News week 2
11 Dec 2015
Adele's 25 hits 5m sales mark in the US
Another day, another record-breaking sales accomplishment for Adele. The pop star’s third album, 25, has crossed the 5m sales mark in the US, making it the first album to sell more than 5m copies in a calendar year since her last album in 2011.
The figures come courtesy of Nielsen Music, which tracks music sales in the US, and were reported by Billboard on Thursday. According to Nielsen, Adele’s 25 has sold at least 510,000 copies in its third week of release, racking up more than 5m copies in total when added to the 4.49m copies sold in the album’s first two weeks of release since 20 November.
The album 25 sold more than 3m copies in the US in its first full week of release, breaking a first-week sales record previously held by ’N Sync’s album No String Attached. The boyband’s album sold 2.4m copies in its first week of release, back in the pre-streaming days of 2000.
12 Dec 2015
Burundi: 87 killed in worst violence since April coup attempt
About 87 people have been killed in Burundi in the worst outbreak of political violence since an attempted coup in April, with residents describing victims shot execution-style, some with hands bound behind their backs.
The Burundi army said that the death toll included eight members of the security forces.
Gunfire could be heard across the capital, Bujumbura, throughout Friday, with eyewitnesses describing few residents venturing out until later on Saturday as security forces patrolled the streets.
The escalating violence comes a day after the government said an unidentified group carried out a trio of co-ordinated attacks on military targets.
An army spokesman, Colonel Gaspard Baratuza, claimed 12 attackers had been killed and 21 captured, saying they had aimed “to stock up on weapons and ammunition … The army has defeated them seriously.”
Credit: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/12/burundi-bodies-found-worst-violence-since-april-coup
13 Dec 2015
The best lipglosses for winter
Hail the return of lip gloss. Of the pout that reflects light like cats’ eyes on the motorway, that you apply coyly during gaps in conversation. Winter fashion showed high-shine lips at Rag & Bone, Rodarte, Fendi and Roland Mouret, with the gloss appearing off-lip, too – eye-lids, cheeks, anywhere, really, that light hits.
Get the look
- Revlon New Ultra HD Lip
- Lacquer £7.99, tesco.com Perricone No Lipgloss
- Lipgloss £25, selfridges.com Ciaté Custom Kiss
- Lipgloss £14, ciatelondon.comClarins Instant Light
- Lip Perfector £18, clarins.com NARS Steven Klein Lipgloss£19, liberty.co.uk Burberry Kisses
- Gloss £21, net-a-porter.com Chanel Gloss
- Volume £26, houseoffraser.co.uk Boutique
- Lipgloss £6, sainsburys.co.uk Laura Mercier Lip
- Glacé £19.50, selfridges.com
14 Dec 2015
A winter shower of shooting stars
Less than two weeks before Christmas, the strong Geminid meteor shower will reach its peak, with up to 100 meteors per hour expected in the early hours of 14 December. If the weather plays ball, observers will experience a dark sky late in the evening after the waxing crescent Moon sets below the horizon – making it easier to witness the fainter streaks.
The show lasts over a few weeks from 4 to 17 December as the Earth ploughs through a cloud of debris left over from the rock comet 3200 Phaethon. Most meteor showers originate from crumbling comets; however 3200 Phaethon is a 5km wide asteroid moving in a very elliptical orbit around the Sun. As it passes close to the Sun its surface bakes at a temperature of 750C, resulting in thermal fracturing in the rock.
15 Dec 2015
Christmas hair: why no parting is the new parting
the main goal at Christmas is, of course, to appear louche, even if you’re fretting about sellotape and Network rail timetables. Gold clothes, silly shoes, proper hair. It’s all about appearing cooler and better than you actually feel. And if looking like this is your aim, then parting-less hair is your next logical move.
Think of it as 1% hair. The philosophy might seem skewed but stay with us. Odile Gilbert, a big-name hair stylist who has worked at Calvin Klein, The Row and on Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette calls it “aristocrat hair” because it makes you look posh. Claire Bonney, of Radio London Hair Salon, says it’s as elitist as hairstyles get, mainly “because it reveals a lot of face”. Ergo, if you can pull it off then you must.
Credit:http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/dec/15/christmas-hair-why-no-parting-is-the-new-parting
16 Dec 2015
Ho-ho-hot: 'Fashion Santa' has adults lining up for mall pictures with St Nick
More adults are lining up to snap a photo with Santa this year, because the St Nick at Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre does not have a belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly. He’s fashionable, slim and some have even called him “hot”.c
Paul Mason, a model for 30 years for some of the world’s leading brands, said people immediately started commenting on how much he resembled Santa when he grew out his beard. Now, he has helped Yorkdale launch their Christmasshopping campaign by posing as Fashion Santa.
Pictures of Mason dressed up as Fashion Santa in various parts of the mall immediately began to circulate: Mason in a plaid jacket and scarf on the roof, Mason in a red leather jacket snapping a selfie, Mason in fitted black jeans while dragging a Christmas tree, Mason in a velvet jacket and overcoat in an underground parking lot.
17 Dec 2015
Neck and neck: new ways to wear a choker
Silk scarves, laser-cut leather and velvet: chokers are back on trend in a big way this party season. Here’s how to wear them the 2015 way
Necks are the new cleavage! Not remotely true or accurate, but they are overdue a look-in, having been buried beneath our (albeit on-trend) polo necks all season. This is where chokers come in. One of the most resilient accessory trends of recent decades, they peaked in the 1990s, flooded the 2004 catwalks, came back again in spring/summer 2012 and popped up last winter, last spring and again this season.
There are no rules with fabric or material. Victorian velvet is a classic but really, why stop there? Laser-cut leather, rhinestone, pearly, dog collars and – like this one at Isabel Marant – a stethoscope, it is all fair game provided it is tied tight enough to count. Undeniably chokers work best with a low-cut top or somethingBardot-y – anything that covers your collar bones would just look weird – but despite potentially hypersexual undertones, they can make anything revealing feel a little less naked.
Silk scarves, in the vein of Hermès et al, work too. American Apparel has even launched a line of tops with built-in chokers to save you time, a prevalent look at the AMAs, where Kylie, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid all wore dresses with built-in neck pieces.
For some people, chokers will always be linked with fetishwear – an association that rarely reads brilliantly in real life. Even on celebrities – aside from the odd flourish of latex on Rihanna and Gaga – it feels a bit “look at me” or, worse, a bit “fashion designer’s edgy graduate show”. Chokers, however, are the acceptable face of this reference. Plus wearing something round your neck makes you hold your head up high, which is good because enforced dignity is very necessary in the run-up to your seventh Christmas party.
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