Rumble in the jungle! Divas Madonna and Whitney Houston just both happened to wear the same Dolce & Gabbana leopard-print dress on the very same night.
At least they weren't attending the same event, or we're betting a serious catfight would have ensued.
Madonna wore the silver sheath to a dinner with the designers in Milan, where she also brought along much-younger boy-toy Jesus Luz, while Whitney picked the dress for her comeback album debut event in London.
Both musical icons look fab in the animal-print number, but who looked the fiercest?
Sound off on more star style in our Fashion Police gallery!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Have You Always Dreamt of Being a Fashion Designer?
The University of Washington has a certificate program, Fashion: Concept to Market, that could help you out and get you headed in the right direction! "Participation in the Fashion: Concept to Market Certificate Program is open to all those who wish to start their own product line, whether as a designer or entrepreneur. "
They will be holding an informational meeting about the program next week (Thurs., July 23, 7-8 pm) on the UW campus in Balmer Hall, room 311.
All the information about the program, including the July 23 upcoming meeting and directions to it, can be found here.
More about the program:
Fashion: Concept to Market
Learn to analyze the contemporary fashion market and identify your own niche within it so that your ideas for a line of clothing or accessories will stand out, yet reflect current trends. Understand how to make key decisions on the nature and sourcing of textiles and other materials, costing and pricing, sample making, construction processes, and distribution. Find out how to put together a marketing plan that will bring your work to the attention of your most viable markets.
What the Program Covers
* Refining your concepts and designs
* The steps involved in producing and distributing a line of clothing or accessories
* Marketing plan development
Benefits
You will learn how to make your ideas for a clothing or accessory line a reality and be prepared to take your product line to market.
Who Should Apply
Level: All Experience Levels
* Individuals interested in starting a clothing or accessory line
* Designers
* Entrepreneurs
Fees and Tuition
Tuition is payable on a term-by-term basis. Tuition for the entire program is $2,298 excluding certificate program and application fees and textbooks. There is a $50 nonrefundable certificate program fee to apply to this program and a $35 nonrefundable application fee each term. First-term tuition of $766 plus the nonrefundable registration fee, is due two weeks before the start of the program. The University's tuition exemption policy does not apply to this program. Fees and tuition are subject to change.
They will be holding an informational meeting about the program next week (Thurs., July 23, 7-8 pm) on the UW campus in Balmer Hall, room 311.
All the information about the program, including the July 23 upcoming meeting and directions to it, can be found here.
More about the program:
Fashion: Concept to Market
Learn to analyze the contemporary fashion market and identify your own niche within it so that your ideas for a line of clothing or accessories will stand out, yet reflect current trends. Understand how to make key decisions on the nature and sourcing of textiles and other materials, costing and pricing, sample making, construction processes, and distribution. Find out how to put together a marketing plan that will bring your work to the attention of your most viable markets.
What the Program Covers
* Refining your concepts and designs
* The steps involved in producing and distributing a line of clothing or accessories
* Marketing plan development
Benefits
You will learn how to make your ideas for a clothing or accessory line a reality and be prepared to take your product line to market.
Who Should Apply
Level: All Experience Levels
* Individuals interested in starting a clothing or accessory line
* Designers
* Entrepreneurs
Fees and Tuition
Tuition is payable on a term-by-term basis. Tuition for the entire program is $2,298 excluding certificate program and application fees and textbooks. There is a $50 nonrefundable certificate program fee to apply to this program and a $35 nonrefundable application fee each term. First-term tuition of $766 plus the nonrefundable registration fee, is due two weeks before the start of the program. The University's tuition exemption policy does not apply to this program. Fees and tuition are subject to change.
Emma Watson makes magic in the fashion industry
here is not much glamour around Hollywood, the industrial district. But there sure are a lot of fabulous happenings in Hollywood, the movie world. Take for instance the interesting career path of Emma Watson, leading girl in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. From a 10-year old Hermione Granger to a 19-year old red carpet regular, Watson gained a good recognition on her acting. Not only that, she found a comfortable niche in the fashion industry.
Undoubtedly, she used her own magic to transform herself from that bushy-haired Muggle-born witch to a well polished fashion sorceress. Watson, with her notable sense of style, qualified herself to become the face of Burberry. It also led her to fabulous shoots for magazine covers. This August, she is seen on the glossy pages of Teen Vogue and British Elle.
In spite of her popularity, Watson remains rooted to the ground. She said she is willing to have her own clothing line provided it would go to a cause. Having her own perfume does not appeal to her as well when she quipped, "The idea . . . makes me want to vomit."
Currently, this A-student is stepping away from the limelight to focus on her education. Rumors say that she is enrolled at New York's Columbia University and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Undoubtedly, she used her own magic to transform herself from that bushy-haired Muggle-born witch to a well polished fashion sorceress. Watson, with her notable sense of style, qualified herself to become the face of Burberry. It also led her to fabulous shoots for magazine covers. This August, she is seen on the glossy pages of Teen Vogue and British Elle.
In spite of her popularity, Watson remains rooted to the ground. She said she is willing to have her own clothing line provided it would go to a cause. Having her own perfume does not appeal to her as well when she quipped, "The idea . . . makes me want to vomit."
Currently, this A-student is stepping away from the limelight to focus on her education. Rumors say that she is enrolled at New York's Columbia University and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Sisters take their YouTube success to Seventeen
It was just about a year ago when 16-year-old Elizabeth “Blair” Fowler, began experimenting with makeup and looking for online reviews of beauty products. This led Blair and her older sister, Lisa “Elle” Fowler, to the beauty community of YouTube.
YouTube is a video-sharing Web site that allows users to upload and share videos.
Blair, who lives in Kingsport, is a rising junior at Dobyns-Bennett High School and Elle, 21, is away at college. Elle and Blair are the daughters of Dr. Scott Fowler, a physician with Holston Medical Group, and Melisa Fowler.
“My sister and I were just starting to get into makeup and finding out that there are more brands than just the drugstore ones. So, we were looking online on Google for reviews of different mascaras, and we stumbled across someone who had an actual video, describing the mascara and we were like, ‘Oh, this is so cool!’ So we clicked on it, and we found out that YouTube has an entire beauty community that is dedicated to just these types of reviews,” said Blair.
Both young women decided to try their hands at creating their own YouTube beauty channels. So using webcams, and doing their own filming and editing, together the two of them have posted nearly 200 videos on YouTube, offering makeup tips, tricks, tutorial and product reviews.
As a result, both ladies have become well-known YouTube beauty personalities.
So much so that Blair says she can no longer walk through an airport without being recognized by her fans.
The numbers, which change daily, speak for themselves. With Blair’s more than 50,000 subscribers to her videos and Elle’s 63,000 subscribers, they’ve garnered quite a following.
Blair and Elle’s YouTube Channel pages have each reached more than 2 million views. A Channel page is where viewers can learn more about the girls, such as contact information, recent activity, subscribers, favorite videos, and can even leave comments for these two “beauty gurus.”
Their Internet fame has led to both girls being featured in the August issue of Seventeen magazine.
“Seventeen found us on YouTube. They saw our videos and then decided that there were so many YouTube beauty girls out there that they wanted to do an article on some of us,” said Blair.
The staff of Seventeen chose 10 young women to be the magazine’s “Beauty Smarties.” Ranging in age from 16 to 22, these YouTubers offer advice on everything from getting flawless skin, to looking date perfect, to eyebrow shaping, to getting perfect lips.
The two sisters were contacted about appearing in Seventeen on the same day. At the time, the magazine staff did not realize the relationship between Blair and Elle.
Blair’s mother, Melisa, says she found out about her daughters’ magazine opportunity almost at the same exact time, even though both girls were miles apart.
“Blair was leaving D-B after school and turned her phone on and saw that she had an e-mail from Seventeen. She got in the car and called me and said, ‘Mom, you’re not going to believe this!’ And at the same time I’m getting a call from Elle saying, ‘Oh, my gosh, Mom, you’re not going to believe this!’” Melisa said.
Blair’s Seventeen feature is how to “Look Pretty for School,” and explains how to use makeup shades of purple and pink to create a subtle look.
“[My feature] explains how to have a very soft, neutral look for school using pink and purple. You might think this would look crazy and wild, but it’s so soft, it just gives you a chance to wear colors, but in a neutral way so that you’re not feeling all crazy about it,” she said.
Blair said ever since she was a little girl she wanted her mom to put blush and lipstick on her, but, she says, her real passion for what she is now doing didn’t manifest until she got a bit older and started learning how to properly apply makeup.
“I mention in my videos that what gets me up in the morning is that I get to go put my makeup on and do a different look everyday. It’s just a lot of fun for me,” she said.
Blair said she’s overwhelmed by how many times her videos have been viewed and by how quickly this has all happened. One video that features an everyday hair tutorial has been viewed more than 600,000 times.
Although not sure exactly where this venture will lead her, Blair says she does know she definitely plans to go to college.
“Maybe this might lead into a career someday. I don’t even know. But I don’t think I’ll be doing YouTube when I’m 35 years old,” she jokes.
She says her videos, though, have led to some possible product endorsements.
But, for right now, being featured in the popular teen beauty magazine is a major milestone for Blair.
“Just being 16 and able to say you were in an issue of Seventeen magazine, is already the biggest dream I could ever wish for,” she said.
Two different looks and outfits were done for the photo shoots at Seventeen, Blair said.
“I did my makeup for one look and a makeup artist did the other one, and they ended up choosing the one I did to appear in the magazine,” she said.
Blair says she and the other “Beauty Smarties” will appear in future issues of Seventeen.
Viewer requests are how Blair says she gets a lot of the ideas for her videos, many of those being from her international fan-base.
“I have so many people from the [United Kingdom] and Canada that just can’t go to the same drugstores that we have here. They will tell me they are going to a party or a graduation and they are looking for certain products or want some help on how to do their makeup. So, I try to find inexpensive products for them to use that can be purchased and shipped internationally online,” Blair said.
She won’t call herself a “professional,” but instead, Blair says she just uses various sources to try to stay well-informed.
“I have learned a lot about makeup through other YouTubers. There are a lot of other girls on there who are actual makeup artists, and they do videos. I watch theirs, and I figure stuff out from their videos,” she said. “I also go to makeup counters, and I’ll ask the girls working, ‘Seriously, can you teach me how to do this so I can teach everyone else?’ So, no, I’m not a professional. I’m totally learning along with everybody else.”
How often she’s able to post new videos is “random,” says this busy teenager.
“Sometimes I’ll get in moods where I’ll do one a day for nine days and then I’ll get in moods where I’ll skip a week and then the next week I’ll do two. It’s really just what I have time to do,” Blair said.
By putting herself out on the Internet, Blair says she realizes she has opened herself up to criticism, but tries not to let it bother her.
“I have so many people who leave me positive comments, saying things just simply like, ‘When I have a bad day I can go watch one of your funny videos and it makes my day better.’ Just for the people like that, that’s totally fine, and I can put up with all the haters. They really don’t faze me. I can just click ‘block’ and that’s the end of them. I think it’s kind of funny, actually, that they spend so much time on someone they don’t even know,” she said.
Though she says a couple of her friends are very supportive of what she does, there are others who don’t really get what all this is about.
“I think a lot of people don’t understand the aspect of what I’m doing and think I’m just going on YouTube putting up videos of me putting on makeup and that I’m doing it for no reason other than that. That’s not it,” she said.
In a time when it seems there aren’t many positive role models for young girls, Blair said she hopes she comes across in her videos as someone her fans can look up to.
“I hope that my videos show that you don’t have to be one of those girls that think it’s cool to go out and party because I definitely don’t. You don’t have to do that to fit in with the crowd,” she said. “If you try hard enough, you can find something you like to do, like I have. For me, trying different looks and putting on makeup, it’s just a lot of fun.”
Blair’s YouTube Channel address is http://www.youtube.com/juicystar07.
Elle’s YouTube Channel address is http://www.youtube.com/allthatglitters21.
The August issue of Seventeen is on newsstands now.
YouTube is a video-sharing Web site that allows users to upload and share videos.
Blair, who lives in Kingsport, is a rising junior at Dobyns-Bennett High School and Elle, 21, is away at college. Elle and Blair are the daughters of Dr. Scott Fowler, a physician with Holston Medical Group, and Melisa Fowler.
“My sister and I were just starting to get into makeup and finding out that there are more brands than just the drugstore ones. So, we were looking online on Google for reviews of different mascaras, and we stumbled across someone who had an actual video, describing the mascara and we were like, ‘Oh, this is so cool!’ So we clicked on it, and we found out that YouTube has an entire beauty community that is dedicated to just these types of reviews,” said Blair.
Both young women decided to try their hands at creating their own YouTube beauty channels. So using webcams, and doing their own filming and editing, together the two of them have posted nearly 200 videos on YouTube, offering makeup tips, tricks, tutorial and product reviews.
As a result, both ladies have become well-known YouTube beauty personalities.
So much so that Blair says she can no longer walk through an airport without being recognized by her fans.
The numbers, which change daily, speak for themselves. With Blair’s more than 50,000 subscribers to her videos and Elle’s 63,000 subscribers, they’ve garnered quite a following.
Blair and Elle’s YouTube Channel pages have each reached more than 2 million views. A Channel page is where viewers can learn more about the girls, such as contact information, recent activity, subscribers, favorite videos, and can even leave comments for these two “beauty gurus.”
Their Internet fame has led to both girls being featured in the August issue of Seventeen magazine.
“Seventeen found us on YouTube. They saw our videos and then decided that there were so many YouTube beauty girls out there that they wanted to do an article on some of us,” said Blair.
The staff of Seventeen chose 10 young women to be the magazine’s “Beauty Smarties.” Ranging in age from 16 to 22, these YouTubers offer advice on everything from getting flawless skin, to looking date perfect, to eyebrow shaping, to getting perfect lips.
The two sisters were contacted about appearing in Seventeen on the same day. At the time, the magazine staff did not realize the relationship between Blair and Elle.
Blair’s mother, Melisa, says she found out about her daughters’ magazine opportunity almost at the same exact time, even though both girls were miles apart.
“Blair was leaving D-B after school and turned her phone on and saw that she had an e-mail from Seventeen. She got in the car and called me and said, ‘Mom, you’re not going to believe this!’ And at the same time I’m getting a call from Elle saying, ‘Oh, my gosh, Mom, you’re not going to believe this!’” Melisa said.
Blair’s Seventeen feature is how to “Look Pretty for School,” and explains how to use makeup shades of purple and pink to create a subtle look.
“[My feature] explains how to have a very soft, neutral look for school using pink and purple. You might think this would look crazy and wild, but it’s so soft, it just gives you a chance to wear colors, but in a neutral way so that you’re not feeling all crazy about it,” she said.
Blair said ever since she was a little girl she wanted her mom to put blush and lipstick on her, but, she says, her real passion for what she is now doing didn’t manifest until she got a bit older and started learning how to properly apply makeup.
“I mention in my videos that what gets me up in the morning is that I get to go put my makeup on and do a different look everyday. It’s just a lot of fun for me,” she said.
Blair said she’s overwhelmed by how many times her videos have been viewed and by how quickly this has all happened. One video that features an everyday hair tutorial has been viewed more than 600,000 times.
Although not sure exactly where this venture will lead her, Blair says she does know she definitely plans to go to college.
“Maybe this might lead into a career someday. I don’t even know. But I don’t think I’ll be doing YouTube when I’m 35 years old,” she jokes.
She says her videos, though, have led to some possible product endorsements.
But, for right now, being featured in the popular teen beauty magazine is a major milestone for Blair.
“Just being 16 and able to say you were in an issue of Seventeen magazine, is already the biggest dream I could ever wish for,” she said.
Two different looks and outfits were done for the photo shoots at Seventeen, Blair said.
“I did my makeup for one look and a makeup artist did the other one, and they ended up choosing the one I did to appear in the magazine,” she said.
Blair says she and the other “Beauty Smarties” will appear in future issues of Seventeen.
Viewer requests are how Blair says she gets a lot of the ideas for her videos, many of those being from her international fan-base.
“I have so many people from the [United Kingdom] and Canada that just can’t go to the same drugstores that we have here. They will tell me they are going to a party or a graduation and they are looking for certain products or want some help on how to do their makeup. So, I try to find inexpensive products for them to use that can be purchased and shipped internationally online,” Blair said.
She won’t call herself a “professional,” but instead, Blair says she just uses various sources to try to stay well-informed.
“I have learned a lot about makeup through other YouTubers. There are a lot of other girls on there who are actual makeup artists, and they do videos. I watch theirs, and I figure stuff out from their videos,” she said. “I also go to makeup counters, and I’ll ask the girls working, ‘Seriously, can you teach me how to do this so I can teach everyone else?’ So, no, I’m not a professional. I’m totally learning along with everybody else.”
How often she’s able to post new videos is “random,” says this busy teenager.
“Sometimes I’ll get in moods where I’ll do one a day for nine days and then I’ll get in moods where I’ll skip a week and then the next week I’ll do two. It’s really just what I have time to do,” Blair said.
By putting herself out on the Internet, Blair says she realizes she has opened herself up to criticism, but tries not to let it bother her.
“I have so many people who leave me positive comments, saying things just simply like, ‘When I have a bad day I can go watch one of your funny videos and it makes my day better.’ Just for the people like that, that’s totally fine, and I can put up with all the haters. They really don’t faze me. I can just click ‘block’ and that’s the end of them. I think it’s kind of funny, actually, that they spend so much time on someone they don’t even know,” she said.
Though she says a couple of her friends are very supportive of what she does, there are others who don’t really get what all this is about.
“I think a lot of people don’t understand the aspect of what I’m doing and think I’m just going on YouTube putting up videos of me putting on makeup and that I’m doing it for no reason other than that. That’s not it,” she said.
In a time when it seems there aren’t many positive role models for young girls, Blair said she hopes she comes across in her videos as someone her fans can look up to.
“I hope that my videos show that you don’t have to be one of those girls that think it’s cool to go out and party because I definitely don’t. You don’t have to do that to fit in with the crowd,” she said. “If you try hard enough, you can find something you like to do, like I have. For me, trying different looks and putting on makeup, it’s just a lot of fun.”
Blair’s YouTube Channel address is http://www.youtube.com/juicystar07.
Elle’s YouTube Channel address is http://www.youtube.com/allthatglitters21.
The August issue of Seventeen is on newsstands now.
Jordin Sparks talks about beauty, being comfortable with yourself, and boys!
Jordin Sparks made her way to fame from the hit show "American Idol" and hasn't stopped climbing and dominating the charts since. Exclusively in this interview, Jordin reveals her daily struggles to be confident, why she waited until 19 to consider a boyfriend, and why she's still that quirky girl from Arizona! (she's probably a lot like you too!)
What is your daily beauty regimen?
Usually I just wake up, wash my face, put my moisturizer on, and it definitely has to have SPF in it, because the sun does more damage than everyone thinks it does. I’m always using a different type of chapstick, like right now I’m into the Smith Rose Bud Salve, it’s the best stuff.
Is it any different when touring?
I don’t think so. I think it’s the same, just the timing is usually off. Because days run into each other, and how much time you get to sleep is different than another day, you might not have your stuff of the bus. So there’s different times when I’ll probably wash my face and do what I usually do and it’s usually exactly the same.
When you’re touring and on stage, you have a lot of makeup on. Do you have any kind of regimen you do to relax your skin after all of that?
I definitely try to get it all off as soon as possible. Most of the time I use Neutrogena makeup wipes to get it off first, and then I wash my face. On days off, and days where I don’t have to wear makeup, I don’t. I’m not the type of person that wears makeup every single day. It’s weird especially when I have to have so much on, that when not performing I like to keep it very clean and natural.
What are your favorite beauty brands/products?
I’ve actually never had a skin care line that I’ve used, and I’ve just been ok with whatever I can find that works. Now I’m using products from Kate Summerville, she’s based in L.A. She has a little salon out in L.A and I went and got a facial right before the Grammy’s, and it was amazing. So they gave me these products and they are just the best for my skin. I just ran out, so I’m like “Oh my god!”. Hopefully I can find more. As far as makeup goes, I use a whole bunch of different brands. When I get my makeup done, the makeup artists are really cool and sometimes when they use something on me they don’t want to use it on somebody else because it’s not sanitary, of course. So I’ve gathered a whole bunch of makeup over the past 3 years and so awesome and I do my own most of the time. I use Bobbi Brown, MAC, Smashbox, Make up for ever, and a whole bunch of different things. Each brand has one thing that works really well for different things, so I can’t just use one brand-all of them work so well. Oh, Georgio Armani! I just found out that his products work wonderful as well! His foundation works really, really well. I don’t have any personally, but the girl who’s been doing my makeup uses it and it covers, and the elasticity in it is really nice, it doesn’t dry you out.
How has your style changed throughout the years?
I think it’s still the same. I want to wear clothes that I feel good in and feel comfortable in. I’m definitely trying this time around to kind of stand outside my comfort zone a little bit. In performance, I’m now wearing this dress that is a little bit tighter than usual, so I’m stepping outside of my box there. In terms of my style, I’m girly but I’m sporty at the same time. I like to have a little bit of edge mixed with everything. It depends on what I’m feeling that day. Some days I’m feeling frumpy, and other days I feel like wearing a punk rock band t-shirt and being a little bit more edged out, and other days I’m feeling girly.
Did your style change when you moved to Hollywood?
I don’t know. I don’t think so. I mean I definitely do keep up with the trends, I read the magazines and what people say are “in” and what people say are “out”, but I don’t dress according to that. It’s what I agree with. Sometimes it’s like “cool, I guess my dress is going to look great on the red carpet because people love it, I guess.” It’s one of those things were I’m on in Hollywood, so I’m not around it a lot, so I think I’m still just the quirky girl from Arizona.
Do you ever have morning where you wake up and don’t feel beautiful? What do you to to make yourself feel better?
Oh my gosh everybody has morning like that, of course I do! Actually the other day it happened. I woke up and I was just like “today is not my day”. But I think everybody goes through that and as far as confidence goes, I think it’s a daily challenge for me to wake up and be like “you know what? I do look good in my clothes today. I do look good, I am beautiful, and I’m very happy with where I am with my life. Of course there’s days where I just want to crawl under a rock and hide. Everybody definitely has those days, especially me. I know I do. When I have those days, I usually either call my mom, or somebody really close to me and I talk to them. It doesn’t even have to be a long conversation, but just to hear their voice kind of brightens my day a little bit. It’s also good to get confirmation from other people on days like that. Like when my friend comes up to me and is like “Jordin, it’s okay! You look fine” or “you look pretty”. It always helps a little bit.
What is your guiltiest spa pleasure?
Definitely would have to be massages. I could get a massage every day of my life. I love the way they make me feel afterwards.
What is your workout regimen?
As of a couple months ago, I asked for a trainer for the first time. It was just for me, just all about getting healthy and making sure that my body was ok. Last year, I didn’t really work out too much. I would when I felt like it, and I didn’t really push myself. I got sick a lot last year, and paid the price for that. I didn’t really have a lot of energy. This year I was all about, I’ve got an album coming out, I’ve got to perform, and I need to step it up a little bit and get healthy. I had a trainer, did a whole bunch of different things like pushups, cardio, pull-ups, arms, legs. I also fell in love with boxing. He’s not here right now, and I’m not sure if he’s coming on tour. The tour has already started, and we’re still in talks about him actually coming out here and going on the tour with us. I really hope he comes, but right now I’ve kind of been on my own for the first week of the tour and I haven’t really had time to workout. All the extra time I have I try to sleep and recover from all of the no-sleep I’ve gotten. I’m like “sleep or run, sleep or run. Ok, I’m gonna sleep.” If I do have time, I do try to do cardio. I have a bad knee so I go on the elliptical, I love that thing! I also take spin classes when I’m home so I try to get on the stationary bike here and do a couple of light weights, lots of reps. I also have a problem with staying up late and watching infomercials. I have hip-hop abs here, and I can’t wait to try it! *laughs*
What are your favorite hair products?
It’s called Pureology nano-works shampoo and conditioner. The best stuff! It feels good and smells really good as well. My hair products change from month to month. Sometimes one product I’m using on my hair won’t work the next month because of all the straightening of my hair, and the different products that are being used curling it. For curly hair, I use TIGI curls rock leave in conditioner.
What do you have to say to women who think they need a boyfriend to feel beautiful?
Oh my goodness gracious! I was just thinking about that yesterday! Definitely say that it’s not true. You don’t need a boyfriend to feel loved or beautiful. Of course, having a boyfriend is nice, but I was always too busy with sports and my music. I am just now talking to something. I’m 19 years old and I’m just now talking to a boy that could potentially become a boyfriend. It’s been one of those things where I don’t find my worth in what guys think about me, or what mean girls think about me. It’s all about my family and my friends. I have a family that loves me and friends that will always be there for me. That’s all I really need. I would say, make sure you look on the inside first and figure out why you think your worth needs to be found in a guy. Take a serious step back.
Who is your beauty icon?
My mom and my nana, my grandma. They taught me everything I need to know about makeup. I’ve always been told since I was little that beauty is on the inside and it’s cool to be able to wear makeup because it enhances what you have.
How does it make you feel that girls look up to you as their beauty icon?
It’s really cool, because I love to walk around with barely any makeup on. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m glad you like it! The first time I had somebody say that to me, was when American Idol hadn’t even finished and there were these 2 little girls, and I went “hi guys!” and they were taking my picture and said “I want to be like you when I grow up.” I just started bawling. I am so honored that people want to be like me and I’m their role model and I influence them. I’m just me. I’m just a 19 year old girl that had a dream of singing songs and it’s crazy to see how much music can reach people, even at a young age like that. To be a roe model, I don’t take it lightly at all, it’s a big responsibility. But I am so excited to be able to carry that. It’s hard to explain. It’s fun and amazing and flattering, but at the same time its like, I can’t believe this is happening.
What is your daily beauty regimen?
Usually I just wake up, wash my face, put my moisturizer on, and it definitely has to have SPF in it, because the sun does more damage than everyone thinks it does. I’m always using a different type of chapstick, like right now I’m into the Smith Rose Bud Salve, it’s the best stuff.
Is it any different when touring?
I don’t think so. I think it’s the same, just the timing is usually off. Because days run into each other, and how much time you get to sleep is different than another day, you might not have your stuff of the bus. So there’s different times when I’ll probably wash my face and do what I usually do and it’s usually exactly the same.
When you’re touring and on stage, you have a lot of makeup on. Do you have any kind of regimen you do to relax your skin after all of that?
I definitely try to get it all off as soon as possible. Most of the time I use Neutrogena makeup wipes to get it off first, and then I wash my face. On days off, and days where I don’t have to wear makeup, I don’t. I’m not the type of person that wears makeup every single day. It’s weird especially when I have to have so much on, that when not performing I like to keep it very clean and natural.
What are your favorite beauty brands/products?
I’ve actually never had a skin care line that I’ve used, and I’ve just been ok with whatever I can find that works. Now I’m using products from Kate Summerville, she’s based in L.A. She has a little salon out in L.A and I went and got a facial right before the Grammy’s, and it was amazing. So they gave me these products and they are just the best for my skin. I just ran out, so I’m like “Oh my god!”. Hopefully I can find more. As far as makeup goes, I use a whole bunch of different brands. When I get my makeup done, the makeup artists are really cool and sometimes when they use something on me they don’t want to use it on somebody else because it’s not sanitary, of course. So I’ve gathered a whole bunch of makeup over the past 3 years and so awesome and I do my own most of the time. I use Bobbi Brown, MAC, Smashbox, Make up for ever, and a whole bunch of different things. Each brand has one thing that works really well for different things, so I can’t just use one brand-all of them work so well. Oh, Georgio Armani! I just found out that his products work wonderful as well! His foundation works really, really well. I don’t have any personally, but the girl who’s been doing my makeup uses it and it covers, and the elasticity in it is really nice, it doesn’t dry you out.
How has your style changed throughout the years?
I think it’s still the same. I want to wear clothes that I feel good in and feel comfortable in. I’m definitely trying this time around to kind of stand outside my comfort zone a little bit. In performance, I’m now wearing this dress that is a little bit tighter than usual, so I’m stepping outside of my box there. In terms of my style, I’m girly but I’m sporty at the same time. I like to have a little bit of edge mixed with everything. It depends on what I’m feeling that day. Some days I’m feeling frumpy, and other days I feel like wearing a punk rock band t-shirt and being a little bit more edged out, and other days I’m feeling girly.
Did your style change when you moved to Hollywood?
I don’t know. I don’t think so. I mean I definitely do keep up with the trends, I read the magazines and what people say are “in” and what people say are “out”, but I don’t dress according to that. It’s what I agree with. Sometimes it’s like “cool, I guess my dress is going to look great on the red carpet because people love it, I guess.” It’s one of those things were I’m on in Hollywood, so I’m not around it a lot, so I think I’m still just the quirky girl from Arizona.
Do you ever have morning where you wake up and don’t feel beautiful? What do you to to make yourself feel better?
Oh my gosh everybody has morning like that, of course I do! Actually the other day it happened. I woke up and I was just like “today is not my day”. But I think everybody goes through that and as far as confidence goes, I think it’s a daily challenge for me to wake up and be like “you know what? I do look good in my clothes today. I do look good, I am beautiful, and I’m very happy with where I am with my life. Of course there’s days where I just want to crawl under a rock and hide. Everybody definitely has those days, especially me. I know I do. When I have those days, I usually either call my mom, or somebody really close to me and I talk to them. It doesn’t even have to be a long conversation, but just to hear their voice kind of brightens my day a little bit. It’s also good to get confirmation from other people on days like that. Like when my friend comes up to me and is like “Jordin, it’s okay! You look fine” or “you look pretty”. It always helps a little bit.
What is your guiltiest spa pleasure?
Definitely would have to be massages. I could get a massage every day of my life. I love the way they make me feel afterwards.
What is your workout regimen?
As of a couple months ago, I asked for a trainer for the first time. It was just for me, just all about getting healthy and making sure that my body was ok. Last year, I didn’t really work out too much. I would when I felt like it, and I didn’t really push myself. I got sick a lot last year, and paid the price for that. I didn’t really have a lot of energy. This year I was all about, I’ve got an album coming out, I’ve got to perform, and I need to step it up a little bit and get healthy. I had a trainer, did a whole bunch of different things like pushups, cardio, pull-ups, arms, legs. I also fell in love with boxing. He’s not here right now, and I’m not sure if he’s coming on tour. The tour has already started, and we’re still in talks about him actually coming out here and going on the tour with us. I really hope he comes, but right now I’ve kind of been on my own for the first week of the tour and I haven’t really had time to workout. All the extra time I have I try to sleep and recover from all of the no-sleep I’ve gotten. I’m like “sleep or run, sleep or run. Ok, I’m gonna sleep.” If I do have time, I do try to do cardio. I have a bad knee so I go on the elliptical, I love that thing! I also take spin classes when I’m home so I try to get on the stationary bike here and do a couple of light weights, lots of reps. I also have a problem with staying up late and watching infomercials. I have hip-hop abs here, and I can’t wait to try it! *laughs*
What are your favorite hair products?
It’s called Pureology nano-works shampoo and conditioner. The best stuff! It feels good and smells really good as well. My hair products change from month to month. Sometimes one product I’m using on my hair won’t work the next month because of all the straightening of my hair, and the different products that are being used curling it. For curly hair, I use TIGI curls rock leave in conditioner.
What do you have to say to women who think they need a boyfriend to feel beautiful?
Oh my goodness gracious! I was just thinking about that yesterday! Definitely say that it’s not true. You don’t need a boyfriend to feel loved or beautiful. Of course, having a boyfriend is nice, but I was always too busy with sports and my music. I am just now talking to something. I’m 19 years old and I’m just now talking to a boy that could potentially become a boyfriend. It’s been one of those things where I don’t find my worth in what guys think about me, or what mean girls think about me. It’s all about my family and my friends. I have a family that loves me and friends that will always be there for me. That’s all I really need. I would say, make sure you look on the inside first and figure out why you think your worth needs to be found in a guy. Take a serious step back.
Who is your beauty icon?
My mom and my nana, my grandma. They taught me everything I need to know about makeup. I’ve always been told since I was little that beauty is on the inside and it’s cool to be able to wear makeup because it enhances what you have.
How does it make you feel that girls look up to you as their beauty icon?
It’s really cool, because I love to walk around with barely any makeup on. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m glad you like it! The first time I had somebody say that to me, was when American Idol hadn’t even finished and there were these 2 little girls, and I went “hi guys!” and they were taking my picture and said “I want to be like you when I grow up.” I just started bawling. I am so honored that people want to be like me and I’m their role model and I influence them. I’m just me. I’m just a 19 year old girl that had a dream of singing songs and it’s crazy to see how much music can reach people, even at a young age like that. To be a roe model, I don’t take it lightly at all, it’s a big responsibility. But I am so excited to be able to carry that. It’s hard to explain. It’s fun and amazing and flattering, but at the same time its like, I can’t believe this is happening.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Richard Avedon show opens at SFMOMA
Why do I think of MTV when I see the work of Richard Avedon?
Because in his early fashion photographs, Avedon invented pictorial-style-as-branding. It envisions all demeanor as performance and uses movement that meets the camera more than halfway. These qualities reached an unanticipated apex in music videos but made their appearance first in Avedon's innovative magazine pictures of the late 1940s.
For proof see "Richard Avedon: Photographs, 1946-2004," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Despite using a still camera, Avedon (1923-2004) found all sorts of ways to get kinetic energy into his pictures.
In 1955, working in Paris, he posed the model Dovima in a Dior evening dress, elegantly splayed between live elephants from the Cirque d'Hiver. She looks as composed as a figure in a designer's sketchbook, but the animal energy of the pachyderms nearly bursts from the frame.
Eight years earlier, Avedon had posed Elise Daniels in a Balenciaga suit amid Parisian street performers, as if high fashion, or the ability to carry it off, presented a human case as odd and exceptional as the contortionist and the strongman who perform alongside Daniels in the photo.
The present exhibition of pictures and ephemera, selected by Helle Crezien of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and fine-tuned by SFMOMA curator Sandra Phillips, encourages us to discover all the signature qualities of Avedon's art foreshadowed in his early fashion photography.
In "Suzy Parker, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris Studio, August 1956," Avedon widened the camera view to include the rough edges and skylight of the studio that surround the model posing before a seamless background. He compounded the disillusioning effect by letting the negative's black margins into the picture.
Printing the negative margins rather than cropping them out became a mark of Avedon's mature work. It signaled his mindfulness of the materials in hand and of parallel modernist gestures of self-consciousness among artists working in more traditional media.
"Jean Shrimpton, Evening Dress by Cardin, Paris Studio, January 1970" explicitly echoes Futurist Umberto Boccioni's modernist classic, the bronze "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913/1931).
Framing figured more deeply in Avedon's art as he matured and celebrity portraits eclipsed fashion work as his mainstay beginning in the 1960s.
"Rudolf Nureyev, Dancer, 'En Pointe,' New York, May 31, 1967" evokes the dancer's athleticism, punishing self-discipline and supreme ability with a close-up of his veined, flexed ankle and foot as they keep him vertical.
Slacken your attention to the stance as a feat of strength, and Nureyev's toes seem to reach down delicately to the floor from above. But when the sense of the posture's reality returns, a slightly demonic aspect - as of a cloven hoof - comes with it.
When he photographed "Andy Warhol, Artist, New York, August 20, 1969," Avedon avoided the famous face and had Warhol expose instead the torso scars of his near-fatal shooting by Valerie Solanas in 1968.
The picture quietly marks Avedon's sense of himself as a shooter and risks the charge of sensationalism. But people close to Warhol said that the trauma of the murder attempt changed him irrevocably. Did Avedon sense this?
The portraits continually raise the question of what Avedon could intuit, or thought he knew, about his sitters. A panoramic, nearly life-size group portrait of the Warhol Factory crowd is the centerpiece of the exhibition. In it, Paul Morrissey, whom critics accuse of having ruined Warhol as a filmmaker, appears as a peculiarly sinister figure. Had Avedon already heard gossip about Morrissey's influence? Did Morrissey unwittingly or wittily tip his hand before the camera?
Because of his portraits' unsparing detail, commentators have accused Avedon of merciless scrutiny, yet the few people among his subjects whom I have met, such as Jasper Johns and Doon Arbus, appear very much themselves as they confront Avedon's lens.
Implicitly answering his critics, Avedon said that his true subject was a condition, not the peculiarities of individuals or a stratum of society.
But which condition: embodiment, mortality, subjection to the judgment of others? All of these and one more condition particular to Avedon's time: the inevitability of being photographed.
That fate touched the powerful, the glamorous and the luckless alike through Avedon's oeuvre. To the Facebook generation, mad for self-exposure, that inevitability may seem trivial and like a gift, but the SFMOMA retrospective makes it seem momentous again.
Because in his early fashion photographs, Avedon invented pictorial-style-as-branding. It envisions all demeanor as performance and uses movement that meets the camera more than halfway. These qualities reached an unanticipated apex in music videos but made their appearance first in Avedon's innovative magazine pictures of the late 1940s.
For proof see "Richard Avedon: Photographs, 1946-2004," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Despite using a still camera, Avedon (1923-2004) found all sorts of ways to get kinetic energy into his pictures.
In 1955, working in Paris, he posed the model Dovima in a Dior evening dress, elegantly splayed between live elephants from the Cirque d'Hiver. She looks as composed as a figure in a designer's sketchbook, but the animal energy of the pachyderms nearly bursts from the frame.
Eight years earlier, Avedon had posed Elise Daniels in a Balenciaga suit amid Parisian street performers, as if high fashion, or the ability to carry it off, presented a human case as odd and exceptional as the contortionist and the strongman who perform alongside Daniels in the photo.
The present exhibition of pictures and ephemera, selected by Helle Crezien of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and fine-tuned by SFMOMA curator Sandra Phillips, encourages us to discover all the signature qualities of Avedon's art foreshadowed in his early fashion photography.
In "Suzy Parker, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris Studio, August 1956," Avedon widened the camera view to include the rough edges and skylight of the studio that surround the model posing before a seamless background. He compounded the disillusioning effect by letting the negative's black margins into the picture.
Printing the negative margins rather than cropping them out became a mark of Avedon's mature work. It signaled his mindfulness of the materials in hand and of parallel modernist gestures of self-consciousness among artists working in more traditional media.
"Jean Shrimpton, Evening Dress by Cardin, Paris Studio, January 1970" explicitly echoes Futurist Umberto Boccioni's modernist classic, the bronze "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913/1931).
Framing figured more deeply in Avedon's art as he matured and celebrity portraits eclipsed fashion work as his mainstay beginning in the 1960s.
"Rudolf Nureyev, Dancer, 'En Pointe,' New York, May 31, 1967" evokes the dancer's athleticism, punishing self-discipline and supreme ability with a close-up of his veined, flexed ankle and foot as they keep him vertical.
Slacken your attention to the stance as a feat of strength, and Nureyev's toes seem to reach down delicately to the floor from above. But when the sense of the posture's reality returns, a slightly demonic aspect - as of a cloven hoof - comes with it.
When he photographed "Andy Warhol, Artist, New York, August 20, 1969," Avedon avoided the famous face and had Warhol expose instead the torso scars of his near-fatal shooting by Valerie Solanas in 1968.
The picture quietly marks Avedon's sense of himself as a shooter and risks the charge of sensationalism. But people close to Warhol said that the trauma of the murder attempt changed him irrevocably. Did Avedon sense this?
The portraits continually raise the question of what Avedon could intuit, or thought he knew, about his sitters. A panoramic, nearly life-size group portrait of the Warhol Factory crowd is the centerpiece of the exhibition. In it, Paul Morrissey, whom critics accuse of having ruined Warhol as a filmmaker, appears as a peculiarly sinister figure. Had Avedon already heard gossip about Morrissey's influence? Did Morrissey unwittingly or wittily tip his hand before the camera?
Because of his portraits' unsparing detail, commentators have accused Avedon of merciless scrutiny, yet the few people among his subjects whom I have met, such as Jasper Johns and Doon Arbus, appear very much themselves as they confront Avedon's lens.
Implicitly answering his critics, Avedon said that his true subject was a condition, not the peculiarities of individuals or a stratum of society.
But which condition: embodiment, mortality, subjection to the judgment of others? All of these and one more condition particular to Avedon's time: the inevitability of being photographed.
That fate touched the powerful, the glamorous and the luckless alike through Avedon's oeuvre. To the Facebook generation, mad for self-exposure, that inevitability may seem trivial and like a gift, but the SFMOMA retrospective makes it seem momentous again.
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