Mexican Beauty On Display In Shanghai
[Shanghai, October 24: Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete of Mexico looks at the original self-portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at the Mexico Pavilion in the Shanghai Expo site. Image via AP.]
The Dramatic Transformation Of A Mexican-American Singer
Lila Downs is an extraordinary Mixteca/American (Scottish) singer. She has thick Frida Kahlo-like natural brows, a pale olive-tinted complexion, long black braids, and the fashion sense of an old-world, beautiful Mexican woman. Well, she used to have all those things.
Chanel Couture Inspires Witty Celebrity Banter
- Jessica Alba was so impressed by the 40-foot-tall lion at the Chanel show that she kept taking pictures of it. Anna Mouglalis said, "I feel like I'm inAlice in Wonderland!" Meanwhile, Beirut is "where it's all happening right now." [WWD]
The Third Eye Guy
[Berlin, April 29. Image via Getty]
Portrait Of The Artist
[London, October 21. Image via Getty]
Kahlo Collection: A Trove Of Fakes?
Frida Kahlo's estate has filed a claim regarding 1,200 items, including taxidermy animals, drawings, and a diary, that were featured in the book Finding Frida Kahlo. Kahlo's estate says the objects are all forgeries; many art historians agree.
Man Accused In Murder Of Neda Soltan • Dude With Woman's Cornea Now…
• Pro-government militiaman Abbas Kargar Javid has been accused of murdering Neda Soltan, the young woman from Iran who became an international symbol after her death was shown on YouTube. The regime has yet to take action against Javid. •
Searching For The Broads In The Booze Cabinet
Getting liquored up is an equal-opportunity affair, but the most
popular brands of booze are associated with men. gives biographies and backgrounds on fellas like Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker, Jack Daniel, Jose Cuervo, Jim Beam, Charles Tanqueray and Gaspare Campari. But what about the ladies of liquor? Few and far …
Calling All Fridas
In San Francisco, on August 2, 2008, Rene Yañez held an open audition for Frida Kahlo look-alikes, in pursuit of presenting tableaux vivants of Kahlo's works. He made a flyer for the casting call: Calling All Fridas. Images of the Frida-wannabes are posted
online , and they're beautiful. It's fascinating to see the…
Frida Kahlo is rolling over in her grave with this one: a NYC-based company has just launched a Frida Kahlo (R) skin care line. Though Kahlo (R) founder Antonio Sciortino claims that Frida was "very much into aromatherapy herself — mixing and creating her own makeup and lotions," her stance on eyebrow plucking makes her …
How Eyebrows Explain The World
Dark, bushy brows are back! These things are cyclical, like hemlines and the circumference of pants legs. But just like mini-skirts and elephant bell-bottoms, they don't look good on everyone. Case in point: Miss Sienna Miller! ABCNews asked London's "eyebrow shaper to the stars" for an opinion. "Personally, I think they…