12/11/2015

VS models eat three meals before show

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The 24-year-old model may have been sticking to a green diet in the months leading up to the brand's annual event but she has admitted all the models were required to tuck into breakfast, lunch and dinner before they walked the runway at Lexington Avenue Armory in New York last night (10.11.15).

Speaking on Australia's KIISFM's 'Kyle and Jackie O Show' prior to the catwalk event, she said: ''There's breakfast, we have lunch [and] we have a dinner before the show starts. We need to keep our energy up so it's important that we do eat.''

Despite being strict on her diet and exercise regime, the brunette beauty has admitted she occasionally caves into her sugar cravings and can't help devouring a tub of ice-cream or demolishing a slab of chocolate.

She explained to 'Sunrise': ''I like to eat a lot of protein and vegetables, [and] drink lots of water. I love my food, I love chocolate, I like ice cream, so I'll eat it every now and then.''

Meanwhile, this year's Victoria's Secret Show was a huge success after Behati Prinsloo - who walked first in 2014 - again opened the annual event, followed by long-time angel Alessandra Ambrosio and Candice Swanepoel.

Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid made their debut, while Lily Aldridge stole the show when she walked down the catwalk in this year's $2 million Fireworks Fantasy Bra.

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will air on CBS on Tuesday, December 8.Read more at:evening gowns

10/11/2015

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrates 600 Years of Textile Patterns

The idea of textile patterns of the Renaissance may not get your blood boiling, but there’s no denying that the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620,” is a visual feast. Staged throughout the museum’s circular Robert Lehman wing, the show starts off with 16th-century prints and fabrics and ends triumphantly on sparkling Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio di Sant’Angelo, and Todd Oldham pieces from the 20th century, proving that pattern has been a great unifier across places, genres, and centuries of fashion.

On Friday evening, Oldham was on hand to discuss his own love affair with archival patterns and fabrics with curator Femke Speelberg and a group of guests. “The DNA between them all is so obvious, even in the dress that I made, in proximity to this exquisite Russian apron from the 1800s,” he said, motioning to a glittering minidress of his design from the ’90s paired with traditional Russian garb from a century earlier. “When you look at those two pieces together, the Russian dress from the 1800s looks like it could be the contemporary dress, and my dress looks much, much older, but they do look very closely in the way we bifurcated the upper parts of the dress and where we set motifs or volumes. They’re practically identical.” The same could be said for a traditional Nordic Fair Isle sweater, which was paired with a ’70s iteration from Yves Saint Laurent, but could also stand against the cropped versions shown in Raf Simons’s final Dior collection this October.

The proliferation of cross-cultural borrowing of pattern and print is nothing too new, Speelberg’s exhibition points out. Thanks to the discovery of the printing press in the 15th century, textile pattern books became popular fodder by the 1530s, allowing ideas to be carried from Italy to France to the Germanic Northern states throughout the Renaissance. The Renaissance printing boom was essentially the Instagram of its day, bringing new imagery into homes far and wide and inspiring a new generation of textile designers. The only thing to remember at the Met exhibit: Don’t double-tap the art.Read more at:prom dresses | evening dresses

05/11/2015

Cancer patient Annalise Scott marries sweetheart Kev Wilson in hospital wedding organised in 24 hours

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THERE were tears amid the smiles when cancer sufferer Annalise Scott held her wedding day at James Cook University Hospital.

The bride is a cancer patient at the Middlesbrough hospital's ward 14 and her wedding, the first ever held at the Trinity Holistic Centre, a support centre in the hospital grounds, was organised in just 24 hours and held last week.

She married Kev Wilson on his 52nd birthday wearing an ivory gown donated by Laura Day bridal and other help came from the children at Playdays nursery who made paper hearts for decoration.

Annalise, 45, of Redcar, thanked staff and volunteers across the hospital and support centres who donated items such as fairy lights, silver bells, flowers, plants and food. Both the centre and the cancer ward were decorated for the special day.

“It has been an amazing day and I cannot thank the staff from ward 14 enough, for everything they have done for us and for looking after me,” she said. "Also thanks to the Trinity Holistic Centre staff and everyone who has helped make our wedding day so special. All of the staff were so welcoming and helpful throughout the whole day. We really can’t thank them enough."

Heather McLean, business manager at the centre, which requires about £330,000 in charitable donations every year to keep it going, said it was the first time the centre had been asked to perform a wedding, which was conducted by the hospital chaplain.

She added it was “heart-warming” to see the way people rallied round to make the bride’s day so special.

“It was a privilege to be part of this lovely couple’s special day and to see the way so many volunteers just pulled together and went out of their way to help,” she said.

“This included people who had never even met Annalise or Kevin.

“We had 22 hours’ notice, but in that time, Annalise could have had three wedding dresses as people brought different ones in.

“People were donating random bits and pieces to decorate the centre, and we thought it might look a bit eclectic – but it looked beautiful.”

Kind volunteers turned hairstylists and beauticians for the day, giving Annalise and other patients on Ward 14 a makeover especially for the ceremony.

Staff at the Holistic Centre, which provides complementary therapies for cancer sufferers, turned the centre into a bespoke wedding venue, complete with a ceremony arch, flowers, balloons, lights and wedding buffet.

Allsorts cake makers and decorators donated a wedding cake, Flower Pot florists provided the flowers and 1st Stop Party Shop sent balloons.Read more at:http://www.marieprom.co.uk/backless-prom-dresses