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So we've been online for six luscious weeks! Learning a lot and so grateful for fabulous support. Read more about us and our site.

Check out our fabulous sections:

• Diva Darling (career, IT, money, gossip, shopping)
• Style Leader (fashion, style, architecture)
• Social Butterfly (culture, food and wine, travel, music)
• Domestic Goddess (home, lifestyle, eco/green, family, kids)
• Hip & Healthy (mind, body, spirit)

We're aiming to bring you beautiful things to drool over, items to suit all budgets which still make you feel fabulous, and delicious suggestions for your home.

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Please share the love by encouraging our eager beaver Luscious contributors, Anna Byrne, Lauren Vines and newbie Anna McLeod, who all embody the spirit of lusciousness. New content is being added all the times so have a good look around and enjoy. Read more about the Luscious team.
Thanks to all our friends and family for your support.

We’ve fallen in love with John Galliano all over again after his Haute Couture collection for Christian Dior was presented in Paris.

The 2010 spring/summer extravaganza played on the fine-grooming and elegance of equestrian sports and ‘dressage’ before developing into a presentation of some of the most gorgeous romantic dresses we’ve seen in years!

Galliano embraced his true romantic with oversized ball gowns, layers of lace, cinched waists and above the elbow length gloves, all of which just screamed early 20th century beauty queen! 

Focusing mostly on pastel colours and precision detailing, not only are these dresses absolutely dreamy, we can’t keep our eyes off the oversized jewellery put with them! 

Huge drop earrings, multiple-stringed chokers and enormous bangles were giving each couture dress an edgy, modern revamp. If Cinderella were alive today, she would have bought the whole collection!

If you’re like me and cannot imagine affording haute couture (or even having an occasion to wear it), try out Galliano’s amazing fragrance appropriately named, John Galliano.  It’s floral, flirty and positively delicious!

Learn more about John Galliano and Christian Dior from Wikipedia.
 

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Watch Part One of the show, below, from YouTube, and Part Two here.
 

Learn more about Dior thanks to this delicious book, Backstage Dior, by photographer Roxanne Lowit (Photographer) and Valerie Steele (Contributor). John Galliano wrote the Foreword. It would make a gorgeous present for a fashionista friend.

See also this biography by Colin McDowell, not surprisingly entitled, John Galliano. And these Diptyque John Galliano Candles.

Find out who else makes it onto our Luscious List of people in the world of fashion, beauty and homewares. Or read up on style icons - more icons being added each week.
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It's that time again, when the designers, stylists, make-up artists, plastic surgeons, TV hosts and publicists go into a frenzy: British and American film award season.

Whilst we realise that film and TV awards run all year 'round internationally, those Americans in particular really put on the most extravagent lovefest. And we LOVE it too.

For fabulous and funny coverage pointing out the silliness of it all, don't miss LaineyGossip.com. For a mostly-publicist-approved version, check out E! Online. For a completely publicist-approved-because-we've-spent-months-sucking-up-to-the-producers version, see Entertainment Tonight.

JANUARY 2010

People's Choice Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

Critics Choice Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

Hollywood Foreign Press - Golden Globe Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

Screen Actors Guild Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

Annual Grammy Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

FEBRUARY 2010

British Academy Film Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

NAACP Image Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

MARCH 2010

Film Independent's Spirit Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Academy Awards (Oscars)
Official site and Wikipedia

APRIL 2010

Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television - Genie Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

AUGUST 2010

Primetime Emmy Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

DECEMBER 2010

Australian Film Institute - AFI Awards
Official site and Wikipedia

Fashionistas, check out the red carpet frockage from the 2010 Golden Globes:

• Official Golden Globes website - Red Carpet and Press Room, and Video Gallery
• E! Online Golden Globes gallery
• FabSugar Golden Globes Red Carpet
• Sydney Morning Herald Golden Globes Award Red Carpet photos
• JustJared 2010 Golden Globes coverage

Photo: Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Bullock, winners at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards  
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We can't do anything without music (except perhaps sleep) on in the background, and have been working on a series of music compilations which will enable our Luscious readers to enjoy as well.

For now, we've been reminded how much we love the City Lounge collections, all volumes, so figure you may want to know about them too. Here's the Amazon link which also enables you to play samplers of every track for free. And we love free!

Or you can click on each volume individually, from Volume 1 to 6:

While we're on the subject, we also love the Putamayo, Hotel Costes and Cafe del Mar collections.

For more music, check out our Music: Seen and Heard page, or our Luscious List: Musicians.

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Tom Ford's "A Single Man"

Read Anna McLeod's film review in our Social Butterfly > Culture Vulture section.

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Camille O'Sullivan: Chanteuse

We try to see Camille O'Sullivan whenever we can, as the Irish-French singer combines so many luscious features: torch songs, cabaret, burlesque, delicious costumes, luscious lips, bravado and that aching I've-suffered-but-survived-and-am-stronger-than-ever beauty.

Learn more about this fabulous gal through her official website and Wikipedia. Or follow her on Twitter.

Here she is singing a very low key (for her) version of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song" via YouTube. 

And a more lively Camille, singing the fabulous, "In These Shoes", also via YouTube:

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Warren Beatty: When did he find the time to make a movie??

A new book is out about how Warren Beatty supposedly slept with 12,775 women over 35 years. A quick article from The Age here, or read up on your Beatty bio from Wikipedia or IMDB. Hey, even if this figure is a bit inaccurate, it does make you think!

Note that Beatty's lawyer is saying that the book is complete rubbish (perhaps the figure is only 4995 instead?) but surely it all adds to his cred as a stallion and puts him back in the news for 5 minutes, and that can only be a good thing?

Buy the book, Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, and pick up a few tricks how the man got those lovelies into bed.

Alternatively, check out "Bugsy", the 1991 movie that introduced him to Annette Bening (his wife since 1992) and "Love Affair" (1994), their remake of "An Affair to Remember", co-starring Katharine Hepburn, all of which make it onto our Luscious List: Movies and TV shows.

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"Sex and the City 2" trailer  

More info here, here and from the official SATC movie site. Photos from the set here, including Samantha in a wedding dress! The movie opens on May 28, 2010.

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Brunch recipes from Martha Stewart

Eggs, pancakes, meats and fish, and sweets, fruit and cereal. Yum.

See the full Martha brunch list, or check out our own Domestic Goddess section for more inspiration.

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Style.com had the lowdown on Spring 2010's Ready-to-wear collections - be inspired!

Some of our faves include Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, and Martin Grant. Clearly we are having a grey period.

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Have a peek into the world of Yves Saint Laurent: news from the latest auction from Yves Saint Laurent's estate

Article and photos of the country home of Yves Saint Laurent and partner Pierre Berger - Chateau Gabriel on the Normandy coast - from The Age website.

Article about the YSL auction raises almost three times estimate - from the Reuters website 

Buy the book, The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge by Robert Murphy, or check out the 2002 documentary by David Teboul, featuring YSL, Pierre Berger, Catherine Denveuve, Carla Bruni, Alex Wek, Laetitia Casta, Loulou de la Falaise Klossowski and Anne Marie Munoz: Yves Saint Laurent - His Life and Times/5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris.

This 2-DVD collection comprises two documentaries, Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times and Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau. The first film looks at his early years whilst the second focuses on the creation of his final Spring-Summer couture collection.

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UPDATE: Nicole trying to frown (or engender some sort of expression) at the Hope for Haiti fundraiser (yey George Clooney!).

And news that she has hired Angelina Jolie's manager, Geyer Kosinski of Media Talent Group, to help sort out her dire career. Another article from JustJared here.

Maybe he'll tell her to start letting her face move again?

Ten points to anyone who can spot a wrinkle! 

Oh Nicole, come out of the Collagen Closet already!

We are almost obsessive about Nicole Kidman's denial of any plastic surgery so love these pix from AwfulPlasticSurgery.com which show her abnormally plumped lips - no "Cupid's bow" lips here.

Check out the scanned pages of the Marie Claire (December 2007) interview with her famous "completely natural" denials.

And while we're on the subject, her breasts also look odd. Some more before and after photos here, here and here.

Don't get us wrong, we're fine with plastic surgery - it's a personal choice - but just don't go pretending that you look a way thanks to washing your face with a bit of soap and water everyday!

For a trip down memory lane (to visit Nicole's original face), check out one of her first films, BMX Bandits.

Read about it on IMDB and buy it on Amazon. It is, as they say, Comedy Gold.  

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We're currently addicted to Angela McCluskey (Wild Colonials) singing "Don't Explain". Download the MP3 track of "Don't Explain" or learn more about her solo work from her official website or Wikipedia. We particularly love the description of her new album as being "a record about sex, death, joy, fear, love, pain, and beauty". Excellent!

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