Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Grammy winners and best outfits


Album of the Year:
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

Record of the Year:
Daft Punk, "Get Lucky"

Song of the Year:
Lorde, "Royals" 


Best Pop Vocal Album:
Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake, "Holy Grail"

Best Pop Solo Performance:Lorde, "Royals"


Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, "Get Lucky"

Best New Artist:
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis


Best Rock Album:
Led Zeppelin, Celebration Day


Best Metal Performance:
Black Sabbath, "God Is Dead?"

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical:
Pharrell Williams


Best Music Film:
Paul McCartney, Live Kisses


Best Music Video:
Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay Z, "Suit and Tie"


Best R&B Album:
Alicia Keys, Girl on Fire

Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Rihanna, Unapologetic


Best R&B Song:
Justin Timberlake, "Pusher Love Girl"
Best Dance/Electronica Album
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

Best Rap Performance
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz, "Thrift Shop"
Best Rap Song
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz, "Thrift Shop" 

Best Rap Album
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the Heist
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Michael BublĂ©, to Be Loved

Best World Music Album:Gipsy Kings, Savor Flamenco
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media:
Skyfall, Thomas Newman, composer
Best Song Written for Visual Media:Adele, "Skyfall" (Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth, songwriters)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package:
Paul McCartney and Wings, Wings Over America

Best Historical Album:The Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical:
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories 


Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical:
Lana Del Rey, "Summertime Sadness 


Best Surround Sound Album:
Paul McCartney, Live Kisses 

























Thursday, January 23, 2014

Gaga meets Atelier Versace Sprig/Summer Couture 2014


Grace Jones and Lady Gaga provide inspiration for Donatella Versace's Paris Haute Couture show with flesh-flashing red carpet gowns.
Paris Couture Week opened with Donatella Versace's regular tribute to The Goddess
Officially, Grace Jones was the muse.
Gaga turned up early, sporting a duplicate sparkly, black hood from next season's collection.
Sculpted, draped and contoured, Versace's floor length silk jersey dresses were an interesting clash of approaches. From the neckline down these gowns, some slashed, some plunging, others semi-transparent, became progressively more daring. Smothered with Swarovski crystals, slashed or wafty, in the grand Versace tradition, all of them defined the waist - and any other feminine curve worth highlighting.
“I was thinking of a woman who is powerful but also feminine and soft – a contemporary goddess. I love the couture – you can really have fun with it. The budgets are bigger so you can let your imagination run a bit,” said Donatella.





























Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014: TRAINERS are ON


TRAINERS took to the couture catwalk for the second time this week as Karl Lagerfeld gave his seal of approval to the current sports-streetwear and showed us a Chanel collection fit for the most sophisticated of skater girls.
“I never want anyone to wear anything that they don’t want to wear but I think this is a very sophisticated way to dress,” declared Karl after the show.
Jewelled knee pads, bumbags and elbow guards aside. he began the collection with the standard set of Chanel feathered and jewelled tweeds but cut so that jackets were cropped and skirts were low on the hip and the waist itself became clearly defined like the neck of a vase. It through contrasting pastel candy shades to those of the rest of the outfit; sequins later on for a run of Black Swan gowns with feathers darting from them in every direction.
Since Coco Chanel can justifiably claim to have been the first designer to incorporate sporty elements with her jersey dresses and cardigan jackets in the 1920's, it seems only logical for Karl Lagerfeld to take himself and us to the track and field every so often, especially since he has such a talent for cross fertilising apparently contradictory genres.
Cara Delevingne – who also opened the show - made for the Chanel bride, complete with her own little page boy, Hudson Kroenig, to hold her train.










  




































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