A Dedicated Follower of Fashion?

Fashion

Haute
-High fashion
-Colors: Unusual and rare
-Lies: Layered, fitted to suit
-Textures: Unusual, rare materials
-Needs: Custom-made, designer's originals, pricey
-Effects: 1 of a kind, leader, unique, tres chic
-Favorite accessory: coordinated matching and custom made pieces

Elegant
-Expensive designer's reproduction
-Colors:Unusual, muted, solid colors(gray, black, white)
-Lines: Well fitted(Chanel type)
-Textures: Fine fabrics, expensive materials
-Needs: semi custom made, altered to fit
-Effects: Very refined, status and executive looking
-Favorite accessory: gold and diamond accessories

Dramatic
-Theatrical, glamorous, glitzy
-Colors: Strong, vivid, (black is good)
-Lines: severe, sharp, asymmetrical
-Textures: Rare and trendy
-Needs: custom made, altered to fit
-Effects: confident, chic, sexy, catchy
-Favorite accessory: Bold statement, usually metallic, such as gold, silver, or bronzes

Classic
-Town & country, emphasis of business/corporate look
-Colors: Beige, navy, red, blue and black
-Lines: simple and traditional
-Textures: Durable, natural fibers
-Needs: Timeless appeal year after year
-Effects: Typcal leader, conservative, practical
-Favorite accessory: traditional, conservative shapes
-Good example: Chanel

Conservative
-Feminine/demure
-Colors: pastels, soft colors, soft blends, soft rainbows
-Lines: simple flows, rounded curves and semi fittted
-Textures: Light, flowing, lace, old fashioned, small print
-Needs: Gentle, delicate, price not a problem
-Effects: Fragile, soft, charming, innocent, very feminine
-Favorite accessory: simple real gold and diamonds

Western
-Country
-Colors: earth tones
-Lines: durable, simple, easy
-Textures: natural fibers, denim, thick and old fashioned
-Needs: durability, mobility, price no problem
-Effects: tough, strong
-Favorite accessory: leather boots, water resistant watch, thick belt

Casual
-Feeling at home
-Colors: Any
-Lines: unstructured, simple, easy
-Textures: popular(synthetic, natural, etc)
-Needs: easy care, comfortable
-Effects: easy going, athletic, simple
-Favorite accessory: cloth bag, disposables

Grunge
-Made popular during the early 90s.
-Colors: Any
-Lines: unusual, exaggerated
-Textures: popular(synthetic, natural), knits
-Needs: easy pieces, sometimes wildly and unusually inexpensive
-Effects: Youthful, confident, most designs die quickly
-Favorite accessory: all kinds

Futuristic
-Star Trek like
-Colors: strong metallics(gold, silver)
-Lines: angular, sharp
-Textures: Hard, bold, round, square
-Needs: bold statement
-Effects: impractical to present times
-Favorite accessory: bold geometric designs(earrings, rings, bags)

Vintage
-Refers to new or 2nd hand clothing from previous eras
-Colors: soft colors, light colors, summery colors
-Lines: soft lines
-Textures: satin, lace, silk, velvet
-Needs: to feel beautiful
-Effects: beauty, elegant
-Fave Accessory: simple gold and silver

Goth 
-Characterized by horror movies, black, metal studs, etc. Basically looks like you're going to a Victorian funeral
-Colors: black EVERYTHING!
-Lines: straight, jagged
-Textures: fishnet, lace, leather, metal, silver, steel, velvet,
-Needs: fashionable
-Effects: Neo-Victorian fashion, dark makeup and clothing, dark hair with equally dark highlights, looks like funeral clothes, deathly pale skintones, macabre items/religious(crosses, skulls, pentacles, rosaries, bone earrings, etc)
-Fave Accessory: macabre/religious items(bone earrings, rosaries, ankhs, metal studs, spiked dog collars, gauges in ears, deathly pallor, messy black hair, stove pipe hats, leather clothes, black makeup, thigh high leather boots or just leather boots in general, fishnet stockings

Preppy
-College, Ivy League University-like look
-Colors: earth colors, cool colors
-Lines: straight
-Textures: none
-Needs: special care for sweaters
-Effects: Argyle sweaters, chinos, madras, button down Oxford cloth shirts, boat shoes
-Fave Accessory:
-Ex: Polo, Ralph Lauren

Emo
-Japanese pop looking
-Colors: bright, neon, blue, pink, red, bleached blonde
-Lines: none
-Textures: denim, leather
-Needs: bold statement
-Effects: fan of rock music
-Fave Accessory: studded belts, black wristbands, thick black horn-rimmed glasses

Hippie
-Inspired by the nature loving 'beatniks' of the 1960s
-Colors: earth tones, any
-Lines: none
-Textures: denim, corduroy, suede, leather
-Needs: none
-Effects: for retro loving types
-Fave accesories: peace medallion, bellbottoms, flip flops, granny glasses, headbands, flowers in hair

Hot Man Friday-Paul Nicholls

Paul Nicholls

Name: Paul Greenhaigh
DOB: April 12, 1979

Career in TV
Film
-Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was being widely featured in numerous posters, pin-ups, and Teen/TV/pop culture magazines, like Attitude, BIG!, Bliss, Gay Times, Heat, Just Seventeen, Live & Kicking, MIZZ, My Guy, Now, OK, Radio Times, Shout, Sky International, Sky magazine, Smash Hits, Sneak, Sugar, TV Hits, TV Times, and What's on TV.
-He won the BBC's "Top Man" award(Live & Kicking) and Inside Soaps's "Most Fanciable Man" in 1997
-In August 2008, replaced Jamie Bamber on Law and Order:UK, playing DS Sam Casey.

Personal Life
-From Bolton, Greater Manchester
-Son of Paul and Julie Greenhaigh
-As a teen, enjoyed skateboarding, surfing, swimming, basketball, football
-On Aug. 2, 2008, married girlfriend of 3 years, model Chantal Brown in ceremony near Hampstead, North London
Filmography

Hot Man Friday-Jamie Bamber

Jamie Bamber

Battlestar Galactica as Lee Adama

Name: Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith
DOB: April 3, 1973
Where: Hammersmith, London, England
Occupation: Actor
Years Active: 1998-present
Spouse: Kerry Norton

DS Matt Devlin, Law and Order:UK

[insert little hearts] He's my lil blue eyed British hottie!!!!!!!!!

-Best known roles: Lee Adama on Battlestar Galactica and Det. Sgt. Matt Devlin on Law and Order:UK
-Also had a role on the Hornblower series, was a regular on UK TV show Ultimate Force and Peak Practice
-Made a TV appearance on Body of Proof, Dollhouse, House, CSI:Miami and Cold Case

Early Life
-Born in Hammersmith, London to Elizabeth Bamber, a native of Northern Ireland and Ralph Griffith, an American.
-Hold British, Irish and American citizenship
-Has 5 brothers and one sister, Anastasia Griffith
OMG, he's Irish, British, and American? Wow, he just got cuter!!!!!!

Acting Career

Battlestar Galactica
-Starting in 2003, Bamber starred as Lee 'Apollo' Adama on US sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica. He was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for the show in 2004

-In the role of Lee Adama, Londoner Bamber speaks with an American accent which he credits to being exposed to his father's American accent from his childhood. He also darkened his hair in an effort to look more like Edward James Olmos, who plays his character's father. Funny enough, Olmos wore contact lenses with blue irises to match Bamber's eyes
Other TV roles
-He is also best known for his role as DS Matt Devlin on Law and Order:UK from 2009-2011.
-On Hornblower, he played Lt. Archibald 'Archie' Kennedy.

-Also appeared as a trainee doctor in Peak Practice. Hmm, a doctor? Well, give me mouth to mouth, lol!!
-Starred in Joss Weldon's Dollhouse, where his character is wed to Echo(Eliza Dushku) during one of her missions.
-Has also made other appearances, such as CSI:Miami, House, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, The Last Detective

-Bamber is said to appear in at least 3 episodes od ABC's Body of Proof starting in February 2012(OMG, I'm so watching any episode he's on!!!). On the show, he'll play a construction worker who romances Dana Delany's Dr. Megan Hunt. Well, he can romance me ANY time!
Film
-In 2008, he starred in Pulse 2: Afterlife
-Earlier, he starred in Ghost Rig, with Kerry Norton, who was later to become his wife
-May 2011: Bamber completed filming John Doe, an Australian movie directed by Kelly Dolen.
Personal Life
-Bamber is currently married to British singer and actress Kerry Norton
-They have 3 daughters: Isla, and identical twins Darcy and Ava
-Has appeared in an ad for PETA opposing the killing of Canadian black bears for the fur used in making hats for the Queen's Royal Guardsmen. Awwww, he cares about animals, how sweet!!

OMG! OMG! What a hot body!!!!!!!
I want a guy like THIS ONE!

Filmography

Hot Man Friday-Dominic Rowan

Dominic Rowan

-Best known for his role as Jacob Thorne on the newly premiered show Law and Order:UK
-Other than this, he's a relatively unknown actor and most likely a private one at that.

Hey, he's got a peacoat just like me, lol!!

DOB: June 17, 1971
Name: Dominic Rowan
Occupation: Actor

Career
-Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Theatre
-His work in theatre includes:
National Theatre, London

• A Dream Play
• Iphigeneia at Aulis
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• Three Sisters
• The Talking Cure
• Private Lives
• Happy Now?

Royal Shakespeare Company

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Merchant of Venice
• Talk of the City

Donmar Warehouse, London

• A Voyage Round My Father
• Lobby Hero

Old Vic, London

• Playhouse Creatures

Royal Court Theatre

• Way to Heaven
• Forty Winks
• Henry VIII

Oxford Playhouse

• The Importance of Being Earnest

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

• Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Royal Excahnge, Manchester

• The Rivals
• Charley's Aunt
• Look Back in Anger

Hampstead Theatre, London

• A Collier's Friday Night

New End Theatre, London

• Wit's End

Duke of York's Theatre, London

• Under the Blue Sky

Comedy Theatre, London

• The Misanthrope

Globe Theatre, London

• As You Like It

TV
-Catwalk Dogs
-Baby Boom
-Midsomer Murders
-Trial and Retribution
-Family Man
-The Lavender List
-Celeb
-Silent Witness
-Swallow
-Doc Martin
-A Rather English Marriage
-Saint X
-Holby City
-Rescue Me
-Lost World
-North Square
-Hearts and Bones
-Emma
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
-No Bananas
-Devil's Advocate
-Between the Lines
-Law and Order:UK

Film
-The Tulse Luper Suitcases

Where on Earth are they finding these incredibly sexy British actors?

As You Like It

Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill

-2008 crime thriller
Did you Know?

Plot
-Police psychologists review recordings of a man(De Niro) who states his name as Det. David Fisk, the "Poetry Boy" killer. The Poetry Boy earned the moniker for his MO of murdering criminals and leaving short poems with thier bodies. Fisk reveals that he looks up to his partner of almost 30 years, Tom Cowan(Pacino) and considers him a role model of how a cop should be. Pacino's character is known by the nickname "Rooster" and De Niro's character is known as "Turk".

-These recordings provide a story and the film opens with victim #10, a drug dealer named Robert "Rambo" Brady(Rob Dyrdek). Turk and Rooster investigate the murder with the less experienced Det. Corelli(Carla Gugino), Perez(John Leguizamo) and Riley(Donnie Wahlberg). When they find a poem on the body,  they link it to the Poetry Boy

-As Poetry Boy murders acquitted rapist Jonathan Van Luytens and Father Connell, a Catholic priest and child molester(kids including Poetry Boy himself), stress builds between Turk, Corelli and Perez. Turk is now living with Corelli, who happens to be Perez's ex-girlfriend. Poetry Boy assaults an attempted 14th victim, Russian mobster Yevgeny Mugalat, but when he is found to be alive, he attacks Perez and Corelli. Perez and Riley suspect Turk of being Poetry Boy due to his markmanship skills and psych evaluations, so they arrange a secretly supervised meeting between Turk and a drug dealer, Marcus "Spider" Smith(Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson). Turk proves his innocence during an encounter with the drug dealer as he has the "wrong" gun and humiliating but obviously wrong poem. After Perez and Riley leave the scene, Rooster kills Spider. During this, Rooster accidentally drops his diary

-Turk stumbles upon and reads Rooster's diary, where he claims Spider as victim #14. Rooster puts Turk in front of a video camera and forces him to read the journal. At this point, it's known and realized that the recordings from the film's beginning and the narration merely set up Turk as bait and Rooster is the Poetry Boy. Turk's name is actually Tom Cowan and Rooster's name David Fisk. It turns out that Rooster lost his faith in justice when Turk, an otherwise "righteous" cop, planted a gun at the house of acquitted child molester Charles Randall(Frank John Hughes), convicting him. This leads him to taking justice into his own hands.

-When Turk finishes, he chases Rooster to a construction site. Rooster fires to convince Turk to report that the Poetry Boy is assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and fleeing, but Turk resists. When Rooster takes aim at Turk, Turk fires, striking Rooster in chest. When he calls for an ambulance, Rooster begs him to withdraw the ambulance. This allows Rooster to bleed to death.

Cast

Robert De Niro as Detective Tom "Turk" Cowan

Al Pacino as Detective David "Rooster" Fisk

John Leguizamo as Detective Simon Perez

Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Theodore Riley

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as Marcus "Spider" Smith

Carla Gugino as Detective Karen Corelli

Brian Dennehy as Lieutenant Hingis

Frank John Hughes as Charles Randall

Trilby Glover as Jessica

Oleg Taktarov as Yevgeny Mugalat

Rob Dyrdek as Robert "Rambo" Brady

Keeping Up Appearances

This is one of my mom's favorite shows!!!

Keeping Up Appearances

-British sitcom written by Roy Clark for BBC
-Centered on the life of an eccentric, social thinking snob Hyacinth Bucket(who insists on her name being pronounced Boquet), the show portrays a social hierarchy-ruled British life
-It jokes around with a small obsessive world where a determined snobbish middle class woman desparately looks for opportunities to put herself into a better position on the social ladder.
-The show hinges on the fact that no one can escape the social class one is born into in England
-Stars Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth, the pompous and self centered woman obsessed by perfection
-Her husband is Richard Bucket, a calm, tolerant and long suffering man played by Clive Swift
-Her neighbour is played by Josephine Tewson. She plays the neighbor who lives with Hyacnith's brother, played by David Griffin.

Plot Summary
-Hyacinth Bucket(Patricia Routledge), who insists on her name being pronounced Boquet, is a snob with aspirations of climbing the social ladder. She passes her time visiting stately homes, hosting "executive style" candlelight dinners, bragging off her white slimline phone with auto redial and maintaining her woodblock floor, wallpaper and status in the community.

-Her aim in life is to impress neighbors, friends and important people. When she answers the phone, she greets with "The Boquet residence, lady of the house speaking". She receives calls asking for Chinese take away, causing her great frustration. Always bothering her best efforts are her underclass sisters Daisy(Judy Cornwell) and Rose(Shirley Stelfox and Mary Millar), and Daisy's husband Onslow(Geoffrey Hughes). This 3-som along with Hyacinth's senile dad, are always turning up and embarassing her.

-These social aspirations of hers cause life to be very difficult for those around her, such as her husband Richard(Clive Swift). Most people dislike or are afraid of her to the point of running or hiding when they see her or hear her. The only one she is not ashamed of is her wealthy sister Violet(Anna Dawson). Hyacinth often brags about her sister Violet's home- a luxury bungalow, while trying to keep the secret of Violet's cross dresing husband Bruce a secret.
Episodes

What Not to Wear

What Not to Wear

-Not to be confused with the American version
-Reality TV show wher epeople get fashion makeovers.
-Hosted by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine
-Produced by Lisa Butcher and Mica Paris

History
-In 2002, during the 2nd season, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson appeared in an episode alogn with Lesley Joseph. The 2 leading ladies gave them a makeover. After he appeared on the show, Clarkson commented "I'd rather eat my own har than shop with these two again." During the process of choosing which celebrity to give a makeover, Constantine and Woodall compiled a list of who they thought were the worst dressed celebrities.
-Every episode features an "ambush" style confrontation and makeover of a woman or occasional man who has been deemed unfashionable by friends. The presenters take into consideration the body type and shape and self image.
-The participant is then given $2000 in British money to shop for a new wardrobe in the according advice they've been given. They are secretly spied upon and counselled on the ways of fashion by the show's hosts.

Britain's Next Top Model

IDK why, but for some reason, lately I thought doing posts on different British TV shows was a good idea. I guess it paid off, someone to there probably likes it, so why not do a post on something that someone out there likes?

Britain's Next Top Model

-British based reality show in which a number of women compete for the title of Britain's Next Top Model
-Based on the American show America's Next Top Model. Hmm, I always thought it was the other way around, the American version based off the British version.
-After season 7, it was renamed Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model

Premise
-Features a group of young women who live together in a house for several weeks while taking part in various challenges, photo shoots, and meetings with members of the modeling industry.
-Normally, one badly performing contestant is eliminated each week until the last contestant remaining is declared "Britain's Next Top Model". The winner gets a modeling contract and other prizes

Show format

Judging
-As of season 6, the judges are British Fashion and Haute Couture designer Julien Macdonald, Vogue's Fashion stylist of the year Grace Woodward and model Charley Speed. Previous judges included Lisa Butcher, Marie Helvin, Paula Hamilton, Huggy Ragnarsson, industry expert Jonathan Phang and fashion expert Gerry DeVeaux.

Requirements
-Anyone with the right to live/work in Britain is free to apply, but they must meet the height requirement of 5'8'' and be between the ages of 18-23 at the time they audition.

Exhibition
-Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model Live was launched in October 2010 at ExCeL London. This was created to immerse the members of the public into the Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model lifestyle. The show featured a 45 minute catwalk show, music from celebs and exhibitions of clothes and fashion accessories for the visitor to buy.

Cycles