Jewel Tones Are The New Black! Reds, blues, greens, golds...It seems like every year Hollywood is getting bolder and brighter on the red carpet. I think nude is a firm favourite that flatters everyone and anyone. I won't mention the worse dressed, we can leave that to Joan Rivers and Kelly Osbourne.
My best dressed list includes Clare Danes & Emma Stone (who by the way has been wowing the red carpet consistently, who's the stylist?) both in Calvin Klein. Olivia Wilde in Marchesa, Anne Hathaway, who in Armani actually looked sexy and not prim. Christina Hendricks and January Jones in Versace stole the show in scorching red gowns. And cannot forget Angelina Jolie who literally dazzled, also in a Versace number.
Who Was Your Best Dressed At The 2011 Golden Globes?
Nothing to do with fashion, or film or music or Hollywood - although it has come to light that one congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is the first cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow. I like to keep up with news Stateside.
This report really affected me because this could happen anywhere and to anyone, especially within this political climate (London student protests included). This particular story was a mindless and devastating act of violence that saw a 9 year old murdered. Although I follow political reports, especially if I'm in a foreign country, I don't like to make political comments. Also there's a reason why I'm not a political news reporter! so look at what the Huffington Post had to say about it all (including comments from actor Alec Baldwin!)
Giffords seen here with House speaker John Boehner. Photo by westchesterbuzz.com
My LA story - As a Brit In LA, I am always looking to immerse myself in the culture and have as many experiences as possible. This trip was filled with activities that were central to my application, as an actress, for my US artist Visa. Oh boy! And I wasn't prepared beforehand on what that entailed and all the things I would have to do to achieve this.... Well I attended some great events for great causes, such as Actor's For Oceans, feauturing a certain True Blood actor! And, yes, I am still waiting. I will let you know....
Meanwhile Please check out some unpublished pictures below & my Editor's Blog entry on My LA Adventure at STYLE BIBLE.
And girl crush - 20 year old Sessilee Lopez has graced many covers of Vogue, international campaigns and walked catwalks the world over. I love the fact that she was on the cover of Latina magazine, because of her Dominican, Portuguese, Cuban heritage. But it's such a shame reading a few negative comments of the fact that because she is also mixed with African American or that she doesn't speak Spanish therefore she shouldn't be on the cover. Who says!? That type of racism (any type) is so disappointing, sad, dated and colonial.
BUT there are plenty of positive comments that over ride the above, praising the diversity of Latina magazine, championing and embracing the mix of cultures, identities and ethnicity's.
She's simply stunning and I have walked with her in London shows and she is always the consummate pro.
Let's take a moment to admire Sessilee's beauty.
(Next Week my favourite British model)
Pictures Vogue, Vogue Nippon, Bazaar, Vogue Italia.
All photos belong to Luminous Phenomenon.
Now that 2011 has opened with a bang! We look to what films will be opening early this year. And now with the awards season approaching, the industry heavy weights will be deciding what to vote for (and what to wear). The obvious contenders, are the highly anticipated King's Speech, Black Swan and a personal favourite; Blue Valentine, which I was lucky enough to attend the premiere in Cannes during the festival.
One other film caught my eye - the story of a 14 year old girl, raised by her ex-CIA father, to be a cold-hearted killing machine - it's a must-see. Especially with such a talented cast and crew. Saoirse Ronan(Atonement, The Lovely Bones) as the 14 year old, Eric Bana as her father, Cate Blanchett and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) and screenplay by David Farr (Spooks).
I would watch just for Saoirse Ronan's performance!
Oh How I loved those shoes! I remember getting ready in 20 minutes for this world premiere of film Inglorious B*stards, as I came straight from a shoot - but when you're wearing Louis Vuitton, it makes it a tad easier. Those LV tribal heels can never been worn again, since worn to death by every fashion editor/singer/actress/sister of fashion on the planet, a few men too probably... ladies including Beyonce, Alexa Chung, Victoria Beckham, Amber Rose.... and mercilessly copied on the British high-street. Banished! But I still love them! Although the matching over sized leopard clutch is another story, now that's a classic leopard print accessory to satisfy my leopard print obsession & to be paraded under your arm at cocktail parties.
Continuing with my royal fashion reporting (no, not Kate's dress), general obsession and fashion-nation with Tom Ford's design and film stylings. Here is his not-publicly-seen-before-almost-impossible-to-have-got-a-ticket Spring / Summer 2011 Womenswear show.
On the one occasion I met him, he bet me that I could lift my eyebrows (in a wide-eyed expression) and that he could not. Why? To this day I don't know, but I like many women, I love him.
Obviously I was unavailable for this show.....
But I've never walked in or watched a show quite like this one (although with the odd pulled in favour from his starry mates/clients/supers/movie star muses...) He makes it look so cinematic and magical.
Enjoy!
As we've unwrapped all our presents, we start wrapping up this year.... So why not take a trip down memory lane and see one of the things I got up to this year. I shot a cover story for a French magazine, photographed by award-winning British photographer David Yeo and styled by celeb stylist, PUSH IT magazine online contributing editor and creative consultant Marian Kihogo. Here are some backstage behind the scenes pictures.
Marian is also a friend, we first met on my first shoot with David Yeo for a feature shoot and interview for the same magazine where Marian was previously London-fashion-editor.
Check out what Marian had to say about me on her fabulous website here!
2010, It's a wrap !!
Fashion Credits - First & last picture sequin top and white skirt Manjit Deu, second picture dress by Terexov, Fourth picture top by Terexov and skirt by Tarvydas, Fifth picture long coloumn dress by Terexov. Jewellery throughout by Jessica McCormack All behind the scene images by Marian Kihogo.
My days studying at the Open University, Chelsea College of Art, whilst modeling, help set me up for the world of film and theatre. Big time. I learnt a lot about drama from poetry and literature. At least a lesson or two on how to be a Drama Queen. Here I present a poem I wrote & that was published in the Karina Nielsen's wonderful magazine Vomit In The Mainstream :
Now is the time to think of Peace,
We must, Peace that falls on us like a blanket of dust,
Left by a bomb-blasted building, scattered with souls,
On tainted blood soaked soil, whose cries are ignored
By gunfire and the smell of oil.
Now is the time to think of Peace,
That will silence the streets, of miss-educated heads with no home,
Who think they’re alone..... and poor, who fire guns at innocents,
Whilst playing territorial tug of war.
Now is the time to think of Peace
Where demented Power fired up by greed
And Poverty pretends there are too many mouths to feed,
Where diamonds are stolen and families never to be seen,
As rich ringed fingers gush and preen.
Now is the time to think of Peace
Where Religion shows it’s many faces
Where it claims to own its many places, but will refuse the entry,
And make separation of many races.
Now is the time to think of Peace
Where Women are passed around like pawns
Enslaved behind walls, in a city that ignores their
Confused calls.
Now is the time to think of Peace.
Part 2 of Poetry Hourhas two of my favourite poems. Both using lively imagery, effective repetition and metaphors. Text using a short two line stanza and regular rhyme pattern showing brilliantly the dangers of texting (sexting?) and the amount of emotion that can be invested in one text. Evidence of being a fan of Shakespeare with Hour being in the form of a traditional 14 line Love Sonnet, with a regular rhyme scheme, but using modern language & making it more accessible. from one of my favourite contemporary female poets - who happens to be the current Poet Laureate as of 2009; Carol Ann DuffyBoth poems taken from Duffy's most recent collection of adult poetry Rapture, which won the 2005 T. S Eliot Prize.
look for your small xx
feeling absurd. The codes we send arrive with a broken chord. I try to picture your hands, their image blurred. Nothing my thumbs press will ever be heard.
Love's time's beggar, but even a single hour, bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.
For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair like treasure on the ground; the Midas light turning your limbs to gold. Time slows. for here we are millionaires, backhanding the night
so nothing dark will end our shinning hour, no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear, no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit
than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,
but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
