Wishing for an Angel

A new ad featuring Angel perfume is for the holidays. The caramel, chocolate, and vanilla scents
capture it, but the ad is creative and sparkly for the season. The angel perfume bottle is in the center with actress Naomi Watts wearing a sheer gown , the background has fragmented looking pieces of Angel perfume which brings the wintertime to life. Hope an angel brings your Christmas wish.

Reese Witherspoon Avon Ambassador

Reese Witherspoon has just wrapped up a new comedy, "Four Christmases" with Vince Vaughn. She is being interviewed in the November Vogue and is speaking candidly about love, divorce, family and life from the fairy tale Parisian Hotel de Crillon. She is the first ever Avon Global Ambassador which supports women's rights. Her role is endorsing an entrepreneurial version of micro-loans for females around the world. Whether it be a single working American mother or an African tribal one; this position empowers the female.

Elizabetta Fantone Sets the Tone

     Elizabetta Fantone is a sensation in Montreal, Quebec. She is a pop star, artist, and model.

     She was born in Italy and then moved back to Montreal. She is fluent in French, Italian, and is

     learning Spanish and German; very international. Her paintings are similar to the artist 

     Nagel, which are modern and abstract faces of women. One of her pictures she explained 

     as a woman who is crying with tears of joy. Fantone does a lot of  art work at night and

     explains in a video interview how she has been perceived as unreal or untouchable. She

     has also just put out a recent pop hit and has done some modeling.

    

Ralph Rucci's Rich Rewards

Ralph Rucci is a designer with intricate and architectural pieces. He has

just produced a documentary "Ralph Rucci": A Designer and His House" starts a

week of fashion programming on the Sundance Channel on September 22. Then on

October 23, Rucci will be honored at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt ninth

annual National Design Awards Gala in NYC. In 2002, Rucci became the first

American designer since Mainbocher to be invited to show his fashions under

his own name at the Paris couture collections in Paris. He is creative and his

womens line is named Chado, after a Japanese tea ceremony requiring 331 precise

actions.

Orange Ribbon Awareness

Anorexia and Bulima have been two of the more common disorders among females,

but self injury is a newer and more secretive problem. Females, as well as males,

have this issue, but it is reported more often in the female population. Some of the reasons

for this problem are past abuse, not being able to cope with pain effectively, and low self

esteem. Some celebrities who have spoken out about self injury are princess Diana, Angelina

Jolie, Christina Ricci, and Fiona Apple. The Orange ribbon is a symbol, giving awareness

to this disorder. As well as websites and books such as The Bright Red Scream and The

Luckiest Little Girl in the World written by psychologist Steven Levenkron.

Zen is not just Buddahism

Shiseido has a new fragrance that is symbolic of their Japanese origin. A gold cube shaped

bottle with a clear top has a very traditional, yet new age design. A Japanese woman

with a flowing golden gown that curves throughout the ad is paired with long red gloves

and sash that is acrobatic looking. The fragrance balances the meditative scent with

sensation and emotion.