How to dress like a Desperate Housewife
Media executives behind hit TV show Desperate Housewives are considering the launch of consumer products, ranging potentially from lingerie to perfume, in an effort to exploit the popular series.
Walt Disney, the US entertainment group whose ABC network produces Desperate Housewives, is looking at a spin-off consumer brand as part of a big expansion in television and film-linked products.
6 March 2005
Kylie leg wear
Pop star Kylie Minogue launched her latest line of underwear in London last week. The LK Legs hosiery line was shown by models in frisky suspender belts and fishnets at 5, Cavendish Square. 36-year old Minogue proudly announced that the line, now in its fourth year, was continually improving.
"LK Legs are for all women, whether it's the sexy secretary or screen icon look you're adopting," said Minogue. Wearing skin tight jeans and knee-high boots, she ignored speculation about her relationship with French heartthrob Olivier Martinez, and concentrated on promoting the new line. After the show, Minogue made her way to Paris where she presented the line to the French press and public.
8 November 2004
Kylie Launches Love Kylie Legs
Like the diminutive singer herself, Kylie Minogue's business empire is small but perfectly formed. This week, Minogue unveiled a collection of Cabaret-style hosiery called Love Kylie Legs - a brand extension of her Love Kylie lingerie label that launched in the UK in February 2003.
Kylie nightwear will soon follow. Selfridges, which won the right to launch Love Kylie exclusively, says it was the store's biggest-selling lingerie launch, with sales of more than 5,000 units in the first week.
8 November 2004
Avril sets t-shirt trend
A US elementary school is cashing in on a wardrobe decision by pop singer Avril
Lavigne. She wears a Wilkesboro Elementary School T-shirt in the video for her
song Sk8er Boi.
The green-and-gold T-shirts hadn't been sold for at least four years, but with
the Canadian singer giving them new currency, the school's Parent Teacher Organisation
ordered 500.
Principal Mike Dancy said he learned from a Canadian writer that Lavigne probably found the shirt in a New York thrift store. The writer was doing a story on how the singer popularises almost everything she wears, he said.
About 300 of the shirts have been sold on eBay to buyers as far away as Sweden and Thailand, said Marcia Reynolds, the school's PTO president.
"It's kind of exciting that people all over the world are seeing our school's name," Reynolds said.
The shirts sell for USD 20 online or USD 10 at the school. The proceeds will be used to buy computers. "This is going to end up helping our students, and we're grateful for that," Dancy said.
March 18, 2003
Becker fashion belly up
A new business flop for Boris Becker: 'Bild am Sonntag' reported this weekend that the firm that should have produced Boris' fashion collection is broke. The German newspaper wrote that Pro-Sport AG, the company that since August last year is trying to launch Beckers fashion collection, has registered for insolvency.
Beckers business partner has run in financial difficulties and possibly owes
a German textile factory one-quarter million euro. According to 'Bild am Sonntag'
the district attorney's office has filed an investigation into Pro-Sports chairman
in 2001, concerning a possible documents forgery.
Beckers spokesman Robert Lübenoff said in the paper that the contract with
Pro-Sport has been dissolved and that Becker is now looking to transfer the
fashion project to other partners.
March 5, 2003
Atomic Kitten launch clothing range
Atomic Kitten has launched a clothing range for youngsters. The range, named AK, features a kitten paw print and aims at girls aged between six and thirteen. The AK collection will be on sale in BHS stores. The main style of AK will consist of the popular velour tracksuit and will also feature handbags.
Earlier this year, Atomic Kitten signed a deal with cosmetics company Avon. The band's six-figure one-year deal will see them promote Avon's Color Trend range. The band members will appear on Color Trend packaging and feature in Avon catalogues and on the company's website.
February 21, 2003
Anna Nicole Smith worst dressed woman of 2002
Former fashion designer Earl Blackwell named former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith this week as the worst dressed woman of 2002. Smith was followed directly by a number of pop singers including Christina Aguilera and Shakira, actresses like Meg Ryan and Cameron Diaz, Britain's Princess Anne and Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of British rocker Ozzy Osbourne.
Blackwell said Smith topped his 43rd annual list because "Anna's fashion follies are the worst of the year ... don't bother with a new designer Anna, just hire a structural engineer!" In second place on the Blackwell list was another star of a reality series, Kelly Osbourne. Blackwell described her as "A fright-wigged Baby Doll, stuck in a Goth prom gown.
Numbers three to ten on Blackwell’s List are: Shakira (for wearing not enough clothes), Cameron Diaz (for looking like a clown), Britain’s Princess Anne (too boring), Anne Rice (scary), Donatella Versace (too blonde), Meg Ryan (she’s a fashion wreck), Christina Aguilera (she’s dirrrty and wearing almost nothing) and Pink (she’s not original). Mr. Blackwell’s Annual List has been frightening celebs since 1960.
January 10, 2003
Cedella Marley starts clothes line
Bob Marley’s Grammy award-winning daughter, Cedella, took a break from singing reggae tunes to present her own clothing line at a fashion show. She says she designs for women with an eye for the adventurous, but doesn’t want her Catch A Fire line to be boxed into any category.
“I wouldn’t classify it as anything — I don’t like to classify”, said Marley, 35, who has no formal training as a designer. She spoke by telephone from her Miami home. “My clothing is for people who want to express their individuality.”
The collection was shown Saturday in Kingston as part of Caribbean Fashionweek.
Strong on denim with an urban theme, the Catch A Fire line has caught on with celebrities in the United States, including singer Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and actress Angela Bassett.
After winning four Grammies as a member of the Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers reggae group, Bob Marley’s first-born daughter decided two years ago to pursue her longtime hobby of fashion designing.
November 12, 2002
Kylie’s bra makes big money
One of Australian pop star Kylie Minogue's skimpiest bras has been sold at an auction for GBP 2,400. The star's underwear, a sexy black mesh bra with pink straps, proved to be the most alluring of a collection donated by some of the world's most glamorous women to the London-based Breast Cancer Care charity.
Lingerie belonging to and signed by pop stars and models raised a total of GBP 8,000 at the charity event organised by Breast Cancer Care in London, this week with a further £4,000 collected in ticket sales.
Supermodel Elle Macpherson's underwear raised GBP 650, and singer Holly Valance's, went for GBP 550.
The money raised will go towards publicising Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
October 10, 2002
Spears makes worst-dressed list
Money can't buy good taste apparently, this much it to be learned now Britney Spears has been voted the world's worst-dressed celebrity. She’s following in the shoes of Victoria Beckham who topped the worst-dressed poll for the past two years, but in a total turnaround, she was named the world's best-dressed celebrity this year.
Madonna came second in the celebrity fashion victims' poll, but her sense of style split voters as she also made it onto the list of best-dressed celebrities. Glamour model Jordan's cleavage-revealing outfits earned her third place.
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