After The Da Vinci Code, I wasn't able to catch up with my readings about Angels and Demons. And I'm really curious at how the story would run. Ron Howard directs and Tom Hanks is again playing Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist who "works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican."
Comme des Garçons for H&M collection arrives in US stores tomorrow. I'm not really sure how the US market would find the collection, would they be close to the madness last Saturday in Japan?
Rei Kawakubo's avant garde offerings include boiled wool pea coats, harem pants, and polka dot cardigans. My eye is set on this distressed jacket.
If the rumours are true and shoppers are only allowed to purchase two pieces each, you’ll need to have a clear idea which items you’ll be coveting.
Here in the Philippines, people line up to be the first in line to get our hands on that most coveted doughnut. In Tokyo, 2,000 Japanese shoppers lined up outside H&M store to score the first dibs on the Comme des Garçons collection for H&M.
As their hometown girl Rei Kawakubo as a guest designer for H&M, Tokyo seems to be the epicenter of fast fashion this year. They also get two architecturally-stunning H&M flagships in the Ginza and Harajuku.
And now they're granted the debut of the Comme des Garçons collection almost an entire week before the rest of the world. 2,000 of them line up in an orderly and methodical manner, even after camping out for 40 hours or more.
H&M documented the "madness" in a video, which shows the shoppers expressing euphoric glee rather than psycho craziness.
According to WWD American stores price the items a little cheaper, "The collection's tuxedo jacket for example, retails for 15,990 yen, or $162.85 at current exchange. The same item will retail for $99.00 in the U.S. and 79.90 euros ($101.66) in much of the Eurozone."
It's only a few days away from the premier of the movie I've been looking forward to...Twilight.
Twilight hotties Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Cam Gigandet pose pretty for the new issue of Vanity Fair.
* Kristen on working with Robert: "Well, I basically cast him. We did one day of auditions and a bunch of guys came in. Catherine Hardwicke, the director, afterwards was like, 'What do you think? This is such a hard choice.' I was like, 'Are you kidding me!? It's such an obvious choice!' It couldn't have been better. It was sort of perfect."
* Robert on preparing for his role: "I basically spent two months thinking, 'O.K., how can I play this character like he is written and be absolutely nothing like him in real life? How can I get away from the most major aspect of his description — his appearance?' As it is written from Bella’s perspective, she describes him in this obsessively lustful way. She does not see a single flaw in him at all. It’s a very traditional aspect of first or young love. So, it took me ages to think of it, but it ended up being really simple: if you are in love with someone, you can’t see any flaw in the other person. So I finally figured out that I didn’t have to play the most beautiful man on the planet, but just play a man in love."
* Kristen on her trademark style: "I'm a really typical girl. I look like everyone."
* Robert on his trademark style: "Looking terrible. Truly, I wear the same thing every day. I don’t know how to use a washer machine."
The devilish Twilight series, written by Stephenie Meyer, has given book publishing a blood transfusion with sales topping seven million copies worldwide and helped fill the void left by J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
The writer also compliments the two leads of the film, saying, “Together, Stewart and Pattinson seem to be sharing the same opium reverie… with Stewart receiving the more powerful high, her eyes dimming out when she gets too close. There’s wit in their tentative exchanges.”
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