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Last night was the night of TV glam. The 61st Emmy Awards were held yesterday at the Nokia Theatre. The TV equivalent to the Oscars gathered together your fave TV actors and actresses as well as TV show hosts and just beautiful A-listers and socialites to celebrate the best shows, actors and directors this year.

Beautiful dresses, original designs, gorgeous silhouettes, so who was the hottest best dressed of the night?

Project Runway host Heidi Klum showed her beautiful pregnancy style in a custom-made black strapless lace gown with embroidered bodice by Marchesa. Her enormous baby bump was really hard to hide. The model is due this fall.

Though she said No to personal fashion line claiming she wasn’t “interested in doing it for my own ego”, Harry Potter star and the highest grossing lead actress of the decade, Emma Watson added she would willingly design a line if it was “beneficial to a cause”, and looks like she’s found the cause she was looking for!

Emma Watson will launch her first Spring/Summer 2010 designer collection next February!

Emma teamed up with People Tree to create a capsule lifestyle collection with all the proceeds going to the People Tree Foundation, a charity which aims to school farmers and artisans on sustainable fashion through training and environmental initiatives.

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These Scala Bio-Fir leggings are hailed as the latest tool for a woman’s arsenal in the battle of the bulge: tights that fight cellulite. While these leggings, which were developed with retailer John Lewis, aren’t the first that have used cellulite reduction as a primary marketing ploy, their £15 price tag makes Scala Bio-Fir leggings perhaps the first affordable pair.

So how do Scala Bio-Fir leggings work? The gallery above contains the graphic Scala and John Lewis released, but essentially the leggings are outfitted with crystals that, when they come in contact with the skin, emit infrared rays. Such rays increase the body’s metabolism, which speeds the process of fat breakdown in the body. Wearing tights for weight loss? I’m still a bit skeptical, but if you try the Scala Bio-Fir leggings and have a good experience, let us know!

You can find the Scala Bio-Fir leggings at the link below, although when I checked this morning, they were sold out.

John Lewis claims the leggings are most effective if worn for six hours a day for a continuous 30 days. After this, they recommend regular use. The same material is in Scala's Bio-Fir knickers, which broke John Lewis records with sales of 25,000 a month after their launch in July.

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Beyonce Knowles is to launch her own perfume. Now it has officically been announced that the ‘Single Ladies’ singer has signed a $20 million deal with a fragrance company Coty to create a scent that willembody her personality.

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Lindsay Lohan's designer role at Emanuel Ungaro confirmed.

Rumours have been circulating for months that fashion house Ungaro was interested in tapping Lindsay Lohan for a role at the label, and today WWD has confirmed that she will act as artistic director to the house's new creative director, Estrella Archs.

Archs replaces Estaban Cortazar who left earlier this year over alleged differences with CEO Mounir Moufarrige's idea to hire Lohan.

Lindsay's role will be to inject some youth and sex-appeal in to the brand which has been making a loss for several seasons. It also fulfils a lifelong ambition for the ELLE cover girl who has often spoken of designing her own collection, and already has her own leggings and tights line, 6126.

But will she be designing any of the clothes herself? Lindsay told WWD,

'I kind of oversee everything [Archs] does, while working with her.'

The first collection by Archs and Lohan will debut at Paris Fashion Week on 4th October. (

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Time passes so quickly that we often don’t notice how seasons change each other. But if you are a woman of fashion you have to go step in step with seasons as the fashion industry does.

Trends for the fall 2009 and winter 2010 are not much different from what we had the previous time but still there are some new things to mention here.

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Post-industrial waste, snarling dogs, and temperatures soaring to 40C are all part of a day's work for model Angela Lindvall.

Angela Lindvall, model, actress and mother of two, has just returned from the Telegraph Fashion shoot – a typical day of post-industrial waste, snarling dogs, and temperatures soaring to 40C at Le Mirage, a dried lake two hours from LA. Coincidentally, she was recently called for a second audition for a part in the remake of George Miller’s Mad Max, which was the inspiration for this photoshoot.

‘I think it is an omen,’ Lindvall says. ‘I’m hoping it means I’ll get the part.’

 
In 2007 she was one of six models photographed for Louis Vuitton’s s/s 08 ad campaign. It marked a return to the power of ‘the supermodel’. Lindvall sees that campaign as a eureka moment in her life. Being chosen to pose alongside Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Natalia Vodianova was, she says, a great honour.

Raised in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Lindvall says modelling was never even a passing thought when she was growing up. It was after her father enrolled her in a modelling school for fun during the summer holidays when she was 13 that her life changed.

 ‘There were about 30 girls and we put on a fashion show for agents from New York,’ Lindvall says.

 IMG, the agency that still represents Lindvall, invited her to New York for test shoots. Her agent then sent her to Paris, where she was booked on jobs for W magazine and Italian Vogue. ‘I sacrificed the rest of my teenage years to work in the industry,’ she says. ‘But I saw it as an investment. I worked hard and it has paid off.’

These days she lives with her children, Dakota, seven, and Sebastian, four, in a house with seven acres of land in Topanga Canyon, LA. Neil Young lived there and performed at the Topanga Corral, a nightclub that also saw performances from Emmylou Harris and Etta James. Lindvall takes her dog wherever she likes and her children run around dressed as wizards. Despite working in one of the most glamorous and artificial industries, she seems to live rather a boho home life.

She is an ardent environmentalist.

 ‘It drives me crazy to think that when I run my kitchen taps it goes down the same drain as my septic,’ Lindvall says. ‘I am replumbing my house so that all waste water, apart from the toilet, goes straight into my garden.’

Her next investment will be solar panels. Eight years ago she established the Collage Foundation, which promotes environmentally conscious choices among young people. She is also fronting a project called Clean By Design – an initiative to make manufacturing facilities for the fashion industry in China more sustainable.

There is no doubt Lindvall could have sacrificed more to have a bigger modelling career. But she is not driven by fame. Last season, when she was the star of French Elle magazine’s fashion issue, she found it odd to see huge images of herself on the walls at the launch party.

 ‘I still think it’s weird to see images of myself manipulated into this fantasy. I can’t help but ask, “How did this happen?”’

By Georgia Dehn 

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Nowadays it’s hard to find a lingerie collection without a couple of corsets or corset and panty sets. Corsets do look sexy.

Corsets were invented in France in the 16th century and were originally quilted waistcoats, worn by French women as an alternative to stiff corsets or stays.

They were only quilted linen, laced in the front, and un-boned. This garment was worn on informal occasions, while stays were worn for court dress. By the end of the century stays fell out of fashion and were fully replaced by corsets.

Later corsets became hugely popular with men but they claimed they weren’t wearing them for aesthetic purposes but rather to soothe back pain.

Even now, corsets can be worn by both men and women for fashion and medical purposes.

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Birds of a feather flock together, so why not fans of birds, too?

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist Waris Ahluwalia has taken inspiration for his forthcoming Omnia Vincit Amor (”Love Conquers All”) collection (see a making-of video here) from the photographs of birds in his friend Andrew Zuckerman’s forthcoming book, BIRD, and for Fashion’s Night Out, both Ahluwalia and Zuckerman will be at Barneys New York to give shoppers a preview of their avian artworks.

 “For the collaboration, I chose seven birds from Andrew’s book and made a limited-edition collection of seven pieces in enamel on silver,”

explains Ahluwalia (who—not so coincidentally—also makes a cameo appearance in Zuckerman’s Sundance-screened short High Falls).

Zuckerman will be signing copies of his book at Barneys, and the first 150 folks to show up at the event will receive limited-edition House of Waris pins; fans of the Omnia Vincit Amor pieces will have to wait until November to get their hands on them, however. In the meantime,

Fashion’s Night Outers taking wing to the Meatpacking District can get their urban bird watch on at the High Line, where Zuckerman, in conjunction with Friends of the High Line, will be projecting video shot in tandem with his BIRD snaps. Word is that a major New York City designer helped organize the installation, and that the same designer will be using images from BIRD in a collection TBD. (As the saying goes, a little birdie told us.) 

1. Admit it – There you’ve done it! You took a long, hard look in the mirror and put yourself asleep. Stop snoozing behind the style wheel and do something about it. There is absolutely no reason to look boring, unless you intentionally want to be perceived that way. Here, is where we could use your social worker skills for some.

2. Believe that you can be beautiful – Looking great is not only the best revenge, it’s the best self-confidence booster! Way back when, I began writing my Focus on Style column because so many women who I came across sadly thought that they could never be as beautiful as the models I worked with as a fashion stylist. Beauty is subjective. Looking gorgeous is a state of mind, plus some effort to make the most of what you’ve got! Every woman deserves to be her own favorite supermodel of loveliness.

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