Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)

Short, majestically coiffed, with hooded eyes, an orange-tinted tan and the peevish impatience of an absolute monarch: that is Valentino Garavani, the Italian couturier known simply as Valentino, as he appears in Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary portrait, “Valentino: The Last Emperor.” Watching the movie is a little like gorging on chocolate and Champagne until that queasy moment arrives when you realize you’ve consumed far too much.

STEPHEN HOLDEN

TARA Stiles

TARA Stiles does not talk about sacred Hindu texts, personal intentions or chakras. She does not ask her yoga classes to chant. Her language is plainly Main Street: chaturangas are push-ups, the “sacrum” the lower back. She dismisses the ubiquitous yoga teacher-training certificates as rubber stamps, preferring to observe job candidates in action.

In her classes, videos and how-to book, “Slim Calm Sexy,” Ms. Stiles, a 29-year-old former model with skyscraper limbs and a goofball sensibility, focuses on the physical and health aspects of yoga, not the spiritual or the philosophical. For traditionalists, this is heresy, reducing what they see as a way of life to just another gym class.

But if she has deviated from the conventional path, it has not slowed her down. Ms. Stiles, a native of rural Illinois who owns Strala Yoga in NoHo, has built a powerful yoga brand, with no less than Jane Fonda and Deepak Chopraamong her devotees.

read the entire article at : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/nyregion/23stretch.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

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How do I look?

Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!

A woman is like a teabag...

Lindsay Lohan Fired from New Film for Not Being 'Bankable'; Movie Called The Other Side

By Ryan Christopher DeVault

Lindsay Lohan was fired from the new movie The Other Side according to TMZ. The reason to fire Lindsay Lohan seems to have stemmed from their belief that Lohan is no longer a "bankable" movie star. It's definitely a plausible argument, and with all of the negative press that Lohan has been bringing herself lately, it's also nothing that any new film would want to associate with. It's been quite a while since Lohan was involved with anything that could be considered a success, with her last success considered to be Herbie Fully Loaded. That film only made $66 million in theaters though, coming from a script that the studio had been hoping would easily pass the $100 million threshold.
The recent years for Lindsay Lohan in Hollywood have just seemed to be a long line of bad decisions, both in film as well as in her personal life. She was paid $7.5 million to star in 2006's Just My Luck, but the film only made $17.3 million in U.S. box office receipts. Then there was I Know Who Killed Me, which only made $7.23 million in the U.S. She also failed to bring a strong audience to Georgia Rule, which brought in $18.9 million, and ran her total to just under $44 million combined in box office totals for her last three major films. It's not a great number with the rising cost of putting together a Hollywood picture, and had to be a strong consideration behind dropping her from this new film. The Other Sidehas quite a few recognizable names associated with the film already, including Woody Harrelson, Jason Lee, and Anjelica Houston. Billed as an adventure comedy, the film seems like one banking on a supporting cast that could work well together. The pitfalls of including someone in that mixture that is having legal problems can kill the bottom line for a film, and it seems that the producers no longer wanted to hitch their trailer to Lindsay Lohan. If she can't hold down a supporting role like this, it could quite possibly lead to the end of her acting career in movies. She had seemed to be the next big thing five years ago, but this could be the flame out that people were predicting.

I fear the monkey in your soul

I got one and you want four
It's so hard to help you
I can't keep up with you no more
And you treat me like it's a sin
But you can't lock me in
You want me here with you right to the end
No thank you my friend
I fear the monkey in your soul

Won't you turn that bebop down
I can't hear my heart beat
Where's that fatback chord I found?
Honey don't you think it was wrong
To interrupt my song?
I'll pack my things and run so far from here
Goodbye dear

I fear the monkey in your soul

R Je rêve avait

- a Lagerfeld Fashion Opus feat. Lily Allen

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Nicole is a speed junkie part 2

Nicole Fox America’s Next Top Model Cycle 13 Winner - America’s Next Top Model Cycle 13 was over and Nicole Fox is the winner. So, who is Nicole Fox?

Nicole Fox is a 18-year-old girl from Louisville, Colorado. She was born with a bloody eyeball and she is the first petite model in the shows history. Nicole is entitled to a Seventeen magazine cover shoot and six-page spread, a spot at Wilhelmina Models and a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics. Wow….

She beat Laura Kirkpatrick on the finale. She completed her CoverGirl commercial smoothly and conquering the final runway.

Laura Kirkpatrick could not deliver something emotional to the camera Nigel Barker asked her. Even so, Jay Manuel disliked the way Nicole read her CoverGirl commercial because she sounded like a snob. During the judging panel, the judges liked Laura’s walk better than Nicole’s but appreciated Nicole’s signature walk.

Then they went through the girls’ CoverGirl shoot. Nigel cheered for Laura’s photo while Tyra loved Nicole’s relax but confident shot. The judges decided upon Nicole as the winner after considering their portfolios. Congratulations, Nicole Fox!

-jeffleyland.com

art and commerce

From left: Dolce & Gabbana’s polyamide, acetate and lurex dress, dolcegabbana.it. Dolce & Gabbana necklace and belt; Louis Vuitton bag. Yves Saint Laurent’s wool grain de poudre jacket, vest and pants and cotton shirt, at select Yves Saint Laurent boutiques, 212.980.2970. Philip Treacy London hat; Yves Saint Laurent tie.

Location: Centre Pompidou, Paris
Architects: Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers

Photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Styled by Alex White

October 2009

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