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Teen Choice Awards 2014 fashion

Teen Choice Awards 2014 fashion: Best and worst dressed, from Taylor Swift to Kendall JennerMonday 11 Aug 2014 10:44 am


We have serious ab-envy (Picture: Getty)

Who were we trying to kid? In recent seasons, the fashion elders have tried to claim crop tops for their own as part of the ongoing 90s revival.

But, really, this is a trend for the teens, with their annoyingly taut abs and general all-round perkiness.

And if we needed proof, it was everywhere you looked on the red carpet at last night’s Teen Choice Awards in LA. The crop top was king and there wasn’t a whiff of Spanx or a muffin top in sight. Sigh.

Oh, and there were a few nice frocks too. Here’s the best and worst dressed of the night.

Best dressed

1. Taylor SwiftSwifty gets it spot-on in her bralet and coordinating skirt (Picture: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Okay, she’s clearly ancient at 24, but she’s still working that crop top like a pro. Love the co-ords, the coral lippy, and the yellow strappy sandals.

2. Shay MitchellShay Mitchell goes for grown up Kardashian-inspired lace (Picture: REUTERS/Danny Moloshok)

We distinctly remember seeing a very similar look on Kim K a while back but the Pretty Little Liars actress gives it a youthful twist with a fishtail plait, metallic accessories and a vampy lip.

3. Lea MicheleSo, so shiny (Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

She didn’t get the midriff memo (awks) but her cute Fausto Puglisi geometric print mini-dress was still perfectly suited to the evening and doesn’t she look all glossy and sickeningly healthy?

4. Nina DobrevMore plaits and crops (Picture: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Star of The Vampire Diaries, Nina is stylish in this shorts and crop combo. Like her fellow best dressed stars, she keeps the makeup and hair young and relaxed.

5. Chloe MoretzBrooklyn’s squeeze gets it just right in embroidered co-ords (Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

One half of our favourite new celeb couple Brookletz (with Brooklyn Beckham), Chloe’s another star who wasn’t afraid to show off those abs *gets down and does 20 stomach crunches*.

Worst dressed

1. Kendall Jenner and Kim KardashianBirthday girl Kylie gets it right, Kendall and Kim not so much (Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Props to Kim for rocking the crop like the best of them but her outfit’s just a bit too busy next to all those fresh teen frocks and cute co-ords. Also, why is she even there?

But, never mind Kim, what’s happened to Kendall? She’s come over all Celine Dion at the Oscars and WTF is happening with those sheer panels? A rare off-day for the model Kardashian.

2. Bella ThorneNice hair, nice print, dodgy netting (Picture: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Sheer panels are never a good look (see above). The print’s lovely but that bit of netting just makes us think of Dancing on Ice. Soz.

3. Demi LovatoWho let auntie Lovato in? (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

She’s only 21 but she looks a bit like your batty aunt trying to fit in at a sweet sixteen birthday party, all trussed up in a Moschino harness. We can’t work out if she’s going climbing or off to an S&M club afterwards.

4. Odeya RushNice colour, shame about all the satin and netting (Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

The 17 year-old star of new film The Giver looks lovely in red but seems to have got lost on the way to her summer formal. Something more relaxed would have worked much better.

5. Selina GomezTake away the surfboard, she could be working in recruitment (Picture: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

She looks very sophisticated but a tad, dare we say it, drab next to all that bright colour. If you’re going to go for a black trouser suit, you need to dress it up a bit with a red lip or glam hair. She sort of looks like she’s off to a job interview – at a recruitment agency (surfboard aside).

Making Scarlett A Superhero

SHE may have created costumes for some of the biggest films of the past 20 years - from The Hunger Games and Harry Potter to Eighties classic Big - but Judianna Makovsky says there's no doubt which is the biggest challenge: superhero movies. The costume designer, who has won awards for her creations across many genres, including period dramas, says that her work on the recent Captain America: The Winter Soldier came with challenges not experienced on every movie.

"Well, firstly the directors wanted the clothes to look less superhero and more real; so not a colourful spandex suit," she explained. "We look to the past for movies like this - the comics, previous adaptations - and we don't want to stray too far from what the character 'should' look like, but also Disney did't want it to look exactly the same. The costumes have to look new. Marvel has an incredible knowledge of the character, so we work with them throughout the process, but - although they have to be recognisable - the characters do inhabit different worlds in different films. There's a lot to balance. Superhero films are definitely the most labour-intensive for a costume designer."

Working with the actors on set, and in pre-filming fittings, is part of that job, Makovsky explains, but is even more crucial on action-heavy movies - since the costumes must work physically as well as aesthetically. Scarlett Johansson's character, The Black Widow, is as feisty as she is sexy, which provided its own challenges.

"Scarlett didn't actually start to fit for the catsuit until two days before we started shooting, so we had to do lots of trials and testing in quite a short timeframe,"Makovsky explained. "It was a challenge to get that many looks done in time. We work very closely with the actors on an action movie. We'll make different versions of the same costume depending on what she's doing: boots with running heels, fighting heels, standing heels; costumes that will allow her to kick; others that will accommodate a harness. I supervise all the props as well - shields for every purpose, and masks for different scenes as well. Some parts of the job are more product design than costume. Film is the art of collaboration," she smiled.

Multi-billion-dollar franchises being what they are, her costumes have a life far beyond the film - not to mention the thousands of fans dissecting her work on forums. Although it's not the first time she's seen little versions of her work running around - since past films, including Harry Potter, engendered a wealth of merchandise - how does it feel to see her work worn in the form of dressing-up costumes by children everywhere?

"It's fun," she smiled. "The costume designers are actually not involved in merchandise so much - I wish they would involve us more - so sometimes you see a cheap copy and think 'Oh!' - but the Captain America ones look great."

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is out on Disney DVD and Blu-ray on August 18.​

China Machado: The woman signed as a model at 81

At 81, China Machado is probably the world's oldest signed model.


Just last month, the grandmother of two inked a contract with IMG models, the agency that represents Amazons such as Gisele, Kate Moss and Lily Cole.


Already this year, Shanghai-born Machado has bagged the front cover of New York Magazine. "Can you imagine?" she laughs over the phone from New York. "You know, I never dreamt this in my whole life!"


She also features in luxury store Barney's Fall ad campaign, styled by former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld, alongside the likes of Naomi Campbell and Crystal Renn.


In the past few weeks, she shot a fashion spread for Vogue -- "Italian ... or Spanish Vogue, I can't remember" -- with photographer Bruce Weber, which will feature in the coming months.


"(It's) of me -- with all these 20-year-olds he always photographs," she says. Not that she's phased -- breaking the mould is nothing new for Machado.


Machado had started modelling in Paris in 1954 for Givenchy and Balenciaga and claims to have been the highest paid catwalk model of her time.


Her big break came in 1958. Oleg Cassini, who would later become known for designing First Lady Jackie Kennedy's state wardrobe in the 1960s, spotted Machado in Paris and offered her a contract to come to New York to model one of his collections.


The rest is history. "The day I arrived I met Diana Vreeland (legendary fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue) and she introduced me to (Richard) Avedon," remembers Machado.


She became Avedon's muse, working with him exclusively for three years -- and in 1959, Machado was the first non-Caucasian model to feature on the cover of a fashion magazine, gracing the front of Harper's Bazaar in an image shot by legendary photographer Richard Avedon.


It was the cover that almost wasn't, although Machado didn't know that at the time.


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Years later, Avedon told her that the magazine's publisher at the time, Robert F. MacLeod said to him, "Listen, we can't publish these pictures. The girl is not white."


Avedon was due to renew his contract with the magazine, and said he wouldn't sign unless they published his photographs of Machado.


She says: "(Avedon) had sort of blackmailed them into putting these pictures into the magazine."


Machado says she probably reached the height of her fame as a model in 1960. "I had, you know, tons of write-ups on me as being the most famous model ever, on the runway.


"Every advert that came out (featuring Machado), it would say stupidly 'The Great China' on it. I felt like ... a circus!"


Machado says that her childhood in China -- when she was 16, she and members of her family fled Shanghai during WWII -- had made her "such a practical person" and she found modelling "frivolous."


So Machado moved behind the camera. She took over as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar in the early 60s when Diana Vreeland left. "They took me as an offbeat character," she recalls, but she stayed for 11 years, mainly working with Avedon.


In the late 1980s, she was instrumental in the launch of Lear's Magazine -- "a magazine for women over 45," she says -- at a time when magazines didn't talk to that readership.


"We were way ahead of our time," says Machado. "We were 21 years ago." The magazine won awards and built a readership, but folded after six years, the victim of an unclear vision, according to the New York Times.


Machado's current new beginning started a couple of years ago when her daughter brought the then creative director of U.S. fashion magazine, Dennis Freedman over for dinner.


"After dinner he said to me, 'I'm going to do 20 pages on you.' And I thought, 'This guy is nuts! I haven't been photographed in 20 years.


"And since then, every month, I'm in some magazine. It's crazy," she said.


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Ivan Bart, head of IMG Models, who has overseen Machado joining the agency, says that despite her age her appeal is obvious.


"First of all, she's legendary," he says, adding that she's "this amazing woman who has given so much to the fashion industry ... and also, oh, by the way, she happens to be in her 80s.


"How inspirational is that for any woman of any age?"


Among other things, he'd love to put her on the runway -- where she started over half a century ago.


"Oh my god, how funny, how funny, how funny!" she chuckles. "Well, I'm a great dancer so I'm sure I'm not so worried about going on a runway."


But, always practical, Machado says she'd like, perhaps to be a spokesperson of some kind. She is, she claims, one of the few people who know the history of fashion, perhaps because she's lived it.


"We're signing up for something that might be a little unusual," she says, "for someone who might be interested in seeing that a woman can be active until this age and, you know, not look so bad without plastic surgery."

Harry Styles wins court order against paparazzi

The singer has achieved global fame since appearing on the X Factor

One Direction star Harry Styles has won a court order stopping the paparazzi from harassing him.

The 19-year-old applied to the High Court as a last resort, after asking photographers to stop following him voluntarily, his lawyer said.

"This is not a privacy order," David Sherborne told the court. "Mr Styles is not trying to prevent fans approaching him in the street and taking photos.

"He remains happy to do that, as he always has."

"Rather, it is the method or tactics which have been used by a certain type of photographer."

Styles shot to fame after auditioning for the X Factor in 2010 as a solo artist. He was convinced to join several other contestants in forming a boy band, who have since gone on to become global superstars.

The five-piece are constantly followed by photographers and regularly complain about the behaviour of the paparazzi on their Twitter accounts.

One Direction pose for accredited photographers at the premiere of their film This Is Us in August

Last month, bandmate Niall Horan reported he had been "dragged to the floor by some idiot with a camera" at Los Angeles' LAX airport, adding: "I hate the paps!"

Liam Payne tweeted someone had tried to "force open" the balcony of his hotel room during their Australian tour in October.

Louis Tomlinson reported they were under siege from photographers, saying: "It's a beautiful day and we can't leave the hotel."

'Surveillance'

Styles's lawyer said his case concerned a series of UK-based paparazzi photographers - four of whom were in the process of being identified.

The injunction prevents an organisation identified as "Paparazzi AAA", and other photographers, from pursuing the singer by car or motorcycle, placing him under surveillance, loitering or waiting within 50 metres of his home to monitor his movements, or taking photos of him in such circumstances.

Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, who first granted the injunction last week, extended the order until 13 January, when a further hearing will decide how the action should proceed.

Mr Styles, who appeared on last night's X Factor final to perform his band's new single, Midnight Memories, did not attend the brief hearing at London's High Court.

Delhi gang rape: India outrage over fashion shoot

An Indian fashion shoot showing a woman being groped on a bus has caused anger, with social media users saying it glamorises the 2012 Delhi gang rape. 

The photo shoot features a model being groped by a group of men on a bus

Photographer Raj Shetye's images show a model fighting off men on a bus, in a scene reminiscent of the rape and murder that shocked India.

Many social media users said they found the photos "disgusting" and "horrible".

Mr Shetye said the shoot was "just a depiction of the situation of women in our country" and not based on the rape.

The photos were taken down from the Behance site after angry reactions on Twitter and Facebook.

The gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student - dubbed Nirbhaya (fearless) by the media - led to days of protests and forced the authorities to introduce tough new anti-rape laws.

Four men were sentenced to death. A fifth, a juvenile at the time of the crime, is serving a three-year sentence.

'Disgusting, insensitive'

Mr Shetye, a Mumbai-based photographer, published his photofeature The Wrong Turn last week, prompting widespread criticism on social media.

"Did I just see a fashion-spread depicting the Delhi gang rape of Nirbhaya? Disgusting! I hope all associated, die of shame! Insensitive swine!," Bollywood music director Vishal Dadlani tweeted. "Whoever you are... I hope you go to jail for this," he added.

Actor Amrita Puri tweeted: "Rape is not inspiration for a fashion shoot. I don't know what the photographer was thinking doing an editorial shoot inspired by Nirbhaya." 

The fashion photos were removed from the site hosting them after criticism on social media

"Raj Shetye, photographer, came up with a bus-rape inspired shoot. How much lower before we hit hell?" wrote Ceteris Paritosh on Twitter:

Myra called it "beyond disgusting" and said the photo shoot "Trivialises Sexual Assault Through 'The Wrong Turn'.

Mr Shetye did not immediately respond to BBC attempts to contact him, but in a report published on BuzzFeed.com on Tuesday, he denied that he had attempted to recreate the infamous gang rape.

"It is not based on Nirbhaya," he said. "But being a part of society and being a photographer, that topic moves me from inside... I stay in a society where my mother, my girlfriend, my sister are out there and something like this can happen to them also."

Mr Shetye said he was not trying to "glamorise the act, which was very bad".

"It's just a way of throwing light on it," he said, adding that it could happen to anyone, rich or poor.

He said the clothes worn by the models had all been made by top designers, but none had been credited publicly because the shoot was not for commercial gain.

Vlogging African fashion: Online the new trend?

Established and emerging African designers are showcasing their work at this year's Africa Fashion Week London. But in an era where vloggers are increasingly setting fashion trends, BBC Africa's Alexis Akwagyiram considers whether the fashion focus has moved from the catwalk to cyberspace.

The fashion world is, stereotypically, summed up by the image of beautiful models gliding up and down a catwalk, adorned in flamboyant clothes.

Such scenes are a staple of Africa Fashion Week, an annual London event - now in its fourth year.
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"Africa is hot right now," says Josette Matomby, a Congolese event manager and fashion designers based in east London who is one of the event's co-founders.

She cites Dutch firm Vlisco, which has come to dominate parts of the continent's fashion market, as an example of this trend.

Ms Matomby says African prints have become fashionable in recent years and have been adopted by large fashion houses such as Burberry.

The fear that African designers were not benefitting from the popularity of their work was part of the motivation behind setting up the annual celebration of style in Africa and its diaspora, which she co-founded. 

Diaspora influence

However, Mrs Goje - who has three children aged under the age of eight - concedes that the African images of beauty and style her children grow up with will largely be dictated by the technology they consume.

Everything is visual now. Videos are making a huge impact and that will only increase going forward," she says.
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It seems that vloggers, designers and journalists are in general agreement that ties between Africans around the world lies at the heart of conversations related to style and fashion.

In the UK, for example, African communities are growing.

Comparison between the UK census in 2001 and 2011 reveal that the country's black African population more than doubled from 484,783 to 989,628. Africans also overtook Caribbeans to become the the majority group in the country's black community during that period.

"The relationship between African and its diaspora is changing in a positive way. More people in the diaspora are looking to home now. People are embracing their culture more," Mrs Goje says.

This, of course, begs the question of why such an event would be held in London, rather than an African city.

Africa Fashion Week co-founder Ms Matomby is quick to provide an answer.

"What happens in London, Paris, Milan and New York influences fashion worldwide," she argues.

"Africa and its diaspora need to have an impact on London to exert influence in the rest of the world."