Posted: April 9, 2010 at 9:21 am | Tags: Christopher Kane, Designer, Elle Magazine, Fashion, Model, Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin Le Bon is a ‘hoarder’ when it comes to clothes.
The stunning model - who has three daughters, Amber, Saffron and Tallulah, with husband Simon Le Bon – admits she now hangs on to most of her outfits as she wants to give them to her girls because she has never got over making the mistake of selling one of her beloved designer gowns.
Talking about her collection, she said: ‘Like, the girls love the history. They only try to pinch the stuff I’ve had for years. Everything is going to be theirs eventually, anyway. Clothes are to be used: why would you not wear them again and again? That’s why I’m such a hoarder.
‘I made a very silly mistake once. In a moment of madness – I’d probably just had a baby – I sold an Azzedine Alaia dress. I went back the next day to get it back and it had gone. That’s my great fashion loss and it taught me a lesson.’
Yasmin, 45, is a huge fan of many up-and-coming designers and recommends investing in their creations now.
She told Britain’s Elle magazine: ‘I love the young designers coming through. I would give my right arm for everything that Christopher Kane comes up with. Now those are investment pieces. If you spend money on something extraordinary, you’ll keep it forever.’
Posted: April 8, 2010 at 9:35 am | Tags: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Diet, Elle Magazine
Demi Moore only got her dream body when she stopped worrying about it.
The 47-year-old actress admits she always used to worry about her figure and would regularly undergo extreme diet and exercise regimes, but once she began to relax about it she found the weight started dropping off.
She said: ‘I had an extreme obsession with my body. I made it a measure of my own value. I tried to dominate it, which I did, and I changed it multiple times over. But it never lasted and ultimately it didn’t bring me happiness.
‘Does being this resolve anything? No. The irony is that when I abandoned that desire to dominate my body, it actually became the body that I always wanted. But it only happened when I stopped trying to control it. At the end of the day, this kind of obsession is pointless and meaningless.’
Demi - who is 15 years older than husband Ashton Kutcher – also revealed she no longer feels pressure to conform to the beauty ideal as she’s not sure what it is.
The mother-of-three told Britain’s Elle magazine: ‘I don’t feel any pressure now to conform – but maybe that’s because I don’t know if there’s an ideal for the age that I’m at. There’s an interesting duality of criticism for getting older- blame for being less desirable, but also judgement if you do look good.
‘I have tried to teach my daughters that we don’t all fit into one mould, that beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and colours, but we are a youth-and then-obsessed culture and that makes victims of all of us. I think creating a desire and a value that is not attached to youth is really important. We need to see beauty in all stages of our existence.’
