Versace's line for H&M is out today.

There Are Models in Cages, Mazes, and Hamster Wheels in the New Versace for H&M Commercial

Raquel Zimmermann on the cover of Vogue Itaty, November.
Photographed by Steven Meisel.

Audrey a Rome

There is over one hundred photos of Audrey Hepburn in Rome. Exhibit Oct. 26 / Dec. 4, 2011. Audrey lived in Rome for more than 20 Years.

Lazy Sunday!

To celebrate its 90th anniversary The House of Gucci unveiled its first public museum in it’s hometown Florence.

Gucci Museo is located in Piazza Signoria in the medieval Palazzo della Mercanzia. Spanning 18, 500 square-feet, the museum digs back into the brands culture rich history and exhibits a treasure trove of archived Gucci goods from iconic vintage pieces, heritage luggage and a caddilac to handbags, scarves, surfboards and red carpet dresses. A retrospective of evening gowns is also on permanent display in the ”Sera” hallway, ”Mondo Flora” shows off Gucci’s flower prints and ”Logomania” displays sports and lifestyle pieces detailing the evolution of its iconic double G logo. In addition to the permanent exhibitions rotating contemporary art installations will keep locals and visitors coming back for their dose of culture. Proceeds from the museum shop and Rizzoli curated bookstore will go to a fund that will preserve the city’s historical sites, while the attached cafe will serve fresh, locally sourced snacks and refreshments. - Jordana Longo

Breaking Dawn!

I can't wait to see it!!!

CFDA Fashion Awards 2011

Monday night in New York City's Lincoln Center, the Council of Fashion Designers of America held their annual awards ceremonies.

Below is a list of all the night's winners and honorees as well as photos from the red carpet.

The winners and honorees of the 2011 CFDA Fashion Awards:

Womenswear Designer of the Year

Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler

Menswear Designer of the Year

Michael Bastian

Accessory Designer of the Year

Alexander Wang

Swarovski Award for Womenswear

Prabal Gurung

Swarovski Award for Menswear

Robert Geller

Swarovski Award for Accessory Design

Eddie Borgo

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award

Marc Jacobs

International Award

Phoebe Philo for Celine

The Media Award, given in honor of Eugenia Sheppard

Hilary Alexander, The Telegraph

The Founder's Award, given in honor of CFDA Founder Eleanor Lambert

Hal Rubenstein, InStyle

Fashion Icon Award

Lady Gaga

...Designer Alexander Wang, winner of Accessory Designer of the Year award, next to fashion Icon Iris Apfel...



...Designer Marc Jacobs honoree of the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award...

Vogue Italia June 2011

Vogue Italia has realeased the June 2011 cover featuring three plus beauties Ford+ Tara Lynn and Candice Huffine and Wilhelmina WCurve model Robyn Lawley. This is the second time Vogue Italia has featured plus models on their cover, the first was Sophie Dahl. The black and white editorial was shot by Steven Meisel.

Kate Moss in Brazil

Kate Moss was in both Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo shooting for Vogue Brazil's hefty 36th anniversary edition.

The best vampires!

Robert Pattinson
The Twilight Saga

Byronic good looks that are unfakably hypnotic.

Continuing with True Blood and vampires obsession!

Check out the Rolling Stone cover!

True Blood- Eric -- Before and After

Eric -- Before and After

THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO MY FRIEND LUDMILA!

Alexander Skarsgard starred opposite Ben Stiller in 2001's Zoolander, where he played a model named Meekus.

On the right the same actor in his role as Eric- vampire.

True Blood

Vampire bliss!

"True Blood" costars Anna Paquin,28 and Stephen Moyer, 40 were married Saturday in Malibu, their rep confirmed to Us Magazine.

They began dating a few months after filming first began in 2008 for HBO's smash vampire series. On the show, Paquin (a 1994 Oscar-winner at age 11 for her role in The Piano) plays Sookie Stackhouse, the psychic, mortal lover to vampire Bill Compton (Moyer); their first kiss occurred onscreen.

Brazil's prospects

Four reasons to believe in Brazil

Jul 26th 2010, 16:34 by The Economist online | SÃO PAULO

Commodities. Commodity production used to be regarded as either a curse or, at best, something countries ought to diversify away from as quickly as possible (which Brazil itself did in the 1970s). But over the next fifty years, Mr Ricupero notes, half the expected increase in the world population will come from eight countries, of which only one—America—is not sucking in commodities at an exponential rate of increase. The others are China, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Congo. China alone will account for 40% of the additional demand for meat worldwide, he points out. This demand will remain strong partly because of rising population and partly because of urbanisation, which increases demand for industrial commodities (like iron ore to make steel) and meat (because urbanisation changes eating habits). Brazil is already a large iron-ore producer, and has transformed itself into an agricultural powerhouse over the past 10 years, becoming the first tropical country to join the ranks of the dominant temperate-climate food exporters such as America and the European Union. It is well-placed to benefit from the emerging markets’ commodity boom.

Petroleum. Mr Ricupero argues that the success of the Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, in offshore oil exploration has transformed Brazilian energy. “Although no precise and final estimates can be made yet of the [so-called] pre-salt oil reserves potential of the Santos Basin,” he says, “all serious indications point to the high likelihood that Brazil is poised to become at least a medium-sized net oil-exporting country.” New oil and gas deposits far away from the volatile Middle East should increase Brazil’s strategic importance, as well as improving its balance-of-payments position.

Demography. Brazil is reaping a big demographic dividend. In 1964, its fertility rate (the average number of children a woman can expect to have during her lifetime) was 6.2. It fell to 2.5 in 1996, and is now below replacement level, at 1.8, one of the sharpest drops in the world. The result has been a collapse in the dependency ratio—the number of children and old people dependent on each working-age adult. As recently as the 1990s, that ratio was 90 to 100 (ie, there were 90 dependents, mostly children, for each for every 100 Brazilians of working age). It is now 48 to 100. Thanks to this, Brazil no longer has to build schools, hospitals, universities and other social institutions helter-skelter to keep pace with population growth. Eventually, the ratio will creep back up as today’s workforce enters retirement, but such problems remain decades ahead. In the meantime, Brazil can pay more attention to the quality rather than the quantity of its social spending, which should, in theory, improve the population’s education, health, and work skills.

Urbanisation. Urbanisation both encourages economic growth and accompanies it. But it also causes problems. “Many of the worst contemporary problems in Brazil,” Mr Ricupero says, such as “lack of educational and health facilities, poor public transportation, marginalisation and criminality, stem from [an] inability to cope with internal migrations in an orderly and planned way.” That is now changing, he argues. The waves of migrants out of the countryside and into the cities have more or less finished. Brazil is now largely an urban country: about four-fifths of the population lives in cities. “For Brazil,” he concludes, “the period of frantic and chaotic growth of big cities that is now taking place in Asia and Africa is already a thing of the past.”

Mr Ricupero is relatively cautious about the conclusion. “The four sets of conditions outlined above,” he says “are by no means sure guarantees of automatic success.” He admits Brazil has fallen behind in infrastructure, for example, and says that, if it had the sort of infrastructure you see in Costa Rica and Chile (the two best examples in Latin America), economic growth would be about two percentage points higher per year. On the other hand, Brazil also has some other advantages: unlike China, Russia and India, it is at peace with its neighbours (all 10 of them). Whether you think all this really amounts to a rejoinder to Mr Wolf is a matter of doubt. Brazil might still remain a relatively small player in the world. Still Mr Ricupero’s points are, at least, actually happening (not things expected in future), can be measured in concrete terms and are long-term (they should continue for decades). Who knows? Perhaps they might even be right.

RAQUEL ZIMMERMANN

Gisele turns 30!

Gisele Bündchen, turns 30 years old. According to “Forbes”, she made 25 mil in 2009.Check out her marie claire covers since 1998 at - http://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/

Prada Fall Winter 2010 Ad Campaign

The 50s are back!!
Classy and covered up, catwalks from Louis Vuitton to Isabel Marant made the 50s way more refined than retro.

Left to right: Prada, Louis Vuitton, Isabel Marant, Louis Vuitton.

Prada Fall Winter 2010 Ad

Giving to much too fast!!
It is unbelievable when there is so much poverty in Brazil how can they donate to other countries and forget about their own people!
"ONE of the most successful post-earthquake initiatives in Haiti is the expansion of a project encouraging mothers to take their children to school in exchange for free meals. It is based on Bolsa Família, a Brazilian welfare scheme, and financed with Brazilian government money."( The Economist, http://www.economist.com)/node/16592455

Copa do Mundo de 2014 no Brasil

New Logo for the world cup 2014

Alessandra Ambrosio the fashion queen!

Alessandra had five new editorials, covers, every week for the past six months!
Way to go, girl!