STREET CHIC: NEW YORK FASHION WEEK ACCESSORIES

STREET CHIC: NEW YORK FASHION WEEK ACCESSORIES

From statement-making heels and layered jewels to the It bag—it's all about the details!

Your 2013 Fashion Award Winners! Biggest Style Transformation

Biggest Style Transformation

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Biggest Style Transformation

Winner: Miley Cyrus

Why: Gone are the days cowboy boots and maxi dresses for Miley. The singer totally made herself over, championing 90s style and crop tops every chance she gets.

Your 2013 Fashion Award Winners!

Best Break-Over Transformation

Winner: Selena Gomez

Why: S.Go has had an amazing year! From releasing her first album to making some changes in her personal life, the twenty-one year old has a lot to celebrate. One thing's for sure: She's looked amazing every step of the way!

The Style Council's Favorite Trends for Spring!

Trend: Emerald Jewels

"I'm a big fan of statement necklaces; they can dress up a basic tee with jeans, or add the perfect finishing touch to a formal dress. I found these gorgeous necklace in the color of the year: emerald!" —Daniela

20 FASHION TIPS TO MAKE YOU LOOK TALLER

1. WEAR HEELS

One of the easiest fashion tips to make you look taller is to slip on a pair of heels. Adding an inch or so with a pair of heels will quite literally add extra height to your stature. Choose a slimming style like a pair of almond toe stilettos as chunkier shoes tend to add bulk.

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Lady Gaga going to trial in ex-assistant's lawsuit

Lady Gaga going to trial in ex-assistant's lawsuit

NEW YORK: A friend of Lady Gaga who claimed after serving as her personal assistant for more than a year that the pop singer cheated her out of overtime wages can tell her story to a jury in November, a judge said Tuesday.

A jury can decide whether Gaga's demands left Jennifer O'Neill any personal time or whether she was on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as she claimed in her 2011 lawsuit, US District Judge Paul Gardephe said. A trial is set for Nov. 4.

O'Neill worked for the singer for one to two months in early 2009 and for 13 months beginning in February 2010, and the judge said both sides agree she was expected to be available as needed throughout each hour of each day.

Gardephe ruled that O'Neill's ``on-call'' time potentially qualifies for overtime compensation.

O'Neill said she was paid at a flat rate of about $50,000 annually when she was first hired and $75,000 annually the second time by the pop singer, who is estimated in a list published by Forbes magazine to have earned $80 million in the first six months of this year.

Lawyers did not immediately comment.

O'Neill had testified in a deposition that if Lady Gaga was watching a DVD in the middle of the night and grew tired of it, she woke her up to take out and replace the DVD.

``Every day is a work day for her, so every day is a work day for the rest of us,'' she said.

``There is no, `We're going to stay in, we're going to sleep.' There is no, `Let's put on sweatpants and go out to the movies and be girlfriends.' It doesn't work like that,'' O'Neill said.

In her deposition testimony, Lady Gaga had testified: ``You don't get a schedule. You don't get a schedule that is like you punch in and you can play ... at your desk for four hours and then you punch out at the end of the day. This is when I need you, you're available.''

O'Neill had testified she was responsible for sometimes monitoring the singer's email and telephone communications and for handling all her luggage _ generally 20 bags _ including clothing, accessories, makeup and toiletries.

She was also responsible for making sure that ``special food'' was available at every location and for making sure the singer arrived at performances on time and had ample time for hairstyling, makeup and voice warm-ups and that she appeared on stage on time, O'Neill said.

She said she assisted with costume changes during performances and was responsible afterwards for arranging ice packs, tea and a shower, along with dinner and an exit from the venue.

The judge noted that the women met after Lady Gaga moved into O'Neill's apartment building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan before 2008, when they became roommates and friends. O'Neill was offered a position as her personal assistant because they were friends and she had experience in the music industry, court papers said. 

Revenge Wears Prada ‘gets fashion all wrong’

Revenge Wears Prada ‘gets fashion all wrong’

The sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is now out in US bookstores. But are representations of the fashion world in popular culture selling us a false image?

When Lauren Weisberger’s Revenge Wears Prada landed on my desk, I was wary. I’ve never read The Devil Wears Prada, Weisberger’s bestselling roman à clef about her time as an assistant to Anna Wintour. But like a lot of people who work in fashion, the novel has dogged me.

When, for instance, I run into high school acquaintances, the first thing they ask when I say that I’m a fashion editor is whether my life is just like The Devil Wears Prada. “How so?” I ask. They then articulate some vision of a fashion industry comprised entirely of skinny girls in stiletto heels, catty gay men, and Wintour-ish bosses with ice picks for hearts. Look, I say, for the umpteenth time: There’s some truth to those stereotypes, but for the most part, the people who do well in the fashion industry are sharp, incredibly creative, and above all, very, very hard-working.

There are enough pop culture phenomena that traffic an image of fashion as a pit of campy vipers. As far back as the 1957 film Funny Face, with Audrey Hepburn, fashion folk have been portrayed as peerless superficialists – people who care only for the glamorous and the new. In Funny Face, at least, the parody was cheerful. British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous came at the topic with daggers drawn, and while its satire was often apt, no one mistook it for reality.

Whereas today, ‘reality’ fashion programming creates all manner of confusion, inasmuch as the people on those shows create caricatures of themselves. Think of Heidi Klum on Project Runway, doing Wintour lite with her dry “Auf Wiedersehen” dismissal of losers. Or Rachel Zoe, who acts – on her eponymous TV show, at least – as though being a simpering diva were some kind of qualification for fashion industry success. Trust me: It’s not.

Addenbrooke's Hospital 'shackled' to fast food contract

The hospital's food court includes a hamburger chain and a pizza chain

The boss of a Cambridge hospital has told the BBC he would like to ban fast food from the site, but is "contractually shackled" to provide it.

Dr Keith McNeil, chief executive of Addenbrooke's, already plans to ban smoking at the site from January.

He was asked if he also planned to ban fast food, and remove certain outlets from the hospital's food court.

Dr McNeil said: "If we could we would, but at the moment we're contractually shackled... but that's next, yes."

The hospital has a number of cafes and restaurants, including a burger chain and a pizza chain.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Addenbrooke's, did not want to comment further on Dr McNeil's statement.

But a spokesman said the hospital offered a number of healthy food options to staff, visitors and patients using the food court.

He added: "We continue to work with our retail partners to ensure there are balanced food choices available... and are implementing further healthy options in the very near future."

The hospital's contract with Gentian, a company which owns and manages retail facilities within NHS hospitals, runs until 2024.

Domino's Pizza in UK uses drone to deliver pizzas 

Ann Arbor-based Domino’s Pizza recently made headlines when the company’s independent U.K. franchisor released a YouTube video of a drone delivering pizzas.

A one-minute video featuring the “DomiCopter” flying over fields, trees, and homes to deliver two pizzas has been viewed more than 1 million times since it was posted one week ago

Emotional Eating

How to Recognize and Stop Emotional Eating

We don’t always eat simply to satisfy hunger. We also turn to food for comfort, stress relief, or as a reward. Unfortunately, emotional eating doesn’t fix emotional problems. It usually makes you feel worse. Afterward, not only does the original emotional issue remain, but you also feel guilty for overeating. Learning to recognize your emotional eating triggers is the first step to breaking free from food cravings and compulsive overeating, and changing the habits that have sabotaged your diets in the past.

Understanding emotional eating

If you’ve ever make room for dessert even though you’re already full or dove into a pint of ice cream when you’re feeling down, you’ve experienced emotional eating. Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better—eating to fill emotional needs, rather than to fill your stomach.
Using food from time to time as a pick me up, a reward, or to celebrate isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But when eating is your primary emotional coping mechanism—when your first impulse is to open the refrigerator whenever you’re upset, angry, lonely, stressed, exhausted, or bored—you get stuck in an unhealthy cycle where the real feeling or problem is never addressed.
Emotional hunger can’t be filled with food. Eating may feel good in the moment, but the feelings that triggered the eating are still there. And you often feel worse than you did before because of the unnecessary calories you consumed. You beat yourself for messing up and not having more willpower. Compounding the problem, you stop learning healthier ways to deal with your emotions, you have a harder and harder time controlling your weight, and you feel increasingly powerless over both food and your feelings.

How To Enlarge Your Eyelashes

Every girl in this world wishes to have long eyelashes. Long eyelashes are gift of nature. Long eyelashes do not only make your eyes look bigger and prominent but also guard your eyes from danger. However, if you are not blessed with thick and long eyelashes, you don’t have to worry at all. There are some easy tips that you can adopt for enlarging your eyelashes.

Vaseline method

Try Vaseline method. For this you have to take a mascara brush from an older bottle and wash it well with luke warm water. Now dip mascara brush in baby powder and slowly apply brush on to your eyelashes. Wash the brush later and dip it in vasleine. Repeat this method for at leats five weeks and see the difference.

Castor oil

Castor oil is the best for enlargement of eyelashes. It makes eyelashes to grow thicker and longer. You only have to dip your mascara brush in to castor oil and apply it on your eyelashes daily before going to bed. Rinse it off thoroughly next morning. Do this experiment and enjoy long lashes. You can also apply vegetable oil or olive oil in place of castor oil. Brush them with care to boost your growth of eyelashes.

Homemade Pizza

Homemade Pizza

Homemade Pizza Recipe

• Prep time: 2 hours
• Cook time: 30 minutes

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INGREDIENTS

Pizza Dough: Makes enough dough for two 10-12 inch pizzas

• 1 1/2 cups warm water (105°F-115°F)
• 1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) of active dry yeast (check the expiration date on the package)
• 3 1/2 cups bread flour (can use all-purpose but bread flour will give you a crisper crust)
• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar

Pizza Ingredients

• Olive oil
• Cornmeal (to slide the pizza onto the pizza stone)

• Tomato sauce (purée)
• Mozzarella or Parmesan cheese, shredded
• Feta cheese
• Mushrooms, thinly sliced
• Bell peppers, stems and seeds removed, thinly sliced
• Italian sausage, cooked ahead
• Chopped fresh basil
• Pesto
• Pepperoni, thinly sliced
• Onions, thinly sliced
• Sliced ham

Special equipment needed

• A pizza stone, highly recommended if you want your pizza dough to be crusty
• A pizza peel or a flat baking sheet
• A pizza wheel for cutting the pizza, not required, but easier to deal with than a knife

Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin to receive honorary Oscars

Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin to receive honorary Oscars

LOS ANGELES: Oscars season kicked off on Thursday as actors Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Italian costume designer Piero Tosi were the first to receive honorary Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said.

The Governors Awards are an Oscar statuettes given to those in film that have made significant contributions to the industry through their body of work. They will be presented at a ceremony in Hollywood on Nov. 16.

Jolie, 38, is the youngest of the four recipients, and is being honored for her career, including her Oscar-winning role in 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," her directorial debut with 2011's "In the Land of Blood and Honey," and her humanitarian work.

Comedic actor and three-time Oscar host Martin, 68, has a long-standing career playing witty or dim characters in comedy films such as 1979's "The Jerk," "The Pink Panther" series and 2005's "Shopgirl."

Despite a career spanning 60 years, Martin has never received an Oscar nomination. The actor tweeted on Thursday that he was "proud to win an honorary Oscar this year. A salute to comedy and all the great people I've worked with."

Lansbury, 87, is a three-time Oscar nominee for her roles in 1944's "Gaslight," 1945's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and 1962's "The Manchurian Candidate." She is also widely known for her role as fictional writer-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in television series "Murder, She Wrote."

Five time Oscar-nominated costume designer Tosi, 86, garnered recognition for his work on Italian director Luchino Visconti's films such as 1957's "White Nights" and for 1963's "The Leopard" and 1971's "Death in Venice."

The honorary Governors Awards are presented ahead of the Academy Awards, which will close out the Hollywood awards season on March 2, 2014.

Katrina refuses to work with Salman

Katrina refuses to work with Salman

MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif has refused to act alongside Salman Khan.

Director Prabhudeva had wanted to sign Katrina for his upcoming film alongside Salman, but the actress refused.

Meanwhile, the producer of the film denied reports that an offer had been extended to Katrina , stating that script was not even ready.

Salman and Katrina last appeared together in ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ which was a huge box office hit.

Diana film gets world premiere as Watts defends role

Diana film gets world premiere as Watts defends role

LONDON: "Diana", a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash, was set for its world premiere on Thursday with its star Naomi Watts already defending her involvement in the controversial film.

The movie follows Diana's romance with London-based Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom many friends of the princess say was her real love and the man she allegedly called "Mr Wonderful".

Based on Kate Snell's 2001 book "Diana: Her Last Love", the film suggests that Diana started dating Dodi Fayed to make Khan jealous -- a claim challenged by many close to the princess.

Diana died with Fayed when the Mercedes in which they were travelling slammed into a pillar in a Paris road tunnel in 1997 while being pursued by press photographers.

Ahead of the premiere in London's Leicester Square, Watts, a British-Australian actress who came to prominence in "Mulholland Drive" in 2001, admitted that she was taking a risk by accepting the role of the "People's Princess".

She was asked if she felt the film would offend Diana's sons, Princes William and Harry.

"Hopefully if they get to see the film, they will feel that we have done it in a respectful and sensitive way," she told BBC TV.

"We try to honour the depiction of her character in the best possible way."

But on Wednesday, Watts stormed out of a separate interview with BBC radio, apparently because a question offended her.

The surprised presenter, Simon Mayo, tweeted: "A first for me... as Naomi Watts walked out of an interview! She seemed a tad uncomfortable with the questions. Shame."

The film has been officially ignored by the royal family although its producer Robert Bernstein claims the royals gave some help in allowing filming in Kensington Gardens, where Diana would go jogging.

Some critics have noted that Watts bears little physical resemblance to Diana, and had to wear a prosthetic nose for the film.

She is the only established movie star in the film -- Khan is played by British-Indian actor Naveen Andrews, best known for his role in the TV series "Lost".

Watts claimed in an earlier interview that she "found herself constantly asking for (Diana's) permission to carry on" in the film, which is directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

"I felt like I was spending a lot of time with her. There was one particular moment when I felt her permission was granted," Watts told the Mail on Sunday, before adding: "That won't sound right in print, I know."

Khan, who still works in Britain, said he did not intend to see the film.

As if on cue ahead of its release, new conspiracy theories about Diana's death have begun circulating after police revealed they were investigating claims that a member of Britain's special forces was involved.

Scotland Yard said in August that detectives were checking the "relevance and credibility" of information they had received.

Reports said the claims came from the estranged parents-in-law of a member of the elite SAS. The soldier in question gave evidence at the trial of a former colleague who was found guilty of possessing weapons illegally.

Official investigations into Diana's death have concluded that the chauffeur of the Mercedes, Frenchman Henri Paul, was driving under the effects of alcohol at the time he ferried the couple from the Ritz Hotel across Paris.

Film depictions of the British royals have traditionally received a distinctly mixed critical reception.

"The King's Speech" starring Colin Firth and "The Queen" with Helen Mirren as the monarch were garlanded with awards.

But a 2011 made-for-TV movie about the romance between William and the-then Kate Middleton was described by the Daily Mail as "truly terrible" and "shoddily cast, poorly executed, badly edited". (AP)