It seems Lady Gaga is not the tough cookie we had her down for.
After admitting to suffering from bouts of insomnia a few months back, it’s now come to light that the singer also has a mild dose of stage fright.
According to US sources the star refused to walk the red carpet at the Met ball (although her sequined nearly nude playsuit, which she performed in, wouldn’t have screamed shy to us) and then locked herself in her dressing room before appearing on Oprah.
A source told the New York Post: “She literally wouldn’t come out.”
After friends and music execs failed to coax her out artist Terence Koh and Oprah tried and succeeded in getting the star on-stage.
And it seems the stagefright was short-lived. When Gaga got on stage, she told the 700 guests that co-host Anna Wintour had asked her not to swear – which she did anyway. Glad to see you got your fight back Miss G.
May is now in full bloom and before we know it the summer months will be upon us. Although the weather is currently not up to much, we’re hoping that we’ll have a heatwave in the next few weeks meaning we can wear our summer style in comfort.
In our excitement to bring you all the latest summer styles such as highwaisted skirts, shorts and maxi dresses, we neglected a key wardrobe must-have for the next few months and that’s of course trousers.
The spring/summer catwalks gave us a huge insight into what we can expect to see and what we should be wearing. Gucci, Missoni and Burberry bought us harem pants, which were either patterned, giving a nod to the tribal trend, or sophisticated and plain.
Designer favourite Balmain as well as Sportmax and Paul and Joe, updated the skinny, adding a khaki military twist and Paul Smith opted for the classic capri pant.
However, one of the most daring trouser trends this year has got to be the floral look as sported by models on the DKNY catwalk.
We’ve put together a gallery of the designer trends and matched them up to the hottest highstreet versions out there as well as giving you a few hints and tips along the way on how to wear each trend and what to avoid depending on your body shape.
It’s finally happened. Topshop has officially launched its make-up range.
The collection, which is in collaboration with make-up artist Hannah Murray, includes two ranges.
The Core Collection includes a main range of make-up bag essentials including bronzers and skin tints.
The Trend Collection is a more funky range, which will be updated every three months to ensure looks are hot off the catwalk. It currently includes on-trend bold metallics and grungy colours.
Inspired by the four fashion capitals of the world – New York, London, Milan and Paris -the diet Coke City Collection brings the cosmopolitan vibe of these cities straight to your fingertips with four new colours.
‘London’ is a trendy nude colour, inspired by Brit passion for cool fashion. ‘Paris’ is a deep purple, a tribute to the most romantic city in the world and a beautiful sunset over the Eiffel Tower. ‘Milan’ is a fiery Italian red and ‘New York’ is a vibrant fuchsia pink inspired by the attitude of the city that never sleeps.
You can pick up one of these funky nail varnishes free when you purchase two 500ml bottles of diet Coke in selected Boots stores nationwide between 5th May – 30th June.
Not content with being one of our favourite online shopping spots Asos is pushing the fashion boat one step further.
It’s announced plans to launch an online marketplace for people to buy recyclable clothes and encourage us to shop in a more eco-friendly way.
The new site will let shopaholics trade their own clothes through a virtual online marketplace, and unlike auction sites such as Ebay all prices will be fixed. Asos will also give you advice on how to sell items and how to display them as well as watching out for counterfeit goods.
We can’t wait to give it a go when it launches later on this year.
It seems Lady Gaga‘s music is not to everyone’s taste, especially if you’re a fellow songstress.
The story circulating the world wide web at the moment is that Miss G’s famous Telephone song was actually written for none other than Britney Spears.
The demo of Brits singing the well known tune was leaked on YouTube after the troubled singer decided to turn it down for her Circus album.
It is thought the demo was leaked by a source within Britney’s record company, but it doesn’t seem we’ll be hearing another recorded version of it.
Music producer Rodney Darkchild Jerkins Tweeted about the incident, where he wrote: “Not sure who leaked Britney Telephone.
“Just listened and yes it’s the demo, not a mixed version. I will not leak a mixed version. I am respecting Britney and Jive wishes,” he added.
However every cloud has a silver lining and had Brits taken on the song there would have been any funky outrageous fashion, and no Lady Gaga and Beyonce collaboration.
Listen to the tune below and let us know who you think sang it best.
Last night the WAG brigade was out in force as Manchester United players hit the red carpet for the annual Man U player of the year awads.
However, although Coleen Rooney was the style star of the night in a LBD complete wth a statement zip at the back, the famous WAG, who never usually puts a foot wrong, made the ultimate faux pas leaving the sale labels on the soles of her shoes.
We know this is something that happens to the best of us, although our labels would read New Look rather than Coleen’s Louboutins, but it’s not something we expect from our favourite WAG. Perhaps it’s the late nights and early mornings she’s been experiencing since the birth of her little boy.
Many of the player’s wives and girlfriends made a sophisticated albeit sombre approach opting for black, with the exception of Michael Owen’s wife who wore an on-trend 50s frock, and a few WAG wannabes who took tack to a whole new level.
View the gallery below for all the fashions from the night and let us know your worst fashion faux pas by leaving your comments below.
In our last post we told you about a fantastic new eco-fashion brand that had popped up in Selfridges.
However, although many of you are more than happy to do something that helps the environment we know that these items are often far more expensive than your average highstreet brand.
We can only put this down to the fact that sourcing the materials and making them in an ethical fashion is more expensive, and requires lots of time and effort.
However, we’re not sure if this reasoning quite works with our credit cards. Thankfully we’re not alone in our thinking. Harold Tillman, head of the British Fashion Council, has realised that many of us are shying away from ethical fashion due to the price so he’s started a campaign to help us out.
He has gained the support of Vivienne Westwood, Monsoon and the London College of Fashion‘s Centre for Sustainable Fashion, and is pushing the Government to give brands that push eco-fashion tax breaks, which could help them reduce their prices.
“If UK citizens can get tax breaks on more energy efficient cars and other sustainable products, why can’t they wear their values with pride and get tax breaks on ethical fashion?”
Would you buy more ethical fashion if it was cheaper? Let us know by leaving your comments below.
We heart environmentally ranges here at ShinyStyle. Not only do they help the environment but they also ease our conscious when we decide to go on big spending sprees. So you can imagine our glee when we found out that one of our favourite department stores, Selfridges, has just signed up eco-fashion range Issi, which will now be appearing instore.
The Issi accessory range contains designs from top-class artists who accepted the challenge to create chic products from materials that would have otherwise gone to waste, hence the brand’s slogan of “waste not want it.”
There’s a range of bags and purses made from old fire hoses, recylced parachute silk and reclaimed leather. However, it gets better. Not only are you helping to reduce fashion’s carbon footprint but 50% of all profits are donated to waste-related charities, with money from the fire hose pieces going specifically to the Fire Fighters’ Charity.
Kristen Stewart has become a style icon in her own right.
Unlike many of her Hollywood counterparts the Twilight star has shunned the girly cutesy look and gone for a funky fashion look which gives an ever so tiny nod to the Gothic trend.
The key part of Kristen’s style is that whatever she wears she looks comfortable in and although she favours casual styles such as jeans, trainers and hoodies, she also looks hot on the red carpet thanks to her choice of little dresses and heels.
We’ve picked our some of Kristen’s best looks and matched up some highstreet versions for you to buy.
Like the dresses the celebs were wearing at the MET Ball? Think you could never afford one? Well think again.
Gap, which was the sponsor of last night’s event, has teamed up with designers including Alexander Wang, Sophie Theallet, Thakoon and Rodarte who created some of the dresses for the event. And it’s now giving you the chance to get your hands on some of the one-off creations for yourself.
However, like with anything that seems perfect in life there’s a catch. And that’s that you’ll have to bid for your dress from tomorrow. Log onto the Gap site tomorrow and keep bidding! Good luck.
The Met Ball, as we have said before, is a huge event for celebrities and fashion folk alike.
Many A-listers used this event to show off their impeccable fashion sense (if you missed this see our gallery here), while others used the evetnt to show off their partners, most notably Jessica Biel who turned up with Justin Timberlake and quashing rumours that the pair had split up.
Sienna Miller also showed she and Jude Law were back together by taking him along too.
However other celebs decided to bring along, or chose to be photographed alongside fashion designers, including Emma Watson who posed with Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey and Diane Kruger who posed with Francisco Costa.
View the gallery below to see all of the events celebrity couples.
The Met Ball is one of the hottest fashion events of the year with every celebrity in their right minds (and of course an invite) turning up for the star studded event, otherwise known as the annual Metropolitan Costume Institute Gala.
Celebs including Sarah Jessica Parker, who turned up in a pale pink frock, Anne Hathaway, who led the trend for big and netted and Blake Lively who wore a stunning turquoise gown, complete with natural fake tan all made a note worthy fashion appearance.
They were joined by Chloe Sevigny who also showed off a dark wash of colour in her Proenza Schouler mini dress and designers including Stella McCartney.
However we think it was Kristen Stewart who really stole the show with her funky fashion take to red carpet glam.
We put together a gallery of the best dressed of the night.
As Lady Gaga‘s fame reaches astronomical heights more and more magazines are vying to get their hands on the singer.
One mag that’s recently succeeded in doing this is V. It’s featuring a Gaga Journal, which has been shot by Matthew Williams who has documented Lady Gaga’s life over the past months in NY, LA and Miami.
And if this wasn’t enough V will also feature some never before seen Polaroid snapshots, which Lady G become the Creative Director for in a speciality line of Polaroid imaging products, in their upcoming release.
And V isn’t the only mag that’s prowling around Lady G. According to WWD rumour has it that Vanity Fair is plotting to put a real, live celebrity on its September cover — and yes you guessed it, it’s Miss G.
If the rumours are to believed the singer will appear in the mag’s fall Style Issue, which last year featured archival images of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, instead of January Jones and Jon Hamm of “Mad Men,” as originally planned.
However, Vanity Fair isn’t giving anything away. A representative for the magazine said: “It’s our policy to not talk about future covers or stories, whether we are or are not working on them.”
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