Lancôme is thrilled to announce its support to the
“Golden Hat Foundation”
created by Kate Winslet, who has been a brand Ambassadress for 4 years. To mark the occasion, Lancôme has created a make-up collection in partnership with the actress.
This non-profit foundation aims to
better the lives of autistic children
by removing or limiting the barriers they face.
Its mission is to teach autistic children how to communicate more clearly, as well as offer them education, job training, recreational activities adapted to their disability.
Autism is a pathology caused by a neurological development anomaly while the brain is maturing that affects a person’s sensorial and neurological functioning.
Today autism affects over 67 million people worldwide.
Of all the serious developmental conditions, autism is the one seeing the most significant global growth.
The “Golden Hat Foundation” was created by Kate Winslet after she narrated the Icelandic documentary – “A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism” (a.k.a. “The Sunshine Boy”) – in which she followed the story of a child with autism. Touched by this boy’s life, she wanted to become more involved and began by developing a book project (to be published in the near future) which brings together hundreds of self-portrait photographs by celebrities from the art and film world, each wearing the foundation’s symbolic hat. The objective? To raise money. She then went on to set up her own foundation, naming it after the poem “The Golden Hat”, written by Keli Thorsteinsson, the child featured in the documentary. In order to support Kate Winslet with this project, Lancôme has worked alongside her to create a limited edition make-up collection, which will be available at the end of this year*. Lancôme promises to donate at least 150,000 euros of its sales profits to the “Golden Hat Foundation”.
“I’ve been thinking about setting up this project for a long time, and Lancôme’s instant offer of support is a huge display of confidence and generosity. Lancôme has given me the strength to go all the way and I know that this will open many doors...”, explains Kate Winslet.
“Kate Winslet represents Lancôme femininity in the most generous and responsible way possible. Altruism is also important to Lancôme, therefore it was a natural decision for us to partner and support Kate and the Golden Hat Foundation”,
comments Youcef Nabi, President of Lancôme International.
*The “Golden Hat Foundation” collection reinterprets the mythical L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, and includes several nail polishes in all-new shades, as well as a new multi-compact powder. All these products are embossed with the foundation’s logo and the actress’ signature.
My cat Bolli should be in his element today. He's a black cat & should be out tonight jumping on witches' shoulders as they zoom around on broomsticks in the sky. Quite frankly he's a little bored with Halloween, but managed to humour me enough to have this photo taken
The look in his eyes says: "Get this over with quickly, so that I can go back to sleeping".
I quite liked the following "out-take" as he looks kinda spooky.
I'm a little more into Halloween this year than normal and actually got all American & baked a pumpkin pie which I'm taking into the crew at Great British Chefs today.
Over on Facebook this opened up a lot of discussion about whether pumpkin pie should be served hot or cold & other pie related questions.
Expect to see more people on the London Underground dressed up as ghouls, goblins, witches, devils & a whole load of other scary things tonight as the Halloween parties come to an end. And as usual as Spiritquest's (@Ketan) great picture above on the Northern Line (taken en route to BarCampLondon) from yesterday shows, expect most Tube travellers to think it's all totally normal & ignore them.
By far this has to be one of my favourite halloween costumes from Designer Roberto Cavalli. Cavalli dresses as his rival Karl Lagerfeld for his own Halloween party 2007.
Editor in chief of Vogue Paris Emmanuelle Alt layers models with knitted wear by the seashore for the Novemeber issue. Photographed by Mario Sorrenti and modelled by Natasha Poly and Sasha Pivovarova the twosome wore wintry knitted sweaters and cardigans from designers Isabel Marant, Missoni, Paul & Joe, Etro and others. They seem so warm and comfy in the shots.
Unstoppable Beyonce with her latest video 'Party'... One thing I love about Beyonce's videos is her outfits they get racier everytime, being pregnant doesn't stop her showing off her curvy body.
Dressed for a Summertime party in a trailer park, doesn't stop Beyonce wearing fabulous designs from the likes of Louis Vuitton, Wildfox couture, Givenchy, vintage Nicole Miller, Christian Dior, Rodarte shoes and more... Love the yellow fur jacket!!!
It's After hours for Vogue UK with model Karlie Kloss. Late nights with fabulous clothes, don't we all wish we looked glamours after a club. Posing in glitz and glam from Balmain, Versace, Michael Kors, Yves saint Laurent and more. Although this editorial is for Vogue UK I wish they used London for the set, instead of Manhattan.
Not strictly Tube related but because I use Richmond Station a lot, it was great receiving an email from Simon Hickman from English Heritage with the following pictures.
He said "South West Trains is replacing the poster boards on the footbridge stairs, and in removing the old ones has uncovered some historic late '70s / early '80s ones underneath. They're very well preserved. One is a stylised advert for sleeper trains, but my favourite is the one instructing the good burghers of Richmond how to open train doors with a button!"
Love both of them, especially the reminder of the "We're getting there" slogan. Wonder how much longer - getting there takes?
Pleased that photos were taken before they were lost forever.
