Be a Real Chick with Feathers!

To achieve the precise custom fit that her couture clients like Tyra Banks, Paris Hilton, and Gina Davis demand, Colleen Quen creates a moulage, or "second skin" of the client's body from 36 measurements.

The two gowns, "Sapphire Elegance" and "Blue Opal Energy" played the stage in sapphire blue French lace and angora with brown tulle trimming.

Indeed lace, particularly in black, shed its Gothic guise this season and has re-emerged as an enchantingly romantic option for winter days or nights. Don't confine it to night time glamour. A touch of lace will update an old favourite pair of jeans or your office pencil skirt suit.

To go with your ultimate gown or to glam up your day to evening office suit, accessorise with feathers. Plumes exuding bird of paradise flamboyance are definitely this winters must have accessory after Calvin Klein and Dolce and Gabbana, to name but a few, sported flurries of feathers on the catwalk for winter 2005-06.
Feathers will give a classic sumptuous touch to your classic dress. Wear a single one in your hair or go all-out with marabou tiers to the floor.

Hounsou a good fit.

By Jada Yuan

(Photo: Patrick McMullan)

Though the tabloids have been following their canoodlings since February, Baby Phat designer Kimora Lee Simmons and Oscar nominee and Calvin Klein tightie-whitie model Djimon Hounsou haven’t been forthcoming about how they met. It turns out they’ve known each other since Simmons’s modeling days in Paris. “He’s friends with Tyra and Naomi and Iman. We were always friends through friends,” Simmons said at the party for the 25th anniversary of Calvin Klein Underwear. She and Hounsou reconnected during awards season in L.A. “I’ve learned that track records are very important,” she says. “I thought they weren’t, but they are.” After all, “you can’t always change things about men,” says Russell Simmons’s ex. And Hounsou checked out. “You can’t dig up any dirt on him.” Certainly he’s got little to hide in those ubiquitous ads. “It’s weird seeing them everywhere,” she admits. “I can’t escape him—but I don’t want to.” Others want a piece of him, too: His free underwear have “been disappearing one by one,” she says. “We’ll have to check with the staff about that.