Fashion Styles

American Idol Parris Tassin: From New Orleans to Hollywood!

Paris Tassin - 23 from New Orleans heart warming story teaches us how vulnerable life can be. Her voice is heavenly. She has an amazing talent and makes her daughter proud.

During Hollywood Week Paris plays it safe with the same song.

Although there is excellent competition this year, I predict that she will be around for many weeks to come.

Valentines Day Wipeout from Norway!

Zor-Ka-Jhatka-Wipeout [Valentine-Day-Special] 14th-February-2011-05!
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Darren Criss on the Red Carpet at MusiCares Person Of The Year!

For a show no one I know has ever seen, Glee has gotten pretty popular, with their version of “Teenage Dream” shooting up the iTunes charts. The song was belted out by new cast member Darren Criss, a theatre nerd and the co-creator of a Harry Potter musical parody that became a viral hit.

Naya Rivera and Darren Criss on red carpet Grammy.

Loving the 1920s with "Boardwalk Empire"

"Boardwalk Empire" is probably the best new TV-show I've seen lately - and, mind you, I pick all my shows carefully and only watch the top-grade stuff. But Martin Scorsese as producer and Steve Buscemi as the leading man certainly make a perfect combination - especially for the gangster-themed show. Speaking of gangster, I'm not the biggest fan of the genre, but it's just so cool and stylish, and ... it's the twenties!

The 1920s is my most favorite fashion era ever, and judging by the enormous success of the "Empire" (it's just the first season and it already snubbed a Golden Globe), season 2 is on the way, which may well mean that the 20s will come back into fashion!

In fact, I'm not that old-fashioned - and twenties style is quite conservative, but it's just so gorgeous! From underwear to those crazy headpieces... And while dresses are long, conceal all the curves and humps, they are still incredibly sexy.

Women suddenly liberated (though still relatively) after ages of male oppression, free to enjoy nightlife, dancing and drinking on par with men. And the style celebrates their new-found freedom. So I say let's indulge in twenties with the girls of the "Boardwalk Empire"!

Kelly McDonald as Margaret Schroeder - mother/widow of a drunken gambler/suffragette-turned-Nucky Thompson's (Buscemi) main woman and show's leading lady

Paz de la Huerta as Lucy Danziger, Nucky's lover for first half of the season and proper twenties slut

Fashion photo-shoot for Empire's top four gals: Gretchen Mol, Alexa Palladino and of course Kelly McDonald and Paz de la Huerta

Let's get trending

Once I read this article in some women's magazine - about those guys who compile "lookbooks" - style guides that reflect current and up-and-coming fashion trends that clothing designers later buy (for lots of cash) and use when working on new collections.

Basically those guys act as "fashion oracles" predicting what would be in vogue a few seasons ahead. Only they do so not through divine illumination or anything of the sort, but meticulous analysis of everything happening around us.

Music, movies, TV, art, political and economical developments etc. are all elements that mould and create today's fashion and lifestyle. Myself, I was never bold enough to be a trendsetter. I rather look at what's on offer and pick out what I like. But I'm also a writer, with passion to reflect on and analyse trends and lifestyles, and highlight things that define them most - at least for me.

And I want to make this blog about all those fascinating, beautiful, exciting, inspiring, infectious, entertaining, heart-warming and just plain fun things. And it starts now.