Forever Helen of Troy – Diane Kruger

If you still recall Princess Helen from the movie Troy, you will never forget the gorgeous Diane Kruger. As a former professional ballet dancer, Diane’s beauty is so unique and elegant. In addition to her beauty, Diane’s great taste in fashion has also attracted public attention because she seems to be capable to dress everything in perfect grace, whether the dress is in bold, avant-garde or simply funny style. Diane Kruger’s fashion style can be best shown in her red carpet looks, in which she has attempted to try a great variety of dresses in different styles on in perfect mix and match. Diane’s great gift with excellent fashion taste makes her always stunning on the red carpet. Recently, this gorgeous goddess turned into 35, which is generally regarded as the most elegant time of a woman. Now let’s take a look back on some of the most classic looks of this Princess Helen of Troy.

This metallic colored long gown is not for everybody. The fitting cut of the dress raises highest requests for the body figure. Diane Kruger’s perfect figure and elegant temperament are enough to make her the most shining star on the red carpet. 

This white and black dress decorated with crepe halter is so delicate that Diane Kruger looks as charming as a black swan with an extravagant tiara on her head, showing the enigmatic Diane as well as the goddess-like Helen that no man can resist. 

Diane Kruger’s smile is always graceful. This blouse with blue painted flower patterns on matched with the short skirt decorated with wave patterns show the cute and chic Diane at the same time. 

The combination of high waist pants and short blouse make Diane Kruger’s perfect figure seem more slender. The candy-colored clutch bag brightens the whole look up and can improve mood substantially. 

This dress from Alessandra Rich is designed in an extravagant style, which Diane Kruger interprets perfectly with her unique and distinctive royal vibe. The eye-catching waist belt in bright orange is definitely the biggest highlight of the whole look and the design of the skirt trailing onto the ground is also totally chic. 

Diane Kruger looks stunningly gorgeous in this amazing Marchesa satin dress, which is shining in luxurious luster in complete wine red with full grace. Diane’s blonde hair echoes in a most harmonious way with the sleek dress, delivering the most confident Diane in her unique style.

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Check out the Hollywood Star Designers

With their great celebrity appeal in the fashion industry, many stars have now no longer satisfied with just being the fashion icons to show their style by the means of designers’ brands. For some of them, instead of dressing others’ clothes to show their styles, they prefer to try to design their own styles directly and some even have their own brand and successfully ascend into the rank of fabulous fashion designers. Among these star designers, some have to purchase their own works while some have made a hit with their designs. Now let’s check out these Hollywood star designers with their unique designs.

 
Victoria Beckham is undoubtedly the most successful star designer who has made a great ascendance into the circle of fashion designing, attracting many stars to become her faithful fans such as Olivia Palermo, Jennifer Hudson and Heidi Klum. In addition to her and her husband’s high popularity in the entertainment business, her unique maverick style in her daily look has also made great influence on her success of her own designs. Her brand is totally in a “Victoria Beckham” style that completely follows her own dress code. 

Gwen Stefani launched her own brand of “L.A.M.B.” in 2004, which represents four of her favorite words of respectively Love, Angel, Music and Baby. L.A.M.B. series consists of printed cute flowers, hard-rock styled look, hot chick and PUNK chains, which also represent the spirit of origination of Gwen Stefani. She even launched a second series of Harajuku Lovers after the top-class brand of L.A.M.B.

 
Whitney Port has always had a great interest in fashion and has once been an intern with her friend Lauren Conrad in the magazine of Teen Vogue. In 2008, she founded the brand of “Whitney Eve”, which is accessible at Nordstrom’s, Barneys and Kitson. 

The Olsen sisters have been in the fashion industry for a considerably long time with their two brands “The Row” and “Elizabeth and James”. The biggest feature of The Row is that they are made of single product tailored delicately mixed with never-out-of-mode unique design and quality texture. Therefore, The Row has been very popular among young American teenagers. As for their other line of Elizabeth and James, this brand breaks the boundaries between men’s clothes and women’s clothes, between modern and retro styles, between Uptown and Downtown as well as between high-end design and street fashion looks, offering the most chic and modern living style suit best for young people. 

Twenty8Twelve was established by the British actress Sienna Miller along with her sister Savannah Miller. The brand of Twenty8Twelve has the dressing style of Sienna Miller and the products from the brand can be purchased at both websites of Shopping and Net-a-Porter. 

Jessica Simpson Collection was launched in 2004 with a series of her own brand of clothes, womens shoes and accessories. Jessica Simpson has led her whole designing team with her great fashion taste, creating a series of fashion products in simple but sexy designs.

New York Version of the Smurfs Leads the Blue Fashion

The Belgian cartoon The Smurfs first broadcasted in the 1950s has been adapted into a 3D film and been put on in cinemas on August 10. This time, the story moves from the magical world to New York in reality, bringing about a blue wave. In the mean time, on the runways of fashion shows in New York, many big brands are paying tribute to this classic cartoon by making blue their theme color, adding to their designs with romantic yet cool blue. Whether chiffon dresses that trailing onto the ground or uniform-style trench with crossed patterns, under the reflection of blue, they show an intimate feeling that is cool but extravagant. As for the accessories, Giuseppe Zanotti uses fluorescent yellow, dark pink, purple and blue as well as neon blue as the main colors, coupled with crystal, lace and other materials in a mix and match style to create a stunningly impressive visual effects.

This Burberry Prorsum dress in neon blue is designed by Christopher Bailey, who integrates the highly saturated color with large checkered plaid to show the modern London style of the 1960s. The classic trench coat designed with vintage collarless and small squared collar, showing your neck line perfectly. 

This outfit from Gucci is designed by Frida Giannini, who is inspired by the pop singer Florence Welch. High-necked sweaters in draping style and the wide-bottomed pants matched with fur-collared jacket reflect the charm of the trend in the 70s.

 
The whole look is from Dolce & Gabbana. Pointy-collared suit coat in jacquard fabric mixes feminine characteristics in the large men’s outfit. And the series with printing patterns of five stars adds more delicate sense of art to the chiffon dress. 

Designer Donatella Versace revamps the classic Versace look in its peak period. The black tightly-fitting black coat matched with the chiffon dress with high slit in ostrich feathers tight coats and high slit impresses people with individual independence and chic style. 

Emilio Pucci is often in utilization of ink green, purple and aqua blue colors, the designer Peter Dunda dyes the traditional curves as well as geometric patterns in the hand-drawn style and attaches them on the elastic fabric, making the slender outfit look more sensational.

Katy Perry’s look with printing dress and blue patent leather womens shoes on the premiere of The Smurfs has become a big fashion hit.

Top 15 Worst Dressed Silicon Valley Men Selected by U.S. magazine GQ

Silicon Valley is widely known as the world's most desirable place for people in the IT industry with many geniuses there – most of them are men. Recently, the U.S. magazine GQ selected the top 15 worst dressed men in Silicon Valley. In addition to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who tops the list, Steve Jobs as well as Bill Gates are also included on the list unfortunately.

Top 1: Mark Zuckerberg

To match jeans and tie with his lanky body, Zuckerberg’s fashion taste is shockingly low. However, even so, this look of his still made a great hit among Facebook fans and makes them compete to imitate. 

TOP2: Steve Jobs

The invariable black turtleneck sweater matched with loose high waist “Dad Jeans” and a pair of Jerry Seinfeld-styled sneakers. This uniform he creates for himself is as lame as the costume of Superman. 

Top 3: Bill Gates

Gates dresses in a total American private high school style with his neat multi-colored V-necked sweater. 

Top 4: Shantanu Narayen

The fat high waist dad jeans make this billionaire look like NBA star Nate Robinson wearing the uniform of Shaquille O’Neal.

Top 5: Dennis Crowley

Crowley dressed in a typical look of an unfashionable college boy with a lousy hooded sweater.

Top 6: Reid Hoffman

He has definitely the look of a cable man instead of a CEO.

Top 7: Tom Anderson

T-shirt, hooded sweater and overcoat, Anderson looks as unfashionable as the peace gesture he made on the picture.

Top 8: Seth Priebatsch

The orange Jersey Beach T-shirt and lousy dad jeans make Priebatsch even dressed down than the pizza delivery boy.

Top 9: Howard Stringer

Stringer’s this look make people wonder if this SONY CEO does nothing all day but go fishing.

Top 10: Ben Huh:

Black shirts with weird kittens on seem to be his favorite style and classic look.

 
Top 11: Blake Krikorian

Krikorian dresses in a completely lazy way with striped shirt that makes you dizzy.

Top 12: Peter Chou

The dress code he follows is always lousy sneakers and unfit jeans.

Top 13: Ron Conway (left)

Without any ties, Conway dresses in short pants and long overcoat, making his whole look resemble a funny penguin very much.

Top 14: Craig Newmark

Fold shirt, fat sports jacket and black beret – Newmark’s style of “mix and match” is really hard to describe in words.

Top 15: Chris Sacca

Seriously? Embroidered jean shirt – this is something beyond imagination.

The Most Eye-Catching Color in This Summer – Bright Lemon Yellow

Do you always feel that your summer wardrobe is a little dull and not enough eye-catching? Then add some lemon yellow. Fluorescent color has topped the color choices in spring and summer this year is a certain fact. Among them, the most favorite color chosen by Hollywood female stars goes undoubtedly to the lemon yellow with its brilliant luster shining under the summer sun in a completely vibrant feeling. Now let’s present you an eye feast of the most popular dresses in lemon yellow you cannot miss of this year. 

In a recent exclusive custom show in Paris, Olivia Palermo showed up in a Topshop lemon yellow chiffon dress, striking people with an unforgettably refreshing and elegant style. 

Gwyneth Paltrow attended the conference press of the new book “My Father's Daughter” in a Rachel Roy lemon yellow tight dress that presents her body figure perfectly.

 
Leighton Meester was recently spotted at “Gossip Girl” scene wearing a Stella McCartney lemon yellow dress matched with a pair of Brian Atwood orange high heels. 

Kerry Washington attended the BET awards ceremony in a Michael Kors halter dress. The delicate high-slit design can makes her look fascinatingly charming. 

You have already seen how obsessed female stars are with lemon yellow; now let’s continue to prove the popularity of this bright color by tracing it down on the runways of 2011 spring and summer fashion shows. This is taken in 2011 Christian Dior spring fashion show. The dress is a typical summer model dotted with sporadic flowers as decorations, coupled with the lemon yellow color, presenting us a youthful and perky look that is totally lively. 

This is from the same show; the semi-shoulder design offers a sexy look in a resort style. The metallic blue silk lines across the lemon yellow crepe dress, presenting an extremely eye-catching image.

 
At the 2011 Spring Salvatore Ferragamo show, this suit in lemon yellow offers an alternate option for office ladies who are tired of black and white suits. In the traditional cut coupled with an usual simple shirt, by simply changing the color, the suit offers an entirely different stylish look instantly. 

At 2011 spring and summer Max Mara show, this piece of dress in pure lemon yellow delivers to people its ultimate simplicity and minimalist beauty with flowing lines totally blended in the bright color tone.

Sister of Princess Kate Attracts World’s Attention with Her Own Style

Since the royal wedding of Prince William, the world has been familiar with another fashionable woman other than Princess Kate – the bridesmaid of the wedding next to the bride and also the Princess Kate’s younger sister Pippa Middleton. From the wedding day on, Pippa Middleton has always the world’s attention with her own fashion style that is widely recognized in the whole fashion industry as an emerging star. Recently, a series of street shots of this sister of the princess has attracted much public attention for her casual but still elegant and sexy look that suit for both work and dates. Let’s check out these fabulous looks of this sister of the princess and learn some dressing tips from her. 

Pippa middleton dresses in a red dress in military uniform style with gold buttons on it as decorations, matched with a simple but elegant handbag, looking confident in a graceful way. 

Dressed in one if the hottest single items of this year – a sleeve denim shirt, coupled with a white knit dress that is totally in ladylike style from Tania Tuberose, Pippa Middleton looks gorgeously chic in a pair of peep-toe sandals in the same color. 

Wearing a dress in printing patterns, matched with leather jacket and a handbag in both light tan colors, Pippa Middleton’s this look definitely is a great lesson for office ladies who want to be stylish because she can just simply throw the overcoat away after work and go for a date in the best dating dress that is absolutely cute and sweet. 

This black and white dress designed in irregular stripes offers a refreshing image of great elegance and the especially made fold design around the waist helps create a better waist line for Pippa Middleton, making her look more slender. 

The little sister of the princess wears a simply designed white T-shirt with a dress featured in color contrast of blue and green color, looking young and gorgeous. But the purely white T-shirt may seem too simple. And the look will even be better if adding some accessories on the shirt. 

A black leather jacket matched with a simple pair of jeans may seem ordinary on the streets, but Pippa Middleton chooses a shirt in bright pink to brighten the whole look and make her seem perky and the sweet color also makes a great contrast with the dark blue of the outfit.