Image credits: Vogue India
An old woman missing her upper front teeth holds a child in rumpled clothes ? who is wearing a Fendi bib (retail price, about $100).
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The editorial spread was "not just tacky but downright distasteful" said Kanika Gahlaut, a columnist for the daily newspaper Mail Today that is based here, who denounced it as an "example of vulgarity."
There's nothing "fun or funny" about putting a poor person in a mud hut in clothing designed by Alexander McQueen, she said in a telephone interview. "There are farmer suicides here, for God's sake" she said, referring to thousands of Indian farmers who have killed themselves in the last decade because of debt.
Vogue India editor Priya Tanna's message to critics of the August shoot: "Lighten up," she said in a telephone interview. Vogue is about realizing the "power of fashion" she said, and the shoot was saying that "fashion is no longer a rich man's privilege. Anyone can carry it off and make it look beautiful," she said.
Vogue's Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India [Heather Timmons for The New York Times]
Image credits: BBC Films/Pathé
Don't you think there's something wrong in that picture of Keira Knightley for her latest movie, The Duchess? Yeah, she looks like a robot. I don't know who airbrushed that photo, but for a romantic movie about the 18th century, it looks like the graphic designer actually made a draft for "Terminator 4: attack of the wigged cyborgs". Too much Photoshop can harm the realism of pictures.
The rubbish TV series Heroes is gonna resume soon. It basically talks about people with superpowers and who fight each other, some want to destroy the world of course, blah blah blah... Here is a poster you can find in the Tube and which reads something like "Who can you trust to save the world?"
Image credits: NBCU
Well, surely not two idiots with blonde-dyed hair.
On the Tube, an advert with a beautiful woman and a handsome man (he even seems gay!) and a tagline "Confidence is beautiful". And just under, "with cosmetic surgery".
Although it's the complete opposite! Cosmetic surgery is, precisely, for people who don't feel good in their skin! And I think that believing that a nose fix or a boob job can brind back confidence is a mistake.
"X Factor" is not only about finding pretty faces. It's also about finding utter counter-celebrities.
In the first part of the series, just like in France, the jury auditions people and choose the best candidates. And when someone is bad, they are also highlighted to make sure that spectators can let go of their darkest feelings. I watched these shows too and I enjoyed laughing at these people too. But the English X Factor managed to take it to a whole new level!
This year, during the final, when the public's favorite candidates were fighting for the first place, producers appointed on stage the worst auditionees TO MAKE THEM SING LIVE! When I saw that, I was buffled! It looked like the humiliation they suffered during the first part was not enough, they needed to come back to finish off their ultimate piece of dignity, and to sacrify it on the altar of Panem et circenses. Because, indeed, if they came back this time, after being laughed at nationwide, there is only one explanation: money. You can respect someone who believed in their lucky star and who failed once, you can't however respect someone who gets prepared to be ridiculed once again in order to get money. And this is how it looks:
The credits of that video must be on the website hosting it.
The most horrible sequence is probably the one with the obese girl. Having four guys carrying her in order to show the spectator they needed several guys to take her on stage, it looks like a "freak show", which is so insulting that it's violent.
These youngsters should sue the TV channel and the production, get loads of money back and gain some dignity from it.
Tell me, they didn't do the same in France, right?
Everybody is talking about Shayne Ward like he's God on Earth.
But he's just some guy who won fucking "X Factor" just because he had a pretty face!
I can't believe it! Rihanna's Umbrella has hit records! It stayed for 10 weeks on top of the UK charts, which had never occured for more than 10 years!
The first time I heard that shit, I thought she would have to do a lot in the video in order to sell CDs, even maybe getting naked. And she did!!! She must have been so desperate!!!
I don't understand her success. First, this song sounds like soup (no originality, always the same thing...), and, moreover, Rihanna is nothing but a cheap copy of Beyonce. But, for cheap copies, I prefer the tranny Britney Houston and her version of the Umbrella video!
The credits of that video must be on the website hosting it.
Image credits: Unknown
Hello, I'm Cameron Diaz! Yeah, I'm also Justin Timberlake's girlfriend! Yeah, now that I'm with him, I'm a totally new woman! Look at my new look! And my black hair! But I also had a nose job, because, well, he didn't like it! Oh, Justin really is a very good beauty adviser!
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