Naomi Campbell comes undone at Paris fashion week

PARIS – Naomi Campbell drew cheers on the catwalk at Paris fashion week on Sunday when the 43-year-old supermodel opened the first haute couture show of the season for Versace in a sparkling black micro sequin jacket.

Constructed using hook and eyes to hold the jacket together, the fastenings were “left undone in places giving the impression of being undressed”, the house said, adding that each hook was held in place with Swarovski crystals.

Using sequins, crystals, embroidery and beading in a palette of black, deep emerald, ruby red and sapphire blue Donatella Versace’s autumn 2013/winter 2014 couture collection wallowed in a sense of unashamed luxury.

In some looks, the shape of the body was emphasised through exposed midriffs or transparent side panels down the shoulder, arm and leg.

Campbell closed the show with another enthusiastically received turn, this time in a body suit embroidered with black crystals and a woven mink fur, chiffon and silk tulle cardigan.

Four days of couture shows begin in earnest on Monday with the collection of the season –  Christian Lacroix’s come-back tribute to the late Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli.

Lacroix, feted by fashion editors in the 1990s after he created the first couture house to open in a quarter century in 1987, lost his fashion house in December 2009 after it ran up millions of dollars in debts.

In his first collection in four years, Lacroix will present 18 reinterpretations of Schiaparelli designs for the relaunched fashion hous

Depp puts Tonto at center stage in new Lone Ranger

LOS ANGELES: When the western television series The Lone Ranger first rode into US homes in 1949, the masked man was the dashing, charming hero and the Native American Tonto his loyal sidekick. When the movie opens in US theaters on Wednesday, it will be Tonto who takes centre stage. Played by Johnny Depp with the same offbeat charm as his Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Tonto is the brains of the operation.
In an opening sequence — a breakneck fight scene on a runaway train — Tonto directs an escape from outlaws while a mask-less Lone Ranger, played by Armie Hammer, is the naive one, unsure at the outset that he was even in danger.
“It’s a story we’ve all heard, but we’ve never heard it from the guy who was there,” the film’s director Gore Verbinski, 49, told Reuters. For the new incarnation, Verbinski wanted to update the story by making Tonto more relevant than just a sidekick. Once the idea was hatched to make him the narrator, “it opened a lot of doors” in terms of storytelling, he said.
Through Tonto’s eyes, audiences get an origin tale of how former lawman John Reid, the Lone Ranger, came to fight injustice in the Old West. “This is not history told from your radio station, your movie studio or your network,” Verbinski said. “It’s told from Tonto and his memory  — and his memory may be questionable.”
To make Tonto’s point of view authentic, a Native American consultant was used on the set, Verbinski said, adding that they also spoke with various tribes to get certain details correct.
No one embraced the Tonto-centric viewpoint more than Depp, who was told from an early age that he was part Native American. Since production on the Disney film has wrapped, the actor has gone on to strengthen his ties to the community. Last year, Depp was named honorary member of the Comanche Nation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he also served as grand marshal at the Comanche Nation Fair in Oklahoma.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2013.

Ryan Gosling planning to propose Eva Mendes

The 32-year-old actor is apparently planning on proposing to the actress, whom he met while filming "The Place Beyond The Pines", reported Daily Express.

"Eva was very clear to Ryan that she wants to be engaged before her 40th birthday, but Ryan was already on the case, and has been checking out rings - he's been planning on proposing for months," a source said.

The couple, who are extremely private about their relationship, are said to be looking to tie the knot at the end of the year.

But it's not just marriage that Mendes, 39, is thinking about. The "Hitchcock" star is also considering having children with Gosling.

"Eva has started to think seriously about kids with Ryan. She loves his family and gets along really well with his mum Donna - she even went with Ryan to Donna's college graduation last year.

"She and Eva are in touch all the time, and Donna is just as eager to see her son settle down. Ryan has completely changed Eva's outlook on life. She really wants to settle down and start a family," the source added.