Celebrity Nip Sip: August 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

A random guy comes dancing on the stage as Jay and Kanye are performing on the VMA's 2011!! I was totally confused! I tuned into twitter where people made jokes of that being Lil Mama's father! HAHA! Thank God for security because you could clearly see the confusion in Jay's face!

Speaking of Lil Mama

A damn mess!

Happy Birthday To the King of Pop

I love my Fame!

Buy Famous Gems!!

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Rihanna comes to Berlin!

Rihanna gets her own wax doll! Can't wait until it comes to NYC!

Pachacuti Hats

That's Not Me. It's Carry Somers. The founder of Pachacuti (pronounced pa-cha-cu-tee) the UK's only fair trade hat company, and winners of the Observer Ethical Fashion Award 2011. Hooray!

After completing an MA in Native American studies, Somers went off on a PhD research trip to Ecuador, in 1992, armed with a copy of Anita Roddick's autobiography. Inspired by the Body Shop's influence on the beauty industry, Somers decided to do the same for fashion. With just £500 and no background in design, she produced a knitwear collection which sold out in six weeks, 'Seeing the tangible difference this made to the producers’ livelihoods, I gave up my PhD to run Pachacuti.'

Widely known for their Andean Panamas - the Archbishop of Canterbury wears one! - Pachacuti also have an extensive range of felt hats. As of next week, their Fedoras will be available from Net-a-Porter and then on the company's website www.panamas.co.uk from September:

'I have a collection of felt cloches in different styles as these are just so useful for winter weather, withstanding any amount of rain,' says Somers. So does she have a closet full of Panamas too? 'My collection varies somewhat from year to year, as I'm very good at putting my hat down at shows, such as Chelsea Flower Show, and then coming back and finding it has been sold!' This year, Yasmin le Bon and Sol Campbell both bought hats, think we can figure out who's wearing yours, Carry.

Here's Helen Mirren in Pachacuti at last year's Chelsea Flower Show:

The company's priority is to build sustainable rural livelihoods for the Chilean weavers, who are often single mums or the wives of miners, by supporting local communities and funding social programmes. Somers travels to South America about three times a year for training and research purposes, and recently when some of the elderly producers mentioned they found working on the finer styles difficult due to poor eyesight and arthritis, Pachacuti raised money for glasses and introduced a range of looser weave crochet hats, ' Surprisingly, the brightly coloured and patterned styles we introduced are woven on average one hour faster than the same Panama hat in a natural colour.'

Hats off to Carry Somers!

You can buy Pachacuti hats online at www.panamas.co.uk or from their Derbyshire store (19 Dig Street, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1GF. Tel: 01335 300003). Prices start at around £40.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Nicki has gon mad I tell ya!

Nicki Minaj with Bevis and Butt head. VMA's 2011

And look what she decided to sport... Totally Bizzare!

She could have put on some heels at least.

Nicki also premiered her video "Fly"ft Rihanna

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Beyonce and Jay going to be parents!! (VMA 2011)

Jay Z and Kanye Otis Performance.

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Beyonce is going to be a mommy!!

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I was so shocked when Beyonce revealed her pregnancy at the 2011 MTV Music Video Awards. Her and Jay where the highlight of the show. Congrats!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Ms. Pretty Coming back in September!

Thank you to all the beautiful ladies that have sent me great pictures for my Ms. Pretty Post. I know that I can bring all beautiful girls together and we can work together for success in a positive way!

Thats right we are bringing Ms Pretty Back!! Send in those photos to Blogbydy@gmail.com

Blog By Dy's Official Ms Pretty. Steph West!

Beyonce "1+1" Video

This video gives you a personal look at Beyonce while she is singing... it like she is speaking right to you!!!

Check out the Video:

Rihanna "Cheers (Drink to That)" Video

Hurricane Irene < Blog By Dy

Duhhh!!!

Banana Republic Mad Men Collection

Don't know about you, but lately I've been missing Mad Men. Let's be honest - in spite of some top-notch acting - The Hour just didn't cut it. I blame the script. And, now that Sky Atlantic have nabbed series five, Mr & Mrs That's Not My Age will have to wait for the Mad Men box set. But that's OK, we love a box set. Staying in for a three-episode bender is a grown-up way to spend a Saturday night. In the mean time, Banana Republic have launched a collection designed by Janie Bryant, the costume designer for the show - so at least I can dress like Betty Draper.

What do you think of the collection? Will you be going all Madison Avenue this autumn?

Available in store and online now.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

RIP Aaliyah (10 years since you have been gone)

Today makes 10 years that the beautiful Aaliyah has passed. Still my role model and a role model to so many others. Rest In Peace.

Thats a bad female with a bag of money!

To make donations or write to the Haughton Family:

Aaliyah Memorial Fund

331 West 57th Street, #281

New York, NY 10019

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Dy's Celebrity Look A Likes

So the Iphone has this app where you can take a picture and they will find a celeb that looks most like you. Hahaha I just thought this was pretty funny.

Lil Wayne "How to love Video"

I love the storyline.

Nicki Minaj in Bulletin Mag

Ms. Bre poses for S Goddess Swimwear

I follow Bre on twitter and yesterday she posted some unedited pictures of herself posing for S Goddess Swimwear. Take a look:

Bre has always been my favorite since day one. I can't wait to see what she does to the season of America's Next Top Model All Stars!

Celia Birtwell

Now, this is exciting. Textile designer, Celia Birtwell has a book coming out in October. Woo hoo! Birtwell's fabulous career has spanned five decades, though she's most well-known for being married to Ossie Clarke in the seventies. The pair made some of the best dreamy chiffon dresses, ever. Designs loved by the rock and roll crowd, including Bianca Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and Pattie Boyd.

Not that we have room for more books at That's Not My Age Mansions, the library/Habitat shelving unit is full. I even bought the Blog Widower a Kindle to try and cut down on the clutter. But now I need to make space for Celia Birtwell - I'm going to have to get rid of some of his Peter Ackroyds:

In June this year, the 70-year-old designer was awarded a CBE for services to the fashion industry, and not before time. Blimey, even my mum - who knows nothing about fashion - knows who Celia Birtwell is. But that's because I bought her this gardening tool kit from the V&A a couple of Christmases ago:

Anyhow. That's Not My Age was lucky enough to have a quick chat about the book with author Dominic Lutyens - who is a brilliant writer and a bit of an expert on seventies style.

1. How did you get involved in the Celia book? Did she approach you? Was it because of your 70s book?

I was on a press trip to France organised by Sahra Gott, who later set up Celia's book deal, and I got on very well with her. I told her about my book, 70s Style and Design, co-written with Kirsty Hislop, and she and I got talking about where she went shopping in the 70s: from Portobello Market to Biba and Escalade (an ultra-hip shop in Knightsbrige where my own mother used to have her hair cut). Soon after, Sahra phoned me and asked me for lunch with Celia near her Notting Hill shop to discuss the book. I didn’t really think anything would come of it, but I later got a call saying she wanted me to write the text. I had interviewed Celia for the 70s book, but I’m not sure if that helped swing things. I guess they must have factored in that I knew quite a lot about fashion from that era, I’d interviewed lots of Celia’s contemporaries for the 70s book, and knew a lot about that milieu.

2. I read that Celia doesn't really like talking about the Ossie years too much, so how did you deal with that? Did you have to coax her over tea and biscuits?

That’s true. I think it’s difficult for Celia to talk about them as they were traumatic, though we talked a lot about her collaboration with him as a designer. She was honest about the fact that her life with him was very difficult and stormy. But Celia didn’t want a scurrilous, kiss-and-tell book so I didn’t probe much into those personal matters. Essentially, it was her book and she decided not to go down the route of, say, the notorious Ossie Clark Diaries, a tome which shocked many by its bitchiness. She didn’t want to rake up all those memories again, let alone immortalise them in her book. She wanted the book to be a celebration of her life and work.

3. How long did it take you to research/write the book? She's big friends with David Hockney isn't she? Did you talk to him as part of your research?

It took about a year to research and an intensive five months to write. Yes, Celia has been really good friends with David Hockney since about 1969. He was the best man at her small, intimate wedding to Ossie that year. Ossie’s sister Kay, a jazz singer, was the only other guest. I interviewed Hockney at his studio in west London. Celia was there, too. It had taken a while for her to pin him down as he was pretty elusive, but it was worth the wait. I was quite late to meet him as one of the tube lines on my way there was closed, so I was really worried that I’d seriously annoyed him, but he was very charming – in a very good mood that day.

4. Do you know what Celia's going to do next?! Any ideas if there's something in the pipeline? And did you get a chance to go through the archives at all?

Celia once mentioned she’d like to collaborate with some high-end shops, but I have no idea if that’s still so or what her next project is, though she’s showing this September at the interiors fair Decorex. Yes, I looked at all her fabulous sketchbooks – she was very prolific between the years of about 1967 to 1975. Celia, Quadrille’s creative director Helen Lewis and I spent hours going through them all, choosing our top favourites, though Celia had the final say on them. I didn’t look through her photo archive; Celia made her own choices about what she used from that.

5. How would you describe Celia Birtwell?

Celia has a very strong personality and her humour can be entertainingly barbed. I was unsure at first how we’d get on – after all, we saw each other very often and spent hours together, a test in itself – but we really hit it off. She’s a mix of things: very chatty, warm, generous, witty, rather maternal – and, yes, amusingly mischievous. She’s also quite old-school in the sense that she’s not desperate to court the media; she’s modest and low-key. She’s always done her own thing and others have promoted her more than herself, though she’s always worked extremely hard and is very talented and disciplined.

If you're a Celia Birtwell fan, check out this fantastic interview in the Sunday Telegraph.

‘Celia Birtwell’ by Celia Birtwell with Dominic Lutyens, will be published by Quadrille on October 3rd (£30, hardback). For more information, go to www.quadrille.co.uk.

Celia Birtwell will be showing at Decorex International, 25th – 28th September 2011 go to www.celiabirtwell.com

Celia Birtwell photo: Telegraph