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Halloween is almost here and many of you still haven’t decided what to be for that costume or office party. You don’t have to be a clown or hobo every year. Why not try for something more memorable? Like a look that will have your friends and co-workers talking about it the rest of the holiday season. Here are some samples of what I mean. Now get out that make-up case and make yourself into the sexy beast you are for this year’s Halloween Party! And scare yourself up some hot new action while you're at it! Remember there’s magic in the air this time of the year, so anything can happen, if only you believe.
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I have always heard it said that a picture paints a thousand words. If this is true than the following artist is speaking volumes. His name is Robert White from Nashville, TN. And I feel he has been one of the most unsung talents this city has to offer. Now it's not like I can do much but I can showcase his work here and share with you his gift of beauty to the world of art. So please enjoy one of Nashville's best kept secrets!
Robert White's Art Work Here
ANGELES - Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.
Blackwell died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection, publicist Harlan Boll said.
Blackwell, whose first name was Richard, was a little-known dress designer when he issued his first tongue-in-cheek criticism of Hollywood fashion disasters for 1960 — long before Joan Rivers and others turned such ridicule into a daily affair.
Year after year, he would take Hollywood's reigning stars and other celebrities to task for failing to dress in what he thought was the way they should.
'An armadillo with cornpads'
Being dowdy was bad enough, but the more outrageous clothing a woman wore, the more biting his criticism. He once said a reigning Miss America looked "like an armadillo with cornpads."
A few other examples:
Madonna: "The Bare-Bottomed Bore of Babylon."
Barbra Streisand: "She looks like a masculine Bride of Frankenstein."
Christina Aguilera: "A dazzling singer who puts good taste through the wardrobe wringer."
Meryl Streep: "She looks like a gypsy abandoned by a caravan."
Sharon Stone: "An over-the-hill Cruella DeVille."
Lindsay Lohan: "From adorable to deplorable."
Patti Davis: "Packs all the glamour of an old, worn-out sneaker."
Ann-Margret: "A Hells Angel escapee who invaded the Ziegfeld Follies on a rainy night."
Camilla Parker-Bowles: "The Duchess of Dowdy."
Bjork: "She dances in the dark — and dresses there, too."
Spears: "Her bra-topped collection of Madonna rejects are pure fashion overkill."
Mixed feelings
The critic acknowledged he had mixed feelings about appearing so publicly mean. Most of the women he put through the wringer, he said, were people he genuinely admired for their talent if not their fashion sense.
"The list is and was a satirical look at the fashion flops of the year," he said in 1998. "I merely said out loud what others were whispering. ... It's not my intention to hurt the feelings of these people. It's to put down the clothing they're wearing."
He told the Los Angeles Times in 1968 that designers were forgetting that their job "is to dress and enhance women. ... Maybe I should have named the 10 worst designers instead of blaming the women who wear their clothes."
Surprisingly, the woman who topped his worst dressed list for 1982 (announced in early 1983) was the newly married Diana, Princess of Wales. He said she had gone from "a very young, independent, fresh look" to a "tacky, dowdy" style. She quickly regained her footing and wound up as a regular on Blackwell's favorites list, the "fabulous fashion independents."
Blackwell had started out as an actor himself, having been spotted by a talent agent while still in his teens. He landed a job as an understudy in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's heralded drama "Dead End."
Although he got to the play the role of the Dead End Kids' leader on stage only one time, it led him to Hollywood where he landed bit parts in such films as "Little Tough Guy" (uncredited) and "Juvenile Hall" (as Dick Selzer).
He abandoned his acting career in 1958 after failing to make it in movies and switched to fashion design. He claimed to be the first to make designer jeans for women, and his salon had begun to attract a few Hollywood names when he issued his first list covering the fashion faux pas of 1960. (Italian star Anna Magnani and Gabor were among his early victims.)
'Worst bitch in the world'
It quickly brought him the celebrity he had long coveted, and he quickly became a favorite on the TV talk show circuit. He also became for a time, in his words, "The worst bitch in the world."
He hosted his own show, "Mr. Blackwell Presents," in 1968 and appeared as himself in such TV shows as "Matlock" and "Matt Houston."
In 1992, he sued Johnny Carson for claiming that he had added Mother Teresa to his list, saying the comment exposed him to hatred and ridicule. NBC's response was that the "Tonight Show" host was obviously joking.
"Did you see what he said about Mother Teresa? 'Miss Nerdy Nun is a fashion no-no,'" Carson had said. "Come on now, that's just too much."
During his heyday the issuing of Blackwell's annual list was an eagerly anticipated media event.
On the second Tuesday in January he would assemble reporters at his mansion for a lavish breakfast before making a dramatic entrance for the television cameras.
By the turning of the millennium, however, the list had lost its juice and Blackwell took to issuing it by e-mail.
Born Richard Sylvan Selzer in 1922, Blackwell recounted in his autobiography, "From Rags to Bitches," a troubled, poverty-ridden childhood in which he was variously a truant, thief and prostitute.
Mr. Blackwell Tribute
Breast Cancer Awareness Month engenders more charitable projects from fashion companies than one could imaginable. Here, our favorite pink picks.
1) Swarovski’s Nirvana ring, benefiting The Libby Ross Foundation’s Yoga Program For Breast Cancer Survivors. It’s $260 at www.swarovski.com
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month engenders more charitable projects from fashion companies than one could imaginable. Here, our favorite pink picks.
1) Swarovski’s Nirvana ring, benefiting The Libby Ross Foundation’s Yoga Program For Breast Cancer Survivors. It’s $260 at www.swarovski.com
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Winter Weddings can the most spectacular events ever. They are elegant, lush, and sophisticated. To the usual theme of fresh flowers can be added the winter elements of ice, snow, and frost that are represented by using crystals and fake snow, and ice. These elements have terrific reflective qualities that bounce the light of candles and other lighting all around the room giving it the look of a prism. The effect is breath-taking and makes the entire venue look like an enchanted garden or a whimsical castle. If you are planning a wedding it is worth considering a Winter Wedding because you are allowed to play with more color and texture than in Summer Weddings, which tend to be more formal and traditional. So melt those cold winter nights with a hot wedding!
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It’s the Holiday Season and with four major holidays in twelve weeks so the odds that you will be invited to a party or two are great. Once the invitation is issued and if you are single make sure to inquire if you should “bring someone”. If it’s a large office party don’t ask this, they’ll always say yes and your chances of meeting a new man will vanish into thin air. Just go alone and your co-workers will know you are single and start trying to set you up with someone. But if it happens to be a small intimate party ask and if the hostess tells you NO than more than likely they have an extra man in mind. Most married hostesses like to balance their parties and the last thing she and her other married friends want are a lot of single women running around holiday parties, all dressed up, dinking, looking pretty, hanging out all night around their husbands. Face it, usually their husbands have a golf buddy, or some old friend of some kind who is single too and the wife would like to see him paired up so her husband isn’t spending the entire party talking golf scores with him. So the idea is that during a season with so many parties going on it’s a good idea to not take a date, friend, or anyone else along unless it’s a committed relationship or you may be missing tons of opportunities to meet eligible singles out there just waiting to meet you!
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Bold and chunky necklaces are the rage again. Just check out these examples from Neiman Marcus. How lovely! This new trend carries one word of caution...beware of what you wear it with. Never wear bold chunky jewelry with big bold prints! Unless the clown look is what you are trying to achieve. These pieces work best with simple solid colors, which of course, are best to accentuate the jewelry. And then you look like a living piece of art!
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The Green Man
Lampshade
Candlabra
Mask
Cage
Mirror
For all those who like to celebrate Halloween but have no little goblins around as the excuse to decorate fear not you can decorate your home in the adult version of Halloween. Here I have given you some ideas for your home decor in Halloween or Gothic style, if you must explain it to your family and friends. So go out bravely and decorate to your hearts desire and enjoy All Hallows Eve!
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Ladies, it is that time of the year again. Yes, the time has come to throw a little fear into the hearts of every man out there. I figure why the hell not, after all Burton Cummings, of The Guess Who, thinks a witch is the worst thing a woman can be so it must be his worst nightmare. Therefore any misogynist out there you know still harbors fears any woman who knows the black arts and can slap a whammie on him at any given moment. In such cases it shows their ignorance’s and thus gives you the power.
Kitchen Witchery
So here are a few suggestions to freak out any man who has been giving you a difficult time lately. Make soup or chili for supper and just as he pulls into the driveway drop in a few pieces of dry ice. It should be fogging up nicely as he enters the kitchen and make sure you are stirring the kettle, try to use an old beat up one for special effects if you can, and try mumbling something like "Boil Boil, Toil and Trouble, give him back his....." turn to him as if you just noticed him standing there, "Oh honey, wash up, the chili's ready!" And smile at him like you have a secret and he is just about to find it out. He will be bugging you all night about what you put in his chili. IF he eats any! BTW, dry ice is available anywhere this time of year just read the instruction before using. With all that smoke rolling off of it, it makes a real dramatic statement and messes with his head.
Another effective parlor trick is to let him come in on you while you are holding a candle and whispering over the flames as if reciting a spell. Make it sound good but something he would not recognize. When he asks what you were doing just smile and say "oh nothing, just some unfinished business!" and laugh it off. Later ask him how he feels. If he says fine wait an hour or so and ask him again. If after about the third time or so if he keeps saying fine, let him catch you being a candle whisperer again, I bet by then even the most thick headed of men will start to say they hurt somewhere and demand to know what you said to the candle
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