I took drugs and I'm ashamed, reveals heavenly sop
November 3 2008, 5:27 AM
Two months ago, I sat in a Chelsea hotel suite with opera star Katherine Jenkins and during a lengthy interview for GQ magazine, the following exchange
took place:
Q. ‘Have you ever taken any drugs?
A. (shakes head).
Q. ‘Woah...was that a hesitation there?’
A. ‘No! I’ve never taken drugs.’
Katherine blushed slightly as she said this and looked rather flustered like showroom models there. Which I put down to the fact that, according to my extensive research, nobody had ever actually asked her this question before and she was just a bit taken aback.
It seemed, frankly, impossible to imagine Katherine being a drug abuser.
I was mistaken.
On Wednesday night, I was sitting down to watch Arsenal play Spurs in a Dubai hotel bar – I’m filming an ITV documentary on the Middle Eastern playground – when my phone rang.
‘Piers, it’s Katherine Jenkins. I need to tell you something that’s been bothering me.’
For the next hour, the beautiful young singer poured her heart out to me about how she had regularly taken cocaine, Ecstasy and cannabis.
And she was searingly honest about why she finally stopped.
‘I could have ended up messing it all up, and that would have just been a tragic waste of the opportunity I was given,’ she told me.
Katherine, 28, is, genuinely, one of the nicest people I’ve met in the often self-obsessed music industry: a sweet, polite, touchingly naive, unaffected girl from Neath in South Wales, who just happens to have one of the greatest swimsuit models mezzo-soprano voices in the world.
Last week, she signed a stunning £6million record deal with American label Warner Music and is flying to Los Angeles in the New Year for a few months to try her luck cracking the United States.
So, with things going so extraordinarily well professionally, confessing to her secret drugs shame past is not a decision she has taken lightly.
‘It’s not something I ever wanted to talk about publicly,’ she said, ‘because taking drugs is the biggest regret of my life. But I’ve always tried to be honest about my life and I’ve had sleepless nights since that GQ interview appeared, because I knew I’d lied to you.’
Her voice sounded trembly. ‘Are you OK?’ I asked.
‘Yes. But I’m very, very nervous about admitting what I did, and I know some people may be shocked. But I will feel relief, too, that it is finally out there and I can get on with my life without worrying that one day it may all come back to haunt me.’
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Christmas fashion and parties: get all decked out
October 20 2008, 3:38 AM
Fashion expert Phyllis Brasch Librach, president and founder of SydneysCloset.com, a specialty retailer selling special occasion dresses to plus size women, offers tips to take the stress out of dressing up for holiday parties. An intersting quotation: "Get into the holiday mood wearing deep jewel tones: navy, burgundy and emerald green. Or really shine in a silver, gold or bronze dress. But avoid head-to-toe glitter so you don't compete with the tinsel on the tree."
Holiday shopping, cooking and decorating create enough stress without the added anxiety of what to wear to the whirl of year-end holiday parties.
"It is possible to dress up -- not stress out -- out during the December social season," says Phyllis Brasch Librach, president and founder of SydneysCloset.com, a specialty retailer catering to women and teens shopping for a plus size dress for special occasions.
Librach shares these mature model trends and dress code tips to arrive in style this party season:
Hue cue:
"Nothing says party more than the perfect little dress and this season it need not be black," says Librach. "Get into the holiday mood wearing deep jewel tones: navy, burgundy and emerald green. Or really shine in a silver, gold or bronze dress. But avoid head-to-toe glitter so you don't compete with the tinsel on the tree."
Not ready to give up that little black dress? Show your cheer with small splashes of color or pattern: a red shawl, animal print shoes or an evening purse in a metallic neutral: gold, silver or bronze.
Dress to impress:
"Get out of the pants rut that rules your everyday wardrobe," says Librach. "Everyone needs a sexy cocktail dress or a long formal dress to be decked out for year-end social season. Holidays are special times to celebrate with family and friends you may see you only once a year. You want to look your very best to feel very merry, and a dress lets you do that instantly."
Feminine frills:
Holiday 2006 fashion focuses on feminine details that delight girls of all ages:
Bows of all sizes at the waist, the back, under the bust line and on shoes or purses.
Ruffles on skirts and soft gathers of fabric at the bodice, waist and hips.
Head-to-toe glamour:
Pump up the glitz with sparkly platforms or satin high heels.
Or slip on comfortable ballerina slippers in lush velvet or sensible sequined flats.
Pull hair back with a silk, satin or velvet headband, preferably with jewels.
SydneysCloset.com caters to women and teens sizes 14 to 44 shopping for a plus size dress for any special occasion: weddings, prom, homecoming, formal dances, military balls, cruises, Quinceanera, bar and bat mitzvahs, family celebrations and business events.
Still not sure what to wear? Follow these dress code tips from Sydney's Closet:
Informal house gathering: Go for fun not fancy. Play it down with a jean jacket over a little black dress pulled together with dressy boots and rhinestone drop earrings.
Happy Hour: For a quick fix from dull day to festive after dark swap the office pants and tailored blouse for a velvet or chiffon skirt paired with a cashmere sweater set. Trade the over-sized leather satchel for a pint-size evening bag with gem stones. Leave the clogs under the desk and clock out in sexy platforms.
Cocktail Party: slip on a knee or tea-length cocktail dress in sexy fabrics like silk or chiffon and shoes that show off your legs. Throw on a shawl or jacket for the conservative crowd at the office holiday party. Add a pearl necklace and earrings for pure perfection.
Holiday Gala: "black tie" or "black tie optional" means you get all decked out in a long, formal evening gown in rich fabrics like taffeta with glamorous details that dazzle: satin evening gloves, silk pumps or sparkling sandals and a sequined evening bag tiny enough to fit in your palm.
Source:http://www.fashiongates.com
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Models carefull to their feet
September 12 2008, 12:59 AM
It's most likely not an inquiry that many people pose of others, or imagine to have others pose of us. It's amazing that simply tends to burst into our heads when we're reacting a bit of hurt: how happy are your feet?
At the time of you’re starting of modeling career you have to keen with your feet. Any bikini model and female models have to take care of their feet. Any of modeling agency has to give some valuable tips for, how to take care of your feet.
Any swimsuit model and adult models have to have, kept in mind these precious instructions. Every teen model to top models, they included in this.
In early on human civilization, it was certainly the case that a lot of people would have marched around without any guard on their feet. Known that we need the kind of normal protection that many animals have, it should come as no surprise that we need to wear shoes to make the whole method of walking happier.
Footwear affords a crucial role for us these years. It permits us to walk superior distances, shielding our feet from the damages that we might or else have to continue.
It also, of track, verifies very of use in lots of jobs. The thinking of an entity working on a structuring site, for example, without fitting footwear seems akin to a weird image.
As fashions modify, it is nearly predictable that we should reject aged pairs of shoes and look to buy fresh ones. Why should this be like this?
The realism is that the main purpose of footwears for model girls hould be to protect your feet from hurt. This doesn't just mean defensive them from clear sources of latent injure, it also means creation sure that your feet are in reality happy.
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Dressing is more important for models
September 9 2008, 1:10 AM
The garments create the man or so the saw goes. In spite of your gender, there is a number of truths to the chestnut. Those models like american models which are newly into this, they have to be alert. Some teen models and commercial models or fashion models are be careful of this. This style is must that’s why some modeling agencies are acquires one or two fashion designer to fulfill of this job. If you desire to be an achievement, you require to clothing for it. Here are some basics to remain in mind.
Dressing for victory in actuality starts with color. Decide two, crucial, colors that you can begin to erect your fashion choice upon. Most people prefer black, brown, grey, navy or beige, but you can choose ahead no matter what color you like the top (just keep it uncomplicated). Following you have selected two uncomplicated colors, you can then beginning out (don’t overlook that wallet!) to those shiny selling stores. These are some tips for the teen models.
Once you turn up within of your preferred clothing store, discontinue for an instant and stare around you. You will detect that there are two types of garments hanging on racks and folded over upon shelf – classic and fashionable. For the nearly all division, it is best to start on your attire with some standard pieces, so omit those vibrantly colored, a little bizarre, trendy looks. In its place, explore for pin oops, basic cuts, and direct lines. Currently that you have elected your each day pieces, you can set up thorough for a morsel of color. Every glamorous model to be look in these solutions.
Even though it is satisfactory to slot in a bit of color into your secret, attach to those earlier mentioned standard looks. Do not decide colors that will rinse out your skin tenor, and attempt to wait left from colors that are loud and somewhat bizarre.
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Fashion and Fragrance in Modeling
September 5 2008, 1:01 AM
The anxiety deed Hollywood flick “The Thomas Crown Affair”, which was out to movie houses in 1999 starring Pierce Brosnan, would by no means be effectual if not for the clothes and dresses used. The job can be accredited to glowing recognized fashion house Michael Kors. Tagged for its modest approaches of designs, the fashion business worked its garments inside the styles of conventional sportswear. The essential Michael Kors garments display burly sexuality, accentuating and importance the tenor of the gym-fit bodies.
Particular from the male model and female hot model, females are very keen for own smell. The runaway models, commercial models, top models love to have some unique perfume. Some of them top model and adult model having their own brand. The modeling agencies are trying to deal with the fashion and fragrances.
Michael Kors, the stylish mind after the fashion house was initially a peak designer for sportswear for women and was an auction assistant for Lothar's in New York from 1977 to 1978. In 1981, he completed and initiated his own women's sportswear tag and in 1990 initiates his own budget priced menswear line up.
As a fashion designer, Mr. Kors was formerly famous as saying that he planed to evident his qualities and conniving know-how in the formation of fragrances for glamour model. Thus, in 2000, when Michael Kors initiated its original women's cologne through the Perfumes Givenchy certify, the company was extremely greatly in passion.
The entrance of the smell was so burly and very great deal felt in the market that the business did not vacillate to get a growth into men's perfumes for male model, launched the next year (2001). The start on of the men's fragrances escorts in the re-introduction of the company's major clothing row for men next an extended hiatus.
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