Jean Paul Gaultier - Paris Fashion Week Fall 2009

This menswear-in-name-only show burst with an energy, cheekiness and joy capable of sweeping away even the densest clouds of financial gloom and doom.

Men, women and children of all ages, sizes, shapes and colors skipped down the catwalk in extra-large Afro wigs and zippy zoot suits.

Straps that looked like suspenders confused about their mission in life sprouted out of trouser legs, cinching tight around the models' ankles. Others fastened snugly around the torso like parachuters' harnesses.

The children, who ranged in age from wide-eyed toddlers to skulking teens, were dressed just like the adults, some of them in snappy three-piece suits and tophats.

It was the first time Gaultier — who has mellowed since the 1990s, when he forged his reputation as the wild child of French fashion — presented a children's line, under the title Gaultier Junior.

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Cuban Designer Dresses Michelle Obama for Inauguration

Fashionistas were delighted when Michelle Obama unveiled her inauguration outfit - a sparkling golden dress and matching coat designed by Cuban-American designer Isabel Toledo.

According to Women's Wear Daily, usually hot on the latest in fashion, Mrs Obama had also chosen another Cuban-American designer, Narcisco Rodriguez, for the black and camel-coloured attire she wore on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial.

Mrs Obama's straight and slinky dress, topped with a patterned diamante, collar-line, glittered in the winter light Tuesday as she embraced outgoing president George Bush and his wife, Laura, when she and husband, Barack Obama, arrived at the White House before the swearing-in ceremony.

She presented a gift to Mrs Bush before entering the White House with her husband who wore a black suit, white shirt and red tie.

The new first lady of the United States often wore Toledo's creations during the presidential campaign. Toledo launched her label about 20 years ago after having worked for fashion house Anne Klein.

Mrs Obama, 45, has already been named a fashion icon by magazine editors, fashion designers and a flurry of bloggers. Her fashion sense first took centre stage when she was photographed by Vogue magazine in autumn 2007.

She can also shift seamlessly between avant-garde designer labels, including Chicago designer Maria Pinto and New York designer Thakoon Panichgul, and mass market brands such as H&M, J Crew and Gap.

During the train ride the Obamas took from Philadelphia to Washington on Saturday, Mrs Obama's birthday, she wore a black coat by French fashion house Sonia Rykiel.

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"The Class" - Best Picture (Lumiere Awards)

Paris, France -- "The Class" by Laurent Cantet gained the highest honor from foreign press based in Paris as the Festival de Cannes Palme d'Or winner was named best film/picture of the year at the Lumiere Awards ceremony Monday night in Paris.

Also the movie got the international francophone TV channel TV5 Monde's public prize for best film of the year.

Biopics were in the hot spot as Vincent Cassel won the best actor prize for his eponymous role as the legendary criminal in Jean-Francois Richet's "Mesrine," and Yolande Moreau got a major award which is the best actress prize for Martin Provost's "Seraphine."

Francois Dupeyron was named best director for "Aide toi, le ciel t'aidera."

Samuel Benchetrit was honored the best screenplay award for "I've Always Dreamed of Being a Gangster." Nora Arnezeder - most promising actress for her song-filled romp through Christophe Barratier's musical "Faubourg 36", and Mohamed Bouchaib was honored the most promising actor award for his role in Lyes Salem's "Mascarades."

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Festival de Cannes Competition title "Lorna's Silence" picked up the prize for best French-language title hailing from a country other than France.

French actress Jeanne Balibar presided over the ceremony, nicknamed the "French Golden Globes," at Paris' Hotel de Ville. The evening featured an homage to recently deceased actor Guillaume Depardieu and marked the closing night of Unifrance's Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris.

Korean Actress - Park Jin Hee

I was so disappointed when I see her wearing an ugly red checkered dress when she attended a press conference on her newest film "Lost and Found". I was a fan turning to breakdown because of this fashion sense of her this past few months. On the first picture, she wears a nice and sexy silver mini dress compare to the second picture which dominates the first one that may win the Worse dresser for 2009.

Sunglasses Fashion

Starlet Heidi Montag out and about is Los Angeles last week wearing a pair of women's Dior sunglasses.














Beyonce Knowles was snapped wearing a pair of classic Ray Ban women's wayfarers recently.










Kate Moss wa snapped wearing a pair of Prada's "Butterfly" sunglasses during her recent tip to Los Angeles.









Jessica Biel is pretty keen on her Marc Jacobs Aviators for women, so much so that she has been photographed wearing them numerous times in the last couple of week.