Screen Actors Guild Awards 2012 Fashion

Rose Byrne. in Elie Saab (Haute Couture Collection Autumn-Winter 2009-2010). Shoes ‘Vibe’, by Jimmy Choo; clutch by Lena Erziak and jewelry by Chanel Fine.

As with all awards in Hollywood and beyond, the celebrities dress well for the occasion. This year's Screen Actors Guild Awards, also know as SAG Awards saw celebrities dressed form head to toe in the best designer outfits, jewelry, purses/ clutch bags and shoes. Several designer names like Jimmy Choo, Valentino, Marchesa, among others got a chance to showcase some of their best designs through celebrities wearing them.

It was not only te women who were dressed finely for the occasion, but also the men were not to be overshadowed by the women as they came in their sharp ans sophisticated suits carrying designer labels, Brad Pitt had the perfect accessory on his arm in that of Angelina Jolie, looking glam as usual. The awards saw a mix of different colors in mostly the women's dresses, there were oranges, navy blues, some floral prints and even white.

Flowing gowns were not the only outfits that hogged the Red Carpet, there was a very unique outfit worn by Rose Byrne..

You do not have to break a bank to get a celebrity look, simply look at the style and create your own that matches that of your favorite celeb, or can even be better than. Looking and feeling good is a state of mind because you can have the most expensive clothes on and simply not look the part. 

Celebrities make it look so simple and flawless yet knowing what works for your body size, skin color or tone and material can make a difference between looking fabulous and plain or worse...boring.

Below are some of my favorite outfits at this year's SAG Awards in no particular order.

Editor:  fashion geek

Floral Shoes To Blossom Your Style

Spring is here and with it comes brightly colored flowers blooming giving you a sense of calm and excitement. To honor it, why not step out of the house with some floral print shoes that are classy and make a bold statement.
Floral shoes of all kinds—oxfords, wedges, and pumps—are a refreshing and easy way to inject a fun and care free attitude into your style.Whether sky-high heels for night, pumps for day, and flats for the weekend, floral shoes give you a spring in your step.
The trick to wearing floral shoes is to fit them with plain or a single colored outfit, don't wear too much floral print or the look will feel too busy and out of place.
You can wear floral shoes with a long maxi dress or a short flirty skirt with minimum accessories so as to draw all the attention to the shoes which come in a variety of colors.
Editor: fashion geek

Beach essentials for women

When going to the beach either on holiday or just a day out with your family or friends, it is important to have the right clothing for that day out. The beach is usually accompanied with a light mood so do not be over dressed or under dressed for that matter.
Beach wear is essentila in order to not only fit in with the crowd but also to feel comfortable woth yourself as you dip yourself in the water or just lay out under your umbrella to enjoy the scenery and relax your self.
For women the following are must have items when going to the beach;

Stella McCartney Reveals Uniforms For the British Olympic Team

Stella McCartney's recent runway collection wasn't the only Spring debut she had to worry about. The designer has spent the last two years working on the uniforms for the 2012 British Olympic team and finally unveiled them Thursday.
McCartney said that the uniforms started with a meditation on the Union Jack, the flag of Great Britain. "For me it's one of the most beautiful flags in the world and it was important for me to stay true to that iconic design, but also to modernise it and present it in a contemporary way," she said. "Ultimately, we wanted the athletes to feel like a team and be proud with the identity we created."

To that end, McCartney infused her athletic gear with the same attention to detail and craftsmanship that goes into her ready-to-wear. The entire kit, which is composed of nearly 600 different pieces created in collaboration with Adidas, will be distributed to the over 900 athletes who make it on the team.
Reported by http://www.fashionologie.com

After much anticipation, Adidas has just revealed its 2012 Olympic uniforms for Britain designed by Stella McCartney. The uniforms, which took two years to create, highlight a modern take on Great Britain's Union Jack flag. “The first place to start on a project like this is to look at the Union flag," said McCartney. "For me it’s one of the most beautiful flags in the world and it was important for me to stay true to that iconic design but also to modernise it and present it in a contemporary way." The designer injected her own fashion-forward spin on it via clean lines and and a less literal take on the flag. "Something that was very important to me was to try and use that very iconic image but to dismantle it and try to soften it, break it down and make it more fashionable in a sense," said McCartney.
 Reported by http://www.fabsugar.com.au 

Trend Alert – Suspender Tights

Trend Alert – Suspender Tights. From superstar Rihanna, and now even Selena Gomez, have both been spotted rocking the look of suspender tights. A sexy high fashion look that seems as if it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. I admit that this is one trend I definitely want to try, but I will have to wait until the right time to do so. You definitely can’t wear suspender tights everywhere. For those won’t don’t already know, this trend was very popular a few years ago in Europe, and it looks like it’s now making its way to the states. To pull off this trend layers is really key. Pair this look with a blazer, or sweater to add bulk to the top of your body. Finish the looks by wearing the tights and pairing it with a short black skirt, or tweed shorts. Solid colors will draw less attention. It’s really a fun trend to try, and the best places to wear it would include on a date with your boyfriend, ( don’t wear it on a first date because the guy might not get your style) , a night out with the girls, clubs, or simply trip to the movies. Just be sure not to wear this look to family dinners or church settings. Look below to see how both stars are rocking the trend, plus others ways you can wear it. Can’t wait to see what others celebs will join in on it.
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Waistcoats For the fashionable Man

Achieve the casual look with a waistcoat by wearing with simple round neck tie or crisp white shirt and jeans.  For that dressy casual look add a tailored jacket over waistcoat and crisp white shirt with dark blue denim jeans.

A Look At The Season's Most Expensive Shoes

There are shoes and then there are SHOES! Designers are known to create expensive shoes and they never disappoint so if you are willing to splurge on shoes here are some pretty luxurious ones for those who have no money issues and besides a lady needs to treat herself once in a while if not always. Wear these shoes with an outstanding outfit knowing you areworth a million bucks.
Love each one of them...now i just need a fairy God mother to grant me my midnight wish of owning one if not all of them!
Editor: fashion geek

$3,545 Pigalli studded pumps from Christian Louboutin

The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) announces The BAKE Blog Awards

In a bid to reward exceptional bloggers and to also promote content creation in Kenya, BAKE will be organizing bloggers awards this year under the moniker ‘BAKE Blog Awards‘.
The idea is to recognize bloggers that post consistently, have great and useful content, and are creative and innovative.
There will be a submission phase starting March 15th where blogs will be nominated in 14 categories as below:

Alek Wek From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel by Lynette R. Holloway

Indeed Alek Wek leads a glamorous life. She works as one of the top runway models in the world and her features are known worldwide-radiant skin and oval face, close-cropped natural hair and a dazzling smile. Her lean physique is grace personified on the catwalk. The model-recently-turned entrepreneur has created her own line of luxury handbags.

But life has not always been so good. Wek, a member of the Dinka tribe, grew up in southern Sudan in a town called Wau, where militias invaded and clashed with rebels in the 1980’s. Wek’s family, including her parents and siblings were forced to flee their home when she was just 9 years old.

During more strife, when she was a pre-teen, the family fled by plane to London, where she lived the life of a refugee, struggling to meet ends make ends meet, cleaning toilets, and sweeping floors and learning a foreign language. She also struggled with psoriasis, a sometimes devastating skin disease that causes the skin to flake, bump or peel. At times, her mother was forced to use a sharp knife to cut flaking bits from her head to toes.

Life, however, changed instantly when she was discovered by a modeling talent scout at a street fair. Wek tells her literal rags-to-riches story in a candid memoir FROM SUDANESE REFUGEE TO INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODEL: ALEK (Amistad, $24.95). Wek, 30, who lives in Brooklyn, takes time from her busy schedule to talk to Ebony about the book.

The Best Fashion Movies

I love fashion and watching fshion movies, programes or series that are about or feature fashion is one of my favourite things to do so here is a list of the best fashion movies, it not conclusive because there will be more fashion movies created or some that have been left out.

The list is courtesy of http://www.imdb.com/list/dUrwL25PdBI/ . If you have more you can add too. I haven't watched all of them but now that i have the list i can go and buy to watch.
One gest fashion inspirations from various sources and movies like these have lots of ideas and fashion items that you can either buy or get ones like them.
Fashion is all about your mind and what makes you inspired, there are no strict rules about how to like your fashion. Simply know what works for you, is appropriate for your body size, height, shape, skin tone and even
For instance you can wear sky high heels to elongate your legs and make your back leaner.
Wear minimal jewellery that blends with the outfit you are wearing so that it does not compete with it.
Fashion...It's all in your imagination's hands...!

The Devil Wears Prada Movie

A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly. (109 mins.)

Director: David Frankel

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Emily Blunt

The September Issue Movie

A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue. (90 mins.)

Director: R.J. Cutler

Stars: Anna Wintour, Hamish Bowles, Sarah Brown, Charles Churchward

Confessions of a Shopaholic Movie

A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. (104 mins.)

Director: P.J. Hogan

Stars: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack

Sex and the City Movie

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her. (145 mins.)

Director: Michael Patrick King

Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis

Sex and the City 2 Movie

While wrestling with the pressures of life, love, and work in Manhattan, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte join Samantha for a trip to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), where Samantha's ex is filming a new movie. (146 mins.)

Director: Michael Patrick King

Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Lagerfeld Confidential Movie

An up-close-and-personal portrait of the fashion icon, Karl Lagerfeld.

Director: Rodolphe Marconi

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Brad Koenig, Karl Lagerfeld, Princess Caroline of Monaco

Valentino The Last Emperor Movie

A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino. (96 mins.)

Director: Matt Tyrnauer

Stars: Valentino Garavani, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal, Giorgio Armani

Factory Girl Movie

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer. (90 mins.)

Director: George Hickenlooper

Stars: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon

The Women Movie

A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. (114 mins.)

Director: Diane English

Stars: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Annette Bening, Debra Messing

Fashion the Movie

Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture fashion, this...

Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Stars: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Mugdha Godse, Arbaaz Khan

Coco Before Chanel Movie

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world. (105 mins.)

Director: Anne Fontaine

Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain

Blow-Up Movie

A mod London photographer seems to find something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park. (111 mins.)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Stars: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle

Clueless Movie

A US West Coast teen lifestyle parody centered around Cher, a popular high school girl who spends her days playing match-maker, helping her friends with fashion choices, and looking for a boyfriend. (97 mins.)

Director: Amy Heckerling

Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd

The Women Movies

A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women. (133 mins.)

Director: George Cukor

Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland

Funny Face Movie

Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore... (103 mins.)

Director: Stanley Donen

Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair

Nine Movie

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother. (118 mins.)

Director: Rob Marshall

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren

A Single Man Movie

A story that centers on an English professor who, one year after the sudden death of his partner, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles. (99 mins.)

Director: Tom Ford

Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult

Breakfast at Tiffany's Movie

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building. (115 mins.)

Director: Blake Edwards

Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen

L'amour fou Movie

A documentary on the relationship between fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent and his lover, Pierre Berge. (98 mins.)

Director: Pierre Thoretton

Stars: Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Bergé, Betty Catroux, Loulou De La Falaise

Prêt-à-Porter Movie

A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors... (133 mins.)

Director: Robert Altman

Stars: Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Picture Me Movie

A look at the inner world of modeling. (82 mins.)

Director: Ole Schell, Sara Ziff

Stars: Sara Ziff, Caitriona Balfe, Karl Lagerfeld, Nicole Miller

Priceless Movie

Through a set of wacky circumstances, a young gold digger mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender thinking he's a wealthy suitor. (106 mins.)

Director: Pierre Salvadori

Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff

Bill Cunningham New York Movie

A cinematic profile of the noted veteran New York City fashion photographer. (84 mins.)

Director: Richard Press

Stars: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors, Tom Wolfe

Ciao Manhattan Movie

(84 mins.)

Director: John Palmer, David Weisman

Stars: Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes, Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs

The Great Gatsby Movie

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor... (144 mins.)

Director: Jack Clayton

Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

High Society Movie

C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate... (111 mins.)

Director: Charles Walters

Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm

The Cotton Club Movie

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club... (127 mins.)

Director: Francis Coppola

Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee

Rage Movie

A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone. (98 mins.)

Director: Sally Potter

Stars: Simon Abkarian, Patrick J. Adams, Riz Ahmed, Bob Balaban

Chanel Solitaire Movie

(120 mins.)

Director: George Kaczender

Stars: Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer, Brigitte Fossey

Don't Tell My Booker Movie

Director: Dave Cote

Stars: Coolio, Andre Cote, Dave Cote, Tom Cruise

Brüno Movie

Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America. (81 mins.)

Director: Larry Charles

Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu

Blonde Ambition Movie

A young professional woman (Simpson) unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of a mega-conglomerate. (93 mins.)

Director: Scott Marshall

Stars: Jessica Simpson, Luke Wilson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Penelope Ann Miller

Legally Blonde Movie

When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined. (96 mins.)

Director: Robert Luketic

Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Movie

A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the ex-boyfriend/bandmate who stole her songs. (95 mins.)

Director: John Cameron Mitchell

Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski

Velvet Goldmine Movie

In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade... (124 mins.)

Director: Todd Haynes

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette

Point and Shoot Movie

Blurring the line between fiction and reality, aspiring fashion photographer Shawn Regruto--obsessed... (96 mins.)

Director: Shawn Regruto

Stars: Danny A. Abeckaser, Mini Anden, Kevin Asch, Alex Burns

Garmento Movie

Fashion is considered a glamorous industry full of beautiful people. "Garmento" tells the other side of the story... (90 mins.)

Director: Michele Maher

Stars: Katie MacNichol, David Thornton, Juan Carlos Hernández, Saundra Santiago

Monte Carlo Movie

Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress. (109 mins.)

Director: Thomas Bezucha

Stars: Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy, Cory Monteith

Rosemary Armstrong the designer

Tea Rose is an Australian based fashion design label owned and operated by fashion designer Rosemary Armstrong. It was established in 1981 and is still operating today.
Tea Rose dresses have been designed for many high profile celebrities, social identities and personalities such as: Lisa McCune, Kate Ritchie, Catriona Rowntree, Jennifer Hawkins former Miss Universe, Delta Goodre, Zoe Ventura, Sonia Kruger and Sandra Sully (journalist)

Tea Rose is regularly featured in Australian media such as; Vogue (magazine) (including the 50th Anniversary Edition), In Style Magazine and Madision Magazine.

Tea Rose was one of the major Australian fashion labels to take part in Australian Fashion Week in the early nineties.

Rosemary Armstrong's Designs

A Tea Rose experience is unique. The feel of an evening garment made exclusively for you, the knowledge that the fabrics are the finest available in the world and that there is only a limited number of each style.