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JOURDAN DUNN named Model of the Year





























JOURDAN DUNN is Britains latest rising fashion icon. The 19 year old model was recently named
Fashion Model of the year by the British Fashion Council.

The model caused havoc in Spring 2008, when she was featured in Prada's latest collection. She is the first black model to be featured in years.

Discovered in 2006 whilst shopping in Primark, the model thanked the British Fashion Council for nominating her for the award.

Dunn is seen as a symbol of a new shift towards ethnic diversity on the catwalks. The shift has been supported by designers like Katherine Hamnett.

Sasha Grey












Our spotlight this week goes to Sasha Grey

She is only 20, but has achieved more than most people twice her age. She appears in American Apparell's latest adverts, and represents a new kind of star in L.A. : The all - rounder. She is Hollywoods newest lolita.

Sasha Grey was born March 14th 1988 in Sacremento California. She is an American porn star, film and stage actor, writer, photographer, performance/transgressive artist and experimental musician. Originally she toyed with the Anna Karina (the name of Jean Luc Godard's ex wife) before deciding on her present name. She has state the name "Grey" comes represents Oscar Wilde's novel Dorian Grey and the Kinsey scale of sexuality. These are but a few of Sasha Grey's favorite things.

Recently in an interview, she asked 'how many 18 year olds are interested in existentialism?', explaining why some one so young might enter such a big bad business. She cites David Bowie and Jean Luc Godard as the greatest influences on her life. She is also part of the band aTelecine, and recently released a vinyl.


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Gareth Pugh






































For those of you interested in Goth Fashion this season, we bring you British designer Gareth Pugh. Check out his latest designs. Part Manson, Part architectural feat. Pugh is one british designer that isnt going anywhere soon.

At 14, Pugh began working as a costume designer for the English National Youth Theatre.[4] He started his fashion education at City of Sunderland College and finished his degree in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins in 2003.[2] His final collection at St. Martins, which used balloons to accentuate models' joints and limbs (a technique that would become one of his trademarks), attracted that attention of the senior fashion editor of Dazed & Confused magazine, who placed one of his designs on the magazine's cover shortly thereafter.[3] Pugh was selected to participate in British reality show The Fashion House two months after his graduation,[3] which he would later call "horrible" and his "only other option [to being on] the dole."[5] The rise of !WOWOW!, a feature in Dazed & Confused, and a debut show at London club Kashpoint's Alternative Fashion Week brought Pugh to the attention of Fashion East "London's breeding ground for cutting-edge new talent," leading them to invite Pugh to participate in its Autumn 2005 group show.[6] Pugh had only four weeks, with no studio, no assistants, and little money, to create the collection.[3] His collection ended up a critical success and attracted significant attention to his designs.[5]

Pugh's solo premiere was in London's Fall 2006 fashion week; he has since showed his Spring 2007 and Autumn 2007 collections there.[7][4][8] Pugh's shows have continued to draw critical praise. British Vogue, for instance, called his Spring 2007 collection "an incredible, unmissable show" and said that "his genius is undeniable."[9] Anna Wintour is a notable supporter of Pugh's designs.[3]

Kylie Minogue has used many of Pugh's designs over the recent years, most famously in her Showgirl - The Greatest Hits Tour and Showgirl - The Homecoming Tour and Róisín Murphy recently appeared flamboyantly sporting one of Pugh's distinctive outfits in the videoclip promoting her 2007 album Overpowered [1], and on the cover of her single Let Me Know. Minogue has been seen wearing the same dress in her 2008 video for her single In My Arms. Recently singer Beyonce has been seen wearing some of Pugh's designs on stage.

*All info blagged from wikipedia

LADY BUNNY
















With hair that screams, Amy Winehouse, eat your heart out, Our Spotlight this week goes to LADY BUNNY.

Jon Ingle
, 1962)[1] is an American drag queen originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has lived in New York since the 1980s. She is the founder and emcee of the annual Wigstock event and is well-known as a nightclub DJ, promoter and celebrity. She has also released disco singles such as "Shame, Shame, Shame!" and "The Pussycat Song." She has appeared in films such as Wigstock: The Movie, Peoria Babylon, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.

She began her career alongside Larry Tee and RuPaul as a fixture on the Atlanta, Georgia gay scene. She appeared in a variety of low budget films with them.


Her blog is her own take on current affairs and cultural issues. Her style of drag performance usually involves lip-synching to a compilation of karaoke versions of popular songs over which she has recorded her own vocals singing parodies of the original lyrics. The new lyrics are usually sexually explicit, or revolve around food, or both. For instance, her parody of the Gwen Stefani song Hollaback Girl has the lyric "I shit a banana/a banana in my ass!"


In 2005 she was a roaster on the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson[2] and released her first DVD, Rated X for X-tra Retarded[3].


Lady Bunny made special guest appearances on the House of Venus Show, a queer sketch comedy television series on OUTtv and Pink TV, and on the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the interactive, gay-themed comedy show. And in 2006, Lady Bunny made her first appearance at Southern Decadence in New Orleans.


Lady Bunny has also been a regular contributor to Star Magazine's weekly feature Worst of the Week. Along with radio DJ "Goumba Johnny" Sialiano and a rotating cast of other commentators, Lady Bunny critiques Hollywood starlets who are photographed in unflattering outfits. The feature runs every week and was recently moved from the back page of the magazine to a more prominent position in the first half of the magazine.




*All info shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia. X