Brits 2013 Winners

VOGUE cover girls Lana Del Rey and Adele both had a successful evening at last night's Brit Awards. Although Adele couldn't be there in person (she is busy in Los Angeles rehearsing for her Oscars performance on Sunday), she took home Best Single for Skyfall, while Del Rey won Best International Solo Artist - thanking her record label and friends for helping make her life "a work of art".

Emeli Sandé was the night's big winner, receiving the statues for Best British Female Solo Artist and British Album Of The Year. One Direction was awarded the Global Success accolade, a new honour. Tom Odell - who performed at the Burberry show on Monday - was chosen for the Critics Choice prize.

Mumford & Sons won Best British Group; Coldplay beat The Rolling Stones for Best British Live Act; and The Black Keys topped the International Group category. Frank Ocean was given the International Male Solo Artist honour. Ben Howard was named best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act, fending off competition from alt-J, Jake Bugg, Jessie Ware and Rita Ora. 

VogueTV went behind the scenes at the event to meet the music world's biggest stars - from Lana Del Rey to One Direction. Find out how Harry Styles creates that famous quiff, how Alexa Chung decided what to wear and why Lana Del Rey's red carpet outfit was love at first sight in our exclusive film.

BRIT AWARDS 2013: NOMINEES AND WINNERS

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ELLA ALEXANDER | FEBRUARY 21, 2013 | Article Link

H&M Crashes Paris Fashion Week

Three days after crashing the Oscars red carpet by dressing Helen Hunt in a strapless gown, H&M, the Swedish fast fashion retailer, crashed Paris Fashion Week.

It has been eight years since H&M presented a runway show for its signature label, not counting its big promotions with Donatella Versace and Maison Martin Margiela, so executives at the company evidently decided it was time to pull out all the stops with an elaborate show on the grounds of the Musée Rodin. H&M’s previous show, by the way, was held in the Central Park Zoo. So it has come a long way.

It says a lot about the state of fashion shows, which are increasingly becoming entertainment vehicles designed for the public as opposed to events for industry insiders, that H&M chose Paris, the city of haute couture, for this one. Previous designers to have shown their collections in the gardens behind the museum include Dior, during the late John Galliano years, and Tom Ford before that, when he was at Yves Saint Laurent. And yet H&M’s production seemed even more over the top, and the audience appeared at least as wowed.

Guests entering the show Wednesday night walked along a candle-lit pathway to an enormous tent that had been decorated like a fantasy apartment, with more than 15 small rooms where editors were seated on couches, beds, marble slabs and at gilded wicker seats around a dining table. Each room was decorated in a different style, including a Moroccan lounge, an Art Deco sitting room, a marble bathroom and a kids’ bedroom with an outer space motif. Finding your assigned seat through the winding rooms was like walking through Ikea, only with better furniture........

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ERIC WILSON | February 27, 2013 | Read More Article Link

Oscars 2013: Jennifer Aniston and Stacy Keibler Plucked Dresses from the Runway

Jennifer Aniston walked the red carpet at last night's Academy Awards in a gorgeous Valentino gown from the designer's spring 2013 Haute Couture runway. The star's strapless, full-skirted red dress echoed the advice of celebrity stylist Cher Coulter: "Red always looks good on the red carpet-especially Valentino red," said Coulter. "The color's a no-brainer if you want to go classic and you want to stand out." Aniston finished off her look with Salvatore Ferragamo heels and her signature layered locks. And she isn't the only one who took a dress from runway to red carpet: George Clooney's main squeeze Stacy Keibler looked striking in a studded column gown by Naeem Khan, which debuted at New York Fashion Week less than two weeks ago. When we asked Khan if he had any Oscars dresses in the works, he wasn't so sure if he'd see one of his designs on the red carpet. "There are so many of them! Those kinds of things aren't so easy, so we'll see what happens!" 

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Oscars 2013: Winners

VOGUE cover girl Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress in a Leading Role for Silver Linings Playbook at the Oscars last night. Despite tripping up as she climbed the steps to collect her award, the 22-year-old actress managed to retain her sense of humour. "Thank you, you guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell. This is really embarrassing," she told the audience, after she was given standing ovation.

Fellow Vogue cover girl Adele also won big - taking home Best Original Song for Skyfall. Anne Hathaway gave an emotional speech as she was presented with Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Les Misérables.

Argo - which was directed by Ben Affleck - received Best Picture, while Ang Lee topped the Directing category for Life Of Pi. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lincoln, as Django Unchained's Christoph Waltz was honoured with Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

The dramatic Russian attire of Anna Karenina received Best Costume Design; Amour was given Best Foreign Language Film; Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained received Best Original Screenplay; and Best Make-Up and Hairstyling went to Les Misérables.

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ELLA ALEXANDER | FEBRUARY 25, 2013 | Article Link