in our Union Jack dress, similar to the one made famous by Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls, that it was a mistake. But in the mid-’90s, we were more sartorially adventurous. We felt somewhat vindicated when we saw the Union Jack dress was recently named in a British poll as one of the top 10 most iconic dresses of the past 50 years, along with Princess Diana’s wedding gown and Marilyn Monroe’s infamous white dress. Shine from Yahoo! soon responded with an American list, a timely topic with the advent of two New York City exhibitions: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection at the Brooklyn Museum.
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