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Girl ID's LEGO Starwars Characters with Her Mouth

How the hell does she do this???

Posted in > Entertainment > WTF??? on 03/10/2010, at 02:50:48 PM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Mad Men Barbies

After three seasons, "Mad Men," the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. There have been magazine cover articles, calendars and an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" all devoted to it, spoofs on "The Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live," and even a "Mad Men" category on "Jeopardy."

Soon, the show will enter a realm of the pop-culture pantheon that its creator, Matthew Weiner, says has surprised even him: Mattel plans to bring out versions of Barbie and Ken styled after four "Mad Men" characters.

The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors' series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them "I Love Lucy" and "The X-Files," the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested retail price of $74.95 each.

Posted in > Entertainment > Barbie on 03/10/2010, at 11:24:35 AM - Permalink - Source: New York Times

Alexander McQueen's Last Works Given Final Honors

Alexander McQueen's last works were given final honors yesterday by his trusted team in a hushed and dignified showing that went to his core as a designer who scaled the heights of couture accomplishment.

Sarah Burton, his right hand, described how, in beginning this collection, McQueen had turned away from the world of the Internet, which he had so powerfully harnessed in his last show. "He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion," she said. "He was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it. He was coming in every day, draping and cutting pieces on the stand." The 16 outfits shown had been 80 percent finished at the time of his death.

View all 16 outfits.

Posted in > Fashion > Alexander McQueen on 03/10/2010, at 11:05:26 AM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Calvin Klein Expletive Laced Underware Ads

Calvin Klein is launching a series of expletive-ridden videos to promote CK's new men 's X Underwear collection. The brand's new microsite, xmarkyourspot.com, features mini-films with ripped campaign models Kellan Lutz of Twilight fame, Mehcad Brooks from True Blood, Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasco and Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata.

Shot by photographer Mikael Jansson and film producer Darius Khondji in New York, the four greased-up and nearly naked men show off the Spring 2010 cotton and microfiber underwear, while baiting viewers with a string of bleep-ed out comments.

The video ads, which are perhaps too racy for the U.S., will play on MTV in Spain, Italy and the U.K.

Posted in > Fashion > Calvin Klein on 03/10/2010, at 10:17:39 AM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Lady Gaga Leaks More Photos from "Telephone" Video

The premiere of the "Telephone" video is tomorrow on E!, but Lady Gaga is giving her little monsters another taste of what they can expect from the 10-minute clip.

Gaga has said that "Telephone," picks up where "Paparazzi" left off. According to reports, Beyoncé breaks Gaga out of jail in the Tarantino-inspired clip, which also features Gaga's pals Semi Precious Weapons. The slow leak of photos and tiny pieces of information has helped Gaga build anticipation for the video.

"What I like about it is it's a real true pop event," she told Phoenix's 104.7 KISS FM last month. "And when I was younger, I was always excited when there was a big giant event happening in pop music and that's what I wanted this to be."

Posted in > Entertainment > Lady Gaga on 03/10/2010, at 08:51:54 AM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Chloé: It's All About the Pants

Few collections summed up the new sobriety emerging in Paris like the latest show from Paris house Chloe on Tuesday, March 9, where the emphasis was very much on making a clever commercial, rather than an avant-garde, fashion statement. This was a fall 2010 collection all about poise, where the fluid lines and ever so slightly curvy silhouette were easy to understand and, more relevantly, to wear. This was the most assured performance by Chloes creative director Hannah MacGibbon since her appointment two years ago.

The house is about the pants. We have a wonderful selection of the pants, said Chloe chief executive Ralph Toledano. Pants havent played such a strong role on Chloes runways in recent seasons, but Mr. Toledano says that the brand made a conscious decision to showcase what it does best: Its all about the quality, excellent quality.

Posted in > Fashion > Chloé on 03/10/2010, at 07:26:57 AM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Models Brave Icebergs & Slush for Karl Lagerfeld

Models wear creations by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel as part of his Fall-Winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented at The Grand Palais in Paris, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

Posted in > Fashion > Chanel on 03/09/2010, at 03:59:43 PM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Alexander McQueen: When I'm Dead, Hopefully this House will Still be Going

Alexander Mcqueen clearly wanted his line to live on...

"People always ask if I think about a concept or the show or the front row or whatever first. No! Fuck off! The client comes first! The collection is driven by what clients want in different parts of the world, so I want them to be able to see it straight away and to judge it for themselves. Well, I just think that which celebrities are wearing it, what reviews say - none of it matters if it's all there for people to make their own minds up. I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above the earth." - Alexander McQueen in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Love magazine

Posted in > Fashion > Alexander McQueen on 03/09/2010, at 01:47:18 PM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

Lindsay Lohan Confirms She's Done with Ungaro

Lindsay Lohan confirmed to WWD that she is no longer part of Ungaro's design team. At Monday afternoon's Kenzo show, Lohan was asked why she hadn't been at Ungaro earlier that morning. She replied: "Because I don't work for them anymore." Prompted for more specifics, she noted, "There're legal things going on; I can't really discuss it."

After hiring Lohan last year, former Ungaro CEO and President Mounir Moufarrige told WWD, "Designer-led fashion is likely not to be enough. It's a slow process going the traditional route." Moufarrige stepped down last December and declined to comment on Lohan and Ungaro when reached on Monday.

Posted in > Celebrity Gossip > Lindsay Lohan on 03/09/2010, at 01:12:39 PM - Permalink - Source: Olivia's Obsession

FusionBeauty Signs Kim Kardashian, Launches Cheek Plumpers

Over the next year, expect to see several new "colorceuticals" debut - the term FusionBeauty has coined to describe scientifically infused color products that deliver both immediate and long-term benefits. And who better to officially rep the brand than the pouty, high cheek-boned starlette of the moment - Kim Kardashian.

"FusionBeauty is a smart, sexy, forward-thinking company that continues to push the boundaries of the beauty industry. I deeply admire them for their beauty innovations and commitment to philanthropy, and I'm so excited to represent a brand that I have been a long time fan of," says Kardashian.

Starting in May, you'll see a limited edition set of four brand new LipFusion Color Shines - the Luxe Boudoir Capsule Collection - which will raise funds for the Seven Bar Foundation, a non-profit that provides microfinancing loans to women in underprivileged and poverty-stricken areas of the world. The campaign is a continuation of FusionBeauty's "Kiss Away Poverty" initiative, which they started in September, and will donate $1 for every lipgloss sold through Fall 2010. Look for that plumping technology to make the leap from lips to cheeks as FusionBeauty introduces a lightweight creme to powder blush that contains Amplifat, a concentrate suspended in calcium-based microspheres, which is the same ingredient found in Radiesse injectable facial fillers. It's claimed that Amplifat stimulates your skin's production of collagen to make for a more voluminous, smoother and smaller pore-sized cheek surface.

Posted in > Fashion > Kim Kardashian on 03/09/2010, at 09:33:11 AM - Permalink - Source: StyleList