Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Dress that dressed a princess
http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/kate-middletons-wedding-dress/
Catherine Middleton and Sarah Burton have successfully kept the best-guarded secret in fashion history. The incredibly moving moment when the new Duchess of Cambridge stepped out of her car in an Alexander McQueen dress was the fantasy everyone in fashion has been dreaming would come true.
The dress—pure and yet conveying the grandeur of its importance—is an exquisitely modern example of a personal collaboration between a bride and her designer.
Catherine has followed her own taste: a V-neck décolleté and a silhouette that stayed close to her torso, and long, delicate lace sleeves that evoked, perhaps, the wedding dress worn by Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. source Vogue see link above
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- Catherine Middleton’s wedding gown wows crowds (ctv.ca)
- Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress Photos: Alexander McQueen! (news.instyle.com)
French Biracial Beauty: Olivier Rousteing directs Balmain Paris
http://www.lexpress.fr/styles/minute-mode/olivier-rousteing-nouveau-directeur-artistique-de-balmain_986940.html
Le jeune designer, inconnu du grand public, succède officiellement à Christope Decarnin.
Après le départ de Christophe Decarnin, la maison de couture vient d’annoncer officiellement le nom de son remplaçant. Olivier Rousteing, ancien responsable du studio de création pour les collections prêt-à-porter femme, devient le nouveau directeur artistique de la marque.
Diplomé d’Esmod, ce créateur inconnu du grand public a travaillé 5 ans chez Roberto Cavalli comme designer des collections prêt-à porter avant de rejoindre Balmain aux côtés de Christophe Decarnin en 2009.
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- Olivier Rousteing Chosen as Balmain’s New Designer (fmdsblog.wordpress.com)
- Unknown Designer Olivier Rousteing Takes Over At Balmain (thegloss.com)
Meet the Dutchess of Cambridge
Kate Middleton will get a new title and new digs in London. She will be the Dutchess of Cambridge.
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- Royal Wedding 2011 Update: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge arrival (wenshow.wordpress.com)
- Dutchess… a short video (staffyrescue.wordpress.com)
Royal Wedding Coverage
http://www.themortonreport.com/
While everybody is doing it, but me, my old friend from blogcritics Eric Olsen and his wife have teamed up with Andrew Morton who dished on Diana to cover the royal wedding and beyond. So, if that’s your thing check it out or wherever you get your news about an old couple on a new day for Wills and Kate Middleton.
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- The “Royal” Frenzy (civilityisnotdead.wordpress.com)
- Biographer Andrew Morton discusses the royal wedding and his upcoming book (shelf-life.ew.com)
The Trough’s best month ever–thank you readers!
So, on this last day of this month we at the Trough finish with 666 hits for the day–no kidding and monthly totals = nearly 17,000 hits pour le mois avril (April 2011) .
I like nice stats and I like wordpress as home. The numbers here may not sound like a lot for the aggregate web sites. But I am truly an independent both politically and blogically. That means I am the true blogger who pays all the bills for my efforts and wears pajamas or looks like hell if she pleases, because it’s just me. And it pays to be avant garde. I just watched a french movie “Pere de mes enfants” and guess what? They used my idioms in the translations at least 4 times! Oh la la, I was floored. I mean they even used “over the top.” So, my idioms are penetrating the masses en masse LOL.
You know when translators use the idioms of an inconnu like myself then I may not be so inconnu after all! Yes. And for the record, my bad it’s “I couldn’t care less.” I wrote in error “I could care less” which is the opposite. And it’s not a double negative to say the former, because the latter is not as effective but people know what you mean.
And finally the film even used “good riddance” which people have also gotten incorrect. Okay, that’s all for tonight. I had a fun day and a fun month with my stats that broke all records, sorta like the tornadoes.
Excuse the photo but I had to wear heavy makeup because I actually burned the hell out of my skin by using wax on my moustache! I have not had time to retouch or photoshop it either.
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- Are the Eastern U.S. tornadoes and our cold weather connected? (cliffmass.blogspot.com)






