With Oscar night just around the corner, there’s only one other thing on the minds of nominees — the swanky swag they’re gonna nab on awards night! Win or lose, the evening will be sweetened by a plush one of a kind leather duffel bag from designer Gina Alexander.

Alexander, famous for putting the stars’ faces on the bags they carry, was commisioned to create the swanky bag for the nominees — and it’s emblazoned with images from the most memorable movies of the year.

The sack retails for a colossal $2500! Whatever the Oscar outcome, this is still a nice prize.

Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion designer, has said in a newspaper interview that he was prepared to sell his fashion empire.

“I’m prepared to sell to the highest bidder,” Armani told the business daily Handelsblatt at the opening of an Armani exhibition in Milan on Tuesday.

French group L’Oreal, which already cooperates with Armani in perfumes and cosmetics, has frequently been mooted as a possible buyer.

“L’Oreal could be a partner. But if somebody else offers more, they could also be a partner,” said the 72-year-old designer, who has no children.

Experts estimate that Armani is worth about five billion euros (6.6 billion dollars).

- YahooNews

Beauty has no age limit, indeed!

This ad is part of Dove’s revolutionary “Pro-age” campaign, and it was banned for showing too much skin

How is the concept of beauty packaged and marketed to the mass public? Have a look at this video - its pretty eye opening:

Dress Like a Million (On Considerably Less): A Trend-Proof Guide to Real Fashion - Dressing like a million is easy when you’ve got a million to spend. The challenge is trying to do it on a budget. With her top-selling fourth book, Dress Like a Million, fashion guru Leah Feldon, guarantees that every woman can meet the challenge with ultimate style.

In Dress Like a Million, Feldon gives you all the tools you need to put together a look that is not only effortless, flattering, and relatively inexpensive, but also one that is timeless, perfectly suited to your body type, and packed with personal style. With snappy text, fun illustrations, and unique insights, Feldon entertains as she informs—a winning combination that has marked her as one of the best style writers in the business.

Feldon has been on the fashion scene for more than twenty years, as a stylist, designer, image consultant, journalist, author, and television host. She has dressed models, celebrities, and real people alike, and if there’s one thing she has learned in her varied career it’s that money is not the deciding factor of style and chic. Know-how is. InDress Like a Million she shares her considerable knowledge and shows you how savvy, smarts, and a good sense of self can give you equal footing with any Park Avenue princess.

Dress Like a Million has the definitive word on: Building the perfect wardrobe with the right look for every occasion Dressing up and down with taste and style Flattering your individual body type Hair and Make-up do’s and don’ts The final word on color theory How to choose timeless classics Sixteen basics every woman needs in her wardrobe.

IQONS is a new on-line fashion community with the aim of replicating the impact on fashion that MySpace had on music. The free on-line community enables communication and promotion of everyone from inspirational recognisable designers, stylists and photographers to fashion fans and consumers.

Co-Founder, Rafael Jimenez stated at the launch, “The on-line global communication took off last year, with MySpace becoming an inspiration for highlighting music talent and we thought, how could we apply that to fashion?”

The site officially launched to a global audience in London this week, coinciding with London Fashion Week. The site already had an experimental launch over the past two months, hosting events in Paris and New York and proved an immediate hit, attracting thousands of like-minded fashion fans.

Who is behind IQONS?

Rafael Jimenez – Co-Founder
Born in Venezuela, and based in Paris, Rafael worked at Comme des Garcons for eight years where he occupied different roles in sales and marketing leading to the birth of the Guerilla Store. These stores would open for one year in unusual locations and be run by partners with no previous experience in retail. This concept rose in response to the slick, “marbled-floor” environment habitually used in fashion. Rafael then moved on to a personal project, Plan 8 Ltd, a company aiming to create innovative marketing and commercial strategies for fashion designers and brands. In 2004, he met Suran Goonatilake and started collaborating on two key projects that Suran founded; The Centre for Fashion Enterprise and Bodymetrics.

Suran Goonatilake – Co-Founder
Suran is the Chairman and co-founder of Bodymetrics, a company pioneering the use of body-scanning and virtual reality technologies in fashion. At Selfridges, in Oxford Street, and in Harrods, Knightsbridge, customers can get their body-scanned and order perfect-fitting designer jeans and women’s luxury suits. He was previously a co-founder of the Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE), a ground-breaking initiative based in London that finances and nurtures high-growth fashion designers. The CFE pioneered a new model of building luxury fashion companies and drew upon lessons Suran learnt in technology start-ups and practises from the film and music industries. In June of 2005, Suran was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s birthday honours list for his services to Entrepreneurship.

Diane Pernet – Co-Mentor Iqon
Diane Pernet has pioneered the use of the Web as a medium for fashion communication through her highly influential Blog, www.ashadedviewonfashion.com. With a background as a fashion critic and a video journalist, Diane has opened the doors for new fashion talent and ideas globally. Her Blog is mandatory reading for anyone in fashion whether they are a new designer starting their career in Paris or an established magazine editor tracking street fashion in Seoul. Having started the on-line fashion-media revolution through her Blog, now Diane is partnering with IQONS to continue her exciting journey.

It never ceases to amaze how many times Madonna can re-emerge and re-invent herself over and over again — with great sucess each and every time!

MADONNA HAILED AS A ‘FASHION ICON’ - Madonna has been honoured for her experimental and ever-changing personal sense of fashion at this year’s Elle Style Awards.

The recognition comes soon after Madonna announced that she is to launch her own designer clothing range through the high street store H and M:

Related in the News:
Madonna named Elle’s Style Icon - The 48-year-old star was honoured with the Style Icon Award for a career which has encompassed countless different looks over two decades….(RTE)

Madonna becomes H&M’s material girl - She has been known as the Material Girl for years. Now Madonna has really become one by launching a fashion line for high street giant H&M….(Thisislondon.co.uk)

Madonna designs heading for the high street - Madonna — the world’s highest earning female performer, worth an estimated £165 million — still has time for a few little jobs on the side…(Telegraph UK)

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Get Ready for M by Madonna - The M by Madonna collection at H&M is almost here and this time she’s giving us something a little more exciting than tracksuits…(PopSugar)

More Madonna H&M Ads - Here are even more of Madonna’s latest H&M ads shot by celebrity photographer Steven Klein. Madonna’s very own designer clothing line, M by Madonna, will hit H&M stores on March 22….(JustJared)

Madonna Found the Fountain of Youth - In case you hadn’t noticed, Madonna is 32 again. Or at least that’s what they guys at H&M want you to think….(CelebSlap)

The organizers of the Pasarela Cibeles, Spain’s biggest yearly fashion show, told five out of 69 models they were too thin to participate this year. In September 2005, the show had decided not to permit women whose body mass to height ratio was less than 18 percent to be in shows.

According to AP, Dr. Susana Monereo, of Madrid Getafe hospital’s endocrinology and nutrition department, said three of the five models who were rejected were not spanish.

Monereo was responsible for assessing the models along with two other doctors.

She said one model who was told she could not take part had a ratio of 16, the equivalent of being 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing under 110 pounds.

Leonor Perez Pita, director of Pasarela Cibeles, said the models’ low weights may have been due to their hectic work schedules - two had been in 25 shows in New York before they went to Madrid.

“It could be that they lost weight during that period,” Pita said.

But no excuses were allowed - Pita said Madrid’s show intended to send a message of “health and beauty.”

“Five hundred people will see them here, but through television it’ll make it six million, and a young girl may think it’s a definition of beauty and may even make herself ill as a result,” Pita said.

H/T Vitabeat

GOOD for them, I say! I would love to see some healthy women on the catwalks!

Here’s my city style:

Aspen: Aspen fits you to a T. What can be better than carving turns in the morning and hitting the cobblestone streets dense with designer goods in the afternoon? You revel in throwing on high-performance sports gear and pushing your limits. But afterward you’re likely to treat yourself to a little indulgence, whether it’s by bundling up in a cashmere throw in front of a fire or ordering an awesome bottle of pinot noir at a ridiculously good restaurant.

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Marc Jacobs always claims he has no real ambition beyond making beautiful clothes for the moment, and because he demonstrates this on a fairly regular basis, we must assume his thinking is as simple as that.

Yet in his last three shows he has attempted to go beyond the temporal limits of the runway and give clothes the emotional charge of a film or a painting. Other designers create elaborate sets in which to project a mood or an atmosphere; Alexander McQueen and John Galliano come first to mind. But often you feel that the set exists mainly to get good pictures to coerce an emotion out of you that is not readily apparent in the clothes. It has no real value. ~ New York Times

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