Fashion News: Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton heads to Vegas
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So if you’re Kate Upton promoting your Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover, where do you go after launching the magazine in New York? To a beach, maybe? Well, no, you and 17 other models featured in the issue head to the desert. Las Vegas, to be specific. At least there are some great swimming pools there. But is this photo of her on the plane to Vegas not the cheesiest ever? [Las Vegas Sun]
The choice of Upton for the cover is stirring up more public commentary than the annual swimsuit issue has provoked in years. On the positive side: She marks a return to a more curvaceous, less stick-like model. Negative side: Couldn’t SI have sprung the bucks for a bit bigger bikini, some folks are asking. Those asking are probably not SI subscribers -- more likely their wives and girlfriends. The bikini is, as I noted in a previous column, very tiny. [Washington Post]
We all kind of know that high heels and flip flops aren’t really good for us. But neither are flats (they often have too little arch support) or the toner shoes with rocker bottoms that claim to firm leg and butt muscles. Prevention Magazine took all four styles to a high-tech motion analysis laboratory and tested them on real women to see just how bad they are. Surprise! Regular sneakers do a better job than the rocker bottoms at toning leg and butt muscles. And indeed none of these styles -- even flats -- provides optimal walking comfort and all can cause physical problems. [Prevention]
Ellen Olivier over at Society News LA attended a brunch Sunday honoring Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s weekend production of Cinderella at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and she says the party was abuzz with talk that Prince Albert II and his bride, Princess Charlene, plan to attend this year’s Academy Awards. If so, it is believed that it will be the first time a member of Monaco’s royal family has attended the Oscars since Albert’s mother, Grace Kelly, left Hollywood in 1956 to marry Prince Rainier. [Society News LA]
Twiggy is launching a womenswear line for British retailer Marks & Spencer. The model, one of the super ‘it girls’ of the 1960s, has been the face of the brand since 2005. [Telegraph]
Joe Jonas got the crowd excited when he attended Jeremy Scott’s presentation at New York Fashion Week. [The Cut]
You can follow Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic Booth Moore and reporter Adam Tschorn’s coverage of New York Fashion Week on our All the Rage blog.
Miu Miu has come out with the third film in its Woman’s Tales series (which Moore wrote about last year) , debuting ‘The Woman Dress’ at a party Tuesday. The plot: Three witches turn a woman into a dress. Why? Don’t ask me. I don’t get it. And it didn’t inspire me to want to buy anything from Miu Miu, either. See what you think.
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