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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Jennifer Lopez Beyond the Runway Fashion Show
Actress Jennifer Lopez will unveil her latest fashion range on cable network MTV.
Lopez, who recently revealed plans to embark on her first ever fashion show - will promote her clothing line J.Lo By Jennifer Lopez's autumn range on the catwalk, and invite MTV cameras to film the event for a special broadcast.
Jennifer Lopez: Beyond The Runway, set to air on February 24, will follow the superstar as she runs her clothing company and juggles her other career duties as her show at Olympus Fashion Week approaches.
She says in a statement: "I've had a passion for fashion for so long. I am that girl who comes from the street, who comes from the Bronx, but has travelled the world and can bring all of those glamorous qualities, so it 's like a sexy street glamour." | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | J-LO'S IN CHARGE
SHE'S famous for an entourage that caters to every whim but J.Lo is insisting on a more hands on approach for her latest venture.
Sources close to the bootylicious actress/singer, 35, say Jen is going to be getting stuck in with preparations for the launch of the new season's collection of her fashion label, J.Lo By Jennifer Lopez.
We're told: "Jennifer is going to be helping backstage with fittings, styling and making sure the entire look for each model is perfected before they walk the runway."
We wonder if she'll also stir their tea anti-clockwise.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | bootylicious has actually become a word?
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Bootylicious was a word in the 1980's according to Webster's Dictionary. It was used by lots of black people to describe sexy curvy women. Beyonce and Destiny's Child just made it mainstream. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | J.Lo's Fashion Hits NY Catwalk
Jennifer Lopez has branched out yet again - into fashion.
Jenny from the Block made her runway debut in New York with a blinging collection.
The show was divided into three parts to correspond with phases of J.Lo's career - her start in the Bronx, her music and her celebrity lifestyle.
During the finale, she pumped out songs from her new album, Rebirth.
Many of the clothes were things you'd expect to see Jen herself wearing - lots of fur, floppy hats, tiny skirts and hotpants, jumpsuits and belly-baring tops.
There was also an emphasis on white - J.Lo has an affinity with the colour, having once asked for her dressing room to be decked out in the neutral shade.
Opinion on the show was divided, with one fashionists declaring it "a JC Penney rack" (a US department store) whilst another said it "confirmed her star status".
Jen and hubby Marc Anthony were on hand to bathe in the adultation.
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J. LO, MARC TRAUMATIZE TENTS
THE preparations for Jennifer Lopez's first runway fashion show on Friday night were more exciting than the Bryant Park tent show itself, insiders say.
"Marc Anthony was driving the production crew crazy," a source told PAGE SIX.
The salsa-singing husband of J. Lo "convinced her on Thursday night that all the music was wrong and had to be changed. He also decided the order of the outfits was wrong, and changed that too. He also didn't like the lighting."
Lopez has been without a manager since jettisoning Benny Medina, who guided her to stardom, and then marginalizing Simon Fields, whose role was reduced with Anthony on the scene.
"She doesn't need a manager because Marc is her manager," said our source. "Marc is totally butting heads with Andy Hilfiger, the CEO of Sweetface [the company that markets the J.Lo line]."
Hilfiger was said to be annoyed that Lopez - instead of sticking around to promote her clothes - was jumping on a plane right after the show and heading to L.A., where the action will shift for tonight's Grammy Awards and where the couple is performing together for the first time.
Others performing at the Grammys are Beyonce Knowles, Josh Groban, Counting Crows and Kanye West.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | She really loves fur 
The other clothes are cool too. She looks good.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | She looks really good in those shots, clean and fresh and unpretentious. Not diva-ish and all that, she looks approachable and still gorgeous and a touch of glamerous as well. I like her better without all her bling and crap on. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | The fashionistas who doubted Jennifer Lopez's style credentials have been forced to eat humble pie after the singer/actress debuted a triumphant new collection in Manhattan. J-Lo was roundly applauded by the industry press after her Sweetface range of womenswear hit the runway at New York Fashion Week.
The versatile Mrs Anthony has obviously decided to pitch her designs at a more refined market: the velour tracksuits she was previously known for have been replaced by elegant gowns and some distinctly ethnic influences. The funky urban flavour was still there, though, with models strutting down the catwalk in fur coats, halter-neck tops and jumpsuits.
Even Vogue magazine's editor-at-large Andre Leon Talley was won over by Jen's new sophistication. "It was just absolutely fabulous!" he declared. The lady at the centre of all the fuss said the change in her personal style was simply a reflection of how she has grown as a person. "It's a mix of my influences, of where I grew up in New York, all my travels and all the places I have been to and the things I've been exposed to," she explained.
Her fellow chart-toppers Lil' Kim and Ashanti were among the celebs applauding from the front row. And there were also some big names on the runway itself, with British supermodel Naomi Campbell one of the first leggy beauties to appear.
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Jen with her sisters Leslie (left) and Lynda at the show
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Elegance and ethnic influences have replaced the urban-style sportswear Jennifer was previously known for
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | J.Lo Eating For Two At Sweetface Fashion Show?
The Sunday Mirror reports that speculation is on the rise Jennifer Lopez is pregnant after the diva skipped the London charity premiere of new flick Shall We Dance and chowed down on turkey sandwiches and fries at the launch of her fashion label, Sweetface, seemingly unconcerned about her weight.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Maybe she's doing the newlywed thing like Britney and letting herself get fat and ugly?  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Forget Jenny from the Block, and meet Jenny from Fort Knox. Famous for how she fills out her "draws," Jennifer Lopez is living large in a whole new way, with pants in her high-end Sweetface clothing line that cost $2 million, according to People magazine. Actually, the low-rider jeans cost just a skosh more because that's the price of the optional fly button on the pants--a 16.67 carat diamond! The jeans themselves retail for a mere $49.
J.Lo is apparently made of money, because her runway show, which closed York's Fashion Week, reportedly cost $2 million to stage (and we're not even counting those diamond-fly jeans in the total). Far be it from us to tell stars how to spend their money, but after her pitch-challenged Sabado Gigante moment at the Grammys with hubby Marc Anthony, we think she might want to invest some of her money in a new voice coach.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | PETA Targets J.Lo's New Sweetface Clothing Line
Jeannette Walls of MSNBC.com reports Jennifer Lopez is about to become the target of a major campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because she wears so much fur and uses it extensively in her new line of clothes, Sweetface. "There is nothing remotely 'sweet' about the torture deaths of animals killed for fur," PETA Vice President Dan Mathews said. "Jennifer Lopez may be able to get the images of bloody, skinned foxes still alive and breathing out of her head, but we doubt all her fans will." Read more.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Surely we must be almost at a point with cloning where we can breed brain dead animals and grow them for fur? Would that make PETA happy? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | LOPEZ CHALLENGES FUR PROTESTORS
Jennifer Lopez met animal rights protesters head on at a record signing in New York yesterday -- by wearing a fox fur poncho.
Volunteers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals camped outside the Virgin Records store in Times Square in Manhattan on Tuesday to protest J.Lo's use of animal skins in music videos and fur content in her new fashion line Sweetface.
But the sexy superstar defiantly waved to protestors and fans assembled outside the store and cheerily waved as she entered the store wearing the accessory, which was lined with fox fur.
Dawn Carr, a PETA director, insists the group will continue to campaign against Lopez: "She is our latest target. We have sent her dozens of letters and DVDs to try to show her why the fur trade is so evil but she has ignored us.
"The amount of fur J.Lo has worn recently and now uses in her clothing line, shows she is blind to the horrific cruelty of the fur industry."
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| Posted by: realflashdancer | |
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schmiggens said this in post #16 :
Surely we must be almost at a point with cloning where we can breed brain dead animals and grow them for fur? Would that make PETA happy? |
Are you serious, Schmiggens? Or are you just playing devil's advocate in this fur debate?
As I mentioned before (see post regarding JLo's new humanitarian 'cause' of anti-bullying at: http://www.inreview.com/showthread....0009&forumid=36 ) I disapprove of fanaticism, and I'm sure that PETA is guilty of some of that, but on the other hand, their objections to some of the incredibly painful methods used to kill certain animals for their fur are very much legitimate.
Would it be accurate to say then, that you share JLo's double standard when it comes to bullying--fine for the dumb beasts but unacceptable for humans?
realflashdancer
P.S. I am not a vegetarian, and I wear leather, but I *do* think any animal that sacrifices its life for our consumption should be honoured, put to death as quickly and as painlessly as is humanly possible, and all of its remains should be put to good use in a respectful manner.
Have a look at the prayer for animals below, (generally attributed to Albert Schweitzer) and perhaps you will make your position on this issue a little clearer. (I hope you're not really as callous and flippant as you seem to be indicating in your post.)
Prayer for Animals
Here our humble prayer, 0 God,
for our friends the animals,
especially for animals who are suffering;
for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated;
for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars;
for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry;
for all that must be put to death.
We entreat for them all Thy mercy and pity,
and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion
and gentle hands and kindly words.
Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals,
and so to share the blessings of the merciful.
Amen
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Why is my suggestion flippant and callous?
If anything it's more humane, you grow a cell that grows fur and you farm that cell like you would if you were growing grass. That cell can't feel pain and can't suffer needlessly, but you still get the desired end product - fur. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony try to go out unnoticed as they leave their apartment building from the back entrance. March 4.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | |
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PETA Targets J.Lo's New Sweetface Clothing Line
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LOPEZ ATTACKED BY PROTESTERS AT HER RESTAURANT
Animal activists made diners at Jennifer Lopez's Pasadena, Calif., restaurant Madre's a little uneasy Thursday as they showed them images of animals skinned alive over lunch.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals followers took their fur protests against Lopez to a new level by protesting outside Madre's.
They also paraded large posters of Lopez with the words "Fur Hag" attached and placards featuring images of orphaned animals and the caption "J.Lo: These Babies Miss Their Mother -- Is She on Your Back?" as diners tried to eat lunch.
The activism was part of an ongoing campaign to shame Lopez for "promoting and profiting from the bloody fur industry."
The protest comes on the heels of the February debut of Lopez's fur-laden Sweetface fashion collection, which has been panned by critics and animal rights activists alike.
A PETA spokesman says, "Lopez continues to pimp for the fur industry despite the fact that PETA has contacted her no less than a dozen times, pleading with her to stop supporting the horrific abuse of animals killed for their fur."
PETA has also just launched an anti-J.Lo Web site JLodown.com, which urges the beauty to stop wearing fur.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | LOPEZ DESIGNS FOR PLAYSTATION
Jennifer Lopez has used her creative skills to design a high-profile collection of custom-made carry-alls for the new Playstation Portable.
Lopez has joined a host of other designers, including Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg and Kimora Lee Simmons, on the project, which went on display Monday night in Los Angeles at a fashion show called Pret a PSP.
The supermodels graced the runway with the new PSPs encased in their respective carry-alls at the event, reports MTV.
The PSP launches on March 24.
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| Posted by: realflashdancer | |
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schmiggens said this in post #16 :
Surely we must be almost at a point with cloning where we can breed brain dead animals and grow them for fur? Would that make PETA happy? |
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schmiggens said this in post #19 :
Why is my suggestion flippant and callous?
If anything it's more humane, you grow a cell that grows fur and you farm that cell like you would if you were growing grass. That cell can't feel pain and can't suffer needlessly, but you still get the desired end product - fur. |
Hi Schmiggens;
Sorry for the delay in replying: serious illness in my family has been my preoccupation for the past month or so.
I don't disagree at all with your wish list for growing fur via laboratory conditions such as are now in place for growing skin grafts for burn (and other) victims. (I think they grow pigskin in this way and for this purpose too, but don't quote me on that.) So far, growing skin cells in laboratories has a essential and medically valid purpose--even if it is nowhere near economical. And maybe, in the space-age future, such a thing could be considered for growing fur as you suggest.
But until this method were to become economically feasible for the frivolous purpose of growing fur to adorn human carcasses--particularly when there are much more effective ways of keeping warm now due to scientific advances in cold-weather gear--I guess PETA has a point--don't you, in all sincerity, think? (I have a friend working in the Canadian Arctic and he says that many of the natives there prefer the more modern clothing made of newer, lighter, more durable, and more waterproof materials.)
So, it's not your wish for a humane way to harvest fur that I'm objecting to in your post. Rather, it's your offhanded dismissal of PETA's involvement in fur fashions that I am concerned about. The "Would that make PETA happy?" part is what I am wondering about in terms of flippancy and callousness.
I sympathize with how distasteful it is to have to be confronted by protestors and unpleasant placards, etc., etc. And I'd rather not have to be reminded either about what the poor animals are subjected to, but I have to give PETA supporters credit for the power of their convictions and for their commitment to their cause. I'm sure that if any one of us found ourselves somehow completely conscious and aware but rendered mute and without the power of language to convey our thoughts and wishes, we'd want someone to protect us wouldn't we?
PETA does just this--but for our animal friends instead. Think what a more terrible world it would be if not for all our outspoken guardians of higher consciousness and conscience who use their precious time, energies, and resources to warn us of the dangers to our souls of selfish and exclusive behaviour. Sure, their exercising their right to free speech is annoying and their outrageous materials make us gag, but it's good medicine for our souls--and pills should probably not go down too easily anyway.
I really enjoy things light and amusing too, but sometimes it's just not practical to avoid reality and stay stuck in the pretend world of 'playing dress-up'. And, btw, thanks for the forum.
Maureen
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| Posted by: realflashdancer | | Oh yeah, I was in a hurry to paste this prayer too, and there was a typo, so in case anyone else needs it, I've fixed the misspelling, so here it is again:
Prayer for Animals
Hear our humble prayer, 0 God,
for our friends the animals,
especially for animals who are suffering;
for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated;
for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars;
for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry;
for all that must be put to death.
We entreat for them all Thy mercy and pity,
and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion
and gentle hands and kindly words.
Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals,
and so to share the blessings of the merciful.
Amen
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Jennifer Lopez Confronted About Fur Use In Sweetface Line
Jennifer Lopez was interviewed by Austereo's Jackie O. last week and was quizzed by the radio host, who is anti-fur, about the use of fur in her Sweetface Fashion line.
"If someone would like to educate me and bring something to light that I don't know, that'd be great," Lopez explained to the host, who responded by asking her, "Would you like to be educated right now?" Jackie then went into brutal detail of how foxes are skinned alive and chinchillas are electrocuted. Lopez was silent on the other end of the phone, and apparently angry enough afterwards that she was able to prevent the interview from getting posted on the Kyle and Jackie O. show's website.
In a preview of the interview in the Sydney Morning Herald, Jackie simply said, "It seemed like she didn't know about the cruelty associated with it."
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Jackie O and Kyle's show is the unfunniest radio show on air EVER. They have one joke per three hours of radio time and it's supposed a light hearted music top 40 count down program. I think Jackie O can be really nice, but once she gets a bee in her bonnett she won't let it go and that's what she's done with this fur issue. I think she took it too far. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | After ACTUALLY hearing the radio interview, J-Lo was obviously trying to avoid answering questions on the fur issue, she didn't want anyone to enlighten her and Jackie O dived right in, but she was really nice about and explained it calmly, she wasn't ranting and raving and she only said about four sentences and then changed the topic.
So I retract my above statement, I don't think Jackie O took it too far, in fact I think she handled it perfectly.
It must've been hard for someone who is so passionate about animal rights to interview J-Lo when controversy on the subject dogs Jen all the time, but I think Jackie held herself in check well and handled the situation professionally. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | PETA: 'LOPEZ FORCED BILLBOARD TO DROP OUR AD'
Animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have accused Jennifer Lopez of bullying Billboard magazine into removing their full-page ad, which lambasted the singer/actress for wearing fur.
The music magazine had agreed to run PETA's ad, which features a gruesome photo of a skinned animal beside an open letter to Lopez, attacking her for glamorizing fur in her new Sweetface clothing line and encouraging the "sadistic slaughter" of rabbits, minks, foxes and chinchillas.
But on Monday, Billboard canceled the $5,000 ad, leading PETA Vice President Lisa Lange to conclude that the magazine "caved to pressure" from Lopez's record label Sony Corp's Epic Records and her publicist Nanci Ryder of Baker-Winokur-Ryder.
Ryder admits to the New York Daily News, "I'm doing my job, which is protecting my client. I don't understand why PETA wants to meet with Jennifer.
"In my opinion, there would be nothing worse than a meeting, unless in the meeting we could commit to not wearing fur and not using fur in fashion. Unless we could do that, I didn't quite understand where the meeting would go."
PETA has retaliated by e-mailing the banned ad to hundreds of radio stations nationwide.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | PETA's open letter to J.Lo
The grisly ad features a photo of a skinned animal above an open letter to Lopez. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it has targeted the singer, 35, because her new clothing label Sweetface uses real fur.
PETA's Letter
WARNING = some of the images and text in PETA's letter is quite disturbing. I would recommend that any one who is easily squeamish not read the letter. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | J.LO UPDATES FONDA'S STYLE
Jennifer Lopez's velour tracksuits from her J.Lo clothing line have won a new fan -- Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda.
Lopez and Fonda met last year on the set of the upcoming comedy "Monster-In-Law" as they played feuding in-laws.
But once the cameras stopped rolling, the pair unlocked their horns and 67-year-old Fonda picked up a few style tips.
Fonda says, "I normally would never wear velour, or whatever this is called. [Lopez] makes these things and they're so comfortable. She's helped me get hip."
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | PETA FIGHT BACK AT J.LO
Animal campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are continuing their campaign against Jennifer Lopez, after she had an "anti-J.Lo" advert removed from a music magazine.
According to the New York Daily News, Lopez's representatives arranged for the full-page PETA ad, criticizing the use of animal fur in the singer's fashion line Sweetface, to be pulled from Billboard magazine.
So the determined organization has taken out an ad in Radio and Records newspaper, in a bid to dent the promotional campaign for J.Lo's new single.
And it appears their campaign is working -- after staging a rally outside a Lopez record signing in New York and another at her California restaurant, her new single, "Hold You Down," sits at just 64th place in the American charts.
PETA spokesperson Dan Mathews says, "Lopez may not stop wearing fur out of concern for animals, but she may out of concern for her career."
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | I think that them claiming responsibility for her new single only being at 64 is a bit much. It's has ONLY JUST been released and I hear it's not as good as "Get Right" so it might just be a timing thing.
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