New Fragance by narciso Rodriguez

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Zac Efron

Zac Efron is featured in the August issue of OK Magazine! . The hot young thing from Hairspray lifts the lid on this life…

* He likes girls with brains = Vanessa Hudgens has a brain
* His hero is John Travolta = Zac will play a crossdresser in 30 years
* He goes home to mommy on weekends = Mama’s boy
* He sucks at basketball = Troy’s a fake
* He loves Turtles = Turtle power!
* He’s a terrible cook = Good thing Baby V can
* He “died” in a car accident = He’s still alive
* He struck out in high school = But not anymore
* He’s dating his co-star = Yes, he is

VIVA BRAZIL !! Staring GISELE

Gisele covers the new issue of Vanity Fair. She is the best payed model ever with over $32 million earned last year. And for this photo shoot done in Rio by incredible Mario Testino is supposed to introduce to all of us the country with one of the fastest growing economies, Brazil... We love how Evandro Soldati looks in this turquoise swimsuit by Keiko.

MEGAN FOX TURNS ROBOTS (AND AUDIENCES) ON TO 'TRANSFORMERS'

Megan Fox is relative newbie to the Hollywood big screen having only starred in a number television series and a handful of walk-away roles in some films. Most recently she was on the ill-fated HOPE & FAITH from ABC before landing the role of Mikaela Banes in the summer blockbuster TRANSFORMERS.

Fox’s role in TRANSFORMERS isn’t the typical Michael Bay female lead – a milquetoast beautiful character that rides the coat tails of sometimes numerous male counterparts. The director instead has Banes as a powerful female who does her fair share of butt kicking. “I think the writers wrote [Banes] as a very respectable female character,” Fox says. “She was strong, she was different and she was relatable in all of these things. It wasn’t me because the writers did a good job.”

Much has been written about having Bay as a director – that he yells and is very combative, even abusive, to actors on the set. Yet, Fox never experienced anything like that on the set of TRANSFORMERS. “He pushed me but he had to and not in a negative way,” she says. “He pushed me to be tough and really do some of that action that maybe I wasn't prepared to do. I needed that.”

It was something that she wasn’t afraid of after a long audition process where she not only had to convince Bay she was right for the job but Steven Spielberg as well. “I had like eight different meetings over the span of a month or month and a half,” Fox says. “There are a lot of other people you have to convince as well. It's not even just those two, it's a mass amount of people that have to believe in you.”

Talk about an intimidating proposition. “Particularly for me because I'm kind of coming out of nowhere and I am completely unknown,” Fox says. “So it was very intimidating but then they brought me in for chemistry with Shia [LaBeouf] and I really like Shia and got along with him. I think that helped me.”

What also helped her knowledge from an early age, 3, that she wanted to be an actress. So much so she stopped paying attention in school because she got too bored and couldn’t concentrate on the facts, figures and verbiage being thrown at her when her true calling was in front of her.

“My mom was like ‘Look, you are going to get flunked out so lets just test you in correspondence school and see what happens,’” Fox says. “I passed it immediately and I actually got here.”

Fox stands out not only for her beauty and acting prowess but for an odd collection of tattoos, the first of which she got when she turned 18. One is a head shot of Marilyn Monroe, another is tribal waves because as she says “I am really in touch with the ocean and I am a surfer. It wasn’t done well. The guy was smoking weed.” Another one is an adapted reference from Shakespear’s KING LEAR reading “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“To me it represents a warning sign to be a part of Hollywood,” Fox says. “Be wary of it because you can be one of those girls that fall in too far. You become obsessed with it and people in the world end up laughing at you. You get lost.”

And Fox doesn’t want to get lost because she might take up one of the offers she gets from drive bys. “People will drive past my car and scream at me, ‘I’ll buy you an airplane if you give me your phone number,’” Fox says. “I get all kinds of things like that but no one will come up to me and ask for my number.”

"A PERFECT MARRIAGE"

WWD reports that the Valentino Group has bought a 45 percent stake in Proenza Schouler. For the young designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, the new arrangement means a "security net" and a "strategic partner" in Italy's factories and fabric mills. For Valentino, it "can bring something significant in terms of image." As for whether or not the boys will take over the design reins when Valentino eventually retires, only time will tell. The 75-year-old is said to be negotiating a new three year contract.

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Party Boy

On Thursday night Real Estate Heir & Designer Christopher Baez gathered a small group of fashion notables and celebrities for a mid- summer Mega Bash in honor of His Label Chic & Republic, among the notables faces was Alana Aturialt. The Baez connection? Aturialt wears nothing but Baez Couture in the series of party-girl self-portraits she shot for the designers new collection. "I don't shoot with flash, but I wanted to look at the snapshots for that deer-in-the-headlights, kind of surprised look," she said

Higher Calling

You either love 'em or you hate 'em, but there's no denying that high-waist shorts are a key trend. We like that they can freshen up any outfit, as Mischa Barton demonstrates. Although summer clothing is clearing out of stores, we managed to find several great pairs still available. We suggest you keep the leggy look going into fall by pairing shorts with a cropped jacket and tights.

Helmut Lang's crinkle cotton style, at Barneys.
3.1 Phillip Lim's paper-bag-waist style in denim, at Net-a-Porter.com.
Topshop's bleached denim style.