Friday, July 23, 2010
Herve Leger Dress Giveaway
Britney Spears has cataclysmically bad hair day with mangled ginger patch
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Are you being served? We've all done very badly
Everyone has experienced poor customer service but a survey suggests Australia has a tougher time of it than other countries.
Of the 12 countries surveyed, Australia ranked equal last with Britain on measures of service satisfaction, behind the US, France, Canada and India.
In the Netherlands, 44 per cent of people felt companies were not doing anything extra to keep their business or were taking their business for granted. In Australia, that number was 81 per cent.
''The barometer clearly said customers want superior service and it's certainly not being provided,'' said Christine Wakefield, vice-president of American Express World Service Australia, which commissioned the survey.
''Australians have a laid-back attitude and this might be translating to some businesses having a similar attitude.''
Companies were more likely to reduce service during economic downturns but those that did missed an important revenue opportunity, she said. The survey found Australians were prepared to spend 8 per cent more in return for good customer service.
Brett Whitford, of the Customer Service Institute of Australia, said keeping customers was more cost-effective than attracting new ones in tough times. He said accountants often ignored the ''invisible cost of bad service''.
''They don't track how many people walked in and walked out because there was no one there to serve them,'' he said.
Society jeweller Nic Cerrone credits good customer service as one of the reasons for his cohort of third-generation customers.
His staff have regular service, ethics and product training. ''In a difficult time it comes back to what you have offered to your customers … from five or 10 years ago - and that's when you benefit,'' Mr Cerrone said.
From: http://www.theage.com.au/
Betsey Johnson Shoes Bring On the Fun
Monday, July 19, 2010
Anna Chapman: Russian spy shopping life story for $250k...sort of
The 28 year old bombshell will reportedly be loose lipped on how she infiltrated U.S. society when she gets a bite. But until then, Chapman's being very secretive about the potential deal - in fact she's not even shopping it. According to reports Chapman, who lost her income after her cover was blown, has asked an acquaintance to approach media outlets for her.
Anna Chapman's also asking that whatever money she earns from the deal be put into a Swiss account in someone else's name. That's because, as her attorney explained, she's forbidden from making money on the Russian spy story. "There is no prohibition against her talking. That would have been illegal," Robert Baum said in an interview with Newsweek. "She just can't make money from it, or else the government will go after that money."
Chapman found sudden fame last month as the most infamous of the 11 members of an alleged Russian espionage ring arrested in the U.S. The public's interest in her "all-American story" peaked when it was revealed the Russian spy was living as a New York City business woman who frequented exclusive bars and clubs and was well-liked by neighbors. Chapman's stunning good looks earned her countless nicknames by the media including "flame-haired beauty", "the modern day Bond girl" and "the stunning SoHo spy." Now, Anna Chapman's hoping she can spin all of that public interest into some much-need cash.
From: http://www.examiner.com/
Who’s the Biggest Fame Hog in Hollywood? Spencer Pratt? Vienna? Kim K? Snooki? Vote!
Whereas the celebs of not-so-long-ago used to flee the paparazzi and plead that they were desperately trying to protect their private lives … the NEW celebrities of 2010, don’t believe in having private lives at all.
Every moment of their lives, and we mean every last moment — from Kourtney Kardashian giving birth on Keeping Up With The Kardashians to Bethanny Frankel peeing in a champagne bucket just moments before her wedding on Bethenny Getting Married, to Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi pointing fingers and calling each other “liar” and “fame whore,” on The Bachelor Breakup special- is just another guaranteed-to-get-ratings moment to turn the cameras on.
This new breed of Hollywood celebs is even proud to acknowledge that they are “famewhores!”
“We love each other but I’m a famewhore and I’ll never grow out of it,” Spencer Pratt admitted to People, on July 18 about his marriage to Heidi Montag.
“I want every kind of press,” he says. “She believes in bad press.” Well, in that case, Heidi must have a different definition of bad press than most of us, since that’s the Heidi who underwent ten plastic surgeries in one day, including F-cup breast implants, and then blabbed on People’s cover, plus numerous TV shows about every last detail of the experience.
Now, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol and her baby daddy Levi Johnston have jumped onto the famehog bandwagon. The couple reportedly pocketed $100,000 to “announce” their re-engagement on the cover of Us Weekly, BEFORE doing the normal and courteous thing ie telling either of their mothers. And word is — they’re shopping a reality show about their newlywed life. Why not?
“Why not,” actually, is barely a question these days. After Vienna sold the story of HER dysfunctional engagement to Jake to Star magazine, for $90,000 BEFORE even phoning to breakup with him , a new level of ADD had been born.
It was a pretty competitive landscape already in the “famehog” world. When a non-reality star like Jennifer Love Hewitt appears on The George Lopez Show to discuss her “vajazzling” – that’s adding jewels to her “va-ja-jay” — you really need to go to the next level and the next, to get attention these days.
Especially when sex tapes like Kendra Wilkinson’s and NJ Housewives’ Danielle Staub’s are practically becoming a dime a dozen. And Kendra’s new book, Sliding Into Home, is #4 on the New York Times bestseller list, probably because she reveals the intimate details of her sex orgies with Hugh Hefner.
It almost makes Katy Perry with her glittery whipped cream-spurting bras, Lady Gaga’s finger-waving bikini visits to the Mets and Yankees ball games, and Miley Cyrus‘ underage barely-there-wear, seem downright modest!
No wonder that fame haters like Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson and Leonardo DiCaprio, who like to keep a low profile, seem almost vintage!
From: http://www.hollywoodlife.com/
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Louis Vuitton Jumps On The Temporary Tattoo Bandwagon

The Kelly effect: Ms Brook's curves spark a rush for Ultimo gel bras


Thursday, July 15, 2010
Gucci Shoulder bags discount sale 285USD !!

Barcelona Fashion Week: Cutting-Edge, International, Grandma-Inspired

Barcelona 080 fashion week is a bit of an oddity among the European fashion fests. The city has a long tradition of style—it’s famous for espadrilles, which even the Barcelona police used to wear—but classic looks aren’t part of the runway offerings here. The 13 Catalan designers who showed over the past three days each took different directions, but all bypassed the traditional suiting and classic womenswear. For its Spring ‘11 session, 080 Barcelona awarded €10,000 prizes to two local talents: Manuel Bolaño’s women’s collection, A Little About Me (pictured), was, he says, “inspired by my grandmother at her house in a country town.” Judging by the billowy jumpsuits, crochet lace body stockings, and layered skirts in rubber or metallic brocade, Gran was one very forward-thinking woman. In menswear, Catalonia’s rising star, Juan Antonio Ávalos, showed a collection called Tropical Knight, full of vivid color combinations such as red and pink. He managed to juxtapose medieval elements like coats of arms with seventies Cali surf-and-skate styles. In addition to local talent, 080 Barcelona invited five rising stars from across the world to show here this season: India’s Manish Arora, Greece’s Yiorgos Eleftheriades, and three designers from South Korea: Juun.J, Songzio, and Lee Jean Youn, who won last year’s Mango Fashion Awards. “I’ve got two days here after this show, and that’s my summer vacation,” said Juun.J, who titled his Spring menswear collection “Flap” because the airy pieces make him think of birds’ wings. Eleftheriades took the occasion to show his draped women’s looks alongside a selection of his new menswear. And Arora managed to party till dawn every night and still wow the crowd with his Art Deco kaleidoscope pieces dripping with Indian beading and embroidery.
Alexander Wang Expands T

For all his antiestablishment ideas, Alexander Wang is one incredibly shrewd businessman. Sure, he still frequents underground New York haunts with androgynous off-duty models and various other beautiful people. But as ringleader of the city’s young designers, the 26-year-old king of sexed-up streetwear cool is also evolving his in-demand ready-to-wear while keeping a very sharp eye on the bigger picture. “When I dropped out of Parsons after two years, almost more than my creative need it was because of all the ideas I had about the business, from merchandising to how to market it. That’s whatreally excited me,” says Wang, who talks easily about his company’s financials: Ready-to-wear, accessories, and his lowerpriced T brand each make up roughly 33 percent of his $24 million empire. (Next season, he plans to debut yet another as-yet untitled collection of tailored, greatest-hits essentials for the workplace, including black suiting and white button-downs.)
Last year, when he launched T, a line of slouchy, slept-in-looking cottons, Wang ingeniously gave his customers an open-ended selection of the street staples that had made his name, while allowing himself the room to push new concepts on the runway. “Stores want consistency in a brand, and T gave me the freedom to think a little bit further,” he says.
This fall, the secondary line has expanded beyond tanks and T-shirts to include sweatshirt blazers, low-slung pants that resemble long underwear, and plenty of lean, layerable knits in his signature black as well as moss, brick, and wheat. At $245, a cotton poncho is the most expensive item in the collection. Many details, such as velvet paneling on a wireless bra or leather trim on a jumpsuit, echo Wang’s fall runway show, which focused on deconstructed pinstripe banker suits and other corporate Wall Street uniforms gone bad (with chenille crop tops, black lace, and sliced microskirts). “I don’t want to stick to one look,” he says. “When I did the whole grunge beanies thing, I could have just run with that, but I didn’t.” No matter where he goes from here, though, at least his first-wave fans will always have T.
From: http://www.elle.com/
Courtney Love Nude, In Fetish Pics On Facebook (PHOTOS)

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