Michael Jackson Memorabilias

Michael Jackson, the child star turned King of Pop, died of cardiac arrest on June 25. At the time of his death, his debt was estimated to be $500 million.

To help settle some of his money problems, Jackson initially agreed to allow an auction of most of the contents of his beloved Neverland Ranch. The auction was canceled after Michael Jackson's representatives and the auction house handling the sale reached an agreement to return the items. Jackson's camp suggested at the time a museum might be in the works.

A sampling of Jackson’s 12 gloves for sale. All right-handed. Estimates: $1,000 to $1,500 (orange or gold); $10,000 to $15,000 (white).

This sheer, white, rhinestone-encrusted costume shirt, with a rusty zipper and soiled collar, was worn by Jackson during the Jacksons’ 1981 Triumph Tour. Estimate: $400 to $600

Jackson also wore this white leather Capezio shoe (upper and sole pictured) during the Triumph Tour, along with a cotton, rhinestone-stitched bodysuit and matching pants, both of which are included in this lot. Estimate: $300 to $500

This jeweled crown, with its “white mink fur made to resemble ermine” and fake pearls and gems, is just one of many royalty-themed items on sale, from a ceremonial scepter to a full-length red-velvet cape embroidered on the inside with the words "TO OUR FATHER, KING MICHAEL, FATHER'S DAY, JUNE 21, 1998, FROM YOUR LOVING CHILDREN, PRINCE MICHAEL, PRINCESS PARIS". Estimate: $1,000 to $1,500.

The Jackson figurine is part of a larger sculpture. In it, Jackson sits on a fence atop a hill singing to an audience of adoring children. Estimate: $4,000 to $6,000

Jackson sported this silver lamé jacket during the Jacksons’ 1984 Victory Tour. Lined with white silk, it is covered in Swarovski crystals and gold-seed-bead detailing. Too understated? Not to worry: It comes with a leather sash laden with gold, purple, and clear beads.Estimate: $15,000 to $20,000

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Andy Murray Unveils New Fred Perry Centenary Kit for Wimbledon 2009

Iconic sports fashion house Fred Perry unveiled the new Centenary tennis kit to be worn by Andy Murray at the Wimbledon Championships 2009 in celebration of the centenary year of Fred Perry's birth.

Murray has worked closely with Fred Perry designers to develop high performance product that combines elements of the classic Fred Perry kit from the 1950s and 1960s. Every item in the kit features Andy Murray's initials stitched underneath the Fred Perry laurel, inspired by the bespoke shirts that Fred Perry.

Andy Murray said: "I am proud to be associated with the Fred Perry brand and to be wearing outfit inspired one of my sporting heroes. The kit looks and feels great. I've already tested it out the courts and look forward to wearing it at Wimbledon next week. I hope one day to follow in Fred Perry's footsteps and repeat his success at Wimbledon." The Fred Perry 100 year Andy Murray tennis outfit includes:

• White performance Fred Perry shirt with green laurel and tipping
• White performance tailored cotton shorts
• Ivory knitted cotton cable v-neck sweaterIvory knitted cotton cable slip-over
• White cotton tennis bomber
• White tennis kit bag
  

This outfit will be worn exclusively by Andy and his brother Jamie at Wimbledon and the US Open Championships.

Cristiano Ronaldo Proudly Wears Gucci from Top to Bottom

Metrosexual Cristiano Ronaldo attracts the attentions of a couple of photographers as he stepped out at Eva Longoria's Beso restaurant with a Gucci clutch bag tucked under his arm.

The 24-year-old striker, was dressed totally in Gucci from head to foot, including Gucci's accesories. Ronaldo has matching Gucci Jacket, Gucci bag, Gucci belt, and Gucci shoes.

The Portuguese soccer star is in the middle of negotiations to transfer for $131 million from England's Manchester United to Spain's Real Madrid.

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Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Wants to Buy an Airport in Tassignano

The Russian magnate Roman Abramovich is one who loves luxury in its most opulent. Its movable and immovable property occupy corpertine of glossy magazines, because they represent the icon of a style of living adopted at the highest levels.

The yacht is one of his great passions, but also in the aircraft, the President of Chelsea not joking. Just to satisfy the need to easily reach Tuscany, the richest oligarchs in mind would purchase at Tassignano, in the province of Lucca.

In its intentions, the small airport to become a facility that would facilitate the arrival and departure of his jet and those of other celebrities who love the beautiful region. Currently there is no official confirmation, but Piero Giampaoli, president of the company that runs it, merely saying: "Everything is possible."

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David Beckham Unveils His New Emporio Armani Underwear Ad Campaign in London

David Beckham is one of the most famous people in the world. His latest advertising campaign for Emporio Armani underwear unveiled with a six-storey high image of his wash board abs with a coiled rope on the facade of Selfridges flagship London store.

Fans screamed as the poster was unveiled outside Selfridges and he was introduced on to a stage by sports presenter Gabby Logan. Beckham told the crowd: "I'm very proud to be here today."

According to Giorgio Armani, the soccer star has "a great sense of style and is an inspiring role model."

The six-storey high ad covered the complete facade of Selfridges flagship London store. The street was cordoned off by police as fans crowded the entrance to get a look at Beckham in the flesh.

The celebrated footballer/style icon Beckham is introduced to the fans by BBC Sports broadcaster Gabby Logan.

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Angelina Jolie Dethrones Oprah Winfrey on Forbes' 2009 Top Celebrity 100 List

Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, Angelina Jolie, dethrones talk show queen Oprah Winfrey to Forbes' 2009 top Celebrity 100 list - annual ranking of the world's ultra famous.

Jolie, grabbed the No. 1 spot, who earned $27-million in the past 12 months with her most recent blockbuster, Wanted, the movie earned $340 million at the box office. The publicity she garnered following the birth of her twins, as well as the consistent headlines she grabs for her philanthropic efforts and her relationship with actor Brad Pitt.

At No. 2, is Oprah Winfrey is still the highest earner at $275 million.

Madonna came in third, trailed by Beyonce, Tiger Woods, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Spielberg.

Here's the top 10 list:

1. Angelina Jolie
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Madonna
4. Beyoncé Knowles
5. Tiger Woods
6. Bruce Springsteen
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Brad Pitt
10. Kobe Bryant

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Source: Forbes

Marc Jacobs on Defintion of Luxury Travel

American fashion designer and style Guru Marc Jacobs had this smart answer when asked his definition of luxury travel:

"I don't think there's anything practical about traveling with a trunk. Luxury travel is traveling with a toothbrush. That's it, end of story. The people who really live luxurious lives don't need to pack. They've got stuff wherever they go."

I guess that defeats the purpose of his Louis Vuitton luggage collection!

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David Beckham on Motorola Aura Ad Campaign: “The AURA of David Beckham”

David Beckham is featured in a new Motorola Aura advertising campaign to launch the new $2,0000 Motorola Aura phone. The new advertising campaign, entitled “The AURA of David Beckham” inspired by the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi flick ‘The Terminator’, breaks internationally.

David Beckham clutching a Motorola AURA as if it were part of his body. Beckham goes on to say that he loves “classic watches, so a phone that exposes its mechanics while also being so stylish is really unique. When you hold it, it feels like you have something really special in your hand.”

David Beckham Motorala Aura Ad Campaign

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Victoria Beckham Wearing £80,000 Himalayan Birkin Diamond Studded Handbag

Fashionista Victoria Beckham showed off the Christmas present from her husband, David Beckham, an £80,000 Himalayan Birkin purse studded with hundreds of diamonds as she watches husband David make his debut for AC Milan in Dubai.

The 34-year-old former Spice Girl is said to be 'delighted' with the bag, which features a three-carat diamond on the lock.

A source told The Sun:

'It's not as easy as everyone would think for David buying his wife a present every year, she is the woman with everything.'

'But David knows the French fashion house is her favorite and he sorted the gift in Los Angeles from one of the few powerful fashion buyers who could get one.'

Source & Images Via: dailymail.co.uk

Victoria Beckham in Giorgio Armani Underwear Ad Campaign

Following in her husband, David Beckham’s footsteps, Victoria Beckham a.k.a "Posh Spice" will be the face of the next Emporio Armani sexy lingerie collection ad campaign. Last year soccer star David posed for the designer in his briefs.

Posh, mother of three landed a contract with Armani fashion house lingerie line. Beckham will debut in the spring-summer 2009 advertising campaign of Emporio Armani women's underwear. Posh is locked into a three-year deal contract for which according to the Daily Mail, she was paid $24.6 million. Billboards, magazines, blogs — Posh's six-pack is about to be all over them until 2012.

Giorgio Armani called the former "Posh Spice" of the Spice Girls a "style icon, a dynamic lady whose influence and recognition will add great excitement" to the ad campaign.

The photos are black and white same as her husband Armani photos.

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Queen Elizabeth Goes Green as She Converted her £10Million Bentleys to Run on Biofuel

Queen Elizabeth goes green as she converted her £10million Bentleys to run on biofuels. As part of the luxury carmaker’s attempt to reform its gas-guzzling image, the Crewe-based company is launching a new biofuel-burning car in the New Year. Bentley is planning to produce a new line of vehicles with engines that would “offer a 40% improvement in fuel economy by 2012″, allowing the engine to run on both plant-derived fuel or the ordinary gasoline. The system is called “flex-fuel”. They are hopeful that by 2012, all cars of the Bentley line will be compatible with renewable fuels.

Prince Charles also had his cars converted on biofuels as his Aston Martin, multiple Jaguars, an Audi and a Range Rover will be running soon on used cooking oil.

Via: Dailymail.co.uk

Marilyn Monroe Photos Auctioned for Nearly $150,000

An anonymous buyer paid nearly $150,000 for a collection of photographs of superstar, Marilyn Monroe auctioned in New York. The photographs were taken for Vogue magazine the year before she died in 1962.

A spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house says that the photos were the last professional photographs taken of the actress before she died. Pre-sale estimate was said to be $100,000 to $150,000. Christie added, "Tuesday, four Helmut Newton photographs, titled "They're Coming, Paris (Naked and Dressed)," sold for $662,500.

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Tony Blair's in Vogue at Armani

Usually it's an honour reserved for presidents, heads of state and Hollywood A-listers. But at a time when stores are ever more desperate over the lack of ringing tills this Christmas, Tony Blair had the privilege of an entire designer shop to himself. Like Madonna and Victoria Beckham, who prefer to browse without the prying eyes of hoi polloi, Blair was accorded the perk of having Giorgio Armani's entire flagship London store opened up especially early for him. Not only that, but an eagle-eyed shopper passing the Knightsbridge emporium on Saturday morning noted that the shop had apparently provided the former Prime Minister with a personal shopper. 'Blair had the store to himself - it had opened an hour earlier than usual for him,' says my spy. 'He was with four bodyguards - two outside and two in the store - a personal... [read full story]

Robber Ransacked Paris Hilton's L.A. Home, Took $2 Million Worth of Jewelry

Heiress Paris Hilton was robbed very early Friday morning (December 19, 2008). An estimated $2 million worth of jewelry and other belongings was stolen from the home of Paris Hilton in Los Angeles, according to the L.A. Police Department.

The robbery occurred at around 5 A.M. early Friday at Hilton's Hollywood Hills home on Clarendon Street while Paris was busy partying at Bar Delux in Hollywood along with her friends - singer Katy Perry and gossip blogger Perez Hilton. The burglar or burglars got into the house through an unlocked door, according to LAPD sources. A man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and gloves forced entry through the unlocked front door, ransacked her bedroom and made off with millions of dollars worth of jewels. But unknown to burglar/s the house is fully equipped with security video equipment.

Gossip blogger Perez Hilton, singer Katy Perry and Paris Hilton partying at the club

Via: L.A. Times /Photos: backseatcuddler; perezhilton

Barack Obama Named TIME's 2008 Person of the Year

US president-elect, Barack Obama named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2008, which was announced on Wednesday on Today show by magazine's managing editor, Rick Stengel. The new president-elect which was by most predictions as the likeliest candidate for the Time's yearly honor. He was chosen by the magazine for having the confidence to sketch an ambitious American future in a gloomy hour and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off. Read full story>>

Madonna Poses for Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer '09 Ad Campaign by Steven Meisel

Check this out the newest Louis Vuitton photos featuring Madonna for Spring/Summer '09 ad campaign photographed by famous photographer Steven Meisel. Louis Vuitton’s director Marc Jacobs was looking for an image to embody the spirit of spring/summer ’09.

MADONNA AND MARC: When Marc Jacobs found himself in a meeting on a recent Monday morning to brainstorm about Louis Vuitton’s next fashion advertising campaign, inspiration struck. “I just blurted out, ‘I think we should do Madonna,’” said the designer, Vuitton’s creative director, mentioning he’d attended a concert by the pop icon the night before in Paris. “I was totally just blown away by it, and moved by her performance, by what she had to say, and her energy.”

As the meeting went on, Jacobs tapped out a message to Madonna on his BlackBerry, and within about five minutes came the reply: “I’d love to.”

The result is six atmospheric pictures of a smoldering Madonna by Steven Meisel that will break in a range of fashion magazines in February. “It’s a big change from what we were doing. It tells a story,” said Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s director of communications. “This I think is an amazing coup, but more than that, there’s real logic behind it. It’s very linked to Marc’s fashion show.”

Although Arnault declined to give figures, he said media budgets for the fashion campaign would be on par with a year ago. And he dismissed as “absurd” reports pegging Madonna’s fees at $10 million. “It’s very far away from that,” he assured.

The campaign marks the end of Vuitton’s six-year collaboration with photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, with the parting characterized as amicable, and another reunion for long-time collaborators Madonna and Meisel. Jacobs last worked with Meisel in his Perry Ellis days. (Arnault noted it’s “very probable” Vuitton’s association with Meisel will continue.)

The campaign takes the very Parisian theme of Jacobs’ hit spring Vuitton collection, with a smoky French bistro the setting, and the sepia-toned images evoking a Brassai atmosphere. “As cliché as they are, I love all these French references,” the designer said. (Although the restaurant, Figaro, is on North Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles).

“I still feel it looks like beautiful, gorgeous Madonna,” Jacobs said about the images. “Excepting the references and excepting the clichés, this still feels very today. And it didn’t feel so much like a fashion shoot, it feels like portraits.”

The shoot wrapped up in less than a day and without incident, although Jacobs said hordes of paparazzi literally “appeared out of the bushes” the moment Madonna arrived. “It went from a quiet street to complete chaos,” he said.

The designer also marveled at the singer’s incredible fitness that allowed her to recline, her back arched, on bentwood chairs, or shoot a leg straight up in the air, no sweat. “She’s so sure of herself as an icon and as a woman. It was her idea to do the fishnets,” Jacobs said. “What fascinates me the most about her is her never-ending energy, and the idea of becoming and changing. She’s an artist who’s unafraid to use her voice.”

Arnault said the fashion campaign would appear “very strongly” in February and March issues and with few changes in media placements. “We’re staying on target,” he stressed.

The first visuals will spotlight slouchy bags in monogram canvas and monogram-embossed leather, along with ethnic-inspired sandals, bangles and sexy ready-to-wear. In tandem, Vuitton will continue to run its “core values” campaign, with spots featuring Sean Connery, the latest celebrity spokesman, continuing into next year. Analysts have estimated Vuitton spends more than $250 million annually on advertising, most of it print-driven.

— Miles Socha

Sean Connery's Louis Vuitton Ad Campaign

James Bond star Sean Connery is the new endorser of newest Louis Vuitton ad campaign.

This 78-year-old who played the original James Bond has been photographed by Annie Leibovitz, who recently got a ton of publicity for shooting a racy Miley Cyrus in Vanity Fair Magazine.


Connery's photoshoot took place near his home in the Bahamas with his Louis Vuitton travel bag and wearing a panama hat, a polo neck and rolled-up chinos.

The ad reads, “There are journeys that turn into legends.” Of Connery as the face of the campaign, Vuitton’s director of communications Antoine Arnault said. "I wish I looked like that at 78 years old, "Antoine Arnault added.

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