Rihanna spotted in the sexiest leggings, disclose her plan for fashion line

A few days ago, pop sensation / style icon Rihanna was spotted on NYC’s streets wearing J Brand Wax Stretch Skinny Leggings, which has a thick military-look to it. Check out her look, cutieeeeeeeeeeeee
 However, Rihanna disclose her plan to design her fashion line. She said, “Designing my own fashion line is definitely on my agenda.” She also stressed that she “wants it to be perfect”.

22-year-old Mexican woman, Jimena Navarete emerged Miss Universe 2010

22-year-old Mexican woman, Jimena Navarete, of Guadalajara has taking home The Miss Universe 2010 Pageant crown on Monday night.

Navarrete, beat out 88 other women from six continents at the 59th annual pageant held in Las Vegas, broadcast live on NBC.

Miss Jamaica Yendi Philipps took second place, Miss Australia Jenista Campbell took third, Miss Ukraine Anna Poslavska got fourth, and Miss Philippines Venus Raj—the projected favorite coming into the competition—took fifth place.

Navarrete was the top scoring competitor in the evening gown component of the competition, and was the second-highest scorer in the swimsuit portion.

Damian Marley and his long dread performs during the "Distant Relatives' tour

gosh! this dread is long, and the beards.     awwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... no comment.......... these are pictures of Damian Marley performing during the "Distant Relatives' tour at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater in Pompano Beach, Florida, USA.

E-label, Icelandic Fashion Brand accused Beyonce of coping their designs

Na wa oh, hmmmmmmmmm! could this be true?………….an Icelandic fashion brand called E-label accused Beyonce of stealing their design for her new Fall/Holiday 2010 Dereon collection. Helba Hallgrimsdottir, one of the owners of the line stated, “This is naturally huge and I am still half in shock. I didn’t twig straight away that this was her own label: I just thought she was wearing our leggings. It is practically just copy/paste.

Ciara spotted leaving her hotel in New York

Beyonce’s Sexy House of Dereon Fall 2010 Photoshoot

Rihanna and Matt Kemp spotted at Da Silvano Italian restaurant

Pairing up for a romantic bite to eat, Pop singer Rihanna looked like a sexy watermelon as she and her pro baseball player boyfriend Matt Kemp were spotted leaving Da Silvano Italian restaurant following their romantic dinner Monday evening (Aug 9) in New York City.

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde graced hot new magazine cover "Y!"

With unique and irresistible cover shoot,  Actress and singer, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde  graced in Y! MAGAZINE. The cover shoot shot and styled  by two of Nigeria’s finest and most talented artists – Kelechi Amadi-Obi and stylist Dimeji Alara.

  In a spectacular pose of the symbol of justice, Omotola  looked like a goddess ready to light up, bring justice, peace and unity to the nation. That was indeed a very brilliant, unique and good concept. i love it.  The magazine leaves behind all the glam and sultry photo poses we are used to, and gets Omotola all sweaty and stern on the streets of Lagos!

The launch of the magazine, and the entire Y! experience, holds at Rehab, Victoria Island on Sunday, August 15, at a strictly by invitation event, anchored by OC Ukeje and Beat FM’s Oreka. The event is held in conjunction with Storm 360.

You’ll be able to get the complete lo’down from the day of the launch – including where to get the hot-off-the-press magazine – on the brand new website Ynaija.com!
   The guys at RedSTRAT, who have built a network of high-visibility, high-impact programmes targeted at the young Nigerians across spheres – including The Future Awards, The Future Project trainings and Rubbin’ Minds - are poised to hit the market with an exciting new brand!

After many years in the works, the content and communications firm is set to unleash Y! Magazine – which is targeted exclusively at Nigeria’s new breed of empowered young professionals.

According to the magazine’s official profile, “Y! will – using the best young Nigerian writers, interviewers, photographers, stylists and others - document the lifestyle, issues, trends and personalities that define the character and aspiration of the young Nigerian. It is essentially a trend setter and trend watcher: a cultural catalyst provoking and driving popular dialogue. Y! Magazine seeks to be to Nigeria’s youth culture what Vanity Fair is to America’s pop culture.”

The first edition hits the ball right out of the park, hitting all the right notes with exclusive interviews, delicious writing from Nigeria’s best, and an attention to detail.

 

RaZoe chel ‘Dies’ For Harper’s Bazaar September 2010

Rachel Zoe’s editorial for Harper’s Bazaar which features in the September 2010 issue, shows her in clothes that aren’t dwarfing her tiny frame or boho in style. Using her now famous “I Die” catch-phase, the editorial shows her dying at the hands of fashion designers like Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang and Brian Atwood.

Sean Kingston featured Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj in“Letting Go”

R&B singer Sean Kingston featured Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj “Letting Go” in his latest music video release. It is the second single off Sean’s upcoming album upcoming album TBA

Fashionising the Wedding

As friends, wishers, families and fashionistas gathered on the 26th June at The Manor Hall, Lekki, Lagos, to celebrates with the winners of NaMyWedding.com Dream Wedding Splash Competition, Oluwa Timileyin and Temitope Abiola and also to witness the first ever free wedding day, they stepped majestically into the serene environment in vibrant colours of purple, Sage Green, Fuchsia pink Aso-ebi among many others with trendy styles, designs and fabrics.

  With sophisticated and modern feel decorated and planned by Furtullah Consultant and Funke Bucknor-Obruthe’s Zapphaire events, the usherettes decked out in pink gowns and butterfly wings, hostesses and bridesmaids dressed in trendy outfits, grooms rocked in eye-catching suits and guest in gorgeous outfits and accessories.
 The climax of the Dream wedding was performance of the sensational R n B artiste Obiwon, who serenade the couple with hits from the album.


Bride and Groom
 After receiving one month of spa treatment at Venivici Spa, she walked down the aisle dazzling in her glowing skin; trendy make-up from house of Tara and her fairytale exorbitant boob tube ruffles wedding dress and accessories, which was a provided by Yes I Do Bridal.
   With radiant flux, bold and majestic steps, Temitope, walked down the passageway looking outstanding in one of the best Italian couture, GQ Model’s outfit, which was provided by Wardrobes.

Beauty and Comedy
   Arinola Adeniji, the CEO of Venivici rocked the event in a long blue puffy turtle neck-bow tie dress with a gold and chocolate bag.
 However, the comedienne Mandy, who was also the Emcee at the event, was dressed in trendy Aso Ebi v-neck damask and Ankara top embellished with sequence and stud trimmings, and simple skirt.


Hostesses and bridal train
 Hostesses graced the event in mouth-watering sage green one-shoulder corsage dress and yellow hair flower corsage.
 Bridal train also posed in a pink one-shoulder corsage dress with a purple hair flower corsage

Men in suit

  In a classy appeal, the groom men, which they tagged as SAGE posed in one button three pieces suit with pocket square. Although three pieces were out of fashion in the 80s but since the 90s they have been rocking the fashion scene. They looked unique in pink and brown damask waistcoats, pink necktie, damask pocket square, black suits.
 With double-sided straight parting, the best man looked stylish in his silver damask waistcoat, silver pocket square and two button black suit.
 John Ugbe, the general manager of IwayAfrica and the organizer of NaMyWedding also stepped in two-button navy blue strip suit, which he spiced up with a pair of white shirt and pink tie.
 Guest
   Other guests stepped out in lip smacking designs ranging from little black dress, bustier, tube, and one-shoulder dress among many others

Eminem Featured Rihanna in‘Love The Way You Lie’

After ruling the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the past few weeks, Eminem has released a music video for his latest hit song Love the Way You Lie.
Love the Way You Lie also features Rihanna on vocals and she is featured in the clip as well. Eminem and Rihanna take on the serious issue of domestic violence in the video.
In the Joseph Kahn-directed piece, former Lost actor Dominic Monaghan and Transformers star Megan Fox play a couple in an abusive hot and cold relationship. One minute, they’re so in love that they can’t keep their hands off each other. The very next minute, they hate each other. That hate turns into violence but neither know how or doesn’t want to walk away–a situation both Eminen and Rihanna are unfortunately familiar with.
Love The Way You Lie is the second single taken from Eminem’s smash album, Recovery.

Wyclef Jean to Run for President of Haiti

Hip-hop music, more than most pop genres, is something of a pulpit, urban fire and brimstone garbed in baggy pants and backward caps. As a child of the Haitian diaspora, Haitian-American superstar Wyclef Jean, and the son of a Nazarene preacher to a modern-day Moses, destined to return and lead his people out of bondage.
  Just last week,  Haitian-American superstar Wyclef Jean, told CNN: “I can’t sing forever” after word got out that he might be running for president in his native Haiti. And now Haiti’s biggest representer has officially confirmed to the media that he is running for president of Haiti! He is due to officially announce his candidacy today, just a few days shy of Saturday’s deadline.

In a video posted to Time.com, Wyclef, 37, said the devastating earthquake that occurred in his homeland at the top of the year (that killed more than 200,000 people and left millions homeless) helped him make his decision:

    “If not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another 10 years before doing this. The quake drove home to me that Haiti can’t wait another 10 years for us to bring it into the 21st century. If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything. My decision is a draft. I’ve been drafted by the youth.”

Jean says that he meets all of the qualifications required to run for president, including living in Haiti for at least 5 consecutive years. He also owns property there and has never been a citizen of another country (he’s considered a “resident” of the United States). In addition, his Yele Haiti Foundation has worked overtime this year to raise funds to assist the island nation with recovery efforts following the earthquake that pretty much wrecked the country.

So even though we wouldn’t say that he’s 100% “qualified” (with no political background), we don’t see why he can’t give it a shot! Let’s be real now, the country can’t get any worse…
. Jean told TIME he is going to announce his candidacy for the Nov. 28 election just days before the Aug. 7 deadline. One plan, loaded with as much Mosaic symbolism as a news cycle can hold, called for him to declare his presidential bid on Aug. 5 upon arriving in Port-au-Prince from New York, where he grew up after leaving Haiti with his family at age 9.
Accentuating the Positive
Jean's celebrity candidacy at least promises to keep an erratic media more regularly focused on Haiti's awful situation. International donors have pledged some $10 billion in aid, but mountains of shattered concrete still choke Port-au-Prince's streets, and more than a million people remain homeless, trapped in squalid tent cities as a sclerotic bureaucracy and loosely organized aid groups struggle to relocate them to decent temporary shelters. The Caribbean hurricane season, which reaches its peak in about a month, threatens to make conditions even uglier. (See exclusive pictures of the destruction in Haiti.)

Jean has spent most of his life trying to show the world the positive side of star-crossed Haiti. Despite his Brooklyn and New Jersey upbringing — he recalls weekly "beat up a Haitian" days at his schools — he proudly embraced the nation, even when, in the 1980s and '90s, Haiti was an abject byword for boat people, AIDS and dictators. "A lot of us focused on assimilation in the U.S.," says Jean's younger brother Sam, a New York City entertainment lawyer. "Clef was unabashedly proud to be Haitian long before it was in vogue." So much so that Jean never took U.S. citizenship, instead carrying a Haitian passport on his international concert tours.

Jean brought Haiti and its culture into his Grammy-winning music too. As a member of the groundbreaking hip-hop group the Fugees (short for refugees ) in the mid-'90s and then as a solo act, Jean built kompa, rasin and other Haitian rhythms into hits like "Gone Till November." His work earned him a reputation as Haiti's Bob Marley, helping foreigners unearth a vibrant culture so often buried under the misery. Not that he left out the misery: like Marley's songs, Jean's exude a raw but poetic social content. The video for his 2007 hit "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)," which examines exploitation both sexual and national, is set in a camp for refugees facing deportation.

Now he wants to move beyond music. Jean has become so involved with not just the culture but also the cause of Haiti that he feels it's only logical to follow other artist-to-statesman career trajectories. (He mentions Ronald Reagan and former Czech President Vaclav Havel as examples of the type.) Yéle Haiti has secured scholarships and aid for thousands of destitute Haitian kids. Since the earthquake, the Yéle Corps has given Haitians jobs removing rubble and housing the displaced. Jean sits through the kind of development conferences in Washington and Europe that would bore most do-gooder celebs to tears. "I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity," he says, "one that thinks not just about charity but policy." He's been noticed. In 2007, Haitian President René Préval appointed Jean an ambassador-at-large.

Spice the season, rock the street

BY OYINDAMOLA LAWAL
  Sometimes it’s not easy deciding what to wear in a rainy day because there are so many things to consider.
 However, there are few dresses such as military fashion, shorts, shirt-dresses, jumpsuits and harem pant that will not only make you comfortable, but also allow you to express yourself.

Military
  With utilitarian touches like patch pockets and sleeve tabs to roll up the long sleeves, military dress becomes a must have. Paired with fitted silhouette, it gives a great masculine-feminine vibe. This trend that works for many women, is as easy to buy into as adding a pair of soft utility pants or khaki camp shirt into your wardrobe.
  The key to keeping military looks feminine is to choose fitted shirts and jackets: it gives it more of a boy-meets-girl look than a sloppy army surplus look.

Shorts
  Want to add something really new and fun to your wardrobe this season! Try shorts, in everything for every style.

Shirt dresses
  Shirt-dresses are versatile and can be worn in different ways, making them one of the most useful items of clothing for the modern woman.

Jumpsuits
 The jumpsuits are definitely one of the trends in 2010 and are hotter this season.
Wearing one could be difficult, however, it better to choose a style that suits your figure.

Harem pants
  Harem pants, which are also called droopy crotch pants or Mc Hammer, are this season’s most surprising and inventive trend. Not only is the saggy crotch perfect for carrying items that won’t fit in your purse, it also provides added comfort for a casual day out.

Glam it simple

BY OYINDAMOLA LAWAL
ONE misconception often associated with the red carpet is that it is an opportunity to dig holes in one’s pocket. This is very wrong.
A simple piece can give you that radiant, youthful and sexy look.
You don’t need to go bankrupt to grace the red carpet; all you need do is opt for the right accessories to enhance your outfit. You will not only be guaranteed a high profile look, but also given the desired confidence.
  Our photographers, CHARLES OKOLO and MOSCOTECH, captured celebrities that were able to make bold fashion statements in simple outfits.
The day’s fashion were mostly over-the-top aura, sequins, fancy embellishment, bold colours, hair piece, jumpsuits and maxi, and others.

First Lady, Lagos State
  With charming smiles, the wife of Lagos State governor, Abimbola Fashola, looks great on the red carpet in this blue maxi dress.

Model
 
  This professional model showcases her great figure in long red and gold Estito’s spaghetti two-layered dress. The red broken choker and earring do not only fit her well, but also draw attention from other aspects of her otherwise fabulous looks.

Sandra Iwu
  Accessories are very essentials. Former Miss Galaxy, Sandra Iwu, here poses in a trendy purple feather-noted hair piece, long white necklace paired with purple choker and purple and pink earring. She modeled a designer off-shoulder layer-sleeve top and a knee-layered- skirt.

Onyeka Onwenu
  No doubts, high slit display sexiness in appearance, accentuate figure and absolutely perfect for a night out. I guess that is why Nigerian renowned songstress and actress, Onyeka Onwenu poses on the red carpet in alluring and feminine style. Her red satin shirt and black velvet high slit skirt are well enhanced with red clutch, red shoe, gold jewellery and her ever-glowing low cut.

Ego
  With her well-styled dread, Ego showed off her well-earned toned legs and shoulder without overdoing it. She stepped the red carpet in crossed bustier empire wine and black sequin dress with sash. She, however, spiced it up with black clutch and open toe.

Senator Ita Giwa
  Mama Bakassi, as Senator Ita-Giwa is called, synonymous with glamour. At a recent event, Ita Giwa stepped on the red looking younger, stylish and trendy with a stunning lace top with sash-bow tie, vintage lace bag and elegant long taffeta skirt. Her brilliant and unique outfits, lace wig and simple accessories drew a lot of attention to her side.

Model
  Expressing your style does not require huge amount of money. One of Nigeria’s fast growing models walks the tiles in a trendy deep neck ankara jumpsuit. Her outfits, simple layered necklaces and big white belt rock the red carpet any day.

Iretiola Doyle
  Pearls are chic and glamorous. With four layered pearls necklace, black shirts, and multi-coloured round-embroidery patterns design with black studs on a brown A-line skirt, which is enhanced with pink accessories, Iretiola Doyle adds effortless glam to her outfit.

Abike Dabiri
  Abike Dabiri is simple and beautiful in her white low v-neck top with a pair of blue jeans.

Kanye West 'Power' video brings painting to life

"Power" music video into a bona fide TV event. In addition to a high-profile "Jersey Shore" episode lead-in to ensure maximum viewership, the video was interrupted with mini-commercials roughly every fifteen seconds on MTV.
  The rapper latest music video release  is directed by artist Marco Brambilla. The track is the first single off Yeezy’s upcoming album to be released this fall. Marco Brambilla, who directed the video, recently told Vulture that the theme of "Power" was a fall from grace; a visual metaphor for his high-profile plummet last year after stealing the mic from Taylor Swift at the VMAs.
  "It visualizes power, and him as the icon as power," said the director, who West hand-picked after seeing his "Civilization" installation at the Standard Hotel.  "At the end of the piece it challenges the power that I set up at the beginning. It's an elliptical piece of storytelling."

The one-take "Power" video starts with a stylized shot of a dark-clad West with glowing eyes, surrounded by pillars and wearing a 15-pound Horus piece around his neck. The camera pulls back to reveal the rapper on a living canvas, surrounded by mythological chaos: angels and nymphs cavort around him, levitating servants pour water upside-down onto their faces, two sword-swinging goons come flying at each other in slow-mo, and a giant sword threads through a halo above West's head.