So, here is the photographic proof that these stellar celebs needs to hire a new stylist fast! Some pics will have side by side comparisons of the celebrity look fantastic, and totally a mess. Judge for yourself!

NEW YORK — How does a seemingly unusual trend — to wit, harem pants — end up on almost every runway at New York Fashion Week?

The spring previews, entering the home stretch on Thursday with runway shows from Calvin Klein and Vera Wang, brought together more than 100 designers. But the fashion world is a small one, after all.

For harem pants, the seed may lie across the Atlantic, where the look was reportedly worn by a very chic French editor. Fashion designers visit the same cities, see the same people, stay in the same hotels and see the same art exhibits.

“Fashion designers see someone like her and think they look cool,” says Amy Astley, editor in chief of Teen Vogue. “Trends by their very nature aren’t for everyone, but everyone likes to try them.”

The trouble is, it’ll be hard for anyone who is not a tall, slim French editor to pull off such draped, billowy pants. But that didn’t stop anyone from Phi, showing Thursday, to Proenza Schouler, Miss Sixty, Betsy Johnson, Nicole Miller and Tahari from sending them down the runway. New York Fashion Week wraps up Friday.

It’s hip to be peplumed this fall. In reviving this dressmaker’s conceit, so popular in the forties, designers shone a spolight on the waist. Jackets, dresses, and skirts all benefited from this soft architecture, which carved naturaly womanly curves into stylish silhouettes at Bogetta Veneta, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Prada, Chanel.

Enjoy the gallery of belle curve fashions hitting the scene this fall…

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Stats/Bio:

1)      Name …..Gustabo

2)      Profession……. artist /designer

3)      Lives and works ………. NYC

4)      Guilty pleasure………….. watching unbeatable  banzuke / swimming in my pool

5)      Relaxes……………….getting inked (tattooed)

6)      Favorite store………….. invisible nyc and forbidden planet

7)      People watch …………… old favorite, the L train  still  the standard  

8.)     Secret crush ………………… Olivia Munn

9 Questions with Gustabo

1. How did you you enter the field of fashion illustration?
its a bit of a chew (long story), but as a friend of mine so eloquently put it once, it beats driving a forklift for a living !

2. What are some of the shapes that define Fall 2008?
I dont have a compulsion to follow trends, it can become an addictive routine , like morphine ,alcohol or idealism even with the best intent can create myopic views

3. You usually work from a muse. Who is your current muse and why?
My muses live in my imagination , not say that I’m not always open to a fresh face for inspiration

4. What is your favorite medium in which to work?
Watercolors, acrylic, pencil, pen and photoshop comprise my utility belt

5. What makes a woman sexy?
genetics aside , the innate ability to engage with confidence and ease demanding undivided
attention and desire

6. You have lived in NYC most of your life. If you had to live anywhere else where would it be?
Its hard to fathom living anywhere else other than new york city …..i’ll bite though and say anywhere closer to my cuban roots and climate

7. How would you describe your illustrative style?
I have a hard time with labels … sorry

8. What are your favorite pieces of clothing to draw?
Couture is always a crowd pleaser

9. What are some enduring sources of inspiration for you?
Ingenuity in the creative process on all levels of discipline never cease to amaze and inspire.

That’s why I love to see the amazing transformations Rihanna seems to make with her hair on almost a bi-monthly basis. Whether she’s sporting a spikey, punkish east village coif,  sleek, long bangs with a chin length bob, glamorous ringlets spiraling down to her back, or coloring her hair from light brown to blue back, Rihanna’s stylish hair is light years beyond the huge weaves and over the top wigs that many like Beyonce still try to pass off as hip. I mean, just because something looks good, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try something new…right?  Here’s a sweet little gallery of some of my favorite hair styles of popstar Rihanna. There is no way you can’t view these photos and deny that currently, Rihanna’s hair is the most stylish of them all!!!

Jaslene and 3 other Elite models are rocking out some of Cesar’s latest masterpieces and looking very much like a top model. I am so proud of her, I think she is holding her own quite well up against those 3 stunning Elite models. Cesar continues to amaze me , his collection is more beautiful than ever , the colors, form and textures are glamorous, bright, and perfectly combined for what many are saying is his greatest collection to date.  Seth Cohen, isabellagucci.com’s very own in house style expert is a co-collaborator for Cesar’s designs and as you can see, they make a dynamic fashion design team…See for yourself.

Remember, you can only find these new photos of Jaslene here on www.isabellagucci.com

see more of Cesar’s collection at www.cesargalindo.com

In case you don’t know about Cesar Galindo….(excerpts from his personal bio)
I began designing dresses in my teens and sold them to a consignment store while I attended high school in my native city of Houston, Texas. Both my mother’s love of sewing, and my father’s sense of style and affinity for color, influence much of what I do to this very day. I come from a family of thirteen, in which five of my siblings are women of different shapes. I like to think that I keep this in mind whenever I create a collection of cocktail and evening wear for my ladies or when I am asked to interpret another designer’s vision.

I learned to sew by watching my mother work on her machine and by experimenting on my own. My formal training did not really begin until I started working for The Miami City Ballet as the Assistant to Jose Varona III. It was there, under his tutelage, that I learned the intricacies of costume design – from delicate as well as heavily constructed underpinnings, to elaborate, highly decorative garments.

I then took a position with The Houston Grand Opera, as an assistant costumer to the company. My creative skills were further honed by the needs of the troupe’s performers. A flare for the dramatic remains with me to this very day. All of my dresses and gowns are lined in my signature fuchsia charmeuse. I like to think that life should always be bright and colorful!

Career Highlights

1986: First commissioned fashion collection for Visible Changes, Houston Texas 

1986-1989: Store partner and designer for Apostle III stores in Santa Barbara, CA and Austin, Texas

1989:Miami City Ballet: Assistant to Jose Varona III, Costume Designer for the Nutcracker, Miami, Florida

1990: Houston Grand Opera: Assistant Costumer to the company

1991: TSE Cashmere: Showroom Manager

1992:Carmelo Pomodoro: Assistant to the designer until his untimely death

1993- 1998: Cesar Galindo Collection: Designer signature seasonal dress collection

1997: SAGA Furs sponsorship: Traveled to Scandinavia as a guest of SAGA Furs to learn fur design

1999: Chaka Khan World Tour with Prince: Designed tour wardrobe for Ms. Khan

1999-2004:Dolce & Gabbana: Special Projects: Designed costumes for celebrity clients including Madonna, Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliot

2004-Present: Re-launch of Cesar Galindo Collection: Design seasonal collection of couture cocktail and eveningwear

2005-2007: Calvin Klein Women’s Collection: Seasonal contract to interpret dresses. sportswear and eveningwear under the guidance of Creative Director, Francisco Costa

2008: Houston Grand Opera: Costume Designer for the world premiere of “Last Acts”, an original English language opera starring Frederika Von Staad

One Brazilian paper blasted her back fat and cellulite, as did other outlets.

The impetus for the stories were two still photos taken at the Cia Maritima fashion show at the end of last week. It was 2006 when Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston, 21, died of anorexia

Kurkova opened and closed the swimwear show, and did a third walk in the middle. That third walk can be seen 7:35 into the below video, and is the look from which the stills were taken.

My opinion: I think it’s sad that the media , especially in Brazil is giving her such a hard time. It’s hard enough being fat in real life but in the fashion world it’s an absolute death sentence to your career and status as a hottie.

But in all fairness, she is too big (in the current photos) to be a Victoria’s Sceret model. Before you rip my head off, understand that in normal everday life Karolina Kurkova ’s current body would be considered slim, sexy, and only in need of slight toning, but in the fashion industry she is a cow (at this size currently) even though it looks like she’s a mere 10-12 pounds heavier than in her other runway ready body pics.

This model is paid HUGE to look perfect according to the industry’s strict standards, that’s why no matter how pretty you are and how great your husband tells you your body looks, there’s a 99.9% chance it’s still not good enough to be runway fashion model. Most models are naturally skinny, this is another advantage of youth because as many models age their metabolism slows down like the rest of us, and some models can no longer stay stick thin.This is why when the industry picks it’s models, it has to be the best of the best. Weight gain and aging are the 2 major no-no’s in high fashion. It’s depressing to hear, but it’s reality. If I was spending millions on a lingerie runway show and one of my models show up with back fat and cellulite I would seriously lose it.

This industry is selling you a fantasy.,and unless your a stunning plus size model like ANTM winner Whitney, you have to BE the product 24/7 until your contract is up. I was very quick to come to her defense until I saw the photos, and when I saw them, I gasped. Just look at the before photos of her then look at the 3 side by side after shots and tell me if YOU wouldn’t be pissed if one of your highest paid models showed up to walk the runway will a jiggly cellulite ass and fat back layers. If your honest you know that would be completely unacceptable.

I do give Karolina serious credit for being so brave to do that walk 3 times during the show, and still maintain a strong prescence on the runway. I can only imagine the snickering and hurtful comments hair stylists, makeup artistst, and others must have been saying within earshot of her. I have worked in this industry and there is zero sympathy or understanding for these things. I hope she drops a few pounds and come back looking better than ever and shut everyone’s mouth up..including mine.

Story by By CATHY HORYN The NY Times

RACIAL prejudice in the fashion industry has long persisted because of tokenism and lookism. “We already have our black girl,” says a designer to a fashion-show casting agent, declining to see others. Or: “She doesn’t have the right look.” Laziness, paranoia and pedantry may also have something to do with the failure to hire black models for shows and magazine features in any meaningful number, but, hey, that’s just a guess. A decade ago the thing to deplore was the stereotyping of black models by dressing them in African-inspired clothes (or the Asian girls in kimonos). This at least gave work to minority models, but it also encouraged a Western view of African culture of the many-bangles-many-beads variety.

O.K., so fashion ain’t deep. It looks into a mirror and sees … itself. The irony in fashion is that it loves change but it can’t actually change anything. It can only reflect a change in the air. But what changes fashion? What would finally move American designers to include more black models on their runways? That 30 percent of the country is nonwhite? That black women spend $20 billion a year on clothes? That an African-American is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party?

The answer is the individual eye.

In fashion, one of the most influential eyes belongs to the photographer Steven Meisel. His pictures have caught an America basking in the earnest, self-reflected glow of celebrity and money. He has taken innumerable risks, especially with “Sex,” the 1992 volume he did with Madonna, that have paid off with a career that allows him to do whatever he wants.

And he has almost lovingly photographed some of the world’s beautiful women, tapping into their psyches, connecting with them on a human level, while transforming them into fashion deities.

As the model Veronica Webb, who first worked with Mr. Meisel 20 years ago, said: “Steven knows every single tic, every talent that every girl has. He just pulls it out of them.”

For the July issue of Italian Vogue, Mr. Meisel has photographed only black models. In a reverse of the general pattern of fashion magazines, all the faces are black, and all the feature topics are related to black women in the arts and entertainment. Mr. Meisel was given roughly 100 pages for his pictures. The issue will be on European newsstands next Thursday and in the United States soon after.

Under its editor, Franca Sozzani, Italian Vogue has gained a reputation for being more about art and ideas than commerce. Ms. Sozzani also doesn’t mind controversy.

She said that, as an Italian, she has been intrigued by the American presidential race and Mr. Obama, which was one source of inspiration when she and Mr. Meisel began discussing, in February, the idea of an all-black issue. Also, she was aware of the lack of diversity on the runways in recent years and the debate it fueled last fall in New York, where Bethann Hardison, a former model who ran a successful agency, held two panel discussions on the topic.

Ms. Sozzani said the issue was not a response to criticism that she, too, has under-represented blacks or portrayed them as stereotypes.

“Mine is not a magazine that can be accused of not using black girls,” said Ms. Sozzani, noting that Naomi Campbell has had several covers, and that Liya Kebede and Alek Wek have also had covers.

Having worked at one time with nearly all the models he chose for the black issue — Iman, Ms. Campbell, Tyra Banks, Jourdan Dunn, Ms. Kebede, Ms. Wek, Pat Cleveland, Karen Alexander — Mr. Meisel had his own feelings. “I thought, it’s ridiculous, this discrimination,” said Mr. Meisel, speaking by phone from his home in Los Angeles. “It’s so crazy to live in such a narrow, narrow place. Age, weight, sexuality, race — every kind of prejudice.”

He began casting in March. “I love the history of fashion, obviously, and I love old, and I tried to get as many of the older girls as I could,” he said. Over Ms. Sozzani’s initial objections, he also hired Toccara Jones, a full-figure model, who became known from “America’s Next Top Model.” “I wanted to say something about weight, and I’m never allowed to do that,” he said. “I met Toccara and thought, she’s beautiful. What’s the deal with her? She’s great and she’s sexy.”

If these pictures have a heightened sense of glamour, it probably has something to do with the atmosphere of a Meisel shoot. According to Ms. Webb, “it’s the darkest studio, like a studio at MGM.”

There are fans and reflectors; many assistants. An area is marked “Hair” and another “Makeup.” (Pat McGrath did all the makeup for the issue, and Guido Palau did the hair.) A mirror is placed behind Mr. Meisel, so the model can see herself.

“It’s a dark world,” Ms. Webb said, “and you’re in the spotlight.”

The four pictures that Ms. Campbell was supposed to make turned into 20. She also appears on the fold-out cover, along with Ms. Kebede, Sessilee Lopez and Ms. Dunn. “Franca doesn’t realize what she’s done for people of color,” Ms. Campbell said the other day. “It reminds me of Yves using all the black models.” She was referring to Yves Saint Laurent, who, like Gianni Versace and a handful of other designers, routinely cast minorities.

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The biggest surprise to me is how much Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s square jawed offspring Rumer Willis is starting to blossom into a bewitching raven haired beauty. Rumer has her mothers seductive eyes and beautiful skin, it looks like soft  porcelain from certain angles. I see and read alot of cruel comments about Rumer in gossip blogs and it pisses me off because although she has very strong facial features I find the criticisms of her completely unfair. Year after year Rumer is growing into her looks and body and from what I am seeing becoming more beautiful week by week. I think this may be a case of the ugly duckling who became a swan, the most beautiful of all the birds.

Enjoy the pics.

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