Today is Mother’s day in the United States, Canada, Brazil and other several countries around the globe. The modern Mother’s day is a holiday created by Anna Jarvis, as a day for each family to honor its mother’s.
Later in the life, Anna Jarvis had become soured on the commercialization of the holiday and once wrote “A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment!”
Anna never married and had no children herself, but she created this holiday to remember us, about something we should naturally remember, that every single day is mother’s day.
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Kate Hudson and Demi Moore
Photo By Steve Eichner
Photo By: Steve Eichner
Ashley Olsen
The ruby, gold and diamond “Taj Mahal” necklace that Richard Burton famously gave to Elizabeth Taylor, with stones that are said to have been owned by the maharajah. A blinged out watch from Elton John. And the 231 carat diamond from Steve Wynn that was heavy enough to sink a small ship.
All were on display Thursday night at the Cartier 100 year retrospective in New York, at a party attended by more celebrities than the Golden Globes. Kate Hudson, Rachel Weisz, Demi Moore, Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake, and Anne Hathaway were just some of the boldfacers sipping champagne and craning their necks to get a peek at the various baubles on display. Even Patti Smith showed up.
“It’s not as strange as you might think,” said America’s most famous punk rock chick. “When I first signed with Clive Davis, my manager Jane Friedman gave me a Cartier watch,” Smith said. “They sponsored my art exhibit and my small film. And they gave me this beautiful watch.”
Some people weren’t so sure about the Wynn diamond (“It’s so big you almost assume it’s costume jewelry,” laughed one attending fashionista) but not Kate Hudson. She walked right up to the case and began caressing it. Then she took a picture with her BlackBerry. “I’m going to send it to my mom,” she said.
Hathaway said she wouldn’t have dared miss the event. “I have a relationship with Cartier,” she said. “They lent me my Oscar jewels.”
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Audrey Tautou, the new face of No. 5, gets into character for Coco Avant Chanel
A woman with glossy cinnamon-brown skin lies beside a jewel-bright swimming pool in a backless black maillot. The shadow of a passing airplane crosses her body, just as an equally tan man, clad in nothing but a tiny Speedo, materializes out of thin air on the other side of the pool and dives in. Over a delicate vibraphone melody, a breathy female voice says, “I am made of blue sky and golden light. And I will feel this way forever….” The man emerges from the water and disappears; the woman turns to face the sun; a new voice issues an unforgettable invitation: “Share the fantasy. Chanel No. 5.”
The first time I saw those images flash across a TV screen was on a snowy Christmas night in the early ’80s. I was only nine years old, but that commercial blew in on a hot wind from some previously untapped tropical zone in my imagination: All of the things I hoped to experience as a grown-up came to me in a giddy rush—glamour, romance, mystery, luxury, a place that obviously was not Kansas.
I’d never smelled Chanel No. 5; I’d never even heard of it. I had no idea that Ridley Scott directed that particular commercial (as well as an equally memorable Fountainhead-reminiscent follow-up that involved a skyscraper, a train, a woman in a red dress, and a rendition of the Ink Spots’ “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”), that the haunting music was by the same composer who scored Chariots of Fire, or that it was a prime example of the kind of advertising alchemy that has long defined the brand. All I knew was that No. 5 stood for something I couldn’t define but very much wanted. To paraphrase Liz Lemon, I wanted to go to there.
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Model Stephanie Naumoska, who is 1.8 m tall and weighs 49 kg, poses in a bikini in Sydney. Australian health experts are worried that the Ms Australia Universe contestant is sending out a wrong message. (Agencies)
France has by far the highest proportion of clinically underweight women in Europe, but only half of them think they are too thin, according to a new study.
In other European countries the opposite is true: the number of women in Britain, Spain and Portugal, for example, who see themselves as seriously skinny easily outstrips the number who actually are.
“This shows that what people consider an ideal weight in France is lower than in other countries,” said the study’s author Thibaut de Saint Pol, a researcher at France’s National Institute of Demographic studies, which published the study on Wednesday.
“If a French person who feels fat were to go to the United States,” – which has much higher rate of obesity – “he probably wouldn’t feel fat anymore,” he said.
The study also reveals a big gap, both objective and subjective, between sexes.
In western Europe, the mean weight of men in every country except France and The Netherlands tips the scales into the “overweight” category, according to World Health Organization (WHO) standards.
By contrast, in only three nations do women join the men in crossing that line: Britain, Greece and Portugal. And only among the Dutch does one find more overweight women than men.
France is the one country in which both sexes are solidly in the “normal” weight bracket, and the only one in which more than five percent of women are officially “underweight”.
The universal standard introduced by the WHO for assessing weight is the Body-Mass Index (BMI): one’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of one’s height in meters.
A BMI of 25-to-30 indicates being overweight, while above 30 means one is obese. The range of normal weight is 18.5-to-24.9.
The proportion of overly thin women in France has long been the highest in Europe, but has shrunk from 8.5 percent in 1981, to 7.8 percent in 1992, to 6.7 percent in 2003, according to once-a-decade national surveys.
In that same period, the proportion of underweight French men held steady at just under two percent.
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