The Hills Girls Get Clothing Lines

First Lauren Conrad announced she was developing a clothing line, then it was ex-friend Heidi Montag and now Whitney Port has announced a clothing line fo her own. So who's line offers what?

Whitney’s new party wear clothing line, Eve & A, is a seventeen-piece collection featuring convertible dresses, tops and jackets priced $40 to $250. Not too much said yet about it and no pictures are yet available.

Lauren's line is high-end fashion with many items over $100. She has always wanted to be a fashion designer and seems to be getting positive reveiws from many.

http://laurenconrad.seenon.com/

Heidi's line called Heidiwood and the items retail for around $10 to $60. Let's just say many think the items are horrible fitting, made with cheap fabric and are kind of skanky (and this is being nice!).

Best Earring Styles for Your Face Shape

You don't actually have to abide by these rules it's just sometimes helpful.

Round
If your face is round, you would do well to avoid large circular earrings, because they will only accentuate this feature. Stay away from hoop earrings for the same reason. To give your face a little more angle, try a long earring with a slight curve or a square or rectangular style.

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Oval
An oval face shape is said to be the most ideal because it works with most hairstyles, jewellery and makeup. If you have an oval face, you have a lot of freedom when it comes to choosing earrings. Anything from tiny sparkly studs to spiral dangles will look great on you. The one type you might want to avoid is extremely long earrings that will elongate your face.

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Heart
A heart shaped face is characterized by a wide forehead that tapers into a tiny narrow chin. The type of earrings that will work for these people are the exact opposite shape of their face. Look for chandelier or teardrop earrings. Steer clear of heart shapes or triangles with the wide part at the top.

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Square
With this face shape you’ll want to avoid anything that adds extra edge to your already angular face. So obviously, square and rectangular shapes are out. Anything with curving lines will help soften your face.

Edith Head

Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered her more Academy Awards than any other woman in history. She graduated from university in 1919 and became a school teacher at Bishops School in La Jolla, California.

With no experience, Head answered an advertisement to work for Paramount Pictures in the costume department. She borrowed another's sketches and passed them off as her own. She began designing costumes for silent films and by the 1930s had established herself as one of the leading designers. She worked at Paramount for 44 years until she went to Universal Pictures on March 27, 1967, possibly prompted by her extensive work for director Alfred Hitchcock, who had moved to Universal in 1960. During her long career she was nominated for 35 Academy Awards, including every year from 1948 through 1966, and won eight times, more Oscars than any other woman has won. She was responsible for some of the best-known Hollywood fashion images of her day, with her costumes being worn by the most glamorous and famous actresses in films seen by millions. Head's influence on world fashion was far reaching, especially in the 1950s when she began appearing on Art Linkletter's television program and writing books on fashion. In 1967 she left Paramount Pictures, and joined Universal where she remained until her death in 1981.

Head was a very private woman, a trait well illustrated by the dark sunglasses that became her trademark. Originally the lenses were blue, but later they were increasingly dark shades of gray. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6504 Hollywood Blvd.

Why the World is Coming to an End:The Expantion of Crocs

MTV Live (Canada) says there are signs that the world is coming to an end. The main one; Croc heels. Yes. Crocs have expanded to heels, wedges, shoes and more.

There are crocs for the sports fans, children and men!

Even Skechers has jumped on the band wagon and has its own live of these shoes.

Yes, those are rhinestones.

Introducing Abbey Dawn

Avril Lavigne will be launching her own juniors clothing line in July (2008). It will consist of apparel and jewelry that are feminine and flirty, but with the rocker edge Lavigne is known for. The brand will be available in Kohl's stores only in the U.S. Abbey Dawn does not yet have a Canadian retailer finalized but will BEFORE the July launch. Abbey Dawn is apparently a nickname that Lavigne's dad gave her. The threads (ranging from $24 to $48) mimic the singer's signature skater-girl-chic style and include hoodies, jeans and tees in bright colors and skull and zebra patterns. Lavigne, who had a hand in everything from choosing fabrics to collaborating on designs, plans to wear the line during her Best Damn Tour, which just recently launched this month.

Avril has recently said, “a lot of hot pinks and blacks and stars and purple and zebra. Basically, everything I wear. I have a very particular style. I want it to be available to a lot of girls, and I want it to be affordable. I walked through (a Los Angeles) Kohl’s the other day and said, ‘Oh, when my line is here it’s totally going to stand out.” Avril added, “I actually am the designer. What’s really important to me is that everything fits well and is well-made, so I try everything on and approve it all. I’m making sure that I think people in their 20s are going to wear it because it’s going to be a sexy fit, not just, ‘Oh, T-shirts and hoodies.’ The hoodies are slimming. It’s not a thick, bulky material.”

Here are two pictures from the tour. She is wearing Abbey Dawn tops:

Adore Dior?

Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was an influential French fashion designer. He was born in Granville, Manche, Normandy, France. Dior flagship boutiques are found in Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Las Vegas, and San Francisco.

Acceding to his parents' wishes, Dior attended the Ecole des Sciences Politiques from 1920 to 1925. The family, whose fortune was derived from the manufacture of fertilizer, had hopes he would become a diplomat, but Dior only wished to be involved in the arts. After leaving school he received money from his father so that in 1928 he could open a small art gallery, where he sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Max Jacob. After a family financial disaster that resulted in his father losing his business, Dior was forced to shut down the gallery. In the 1930s Dior made a living by doing sketches for haute couture houses. In 1938 he worked with Robert Piguet and later joined the fashion house of Lucien Lelong, where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers. In 1945 he went into business for himself, backed by Marcel Boussac, the cotton-fabric magnate. Dior's fashion house opened in December 1946, and the following February, he presented his first collection, known as Corolle. It was more famously known as the New Look. The actual phrase the "New Look" was coined by Carmel Snow, the powerful editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Dior's designs were more voluptuous than the boxy, fabric-conserving shapes of the recent World War II styles, influenced by the rations on fabric. He was a master at creating shapes and silhouettes; Dior is quoted as saying "I have designed flower women." His look employed fabrics lined predominantly with percale, boned, bustier-style bodices, hip padding, wasp-waisted corsets and petticoats that made his dresses flare out from the waist, giving his models a very curvaceous form. The hem of the skirt was very flattering on the calves and ankles, creating a beautiful silhouette. Initially, women protested because his designs covered up their legs, which they had been unused to because of the previous limitations on fabric. There was also some backlash to Dior's designs form due to the amount of fabrics used in a single dress or suit--during one photo shoot in a Paris market, the models were attacked by female vendors over the profligacy of their dresses--but opposition ceased as the wartime shortages ended. The New Look revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II.
Credit Wikipedia


His company still lives on without him and to this day is adored by many fashionistas.

Dior Gipsy Ruffled Medium Hobo
$1,755.00


Cannage Patent Bootie
$690.00

Small Flower Earrings
$210.00

Chrisitan Louboutin

Christian Louboutin with Ashley Olsen

Cristian Louboutin was interested in women's fashion since he was a small child. In 1979, as he was walking alongside the streets of Paris, he noticed a billboard that instructed women tourists not to scratch the wooden floor in front of the Museum of Oceanic Art. Louboutin felt personally bothered by this sign and, as a consequence, he would draw shoes with compressed buckles and with soles. He admits to having spent a lot of time as a teenager drawing these types of shoes in his school notebooks. These shoes would become the base of Louboutin's sales as a designer.

Later on, Louboutin began attending parties and dance halls in Paris, offering his shoes to women at these events and venues. Most of the ladies rejected his shoes, claiming to have no money.

Louboutin then decided to attend various designing schools, such as Chanel's and Saint Laurent's.

Louboutin later opened a boutique shop in Paris; his store became distinguished not only because of his clientele, but also because he offered free coffee to shoppers. Such other sellers as American company Neiman Marcus began to sell Louboutin's designs. Louboutin shoes also have a trademark red leather sole, making them instantly recognizable. He got the idea from one of his employees. During a runway show Louboutin felt the shoe was missing something and saw that one of his employees had red Chanel nail polish on, and instantly, he felt that it would complete the shoe if he painted it on the sole of his shoe. Since then it became the signature of his shoes.

credit to wikipedia for this information

Prices for shoes shown here range from $500 and up.