Musical Beauty - Taylor Swift

 

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Her narrative songwriting, which often centers around her personal life, has received widespread critical plaudits and media coverage.

Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004 to pursue a career in country music. Her 2006 eponymous debut studio album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s on the Billboard 200. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second studio album, Fearless (2008), expands on country pop styles and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Buoyed by the success of crossover singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Speak Now (2010), her third studio album, blends country pop with rock sensibility and spawned the top-10 singles "Mine" and "Back to December".

Swift's fourth studio album, Red (2012), experiments with various pop, rock, and electronic genres. It included the top-five singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, and "I Knew You Were Trouble". With her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), she announced her full transition to pop. The synth-pop record made Swift the first female solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year twice and amassed three Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits—"Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood". She extended the electronic-pop sound on her next two studio albums: Reputation (2017), which incorporates elements of hip hop and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Look What You Made Me Do", and Lover (2019), which was the world's best-selling studio album of 2019. Swift's indie folk and alternative rock eighth studio album, Folklore (2020), and its lead single, "Cardigan", made her the first act to debut atop both the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously.

With sales of over 200 million records worldwide, Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Her accolades include ten Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and seven Guinness World Records; she is the most-awarded act and woman at the American Music Awards (29 wins) and Billboard Music Awards (23 wins), respectively. She has been included in multiple power rankings, such as Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015 and 2019), Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015), the Forbes Celebrity 100 (placing first in 2016 and 2019), and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists Chart (placing eighth). She was named Woman of the Decade (2010s) by Billboard and the Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards, and two of her albums have been listed in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020).

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Hollywood Beauty : Monica Belluci (generalfactsworld.blogspot.com)

Hollywood Beauty : Monica Belluci

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci,30 September 1964 born, is an Italian actress and model. Bellucci began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American films and French films.

She played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama Malèna (2000). She was in the controversial Gaspar Noé arthouse horror film Irréversible (2002), and portrayed Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ (2004).

In the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, she played Persephone. In the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, then she became a beautiful and the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise.

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A fresh perspective: Lanvin autumn/winter 2017 at Paris Fashion Week

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•  Caroline Issa 

As we enter the final stretch of fashion month, it's amazing to note how fast everything is changing and yet how simultaneously nothing has changed at all.

At Lanvin’s autumn/winter 2017 Paris show, I sat next to a fashion editor who calculated that she has been attending fashion shows for 20 years with half the faces in the audience remaining exactly the same. What was most astounding, she continued, was how long they'd all tried to keep a fresh perspective on the same, standardised fashion show format.

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Which is precisely why a shifting of focus on the catwalk is what makes things interesting. And Bouchra Jarrar’s ever-evolving work as creative director at Lanvin catches the eye, and tilts the perspective. She offers us something new – a fresh approach that makes you ponder.

Her predecessor at the French house Alber Elbaz had such a strong, structural and colourful signature that it means Jarrar's languid, elegant and slightly louche Lanvin woman is a 180-degree turnaround.

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For her second show at the helm, Jarrar has gone back to the original Jeanne Lanvin signifiers – lest we forget that Jeanne was a Parisian couturier long before Coco Chanel – while keeping much of her own personal DNA that so many women were so compelled by at her eponymous line.

Precision, sculptural tailoring, a penchant for feathers and a smattering of bling, Jarrar works with the best couture craftsmen in France to create silk flowers, jewelled embellishments and romantic dresses that are quintessentially French.

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The palette was monochromatic, with the exception of several pieces cut in dazzling (and French, again) Klein Blue; the cuts were often plunging, fabrics floating and sheer (with flashes of onyx leather). While Jarrar's bag outing mainly consisted of micro-bags on long chains, more jewellery-like than functional; big enough to carry just a credit card but little else.

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Come autumn I'll certainly be wearing the suits with her light coat balanced across the shoulders. In essence, the collection heralds a quiet and soft elegance: the perfect antidote for these very loud times.

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(Source- http://www.telegraph.co.uk)