Just a bit of eye candy. For the girls and guys. I think Miranda is the only model currently that I think ‘supermodel’. She seems to have so much of a ‘star-like’ quality, and I know Gisele, Heidi, Karolina, Doutzen are present day big names but honestly.. know nothing about them except oh, isn’t Gisele dating Leonardo DiCaprio? Or is that so last year?

She’s the epitome of the girl next door, yet looks wondrous with little to no makeup (who can claim that?!) and has dimples. She’s quite renowned for the dimples, and being cute, sexy, adorable and can work such a range of different types of fashion shoots. From David Jones to Victoria’s Secrets, through to Roberto Cavalli, to Betsey Johnson. She can rock any hair colour and she contributes to charity, posing naked on a recent cover of Rolling Stone magazine in an effort to save koalas.

Maybe its a bit of Aussie pride. Miranda is the first Australian addition to the Victoria’s Secret Angels, and the annual parade in recent times has been quite the event with different musical guests, and the parade of hot women flouncing down the runway in little to nothing on. So, its a TV event with guys and girls watching for different reasons.. ah, the spectacle!

Then, there’s Orlando Bloom. Miranda hasn’t been all around town, cavorting with different hearthrobs of the month, and well known actors or rock stars. Oh, actually there was that random guy ‘Jay’ who was momentarily famous for being on ‘The City’ and dating Whitney Port, but I think he became more infamous for being an Aussie, being a player, and once dating Miranda Kerr. And his real name is actually Brent! Random fact I thought I’d share with you. Because I’m helpful like that. :)

If you could ‘be’ any model, who would you be? Leave me a comment and tell me why. Fashion sense? Stunning looks? Who their current arm candy is?

Here are my three picks for most stunning of the evening; thankfully there wasn’t a standout *gasp* horror type dress, though they all seemed to play it safe. Amanda Seyfried seemed to be the brightest in crimson on the red carpet. Alicia Keys looked pretty, but the magenta HELLO LOOK AT ME shade of her dress was a bit too much – in contrast to the other actresses. Angelina played it safe with her standard black – but I did love her jade earrings. And Brad as her accessory. Awww, I don’t mean that.

All in all, the foofy chiffon look s

eemed to be back – but still, for the most part elegance reined.

Here are my three favourites: Jessica Biel, Natalie Portman, and Marisa Tomei. Stunning, classic but contemporary.

Let’s get this straight, just because I’m female does not mean I’m all crazy about Sex & The City. In fact, it never really grabbed me. Sure I saw some of the appeal, and sometimes I do characterize myself as a bit of a ‘Charlotte’ – but its not something I could watch over and over again. So when I got excited to see Lipstick Jungle, it wasn’t going to be a new SATC – it was just new.

The lives of three career women, less haute couture conscience than their first Candace Bushnell imagined counterparts, played by Kim Raver, Lindsay Price and Brooke Shields seemed more realistic, more relatable than Sarah Jessica Parker ever could be in mink, and a tutu, and heels.  I mean, for me coming in on a random episode, the haute couture fashions of a columnist was more distracting than anything, and the plot wasn’t at the forefront when it should have been.

I digress! Kim Raver plays Nico, stoic fashion magazine editor. Lindsay Price a young fashion designer named Victory, who is just coming off a bad review of one of her shows, and then Brooke Shields as career woman Wendy, wife and mother, head of an award winning film production company. Whilst all careers sound equally glamorous and stereotypically so, the show digs a bit deeper to show the frustrations within each job, and the hard work each must endure, or the sacrifices made in order to just get by each day. Wendy, sacrificing family time whilst they grow closer to their father; or Nico, fighting to stay in control of a competitive magazine empire, whilst men around her clamour to see her fall, whilst her marriage to a college professor is nothing exciting to go home to.

Overall, what makes the show most enjoyable is the friendship between the women, and no they don’t tell each other everything, they each have their own secrets, or at least they don’t tell each other everything immediately, but they don’t agree on everything. Nico is often accused of being ice cold, and less ‘oh, cry on my shoulder’ than Victory is, whilst Victory herself is accused of being naive, and Wendy is accused of neglecting her family sometimes… all this only makes them more endearing.

Which leads me to the book, Candace Bushnells’ original imagining for the three -.. which straight away bothered me that they were in their mid 40s. Okay, sorry. Not bothered me but perhaps I don’t see them as having these issues whilst middle aged. Or perhaps I can’t relate, and hope that I don’t wait until my 40s to find love! Yeah.. maybe that’s it.

But what also sets the book apart from the TV show interpretation is that all the women are so ensconced in their careers, they really do lose sight of what is really important. Yes, its definitely important to be empowered in the workplace, and to feel like women are equals with men in the office – but the women are written as so cold, more than stoic, just cut throat, cunning, and nowhere near  emotionally approachable, or feminine in the way the three actresses convey.  Wendy’s husband in the book is also a cruel, malicious manipulative man, the children the most spoilt, and likely to grow up to be Paris Hilton’s proteges. That’s just to name a few differences.

Even Nico’s affair with Kirby isn’t written as warmly as it appears on screen, and Nico’s thoughts of Kirby are purely superficial, purely physical. Perhaps that is what it was meant to happen, but immediately aside from Robert Buckley being faint, and fall off your chair gorgeous, the chemistry, and the way he really connected with Kim Raver, and the way their relationship developed – it was more than physical. I’d rather have that than what Candace Bushnell envisaged.

Kate Walsh ready for Letterman

Just had to quickly post this lovely photo of Kate Walsh all glammed up for her interview with Letterman to promote the 2nd season of Private Practice, continuing her role as Dr Addison Montgomery. I just had to quickly blog this, as I love her darker hair, the dress is stunning, and well..she’s become a new style icon for me.

I haven’t yet spoken of my love for Prison Break but let’s just say the above actress, and her absence in Season 3 made it pretty unbearable to watch, whilst Michael was sweaty and sullen in Sona. But with her return in the new season, a new quest for the convicts of Fox River, I just had to have Sarah Wayne as my ‘Couture’ of the Week feature, the inaugural post!

From the first scenes with Wentworth, where she was trying to be cool, professional but approachable Dr. Tancredi, it soon ended up being Sara and Michael. Within no time, we were captivated with the chemistry between these two, known as ‘MiSa’ in the shipper world. It didn’t matterwhat Michael was doing, it didn’t matter that he was soon to escaping Fox River, and no matter that his original quest was to save his brother from execution, soon it was his subconscious goal to be with Sara at all costs, and save her when she inadvertantly became involved in his escape. It’s been said that it was the fans that played a large part in Sarah’s return to the show in Season 4, and its one of the major reasons I’ve returned too!