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Beyoncé Stuns in Designer Shoes

The Queen Bee kicked off her Mrs. Carter World Tour  in Serbia earlier this month; the complete tour will include 64 performances around the globe. Celebrity shoe designer Stuart Weitzman designed the entire range of Beyoncé’s shoes for the shows; around 40 to 50 pairs.

Shoes Fit for a Queen

Weitzman has been designing the singer’s shoes for over six years now and is well known for elegant shoes made from unique materials like cork, vinyl and even 24 karat gold. The latest collection included shoes for all of her costume changes as well for the back-up dancers and band. With the amount of thigh high boots traveling with the show they’ll definitely need quite a few boot shapers along for the ride.

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Celeb Diets – What Works & What Won’t

Most women have been on a diet at some time or another and many would likely give their right arms for permanently stable body weights. Until that happens we follow celebrity diet trends, opting to suffer with Jennifer Aniston or Gwenyth Paltrow, trying to find a way to beat the bulge.

Diets Come and Diets Go

From the Atkins, Zone, Macrobiotic, 5 Factor through to the ‘No White Food’ diet; celebrities and their fans have tried them all. Some have made sense whilst others have just been downright dangerous.

Beyoncé, Pink and Ashton Kutcher have all reportedly tried The Master Cleanse diet. The ten day liquid diet only allows lemonade made with maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Best Health Magazine calls it for what it is; a starvation diet.

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Michelle Obama’s Campaign Helps White House Staff Drop the Pounds

It was quite recently that Michelle Obama invited Big Bird to the White House for a public service announcement regarding her ‘Let’s Move’ healthy eating campaign. Before anyone thinks this healthy eating drive is not really working, people should see the wonders it has done for the White House kitchen staff. They’ve admitted that their waistlines have decreased while their energy levels have increased.

Diet Overhaul

The First Lady is all about healthy eating and exercise so it comes as no surprise, and where best to start your healthy message than in your own home first. Michelle Obama started changing things in the White House kitchen to include more fresh fruit and vegetables and less pastries and custards. The pastry chef has dropped a comfortable 30 pounds from her small frame, and recently completed her first 5-kilometer run. So the proof is not in the pudding but rather in the lettuce leaves, healthy kosher bars and low fat dressing instead.

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Katie Holmes Looking for New Manhattan Apartment

Almost a year after divorcing Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes will be moving out of her post-divorce apartment and finding a more long-term Manhattan base for her and young Suri. In the midst of secretly planning her divorce from Cruise, Holmes rented signed the lease on an apartment at the Chelsea Mercantile building. That lease on the $12,500 rental per month will soon end and now the doting mother is looking for something more permanent.

New Beginnings

Since Katie Holmes signed the lease at the premier address, interest in the condominiums has escalated with people viewing up to four apartments a day. Then building, constructed in 1907, has become a highly sought after residency for many celebrities and the wealthy thanks to the amenities it has on offer.

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Tamara Ecclestone’s Utterly Decadent Wardrobe

She’s one half of the F1 heiress’ and her lifestyle is beyond comprehension even for the Kardashians and Hiltons so it comes as no surprise that her clothing and shoe closets could be sold and a village built with the proceeds. Tamara Ecclestone is daughter of billionaire Bernie Ecclestone and the sister of Petra Ecclestone.

Pure Luxury

Petra and Tamara Ecclestone have known lives of pure unadulterated luxury and ostentatious living that defies belief. Their father put £3 billion into a trust for both girls and they are living quite comfortably off that trust, but daddy has a bigger issue; not with the incredibly expensive $85 million and £45 million properties, luxury fast cars, and pet spa, but more with the large handbag and shoe collections that his daughters also indulge in.

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Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak, Places Silicon Valley Luxury Home on Market

The famous Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, has put his former home on the market. Designed around his simple yet classic style, much like the Apple stores, the house displays exceptional innovation synonymous with the international Apple brand.

Post-Modern Genius

Steve Wozniak’s house, located in the affluent Los Gatos area, was designed and constructed by him in 1986. His cutting-edge inventions had a common thread of simplicity and less-is-more, and yet they delivered the ultimate in performance and user-friendliness, and this skill extended to the design of his home, which is iconic of the modern Apple stores found across the globe today.

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Awesome Celebrity Proposals

For the most part those of us who live in the real world have our own ideas about romance and often they entail helicopters, 5-carat rings, and expensive restaurants, but that’s not reality…well not for us. Celebrity proposals are the reality of our fantasies and some of them have just been downright awesome beyond belief, and the bling has been pretty impressive too.

Celebrity Realities

Take Heidi Klum for example. This is still considered one of the best celebrity proposals ever. Seal flew his lady love- by private helicopter – to the top of a glacier on top of which he had commissioned an igloo with fine linen, Rose petals, and a 10-carat Canary Yellow engagement ring. Luckily she said ‘yes.’

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Tiny Harper Beckham’s Large Designer Shoe Collection

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As one of the cutest celebrity kids around, Harper Beckham, is constantly eyeballed and photographed looking picture perfect on the hips of her gorgeous parents, David and Victoria Beckham. Being the child of one of the most stylish couples on the planet doesn’t only mean photographers every day and living the high life, it also means having a wardrobe full of designer clothes and shoes to boot. With mommy’s sense of style it comes as no surprise that Harper Seven Beckham has a shoe close to rival that of Imelda Marcus, and Harper is only 19 months old.

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Old Hollywood Glamour Still Alive in an Old Antique Costume Jewellery Warehouse

Hollywood has a rich history sewn with threads of movie stars, jewels, gowns and parties that would fill volumes for decades to come, and the most recent discovery of a warehouse filled with costume jewellery worn by silver screen greats such as Marilyn Monroe and Bette Davis, just adds to that old-school Hollywood glamour.

Sparkling History

Hidden inside one of the many warehouses of a cramped warehouse lot, many of which dot the Los Angeles landscape, sits the Joseff of Hollywood studio which is home to one of the biggest costume jewellery collections. Tina Joseff, daughter-in-law of founder Eugene Joseff, has catalogued each and every single piece of vintage costume jewellery inside the small 100 square-foot room and they are each safely set inside delicate black boxes.

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Designer Closets, the New Place to Get Away

Most of us have to contend with our clothes spilling out of our wardrobes and we end up selecting our outfits from our floordrobes. However, the rich don’t have these first world problems because their clothes live in temperature controlled designer closets that could easily pass off as small boutiques.

Designer

Lisa Adams of L.A Closet Design in Los Angeles has become something of a household name in the celebrity world of walk-in closets. It seems that the designer closet has now become something of a must-have relax room resplendent with chandeliers, mirrored drawers and luxury sofas for when walking around inside the designer closet to choose the outfit, the diamond ring from a vast jewellery collection in the drawers, and selecting shoes, becomes exhausting work.

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