Nicole Ritchie as Margot Tenenbaum - Best Halloween Constume Ever?

I'm not sure how many of you have watched the movie, The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson. It is in my Top 5 best ever films. Awesome. I even have it on video. That's the tape, not the digital.
Anyhoo, obviously my favourite character is Margot, the secretive adopted daughter with the missing fingers played by Gwyneth Paltrow. All blonde bob, clipped to the side and dark eye make up. Preppy sports wardrobe. Again, awesome.
And whilst I paged through site after site after site of stars in their Halloween costumes, it wasn't until I came across this pic on Grazia's site that I found the answer to my question, "who wore the best Halloween costume in 2010?"
Well it was either Nicole Ritchie or Sylvie Says' priceless Lady-Gaga-with-teddies outfeet. You decide. Vote now.

Olivia Palermo Models for Mango

I'm not sure about Olivia Palermo if I am honest. I watched her in The City Season 1 and found her to be duplicitous and manipulative at the expense of others. Also not entirely selfless, but then who is. Having said that, apparently she improves and we have all learnt that we can't believe everything we see on reality TV, can we?
I also admire her style enormously. I like how she is very clear on her look and is always well put together, but with a flash of on-the-cheap fun or high fashion experimentation. Really cool.
And let's all be honest, one-look-wonder Scarlett Johannsen was getting rather tired as the face of Mango. And so it is on-balance, quite good news that Olivia Palermo and her super-hot boyfriend, Johannes Huebl, take over the business of fronting Mango's latest collection.
“We enjoy working together,” Olivia told Mango, “and I think photographers love to see the chemistry.”
The photos were taken by Txema Yeste at Barcelona’s Hotel Palace.

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She is such a unique beauty!

There Is Fair Trade At Home with Township Patterns

Last week I went on a bit about the American designers who are looking to Africa for projects that can support these people (and their extended family), act as a charitable arm of their design and continue to raise their fashion credibility back in the US. This version of fair trade is Western money being spent on desirable goods made by African craftsmen. All good.
But this morning I came into the office to be met with a new paradigm in this continuing evolution of fair trade. And this one is local. Cape Town township local.
Credited by the World Fair Trade Organisation, Township Patterns is a social enterprise that supports around 70 women in the townships of the Western Cape and has an annual turnover of around R10 million.
Founded by Nicole-Marie Iresch, the aim is to create a sustainable vehicle for economic empowerment. Support is provided to independent sewing co-operatives, which are owned and managed by women on the Cape Flats.
And next month they will be opening a store in the new Cape Quarter, where bags, mens and womens clothing and fabrics will be available for anyone to purchase. This form of fair trade happens in Africa, by Africans to the benefit of us all.

Weekend Style in Pics Featuring Sienna Miller, Freida Pinto, Cat Deeley and Demi Moore in Victoria Beckham

That headline is like a game to see how many names of beautiful people one can cram into it. I promise I didn't mean to do it like that, but it became fun.
As usual, I did my weekend trawl through the news feeds and this time came back with all these awesome looks. A surprise considering all I expected to see was tacky Halloween costumes!
Sienna was at a UNESCO function and looked like a (slightly crumpled) vintage angel. Freida was at a film screening in the middle East and managed to do what she does best - look like herself in Dior couture and fit the environment all at the same time. How? Cat was rocking this animal print look at a launch of Links of London, which she is the face of, and Demi was at a function in Austria with her husband Ashton Kutcher, wearing one of my favourite looks by book-club mate Victoria Beckham.
I think you will all agree with me when I say this was a weekend of style.

And We Have A Winner! And A New O Magazine Web Site!

This week I invited the O Magazine Deputy Editor, Joonji Mdyogolo, to draw the prize winning slip from our box of hundreds. She drew the name WENDY MSELEKU of Durban who wins both the shoe shopping vouchers from Spitz, worth R2,000.
Joonji also told me that the brand new O Magazine web site is going live today, so please go and check it out at http://www.omagazine.co.za/ and let us know what you think.
A new week, a new month, a new site and we're feeling good.

Happy Halloween Fashionistas!

So although we are a day late, there is never a bad time to share these fun pumpkins, carved for the fashionistas among us in the logos of Chanel and YSL from fun site, Noirlettes.com. Now if only we had got these for the Mexican/Halloween party Sylvie Says threw last night instead of the butternut squash!