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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were very “proud” of themselves after cooking their family Thanksgiving dinner.

The Hollywood couple – who raise six children, Maddox, 10, Pax, eight, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, together – says they decided not to hire any help for last month’s holiday and wanted to do everything themselves, including cooking the turkey.

She told TV interviewer Anderson Cooper: “Brad and I decided we were actually going to make the turkey and we were very successful and very proud of ourselves.

“This was just the two of us with the kids watching trying to pretend we knew exactly what we were doing.”

Angelina says eating as a family is important to her and they try to do it as often as possible.

She said: “We actually have family dinner every night,” Jolie explained. “We make a point of it. It’s crazy. There’s a good five minutes were everybody is quiet and sitting together and then it starts to break off.”

Angelina also revealed how all the children love to travel around the world and are comfortable wherever they go.

She said: “Fortunately, my kids love to travel. they’re very worldly. What I love is that they can be in New York in a hotel in Manhattan and think it’s so cool, and then I can bring them to the middle of Kenya and drop them in a tent with no TV and no nothing, and they’re just as happy.

“That’s what we are trying to do to balance them.”

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Features, News, Opinion, Uncategorized

Opinion: How Steve Jobs made gadgets fashionable and stylish

By Andrea Petrou on October 6th, 2011

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Apple's Steve Jobs who died Wednesday October 5th. He did more than any other person to make technology stylish and sexy

If you’d told us forty years ago that technology would be stylish and a fashion must-have then we would have laughed.

After all, us ladies were far more interested in the latest dress than we were the geeky cassette player or computer. Even when the mobile phone hit in the 80s and became a must have for yuppies, we still weren’t convinced.

Yes it was a sign that you had hit your work peak but come on, not only was it ugly it wouldn’t have fit into that handbag. And putting it in our trouser pockets- if they were the size of sacks- would have probably left us flashing a little bit more than we wanted to thanks to the sheer weight of the thing.

Technology was geeky and clunky and something we wouldn’t even consider lusting over. Then something began to change.

Suddenly the boring clunky PC, which back in the 70s was for hobbyists, had a rival in the shape of a rainbow Apple logo bearing device. Yes it was still a geeky machine but there was something about the sleeker design that made us take notice and think that if we had to use a computer it was this one we wanted.

Not only did it look good but it was easier to use. And it wasn’t just us who had fallen for the tempting Apple with the logo becoming synonymous and a regular resident in popular chic arty and creative offices.

The brainchild behind this new stylish company was of course Steve Jobs, a man who made technology, not to fit in with our current needs, but to make us want what he made.
And make us want, he did. With the help of Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jonathan Ives, the pair got to work making portable technology that we had to keep out of our handbags and this time it wasn’t because they were too big and clunky but because we wanted the world to see we had an Apple product.

In came the iPod and suddenly our personal cassette players and that mix tape from that special person went out the window.We didn’t care that our other halves had sweated over picking those songs, and suddenly forgot how we sworn we’d never lose that cassette, all we could think about was how to get our new love – the shiny iPod that everyone who was anyone had. In fact we’d go so far as saying we would have swapped that other half just to ensure we had that new gadget in our handbags.

And so it had begun. The more products Steve Jobs and co bought out the more we wanted, after all you weren’t a fashion gal without the latest iPod. And then came the shiny iPhone, a product right up there with, dare we say it, the Mulberry bag, sleek, touchscreen and the with the opportunity of an app store, it was every fashionistas’ dream.

The need to have one of these was more than when we wanted that Nokia phone with the interchangeable covers when we were 12. And finally, after the celebrities and cool people had received theirs, we were able to get ours. Yes the hideously expensive monthly phone plan meant we wouldn’t be able to go out, but hey who needed to see their friends when we could call them with our new phone.

And of course businesses knew we were hooked, so hooked in fact that we’d buy that floral case, diamante number and anything that really made our phone stand out.

As for the iPad – yes, we did forgo those Christian Louboutins to get our hands on one of these….

Steve Jobs you succeeded in making the fashion world stand up and take note of technology. You made it stylish and sleek and for that you’ll always be remembered. RIP.

See the gallery below for pictures of all the beautiful people with their Apple gadgets.

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Beauty, News

Angelina Jolie rarely brushes her hair

By Andrea Petrou on June 6th, 2011

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Angelina Jolie rarely brushes her hair.

The ‘Kung Fu Panda 2′ actress – who raises six children with partner Brad Pitt – is regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world, but insists she keeps her efforts to look good to a minimum.

She said: “I my life, I hardly brush my hair very often.

“I try to be as low-maintenance as possible because of my kids, so I can just get up and get ready and do things and not take too much time.”

In keeping her with her no-fuss beauty regime, it was previously claimed that Angelina keeps her lips in good condition by using Shea Terra’s Menthe Orange Organic Shea Lip Butter, which costs just $4.

The lip balm boasts a variety of unusual products including raw golden beeswax from Uganda, virgin coconut cream oil, African potato, Namibian tsamma melon seed oil, rooibos, chamomile flowers and wild Namibian plum oil.

A source previously said: “Angelina stockpiles the lip butter to preserve her to-die-for pout. She likes it because it also helps to freshen your breath and Angelina hates chewing gum.”

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Celebrity Style

Angelina Jolie’s “The Tourist” outfits

By Andrea Petrou on December 16th, 2010

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Angelina wore a white wrap dress

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Celebrity Style

Gallery: Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” outfits

By Shiny writer on July 26th, 2010

Angelina Jolie hasn’t been in the limelight for a longtime but over the past month this has changed.

The starlet has been out and about promoting her new film “Salt” wowing us in her outfits as well as showing the world that despite rumours, her and Brad are still very much an item. At the LA Premier of the film Angie opted for a sparkly short black strapless number.

Posing alongside Mr Pitt, the actress showed off her new figure, which has filled out slightly since worrying pictures of her skinny frame appeared in the media a few months back.

She carried on her extraordinary fashion sense at the Comic Con event in a more casual black skirt, which she teamed up with an on-trend leather jacket.

She then opted for a similar black skirt with a satin pink boatneck top for a press call at the Russian premier of the film before changing into a red ballgown frock to walk the red carpet. We’re sure Brad was very impressed Ange.

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Celebrity Style, Events, First Looks, Gossip, Spotted

Spotted: Brangelina show LA they’re still the most gorgeous couple in the world

By Elaine LaPersonerie on July 20th, 2010

Brad Pitt and Angelina made it clear that they’ve got their mojo back at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre for the Los Angeles première of Angelina’s new film “Salt”, and are more of a power couple than ever – while recently in the past, the pair have appeared in public looking tired, tense and strained, yesterday on the red carpet they appeared more in love than ever.

Despite being under criticism for her skinny frame in the past couple of years, Ange looked healthy and radiant in a black, shimmering tube dress from Emporio Armani, with glamour-puss curls and Brigitte Bardot makeup. Other celebrities were copying her look – The Ring actress Naomi Watts wore an almost identical dress in silver. How embarrassing, Naomi. Brad was also looking his old handsome self, having traded in the dodgy mousy hair and beard (yay, he looks like Brad Pitt again) for cool Miami Vice-style aviator shades and classic men’s tailoring in his Tom Ford suit.

Seeing this must be a bit of a kick in the teeth for Jennifer Aniston – Brangelina are looking as hot as they did when they first started getting it on for “Mr and Mrs Smith”. Maybe they look so good because there’s a sequel in the pipeline?

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Celebrity Style

Friday fashion fracas: Jennifer Aniston VS Angelina Jolie

By Andrea Petrou on March 12th, 2010

Celebrities are well known for trying to out do each other in the style stakes, with many dressing up to the nines at events in a bid to look better than the rest. However, it’s not just what you look like on the red carpet but also your everyday style that makes you a fashion star.

So every Friday we’ll be grabbing two celebs and putting them into the fashion ring, where we’ll analyse each one, their style and what other people say about them to bring you a winner.

But we’ll also be asking for your help too. We want you to vote and let us know who think wins every week too.

Jennifer Aniston.
Jennifer Aniston is usually seen in casual outfits, think jeans and on-trend tops, unless she’s attending a film premier, where she’ll often opt for a classic black long dress by designer Valentino. Her “Rachel” haircut in Friends also caused many women to chop off their locks in a bid to copy the style in 1995.

In 2006 Jen won an online award for US People’s Magazine “The Best Dressed star in Hollywood,” where she beat off competition from Halle Berry, with Jessica Alba as a result of her laid back style of jeans and T-shirts and blazers. Many people also voted her their favourite as they felt she was one person they could dress like.

Worst outfit.
Her black dress complete with a slit and plunging neckline at this year’s Golden Globes, was compared by some critics to a frock worn by Jen’s ex husband’s wife Angelina Jolie. We hope it was more a coincidence than a copycat look. Despite her hair been a much talked about subject Jen also showed that even the best of us can have a bad hair day turning up to the Emmy Awards in 1999 with wild-child faux dreads.

What others say: Fashion magazine NZGirl says: “Jennifer’s fashion style is very understated – you’ll never spot her in a fluorescent pink halter-top. She prefers natural colours and fabrics and loves wearing comfortable clothes like jeans, long skirts and tank tops.”

Angelina Jolie

Angelina may have stolen Jennifer’s man but can she steal her style crown too? We can’t deny Ange is one of the most gorgeous women to have graced our screens over the past few decades and let’s face it not many men will disagree. However her style is often somewhat pickled. Unlike Jen, Ange doesn’t do classic on an everyday scale. It’s usually black, gothic and in the past, before the children, very revealing. You’re more likely to catch her in a skirt or figure hugging dress rather than jeans. And her past red carpet style has been the same. She turned up to the Oscars twice in a row wearing gothic black, and of course that black dress with the split, which Jen, was claimed to have copied. However over recently her red carpet style has changed and we’ve seen her looking stunning in sparkles and delicate designs. One outfit that really sticks out is the canary yellow Ungaro couture frock she wore for the 2007 premiere of Ocean’s Thirteen.

Worst outfit

Before we begin here, we think it’s only fair to mention Ange’s worst fashion moment, which in our opinion was getting sacked as the face of fashion brand St Johns. The actress who had fronted campaigns for the company since 2005 was sacked late last year after bosses claimed she was too hard to work with. So has she made any mistakes on the red carpet. Many. Now we think it may be a little bit unfair to go right back but we can’t forget her first Oscar appearance when she was aged ten (1986) and chose to walk the red carpet in what looked like a mini bridesmaid dress. Her Elvira looking dress at the 2000 Oscars, complete with Ange’s black hair was also not a fashion experience we care to remember.

What others say: Vogue.com said: “Since her powerful pairing with Brad Pitt in 2005, Jolie has become the highest-earning actress in the world. Her style has gradually become more glamour-oriented while her role as a mother-of-six has seen it soften. Red carpet outfits include gowns from Versace, Armani Privé and Max Azria.”

Our verdict?
We have to admit, it was a bit of a tough one. After all Jen is classically stylish, while Ange wows on the red carpet. But we’ve decided that the celeb that wins this Friday’s fight is Jen. Her classic styles make us all feel as though we can look as good as a celeb and makes us feel as though walking around in jeans and blazers, during the day are perfectly fine. Ange, we love your leather looks, but a trip shopping in those may leave us feeling like Ross in that episode of Friends. We need the talc just thinking about it.

Tell us who you think wins bu voting below. And if you can’t quite make up your mind view our gallery for some photographic inspiration.

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Features, Gallery

why men should indulge the facial hair trend

By Andrea Petrou on January 29th, 2010

Lauren Bravo writes:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that men’s style just isn’t as exciting as women’s. Naturally this only goes a small way toward making up for periods, childbirth, Nuts Magazine and centuries of oppression, but we can still celebrate it as a small victory. Men’s fashion, far more so than women’s, tends to divide itself into two distinct categories: dull things they will actually wear, and trendy things that they definitely shouldn’t.

The latter exists on the catwalks, in endless parades of leather sandles, jodphurs and McQueen mankinis, while the former exists in M&S, with occasional forays into Topman and Uniqlo. Of course there are concessions – indoor scarves, deck shoes and cardigans have all found their way quietly into the wardrobes of the Average British Male this year without prompting any kind of mass panic, while the Hoxton/Shoreditch contingent of East London have created their own concession commonwealth, impervious to the fashion judgements of the rest of the male population.

But on the whole, male dressing remains a bleak landscape. If female fashion is a treacherous jungle, full of beauty and drama and potential pitfalls, then the male fashion equivalent is probably Bognor Regis. And nor do they have the creative playground of hair and make up to mess around in. Which one could easily argue is a blessing, of course, but I’d wager there isn’t a man alive who hasn’t looked in the mirror the morning after the night before and thought “a bit of concealer would sort this right out”.

So it’s lucky, then, that they have beards. In the desert of men’s style, facial hair is a rare oasis (or just a big bush, if we’re doing analogy accuracy). It is, the more I think about it, a much better version of the female hairdo. It is free to grow and free to maintain. It can be altered day to day with only minimal effort. It requires no straightening, curling, spraying or highlighting. They aren’t made to feel inadequate by celebs with ‘beard extensions’. And, as far as I’m aware, no man is afraid to go out in the rain in case his beard goes fluffy.

Facial hair is having a particular renaissance right now. Where designer stubble reigned for most of the noughties (we’ll call it the ‘Beckham years’), recently we’ve seen a shift toward proper, full beards. The kind that suggest rugged, manly pursuits like chopping down trees and grouting bathroom tiles, and slaughtering livestock with their own bare hands. George Clooney’s has got fuller and embraced his grey, Brad Pitt is working a loo brush/sporran hybrid and even Robert Pattinson was spotted last week sporting whiskers that wouldn’t look out of place on an island castaway.

Sadly though, like most male fashion moments, women have been quick to condemn the bushy beard. Personally, I’ve found it hard to overcome the memory of Roald Dahl’s Mr Twit, who kept morsels of food in his beard to enjoy later on. But overcome it I have, because the bush is the lesser of two evils, the other one being nasty, overshaped, Craig David-style facial topiary. How soon we forget, ladies, that only a few short years ago, men’s grooming was inspired by Zoolander and cultivated by set squares and stencils, like a border freize on Changing Rooms. We should be grateful for the return to caveman chic, and understand that, like the perfect LBD or cover-up jacket, its job is to hide a multitude of sins.

Yes, there is always an air of mystery surrounding a beard; that is both their appeal and their downfall. We want to know what’s beneath it. On an average-looking man, we wonder if he might be ravishingly handsome without the beard, while on a ravishingly handsome man we wonder if under the hair lurks the face of a gawky 12-year-old. Beards are an illusion, like spanx or Peaches Geldof’s ‘career’. They work hard for their status, without appearing to work at all.

So I bid men to enjoy the hirsute trend and really let rip with some A-grade chin forestry. They deserve it, they so rarely get to have fun with fashion. And I’ll leave you with this interesting proposal: if they get to forgo the razor, does that mean we can too?

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Celebrity Style

Angelina Jolie wins Superdrug’s beauty icon of the decade poll

By Andrea Petrou on January 5th, 2010

It’s finally happened, Cheryl Cole has finally been knocked off the “I want to look like her post,” by equally gorgeous Angelina Jolie.

In a survey of 3000 people by Superdrug Angie was named as the number one celebrity we all aspire to look like. The actress beat off 20 other rivals including Cheryl Cole, Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightly, Beyonce Knowles and Kylie Minogue to become the number one beauty icon of the decade.

And we have a sneaky suspicion many of you chose this beauty because, lets face it, we’d all kill to have pouty lips and high cheekbones, which would attract Brad Pitt.

Do you think the prize went to the right celeb or is there someone else you would like to look like. Let us know by leaving your comments below.

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award show fashion, Celebrity Style

Oscar Fashion 2009: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Elie Saab

By Andrea Thatcher on February 22nd, 2009

Catwalk Queen’s Kim Foster writes…

HOT COUPLE ALERT! We spot Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie smiling for the paps and looking sharp as always. Typically, Angelina chose a simple black draped, strapless gown by Elie Saab and clutch. But the Oscar nominee did add a touch of colour with a whopping emerald ring and earrings by Lorraine Schwartz.

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Celebrity Style

Brad and Angelina make first post-twins red carpet appearance

By Andrea Kiliany Thatcher on October 6th, 2008

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Brad and Angelina Changeling premiere.jpg

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out on the red carpet at the Changeling premiere for the first time since the birth of twins Vivienne and Knox.

Jolie wore a form-fitting Versace cocktail frock to show off her post-baby body, while Brad donned a three piece suit and scarf.

To see the satin trench Angelina arrived in, keep reading.

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Magazine news

Brad Pitt – fashion photographer?

By Andrea Kiliany Thatcher on August 25th, 2008

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Seriously, what isn’t Brad Pitt good at?

His latest venture is as a photographer for W magazine.

The November issue will reportedly feature a Pitt original of Angelina Jolie and family at the Chateau Miraval in the South of France.

This isn’t the first time the Jolie-Pitts have favored the high-fashion mag.

The July 2005 issue included the controversial “Domestic Bliss” photo shoot of the two stars shot by Steven Klein.

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Celebrity Style, Designer Fashions, Fashion News, Red Carpet

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards

By Andrea Thatcher on January 27th, 2008

The Jolie-Pitts graced the red carpet at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, but floated past all interviewers so we’re still trying to figure out who designed Angelina Jolie’s ethereal dress. Can we assume it’s St. John? With Angelina, we never assume. After splitting her pants at a premiere a few months ago, she almost had another fashion trauma when she stepped on the hem of her dress and almost pulled the top down. I’m sure Brad Pitt would have covered her up.

Angelina is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart.

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Celebrity Style, Fashion News, Red Carpet

Angelina’s Ugly Betty moment at the European premiere of Beowulf

By Andrea Thatcher on November 12th, 2007