The September cover of the new Rolling Stone features the cast of “True Blood” sans clothing and dripping in blood. Cast mates Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer are featured in the photospread, that hits stands tomorrow and is available online Friday to Rolling Stone’s premium subscription plan holders.
We have a sneak peak at this steamy article here:
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous, True Blood creator Alan Ball says. “To me, vampires are sex,” he says. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, straight, between humans and supernatural beings, and supernatural being on supernatural being, whether he be werewolf, dog or an enormous Minotaur-looking being called a maenad. None of the sex is quite as good as vampire sex, though, which can happen at the astonishing rhythm of 120 bpm while simultaneously devouring one’s neck and making your eyes roll back into your head. Says Stephen Moyer — who plays Bill Compton, the undead Southern Civil War Veteran — “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization — breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive.” He laughs a little. “Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”
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Shipley & Halmos Designers, Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos. Photo Credit: Scallywag & Vagabond.
Designers Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos are now taking their brand, Shipley & Halmos, on the road to meet and greet fans in Barneys CO-OP stores throughout the nation. The brand begun its “Fill in the Blank” Tour at the Madison Avenue flagship store in New York City and will travel through the East Coast, Texas, Southern California, and finally to Seattle, where the tour ends August 26th. Shipley and Halmos will be taking pictures in an on-location photo booth to collect a range of personalities and personal styles of their customers to publish in book form in the Fall. The nationwide tour will allow designing duo to create an expansive portrait of the Shipley & Halmos customer.
Jessica Szohr in a Shipley & Halmos Leather Jacket, Fall 2009 collection. Photo credit: The Fashion Spot
Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos have been working together for nearly a decade before the debut of the quirky, eclectic brand of Shipley & Halmos. The West Coast natives left behind the surfer prep brand Trovata, the brand they were previously designing for, and headed to New York City. In NYC they created their own collection of wearable, classic pieces that could be worn by people in every corner of the U.S. Since the brand’s first collection in Spring 2008, the duo has won the coveted Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) award and has even seen their pieces worn by celebrities such as Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr.
Shipley & Halmos, Fall 2010.
While on the road Shipley and Halmos plan on keeping an online diary, that will be available via the brand’s Twitterpage which will document their travels and allow fans and customers to watch the tour unfold. There will also be custom t-shirts to commemorate the tour, much like that of a concert t-shirt. Other custom Shipley & Halmos gifts will be available for willing participants at each of the Barneys CO-OP stores that the designers visit. Every customer portrait will be accompanied by questionnaire, so that each page of the final published book will reveal the spontaneity, humor, and personality of the quintessential Shipley & Halmos customer.
Shipley & Halmos "Fill in the Blank" Tour 2010.
The book will be available in Barneys stores this fall to give readers an inside look into the inspired world of Shipley & Halmos, as well as Barneys CO-OP. Since the brand’s first collection in Spring 2008, Barneys New York has been a strong supporter of Shipley & Halmos. The diverse cultures and styles of the Shipley & Halmos customer, and the Barneys New York customer, will be vividly portrayed and able to shine through the published book.
Hugh Hefner; Playboy, Activist & Rebel Movie Poster
Hugh Hefner, known of course as the famous founder of Playboy – is also a rebellious activist, a little known fact that Oscar-winning™ producer/director Brigitte Berman brings to light in her feature documentary, titled “HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL”. The film tells the story of the flamboyant, outspoken founder of the Playboy empire and the fierce battles with nearly all levels of the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists. Think less bunnies, less nudity and more politics.
First Cover of Playboy Magazine – Monroe
Hefner launched Playboy in 1953, achieving instant notoriety and astounding success for the magazine, the nude centerfold of Marilyn Monroe naturally helped. Hefner began to become the most outspoken leader of the sexual revolution and/or liberation, in his own Playboy Style. Almost immediately, his brand and his voice, outraged forces of Church and State, who launched a war againist him, which is still going on today.
Known as hedonist, leading a controversial lifestyle, some said he exploited women, regardless, he became a true catalyst for progressive change in social groups, starting in Chicago, on an assortment of social and political issues including not just sexual freedom, but censorship, First Amendment rights, abortion rights, and social justice. Check out the official trailer below:
After Berman attended Hefner’s 80th birthday party at his infamous Mansion in April 2006, she decided the otherside of Hefner, Berman said in an interview, “was fascinating because as much as he had become a legendary lover of countless women – there was a more intersting side to him, the publisher of a groundbreaking magazine, who is also a social activist at the forefront of countless progressive causes – a man who took great risks in breaking the colour line in his Playboy clubs and TV shows, who defied the blacklist in the McCarthy Fifties decade, fought antiquated and absurd sex laws that regulated private conduct in the nation’s bedrooms, provided legal teams to fight anti-abortion laws that eventually led to Roe vs Wade, and campaigned against censorship and for the individual’s right to freedom of expression on all fronts. For me, this film has it all – sex, glamour, politics, romance, tragedy, and conflicts – and many great surprises about a man people think they know, but don’t really know”.
Berman was granted unprecedented access to his vast archives and allowed her to have complete creative control, something he had never done in his life for anyone. Interesting for a man who is known for being proud of his enemies including Presidents Nixon and Reagan, FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, Rev. Jerry Falwell, Don Wildmon, Gloria Steinem and Susan Brownmiller.
The highlights in the film include battles he fought from being arrested for obscenity, having been branded a pornographer by Reagan’s Meese Commission, the boycott of his magazine he endured, FBI surveillance and having been set up on drug charge, which he proved to have been fabricated. Hefner has won every single legal battle he has ever fought, while continuing with his legendary lifestyle.
Participants in the film are essentially a “Who’s Who” of the decades Playboy has been around, the list is extraordinary and brings insight into the mind of someone who has been called everything from a Genius to a Pedophile. Regardless of what you think of him, there is no doubt that his personal style and vision has made an impact in media, and it turns out also in controversial social issues that may come to a surprise to many.
The film debuted at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and opened July 30, 2010 nationally.
Kevin Fegans, ASOS International PR Manager & Stylist Joe Zee.
One of our favorite places to shop online is ASOS.com, a Brit-based online retailer, if you haven’t logged on to their site yet you have been missing out! They also happen to have an incredibly fun staff that we were honored to meet via the Starworks Group team that handles them as a client. Kevin Fegans, the International Public Relations Manager and his team hosted a private dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles this week, including stylist and TV personality Joe Zee.
Ashley & Kelly Attend the ASOS.com Dinner in LA.
The intimate affair brought together a great group of enthusiastic supporters including Twilight actress Ashley Greene, also July covergirl of their print magazine, Kelly Osborune, and stylists Jen Rade, George Kotsiopolis and Jessica Paster. Kelly wore an ASOS Embroidered Lace Fitted Waist Dressin Cream and Black, Ashley was in an ASOS sleevelessblack dress with gold collar embellishments from the 2010 holiday collection.
Click here to check out great fashionable finds at ASOS.
ASOS.com has more than eight million unique vistors a month globally and adds more than 1,500 new stylish products a week, giving all of us over 37,000 things to chose from including mens and womenswear, footwear, accessories and beauty products. ASOS.com has been a huge success in the UK and has recently announced plans for global expansion, already shipping to 167 countries and will launch standalone websites in the US, France and Germany later this year. Check out great fashionable finds at www.asos.com and special thanks to Starworks Group for introducing us to this great company.
From red carpet dresses to your favorite summer T-shirt, and everything in between, we had a glimpse of it all within the walls of the West Hollywood showroom of People’s Revolution, located on Melrose Avenue, the sister office to their larger New York City headquarters. Style Seen Daily stopped by to get an up close and personal look at their designers, their offices and of course, they’re style.
Walking into the fashion filled room, there is an intensity you immediatley feel, although its also very relaxed and cool, it is somewhat intimidating, especially when you meet the once described “Snow White with Razors,” Partner Robyn Berkley, who you may be familiar with from the hit show on Bravo, “Kell on Earth,” which documents Robyn and Founder Kelly Cutrone throughout their world in the fast paced fashion and art scenes. Once we spoke with Robyn, who was in fact lovely and nothing like a razor ridden cartoon, we were invited to take a look at their clients hottest styles for 2010, including dresses, t-shirts and sexy stilettos.
Kim Kardashian wearing a dress by Zuhair Murad on the 2010 Teen Choice Awards red carpet. Photo Credit: Fashion Examiner.
With stars like the Kardashian sisters and the cast of Gossip Girl gracing the red carpet at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, there was no doubt that the Teen Choice awards would be a fashionable venue. The fashions on the red carpet, which was turned into a blue carpet for the event, ranged from trendy to classic, but all were equally fabulous. Hosted by Katy Perry, along with co-hosts from the hit show ‘Glee,’ the Teen Choice Awards definitely held their own in Hollywood this year.
'Glee' actors Cory Monteith and Mark Salling on the red carpet before co-hosting the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. Photo credit: MTV.
'Glee' star Lea Michele in a Naeem Khan dress paired with nude Dior platforms. Photo credit: Just Jared.
Mini dresses were seen all over the red carpet in many colors and textures, from a sophisticated, organza Stella McCartney dress to an asymetrical Preen bandage dress. One trend that was hot on the red carpet was the nude look. Many stars, including Lea Michele, of ‘Glee’ and Selena Gomez, donned nude heels with their mini dresses. ‘Twilight’ star Ashley Greene also accentuated her summer glow with a blush colored dress by Valentino that featured floral detailing.
Leighton Meester, 'Gossip Girl' star, walks the red carpet in an Emilio Pucci dress. Photo Credit: Fashion Examiner.
Selena Gomez rocks a white BCBG mini dress and nude Sergio Rossi sandals. Photo credit: Fashion Examiner.
Disney Channel star Selena Gomez took home the title of Female Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon, in addition to a couple other awards, and her red carpet choice for 2010, a white BCBG mini dress, was definitely one to be seen. Choice Male Hottie and ‘Twilight’ actor, Taylor Lautner, was also named Male Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon. Lautner’s simple, yet fashionable, look combined ”The Shirt” by Joe’s with J Brand slim, straight leg jeans. Megan Fox, Choice Female Hottie,sizzled in a short, metallic Isabel Marant skirt and a printed top, alongside husband Brian Austin Green.
Choice Hotties Megan Fox and Taylor Lautner at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. Photo Credit: Just Jared.
The 2010 Teen Choice Awards were no doubt a fashionable, fun event for all ages, and even stars like Cat Deeley and LL Cool J made an appearance at the award show. Over the past 12 years, the Teen Choice Awards have evolved into an event that all celebrities want to attend. The signature, custom-made surfboard awarded to winners has even become a coveted piece among many young celebrities. Since 1999, the Teen Choice Awards, which aired Monday, August 9th on Fox, have been devoted to honoring achievements in entertainment, as decided by teens.
Massage your eye balls on Ian Harding from ABC Family‘s “Pretty Little Liars” wearing Moods of Norway at the Teen Choice Awards (airing on FOX tonight). Spoiler alert: He won best TV actor.
This 23 year old actor portrays the English teach Ezra Fitz on the show. Ezra has more than a scholarly interest in Aris, one of his students.
Harding was born in Heideberg, Germany, the youngest child of a military family. The family moved back to northern Virginia a few years later, where he excelled in soccer and basketball. In high school, he joined the drama club (because it was the only coed activity at his all-male preparatory school) and discovered a new passion, something he continued to pursue at Carnegie Mellon University.
Harding’s feature credits include Greg Mottola‘s “Adventureland” and the upcoming Ed Zwick film “Love and Other Drugs.” He also recently appeared in an episode of “NCIS: Los Angeles.”
SSD Co Founder Crystal Fambrini with Grammy Winning Song-Writer and Entertainer Michael Buble at the Santa Monica Place Nordstrom Gala on August 25, 2010.
Crystal Fambrini interviews Grammy Winning Song Writer and Entertainer Michael Buble at the Nordstrom Santa Monica Place Opening Gala on August 25, 2010. Also included in video: Fourth generation Nordstrom family members Blake, Pete, Erik and Jamie Nordstrom as well as a quick shot of actress Angie Harmon.
LeAnn Rimes attends the 2010 CMT Awards in Nashville, Tenn. wearing Mara Hoffman.
Designer Mara Hoffman from New York is inspired by her travels, nature and fantasy. Hoffman encompasses everything from party dresses, swimwear to cashmere coats. She launched her line in 2000 and her work is now a staple seen on the runways during New York fashion week. This line is loved by the Kardashian girls and LeAnn Rimes, offering attire great for the beach and red carpet events. The inspiration creates a look that uses colors such as fushia, turquoise and tones of green making each item pop. Items are made of silk and satin. This collection also offers swimsuits that will make you stand out at any beach. The suits are accented with neon colors which will look great over your summer tan. A perfect item to wear vacationing at the beach or even to slip over your favorite Mara Hoffman suit.
Designer Mara Hoffman Brings Beach & Red Carpet Looks.
