Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
Fashion Is Not Revolutionary
10:22 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion|TV · 1 Comment
2 Aug 2007
Unless we’re talking about women wearing pants but anyway the other day my best friend tells me over the phone that she thought of me when she saw an ad for this new show about fashion. She didn’t think of me because I’m a fashionista in any way, shape, or form but rather because she knew the imagery being used to promote the show would piss me off. And she was right. The premise of The Fashionista Diaries is that
“Six hungry twentysomethings plunge headfirst into the New York fashion world”.
Riveting no? The five women and one man are sent to work at magazines, cosmetics companies, and at a PR firm. Fluffy tv is fine , fluffy tv with a culturally appropriated logo, well not so fine.
Cameron Diaz’s purse pisses off Peruvians
1:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Fashion|Peru|Politics · 1 Comment
26 Jun 2007
Cameron Diaz is saying sorry today for a cultural faux pas related to her choice of purses. Last week she was photographed at Machu Pichu sporting a Maoist-themed bag which stirred up all kinds of emotions:
The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated “Shrek” films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru’s Andes on Friday carrying an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong’s most famous political slogan.The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.
Daisy Fuentes Uses Sweatshop Labor
2:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Fashion · 1 Comment
19 Jun 2007
Former model, VJ, and infomercial star Daisy Fuentes, is accused of using sweatshop labor for her clothing line sold at Kohl’s. Last year the same organization, The National Labor Committee, called out Thalia for the same thing.
You’d think celebs would do a little more research (or have someone do research for them) before slapping their name on a product. Or maybe they just don’t care as long as they are making a buck.
Via / Jezabel
Your Man can Look Like Ricky Martin
4:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Fashion · Comments Off
6 Jun 2007
Ay if only it were that easy, but if what Azteca America reported on their morning show today is true, you or your favorite hombre can at least dress like Ricky Martin or at least in a clothing line the Boricua superstar is slated to begin.
Hmmm I wonder what the line will be called? Something like “ay que rico” seems perfect to me.
Jenny from the Block Watching Her Furry Back
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chismes|Fashion · Comments Off
11 May 2007
The gossip page of the NY Daily News is reporting that Jennifer Lopez and marido Marc Anthony are beefing up her security detail because of her choosing to wear fur.
According to a friend, an animal-rights extremist has been sending letters threatening ‘to kill her in public, just like the slaughtered animals whose fur she wears. He (Marc) has hired two off-duty police officers, in addition to her usual security team, to watch over Lopez whenever she makes public appearances,” says the pal.
J. Lo’s reps deny the story.
Via / NY Daily News
Miss Mexico Changes Her Dress
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion|mexico · 1 Comment
18 Apr 2007
Miss Mexico caused quite a stir with her choice of traditional dress for the Miss Universe pageant.
Miss Mexico, Rosa Maria Ojeda, presented the dress March 29, showing off the billowing, hoop skirt adorned with sketches of Catholic rebels hanging from posts. Rosaries and scapulars hung from the bullet-studded, bandolier belt; a large crucifix necklace, black halter top and wide-brimmed sombrero completed the outfit.
While Ms. Ojeda didn’t intend to make a political statement, many felt it was inappropriate given the rising number of drug related killings in Mexico and the fierce religious debate concerning the legalization of abortion in Mexico.
Latinos Win Fashion Awards for Oscar Night
1:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion|Los Angeles|Movies · Comments Off
26 Feb 2007
While Penelope Cruz didn’t win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Volver, she certainly deserved an Oscar for how beautiful she looked. In fact, fashion wise, the Hispanics and Latinos stole the show.
Penelope wore a light light pink (fashionistas are calling the color blush) Versace gown that was fitted on top and flowed into fluffy full skirt. I loved the color on Penelope and thought she looked very elegant with her hair pulled back but I’m still unsure about the bottom part. Speaking of the bottom part of the dress did you see when Ellen was “joke” vacuuming she snagged Penelope’s dress?
Eliana: Second model in the family to die
6:22 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion|Health|Uruguay|Women · Comments Off
14 Feb 2007
A sad twist in sad case of Luisel Ramos, the Uruguayan model we told you about last summer, who died on a catwalk in Montevideo. Uruguayan press reports that Luisel’s sister, Eliana, 18 and also a model, has died the same way her sibling did: from cardiac arrest.
Doctors are saying that Eliana was a “normal sized girl” who was “healthy”. Her rep, Argentine agent Pancho Dotto, calls the speculation that her death might have been brought on by malnutrition “absurd” and says that she didn’t suffer from anorexia or bulimia (read the whole report in Spanish).
Curiously, these are the same things that were said about Luisel, though her father initially said that his daughter had not eaten for days.
So, what is it? Eating disorders shared by two sisters who happen to be involved in the industry most associated with the illness, or a genetic heart problem?
Via / Espectador.com
Image via El Nuevo Día
Five skinny models kicked out of Spain’s Cibeles
1:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Fashion|Health|Spain|Women · 5 Comments
12 Feb 2007
Spain’s Cibeles Fashion Show, the country’s most important fashion industry event, wasn’t joking when it said it wouldn’t accept ultra-skinny models on its runways. The policy was instated this year to ensure that tragedies like those happening among Latina models in South America wouldn’t repeat themselves in Spain, and today the decision was put into action as Cibeles rejected five of its 69 models for “extreme thinness”:
The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, decided in September 2005 not to allow women below a body mass to height ratio of 18 to take part.
Undocumented immigrant fashion show
5:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion|Immigration|Spain · Comments Off
18 Jan 2007
In liberal Barcelona, Spain, one of the country’s top designers, Antonio Miró, has decided to incorporate the topic of immigration into his appearance at a top fashion show, using undocumented immigrants from Senegal as the models:
Miró placed a makeshift raft and some freight boxes as the only stage dressing to show his designs for the next winter season which, like his show from last year did by incorporating prisoners from the Modelo prison [in Barcelona] has a “solidarity” angle.
In Spain, the word for “trendy” in popular argot is “fashion”. Could this just be a “fashion” fashion show? Like it’s trendy to adopt African babies or go help with Katrina cleanup?
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