RODARTE: PEEPING TEN BACKSTAGE WITH JAMES KALIARDOS
This is James doing his best John Stamos backstage at the Rodarte A/W13 show. All he’s missing is an Olsen twin.
Photographer Jason Lloyd-Evans
by Natalie Dembinska
DARCEL WYNNE: STAR OF SOLID GOLD
This weeks female role model/woman we would like to grow up to be is the amazing and extremely flexible Darcel Wynne, star of Solid Gold. To witness the amazingness that is Darcel dancing watch the video. To have your mind blown, fast forward first to 2.30 for her interpretation of Irene Cara’s Breakdance. And then straight after, at 3.10, The Pointer Sister’s Automatic. And for your reading pleasure, cut and pasted, word for word, straight from her genius website, Darcel’s biography. She’s still Solid Gold!
“Darcel is best known for her role as principal dancer and star of the hit television series ‘Solid Gold’. Every week for six years, Darcel danced her way into our homes with the finesse, vitality and sensuality of a confident woman. Darcel’s presence on Solid Gold brought a diversity to national television and inspired women, dancers and people of colour to dream bigger. Darcel’s success continued in film and on Broadway with Xanadu, The Great White Hope, Mame, Scrooge, The Last Two Married Couples, Night Shift, Funny Girl and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Today Darcel is an accomplished choreographer, dance and fitness instructor, author, producer and motivational speaker. She is a longtime advocate for using dance and fitness as a medium of therapy, inspiration, transformation and empowerment for women of all ages and backgrounds.
Darcel is currently the director of Funk Fusion, a unique dance company featuring seasoned women ages 30 to 60+. She is the author of Darcel Solid Gold, a memoir of her life behind the scenes of Solid Gold, being married to a legendary Temptation and how she used to dance to heal the wounds of sexual assault and domestic violence and achieved true happiness.”
by Natalie Dembinska
CHANEL: THE LITTLE BLACK JACKET EXHIBITON, SHANGHAI
The Chanel Little Black Jacket world tour is still going strong. Next stop is Shanghai, where it lands on June 21st and remains till July 7th. If you should happen to be in Shanghai go and stare in awe and wonder at the fabulous pictures of fabulous people, like Tilda Swinton and Diane Kruger, taken by Karl Lagerfeld, all wearing the ever fabulous, ever classic little black jacket.
The Little Black Jacket
June 21st- July 7th, 2013
NIB Building, Rock Bund
14 Huqiu Road
Shanghai
by Natalie Dembinska
DESTINY’S CHILD: BOOTYLICIOUS
In celebration of Vincent’s rather bootylicious new behind and because it’s Friday, Bootylicious by Destiny’s Child. Apparently his behind has been attracting many admiring glances out East but then it’s hard to find a decent arse in London and his, ever since he started cultivating it, is coming along very nicely. He has in fact, so much junk in his trunk that he’s considering getting it insured a la J.Lo. Actually he’s not, but wouldn’t it be fabulous if he did? Vincent Levy, the J.Lo of 10. But ginger. Hot!
by Natalie Dembinska
ANTONIO BERARDI: MARION COTILLARD
We’ve been pouring over images of Marion in this amazing coat for the Cannes photocall of new film ‘The Immigrant’, and are settling on the enclosed. Whilst others might call it an off shot- what with the squinty eyes, we find it best expresses that special feeling you get when slipping on a Berardi exit. Is she really shielding her eyes from blinding coastal sunlight? Or is she actually in the throws of some kind of sartorial ecstasy??!
Image source: www.dailymail.co.uk
by Vincent Levy
Can feel summer ebbing closer (honestly I can). Suddenly I’m wishing I was on a road to nowhere U.S road trip, in some rattling drop top. Will have to rattle round Soho in the rain till then- one of these dice bouncing in my wake. Fendi babes! It’s not all bad.
by Vincent Levy
ALISON VENESS: MAKES THE DAILY MAIL ONLINE
Editor of 10 Mag Aus Ms. Alison Veness has made the Daily Mail Online at the Great Gatsby dinner in Sydney, and for the first time…probably ever, we’re agreeing with some of their blurb. ‘Edgy yet classy’ they say. Indeed indeed. Leaves me a little jeal though. It’s the shades you see. I’m surrounded by lamps at our UK HQ. Seems to be forever night in London at the moment. Hotting up to be another dreary as hell London summer. Hooray!
Image Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
by Vincent Levy
AMFAR: CINEMA AGAINST AIDS GALA, CANNES
Admittedly, there’s been a lot of Cannes love on the blog this week. Probably because they have sun in Cannes. The sun being something that has not been seen here in London since October 2012. Being sun starved, we’ll take it where we can get it, and our recent hit comes courtesy of last night’s Amfar gala, held at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cannes. Amfar is twenty this year. Is there a better excuse to celebrate? Anyway, on with the clothes. In the white section we have Sharon Stone, giving us fierce Hollywood diva in Roberto Cavalli. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is giving us white angel in a demure Dior number, while Milla Jovovich is her dark angel twin in beaded Valentino. Carine, in a sexy silk number which has not yet been credited to any designer, is just hot. A hot mamma, hot grand mamma and now hot campaign star. Do not be surprised if at the next red carpet event, nobody reveals who they’re wearing. Where Carine goes others follow. It’ll be like the nineties all over again. In the middle we have the red section. Three red hot ladies wearing red, though probably not channeling Chris de Burgh’s Lady in Red, more Prince’s Little Red Corvette. Jessica Chastain in Saint Laurent, Toni Garrn in Dolce & Gabbana, and last but not least, Lily Donaldson in Emilio Pucci. Which brings us to the black section, which is a masterclass of minxiness. Three different ways of being a minty minx. First up, Isabeli Fontana, an early adopter of Carine’s new don’t tell em what you’re wearing trend, in something black and strapless and cut out. Second is Karlie Kloss, working a demure Louis Vuitton jacket and trouser scenario, and last is Joan Smalls, giving us sheer realness in Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci. Fabulous!
All pictures courtesy of www.style.com
by Natalie Dembinska
GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI: MENS PRE-SPRING 2014
I am going to call this the Kim Kardashian for men collection, and no I do not mean that as an insult, but as the highest form of praise. Personally I thought Kim looked amazing at the Met Ball in that floral gown and matching gloves that turned her hand into a sort of gecko. I have become obsessed with camouflaged hands. Now you see her hand, and then you don’t. I just wished she’d worn matching tights too. Anyway, those same Kim florals are in the mens pre-spring, which feels right as spring is all about florals. Theres also a camo print which just takes the idea of camouflage to a whole new level. It’s navy and orange. And spliced with flowers. And worn with pink hair. At the moment, seeing that the weather has been in a state of pre-spring since February, it’s nice to have some pre-spring clothes. I mean, who cares about summer. It’s not like it’s ever going to happen.
by Natalie Dembinska
