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NIGERIA'S NEXT SUPER MODEL GIRLS MOVE TO CAMP.

Meet the Brave young adults who are brave enough to take their dreams and talent a step further as they contest for the Nigeria's Nest Super Model's Contest 2012, they are currently at camp by Isis Models.  Kudos Mrs Okorodudu (MD Isis Models), Kudos Girls.bestunhatchedmodels.blogspots.com

Kunbi Joda

The 2012 MTV VMA

  Red Carpet Beauties

Katy Perry


Nicky Minaj


Rihanna


Rihanna's look for her stage performance same night.

Amber Rose shows off her Baby bump.

Keisha...looking Gorgeous


Zoe Saldana

Alicia keys

Kat Graham

Ne- yo

Genevieve Nnaji: Africa’s Screen Idol!

 Few years ago, ten out of twelve African graduates settled for “white collar” jobs but that has changed. With time, Africa’s young and creative heads are shifting away from what used to be the conventional order, and challenging themselves with initiatives that had little or no appreciation a decade ago.

In a quick yet steady growth to the top, Nigeria’s entertainment industry has grown into a modern day screamer. The successes chalked over the years are as assuring as the quantum of revenue raked in by its subjects yearly.

Filmmaking, one of the country’s strategic units of economic growth continue to take an upward fine-tuning – putting food on the table of millions of households.

Not only has Nigeria’s entertainment industry fed its own people; across Africa, their homemade movies, is a major source of employment to hundreds of entrepreneurs.

Thanks to an early positioning, it has grown to become a force that cannot be done away with. Today, the Nigerian film industry, widely known as “Nollywood”, is the second largest in the world by volume.

Genevieve Nnaji, one of the early day saints who got this whole craze off to a start, is about the industry’s most respected and appreciated female act. Across Africa and even in more rooted and hard-to-break-through territories like the United States of America and Europe, the level of appreciation that greets her, is refreshingly awesome.

 Nnaji, who at an early stage in her acting career defined what would later go on to be accepted as polished drama, took the industry by storm about two decades ago, when nobody really paid attention.

Gradually taking up roles in low and virtually non-existent budget movies, it was just a matter of time that she would explode into the big material that she is made of today. Role after the other, she proved her worth and managed to catch the eye of some notable producers who gave her subsequent roles in Unbreakable, Dangerous Sister, Not Man Enough, and Church Business among other titles.

Still a local idol after few scripts, it was the 2002 movie “Sharon Stone”, which got her a wider appeal – making her an instant hit in countries like Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, and Kenya among other African countries.

And the widespread recognition came at a time when Nollywood had made a successful crossover into unfamiliar territories and was getting a lot of positive reviews.

Soon, she blew up. She’s been splendid thus far.

Nnaji, 33, (May 3, 1979), who was brought up in a middle-class environment in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, earned her first screen appearance in the television series “Ripples” as a teen actress.
A few television commercials also followed. She made her debut mainstream screen appearance at the age of 19 in the movie “Most Wanted”.

Her subsequent movies included “Last Party”, “Mark of the Beast”, and “Ijele”, which till date, remains one of her all-time classics
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A multiple award winner at home and abroad, Nnaji is one of Nigeria’s most decorated celebrities in terms of brand endorsements, defending and projecting everything from cars, and toiletries. In June this year, she became a Range Rover Evoque Ambassador.

In 2009, she became the first Nigerian actress to be profiled on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

This, together with other achievements, has translated into exciting deals for her, as she continues to act in very challenging and well-packaged movies that has shot her stock up.

Tango with Me, (believed to have been shot on a 326,000-pound budget), is the latest of high quality movies she’s recently starred in.

Directed by Mahmood Ali-Balogun , industry stakeholders expect that the melodrama would achieve commercial success and would go beyond just the usual and conventional VCD and DVD-driven distribution channel, and opt for an aggressive roll out plan that would encourage appearance at film festivals, cinema releases and viewing openings that has the potential of bringing in watchers who aren’t necessarily Nigerians or Africans.

 

Nnaji, a mother of one, also acted and excelled in The Mirror Boy; a film that tells the “uplifting story of a young teenage African British boy who is taken back to the land of his mother’s birth, but then gets mysteriously lost in a foreboding forest; and embarks on a magical journey that teaches him about himself and the mystery of the father he has never seen”.

Shot in The Gambia and England, the well-packaged fantasy adventure drama, written and directed by Obi Emelonye, received three nominations at last year’s African Movie Academy Awards.

It is fair to credit Nnaji for taking Nollywood to greater heights but part of that praise should also go to the industry for creating the platform for young and talented people, to nurture their talents.

But does the Nigerian film industry hold a lot of promise such that the likes of Nnaji can continue to have a cushion they can always lean on for growth and skills enhancement?.


Phil Hoad of the Guardian thinks there is hope for the future. In an August 21, 2012, blog he suggested that:
“There’s certainly plenty of other evidence to suggest that it is moving on to a more established, professional footing: more film-makers shooting on film, not video; an increasing degree of international crossovers, like Jeta Amata's Hollywood star-laden Niger-delta thriller Black November, Holly-Nolly co-production Doctor Bello, and the forthcoming Nigerian-UK adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun; the slick looking streaming-video library iROKOtv – supported by US money – giving ready access to Nollywood’s bottomless bargain-bin of titles



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So much for an amicable split

Seal accuses Heidi Klum of cheating on him with her bodyguard:

So much for that amicable split. After it was reported on Friday that Heidi Klum was dating her bodyguard of four years, Martin Kristen, her soon-to-be ex-husband Seal had a very bitter response for the mother of his four children. "To be quite honest, if there is going to be somebody else in their lives, I'd much rather it was a familiar face,” the “Kiss From a Rose”singer told TMZ as he made his way through an airport on Saturday. “I guess the only thing I would have preferred is that … I guess I didn't expect any better from him, I would have preferred Heidi show a little bit more class and at least wait until we separated first before deciding to fornicate with the help, as it were,” he adds, insinuating that the relationship began before he and Klum announced their split in January. “But I guess you now all have the answer that you've been looking for the past seven months."

According to reports, the “Project Runway” host has been dating Kristen, who she was spotted getting cozy with during a family day at the beach in Sardinia, Italy, this week with her parents and four children just feet away. In one photo, Klum and Kristen are seated side by side on a rock and it looks like she is taking a pic of them on her phone, while in another, he has his arm around her as she smiles. “It's complicated," a friend of Klum tells people. "Their relationship is hard to define."

The former Victoria’s Secret Angel has been growing closer to Kristen ever since she separated from Seal in January. Despite Seal's new cheating claims, Klum, 39, has said the breakup came as a surprise to her and she has reportedly been seeking comfort with her long-time pal during the “difficult time,” adds the People source. "Her inner circle of people she trusts is getting smaller and smaller and he is her No. 1 confidante."

Klum is going to need all the support she can get from Kristen. Reader On reports that the divorce between her and Seal is starting to get a little nasty -- and that's apparent judging from his outburst on Friday. In addition to fighting over money – the $70 million model insists she and her less-successful ex had no joint assets, which he denies – they’re also going back and forth over their four children: Leni, 8, Henry, 6, Johan, 5, and Lou, 2. She wants primary physical custody, but Seal believes they should share it 50-50.

By Kathleen Perricone

Africa Fashion Week London 2012

Africa’s Fashion Designers continue to score high marks in a trade that until recently was dominated by their counterparts from more established markets in Europe, and the United States of America among other giant territories.
Some years back, it was excruciatingly painful to go for a fashion show in say Paris or Milan and not see enough African representation.

The dynamics have long changed, and Africa’s fashion community have become lords of their own rings, and pushing an agenda that must hit home – “dominate, grow, and showcase until they can’t have enough of you”.

Africa’s Fashion Designers continue to score high marks in a trade that until recently was dominated by their counterparts from more established markets in Europe, and the United States of America among other giant territories.

Some years back, it was excruciatingly painful to go for a fashion show in say Paris or Milan and not see enough African representation.

The dynamics have long changed, and Africa’s fashion community have become lords of their own rings, and pushing an agenda that must hit home – “dominate, grow, and showcase until they can’t have enough of you”.

And this, they’ve perfectly held onto for the past half decade or so. These days, the big fashion shows of Milan, Paris, New York and Istanbul are not complete without an African touch. It is refreshing to note that at such big shows, if you don’t find an African designer in there, you will find at least some African fine print used into detail by a top designer.

That admission on the part of the organizers of such big shows that they can’t continue to leave Africa out of the party, more often, is enough a statement to prove how powerful the African designer has become with time.

Opportunities to partake in first-class and highly revered fashion shows stare Africa’s fashion designers in the face. All year round, there are numerous shows that open its doors to hundreds of Africa’s established and sometimes, up and coming designers.
It is a rare opportunity that goes a long way to help improve the African fashion designer. Often times, most are able to leverage on the opportunity it offers, and are able to build their own network of industry persons who later become useful to their trade.

And then of course, there is an accompanying level of global fame that comes with participating in such shows, one of which is the Africa Fashion Week London.

The AFWL “is at the fore front of capturing the surge of the African inspired trends in the fashion industry,” and is “open to designers of all nationalities, who are inspired by Africa in their designs”.
“This fashion week is not just open to African designers but any designers that feel they have a twist of Africa in their designs or consider they have something to offer to Africa,” the organizers have said.
The organizers say the two day event “celebrates the work of African inspired designers in the United Kingdom, and also dedicates its efforts to promoting and supporting inspiring talents”.
It is touted to be the UK's biggest Fashion Week outside of the mainstream London Fashion Weeks.

 

 By Obed Boafo

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Miss World Africa!

South Sudan’s Atong Demach is Miss World Africa!

Miss Atong Demach

In its 62^nd year, the Miss World beauty pageant was founded by Eric Morley in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations. Some 26, young, beautiful ladies took part in the maiden edition.
The event is now being run by Julia Morley, wife of the deceased founder, who died in 2000. The Miss World franchise is available to some 130 countries.




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Is Tyra Bank's AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL TREATHENED?

 
First it was the shocking announcement by the America's Next Top Model's Anchor Diva; Supermodel Tyra Banks  that she had fired her panel of experts; photographer                                 

Nigel Barker,




 Creative Director Jay Manuel

                                                                                                     and Runway coach Miss J. Alexander

 and described as a production decision due to some changes  in the making of the 19th season of her reality fashion show that now has over 23 formats around the globe.

Then followed the announcement that the 42 year old supermodel 

Naomi Cambell is to be the judge of a new modelling reality show. hm! this obviosly raises a lot of questions in the minds of fashion fans all over as to how this will impact on the America's next Top Model show; is Naomi going to give Naomi a run for the rating's? is it  a good time for TYra to make such major changes in the face of such competition? does the popular saying about " the Devil you know" not apply here?.

Now it is Tyra announcing that she almost left the show due to the amount of pressures she is under for each season to be a success.  she has however reassured her fans that she has come to learn how to delegate learn to delegate and hang on to the show which she describes as her Baby.

The runway beauty created the show in 2003, and it has since become one of the most popular fashion programmes in reality TV.

The 38 year old, who recently graduated from Harvard Business School, reveals she is now focused on learning how to share the workload.

 In her own words:  "I am learning how to delegate, and how to empower people. It has decreased my stress more. Now we are going to be producing so much more television. I didn't produce more TV because I am so much a micro-manager, hands on. But now, I realise that in order to truly grow, I have to delegate and find amazing people that are better at it than me."

And although she has signed on to continue her hosting and producing duties for America's Next Top Model, Banks still has faith that the show can continue on without her there everyday.

Fashion fans all over are still a bit skeptical about all the recent shaking and treathened aboandonement[\ just when the runway tigress Naomi is making an entrance into her turf. should  Tyra and  America's Next Top Model feel treathened?

By: B Atakere

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