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Designers, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week AW 2012: Fatima Lopes

By Andrea Petrou on February 29th, 2012

With the Oscars taking over our fashion and beauty brains the past few days, we almost forgot about another huge style event. And that’s of course Paris Fashion Week.

Opening its doors as London Fashion Week closed,  we can’t wait to see what’s on offer and judging by the few shows we’ve seen we know we’re going to be in for a few treats.

First on our fashion radar is Fatima Lopes who sent her models down the aw 2012 catwalk in a nod to the 80s fetish scene.

Tight PVC and leather dresses formed the main part of the collection, whilst blazer dresses, jumpsuits and baggy harem pants added to the fierceness of this range. Colours were vibrant with reds being a key hue. It was however toned down through the use of creams, blacks and browns.

We heart.

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Celebrity Style, Gallery, Oscars

Oscars red carpet trends: The red dress

By Andrea Petrou on February 27th, 2012

Every year there are a huge range of trends spotted on the Oscars red carpet.

Last year we saw an abundance of slinky white frocks, and the year before white wedding dresses made an appearance. However, this year one trend that really stood out was the red dress.

The hue, spotted on Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams was moulded into a huge range of styles.

Natalie showed off the colour in a stunning strapless style, while Michelle Williams went for a 60s flouncy look with her frilled choice.

Emma Stone went for a deeper shade of red with her simple halterneck number, while Diane Kruger and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley chose almost identical figure hugging dresses in this shade.

See the gallery below for all the pictures.

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Pictures: Vanity Fair and Elton John’s annual AIDS Foundation Oscars after parties- Victoria Beckham, January Jones, Katy Perry, Katie Holmes and more

By Andrea Petrou on February 27th, 2012

Victoria Beckham looks amazing in this simple strapless belted frock

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At the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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Style spotlight: Hailee Steinfeld

By emilyborrett on August 9th, 2011

Hailee looked like romantic 1950s perfection in this soft-pink full-skirted prom dress with a classic updo, at the Academy Awards this year

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Is it just us here at ShinyStyle, or is all the talent in Hollywood getting younger and younger? Justin Bieber has had a film made about him when his voice hasn’t even broken yet, Willow Smith is storming the charts at age 11 and we’ve just realised that not only is the teenage True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld an amazing actress, but she’s already got a Hollywood wardrobe good enough to rival any older actress’.

We love that unlike other young girls in the limelight like Miley Cyrus, who have already gone down the vomit-inducing sexy route with tight dresses and big hair, Hailee closely follows the trends and wears what suits her. The 14-year old actress has already developed a strong sense of her own style, combining romantic cocktail dresses with fiercely high heels and vintage-inspired prim blouses and power-pencil skirts.

We especially adored her outfit that she wore to the Academy Awards this year, as she donned a gently sparkling peach chiffon 50s prom dress with nude satin peeptoe heels and an elegant updo for an outfit that wouldn’t have looked out of place at a couture gala sixty years ago.

Miu Miu are particularly fond of young Hailee – maybe it’s because she’s always spotted wearing their designs, or maybe it’s just because she’s a pretty young thing, but she’s now the face of their new campaign. Jealous? Us? Naaaah.



Celebrity gossip, Designer Fashions, Designers, Gossip, Red Carpet

Designer Elie Saab prefers celebrities, not models, to wear his designs

By emilyborrett on August 9th, 2011

The Lebanese fashion designer, Elie Saab, has admitted that he much prefers to see actresses and celebrities wearing his designs instead of models, because they are much more like “real women”.

His collections are well known for their sparkle-encrusted feminine dresses, and have been favoured for the red carpet in the past by the likes of Emma Watson, Rihanna, Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart. Saab feels that women like these “do justice” to his designs.

He explained to Britain’s HELLO! magazine: “Unlike the catwalk, where the 17-year-old models are so tall, the red carpet is like a podium for real life – it means so much more to me to see them in my dresses.”

We’re real women! Just send us a dress and we’ll wear it for you! Might have to take it up a couple of sizes though..



Celebrity Style, dresses, Features, Gallery, Oscars, Red Carpet

Top ten red carpet awards dresses for 2011: Oscars, Baftas, Grammys and Golden Globes

By Andrea Petrou on April 19th, 2011

It may not be the end of the year, or in anticipation for the next awards event, but let’s be honest, we really don’t need an excuse to put together a list of red carpet award dresses.
This year an abundance of A-listers have turned up to celebrate key red carpet award events including the BAFTAs, Oscars, Golden Globes and of course the Grammys. Each have chosen a frock, which they hope sets them apart from the rest, and while many did that, there, in our eyes can only be a top ten.
First up in our top ten is Angelina Jolie who looked stunning in a green sleeved Versace  dress at the Golden Globes. Also sporting a best dress at this event was Christina Hendricks who showed off those enviable curves in a red frock.
Over at the Oscars, we had three ladies who really wowed. First up was Michelle Williams who went for a white dress with on trend beading and capped sleeves. She’s followed here by Helena Bonham Carter for her sheer eccentric black outfit, which she teamed up with glasses. Also at this awards event is the lovely Natalie Portman who showed off her baby bump in a cute scoop neck purple frock.
Rihanna’s white and sheer Jean Paul Gaultier frock at the Grammys also gets a mention, while Jessie J’s BRIT playsuit also comes in top here.

Emma Watson’s one shoulder lace frock at the BAFTAs gets in too as does Amy Adam’s  gold strappy number.
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Style spotlight: Claire Danes

By Andrea Petrou on March 14th, 2011

Looking classic and chic at the Baftas in 2010

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Beauty, News

Natalie Portman feels like “a clown” in bold lipstick

By Andrea Petrou on March 10th, 2011

Natalie Portman feels like “a clown” in bold lipstick.

The ‘Black Swan’ actress – who is pregnant with her first child – is slowly agreeing to make-up artists’ requests for her to wear a more dramatic colour on her mouth, but still doesn’t feel entirely comfortable.

She said: “I feel like a clown if I put on strong lipstick, but recently I’ve experimented with reds. Make-up artists have been urging me to try stronger lips, but it still doesn’t feel like me. I’m working on it.”

The brunette beauty also relies on help doing her hair as she claims she doesn’t know how to stop it looking like a “triangle”.

She said: “When you see me, a professional has done my hair – I don’t know how to. As a family, we have very curly ‘Jewish’ hair, when it’s long, it comes out in a triangle.”

Natalie also revealed she developed an interest in perfume from her mother and believes it is important to include scent when “dressing up”.

The Oscar-winning beauty added to Britain’s InStyle magazine: “My mum taught me to spray fragrance and walk into it. She has a sensitive sense of smell, so I’ve grown up with a great awareness.

“A scent that sets you apart makes you feel glamorous and elegant and gives you a different way of walking into a room – it’s part of dressing up.”



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Style spotlight: Emily Blunt’s red carpet look

By Andrea Petrou on March 7th, 2011

Pretty in Pink

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At the 67th Golden Globe awards Wenn.com

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Celebrity red carpet trends: The White Dress

By Andrea Petrou on March 4th, 2011

Natalie Portman

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At the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Ian Wilson/WENN.com

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Gallery, Milan Fashion Week, News

Milan Fashion Week: Armani Fall 2011 collection

By Andrea Petrou on March 1st, 2011

Milan Fashion Week: Georgio Armani Fall 2011

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Features, Gallery, Oscars

Oscars 2011: Vanity Fair Afterparty – Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick and Taylor Swift

By Andrea Petrou on March 1st, 2011

Gwyneth Paltrow

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2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party WENN.com

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Oscar 2011 special: Nicole Kidman’s red carpet style

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2011

Kate wraps up

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Oscars 2010: Anna Kendrick’s dress disaster

By Lauren Bravo on March 8th, 2010

oscar_arrivals131_wenn5440112.jpgWe all know what it’s like to have a last-minute outfit crisis (read about my own dress failures here), but few of us have the pressure of the Oscars to contend with.So we felt for poor Anna Kendrick when we heard that she had a wardrobe disaster only a few days before the cermony.

The Up in the Air star, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, revealed that she was forced to find a whole new outfit this week, when her special couture dress failed to live up to expectations. “There was another dress that was being made,” Kendrick said. “The designer will remain nameless… It was not for me. It was blue.”

Had she stuck with the original dress she would have been in good company, with Mariah Carey and Maggie Gyllenhaal among the stars who also chose blue. But as it was, we thought the actress was one of the most memorable attendees, picking upon this season’s nude trend with her beautiful blush-pink chiffon gown. Not too bad for something you threw on at the last minute, Anna…

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Oscars 2010: Kristen Stewart goes back to the dark side

By Lauren Bravo on March 7th, 2010

oscar_arrivals_019_wenn5440213.jpgShe may have had an uncharacteristically girlie moment in her short white frock at the BAFTAs, but tonight Kristen Stewart returned to her vampish roots with this dramatic satin number. Earlier this week we guessed that the Twilight saga star might opt for black (see us proved right here), though her recent penchant for mini dresses had us predicting she’d go for an LBD, not this floor-sweeping slice of old-school Hollywood.

We were also pleased to see that the Twilight saga star had put a little more polish into her look this time round (or, to go straight for the jugular, she’d actually washed her hair). And is that a smile we spy?

In the space of one awards season, the actress seems to have grown from sulky teen into a fully-fledged starlet. From Bella Swann to red carpet swan… top marks.

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