Naya Rivera got back in shape within five months of delivering a baby.

Actress Naya Rivera is a proud fit mother, debuting impressive washboard abs less than six months after giving birth to her son.

The 29-year-old welcomed son Josey with her husband Ryan Dorsey on 17 September (15) and after delivering the little boy, she wasted no time getting back into the gym.

The results of her tireless commitment to fitness was obvious in a picture Naya shared on Instagram Monday (1Feb16), which showed off the star's ripped abdominal muscles.

"Yaaassss! Werk. It. Out. fitmom (sic)," she wrote in the photo's caption.

The image saw Naya lifting up her shirt to show off her midr ... Read more »

The 47th Hong Kong Fashion Week kicked off from January 18 featuring more than 1,500 exhibitors from 22 countries and regions showing latest fashion designs and collections of fabrics and accessories.

“With this year's theme being 'Fashion of Music', HKTDC has created a fashion avenue for the fair, which blends different musical genres in ways that complement various styles of fashion and accessories,” a press release informed.

During the fair, around 30 fashion events, including fashion shows, fashion parades, seminars, forums, and a networking reception were organised to present latest fashion collections and market intelligence.

This year, companies from Myanmar, Romania, Uzbekistan, New Zealand, Philippines and Vietnam joined the Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter for the first time.

The fair features 11 pavilions, including China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Macau, Japan as well as Hong Kong Fashion Designers Associati ... Read more »

It's a new year and time for a new organisational system for your favourite make-up products

It's a new year with new goals, and for a lot of us, that means cleaning up the clutter that has piled up after months of disregard. And for those of us who have loads of beauty products stashed away, it's easy forget we have an unopened bottle of Moroccan oil shoved in the bottom drawer in our bathroom.

If you're struggling with a seemingly endless amount of make-up and products, here are some helpful tips to get you organised and make the most out of the space you have.

The goal of any organisational system is to make it quick and easy, so first off, consider the items you use eve ... Read more »

Neither the high winds that diverted flights past Florence’s airport to nearby regional cities like Bologna or Pisa, nor security jitters that led to undercover patrols and sniffer dogs policing the streets near major monuments deterred the flocks of peacocks who descended on this city this week for the huge men’s wear fair Pitti Uomo.

“We’re really quite surprised, to be honest, how many people came,” Raffaello Napoleone, the fair’s director, said of an estimated 30,000 visitors.

While exhibitor numbers have climbed steeply over the past several years — 1,219 labels are now represented here, close to 50 percent of them international — geopolitics have a way of wreaking havoc on commercial expectations. In recent years, the ruble collapsed and the Russians stayed home; then the renminbi fell into a ditch, taking with it the free-spending Chinese and the global markets. It turns out people have had more important concern ... Read more »

During the first week of January, instead of heading to the gym or peeling off the seal on an inaugural bottle of green juice, more people than ever, it seemed, opted to stay in and organize, take a bath, burn a smudge stick, or, simply breathe. “I am just cleaning my room—trying to get the old energy out,” texted one Vogue editor on January 1, who wasn’t alone in her off-season spring-cleaning. The quest is to KonMari, or perhaps, less dogmatically, to declutter dominated to-do lists from Manhattan to Malibu. When model Angela Lindvall wasn’t practicing calming left nostril breath work, she could be found going through “a bunch of stuff I had been ignoring for a long time. That physical clutter in our home stacks up and brings this emotional burden on us.” And the cleansing didn’t stop there. There was artist Mickalene Thomas wafting sage smoke in her living room during a Vogue video tour of her own home, and the Lenny Letter contribu ... Read more »

Flair's Fashion Frolic feature takes you on another behind-the-scenes journey to really get to know some of your favourite and celebrated designers. This week we get to know a little more about Jamie Spence of YC designs.

Fashion designer Jami Spence goes by designer name 'James Black' with her fashion line Yahdie Conscious, now YC.

Spence said her designer name came as a result of her alias name 'James' and added the 'Black' because she likes wearing black so she put both of them together.

Spence's designs are a reflection of her funky personality-hence her specialising in unique sophisticated street-style an edge.

Her talent and passion were recognised when she was in sixth form, and her team won best costume the first year they entered the JAMFIT cheer leading competition, "I realised just how much I enjoyed coming up with the concept and bringing it to life. I thought it was the coolest thing ever," Spence ... Read more »

The country’s triumph at the 64th Miss Universe pageant ended the year 2015 in Philippine pageantry with a big bang and may be considered the country’s second golden year after 2013. Victories in various beauty competitions around the world achieved by Filipinos in a single year in record fashion is one for the books which included wins in diverse competitions for women, men, children, transgender and even scuba divers, highlighted by a rare back-to-back feat.

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach made her Miss Universe journey in her third attempt at the Bb. Pilipinas national search. Realizing her dream to become Miss Universe was well within her reach, she promised not to fail her countrymen’s high expectations in the most anticipated beauty event of the year.

Wurtzbach brought her A-game in the national costume, interview, swimsuit and evening gown competitions to succeed in capturing the country’s third Miss Universe crown, the most win for any country in ... Read more »

A year ago, Amma Johnson designed her first handbag sample and got the product into her first store.

Today she fulfilled a bigger childhood dream of opening her own fashion showroom to showcase her Amma Jo brand, which includes designer handbags and accessories.

The Ghanaian-born designer, who spent 15 years as a corporate executive in retail, nonprofit and government relations, opened what she hopes will be a flagship store and fulfillment center in Strawberry Square.

"There is always a place for new designers," Johnson said. "I wanted to be in Strawberry Square because it's easy marketing with the mixed uses."

And the traditional suburban mall is not trending well, she added.

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Star Wars is undeniably one of the greatest sci-fi films ever to be released. For children, adults and teens everywhere the film became a major inspiration. To date, the film continues to inspire creatives in every industry, and designer Mara Hoffman is no different. In honor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which made an international debut of $279 million, Hoffman created a fall/winter 2015 collection.

Expanding on last season’s softer color palette, the fall 2015 collection combines a strong neutral story, consisting of camel, cream, black and white, with streams of color through the brand’s signature prints. Hoffman takes style cues from Luke Skywalker and the landscapes of his planet, Tatooine, in the form of metallic geometric embellishments, black crepe fabrics, and chiffon tufting appliqués. The collection is texturally balanced with the use of fringe and luxe wool-coating throughout a wide range of coats and sweaters. Telling the story of other-world lan ... Read more »

A rule that stops women who've had abortions entering beauty pageants is discriminatory and outdated, experts say.

New Zealand versions of United States beauty pageant franchises like Miss World and Donald Trump's Miss Universe stipulate that contestants cannot be married, in a relationship, have given birth or parented a child.

When asked what type of women entered beauty pageants, Miss World New Zealand organiser Desmond Foulger said "single women without children, never having given birth nor had an abortion".

The Miss World New Zealand entry form says contestants have to be "single, not in a de-facto relationship, have neither been married, nor has ever gotten pregnant or given birth".

They also have to be a "natural-born female".

Meanwhile, the Miss Universe rules state contestants can never have been married or pregnant.

"The titleholders are also required to remain single throughout the ... Read more »