Audrey Hepburn is named the UK’s ultimate timeless beauty
2014 June 27. | Szerző: shannon
Her gamine looks, trademark fringe and strong eyebrows made her loved by men and admired by women, and now Audrey Hepburn has been voted the UK’s ultimate timeless beauty.
The star of classic Hollywood films Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Roman Holiday and Funny Face beat Kate Middleton and Holly Willoughby to the top spot in a survey by Pears soap.
In the nationwide poll, more than a quarter of women (26 per cent) chose Audrey for her perennial appeal, far ahead of edgier beauties Cara Delevingne (1.15 per cent) and Kate Moss (0.75 per cent).
With her elfin features and tall, slender body, Hepburn broke the mould when she took her first starring role in 1953’s Roman Holiday. The film’s director Billy Wilder remarked, “After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along came class.”
The Hollywood photographer Leo Fuchs, commented on her sophisticated European-inflected looks, “Audrey was a singular person, there ain’t many like her. ‘Beautiful woman’ is very difficult to explain but she certainly was beautiful. She was very enticing at all times.”
The star herself said: “Whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn’t make my career on beauty.”
And she’s reported to have said, “Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside, but it doesn’t help if you’re ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.”
Pears commissioned its Timeless Beauty report to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the classic, transparent soap.
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In a poll of 2,000 British women, respondents were asked the traits they believed defined the notion of timeless beauty. Three quarters (75 per cent) named confidence, followed by 67 per cent who said happiness, while 58 per cent said having a sense of humour makes someone’s beauty timeless.
Audrey Hepburn’s fawn-like looks shot her to the top of the list, ahead of the Duchess of Cambridge who earned 16 per cent of the vote, and legendary Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly, who earned just 8.4 per cent of the vote.
This Morning co-presenter Holly Willoughby came in at number four (8.2 per cent) and Emma Thompson who possesses confidence, happiness and humour in spades, was voted fifth in the timeless beauty list.
Cosmetic surgery disqualifies someone from being a timeless beauty, according to the survey. For instance the likes of The Only Way Is Essex’s Lauren Pope and former Coronation Street actress Helen Flanagan failed to make the top 10 list, suggesting that natural looks are more appealing.
Interestingly, when it came to beauty routines, mothers had more influence on the women surveyed than celebrities. A fifth (20 per cent) cited their mums as their main beauty influence, and only four per cent said famous women or glossy billboard ads had an effect on their routines.
Many of us still swear by beauty tips passed on by our mothers and grandmothers and a third (31 per cent) say they still use tried-and-tested beauty tips from the older female members of their family such as taking a walk every day and using warm, then cold water to open pores.
No doubt delighted to hear that the nation’s women shun beauty fads for iconic products, Pears UK ambassador Naomi Isted said: “Beauty trends come and go but timeless beauty is all about taking care of yourself both inside and out.
“The list of timeless beauties reflects the values and ingredients British women told us they deem beautiful. Audrey Hepburn, the nation’s favourite, exuded confidence but also her long standing humanitarian work showed her to be kind – another top ingredient to being beautiful.
“Equally, we see Holly Willoughby, who came fourth in the poll, smiling every morning on daytime TV and we know that being happy is another top factor in appearing beautiful.”
With ‘Echoes of Armani’
2014 June 25. | Szerző: shannon
When performers start titling their efforts “whispers,” “memories” or “echoes” — like the “Echoes of Armani” show Tuesday — you can usually expect the farewell tour.
Giorgio Armani, on the other hand, isn’t going anywhere. As he has said many times in the press, Mr. Armani, who turns 80 in two weeks, probably will work until he drops. And he will continue to comb through his fertile back pages for ideas, motifs and gestures that have kept him in the game since the 1980 film “American Gigolo” and the body-hugging power suit.
One reason Mr. Armani remains by far the most successful designer ever to come out of Italy is his conviction that his original design note was pitched correctly. And he clearly was onto something because reverberations have rippled outward ever since.
Though the soft suiting we all now take for granted didn’t start with him, it was Mr. Armani who adapted core elements of traditional Neapolitan tailoring — natural shoulders, form-fitting suits, the use of half-linings and pliable, rather than rigid, woolens — and sold them to the world.
That he can still put it across was made clear by both Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani this week, where, in shows spaced several days apart, Mr. Armani and his team gave evidence of having appraised a design brief in need of invigoration and then provided a jolt.
They did it with monochrome graphics. In an Emporio show emptily titled “Avant Garde,” and enough prolonged to give Marina Abramovic a run for her money in terms of duration (more than 100 looks), Mr. Armani sent out peacoats, snug bombers, mackintoshes, shiny shirts with short sleeves and shoulders that were fused rather than stitched. Hatches, slashes, windowpane checks, fishnet patterns and lane-divider stripes covered almost everything.
The full, pleated trousers the designer prefers had been tapered to follow the now nearly universal fashion for a narrow leg. On the best style, a single skinny line of contrasting color traced the crease of the pants. Happily, the thick-soled white sneakers and paddock boots — more appealing than any footwear Mr. Armani has offered in some time — were free of hectic patterns. A man needs some place to rest his eye when he crosses his legs.
Mr. Armani’s main show, presented for an audience that included the singer Joe Jonas and the actor (and Armani Code poster boy) Chris Pine, was emotionally and tonally muted, opening with two slouchy belted trenches reminiscent of Italy in the postwar years.
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The classic Armani proportions remained in place: a visually constricted chest, flowing trousers, outerwear shapes either boxy or voluminously draped. And with the exception of several brightly striped tunic jackets that looked as though they’d been swiped from a gondolier’s closet, the palette was muted.
No trends were set and none were really expected. That is only half true. Following a practice increasingly common on runways here, Mr. Armani showed his men’s wear in two dominant and divergent sets of proportion. This likely indicates less about any design inspiration than it does about the importance of penetrating emerging markets. Lest anyone miss the message, roughly a fifth of the models were Asian.
DSquared2, always shown on an early morning at the end of fashion week, can usually be counted on to gin up something to rouse the spirits of a fashion flock that, at this point on a long circuit, is generally in the grip of some type of hangover. One time it was Rihanna, in the early “Umbrella” days. Once it was a troupe of semi-drag acrobat rockers.
The clothes seldom vary much — jeans, jeans jackets, khakis, bumfreezer blazers — and, according to the mood of the twin designers Dean and Dan Caten, are either laboriously distressed or ostentatiously schoolboy proper.
There are always semi-naked hunks and expanses of hairless flesh. There is reliably a theme, and this one had something vaguely to do with artists and models. If anything about the clothes was different from whatever was the last thing DSquared2 showed, it was probably the appliqué patterns and prints that lazily alluded to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
A group of neon get-ups with Stephen Sprouse-for-Louis Vuitton graffiti scrawled across them was shown on long-haired models who bore a vague resemblance to the designer. Reminded by this dim attempt at wit how exciting things are when real ideas by gifted designers such as Mr. Sprouse are in play, this reporter closed his notebook, laid down the pen and sprinted for the exit.
Dolce&Gabbana presents a flourish of crimson suits
2014 June 23. | Szerző: shannon
It’s no time to shy away from colour, men.
Milan Fashion Week previews opened on Saturday for next summer’s menswear, and already a trend is coming into focus: bold, electric colours.
Economic indicators suggest men have become as fashion-conscious as women. Now, Milan fashion designers are offering fashion-forward men ever more daring looks, digging into sartorial embellishments that long have been the playthings of women’s fashion: brocade, embroidery, sequins and jewel tones. Milan Fashion Week runs until Tuesday, with Bottega Veneta, Armani, Gucci and Ferragamo among the designers scheduled to show their looks in the coming days.
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A leisure suit silhouette with flared trousers, followed by leather biker outfit with laced outer seams, convey a vaguely 1970s vibe — or more specifically, an American honky-tonk tone — in Ennio Capasa’s new collection for Costume National.
But the looks defy preconceived notions. Suits are worn without shirts, or with just a vest. And instead of ties, a neat foulard is knotted just askance of the Adam’s apple. Ankle boots confirm the western feel.
The runway show’s setting, a big white industrialised space, made the colours pop: a monochrome purple suit with matching shirt, another in burnt orange, then more in soothing shades of blue. Outfits followed of pure white, with diaphanous shirts that looked more like blouses.
Capasa said he was inspired by the “liberated elegance” of rock icons, including Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Lou Reed.
The looks were finished with sunglasses and hobo bags worn over the shoulder, not in the more masculine cross-body fashion.
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Armani welcomes another newcomer
When the announcement went out that Christian Pellizzari would be making his Milan runway debut at Giorgio Armani’s theatre, the designer remarked that “it was like a bomb exploded”.
The 33-year-old native of Treviso, near Venice, has taken cues both from the disciplined sartorial brand Tonello, where he honed the skills of an Italian craftsman, and from the extravagance of Vionnet’s Paris couture, where he later worked.
Pellizzari’s looks seek to balance those two extremes. His tailoring gives a serious fashion underpinning to such extravagances as embroidered and sequined peonies, that are a motif of the season. The designer says his goal is to create clothes that his friends back home would wear, not just fashionistas. So he combines cropped jacquard trousers with casual lace-sleeved cotton tops.
An embroidered top “could be worn at the beach with a pair of shorts,” he said backstage.
He called the looks American Gigolo and heralded the free spirit by sending models down the artificial turf runway barefoot, tassels dangling around their ankles in a tribal touch.
Pellizzari , who launched his own brand four years ago, is the latest up-and-coming designer selected by Armani to preview their collections at his theatre. It’s part of Milan’s efforts to inject fresh energy into fashion weeks.
Dolce and Gabbana
Since a group of butterflies is a flutter, it seems only fair to call a parade of Dolce&Gabbana models in tailored crimson suits a flourish.
Once again, the pair consider a moment in their fabled Sicily’s history when it was the object of conquest. Last season it was the Medieval Norman invasion, this season Spanish rule.
While the Spaniards may not have specifically brought bullfighting to Sicily, it is the matador jacket, embellished with swirls of piping and ribbon, which forms the backbone of the collection — and offers the sort of baroque elements that often underpin Dolce&Gabbana style. Instead of traditional gold, these new accents are black. The jackets are worn with cropped trousers and slippers.
The designers offer a new version of their boxy top, often worn with skinny trousers, this one with pictures of charging bulls — the icon of the season. Worn around the neck to accompany this fierce image is a delicate rosary, suggesting either the fervour it must take to enter an arena with a raging bull or gratitude for having survived.
The designers have incorporated decorative elements from the traditional toreador costumes into more urban suits, including ribboning. The final distillation is a series of shiny three-piece suits with inventive scoop-neck gilets in a series of colors: cornflower blue, evergreen, emerald, purple and salmon pink — all giving way to a finale of crimson red.
This was a serious collection, heavy on ornament and light on beach wear. Unless you count a big boxer short worn with an oversized boxer’s belt.
The case for eating what we want
2014 June 19. | Szerző: shannon
Society has an eating disorder.
Food may be central to our health, but what we eat, how much, and when is endlessly discussed, debated and politicised. We’re eating too much, or not enough, and our attempts to become healthier are often misguided as we too readily place our trust – and our money – in diet books, celebrities, and proponents of pseudoscience.
But what would happen if we started ignoring the food and diet debates and started trusting ourselves?
In response to the well-documented failure of low-calorie diets to help people lose weight in the long-term; the potential for dieting to lead to disordered eating; and the physical and psychological harm that yo-yo dieting can cause, some people are turning to a dietary approach known as ‘intuitive eating,’ or IE.
It’s a way of eating based on three simple principles – eating when hungry; stopping when full; and eating anything unless medical reasons forbid it. Individuals are encouraged to abandon dieting behaviours such as restraint and conscious control of food intake, and are instead encouraged to listen to internal cues for hunger, fullness and the types of food the body needs to feel nourished.
Because there are no rules with IE, a lot of the backlash associated with breaking a diet is lost, says dietician and a doctoral candidate in Public Health Prevention Science at Kent State University in the US, Julie Schaefer. She led a study published in The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recently that reviewed health interventions that promote eating by listening to internal cues.
“Intuitive eating is associated with body appreciation, optimism, and life satisfaction,” she says. “We found individuals who undergo an IE intervention improve body satisfaction, depression, self-esteem, and anxiety.
“Resolving this psychological distress and mental struggle with food and body image is a big step for individuals who struggle with these issues.”
You may be thinking that IE sounds pretty much like ‘normal’ eating. And this is sometimes what IE is called.
The problem is, so many of us don’t know how to eat normally anymore. We are pressured to clean our plates; are triggered to eat by visual cues and smells; endure societal pressure to achieve a certain body type; are too busy and stressed to eat our meals without distractions; and we are constantly told that certain foods are bad, making them more tempting.
“That all interferes with our ability to recognise and respond to internal cues to eat when hungry and stop when full, to view food as health-promoting and enjoyable rather than weight-reducing or weight-gaining agents, and to respect and accept our bodies rather than belittle and criticise them,” Ms Schaefer says.
Dr Nina Van Dyke, director of the Social Research Group at Market Solutions in Melbourne, works with academic research institutes, not for profit organisations and research companies to help them better understand health attitudes and behaviours.
She is lead author on a study conducted alongside Charles Sturt University and published last year in Public Health Nutrition that examined the peer-reviewed literature on relationships between IE and health.
Over the past few decades, ‘normal’ eating has meant following whatever the latest popular diet is, be it cutting out carbs or demonising fat, she says. And while IE isn’t a license to eat as much chocolate and cake as you want, it does encourage those who practice it learn to appreciate that what their body really wants is healthful, nourishing foods most of the time.
“I think the point in calling it ‘intuitive eating’ is to remind us that how and what we eat is better off coming from within us rather than from without,” Dr Van Dyke says.
Her research found IE probably works best for people who have switched their focus away from weight and towards becoming healthy, and those who had truly given up on dieting. In other words – being skinny isn’t the end game but being healthy is.
But like all ways of living, she says IE may not be for everyone, with more research needed to understand who most benefits and how.
Dr Van Dyke’s focus groups found women in particular often ate dinner at times that worked in around their children’s commitments and eating preferences, making IE difficult. People with medical conditions that require them to eat in certain ways, who have hormone imbalances that interfere with their hunger and food cravings, or who have severe eating disorders and difficulties trying to eat intuitively on their own, may also not be suitable for IE.
“This doesn’t mean one can’t shift in an IE direction – but these factors certainly can be barriers and one may need to consciously make changes in order to shift,” Dr Van Dyke says.
“And obviously it won’t work for people who are convinced that this is the next diet that will be the one that turns them into Kate Moss.”
Kylie Jenner’s MMVA Style Ruled Too
2014 June 17. | Szerző: shannon
Poor Kylie Jenner. With sisters like tabloid queen Kim Kardashian and actual, legit, up-and-coming model Kendall Jenner, the 16-year-old is constantly getting upstaged by practically everyone in the Kardashian family (even Rob, amidst his much-publicized weight issues and the family’s rumored ire over him skipping the Kimye wedding) and missing out on all the attention typically reserved for the baby in the family.
I mean, sure, she dates the ridiculously cute and equally famous Jaden Smith; has nearly 10 million Instagram followers; and recently “wrote” a young adult novel, so yes, she gets her fair share of time in the spotlight. But when it comes to fashion, at least, it’s rare that the youngest Kardashian klan member is the topic of conversation.
Take Sunday’s 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards, for example. Hosted by both Kendall and Kylie, I would wager that at least three-quarters of the buzz surrounding the annual event and its fierce fashion has to do with Kendall’s insanely sexy, double-slit, super-leg-baring gown, or even the cutout-back, python-print dress she slipped into during the awards show. And as much as these sultry looks earned the limelight they received, it must be said: Kylie’s ensembles deserved their fair share of praise and attention, too.
Let’s just start with her red carpet look. Yes, it was short. Yes, it was tight. And yes, it showed a fair amount of skin (or, at least, the illusion of skin). But that rich orange hue looks absolutely divine against her olive skin and dark locks (hey, where’s the blue?!), and the all-over beading really is a work of art (though the shoes are a total snooze fest).
Hitting the stage in a new ensemble, baby Jenner also looked undeniably pretty in her printed mini dress, a look she kept pared down with minimal jewelry, another nude lip, and basic strappy sandals.
Switching in the middle of the show, Jenner ditched her short hemlines in favor of a fresh, color-blocked ensemble that — while leaving room for improvement in the pants department — looked both playful and mature (and most definitely fashion-forward) all at the same time.
Let’s see a close up of that amazing top.
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Just as I expected: Structured, satiny, and oh-so chic. And even though it’s showing a little more skin than I would want my 16-year-old daughter (or sister or niece) revealing, there’s no denying that it’s a fierce piece of fashion that goes beyond your typical Kardashian klothing. And that’s something to be applauded, right?
3 Things You Need to Know Before Getting Married
2014 June 13. | Szerző: shannon
I can feel the veins in my neck bulging.
The veins in my neck never bulge. I’m the guy who internalizes everything — no matter how much the circumstance warrants a reaction (for better or worse).
The more she explains how my negligence in our relationship makes her feel, the more I want to jump in my truck and spend the weekend alone on the open road — neglecting our relationship.
Instead, we resort to our increasingly popular nightcap. I walk out, slamming the door behind me for dramatic effect. She crawls under the covers, in tears — but not before setting up her wall of pillows down the middle of the bed, just to remind me, when I do come to sleep, that things are not okay.
We were 18 months in and though our first year was bliss, pillow walls were now becoming our norm.
We weren’t supposed to be the ones in a perpetual fight.
We were the couple who highlighted and dog-eared our marriage books. My wife was still my dream. Yet, something was missing. We both felt it. And we both wondered why.
As we explored the growing deficiency, we kept coming back to a handful of misconceptions we brought into our marriage. Our growing frustrations. Our screaming matches that were becoming ritualistic. Our doubts. They all could be traced to our misguided ideas about marriage and their inability to support the very unnatural art of loving another person.
Needless to say, a little foresight could have saved us a couple of hard nights early on in marriage. So in lieu of slammed doors and pillow walls, here are three things everyone needs to know before they marry.
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1. HAPPILY EVER AFTER ISN’T THE POINT.
As soon as we’re able to understand bedtime stories, Cinderella and her friends tell us love is about happiness. Hollywood eventually takes up Cinderella’s campaign, inundating us with the idea that marriage — and sex — is our gateway into happily ever after.
But what if I told you happily ever after isn’t the point?
It doesn’t take long into matrimony for most of us to realize Disney and Hollywood were full of it. At that point, our frustration with Cinderella is only rivaled by the disillusionment we feel in our marriages.
Our modern obsession with being happy often makes it far more natural for us to love happiness more than we ever love another human. And though being happy is a very real by-product of a healthy relationship, the value we put on personal happiness is so inflated, its causing us to miss one of the more beautiful purposes of marriage. The ancient Hebrew culture, on the other hand, didn’t seem to miss this purpose. The language even highlights and unpacks this ideal for us.
In Hebrew, the word used for marriage actually means “Fire.” And not-so-coincidentally, fire is also the element used throughout ancient Hebrew culture to represent personal reformation. In this light, marriage (and its necessary friction) is seen less as a doorway to happily ever after and more as a tool in divine hands to help us become increasingly beautiful — increasingly our best and brightest selves.
2. GOOD CONSUMERS MAKE BAD LOVERS.
I couldn’t wait to get married. Of course, I loved my wife and couldn’t see my future with anyone else. Yet I was mostly looking forward to the perpetual slumber party, saying goodbye to the awkwardness of singlehood, and (obviously) the endless, mind-blowing sex.
And with that, I became a perfect illustration of another misguided modern mentality towards marriage.
Many of our ideas of love lead us to, consciously or subconsciously, begin and end the conversation with what marriage can do for us. Sadly, this me-centricity has a way of neutering the beauty of marriage — taking a relationship designed for giving and making it all about getting.
Yet again, the Hebrew language seems to bring a certain light to our modern ideas. The Hebrew word for love — ahava — has little to do with what one feels or receives. To the contrary — ahava — is actually a verb that means “I give.” As it turns out, love is not the fleeting butterflies we get when looking into the eyes of our significant other. It’s not something we fall into when dating. It’s far simpler — and far wilder — than all of that. It’s the everyday choices we make — big or small — to give to our spouse.
It’s taking out the trash.
It’s actively choosing to give him space when he is stressed.
It’s a text message, mid-afternoon, to tell her you can’t stop thinking about her.
It’s the choice to not react to something he said, but asking what he meant and how it makes him feel, instead.
It’s the time you’re late for a meeting, but run back inside to tell your wife — who you know adores being told — how much she means to you that day.
It’s the painful routine of taking the 3:00 a.m. newborn feeding shift so your wife can finally have three hours of uninterrupted sleep.
Love is not the fairy-tale beginnings as much as it is the small, mundane — but generous — things we do for each other every day. And as we begin to orient ourselves to this brand of love that requires us to show up continually, we’re sure to discover the beautiful paradox that it is.
3. LOVE IS A JOURNEY — NOT A FREE FALL.
“We fell in love and got married.”
This was certainly my story. After a few stomach butterflies and a handful of DTRs (Define the Relationship), I thought my wife and I had arrived at the much-sought-after phenomenon of being in love. It was no wonder I expected all the benefits of love on Day One of our marriage.
You know the benefits I’m talking about. The trusted friendship. The happy partnership. The ongoing romance.
But anyone who has experienced marriage knows that though these benefits are very real perks of love, they don’t come for free.
Trust requires trust-building circumstances over time.
True companionship comes from years of conversation.
And romance? Well, the kind of romance that doesn’t fade only comes from being intentional over the long haul.
Many of us get married and immediately expect to reap the rewards of love and quickly learn that true love isn’t something we fall into. This state of “Love” (and all of its benefits) is developed over years of learning to relate to one another — it’s a journey.
A friend of mine recently attended a small gathering after a frustrating fight with his wife. As they went around the circle introducing themselves, he announced they had been married five years. A woman, almost cutting them off, blurted out, “five years? Oh, you guys are only kindergarteners.”
Suddenly, my friends frustrations with his marriage disappeared. As he thought about the woman’s simple but profound comment, he realized: everybody expects kindergarteners to occasionally act childish, be selfish, and throw tantrums. Perhaps he should cut himself and his wife some slack in his marriage.
We can’t expect to microwave love, and can’t assume our spouse or our marriage will offer all the benefits of love on Day One.
Marriage, with its everyday equation of radical proximity to another human is never going to fit nicely into our neat boxes of formulas and principled ideals. I get it. And, regardless of what we know before we get married or not, it is always going to have a way of stretching us — many times to the brink of wanting to give up. But perhaps with every misguided idea about marriage we replace with a more timeless one, the more natural the very unnatural art of loving another person becomes.
Cape Town designer stars on the red carpet
2014 June 7. | Szerző: shannon
A local designer is in the spotlight after actress and model Tanit Phoenix wore one of his designs to the Hollywood premiere of Maleficent.
Jas Myburgh, a fashion and design lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), has designed four evening gowns for Phoenix, one for each of the premieres. The rest will take place in Tokyo, London and Sydney.
Phoenix is dating South African actor Sharlto Copley, who plays the part of King Stephan in the dark fantasy film. Maleficent is Disney’s spin on Sleeping Beauty. Copley co-stars with Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning.
Jolie wore a Versace gown to the May 28 world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre, while her husband Brad Pitt wore Gucci. But Phoenix opted for a South African designer.
Myburgh studied fashion design at CPUT in 1990. He spent two years working in Spain, and started designing under his own name when he came back.
He is passionate about teaching, and the clothes he makes. Myburgh has dressed several South African models and celebrities, and has been involved in national and international competitions.
He met Phoenix – who was born in Durban – in 2006. He designed her lingerie for a shoot, and they stayed in touch and became friends. In August last year, she told Myburgh she’d love to wear a local garment to the premiere.
Phoenix was in the country for three months last year, and Myburgh started working on the gowns.
“I tried to keep a very unique look for her. The garments are African and South African inspired,” he says.
“There is so much inspiration in Africa. It is one of the big trends at the moment, with lots of colour. We took that and transformed it into a glamorous evening gown. Something special with a story behind it.”
The bodice is made of silk tulle, with an Ndebele pattern embroidered on it. Black crystal beads were hand-sewn. It took about a month to make.
“In the South African clothing industry, the seamstresses get so little credit for what they do,” says Myburgh. “It’s something that’s dying out. The specialists in this field are getting old, and the new generation aren’t interested in this aspect of design.
Myburgh is passionate about keeping it alive, as the “fabrication” – creating the details on fabric by hand – is very important to him.
“Hand beading, embroidering, and how a garment is finished off … the reason for couture is how a garment is made,” he says.
While Phoenix wasn’t part of the film, her dress did attract a lot of attention. Myburgh says his social media profile spiked considerably.
“It’s a designer’s dream to dress a celebrity and to be in the spotlight, and on the same platform as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I’m on cloud nine. It’s the beginning of something new, and very exciting,” he says.
While he can’t reveal what the other garments look like just yet, Myburgh says they are all African-inspired pieces of couture.
“I just hope the movie gets an Oscar. I really want to make her dress for the Oscars,” he says.
Who’s that girl?
Model and actress Tanit Phoenix, 29, was born in Durban, but now lives in Cape Town and Los Angeles.
Phoenix has been in a relationship with actor Sharlto Copley since January 2012. Copely, who acts in Maleficent, also starred in Elysium and District 9. Phoenix has appeared in Spud, Death Race: Inferno, and Safe House.
She started her career in Durban at the age of 14 and has appeared in local and international commercials, on magazine covers and in lingerie campaigns.
Her name seems like the perfect stage name, but it is her real name.
On her Facebook fanpage, Phoenix writes that she is inspired by her work.
“I love everything about modelling, film and acting and it has always stemmed from observing people and understanding the human condition,” she writes.
When acting and modelling, she shows her vulnerability.
“It’s such amazing self-expression, showing raw emotions. It’s empowering and exhilarating. Such a challenge.”
Alia Bhatt In Kenneth Cole Short Dress
2014 June 4. | Szerző: shannon
Alia Bhatt was seen in a monochrome dress by designer Kenneth Cole. The actress who loves to look different and unique was spotted in this lovely number for a talk show that will be aired on July 14. Alia Bhatt in this short dress looked just amazing. Recently, we saw Alia Bhatt in one of her upcoming movie promotions where she had a nasty wardrobe malfunction. The young and bubbly actress showed off her white knickers through a sheer patiala pant when Varun Dhawan lifted her leaving her embarrassed.
Alia Bhatt in this Kenneth Cole allex, fit and flare short dress looked chic and pretty. What we liked most about the short dress worn by Alia Bhatt was the flare at the hemline which matched her nature. The bodice of Alia Bhatt’s dress was designed in such a way that it hid her tummy (though she has a flat toned tummy). It was sleeveless, showing off her flawless skin and her perfect complexion.
To make this look all the more interesting, Alia Bhatt’s Kenneth Cole monochrome dress was paired up with Kenneth Cole silver pointed heels. The shoes were of a perfect match with her dress and we are glad she did not opt for a black pair as it would not have given out this contrast in colours. The Dior earrings were indeed an eye-catcher with the Kenneth Cole flared dress Alia Bhatt wore. She completed the monochrome look with an Atelier Mon ring on her index finger. With little accessories to go with the Kenneth Cole black dress worn by Alia Bhatt, it was a perfect look she gave us of herself. Her hairstyle too was plain as her soft brown beach curls lay gently over her shoulders at all times. Do you like Alia Bhatt look in Kenneth Cole’s monochrome short flared dress or you prefer to see her in Indian attires?
Sports Acupuncture Scores Points
2014 June 30. | Szerző: shannon
Acupuncture has caught the attention of many sportspersons, who have greatly benefitted from this therapy. Having practiced acupuncture for 32 years, I had the opportunity of treating some well-known sportsmen.
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh came to me in March 2013, with a history of migraine headaches, which he had since 2007. He used to take frequent medications for relief. The headaches were accompanied by blurring of vision and pain around his eye ball. His trigger would often be empty stomach, causing wind and then headaches. He has had problems of acidity, gas and wind since past four years. He also had a disturbed sleep pattern. He has had nasal allergies since a young age accompanied with urticaria. Another problem which had taken a toll on his career was his severe left-side neck stiffness with pain radiating from the neck to the left shoulder, upper arm, left upper back and left wrist. He also had recurrent episodes of low back pain radiating to his legs, causing him to miss matches.
All these problems were treated concurrently with acupuncture. I used a combination of body acupuncture and ear acupuncture points to great effect. Today, he has recovered and is fighting fit. To quote Yuvi, “The best part of this therapy is that it is safe, drugless without any side-effects and I have made a significant recovery. I feel the therapy should be made more popular so that more sportspersons can benefit from it.”
Another famous polo player Navin Khanna took acupuncture treatment for his recurrent tennis elbow and got fully cured.
According to Matt Callison, a faculty member at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and licenced acupuncturist in San Diego, California, traditional Chinese medicine has been extremely helpful and a growing trend in athletics. Amercian football team San Francisco 49ers’ players Steve Young and Jerry Rice have been treated with sports acupuncture. Canadian speed skater Kevin Overland received sports acupuncture to help him earn a bronze medal in the 1998 Olympics. As a sports acupuncturist, Callison has been treating athletes for 11 years.
Pacific College uses acupuncture to help rehabilitate post-operative injuries, sports injuries and athletic performance by increasing range of motion, muscle strength and tissue healing potential. Callison reported that the most common injuries he treats athletes for are muscle contusions and tendinitis. These injuries typically require two sports acupuncture treatments a week, with a varied recovery time depending on the injury.
Oriental medicine and sports medicine techniques focus on proprioception—muscles’ awareness communicating to the central nervous system. Injury can disrupt this communication, thus hindering balance. Acupuncture is one of the quickest ways to restore muscle balance. Acupuncture is used at specific sites, the muscle spindles are reset, and then that balance is reawakened.
Sports acupuncture consists of the gentle insertion and stimulation of thin, disposable sterile needles at strategic points near the surface of the body. When you insert a sports acupuncture needle to a motor point region, it changes the awareness that the muscle reports to the central nervous system. Over 2,000 sports acupuncture points on the human body connect with 14 major pathways, called meridians. Chinese medicine practitioners believe that these meridians conduct qi, or energy, between the surface of the body and internal organs. It is qi that regulates spiritual, emotional, mental and physical balance. When the flow of qi is disrupted through poor health habits or other circumstances, pain and/or disease can result. Sports acupuncture helps to keep the normal flow of this energy unblocked and “fine-tune the bio-electric system”.
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