Versus is sponsoring the Art of Elysium’s second annual Bright Lights dance party this Friday, which means not only will Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane be in the house, but also that the label’s tiny cupcake-foil minidresses will be in large supply at Milk Studios. While hostesses Joy Bryant, Sara Moonves, Bee Shaffer, and Nicole Vecchiarelli do some last-minute vying for the numbers below (our personal suggestions from a Fall show full of worthy contenders), Kane will be playing guest of honor at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Center, where he will treat the young patients to a workshop in designing and making clothes for Barbies. “We’ll cut the fabric from scratch.brand clothing, use simple shapes, wholesale and glue on gemstones,Wholesale True Religion jeans clothing,” the designer told us. “I’m sure they’re gonna love it.wholesale clothing.”
To buy a $150 ticket to the dance—which supports the charitable work of other art, Hollywood,Wholesale Gucci jewelry, wholesale and fashion world types in hospitals across the country—visit www.theartofelysium.org. It won’t be an entirely selfless gesture: Limited-edition T-shirts featuring the original Bruce Weber Versus ad campaign (left) will be available for sale at the event, and items from Kane’s Fall collection for Versus will be available by special order.
The left-of-centre daily's search for fresh capital turned political earlier this month when Sarkozy summoned the publisher of the daily, Eric Fottorino.
Several bidders — including a Russian billionaire — joined the race to take over what for the moment is more of a status symbol than a viable money-making business.
A senior journalist at the newspaper,Red Monkey, who asked not be named, said Le Monde staff were on the whole happy with the outcome and believed that the trio would honour their promise not to interfere editorially.
But by Monday, after France Telecom subsidiary Orange and an allied press group withdrew their bid, only one consortium was left in the running to buy a paper that was founded when the Nazis were chased out of Paris in 1944.
The trio includes Xavier Niel, 42, an Internet entrepreneur who first made his money from sex chat services and later shook up the French Internet market with cheap connection packages from his provider Free.
Orange pulled out after Le Monde's journalists' association, the main shareholder, voted on Friday in favour of the trio.
Berge also helped finance the Socialist Segolene Royal when she ran against Sarkozy in the 2007 election.
Niel, who funds two left-wing investigative French news websites, began his entrepreneurial career with the launch of Minitel, a French fore-runner to the Internet which included a chat service.
Their bid won the approval of the paper's supervisory board, 11 of whose members voted for it, a source close to the board told AFP.
"We consider Le Monde common property," the trio said in a statement following the vote. They said they would start talks on recapitalising the group on Tuesday and complete the process by the end of September.
The world's leading French-language newspaper has been struggling to survive in the Internet age and called for investors willing to buy into the loss-making daily and pay off its debt of around 100 million euros.
"I tend to believe what Berge and the others said, that this is the last independent paper in France and they want to keep it that way," he told AFP.
Pigasse and Berge are both supporters of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund who is seen as a likely rival to Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential elections.
The right-wing president told him he opposed the Berge-Pigasse-Niel bid because of their ties to France's left-wing opposition, drawing accusations from the Socialist Party that Sarkozy was threatening press freedom.
He later invested in sex shops and went on to make a huge fortune with his Internet and phone companies Free and Iliad. He was given a two-year suspended sentence in 2006 for embezzlement.
The involvement of France Telecom, which is partly owned by the French state, in the takeover bid sparked controversy because it came after Sarkozy's intervention.
But the firm's chief executive denied he had entered the bidding at the president's request.
Under the Berge-Pigasse-Niel bid, the investors will be required to stump up an initial 10 million euros without which the paper may not be able to pay its journalists' salaries in the coming months.
They will then enter exclusive negotiations for the group's titles, which include the daily and several magazines.
They say they hope to integrate the newspaper and website operations, which are currently editorially separate.
Today about 280 journalists work for Le Monde, which has a circulation of about 300,000.
With him is Pierre Berge, 79, the rich partner of the late fashion guru Yves Saint-Laurent, and Matthieu Pigasse, 41, a senior figure at investment bank Lazard who owns the alternative news and culture magazine Les Inrockuptibles.
PARIS (AFP) – A French Internet billionaire,Laguna Beach, a patron of the arts and a flamboyant banker won control of Le Monde newspaper on Monday despite President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to stop them.
Berge, Pigasse and Niel promised to let the paper's editors maintain full editorial independence and let the journalists' association keep its right to veto major decisions.
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What’s not to like about the parade of drapey frocks Alber Elbaz sent down his Spring ‘10 runway? Hardly anything,Calvin Klein, judging by the lengthy list of starlets who have turned up in Lanvin designs recently. While the more ruffle-heavy numbers threatened to overwhelm some size-zero frames,Seven, we think Jennifer Lopez really shines (literally) in this sleek, asymmetrical dress. The nude underlay looks lovely with her complexion, and the allover sequin design is nothing this one-time Jenny-from-the-block can’t handle. What do you think? Does J. Lo work this look, or is the pattern out-blinging her eight-carat engagement ring?
“I would like to thank my mother and my father, who 30 years ago, they took me to a little cinema in our little town, and I was so young and didn’t know what it was on the screen,” Weerasethakul, who previously won the third-place jury prize at Cannes with his 2004 film “Tropical Malady,” said Sunday.
“I didn’t know the concept of cinema. With this award, I think I know a little more what cinema is, but it still remains a mystery,” Weerasethakul said. “I think this mystery keeps us coming back here and to share our world.”
The screenplay honor was presented to South Korean director Lee Chang-dong for “Poetry,” his gentle portrait of a grandmother (Yun Junghee) struggling to write a poem as she copes with the onset of Alzheimer’s and her troublesome grandson.
“I hope he will be here himself next year,” Binoche said, as she clutched a nameplate emblazoned with the director’s name. “It’s hard to be an artist and an intellectual, and the country needs you.”
“I’m very happy that we are sharing the best actor,” Bardem said at a news conference alongside Germano.
Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s stark film “A Screaming Man” received the third-place jury prize. The film chronicles the tragic consequences for a father after he loses his cherished job as a swimming pool attendant to his son amid his country’s civil war.
South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo’s “Ha Ha Ha,” a drama of alternating memories shared by two friends over drinks, won a secondary competition called “Un Certain Regard.”
Binoche, an Oscar winner for “The English Patient,” won best actress for the cryptic love story “Certified Copy,” directed by past Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami.
“Each and every one of us has some favorites that didn’t make it,” said “Alice in Wonderland” director Tim Burton, who headed the nine-member jury that chose the winners.
“We tried to invent more prizes,” joked fellow jury member Kate Beckinsale.
Critics generally were unimpressed with the lineup Cannes presented at the 12-day festival along the French Riviera. A handful of films stirred some buzz but most of the entries premiered to lukewarm receptions. That contrasted with last year’s powerhouse slate, which had included films from Quentin Tarantino, Jane Campion and Pedro Almodovar.
This year’s festival also was lighter on star power, with a few non-competition films such as “Robin Hood” and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” providing the main celebrity sightings, including Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Michael Douglas.
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Coming away empty-handed was the lone American film among the 19 contenders, Doug Liman’s “Fair Game,” a drama about former CIA operative Valerie Plame that stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn.
Leigh’s film received some of the festival’s best reviews, so its shutout came as a surprise.
CANNES, France – The hypnotic Thai film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival, while Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem earned acting honors.
The second-place grand prize went to French director Xavier Beauvois’ solemn drama “Of Gods and Men,” based on the true story of seven French monks beheaded during Algeria’s civil war in 1996.
French actor-filmmaker Mathieu Amalric won the directing award for “On Tour,” in which he plays the manager of a troupe of American burlesque strippers performing around France. Amalric invited his five stripper stars to join him on stage as he accepted the prize.
Bardem, an Oscar winner for “No Country for Old Men,” shared the Cannes best-actor prize, earning his honor for Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Biutiful,” a grim portrait of a dying father supporting his family with a variety of criminal rackets in Barcelona. Also playing a father in crisis, Elio Germano shared the best-actor award for Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti’s “Our Life,” a drama about a widower with three sons.
“Uncle Boonmee,” directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, traces the dreamlike final days of a man dying of kidney failure as the ghost of his dead wife returns to tend him and his long-lost son comes home in the form of a furry jungle spirit.
During her speech, Binoche pleaded for the release of Kiarostami’s countryman, detained Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi — who had been asked to be on this year’s nine-member jury.
The festival’s Camera d’Or award for a first-time filmmaker went to Michael Rowe’s “Leap Year,” a romance that plays out in Mexico City.
Lowell most recently appeared in theaters with "Up in the Air." A regular on ABC’s "Private Practice" since it premiered in 2007, Lowell’s character, William Red Monkey "Dell" Parker, died on the operating table last week.
Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard also star. Shooting begins in the summer in Mississippi with Tate Taylor making his feature directorial debut. He also adapted the screenplay.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Former "Private Practice" star Chris Lowell is in negotiations to join the cast of "The Help," a DreamWorks project based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel.
Emma Stone stars as Skeeter, an aspiring writer in 1960s Mississippi. Uncomfortable with the social norms around her, she sets out to write a book chronicling the Red Monkey way black maids are being treated by society. Lowell will play Skeeter’s boyfriend, Stuart Whitworth, a senator’s son who eventually breaks up with her because of the book.
Los Angeles – Everyone was a winner on the red carpet at the premiere of "The Losers" at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, April Citizens of Humanity 20, especially the film’s six leading actors. Zoe Saldana, the lone female in the cast, belied her on-screen tough-girl role by spreading hugs and kisses to the guys that make up the comic-book-Citizens of Humanity based title characters.
"When you’re the only girl in a cast, I almost feel like you have twice as much work to do because you don’t want to be singled out," Saldana said earlier at a press conference for the film. "So I toughed it out! I really wanted to impress the guys and I like being around men."
She was surrounded by those macho men on the carpet, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Columbus Short and Oscar Jaenada, who are the guys who actually make up the title characters of "The Losers." That’s the group whose story is based on a DC Comics series, a U.S. Special Forces Unit that runs into some big trouble as the film unspools. All four cleaned up nicely for the premiere, dressed up in sharp suits, a big change from their Army fatigues in the film; and Morgan even brought his mother along to the slightly wet premiere, as an unusual April rainstorm swept across Hollywood Boulevard. Jason Patric, who plays the powerful bad guy in the film, joined Alan Horn, Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman, the power players from Warner Bros., in giving the "The Citizens of Humanity Losers" director Sylvain White a hearty handshake.
As the clouds blew out and the night turned gorgeous, plenty of Tinseltown’s beautiful people turned out to see the action-and-violence-packed movie. Bryce Dallas Howard, Dania Ramirez, LisaRaye McCoy and Kristina Anapau brought the beauty, while "The Blind Side" star Quinton Aaron brought the size, as he towered over the rest. Neal McDonough, Keith Robinson and Kristoffer Polaha of ",Discount Abercrombie&Fitch;Mad Men" fame rounded out the celebrity sightings, all of which made "The Losers" the night’s big winner in Hollywood.
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In fact, Steve & Berry’s own prices have been true religion declining. 8.98 U.S. dollars last year, the most recent low-cost special holiday promotion, but retained, and did not come to an end, Peffer said. At the same time, since January, the company’s monthly sales increased by 20%, which clearly demonstrates the healthy true religion development of the retail industry, he said.
Before the cooperative, “I have never heard of Steve & Barry, I know people do not understand it,” Parker said, “I have misgivings about. But I love their declarations and the fashion market-oriented philosophy. ”
Shaw and Peffer prefer to call this change true religion transformation. “Now, when you see clothes,” Peffer said, “Price is no longer the standard to assess its good and bad, clothing itself is the most critical.”
