Katy Perry got it all wrong yesterday when she hit the stage in London wearing a strange superhero-inspired outfit. But the blue-haired beauty got her sparkle back after the performance when she stepped out for dinner wearing a plunging little black dress, tights and boots. The 27-year-old raised the style stakes in the form-fitting design that accented her curves to perfection. Her fans liked what they saw and immediately mobbed the star as soon as she arrived at Nobu Berkley in the Mayfair area of London. No doubt far from her thought is Katy's estranged husband Russell Brand, who's busy working on a new movie and getting into trouble in the United States, by failing to return a borrowed bicycle. Katy worked the crowd and posed for pictures before sitting down for sushi with her friend actor and jewellery designer Markus Molinari.
It might seem a little unfair to pit the female leads in the upcoming Hunger Games film against each other in a fashion face-off, but given their film's highly competitive subject matter, it's only natural to take a closer look at the ensembles sported by Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen) and Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket) over the past couple of weeks. Thus far, each star seems to be sticking to a well-defined style M.O. Jennifer Lawrence has gravitated towards sleek silhouettes that highlight her hourglass figure, while Elizabeth Banks has been having a blast in brilliant, eye-catching hues.
Lawrence seems to be playing off her Hunger Games character Katniss' flammable gown with her fitted metallic frocks, which have caught light on the red carpets in Los Angeles (peek-a-boo Prabal Gurung) and London (Ralph Lauren). She pared it back a bit in Paris with a saucy-yet-stately Tom Ford dress, and later showed off her stems in sky-high black peep-toe sandals for a chat with David Letterman.
Elizabeth Banks, meanwhile, is confining all neutrals to her feet. The charismatic actress attended her first Hunger Games premiere in a flirty tangerine Versace frock, but went even brighter and bolder in London in canary yellow Bill Blass. For the Paris premiere, Banks slipped into a shimmering Marc Jacobs getup, matched expertly with futuristic black platform pumps.
These ladies obviously have very different approaches to the red carpet. Which do you favor?
The end of 2011 is near, and we’ve been setting down our records the whole December, the time has come for the Guinness Book of World Records, this original and amazing project that was astonishing us and making us gape in amazement for quite some time now, to show us what they’ve got. Here are 7 most “pervy” world records that have been broken in the 2011. I know that these aren’t the greatest contributions to the human society and the most useful achievements in this year, but it sure is fun, and if it makes just one person smile, then they’ve succeeded in fulfilling a very important task. Enjoy!
1. Longest Bikini Parade
October 2: In Queensland, Australia, 357 participants strutted along a stretch of GoldCoast in two-piece swimwear. Where was I when this was happening? Someone should have let me know that’s on.
2. The Longest Tongue in California
September 15: Chanel Tapper’s measures 3.8 inches from tip to top lip. (The world record is held by a man in the UK, just .06 inches longer, but it’s not that sexy.)
3. Most People Taking A Shower Together
August 13: A group of 152 men and women lathered up on Bournemouth Beach in the UK, breaking the previous American record of 145. It’s time for America to take over again.
4. World’s Largest Skinny Dip
June 19: Almost 400 people took a swim at Wales’ Rhossili Beach to help raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Well, this is perverseness with good cause and we of course support it, because of both things.
5. Most Inter-Species Sex Acts Drawn In Three Minutes
June 18: Eve Weinberg illustrated four sex scenes during a Manhattan fundraiser for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Nothing weird here.
6. World’s Largest Bra
October 28: The Breast Cancer Campaign displayed a 1222B cup on London’s ITV Southbank Tower. Another humanitarian action that is supposed to raise breast cancer awareness. And, of course, we support this vigorously.
7. Most People In A Single Pair Of Panties
November 17: 57 people fit in the same pair of undies at the London Docklands. I don’t think this was part of any cancer awareness campaign or anything like that, but they surely got world’s attention. It’s such a shame they didn’t have anything to tell us. Maybe, their message is that we should try harder to get in other people’s panties. In which case, we support this action even more vigorously.
We’re still coming round from sock that was caused by the news which hit us last year, in November, about possibility of pole dancing becoming an Olympic sport. They even changed its name from “pole dancing” to “pole fitness” to distinguish it from erotic dancing in night clubs where semi-naked women strip in front of leering men. The popularity of these fitness clubs skyrocketed over the last decade, and more than 500 pole dancing/fitness studios sprung up across the country. The pole fitness instructors say there are women from age 14 to 72 that test their body strength, stamina and flexibility on pole. They say this “sport” provides a physical challenge that keeps both mind and body engaged.
Only few feminists found this demeaning and disrespectful toward women, while all the rest accepted it with joy and enthusiasm. If there weren’t for the Patty Bellasalma of the California National Organization for Women who dismissed pole dancing’s popularity as “symptomatic of a consumer-driven society that constantly reduces women and men into objects”, the question whether pole dancing should be treated as seedy show or Olympic sport, the answer would almost unanimously be – Olympic sport. I find this rather disturbing. It is clear to me why men are so supportive and why they would like to see this new discipline in the Olympic games, but I can’t figure out why women are so eager to hope on pole.
Even more bizarre I find the statement which most of the new pole dancers/fitness fans agree with. Most of the women that practice this new type of fitness say that they feel “more confident” and that sliding up and down cold metal rod “boosts their self-esteem”. This is quite a riddle to me. How could putting yourself in that position and playing the role of a whore under pretext that you’re “spicing up your sex life, while getting a rock hard abs”, make you feel good about yourself?
These are the results that some pro pole dancing/fitness sites promise.
And here are all graphically explained all zones and groups of muscles that are engaged while practicing this new exotic fitness routine.
Whether we like it or not, pole dancing is becoming more and more popular every day and as time passes they are even more determined in becoming one of the officially recognized sports in the Olympics. Here goes a short video from a 2010 Championship organized by the US Pole Federation (yes, it’s a real organization!) with some of the best moments, highlights of the evening, where the most vigor contestants presented their skills. It looks quite impressive, I have to admit.
And just when I was about to cool down about this whole pole dancing craze and except it as everything else, with a “it’s not my cup of tea” excuse, the chauvinists found new ways of making fun of female exercise and fitness training when declaring house cleaning as a form of aerobic that is excellent for losing calories for the women who constantly complain about not having enough time to go the gym because of all the house work. This way they will kill two birds with one stone – they’ll shape up and lose some wight at the same time as their former sloppy house turns into the shinny castle of cleanliness.
They even came up with a chart that shows how many calories you spend for each activity. Apparently, scrubbing floors on hands and knees has really high rates, it is only left behind by snow shoveling and moving large household items. The figures somewhat vary, but basically, the house cleaning calories loss looks something like this:
Washing dinner dishes – 30 calories
Raking leaves, washing your car, mowing the lawn – 100 calories
Ironing clothes – 130 calories
Vacuuming – 150 calories
Rearranging furniture – 250 calories
Sweeping – 240 calories
Packing/Unpacking – 220 calories
Scrubbing floors on hands and knees – 325 calories
Cleaning, light (dusting, wiping down counters, picking up clothes) – 100 calories
Cleaning, general (washing dishes, doing laundry) – 200 calories
Well, galls, here’s a short song to raise your cleaning morale: “One, two, three, four; Pick up a mop and clean the floor; five, six, seven, eight; house cleaning and exercise are the perfect mate!”
Apparently, sports and fitness aren’t really for women, so according to these chauvinist ideas (it should be emphasized that most of these ideas came from women, not men!) the best thing for ladies to do, if they wish to shape up and stay fit, is to start doing chores and tiding up their houses, instead of spending vast amounts of money on aerobic classes, or, if they insist on taking up some fitness classes, that should be pole dancing, or belly dancing, or anything it that manner, that can turn out to be quite useful in the bed. Because the most important thing in woman’s life is to be a good housewife, and to keep her partner’s sexual appetites satisfied. Clara Zetkin would be so proud of women today!
Here’s Jessica Lowndes, who still looks like a watered-down version of Megan Fox (hey, that’s still a major compliment!), giving everyone a watered-down version of that famous Marilyn Monroe scene while on the set of 90210 yesterday afternoon. Ok, so I may be stretching it a bit, but you have to admit that her accidental leg show is pretty damn hot. And on top of that (literally) Jess is dropping some of her ultra sexy cleavage. All in all, a shwingtastic little appearance brought to you by Jessica Lowndes’ uber hotness and a gust of wind. Enjoy!
