Evanna Lynch Attends Irish Harry Potter 6 Premiere

Pretty Louth lady Evanna Lynch attended the Irish Premiere of the much anticipated Harry Potter 6 AKA Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, yesterday. The movie was premiered at the Savoy Cinema on O’Connell street and hundreds of fans turned out to get a glimpse of the 17 year old Irish actress.

She was accompanied on the Red Carpet, by Matthew Lewis who plays clumsy Neville Longbottom, a Gryffindor with a knack for Herbology. He wore a smart grey suit and she wore a gorgeous Sonia Rykiel dress from BT2. While on the red carpet the pair signed autographs and posed for pics before heading inside to watch the movie.

This is only the second movie that she has starred in; the first was The Order of the Phoenix. Evanna plays “Loony” Luna Lovegood in the magical movies and is a self confessed huge Harry Potter fan. While attending the world premiere of the movie in London last week, she was asked how she managed to keep so grounded. To which she replied, “If you come from a place called Termonfeckin, you can’t really get airs and graces!”

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince opens nationwide Wednesday July 15^th!

Get Evanna’s Red Carpet Look

Last night, Evanna Lynch attended the Irish Premiere of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at the Savoy Cinema on O’Connell street, accompanied by Matthew Lynch. The pair, who play “Loony” Luna Govegood and Neville Longbottom in the smash-hit movies, mingled with fans and signed autographs. Read more here.

Photograph: Tony Kinlan

Evanna wore a cute, short purple baby doll dress by Sonia Rykiel, available at BT2 with edgy platform peep-toe boots from Kurt Geiger.

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Christina Ricci at Bruno LA Premiere

I just have to mention the classic, understated beauty of Christina Ricci at the LA premiere of Bruno. I love his look, it’s so simple, a dark grey dress, (Opening Ceremony) black heels, (Lanvin) and little hint of glitz with the skinny gold belt.

The actress, who has strong Irish roots, will star in New York, I Love You, which is set for release in October this year. The movie has an ensemble cast including, Orlando Bloom, Shia LeBeouf, Natalie Portman and about 100 other A Listers!  The movie is an anthology of 11 different love stories made into 11 short films of about 10 mins each.

See the Back of the dress here…

Diaz gets Her Star in Oscar de la Renta

Cameron Diaz flashed her pearly whites in her usual big grin as she posed for pics next to her shiny new Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

Wearing this pretty, girly, white lace linen dress by Oscar de la Renta, Cameron looked delighted with her new accolade. The matchy shoes and belt are a bit much but the dress is gorgeous and looks great on the star.

Another A-Lister Hits Dublin

Alabaster skin and a bandage dress seen leaving the Merrion Hotel yesterday evening? It could only mean one thing; Hollywood Elite. Only the supremely confident and beautiful dare to bare their natural pale skin on Dublin streets and yesterday it was the gorgeous Heather Graham.

Ms Graham was in town for the Irish premier of her new film and the surprise hit of the summer, The Hangover. Wearing this SS09 Herve Leger Strapless Cutout Bandage dress with killer heels she signed autographs (freezing I would imagine) mingled with fans along the red carpet and by all accounts was utterly charming! Yay, that’s exactly what we want from visiting Hollywood stars!

Sparkling Summer Trend

I don’t know about you but I couldn’t be happier that sequins are absolutely everywhere this season. I love them, they are super luxe and super 80′s, in a Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface kind of way.

So distressed am I that I wasn’t able to find a pic of her looking like the ice queen she was in this movie, while wearing sequins, I’m posting these too, with no sequins but you totally get the look.

Here she is as Elvira at her exquisite best…

But it is sequins that we’re looking at and furthermore, this seasons sequins. It seems that all over Europe these tiny circles of shiny metal are twinkling their way along the red carpet; Elizabeth Banks wore this amazing navy sequined full-length Andrew Gn (AW09) gown at Cannes this week, imagine wearing a gown that exactly matches the colour of your eyes, lucky devil!

While  the 17th annual Life Ball in Vienna was the campest fancy dress party of the season and the guests were

Swarovski Bags Red Carpet Looks

Swarovski bags seemed to be the order of the evening last night with stars choosing the bling crystals to accessorise their glam outfits:

From left to right: Mode; Sarah Marshall, Director Lisa Azuelos (in black), Actress Hafsia Hertzi and star of the evening, Aishwarya Rai who chose the Kiosque bag to hold her lippy for the evening.

Images courtesy of Swarovski

Flying the French Colours at Cannes

The red carpet was awash with red, white and blue last night at the 62nd annual film fest. The opening night saw, models and actresses turned out in their sparkling refinery proving that this red carpet was a recession-free zone.

In the red corner:

Actresses Elizabeth Banks kept it old school Hollywood glamour in an asymmetric Armani Privé dress and Tilda Swinton wowed in a deep red Haider Ackermann outfit, straight off the catwalk.

Wowing in the white corner:

Beautiful actress Aishwayra Rai stole the show in this Roberto Cavalli masterpiece with train while French TV presenter Daphne Roulier kept it sleek and classy in a white sleeveless ensemble and black trilby-style hat.

And finally in the blue corner:

Model Alessia Piovan wore a gorgeous Alberta Ferretti with intricate skirt detailing while Actress Shu Qi blinged out her simple but stunning turquoise Roberto Cavalli with a fierce necklace.

A Model Example on the Red Carpet

Good lord there was some serious glamour last night at the gala opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition: Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion. Imagine, the honorary chair is Marc Jacobs with co-chairs Kate Moss, Justin Timberlake and Anna Wintour, could that list be anymore American cool and high fashion?

The Museum explains that the exhibition: “explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras”.

Naturally the red carpet was walked by models a-plenty and looking at some of the amazing creations they wore last night it would be impossible to deny that the exhibition has a place.

The guest list was most definitely A-list as not only did the world’s top models strut their stuff

but they were joined by some of the biggest names in fashion and entertainment too.

Model hitters: Claudia Schiffer in world class elegance; Anja Rubik, proving that short can go to the ball; Sasha Pivovarova accessorising to extremes with a peacock cape and special mention to Agyness Deyn’s ode to Marylin Monroe femininity.

Non-Model hitters: Anne Hathaway killing it with big hair, black nails and smokey eyes; Ciara showing her perfect figure with perfect style, and Jessica Biel was made to wear that red!

Not sure about Madge, that headdress, or Rihanna trousers… yay, covering up everything except your ankles (check out the gloves!) NAY…

The exhibition starts today and runs until August 9^th.

Red more about how fashion models have influenced the decades here.

Skins Stars Sparkle at BAFTAS

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Cassie and Effy, or Hannah Murray and Kaya Scodelario to give them their real names, sparkled like the rising stars they are on the red carpet the BAFTA award ceremony in London last night. Both looked gorgeous in their shimmery sequined Collette Dinnigan dresses as skins won the Audience Award (voted for by the public). Kaya’s pearlescent dress was perfectly highlighted with black opaque tights, Hannah’s silver number matched with light grey opaques. The actresses are so on-trend with their relaxed cool and effortlessly pretty looks, showing older TV stars that bottles of fake tan and over coiffed hair are just so passé.

Get the look from the high street:

All Saints in BT2 (Grafton Street / Blanchardstown) have this edgy metal sequined Dominika dress in gold approx. €299; and look at the zip detail in the back, delish.

This amazing Masa halter neck dress is from House of Fraser, approx. €250 the front is lovely, the back is incredible! Perfect for any red carpet!

Incidently if your budget can stretch to a Collette Dinnigan number, you lucky thing, their Dublin stockist is Costume, 10 Castle Market, D2. Tel: 01 679 4188