Gwen Stefani Fronts InStyle UK January 2012

Gwen Stefani rocks the pages of the January 2012 issue of InStyle UK. The No Doubt singer/designer posed for a hot spread shot by Michelangelo di Battista. She also spoke about while topics including her signature look, focus on health, music career and her responsibilities as a mother to her sons. Check out highlights from her interview: On how she came to arrive at her signature beauty look: “When I was 17, my grandmother got me a gift pack with all these different-colored lipsticks and one of them was burgundy. I tried it on, looked in the rear-view mirror and said, ‘That looks good’. I’ve worn it ever since. The make-up goes on every day, even if I’m…

Catwalk Curves: Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels

Let’s play Devil’s Advocate and consider points for Size Zero models rather than curvy girls not just in catwalk, but in other types of modelling too. According to Professor Brett Martin of Bath University it is believed that women were more likely to approve of products advertised by the thinner girls and that publicity featuring thin models were more likely to convince other women to buy products. Women would not respond better to models of average build. Looking at fashion model icons who are thin such as Lily Cole who has had a VERY successful career so far, it would appear that those who employ her and others like her must be convinced to affect…

Fight Against The Scales – Part 2

We all know the size zero hype puts us under pressure to conform but it begs the question, how much of our body insecurities, worries and problems are as a result of these reckless and irresponsible media and fashion trends? I would say that its time for all of us to wake up and see what is real and what is fantasy; we are exposed to a large machine that makes a lot of money. This includes the fashion world that makes and sells the size zero concept, the magazines that sells the dream that it’s achievable, and the beauty industry that sells the products to enable us to try and achieve it. It’s all…

Maria Buccalleti Beach Couture Fashion Show on The Yacht

If you missed this HOT event, you missed out BIG time! Picture this – LIVE fashion shoots, 28 Bikini Models, PARTYING, London,CELEBRITIES, and a SIZZLING BBQ all on ‘THE YACHT‘ on The River Thames! Superstar Magazine and London Fashion Models covered the ‘Maria Buccellati Beach Couture Fashion Show’. Presented by The Button Club and Richard Austin Rees PR & Fashion Management, The Maria Buccellati Beach Couture Fashion Show was certainly THE summer party to be at! Maria Buccalleti is a famous ex Supermodel and beach couture designer whose featured bikini collection looked MAGNIFICENT on each and every model. Her bikini range was EXOTIC-colourful and sexy, some designs were classically set off by pretty intricate diamante…

Catwalk Curves Part 2: Prada, Milan, Paris AND Louis Vuitton Like Curves on Runway…Do you?

When you think of the word ‘STYLE’, what cities do you associate it with? Paris and Milan perhaps?… Italians are KNOWN for their style, sheer chic and utter cool-ness. You only have to think of ‘vogue’ icons like Madonna and Lady Gaga both of whom are Italian. Curves made a comeback this year on the Italian catwalk, and GRACED the stage at MILAN Fashion Week. Miuccia Prada paraded four girls – Doutzen Kroes, Miranda Kerr, Lara Stone and Catherine Mcneil together to make one major statement: Autumn/Winter 2010 is all about curves! The clothes looked just incredible, Prada seems to be revisiting many of her classic 1990s looks: A-line knee-length sleek skirts, cute little jackets…

Fight Against The Scales – Part 1

Wouldn’t it be amazing if our society could forget its obsession with weight and its need to constantly measure it? I want us to see the reality in this unhealthy and addictive habit. I want people to see the truth. In my experience this common obsession of weighing ourselves can often be unrealistic, unhealthy and inconclusive on weight gained or lost. We don’t in reality get the whole picture when we look at that all in important perceived number, be it in either stone or kilograms. The majority of us unfortunately do not have the knowledge or education to put this number into context. We don’t understand what forces are at work within the body…

Catwalk Curves: Back to Marilyn Monroe – Part 1

Marilyn was THE style icon of the 50’s and beyond. She’s still the most admired figure from a different era with the most appealing body. Apart from her contribution to the fashion industry, she is, to many- the IDEAL woman, the IDEAL icon AND the IDEAL model. And yet she was 5ft 5½ and a size 10! So why is it now that the ideal is to be an unhealthy size ZERO imposed by the fashion industry? It is hard for many young girls and women to relate to the image given on the catwalk. Yes these models are stunning and have amazingly striking looks. However when some have starved themselves for the sake of…