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Fashion Flashback: Golden Fashion

There are seasonal colors and there are immortal ones. Those colors that never go out of style, the colors that you can do no wrong when you wear them. Those colors outlive both the times and seasonal trends. Gold is one of those colors that you can’t get enough of.

Whether you use it as an accessory or in a head-to-toe look, one thing is certain, gold will make you shine. As part of FashionTV’s 15th year anniversary, we are proud to share with you some of the best golden moments on the catwalks.

Golden Girls 2000

At the turn of the century, top designers dared to redefine fashion norms. This “Golden Girls” clip features top brands such as Iceberg and Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti and their vision of the future of golden fashion. In this video, you can also see fashions from top designer Roberto Cavalli, a designer who uses gold as a fashion fixture.

Golden Girls 2007 – 2008

Sparkling dresses and golden designs were at the heart of the Fall 2007 season. Emanuel Ungaro and Chanel opted for a conservative collection, whereas Dolce & Gabbana’s fashion show was one of a kind. Strong designs in golden hues lit up the catwalk. Also, in this review you can find a few great Roberto Cavalli dresses, which implement two of the designer’s trademarks: gold and leopard prints. Another highlight is a magnificent golden coat by Alexander McQueen.

Golden Girls 2010

Spring 2010 marked a celebration of all metallic colors, including silver, bronze and of course, gold. Top brands such as Balmain, Pucci, and Giambattista Valli chose to put their golden designs on the runway, while other great fashion houses emphasized silver and bronze. Check out this clip and see the differences between the golden fashions of 2000 and the designs produced a decade later.

Fashion Roundup: 2012 CFDA Awards, Kristen Stewart’s MTV Movie Awards self-kiss and why is Johnny Depp such a fashion icon?

Fashion Roundup: 2012 CFDA Awards, Kristen Stewart’s MTV Movie Awards self-kiss and why is Johnny Depp such a fashion icon?

Good-lookin dudes star in Prada’s F/W menswear ad! Adrien Brody, Jamie Bell, Garrett Hedlund, Gary Oldman, and Willem Dafoe all walked on Miuccia Prada’s runway back in January and now the handsome-five will be photographed together for the new ad campaign. (Styleite)

The Council of Fashion Designers of America have awarded Johnny Depp with the Fashion Icon Award, this is the first time that a man has ever received this award. Why is Depp deserving of this honor? Maybe because he just doesn’t give a damn… (People)

Miss USA 2012 is Rhode Island’s Olivia Culpo! The 20-year-old brunette beauty is a cellist who aspires to be more like Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn. Olivia beat out 50 other women the crown at the 61st annual Miss USA Pageant. (Huffington Post)

Another glamorous awards show that took place this week, was the MTV Movie Awards 2012 in sunny L.A. One of the biggest stars of the night was Kristen Stewart, who won the best-kiss award with Robert Pattinson for the fourth time-in-a-row (an all-time record). Stewart took the stage alone, clad in a stunning metallic dress, and demonstrated how to kiss… alone. (US Weekly)

Stewart was also recently photographed for the July cover of Vanity Fair, photographed in dramatic couture outfits as opposed to her previously criticized 'punky looks'.Watch the video from the shoot.

In honor of 50 years of the CFDA fashion awards, Fashionista.com has compiled the 50 best moments of the CFDA Awards. From Andy Warhol to Sarah Jessica Parker- take a look at the impressive slideshow. (Fashionista)

A lot of high-profile events have been going on this week, but in England no event is bigger than the Queen’s event. So closing our list for this week, is the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, marking the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II over the English throne. Kate Middleton, Grace Jones, Elton John and Paul Mccartney, were all there- see the royals for yourself:

Music 2012 – your favourites

Wild Nothing 'Nocturne' Album Premiere
Dream-pop maven Wild Nothing (aka Jack Tatum) exclusively shared his second album 'Nocturne' with Dazed readers in August, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2010's 'Gemini'. The album is a narcotic listen, with all Tatum's trademark luxe layers, but with a more refinedmelodic focus on the80s phaser-pop of 'Paradise' and the irresistible 'Shadow'. "The theme for the album is a kind of drowsy, delirious-type feeling," Tatum explained in the accompanying interview. A few months on, it still feels pretty good.

Brooke Candy - 'Das Me' Video Premiere
"Treat my pussy like a meal," proposed rapper Brooke Candy in her debut single, though how you get to it around the gold-plated armour is anyone's guess. Candy also hooked up with Count Mack and Grimes in 2012, but it was the provocative performer's'Das Me' video premiere in October which really got people talking. Love her or hate her, the stats spoke for themselves, and 'Das Me' was Dazed's fourth most-viewed music article of the year.

Grimes: 21st Century Girl
For the first press appearance around her brilliant album 'Visions', Hedi Slimane shot Grimes in Givenchy couture for our April cover, styled by Robbie Spencer. Subsequently came the iconic videos for 'Oblivion' and 'Genesis', live appearances worldwide, and a cavalcade of public and critical acclaim. For our feature, Ruth Saxelby visited Vancouver to hang out with Claire Boucher (aka Grimes), who told her: "If there's anything that would mean something to me as an artist, I would want to be part of the cultural dialogue. That would be my dream." 2012 was the year she achieved this.


Soulwax – DAVE (film premiere)
Soulwax – the pair of Belgian DJs who whose 2ManyDJs mixes soundtracked a thousand first-year house parties in the dawning years of the naughties – dropped in in October with the latest in their longrunning Radio Soulwax project. An hourlong, slyly affectionate take on the style and musc ofDavid Robert Jones, it features model Hannelore Knuts and more Bowie covers than your mum's teenage wall. Let's dance!


Azealia Banks Blows Up
"Azealia Banks gets reactions," we wrote as we launched our September issue with the image of the mermaid-haired rap princess blowing up a pink condom. But we didn't have any idea of the real fuss it would cause, as the cover made global headlines and went on to be banned in seven countries. For the feature, our regular New York correspondent Karley Sciortino spent the day with Banks, where the rapper was as frank with her views on sexuality and other MCs as she was forthright about her opinions on the shoot's food, clothes and make-up. Azealia's cover wasn't just the most-viewed music article of the site, but the most popular piece across all of Dazed Digital in 2012. And in October, Banks proved why she was the most talked-about rapper this year when she brought the Mermaid Ball to London, delivering voguing, dipping and fire-spitting, all in a 30-inch raspberry weave and light-up bra.

Music 2012 – editor’s highlights

In a recent Tumblr post, Claire Boucher said of her artistic struggle: "I think Grimes succeeded because I had to discard everything else in my life in order to do it. I was so fucking desperate to make it work, I don’t think I could have possibly allowed it to fail."

2012's most exciting music came from similarly visceral places. Angel Haze went from murderously nightwalking the NY streets to searing autobiography; Purity Ring cut through a fragile ribcage with their lingering tripped-out RnB to find a bloody beating heart; our fearless September cover star Azealia Banks went from being a YouTube breakout to the one to beat. Artists like Andy Stott, John Talabot and Holly Herndon, meanwhile, manipulated the human voice in layered and tangible-sounding music that lacerated pop, dance and electronica. You could hear the red-raw knuckles in every stage that Savages took to this year.

Visually, things were messier still. The wild videos of J-Pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, the covergirl of our December Asia issue, were rainbow-hued mazes of visual puns and double meanings; Lana Del Rey pushed American Dream imagery until it bled as she was bent over a pinball machine by a hairy biker; Mykki Blanco commanded the frills and feathers of a gender-screwing bacchanalian party.

In the past, musical trends represented a natural and needed shift, whereby the introspection of post-punk usurped punk and Top 40 trance found its counterpoint with the understated ballads of Adele. But in 2012 only the broadest painter would see a likewise shift in the tension between the web-enabled mainstream and underground. Maybe our January 2013 cover star RiFF RaFF nailed it, actually, when he rapped in 'Bird On A Wire': "Causing storms in sunny weather / Hoping my days get better." The most interesting artists this year weren’t the ones that steered clear of storms, but those that started them and shone. Here's to more rainy days.

ANGEL HAZE INTERVIEW

We spoke to the rising US rapper just as 'New York' was blowing up. Two weeks after we spoke, she signed a major label deal.

PURITY RING INTERVIEW

The Canadian duo told Owen Myers about their love for Aaliyah and Lord of the Rings as they prepared to release 'Shrines'.

EVIAN CHRIST INTERVIEW

In his first UK interview, the Tri Angle producer reflected on his 'Kings and Them' mixtape and the religious connotations of his music.

FATIMA AL QADIRI & SOPHIA AL-MARIA ON GULF FUTURISM

Artists Al Qadiri and Al-Maria compiled nine striking examples of the Arabian Gulf's particular brand of Futurism, as an adjunct to their full-length feature by Karen Orton in our November Art Issue.

SPACEGHOSTPURRP FEATURE & FILM

The rapper told Charlie Robin Jones about the outer-space influences of his "mysterious phonk," with an exclusive film by Colin Dodgson.

Rolls-Royce Ghost – the last luxury car?

With prices going up and down, the car industry lost a lot of its prestige. Bank credits and new fortunes, made cars much more accessible than before, so only a few cars...

Bullies Aren’t Popular With The Tweens

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As the holidays call for good will toward men, new research indicates that kids who are kinder are also happier and more popular.

This finding suggests that simple and brief acts of kindness might help reduce bullying, the researchers say.

At the top of parents' wish lists is for their children to be happy, to be good and to be well-liked, and past research has suggested these goals may be not only compatible but complementary.

The link between happiness and prosocial behavior such as kindness toward others apparently goes both ways: Not only do happy people often do good for others, but being more prosocial increases people's sense of well-being.

Based on this prior research, scientists carried out what they say was the first long-term experiment analyzing kindness in pre-teens. The investigators followed more than 400 "tweens" – kids age 9 to 12 – attending Vancouver, Canada, elementary schools.

The students were randomly assigned to two groups. Half the students were asked by teachers to keep track of pleasant places they visited, such as playgrounds, baseball diamonds, shopping centers or a grandparent's house.

The other students were asked to perform acts of kindness, such as sharing their lunch or giving their mom a hug when she felt stressed by her job.

"We gave them examples of acts of kindness, but we left it up to the kids to decide what was a kind act," said researcher Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, a developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The students were asked to report how happy they were and identify classmates they would like to work with in school activities. After four weeks, both groups said they were happier, but the kids who had performed acts of kindness reported experiencing greater acceptance from their peers – they were chosen most often by other students as children the other students wanted to work with. [10 Scientific Tips for Raising Happy Kids]

"You can do this very simple intervention that not only increases happiness but makes kids like each other more in the classroom," Schonert-Reichl told LiveScience.

According to Schonert-Reichl, bullying often increases in grades 4 and 5. By asking students to briefly and regularly act kindly to those around them, "hopefully we can get kids to get along in the classroom and reduce instances of the bullying and teasing that we see, especially around this age group," Schonert-Reichl said.

"One thing we haven't done yet that I think would be fascinating would be to see what kind acts kids in this age group do," she added. "Another would be seeing if this actually can be an intervention for bullying — will it decrease bullying in the classroom? And we did this in classrooms; what happens if you did it on the whole school level?"

The scientists detailed their findings online Dec. 26 in the journal PLoS ONE.

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Patrick Dempsey Is Trying To Buy A Seattle Coffee Chain Out Of Bankruptcy

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On TV, actor Patrick Dempsey plays Dr.McDreamy on "Grey's Anatomy," the

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drama set at fictional Seattle Grace Hospital.

In real life, Dempsey is trying to give back to the Seattle community by saving Tully's Coffee -- a global coffe chain based there that employs over 500 people -- from bankruptcy.

Dempsey is

leading a group bidding to buy Tully’s Coffee

, saving the company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October.

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says that he’s eager to help save hundreds of jobs

that could be lost if Tully’s goes under and is excited about the chance to give back to Seattle -- the city his character has called home since the show's premiere in 2005.

Tully’s currently has 47 outposts in Washington and California, as well as five franchised stores and 58 licensed locations in the U.S, as well as overseas in locations such as Tokyo.

The potential sale of Tully’s has to be approved by a judge. A bankruptcy hearing is set for January 11 in Seattle.

Fashion Roundup: Victoria’s Secret Angels Sing A Christmas Carol and Britney Spears Has a Style Comeback

Fashion Roundup: Victoria’s Secret Angels Sing A Christmas Carol and Britney Spears Has a Style Comeback

Andrej Pejic covers Elle SerbiaAndrej Pejic covers Elle Serbia

Will Beyonc cover Vogue? Rumors have it the mega pop singer will be fronting the March 2013 issue of this top fashion magazine and it seems the timing is right. Beyonc is also set to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2013, right before the debut of the issue. (Huffington Post)

With the second X-Factor season over, Tate Stevens wasn’t the only winner this year. Britney Spears had a phenomenal style comeback and a general worldwide revival of her shining star. Take a look at some of the greatest fashion moments she had this season as an X-Factor judge. (Entertainment Weekly)

The holiday season is a great chance to relax with a great holiday movie. Here are seven memorable beauty and fashion moments from extraordinary holiday films that can light up a Christmas tree any day of the year. Wanna dress like Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone? Or maybe get dark inspiration from The Nightmare Before Christmas? (The Cut)

Well, as predicated, nothing happened in 21.12.12 or the 23.12.12, but Fashionista.com has compiled a great list of trends they hoped would vanish in the Apocalypse. Here at FashionTV, we are keeping our fingers crossed the designers will keep these suggestions under consideration. (Fashionista)

Androgynous model Andrej Pejic covers Elle Serbia! Photographed by Dusan Reljin and wrapped in Jean Paul Gaultier menswear, Pejic is the first “male” model to be featured on Elle Serbia. (Fashion & Style)

Closing our list of fashion highlights for this week, Victoria’s Secret Angels have provided us with a great Christmas gift that will last forever--a rendition of ‘Deck the Halls’ with a serious bonus: they don’t know any of the words!

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