Miss'd America Miss Kitty Hiccups walks the runway after being named the 2011 winner

Kitty Hiccup, who’s actually David Hyland, was crowned the 2011 Miss'd America Sunday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

The top cat at this year's Miss'd America pageant is the leopard print-clad Kitty Hiccups.
The Press of Atlantic City reports that this year's pageant featured eight contestants.
This glamorous brunette Miss Kitty Hiccups in a leopard print-clad dress has come out on top in a leading American U.S. beauty pageant.

But the 32-year-old, crowned Miss'd America 2011, is a man also known as David Hyland.
The colourful alternative event, which attracted a ballroom crowd of 1,200 people, and raises thousands of dollars for U.S. charities at the well-known Boardwalk Hall venue in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Eight contestants competing for the crown sang and danced through various musical numbers in between competing in evening gown, interview, swimsuit and talent competitions.

"Kitty Hiccups" triumphed the day after Miss Nebraska Teresa Scanlon was named Miss America.

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2011 Golden Globes Best and Worst Dressed

Surprise, surprise: Glee took home another award! The stage was loaded and the smiles were huge--Lea Michele turned heads on the red carpet.  Best and Worst Dressed at the 2011 Golden Globes

Felix Mercado, celebrity style expert and president and owner of Say it With STYLE, gave his feed back on the hot gowns and hot messes on the red carpet Sunday night.

There were several trends that were easily noticed during last night's Golden Globe Awards. The biggest ones that caught my eye? Lots of nude dresses and a plethora of emerald green dresses. I was drooling over Lea Michele subdued pink Oscar de la Renta because it was anything but boring with its ruffles and layers. I was also pleasantly surprised by Eva Longoria's black Zac Posen dress.

Mila Kunis also got green in a Vera Wang. Emerald green may not be my favorite color, but all three ladies looked stunning.
Luckily for me, a couple of the ladies did bring the sparkle and one of my favorites was Olivia Wilde who wore a glittery black Marchesa dress. Carrie Underwood also looked beautiful in her sparkly nude Badgley Mischka.
Who do you think was the best dressed of the evening?

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Fashion Forward for 2011

The latest bit of news is that Meadham Kirchhoff, Peter Pilotto and Todd Lynn - designers that all show during London Fashion Week – have been awarded this year’s Fashion Forward prize by the British Fashion Council.

Previous winners of the Coutts & Co sponsored prize include Christopher Kane, Erdem, Giles Deacon and Roksanda Illincic, to name a few--Todd Lynn added: “I’m thrilled to have won Fashion Forward for 2011.
The scheme, sponsored by Coutts and supported by the London Development Agency, has been running for five years - offering funding and mentoring to help London's rising young designers showcase their work at London Fashion Week.

This is the first time that three designers have been awarded the sponsorship, evidence of their meteoric rise in the fashion industry.

Last night Coutts, the poshest bank in London, hosted a very sophisticated mini soiree to announce the recipients of this year’s Fashion Forward sponsorship (paid for by the bank, and organised by the British Fashion Council). CONGRATULATIONS! to Anglo-French Goth rocker duo Meadham Kirchhoff, Canadian-born Todd Lynn and the masters of digital printing, Peter Pilotto! Previous Fashion Forward winners include Christopher Kane, Erdem, Giles Deacon, Jonathan Saunders, Marios Schwab, Richard Nicoll, Roksanda Illincic, and last year’s winner Louise Goldin, who we met over the summer as she extolled the wonders of the "Fashion Forward" scheme.

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2011 Golden Globes Fashion Predictions

We've worked out who'll sink and swim at this year's Golden Globes based on their fashion past--Drew Barrymore and Sandra Bullock who got our tick of approval for their 2009 and 2010 efforts.

The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards are but a flutter of a false eyelash and primping of a bow-tie away.
This year’s bash, honoring the best in film and television for 2010, will be hosted by British comic Ricky Gervais--Luckily, by the time Oscars gets here, I’ve had more time to fill in some of the gaps after Golden Globes.”

What is the weirdest thing you have seen on the Red Carpet?
“The last celebrity who made me feel star struck is Al Pacino. Do you do any special preparation regarding FASHION for the Red Carpet?

Angelina Jolie: Jolie is always one to watch, solely based on the fact that she is Angelina Jolie. Whether it's an unexpected dress detail, those unforgettable emerald earrings from the 2009 Academy Awards, or just her stunning lips painted red, she's a dazzler every time.

January Jones: Like her stylish Mad Men character, Betty Draper, Jones is often topping the best-dressed lists. Olivia Wilde: A versatile fashion fave, Wilde is a red carpet chameleon. Blake Lively: One thing's for sure: When this Gossip Girl star steps on to the red carpet, she's going to look red hot -- probably in some kind of boldly-colored, figure-hugging dress. Known for showing off her best assets, Lively is a prime reason men pretend to care about red carpet fashion coverage. Leighton Meester: While Lively is va-va-voom, her Gossip Girl co-star usually embraces edgier looks that would be eschewed by Blair, the conservative character Meester plays on the show. Carey Mulligan: Whether she's showing off her personable shoe collection or letting a dress take center stage, Mulligan enjoys making a fashion statement. Julianna Margulies: Nominee and The Good Wife star Margulies loves a black dress on the red carpet, and she usually pulls it off smashingly. Sofia Vergara: Modern Family scores a double whammy at awards programs. Lea Michele: Any dazzling that Michele does on Glee is eclipsed by her smart sense of style on the red carpet.

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Fashion Week is gearing up to provide a platform for mass retailers

As Islamabad Fashion Week is gearing up to provide a platform for mass retailers and clothing manufacturers to come to the fore, niche high fashion store Labels has already set the precedent and collaborated with Lawrencepur and Fashion Wear to co-produce a pret line.

“Labels had started off as a knit wear line. We need to connect with our large scale fabric manufacturers to take the business of fashion forward, said Zahir Rahimtoola of Labels speaking on the prudence of his store’s alliance.

Utilising Labels’ design sensibilities and its customer power, such a collaboration is an ingenious fashion alliance whereby a main stream fashion house benefits from the production power of a large scale manufacturer. The knit wear manufacturers, Fashion Wear, have been the licensed manufacturers for global fashion brands like Ralph Lauren, Disney, Wrangler, Reebok and Kenneth Cole yet instead of opening their own retail store ala Stoneage, CrossRoads and Outfitters, they have opted to stock with Labels and Studio S.
“We are taking a bit of the back door approach and creating different designs for each store and working along with their own design teams to offer diversified products,” explained Amir Butt, the Director for Marketing at Fashion Wear.
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Chief Executive Arshad Siddiqui of the event organising company Triple E said, “Islamabad Fashion Week (IFW), that begins on January 27 and ends on January 30, will primarily be a trade related event through which we plan to promote the Pret industry of the country.”

Siddiqui further said that the previously held fashion weeks only gave the “fashion designers a platform to promote their designs but it’s the retailers who haven’t participated in any such event. Fashion critics have been stressing for a while now that the fashion weeks need to rope in the larger mass-scale retailers to promote the business of fashion. Amin believes that IFW will be different from the conventional fashion shows, “What is Pret? It is a prime event to attract the foreign buyers. For instance, the textile, leather and modelling industry.”

PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011
The Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) and Sunsilk have announced the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011 scheduled to be staged once again in Lahore. The executive committee of PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week has declared the dates for the four day event starting March 29. The event will feature over 25 designers including both aspiring and established designers.

The PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week March 2011 show will be produced by Frieha Altaf of Catwalk Productions and will be co-choreographed by Hassan Sheheryar Yasin and Frieha Altaf. Stay tuned for more information regarding participating designers and show timings.

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