Routa, one of Russia's most prominent young fashion designers, believes "Women are like diamonds in the rough, all they need is a bit of polish to realize their dazzling potential."

Evening Wear from Routa collection

Routa sees haute couture as a form of fine art, with creativity deeply rooted in intuition.

Routa's designs have been shown at the prestigious Kremlin Cup soiree and during Russia's Haute Couture Fashion Week.

Routa's Moscow VIP fashion salon is popular with pop musicians and movie stars as well as members of the Russian capital's business elite.

Her clients range from celebrities such as Anna Kournikova to pop musicians and movie stars, as well as members of Moscow's business and political elite.

Her designs are worn by such Russian celebrities Irina Bezrukova, Evelina Bledans, Natalya Vlasova, Larisa Chernikova, Anton Makarskij, and Arkady Arkanov, and her work has been featured in fashion shows around the globe including Russia, Israel, Germany and the United States.

Her breathtaking runway presentations are occasionally spiced up with original poetry and instrumental music.

A selection of spectacular evening wear with lavish embellishments from Routa will be shown in New York City as part of Couture Fashion Week, produced by USA International Fashion Shows, the runway presentation will be held at on Friday, September 9, at West Side Loft, 336 West 37th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York, NY, USA.

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Routa, one of Russia's most prominent young fashion designers, believes "Women are like diamonds in the rough, all they need is a bit of polish to realize their dazzling potential."

Evening Wear from Routa collection

Routa sees haute couture as a form of fine art, with creativity deeply rooted in intuition.

Routa's designs have been shown at the prestigious Kremlin Cup soiree and during Russia's Haute Couture Fashion Week.

Routa's Moscow VIP fashion salon is popular with pop musicians and movie stars as well as members of the Russian capital's business elite.

Her clients range from celebrities such as Anna Kournikova to pop musicians and movie stars, as well as members of Moscow's business and political elite.

Her designs are worn by such Russian celebrities Irina Bezrukova, Evelina Bledans, Natalya Vlasova, Larisa Chernikova, Anton Makarskij, and Arkady Arkanov, and her work has been featured in fashion shows around the globe including Russia, Israel, Germany and the United States.

Her breathtaking runway presentations are occasionally spiced up with original poetry and instrumental music.

A selection of spectacular evening wear with lavish embellishments from Routa will be shown in New York City as part of Couture Fashion Week, produced by USA International Fashion Shows, the runway presentation will be held at on Friday, September 9, at West Side Loft, 336 West 37th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York, NY, USA.

Win a Cosmetic Kit Gift Set. Pamper your friends and family with this gift set featuring everything a woman needs to look her best. Imported.

Alba with Cash Warren at the Westwood Sin City premiere -those ruffles are so nice and red actually looks great on her!

Alba at the Fantastic Four Mexico press conference -her clothes are so simple here and she looks so lovely with those pearls.

Acclaimed Bulgarian designer Galina Dacheva will show the world the unlimited possibilities in hand knitting and disprove the all too common notion that hand knitting is nothing but a tradition.

Designer Galina Dacheva
Timeless Fashion collection

Some of the designs in the collection take over 300 hours to make.

But each one is created with the philosophy that a piece of clothing should be not only beautiful, but comfortable to wear as well.

A very wide variety of designs are included in the "Timeless Fashion" collection: heavy, woolen sweater coats with unique hand knitted boots; classic sweaters and cardigans, but with a modern outlook; attractive and unexpected approaches to suits and outfits; even elegant and extravagant evening dresses.

Matching accessories complement the designs and enhance the beauty of the patterns.

The "Timeless Fashion" collection presents a rich color palette, some combinations as contrasting as night and day, others as soft as the flowing greens and browns of nature.

The wide variety of yarns, ranging from the classics - merino and lambs wool, through the softness and warmth of mohair and alpaca, to delicate silk and the "fiber of kings" - cashmere, puts the accent on the one basic characteristic all hand knitted items share: individuality.

Designer Galina Dacheva latest collection will be shown in New York City as part of Couture Fashion Week, produced by USA International Fashion Shows, the runway presentation will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, at West Side Loft, 336 West 37th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York, NY, USA.

Win a Cosmetic Kit Gift Set. Pamper your friends and family with this gift set featuring everything a woman needs to look her best. Imported.

Acclaimed Bulgarian designer Galina Dacheva will show the world the unlimited possibilities in hand knitting and disprove the all too common notion that hand knitting is nothing but a tradition.

Designer Galina Dacheva
Timeless Fashion collection

Some of the designs in the collection take over 300 hours to make.

But each one is created with the philosophy that a piece of clothing should be not only beautiful, but comfortable to wear as well.

A very wide variety of designs are included in the "Timeless Fashion" collection: heavy, woolen sweater coats with unique hand knitted boots; classic sweaters and cardigans, but with a modern outlook; attractive and unexpected approaches to suits and outfits; even elegant and extravagant evening dresses.

Matching accessories complement the designs and enhance the beauty of the patterns.

The "Timeless Fashion" collection presents a rich color palette, some combinations as contrasting as night and day, others as soft as the flowing greens and browns of nature.

The wide variety of yarns, ranging from the classics - merino and lambs wool, through the softness and warmth of mohair and alpaca, to delicate silk and the "fiber of kings" - cashmere, puts the accent on the one basic characteristic all hand knitted items share: individuality.

Designer Galina Dacheva latest collection will be shown in New York City as part of Couture Fashion Week, produced by USA International Fashion Shows, the runway presentation will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, at West Side Loft, 336 West 37th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York, NY, USA.

Win a Cosmetic Kit Gift Set. Pamper your friends and family with this gift set featuring everything a woman needs to look her best. Imported.

Having just been to the States, it is really quite frightful of how... Jessica-Simpsony the country has become: on the covers of countless tabloids and magazines, her Dessert Beauty in Sephora and Claires, doing promotion for Proactiv skincare range, in the cinemas for Duke of Hazards, on the radio for her crappy songs, and of course, her fashion line.

Ugh, I have to wake up at 7:30am from now on to do work experience again. Too early. Ugh.

Anyways, it seems like Anna Wintour and her fellow Conde Nast management team's plans for the expansion of Vogue is FINALLY happening. September this year is not only important because of the ever-so-thick Sept Fall fashion magazine issues, but also significant because of the very first issue of Vogue China and Men's VOGUE.

It's no secret that I am no big fan of celebrity having any direct contact with the fashion industry such as having their own fashion line or dominating fashion magazine covers. But I like to think myself as a reasonable and open-minded person, so I judge everything according to the situation.

Like you know how the new Miu Miu ads are featuring celebrities like Selma Blair? One would think I would dislike this Miu Miu campaign because of the celeb touch, but I actually think it was done well and love the artistic photographs (and the beautiful Miu Miu coat of course).

But LV and Uma Thurman? AGAIN? Yuck! My gosh, I can't believe people (esp oh-so-talented Marc Jacobs) aren't sick of seeing Uma posing with Vuitton bags. And seriously, the photographs aren't even artistically creative or visually stimulating -almost all the campaign shots so far feature Uma leaning on something (like a chair or whatever she's sitting/ lying on top of.)

Bleh! The theme is unexciting and Uma is mega-boring. First Jennifer Lopez, then Uma Thurman -how much longer are we going to suffer? It's not like Vuitton doesn't get enough press attention without celebs anyways.

Mr. Jacobs, perhaps next season you will use a real model instead of another celebrity.

Ok now that we have the outfit, we are ready to accesorize! But accesorizing for a night out all comes down to personal style. So here, I'm just going to put on a few things we saw and loved to give you an idea of whats hot this time around and just a few personal little quirks I have when it comes to acccesorizing. Lets start with jewelry.

When it comes to jewelry, I tend to like to keep it simple. For example, last time we went, we spotted this simple gorgeous necklace on a girl and we loved it. Hair down, simple earrings focuses the attention specifically towards the necklace. I love the incongruent shapes and the pearly white color of the necklace because that means it matches with everything.

If you have messy hair that night (like I have on most nights, because there really is no point washing hair before hand to go to a dark club where no one can see your hair and it'll only get smelly and sweaty at the end of the night anyway) I love to pull it back into a fun high messy pony tail (try teasing hair by backcombing) with long dangly earrings like the ones I have above. It frames your face, looks great in pictures and looks fun dancing around while your doing your stuff.

As for bags, I like to keep it small and on the shoulder, like these Dior and Vuitton ones above of Harrods Girl and mine (yes we took this pic especially for you!). These are just perfect. I can just keep it on my shoulders all night while I'm dancing and not have to worry about someone just "picking" it up in the crowded dark room. Plus, it hold all the essentials: lipgloss, touch up powder, camera, our mobile phone, ID and enough cash for a drink and a cab ride home.

And lastly, shoes. Generally it should be high heeled (or at least high), strappy (or pointy) and just sexy. But I say its an extra bonus if you can actually walk comortably in those shoes, because after all, you are going to be in them all night! Those gold pointy shoes familiar to anyone?

Some people would just believe anything. A prime example of this are patrons of Philip Stein watches.

What happens when you find your model boyfriend in bed with another woman?

Jenny McCarthy crowd surfing in the film "Dirty Love"

Well, in the soon to be released film "Dirty Love" when Rebecca Johnson (Jenny McCarthy) finds her gorgeous, model boyfriend Richard in bed with another woman, she decides to get even by going on a mad dating spree in an attempt to drive the two timing Richard insane with jealousy.

But the plan backfires when Rebecca ends up going on the most disastrous dates in the history of womankind.

Carmen Electra and Jenny McCarthy

The Sundance Film Festival hit comedy - "Dirty Love" staring Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster, Kathy Griffin, Kam Heskin, David O'Donnell and Lochlyn Munroe is due for US release in theatres on September 23, 2005 by Big Screen Entertainment.

The film also features the rock band, Sum 41.

McCarthy, who currently hosts “Party at the Palms” for E! Entertainment also penned the romantic comedy and recently received the “Hottest New Screenwriter” Award from Movieline Magazine for her work on “Dirty Love”.

Jenny McCarthy being directed by her hubby/director, John Asher. Jessica Collins and Victor Webster in the background

"Dirty Love" premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and was an immediate favorite amongst the film going audiences and professionals in attendance.

The film was invited to the prestigious U.S. HBO Comedy and Arts Festival in March and was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this past May.

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What happens when you find your model boyfriend in bed with another woman?

Jenny McCarthy crowd surfing in the film "Dirty Love"

Well, in the soon to be released film "Dirty Love" when Rebecca Johnson (Jenny McCarthy) finds her gorgeous, model boyfriend Richard in bed with another woman, she decides to get even by going on a mad dating spree in an attempt to drive the two timing Richard insane with jealousy.

But the plan backfires when Rebecca ends up going on the most disastrous dates in the history of womankind.

Carmen Electra and Jenny McCarthy

The Sundance Film Festival hit comedy - "Dirty Love" staring Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster, Kathy Griffin, Kam Heskin, David O'Donnell and Lochlyn Munroe is due for US release in theatres on September 23, 2005 by Big Screen Entertainment.

The film also features the rock band, Sum 41.

McCarthy, who currently hosts “Party at the Palms” for E! Entertainment also penned the romantic comedy and recently received the “Hottest New Screenwriter” Award from Movieline Magazine for her work on “Dirty Love”.

Jenny McCarthy being directed by her hubby/director, John Asher. Jessica Collins and Victor Webster in the background

"Dirty Love" premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and was an immediate favorite amongst the film going audiences and professionals in attendance.

The film was invited to the prestigious U.S. HBO Comedy and Arts Festival in March and was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this past May.

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Entertainment, Movie,Photos

Haight Street is the street where San Francisco people who like to shop in little boutiques and vintage/ second hand clothing stores go to. Well, at least that's what my local cousin told me and took me to. Here's the report:

I was not impressed by the second hand clothing stores, but that's only because I hate that stuffy-old-clothes-smell, not to mention that I never buy used things. The little boutiques had very good selected collection of clothes, but most of them can be bought for cheaper prices in larger chain stores out in the city. And you never know if the clothes are actually from this season or last season, (the horror of buying last season clothes at regular prices!)

This fall, one of the best ways to stay warm but still look chic is with the newsboy cap. And by newsboy cap, I mean the rounder, fuller, puffer kind-not the flat version the fashionable farmer is wearing (although they can be worn quite stylishly as welll). Having been popular in the early twentieth century, this cap again embraces the victorian heritage feel that I'm all for this season.Personally, I've been wearing my plain black suede newsboy cap for a long time now (they are ever so cute) but here is the new, more updated takes on the newsboy cap.