Elizabeth Banks To Play Tinkerbell
It seems Tinkerbell has been campaigning for her own starring vehicle for some time now. Not content with taking a back seat to Peter Pan and Captain Hook the little pixie/fairy hybrid is ready to take centre stage in a new romantic comedy simply titled Tink.
Taking the role will be Elizabeth Banks, which I have to admit, is pretty solid casting. The actress isn’t only starring but is also responsible for getting the project off the ground with the help of her production company Brownstone Productions that she owns with her husband.
There is one major problem. Also on producing duties is a man called McG! Whenever this name is mentioned in terms of cinema massive alarm bells begin to ring. Lets face it. His name isn’t exactly synonymous with quality is it?
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Loved the toothy jewels Alber Elbaz sent down the runway at Lanvin (pictured)? Meet the man behind them: 33-year-old jewelry phenom Elie Top. [
At his new four-story space in Mayfair’s “Wobo” (that’s West of Bond Street), Acne’s Jonny Johansson tells Style.com why he chose upscale Mayfair rather than edgy Shoreditch for his first retail shop in London: “Space has always been more important than location. We looked at so many places and knew this was the right one because of its history—we knew we could add our own contemporary twist to it. It was big, raw and challenging.” Fortune favors the brave, but the process wasn’t without its ups and downs. “Let me tell you, halfway through I was regretting it,” Johansson adds with a chuckle.
Holland may have taken a blow in a certain soccer tournament of late, but there was no talk of runners-up at the gala opening of Amsterdam International Fashion Week, which kicked off Wednesday night with two radically different visions from Dutch design houses, albeit united by a shared aquatic sensibility.
Taking in the various Resort shows, I noticed a trend I’ve been seeing more and more of over the past few months: python. But not the real stuff—there was that, too, of course, but I’m talking python prints, which give the luxe look at cut cost (though in the case of Lanvin et al., that’s all relative, of course). Those prints even let Stella McCartney, fashion’s loudest animal activist, get in on the style without skinning a soul. The print seems to have a particular hold on summer dressing: Both Michael Kors and Lanvin offered python swimwear, and Alber Elbaz even created an entire ensemble to go with it—a long dress that’d be a perfect cover-up, plus a matching nylon bag and carry-on. 
Barcelona 080 fashion week is a bit of an oddity among the European fashion fests. The city has a long tradition of style—it’s famous for espadrilles, which even the Barcelona police used to wear—but classic looks aren’t part of the runway offerings here. The 13 Catalan designers who showed over the past three days each took different directions, but all bypassed the traditional suiting and classic womenswear. For its Spring ‘11 session, 080 Barcelona awarded €10,000 prizes to two local talents: Manuel Bolaño’s women’s collection, A Little About Me (pictured), was, he says, “inspired by my grandmother at her house in a country town.” Judging by the billowy jumpsuits, crochet lace body stockings, and layered skirts in rubber or metallic brocade, Gran was one very forward-thinking woman. In menswear, Catalonia’s rising star, Juan Antonio Ávalos, showed a collection called Tropical Knight, full of vivid color combinations such as red and pink. He managed to juxtapose medieval elements like coats of arms with seventies Cali surf-and-skate styles.
Steven Meisel’s jazz-themed campaign for Prada’s new Swing sunglasses allowed Angela Lindvall to indulge in some very satisfying make-believe. “I always had this secret desire to be a piano bar singer, and I kind of got to live out my fantasy through this Prada campaign,” Lindvall said last night at the launch party at storied New York lounge Joe’s Pub, where the evening’s main act was resurgent punk pioneer Nina Hagen.