Be a Real Chick with Feathers!

To achieve the precise custom fit that her couture clients like Tyra Banks, Paris Hilton, and Gina Davis demand, Colleen Quen creates a moulage, or "second skin" of the client's body from 36 measurements.

The two gowns, "Sapphire Elegance" and "Blue Opal Energy" played the stage in sapphire blue French lace and angora with brown tulle trimming.

Indeed lace, particularly in black, shed its Gothic guise this season and has re-emerged as an enchantingly romantic option for winter days or nights. Don't confine it to night time glamour. A touch of lace will update an old favourite pair of jeans or your office pencil skirt suit.

To go with your ultimate gown or to glam up your day to evening office suit, accessorise with feathers. Plumes exuding bird of paradise flamboyance are definitely this winters must have accessory after Calvin Klein and Dolce and Gabbana, to name but a few, sported flurries of feathers on the catwalk for winter 2005-06.
Feathers will give a classic sumptuous touch to your classic dress. Wear a single one in your hair or go all-out with marabou tiers to the floor.

Taylor, Beckford Strut Supermodel's Runway

Sarah Hall Mon Oct 22, 11:47 AM ET

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Look out, Tyra, Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford are hopping on the catwalk to oversee America's next top-model series.

The comely duo will serve as the hosts of Bravo's new reality competition series Make Me a Supermodel, scheduled to premiere early next year.




The show, based on a British series by the same name, will feature both men and women competing for the chance to launch their modeling careers and win $100,000.

Over a 12-week period, 14 easy-on-the-eyes hopefuls will live together in a New York City loft while they face various challenges designed to test their potential as professional models.

Unlike the CW's Tyra Banks-fronted America's Next Top Model, where a panel of judges decide who stays and who goes each week, Supermodel results will be determined by viewer voting. Each week, one would-be catwalker will be sent home, until only one contestant remains.

Taylor, who began her runway career when she was 14, remains the youngest model ever to score the cover of Vogue.

Now a mother of two, she owns a clothing boutique in Tennessee and is the founder of the Begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business, an organization that helps women with limited resources realize their aspirations.

Beckford broke onto the modeling scene when he appeared in the 1994 Polo Sport campaign. He subsequently landed a multiyear contract with Ralph Lauren and worked as a spokesmodel for Polo Fragrances and Polo Sport.

When he's not busy posing, Beckford has appeared in films including Zoolander, Into the Blue and Biker Boyz.