This is the first collection of wearable works by Polly van der Glas

Sterling silver human tooth ring

Sterling silver ring with three human teeth

Sterling silver human tooth stud earring

Teeth are particularly difficult to come by, so any donations are gratefully accepted.
http://vanderglas.com.au/

 The masks are designed by Joji Rupert Kojima, very promising jewellery designer based in Tokyo and chief at Hotel Gluttony.

Silver Coin photos by Markus Maverick
THE YORKSHIRE PEARL IN LFW
Yorkshire Pearl is showing at Vauxhall Fashion Show during LONDON FASHION WEEK from the 17th to the 24th of September 2010

http://www.yorkshirepearl.blogspot.com/

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I’m so glad that I finally got over my sickness. That I am once and for all cured of my Anorexia !! You know ….Anorexia.. That disease that had me living a very unhealthy lifestyle not to mention what it was doing to my body! You must respect your body,,It’s your Temple . I must tell you how good it feels to be the person that God wanted me to be! To have utterly no self control….To be able to eat ALL that I want whenever I want to…Not to have to count calories or fat grams….Just to be able to sit back and let nature take its course …I mean,,,REALLY… Look at me now….A HEALTHY BIG BONE SLOB !!

A FEW SLIM STATISTIC

FROM: No where to run no place to hide www.freewebs.com/edsattic/index.htm

• Average height and weight of an American woman: 5’4″ 142
• Percentage of American women who wear a size 16 or larger: 33%
• 24% of women polled by MacLean’s magazine said they would “give up three years of their life to achieve their weight goals”
• Genetic researchers found that 11% of parents would abort a fetus genetically coded to be overweight
• A survey of college students found that they would prefer to marry an embezzler, drug user, shoplifter, or blind person than someone who is fat. 

One out of three women and one out of four men are on a diet at any given time.

35% of occasional dieters progress into pathological dieting.

Two by two, Louis Vuitton’s models glided down a row of elevators on to a giant checked runway, as designer Marc Jacobs unveiled Wednesday a look fed by conceptual art and the house’s 125-year-old damier motif. For his spring-summer line, unveiled in the courtyard of the Louvre on the final day of Paris Fashion Week, Jacobs cited as chief inspiration Daniel Buren , a French contemporary artist who helped him created the set for the show. “His work is very graphic but it always moves me,” the designer told reporters after the show, which was a clean break with the French house’s recent  lyrical outings that have featured a life-sized train or a twirling carousel.

“After the romance of the train and storytelling, this felt like something that was very powerful without really having a story,” said the New Yorker, who has worked in the past with artists including Japan’s Takashi Murakami. Buren is best known for a group of 260 columns of varying heights set on a black-and-white grid that have stood since 1986 in the Palais Royal gardens a stone’s throw from the Louvre, and which directly influenced the show. In sartorial terms, Buren’s aesthetic translated into linear silhouettes — “a perpendicular block” cut at three levels: short, mid-calf or long. “It’s very straight and the the only curve is the sleeve and that’s that,” said Jacobs For the first time, he eliminated the house’s “LV” monogram, replacing it with a check which both references Buren’s work and the Louis Vuitton damier, which the firm trademarked as a signature pattern in 1888. Models present creations for Louis Vuitton during the Spring/Summer 2013 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris.  These checks defined the look as the models floated down the escalators, on to a giant white and yellow grid, each duo in  matching colours but with a varying cut and pattern — long and short, or positive and negative. Buren has also produced art installations using escalators, and Jacobs said he was inspired by “this very soothing motion of this graphic pattern as it pours down this mechanical thing”.

“It’s a moving pattern, it’s a rhythm and a pattern and it’s a mathematical equation, it just continues and just creates a constant change.” So a pair of milk chocolate and white checked brassieres over long tubular skirts, for instance, came with small squares on the skimpy brassiere,  and a larger one for the more demure model. Necklines were round, straight across the collarbones or the chest, with short bouffant hair tamed under a thin headband, and little bags that picked up generously on the check motif. Jacobs opened with a dozen sets of checks, on floor-length skirts, pantsuits, skimpy skirts and little jackets buttoned at  the neck and parted over bare skin, in black, moss green, lemon yellow or soft maroon set against white Then came pairs of dresses and suits with an abstract Japanese-inspired foliage motif, in long and short version, or as mirror images like a knee-length dress in green on white, and white on green. For evening time, the same cuts, in checks or plain black and white, but with a metallic shimmer created using thousands of sequins — the smallest ever produced according to Jacobs. “I don’t know if it looks modern, like what’s modern?” the designer asked the mob of reporters pressing around him backstage

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NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Grammy® Award-winning artists Rihanna and Bruno Mars, and Grammy® Award nominated artist Justin Bieber will perform on THE VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW, to be broadcast Tuesday, Dec. 4 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.   Victoria’s Secret Angels Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Doutzen Kroes, Candice Swanepoel, Erin Heatherton, Lily Aldridge, Lindsay Ellingson and a bevy of other Supermodels will star in this lingerie runway show. The special will also include pink carpet interviews, model profiles and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the world’s most celebrated fashion show. The runway looks will include over-the-top lingerie embellished with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS, as well as iconic Angel wings.

rom Rihanna’s Caribbean roots to the top of the charts, the runways of Paris and Milan and some of the biggest stages in the world, the 24-year-old, Barbados-born beauty has already won six Grammy® Awards, five American Music Awards and 18 Billboard Music Awards, among many others.  Since her  breakthrough multi-platinum album “A Girl Like Me,” which included her global smash “Umbrella,” in just a few short years, Rihanna helped redefine the path of popular music for a new generation. Rihanna’s latest album, “Talk That Talk,” had worldwide sales of more than 5.5 million units and brought Rihanna’s worldwide album sales to more than 37 million. Rihanna has logged 146 million digital tracks sold worldwide, establishing her as the top selling digital artist of all time.  In addition, she has broken a record at Top 40 with the most #1′s in the chart’s 18 year history. Her new single “Diamonds” off of her next album reached number one in 26 countries within five days. Rihanna kicks off her “Diamonds” World tour in March 2013.

In 2009, Bieber became the first solo artist in history to send four songs from a debut album into the Billboard Hot 100′s Top 40 prior to the album’s release.  Three years later, his latest album, “Believe,” also has four songs in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.  “Believe’s” premiere single, “Boyfriend,” hit #1 at  iTunes immediately after it was released. The “Boyfriend” video has shattered all YouTube records since its MTV premiere.  The clip generated eight million views in its first 24 hours and has built up to over 86 million views.  With worldwide album sales in excess of 15 million units, Bieber has dominated pop culture and social media for more than two years.  He has over 46 million Facebook fans, more than 28 million Twitter followers, and over three billion YouTube views. Bieber has received numerous awards, including Artist of the Year at the 2010 American Music Awards, and was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2011 Grammy® Awards.

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Mars is a singer, songwriter, producer and musician whose solo single, “Just the Way You Are,” hit #1 in multiple countries across the world and won the artist a Grammy® Award for “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance” in 2011.  Bruno’s debut album, “Doo-Wops & Hooligans,”  has been certified 39 times Platinum worldwide and has claimed two additional hit singles, “Grenade” and “The Lazy Song.”  Mars is a 13-time Grammy® Award nominee who has now sold over 45 million singles worldwide and has over one billion views on YouTube. His second album “Unorthodox Jukebox,” featuring the new single “Locked Out Of Heaven,” will be in stores December 11th.These performances will mark the artists’ first appearances on THE VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW. Last year’s show garnered the best ratings ever in adults 18-49 and women 18-34 and averaged 11.5 million viewers.

THE VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW is being produced by done and dusted, inc. Edward G. Razek, Monica Mitro, Ian Stewart and Hamish Hamilton are the executive producers.  Hamish Hamilton is the director.

CBS Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/VSFashionShow CBS Twitter:  http://twitter.com/CBSTweet

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

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A Las Vegas art collector and owner of the original, one-of-a-kind color separations used to produce the iconic  ”Golden Dreams” calendars from the famous 1949 Marilyn Monroe “Red Velvet” photo shoot, is offering them for sale.  These color separations were originally created and owned by the John Baumgarth Company and were discovered as part of a corporate art collection in 2010. The collection is in pristine condition and archivally preserved and presented.  The most glamorous icon of the 20th Century was captured for all time in a moment of youthful, exuberant sensuality – an unforgettable image that, more than 60 years later, communicates freshness. To reproduce the refined features, supple texture and luxurious tones that were so totally Marilyn, print artisans painstakingly created and corrected the many layers of film needed for the full color printing process to make the original Chromalin color proof –  a masterpiece of printer’s art.

 The Kodachrome photograph and twenty-one large format color separations (16” x 33”) offered for sale were used by Baumgarth  to create the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe featured in the first “Golden Dreams” calendar produced in 1951,  before the identity of the blonde bombshell posing for the photos was known (the model wasn’t identified as Marilyn until 1952),  and which went on to sell over eight million copies worldwide, making Marilyn the best-selling calendar girl of all time. The collection also includes the “Lure of Lace” and “Entrancing” images that featured Marilyn wearing negligees in order to comply with U.S. postal regulations banning the transport of nude images.

The Kodachrome photograph is framed and the color separations are mounted and protected in OP3 museum-quality acrylic rames so that they may be appreciated, when artfully suspended, from both sides. These are the original separations used to produce  the large format calendars and the only known surviving examples, which are documented to have changed hands through a series of corporate acquisitions spanning several decades.   When Marilyn showed up to do the calendar shoot at Tom Kelley’s studio on Friday, May 27, 1949, her need was dire and immediate; her contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia had not been renewed and she was out of work.  The photo shoot was commissioned by Baumgarth, who paid Kelley $500 for the publication rights.   It has been reported that Marilyn received $50, which was exactly what she needed to get back her car that had been impounded.  Marilyn only agreed to do the shoot if Kelley’s wife Natalie was present. Only two of the 24 images taken during the shoot, entitled by Baumgarth “A New Wrinkle” and “Golden Dreams,” survived and made it to print, with the others mysteriously stolen from Kelley’s studio. “A New Wrinkle” graced one Baumgarth calendar, but the picture that captured a nation’s imagination was “Golden Dreams.”

he pseudonym Mona Monroe (right). When her movie studio, 20th Century-Fox, first learned that the nude pinup hanging in gas stations from coast to coast was none other than its rising star, it was something of a scandal. The press assailed her with questions. Was it true she had posed with “nothing on”?   The studio’s initial reaction was to deny everything.  Studios such as 20th Century-Fox had stringent moral clauses in their contracts that were designed to intimidate actors and actresses. No celebrity had ever posed nude and then had the pictures distributed to a startled nation. Biographers agree that Marilyn was instrumental in persuading the studio that their natural inclination to deny the whole thing was the wrong way to go. Instead, Marilyn used an upcoming interview with Aline Mosby, a reporter with United Press International, to break the story on March 13, 1952: A photograph of a beautiful nude blonde on a 1952 calendar is hanging in garages and barbershops all over the nation today.  Marilyn Monroe admitted today that the beauty is she. She posed, stretched out on rumpled red velvet for the artistic photo 3 years ago because “I was broke and needed the money. Oh, the calendar’s hanging in garages all over town,” said Marilyn.  “Why deny it? You can get one any place.  Besides, I’m not ashamed of it.  I’ve done nothing wrong.”   The story ended up being picked up by every wire service and circulated around the world. The reaction was swift and immediate national forgiveness. Not only that, but the sensation of the pictures, her interview and all of the related controversy made Marilyn an even bigger star.   In December 1953, an astute young publisher named Hugh Hefner bought the rights from Baumgarth to reproduce the “Golden Dreams” image as the first “Sweetheart of the Month,” in the now historic inaugural issue of Playboy magazine. The success of that first issue enabled Hefner to continue producing the magazine and ultimately build his Playboy Empire.   In addition to the Red Velvet Collection, many of the original paintings in the Messenger Art Collection are being offered for sale. Visit the website www.messengerartcollection.com and click on Masterpieces for Sale.   For more information contact:   Sue Roderick – sue@messengerartcollection.com   or toll free (855) 844-2787 X 3

One of the most unique and captivating European musical groups, The Green Children will officially release the ‘Feel the Light’ EP on Tuesday, October 30th, 2012. While immersed in the mystical Norwegian countryside,

Marlow and Milla wrote, recorded and produced the follow up to their critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Encounter’.'Encounter’ received rave reviews from countless media outlets including Mobo and Rolling Stone Magazine.

The Green Children’s debut single, ‘Dragons’, peaked at #3 on Amazon’s ‘Pop’ chart and remixes by world renown DJ’s Paul Oakenfold, Digital Dog, and Moguai soon followed. 7th Heaven’s remix of ‘Life Savior’ debuted at #17 in the UK Club Charts as The Green Children’s music quickly spread throughout dance clubs around the world.

In the spring of 2012, Marlow and Milla produced an official remix for chart toppers Foster the People, which quickly gained over 1 Million views and helped raised over $10,000 for homeless children!  ’Feel the Light’ is an ethereal experience that truly captivates listeners and carries them away on a musical journey. The EP will be released globally October 30th through select retail outlets .

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WHAT HAT .. WHAT HAT .. TO WEAR !!

Deciding what hat to wear can be a hard decision, especially when preparing for an important event.  If the world of high fashion were incorporated into everyone’s lives as more of an ‘everyday fashion, would this make it harder or easier to decide which hat to wear? ? Every Wednesday in May check out some of the craziest women’s Hats from all over the world…. ENJOY

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