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Earth Day Hangover: Green Beauty for Every Day of the Year

Lester Brathwaite — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:15:17 +0000

Just because Earth Day is over doesn’t mean you have to give up on indulging your penchant for planetary concern. These six beauty brands will keep you green and clean well after you’ve planted your last tree, or whatever the hell it is you do on Earth Day.

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Aveda Light the Way Soy Candle This limited edition candle is made from 100% certified organic lavender, lavandin and clary sage while the packaging features artwork by children in Tilwari, India, a community that benefits from the Global Greengrants Fund. Available while supplies last at Aveda salons, spas, stores, aveda.com and if all else fails, Amazon.

Bond No. 9 I Love New York for Earth Day A portion of the perfume's proceeds -- which contains notes of tangrerine, sandlewood, tuberose and musk -- will go towards New York State’s Empire State Development, to promote business investment and encourage job creation statewide. From April 22 through May 4, customers can recycle their Bond No. 9 perfume bottles at Bond No. 9 stores or select Saks and Nordstrom locations and receive a free, refillable purse spray with purchase.

Josie Maran's Pure Argan Oil Along with fellow models Petra Nemcova and Angela Lindvall, Josie Maran designed three limited edition bottles of her 100% Pure Argan Oil, an organically grown Moroccan oil rich in Vitamin E and essentail fatty acids. Each model chose a different charity to receive 10% of the purchase price of every bottle sold. From now through June, you can purchase the Model Citizen limited edition oils at sephora.com.

Kiehl's Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masques In honor of Earth Day and as part of its Label Art series, four limited edition masques were designed by Mark Ruffalo, Rosario Dawson, Spike Lee and Florence Welch, with 100% of proceeds benefiting Recycle Across America. The masques are made from fairly-traded Amazonian white clay and can be purchased at Kiehl's stores or kiehls.com.

Phyto's Phytopolleine Universal Scalp Elixir For every bottle of Phyto's elixir, the hair care brand will donate $2 toward the planting and restoring of two trees in the Atlantic Forest through their partnership with the Nature Conservancy. The elixir is available anywhere that sells Phyto products, including Sephora.

Yves Rocher Les Jardins du Monde Shower Gel Even if you didn't buy an Yves Rocher product over the weekend, each for which a tree was planted, fear not 'cause there's plenty more where that came from. Since 2007, the Yves Rocher Foundation has planted some 18 million trees with a goal of 50 million by 2014. Helping that cause is the Jardins du Monde gel -- a tree will be planted throughout the year for every sold bottle of the shower gel, which is scented using Haitian Vetiver.

The B + T Knowles Express Storms the Runway for Dereon UK Debut

Lester Brathwaite — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:29:32 +0000

Expecting mother Beyoncé and expecting grandmother Tina Knowles hopped the pond Saturday night to launch their House of Deréon line in the UK.

Photos: Daily Mail

The theme of the collection — debuting this week exclusively at Selfridges – was “global nomad,” hence all the tribal make-up and African-inspired prints. Meanwhile, Rosario Dawson, Ellie Goulding and Kenneth Cole were among the guests on hand to witness the Knowleses take on the runway. [WWD]

Edeyo’s 4th Annual Fundraiser Sure to Be a Unik Experience

Lester Brathwaite — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:40:17 +0000

Unik (pronounced “Unique”) Ernest lived up to his descriptive moniker during our brief but enlightening conversation over lunch today. Brief because he had only a few hours before friends with names like Naomi Campbell, Rosario Dawson, Nigel Barker and Jamie Foxx descended on the Dream Downtown for his 40th birthday celebration. Enlightening because I learned about Unik’s charity Edeyo and their fourth annual fundraiser which also coincides with his birthday and has ever since he first started it four years ago with the purpose of helping the poor and disadvantaged children of Haiti.

Maintaining a zen-like calm amidst a flurry of phone calls, text messages and BBMs, I was lucky enough to sit down with Unik and he was lucky enough to find time to eat. Turning 40 this Sunday, Unik revealed to me that among the things he’s learned is that with getting older, there’s no need to stress. “It doesn’t help anything.”

How he maintains that calm is a wonder, however. A highly in-demand promoter, Unik has worked for brands like Nike, Diesel, La Perla, Valentino, and Microsoft, while organizing events for the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals as well as New York Fashion Week. But the subject closest to his heart is his home country of Haiti.

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Unik settled in America permanently in 1990 and immediately got to work. He parlayed his love of partying into a successful career and uses his high-profile contacts to help out his native land. For his 35th birthday, instead of gifts, he asked his friends to donate to any foundation that helped the children of his country. After raising $15,000, he decided to keep the tradition growing and the following year Edeyo was born.

Tonight, Unik once again gathers his celebrity pals to raise money for the children of Haiti and bring light to their cause. Naomi Campbell and her boyfriend Vladimir Doronin donated their custom Lotus for the event’s auction, which also includes two trips to the Caribbean. But when I asked Unik what the night’s biggest surprise would be, he responded in his Unik Ernest manner: “Raising $100,000.”

Here’s hoping he gets his birthday wish.

Naomi-Campbell-Walking for Japan

Lester Brathwaite — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:44:26 +0000

Naomi Campbell’s “Fashion for Relief” runway show to benefit the Japanese Red Cross featured Rosario Dawson, Karolina Kurkova and the ever ageless Jane Fonda.

In collaboration with Vogue Italia, Campbell staged the runway show in Cannes and paraded looks by Yves Saint Laurent, Marchesa and Alexander McQueen.

Fonda, who at 73 gave a lot of the other models a runway run for their money — particularly these girls — came out to raucous applause as she closed the show in a Marchesa gown. [Telegraph]

Coachella Fashion Bashes: Belvedere, Lacoste & Armani Exchange Rocked Our Socks

Amanda Gabriele — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:12:45 +0000

Coachella Music Festival can be summed up in two words: sensory overload. Music and fashion lovers gathered in numbers around 250,000 in the piping hot desert of Palm Springs for a three day, six stage, 200+ band concert series. In addition to every trendsetter and eccentric in the country, the performances drew in the best of the fashion industry and young Hollywood. FashionIndie & Lookbooks was there to witness it all, and we certainly have a lot to report on. Here’s our recap of the best fashion events of the weekend.

Armani Exchange Neon Carnival: Armani Exchange and 944 Magazine took over a private airport on the outskirts of the festival and built a fully-functioning, Armani Exchange-branded carnival. In addition to the ferris wheel, giant slide and carnival games, they managed to build an outdoor club in the middle of the venue, complete with celebrities and bottle service. DJs Devin Lucien, Jesse Marco, and DJ Politik kept the energy high while young Hollywood danced the night away. Josh Hartnett, Paris and Nicki Hilton, Camilla Belle, Kellen Lutz, Penn Badgley, Tara Reid, Jamie Chung and Elijah Wood were just a few of our celeb spottings.

Images via Armani Exchange

Belvedere Music Lounge: The Belve Music Lounge provided a peaceful oasis from the hot desert sun. Located at a private estate in Bermuda Dunes, the lounge had a refreshing pool, mini sand pit, cold cocktails, a fun photo booth and models in bikinis demonstrating the Belvedere shaker app on iPads. DJ sets were as sought-after as the festival lineup: The Knux, Taryn Manning, Dirty Vegas, Yacht, Punches, Blaqstarr, DJ Berrie, Junior Sanchez, Theophilus London and more spun for our pleasure. Our celeb spottings included Rosario Dawson, Brittany Snow, Laidback Luke and Miguel.

Photos via Artificial Daydream and They BF

Lacoste: Lacoste L!ve, the younger, more fashionable crocodile, hosted a Pool Party that supported the efforts of The Voice Project foundation. Patron popsicles cooled us off while DJ Cassidy kept us dancing. Celeb spottings included Katy Perry, Alexander Skarsgard, Malin Akerman, Kirsten Dunst, Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Adrian Grenier, Ke$ha, Lea Michele, Kelly and Jack Osbourne and Jared Eng.

Check out the original post by Samantha Lim and more photos on Lookbooks.com.

-Coachella, CA - April 17, 2010 - 944 Magazine and Armani Exchange Neon Carnival at Coachella -PICTURED: Josh Hartnett -PHOTO by: Albert Michael/startraksphoto.com -CS85519

-Coachella, CA - April 17, 2010 - 944 Magazine and Armani Exchange Neon Carnival at Coachella -PICTURED: Kellan Lutz -PHOTO by: Albert Michael/startraksphoto.com -CS85525

-Coachella, CA - April 17, 2010 - 944 Magazine and Armani Exchange Neon Carnival at Coachella -PICTURED: Camilla Belle -PHOTO by: Albert Michael/startraksphoto.com -CS85481

EXCLUSIVE-Thermal, CA - 04/16/11 - The A|X Armani Exchange and 944 Magazine NEON CARNIVAL -PICTURED: Kelly Osbourne -PHOTO by: Seth Browarnik/startraksphoto.com -DSC_7849 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

EXCLUSIVE-Thermal, CA - 04/16/11 - The A|X Armani Exchange and 944 Magazine NEON CARNIVAL -PICTURED: Kellan Lutz -PHOTO by: Seth Browarnik/startraksphoto.com -DSC_7395 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

EXCLUSIVE-Thermal, CA - 04/16/11 - The A|X Armani Exchange and 944 Magazine NEON CARNIVAL -PICTURED: Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton -PHOTO by: Seth Browarnik/startraksphoto.com -DSC_7777 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

EXCLUSIVE-Thermal, CA - 04/16/11 - The A|X Armani Exchange and 944 Magazine NEON CARNIVAL -PICTURED: Usher, Rihanna -PHOTO by: Seth Browarnik/startraksphoto.com -DSC_7967 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

RED CARPET REPORT CARD: Rosario Dawson in Shoshanna

Amanda Gabriele — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:46:23 +0000

In this edition of Red Carpet Report Card, Rosario Dawson will be graded on her Shoshanna Holiday 2010 look worn with Christian Louboutin pumps and a Bottega Veneta clutch to the Los Angeles premiere of Girl Walks Into a Bar. See how she looked after the jump.

Rosario will be rated on the below categories, five being the highest and 1 being the lowest.

Fit: 2

Appropriateness: 4

Trendiness: 1

Styling: 3

Hair: 3

Makeup: 4

Shoes: 2

Pose: 1

Confidence: 3

UGH I really hate this look; trying to match the green shoes to the shoulder bling was a huge no-no. She was saved this time by her naturally good looks but really needs to step it up.

RED CARPET: Rosario Dawson in DVF

Rebecca Alexander — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:24:30 +0000

Rosario Dawson wore Diane Von Furstenberg’s Grano dress from the Fall 2010 collection to an LG event last night. Loving the metallic color against her tanned skin.

SPREAD UM: Rosario Dawson for Complex, April 2009

Andy Wass — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:00:50 +0000

Rosario Dawson has a little spread in the April 2009 issue of Complex.

She gets in touch with her fetishist side, posing in a schoolgirl outfit, S&M gear, and more.

GALLERY: Rosario Dawson for Complex, April 2009.

SPREAD UM: Rosario Dawson for T

Andy Wass — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:30:33 +0000

Rosario Dawson models Max Mara, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and her own skin for The Spring Fashion Issue of T, last Sunday’s New York Times Style Magazine.

Shot by Sølve Sundsbø, the shoot is simple and focuses on Dawson as a natural beauty.

GALLERY:

SPREAD UM: Rosario Dawson for Italian Max January

Rebecca Alexander — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:09:54 +0000

Rosario Dawson is on the cover of the January issue of Italy’s Max magazine, taking her look to the ‘MAX.’

GALLERY: Rosario Dawson Max Mag

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