Red Carpet Admiring from the Backseat: Fashion’s Night Out 2012 Edition

                                                            Alexa Chung in Moschino

Justin Bieber Multi-talented Musician

A super precocious, multi-talented and self-taught musician (drums, guitar, piano and trumpet) 15-year-old Justin Bieber was already a phenomenon on YouTube -- putting his impeccable spin on songs from artists like Usher, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder -- before the world took notice. Since 2007, Justin racked up over 10,000,000 views purely from word of mouth.
But then he started to bubble up and important folks took notice. Seven months after Justin started posting his videos online; the Canadian teen flew to Atlanta, GA to meet with R&B sensation Usher, who quickly took him under his wing, making him his newest protégé. Shortly thereafter, Justin Bieber also wowed Island Def Jam head Antonio "L.A." Reid and has never looked back.
His first single, "One Time," produced by Chris "Tricky" Stewart is already putting him on the map and his debut album My World is due later this summer. At just a wee 15-years-of-age, Bieber is a virtually untapped well of natural artistic talent, and presumably will be a solid force in music for many years to come.

Celebrity Close Calls

For many, fame is a dream - critical acclaim, privilege, wealth, and a world of adoring fans. But in a split second, everything can disappear. In this series, celebrities' exclusive firsthand accounts, accompanied by cinematic reenactments, relive the moments they were confronted with true danger. These true stories should be obituaries, tragic endings to phenomenal lives. Except for one thing; every one of them lived to tell the tale.

Fashion Star

Elle Macpherson is bringing the glitz and glam of fashion to primetime television. All across America, students, soccer moms, accountants, and people from all walks of life are sewing in their basements, selling jewelry at small town conventions and creating incredible works of fashion. And even though they all may come from different walks of life, they all share the same burning desire... to be discovered and expose their designs and creations on a national level, and most importantly, to see their dreams become a reality.

Puma Grip Bag Lifestyle Collection

Puma classic grip bag just got back from design boot camp. Now ranked as Major Grip Bag, it features the same trim silhouette but with military styling and this season’s ‘modern romance’ theme. The bag is all-over premium faux leather with a spacious main compartment and versatile side pockets—complete with rich gold braided zip pullers, webbing details, and gold military buttons. The front panelling draws inspiration from military jackets, remixed with heavy matte waxed canvas and a two-tone saddle leather on the handles and brackets. While it’s all business, it’s prettified, too, with antique gold brushed metal hardware and an endearing certificate badge.

Puma Spring Summer 2011 Watch Collection

The new PUMA watch collection is a blend of sport and lifestyle. Combining form and function, the new Spring/ Summer 2011 collection boasts styles that go from working out to hanging out. The new styles are complete with lap counters, countdown timers, even heart rate monitors, and functions that include touch screen calculators and dual time zones. New styles like the Camber and the Glide show design innovation in their sleek minimal appearance, while the colorful and popular Loop and Slide make a comeback in new color ways.

The collection wouldn’t be complete without our signature pops of color.  Hues of light purple, eggplant, teal, and pink with bursts of yellow round out the assortment of the ever-popular black, white and grey options. Best selling styles such as the Flux, Cardiac and Pulse are now available in metallic pink, gold, silver and black, giving an updated look to some old favorites!

Kimono Sleeve Fashion

The kimono sleeve came into fashion for ‘Western’ women’s clothing towards the tail end of the 1940’s when the exaggerated shoulders which had previously been fashionable began to evolve into a more natural silhouette. As women’s fashion entered into the 1950’s, the fashionable silhouette for shoulders continued to move away from the large padded ‘Power’ look of the 1930’s/40’s towards the extreme opposite. A trend for petite and slopping shoulders emerged, alongside the nipped in waists, waspy hips and doll-like everything else, as a reflection of the demure and ultra-feminine stereotype to which society largely expected women to adhere. The kimono sleeve often fitted the bill for this look, as its construction method emphasises a continuous line between the neck and arm, subduing rather than highlighting the shoulder.

The kimono sleeve style became incredibly popular throughout the 1950’s and into the early 1960’s. Garments and sewing patterns featured a variety of lengths of kimono or grown-on sleeves, from the tiniest cap sleeve variation, to ¾ lengths and longer, with and without the underarm gusset; and as you can see by these images certainly looked a million miles from what many would imagine a garment with ‘kimono sleeves’ to look like!