Alexander Wang’s T by Alexander Wang diffusion line preview collection for Fall/Winter 2012 is clean, sharp and understated. Unusually Alexander wang is using a muted palette using colours tones of white, black, bone and ivory, very bold, futuristic and never dull. The fits are modern, the attention to detail is of the highest quality, the ready to wear collection for Fall/Winter 2012 features a range of outerwear pieces, sports-centric, casual done the smart way garments and high fashion boots, this collection is amazing 10/10 across all looks which I never usually award a collection preview, however every look in terms of styling and accessories is perfect. Check out the looks below:
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On January 25th 2012 in Paris Azealia Banks was invited personally by Karl Lagerfeld to perform at his house for a private party. Check out the footage below.
This week a retrospective of the legendary photographer Guy Bourdin opens at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in Chelsea. He was a major influence on fashion photography since the 1970’s and has been imitated by many of the biggest photographers currently on the scene.
The show opens on Thursday, if you care about photography make sure you don’t miss this!
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Santigold returns with an animated stop motion style of video for “Big Mouth,” the buzz record to be released from the new album “Master of My Make-Believe,” expected to drop in the spring. Check out the visuals below
Today would have been the thirty third birthday of singer, actress and model Babygirl also know as Aaliyah Dana Haughton. We at i-likeitalot.com would like to pay tribute to Aaliyah. Although her life was cut short, her music and legacy will live on forever. An inspiration to many, a unique, talented and natural beauty. Her music, movies, artistry, relevance and impact on popular culture are timeless and continue to live on. Her ground breaking style and energy continue to inspire those who knew Aaliyah personally as well as fans who were lucky enough to get to know her through her live performances, interviews, music. Aaliyah’s personality, ambition, honesty, charisma, beauty, creativity and work ethic…we miss you Aaliyah, R.I.P.
What is your favorite memory of Aaliyah? Check out our i-likeitalot.com Top 5 Aaliyah videos of all time below.
Director George Lucas says it took 20 years to get his latest film made, “because it’s an all-black movie”.
Speaking on The Daily Show, Lucas said he had to self-fund Red Tails, the true story of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. He claimed major film studios would not back the movie because
“There’s no major white roles in it at all. I showed it to all of them and they said, ‘No. We don’t know how to market a movie like this. They don’t believe there’s any foreign market for it, and that’s 60% of their profit”
Lucas co-wrote and produced Red Tails, which was directed by Anthony Hemingway. It features several well-known names – including Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr, Terence Howard and R&B star Ne-Yo – and shows how the pilots were segregated and kept on the ground for most of the war, until they were called up to fight for their country. The real-life airmen featured in the drama were given a Congressional Gold Medal by then-President George Bush in 2007.
‘Invisible’ audience : Lucas put $58 million (37.8 million) of his own money into the movie. It will be released by his company Lucas film, and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. He is putting a further $35 million (£22.8 million) towards the distribution costs, said trade paper The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s a reasonably expensive movie,” Lucas told Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. “Normally black movies, say Tyler Perry movies or something, they’re very low-budget. Even then, the [Hollywood studios] won’t really release his movies, it goes to one of the lower, not major distributors. This [film] costs more than what those movies make,”
Director and actor Perry, whose movies include Why Did I Get Married and the Madea series, is one of the most profitable film-makers in the US. However, he retains the rights to all his work – which plays almost exclusively to black audiences – and has previously stated that his fans are “invisible” to the Hollywood mainstream. Lucas’s comments echo those of Spike Lee, who criticised the lack of black faces in Hollywood war movies in 2008. Speaking about Clint Eastwood’s movies Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, Lee said: “He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films”.
“I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It’s not like he didn’t know.”
Eastwood later justified his choice of actors on Flags Of Our Fathers, saying that the African-American troops who did take part in the battle of Iwo Jima were not involved in the key incident in the film – where US marines raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The veteran actor argued that if he had deliberately “put an African-American actor in there, people would go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind'”. Lucas insisted that Red Tails was nothing like preceding war films, including 1989’s Glory which, although it starred Denzel Washington, featured “a lot of white officers running these guys into cannon fire”.
Red Tails bring the courage to fight in the face of adversity
“From an African Queen to a sexy Goddess; from a trailer park sensation to a breathtaking impersonation of Dietrich; from a rodeo heroine to simply a King, Beyoncé has graced her unique approach to style in an eclectic range of editorials–a pure elegant beauty with an underlying sizzle that symbolizes sexy. In this tour de force, let’s take a look at the most memorable style moments of Vogue’s Best Dressed honoree.”
Beyonce Knowles better know as Queen B serves up a variety of fierce looks for international editorials and album art, a summary of a few of Beyonce’s many photoshots from 2011. Take a look at the magnificent editorials Beyonce creates.
“Beyoncé wearing one of my dresses is harmony” – Roberto Cavalli
“Givenchy was made for Beyoncé, I can’t wait for Beyonce to give birth, because I want to get goose bumps when I see her back in Givenchy.” Riccardo Tisci – Givenchy
Cassie, Solange and VV Brown are featured in V magazines Pop Rocks feature, celebrating five fearless women of music described as being ” smarter,franker and less false.” the women talk recording, production, the meaning, mood and message behind their music due to be released in 2012 check out a snippet of the images and some pull quotes from the feature below.
VV BROWN
“My second album has a message: it’s about my generation and things going on in the world, but I didn’t want it to come across preachy. I love writing upbeat songs with darker undertones. Sometimes you want to shy away from political things because people will tell you to leave that to the politicians, but I want my fans to hear a message that is about questioning the world and getting them to question what fame is. I find it difficult to even say the word ‘fan.’ We’re all the same. As a generation, let’s evolve and shift away from celebrity culture, I think it’s really unhealthy.”
i-likeitalot.com were lucky enough to be in the house to view Beyonce’s live performances of every track off the 4 album during her visit to London a few weeks after Glastonbury in July 2011. Check out the performances that were not aired but were recorded especially for the ITV special.
Alexandra Burke’s stunning performances from The BBC’s Songs Of Praise New Years Day Special have finally surfaced. Check out Alexandra Burke’s renditions of her number one hit single Hallelujah and her soulful cover of Mary Mary’s Can’t Give Up Now below.
