In what was the second season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo since the German car-maker crucially stepped in as lead sponsor when government funding dried up last year, 37 brands presented their collections for the 2012-13 fall/winter season from March 18 to 23.

So, having been hooked up to life-support courtesy of lead sponsor Mercedes-Benz — along with cosmetics brand Maybelline and express transportation company DHL as sponsors — how did this season’s staging of the twice-yearly Fashion Week Tokyo fare?

On paper, the 50,000 attendees to the shows and the week’s fashion-related events around Tokyo sure made it sound like a party to go down in history. Shows and events were streamed online at official websites, and those brought in an extra whopping 43,000 page views a day — or 302,000 over the week.

But still, it’s impossible to escape the fact that if fashion week and all its hubbub is meant to knock one’s socks off, then in Japan, yours will still be clinging to the feet.

That’s because the invite-only runway shows are but a small portion of the week, with 11 related events running in tandem that help round out the Japanese sentiment toward fashion. And it’s in that area Tokyo remains lacking. Where fans in New York City or Paris will happily try to push their way into industry shows, their Japanese counterparts seem to mutely prefer events catering specifically to them.

However, the mainstream runway shows were not without their own pockets of excitement. Front-row seats in Tokyo are usually desolate in terms of celebrity sightings, but this season saw famous fashionistas such as singer ICONIQ, Chiaki Ito of AAA and Miss Universe contestant Maiko Sakai taking prime audience spots at shows including Somarta’s and the one staged by newcomer A Degree Fahrenheit.

On the international front, 15 countries were represented among the media attendees, and buyers from around the globe numbered a healthy 121. As well, there were representatives of more than 100 of the world’s leading media organizations in town during fashion week.

For sure, all eyes were on Tokyo — but in most cases not because of the fashion shows. Rather, the media pack was here as guests of French luxury brand Chanel, which held a series of lavish parties and a couture fashion show to express its support for Japan in the wake of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

Those events surely overshadowed Tokyo Fashion Week, and many insiders were left playing tug-of-war with time between the two. And though the visiting media hardly stepped into the Tokyo shows, it seems the fashion still rubbed off on some.

Recently, however, JFWO have got select brands to show on-schedule at New York Fashion Week, India Fashion Week and at the massively popular Pitti Uomo trade show staged in Florence, Italy, where, judging from the hugely positive reception, it was clear just how much Japanese fashion is still sought after.

“All three overseas events had far more attendees than we expected. I haven’t seen lines like that to our booths ever before,” said JFWO Director of International Affairs Akiko Shinoda. “Next, I’d like to see us work on something with South Korea.”

Though it’s true that the elite fashion industry is always expecting overnight successes, when it comes to the awareness of and trust in the saleability of new fashion among shop owners, consumers and the international circuit, seeds of innovation are slower to take root.

It could be said, in fact, that neither Rome nor Chanel were built in a day — and it seems we’ve still got a few bricks to lay.

She described herself as an emotional eater with serious body issues.But Janet Jackson is seen here looking confident and happy after a weight loss programme helped her shed the pounds.The 45-year-old singer, who has battled the bulge over the years, is in incredible shape in the promo snap from her Nutrisystem ad.Janet, the sister of the late Michael Jackson, shows off her figure in a tight orange dress and sky high Louboutin heels.She is yet to reveal how much weight she has lost – but a sneak peek of the ad has been released.Newly-slim Jackson proclaims in the commercial: ‘This is what success looks like,’ before going on to describe the Nutrisystem plan, based on eating low glycemic foods which leave you feeling full for longer.While she was once revered for her incredibly toned abs, Janet’s weight has yo-yoed over the years.Back in 2006 she tipped the scales at 180lbs before slimming down.However following the death of her brother Michael in 2009, Janet started to pile on the pounds.She is the latest celeb to use Nutrisystem to fight the flab, with Marie Osmond having previously shed 50lbs on the programme.Janet documented her weight struggle in her 2011 tell-all book True You: A  Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself in which she described herself as an ‘emotional eater’ with serious body image issues.Janet’s ad will premiere in full next Monday.

Are these the Real Housewives or the Jersey Shore girls? In Bravo’s sneak preview for season five of The Real Housewives of New York audiences get a glimpse at Aviva Drescher, Carole Radziwill, and Heather Thomson as they join the cast.White wine in hand they navigate their way through name-calling, exotic vacations, topless swimming, table dancing, and the usual backstabbing cat fights which have made this reality series so popular.Last year, the Bravo series let go of four of their housewives – Cindy Barshop, Alex McCord, Jill Zarin, and Kelly Bensimon – leaving only Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan, and Ramona Singer behind.In the clip, a dumbfounded Ramona cannot believe that her new blonde castmate Aviva – a cousin by marriage to nasally actress Fran Drescher – can wear sandals with her prosthethic leg. The blonde, who has four children with her investment banker husband, originally lost her left leg in a tragic farming accident when she was six years old.

The philanthropist and Wall Street wife went on the reality show to raise awareness for amputees.’I should bow down. Now we have a countess. Now we have a princess Now we have Queen Aviva!’ Ramona sarcastically lists during a hostile meal with Aviva. Aviva is far less than cordial to Ramona in a later clip, calling both her and Sonja Morgan ‘white trash.’

‘I regret having said those words,’ Aviva told the New York Observer by phone yesterday. ‘I have a much larger vocabulary than that. That scene illuminated to me that friendships can certainly take up and downs, and in that way the show – art, in quotation marks- imitated life. Ramona and I did not start out that way.’The Manhattan socialites are seen arguing in four-star restaurants, accusing each other of double-dealing and backstabbing, slurring salacious accusations, jumping in a swimming pool fully clothed while at a beach resort, and travelling to London. Less seen in the clip are the ladies’ husbands, careers, and children.In another outrageous moment, new castmember Carole Radziwill gets propositioned by Aviva’s 80-year-old father in the preview when he offers to give the shocked Glamour magazine contributor her ‘first squirting orgasm.’Carole is the widow of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ nephew the late Prince Anthony Radziwill.Also joining the cast is Heather Thomson the creator of Yummie, a successful line of shape wear. The brunette former stylist and designer for Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is seen breaking down when acting as mediator for two other housewives.In another clip, LuAnn is seen discussing babies with her excited count husband and, in another even juicier clip, she confronts Ramona, saying:’You blackmailed me. You called and threatened me, so own it. What other dirty tricks do you have to pull out of your Pinot-filled hat?’Let the fur fly.The premiere episode of season five airs on Bravo on Monday, June 4 at 9 p.m.

The young Acadiana Food Circle is putting on a fashion show, food festival and concert on Saturday, April 7 at the Blue Moon Saloon.

Just a month after the local food group put out its first directory of fresh resources for consumers, the ACF is teaming up with local restaurants like Jolie’s, The Great Harvest Bread Company, and Cochon as well as four local bands and Boho Mercantile to give patrons the best of every side of Lafayette’s culture in the first “Fresh & Local” benefit.

The show starts at 7 p.m. with free food from the aforementioned restaurants. The fashion show begins at 8 p.m. Then bands, including Miss Emily and the Collard Greens, The Pits, Zydeco Mike & Louisiana Roots Band, and The Moss Pickers, will start at 9 p.m. Following the music, there will be a dance contest and party.

“The theme of the night is local,” ACF director Tyler Thigpen Cochran said.

Tickets for the event are $8 in advance, and $10 at the door. All proceeds benefit the ACF.

“This could be huge for us,” Cochran said. “We don’t have any operating funds. We’ve been supported with small donations, and the board members have donated funds to keep what we have going. I feel like this will put us on the map, and make us much more accessible to the public.”

I first fell for will.i.am when he was a hippo. Specifically, the IQ-challenged muscle man hippo, Moto Moto, in Madagascar 2, and more specifically, the scene when Moto Moto first claps eyes on a new lady hippo – Gloria – at the watering hole.

He minces up, singing his personal mantra – ”I like ‘em big, I like ‘em chunky, I like ‘em big, I like ‘em plumpy …” – and so on, in a ludicrously deep seductive voice to a funky beat. Then he pays her his greatest compliment: ”Girl … you huuuuge.”

I watched it on repeat for days before doing a Google search to find out who had voiced the hilarious hippo and was amazed when it turned out to be the fellow I knew only as the leader of the Black Eyed Peas. Such breadth! Such talent! Such humour!

Since then, Mr Am has become a rather ubiquitous figure, turning up in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Date Night, and on all kinds of talent shows (he is a coach on Britain’s first season of The Voice). So I was not at all surprised that he rolled into Sydney last week. Nor was I surprised to see how great he looked. He is big into style. Before joining the Black Eyed Peas, he attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in his native Los Angeles. Alongside the music, the producing and the acting, he has designed various clothing lines.

It seems to me that he brings a similar aesthetic to fashion as he does to music, mixing things up in surprising new combinations. And that is exactly what he is doing here in his Sydney Airport arrival outfit. He is wearing a silver-grey mohair formal suit with a vest – which looks like something most guys would only wear when forced, to a wedding. Yet he has made it into a relaxed, chill-out look, not remotely overdressed for nursing a Sunday morning flat white with this paper, in Victoria Street, which is something I would love to think he got to do while he was in Sydney, but fear not.

The secret is partly what he is wearing it with: a simple round-neck knit, in a toning shade of grey, as opposed to any kind of a shirt arrangement.

You can casual down a suit with an open-neck shirt (Nick Cave style), particularly if you are wearing no-socks Converse on your feet, but that is all rather seen and done. But sporting some very nice shiny leather shoes with his suit, Will is working a much fresher take on laid-back tailoring.

And the thing that drop-kicks this look into touch are the crazy white owl eyeshades. P. Diddy would never wear those. I also think the wires from his earbuds, heading into his vest pocket, like a modern take on a pocket-watch chain, keep the whole thing really funky.

Poor Hollie Cavanagh. Her “Flash Dance” hit bombed and so did her turquoise fringy haystack of a dress. It was like someone gave her directions for wearing it – skip around like a nut job, and don’t forget to shimmy. The whole season has been a miss for this contestant – she’s dressed too old every time, though this might have been her worst.
The problem with some of the looks last night was a lack of authenticity. The contestants need to dress for who they are. Cavanagh should look like a young, fresh thing, not like some trying-too-hard diva.

Elise Testone failed here too. In a one-shoulder white blouse and long, black trumpet skirt that was not flattering, as well as too many blingy accessories, she went for torch singer instead of the rocker she really is. She looked soooo much better during her Tom Petty duet with Phillip Phillips wearing jeans and a berry colored peasant blouse.

And speaking of Phillips, puh-lease stop wearing brown – it matches his skin tone, beard and hair and dulls him down. Again he donned the super baggy jeans, along with a rumpled button-down and a brown tee. In the duet he looked better in a casual blazer and black shirt. The contrast is good for him, but truth told, he is the real deal – a bluesy rocker who cares more about the music than the look.

Deandre Brackensick was spot on in a button down, jeans and slim tie — the hair flowing – - he’s got a look. Colton Dixon did the rocker thing, again in his favorite skinny jeans worn with an oxblood leather vest and casual white tee shirt accessorized with a black scarf. Perhaps a bit too self-conscious but it worked.  And he’s gone blonder – he’s a handsome dude, and this, along with his manicured shadow of a beard was good.

Joshua Ledet needs to modernize his look. Again he went for a graphic, striped blazer (a slightly better fit this time around) worn with too-tight pants. He could look hipper and sound just as great.

Jessica Sanchez modernized the 80’s moment with a slim, ruffled acid washed denim jacket with big shoulders. Her tiny frame can rock almost anything – including the skinny leather pants she wore, and a cool white tee shirt with net cutouts and neon green straps. Her geometric jewelry story included a studded neon Lucite bracelet. Jennifer Lopez told her, “I love the way your look is developing.”  We can imagine that girls and young women are going to want to steal her look.

We have to admit that Skylar Laine came turned out better than usual, though still not fab in a raspberry colored prom dress (it matched the raspberry strand in her hair) with a high-low hem, and ew, white stilettos. Randy Jackson, sporting a red shirt with big multi-colored polka dots said, “I like the way you look,” and Ryan Seacrest added, “You look very pretty tonight.” Her decision to de-countrify in a fashion sense was conscious. She said, that she put on “a pretty ol’ dress.”

Best look of the night? Seacrest, who appeared on “The Today” show in New York early yesterday morning, but looked fresh as a daisy for this LA gig later in the day donning a perfectly tailored charcoal Burberry suit with a purple pocket square. He’s the man.

As a pop star-turned-fashion designer, fans have seen Victoria Beckham trying out a wide variety of styles.But surely this is one of her most exotic yet as she turned redhead for a striking shoot for Harper’s Bazaar China.With bright red hair tied back and wearing very revealing couture, the mother-of-four is transformed for a dramatic new look.Wearing an intricate Asian head-dress in one image, the 37-year-old flashed a lot of skin in a daring black crossover top.In contrast to the Scouse brow many British celebrities have been sporting, Victoria appears to have a feathered brow, with her eyebrows brushed upwards giving a less groomed appearance than usual.The striking images have been described by some bloggers of making Victoria appear like a video game character.

Victoria donned a red wig for the shoot, taken by famous Chinese photographer Chen Man, who is known for her dramatic cinematic effects.

The star’s shoot with the Chinese edition of the women’s glossy comes after she also posed for Harper’s Bazaar UK.

In the interview, she said she represented the average woman when it came to trying on her designs.Victoria explained that since she became a designer she prefers to wear her own clothes to feel more at one with the customer.But last year she was left disappointed she couldn’t try on her designs as she was pregnant with her much longed-for daughter Harper.She told Harper’s Bazaar UK: ‘We always joke that we have this fabulously gorgeous 17-year-old model who is six-foot-whatever and then I say “OK, I’m going to put it on. I stand for the general public here”.

‘It’s how I work. I found it really difficult when I was pregnant and I couldn’t do that. It’s part of the process – I’ll stand here in my knickers and start draping fabric over myself. It was very hard when I didn’t have my body.’

Jennifer Lopez made sure it was an extra glamorous night of celebration for her toyboy boyfriend Caper Smart yesterday as they celebrated his 25TH birthday together.The American Idol judge looked stunning in a clinging turquoise dress complete with matching glittery clutch bag as they arrived at West Hollywood hot spot Cecconi’s. And the 42-year-old singer ensured she showed off her famous curves in the low cut number.Her 25-year-old dancer boyfriend looked a little more casual in a flat cap, and a black zip up top. The pair looked in good spirits as Casper took the wheel of their car to drive home from the eatery.It had been an extra special day for Smart who had spent the day out shopping with his famous other half in Beverly Hills. ‘We hope Beau has the happiest Birthday Beau ever has!’ Jennifer Lopez she tweeted earlier yesterday. It isn’t clear if she was treating her man to some gifts, though it’s more than likely. Although they have been dating for less than a year, Smart seems at home with Lopez’s twins Max and Emme. Earlier this week, they were spotted taking the youngsters to meet the Easter Bunny at The Grove shopping centre.Smart and Lopez recently made headlines with their racy new video for Lopez’s single Dance Again in which they strike a number of steamy poses. The young dancer appears shirtless in much of the video, while she shows off her enviable curves in a black strapless basque.The striking video debuted on American Idol last Thursday.

This time last year she found herself in the middle of a scandal after it was reported that she had had an affair with a married Premiership footballer.

Imogen Thomas was then branded a homewrecker and worse when it was revealed that Ryan Giggs was the sportsman in question but she denied that she had intended to blackmail him by going to the press about their relationship.

And she said that things got so bad that she had death threats, was scared to leave the house and even moved to try and get away from it.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Imogen, 29, also revealed that she contemplated suicide because she couldn’t take the abuse any more.

She said: ‘I was on antidepressants and I turned to alcohol. How can any girl cope with all that? I’d drink a bottle of wine a night, more if there was another bottle there.

‘It was a way of making myself feel different. But with the drinking comes the tears.’

She admitted she was scared some would ‘glass me’ if she went out.

Imogen also revealed that she would call her mother telling her she couldn’t take it any more but added: ‘I never went as far as “I’m going to do it” – I couldn’t do that to my family, they mean so much to me.’

Imogen stressed that she doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her and even though it’s still raw, she is trying to move on and wants to put everything behind her.Starting with a new romance, this time with Australian city trader Adam Horsley, who she met in a bar six months ago and who had no idea who she was.

She said: ‘I don’t want to be with someone famous. I think you’ve got to have someone real, who’s down to earth and treats you the way you should be treated. I totally love Adam. He treats me like an absolute princess.’

But Imogen said she is not the marrying kind and as much as she loves and cares for Adam, she has already warned him not to propose.She said: ‘I just want someone to tell me they love me. I really want kids, I can’t wait for that. I’d have kids any day but marriage scares me.’And her last thoughts on her turbulent year? ‘Everything happens for a reason’, she said. ‘I’m a strong believer in fate.

‘There’s no point looking back. You go through life constantly making mistakes. You can’t look back and go, “I should have done this, I shouldn’t have done that”.’

Miley Cyrus has flaunted her muscular middle in an array of crop tops and bralets recently.However, today it was a different story as the 19-year-old star was seen wearing a tight black mini-dress to pilates class.With her hair in a loose updo, Miley’s sexy LBD was suited more for a night out than a sweaty pilates studio. Her dress showed off a bit of the lacy black bra she wore underneath her bizarre workout ensemble.Perhaps she had a workout ensemble stuffed into the small Navajo-printed bag she had slung over her shoulder. With an iPhone in one hand and a Smart Water in the other, the starlet escaped the snapping photographers just as fast as her Converse sneakers could take her.Then the Hannah Montana star laughed before ominously warning the paparazzi to ’stay away from’ her white Mercedes Benz sports car as she left Melrose at Pilates earlier today.The Last Song star has been extremely health conscious in the past month, often tweeting about her five-mile runs, going uphill in Skecher’s Shape-ups, drinking spinach carrot OJ smoothies, and eating Good Habit’s gluten-free homemade granola.She has been working out like a maniac and as the pounds continue to melt off her already slim frame she clearly wants to flaunt the results.The fit actress has been taking on darker roles lately. In LOL, she stars as Demi Moore’s rebellious 17-year-old daughter Lola who explores her sexuality and experiments with drugs.The movie, which also stars Twilight’s Ashley Greene, is a remake of the 2008 French film of the same name and will be released in June.‘It’s pretty gnarly. It is about a daughter who is involved with all the wrong kids, doing drugs, failing school, but the mother has her on this perfect pedestal. I just fell in love with the story,’ Miley told Reuters.Miley also stars alongside Jeremy Piven and Kelly Osbourne in So Undercover, a film in which a tough, street-smart private eye is hired by the FBI to go undercover in a college sorority. That film comes out July 27.

As evidenced by last year’s Vogue Italia spread, naked plus size models tend to get people talking.Katya Zharkova is the latest girl to shed her clothes, and she’s making quite a statement.

Zharkova snagged an 8-page editorial for PLUS Model Magazine, in which she appears totally naked…and surrounded by captions with controversial statistics. For example: “Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today she weighs 23% less.” And also: “Most runway models meet the Body Mass Index physical criteria for Anorexia.”

Of course, these stats can’t totally be taken for face value. There’s no mention of the weight of the average woman 20 years ago as compared to now, just that of models. In addition, the criteria for anorexia involves more than just a specific BMI. That said, these numbers are still jarring. The photos are also jarring — not because of the nakedness or Zharkova’s body, but because of the use of an anonymous (we never see her face) straight size model that Zharkova holds and lies on.
What’s the point of the editorial? The mag explains:

The answer to the question is this, there is nothing wrong with our bodies. We are bombarded with weight-loss ads every single day, multiple times a day because it’s a multi-billion dollar industry that preys on the fear of being fat. Not everyone is meant to be skinny, our bodies are beautiful and we are not talking about health here because not every skinny person is healthy.

What we desire is equality to shop and have fashion options just like smaller women. Small women cannot be marketed to with pictures of plus-size women, why are we expected to respond to pictures of small size 6 and 8 women? We don’t! When the plus size modeling industry began, the models ranged in size from 14 to 18/20, and as customers we long for those days when we identify with the models and feel happy about shopping.

The actress has since moved on from the incident, saying ‘it didn’t paralyze’ her.

This isn’t the first time American Apparel has shown bush. Porn star and actress Sasha Grey offered a peek of her pubes in a fall 2009 campaign and the aforementioned drawn ads featured a model au naturel, if you will. While Copyranter wonders if this is the brand’s “sleaziest ad ever,” we just think it’s the least effective. Despite being quite obviously eye-catching and despite the fact that we’ve now looked at the image closely at least a dozen times, we still couldn’t tell you exactly what the model is wearing without taking a refresher glance.

And our issue isn’t with the bush. Shave it, grow it, wax it, show it — personal grooming habits are nobody’s business but their own. Our issue is, once again, with the repetitive gratuitousness of all their ads.

American Apparel is no doubt trying to up their edgy ante, but the use of pubic hair as a provocation just falls flat. While Carine Roitfeld’s use of pubes in Vogue Paris last spring felt refreshing, this image seems to be highlighting the hair for provocation alone. Ooh! Look! She’s not waxed! She must be extra sexual. I should buy those panties! Or something.

Anyway, that’s just our take. What’s yours?

Bailon, for those unfamiliar with her oeuvre, is a former Disney Channel Cheetah Girl and an ex-girlfriend of Rob Kardashian. She also sat front row at Whitney Port‘s Whitney Eve fall 2012 show. Suffice it to say: she appears somewhat haphazardly on red carpets.

Last night, she stepped out for the inscrutably named Escape to Total Rewards event in New York in a see-through barely-black dress, the back of which featured lace paneling and the front of which appeared to be covered with a froth of ruffled ivory fabric. Unfortunately, the fabric wasn’t so much secured to the front of the dress as it was draped, which means that an errant gust of wind (or a deliberate turn) unveiled all of Bailon’s purposely uncovered nether regions.

Still going through divorce proceedings, the reality star said she’s ‘really ready to move on’.

Kim Kardashian is keeping up the hype over her rumored rebound with Kanye West.

The brunette bombshell, 31, stopped by NBC’s “Today” on Friday and giggled through a series a questions about her whirlwind dating spree with the 34-year-old dapper rapper.

Asked if she enjoyed sitting with West in a dark theater for a showing of “The Hunger Games” on Wednesday, Kardashian dodged the real question.

“The movie was really interesting,” she told Ann Curry with a laugh. “I’m glad (co-host Matt Lauer) is not doing the interview on this part, you know, with the Kanye questions.”

Curry laughed too, but took the challenge to dig deeper.

“On Twitter they’re even calling you Kimye. Do you want to clarify this in any way,” Curry asked.

“I completely respect and understand that you have to ask these questions, but I’ve said before, Kanye and I have been friends for years,” Kardashian said.

“You know, you never know what the future holds or where my life will take me,” she continued. “So… I like the song!”

West’s new track, “Thera Flu,” includes the lyrical confession that he “fell in love with Kim” around the same time she fell for husband Kris Humphries, 27.

“Well that’s cool, baby girl, do your thing. Lucky I ain’t have Jay drop him from the team,” West raps, dissing the hoopster hubby who plays for the New Jersey Nets, the team owned by West’s good friend Jay-Z.

Curry asked the still-married celebutante why she hasn’t given in to Humphries’ request for an annulment of their 72-day marriage.

“I’m sure I would love one myself, but you know, there’s certain guidelines on how you can get one and I’m not sure that we fall under that,” the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star said.

“We are still going through a divorce, so there’s not really much that I’m allowed to talk about. Out of respect for him, I try not to really talk about stuff, you know, involving him regarding that situation,” she said. “I’m just really ready to close that, I have closed that chapter. I’m just really ready to move on.”

Moving on is what she did in Manhattan this week.

After Kardashian and West’s movie date Wednesday, the two visited the hot new interactive play “Sleep No More” on W. 27th Street, hit nearby Manderley Bar and had a sleepover at the rapper’s Tribeca pad.

Kardashian was photographed leaving West’s building at 10 a.m. Thursday in the same clothes from the night before.

The duo then met for lunch with friends at Serafina on E. 61st Street before heading over to the nearby FAO Schwartz for some shopping. The couple then dined at Cafeteria in Chelsea Thursday night.

“Kim likes Kanye,” a friend of the reality star tells the Daily News. “She’s happy to have met someone who like her and understands her crazy life.”

The rapper was spotted yucking it up with longtime associate Jacob Arabo of Jacob & Co.

Do we sense a trend here?

Jay-Z was spotted shopping for some bling for wife Beyonce in honor of their fourth wedding anniversary, and sources told the Daily Mail that the diamonds he had his eyes on were, well, blue.

The rapper was snapped leaving Jacob & Co. jewelry store in Manhattan deep in conversation with pal and longtime associate Jacob Arabo Wednesday, but he appeared to leave empty-handed except for a water bottle.

According to the Mail, Jay-Z was interested in Arabo’s collection of rare “Lumina” blue diamonds.

“I know he checked out colored diamonds, the rare blue ‘Lumina’ in particular,” a source told the site.

Jay-Z and Beyonce have an affinity for the color; the rapper’s album “The Blueprint 3″ went platinum upon its release in 2009 and the diva singer frequently dons blue nail polish in honor of the couple’s first child together, Blue Ivy, 3 months.

The jewelry shop stop comes amid rumors that the musical couple is set to renew their vows in a ceremony later this year.

A source tells Star magazine that Jay-Z “told Beyonce earlier this year that he wanted to marry her all over again.”

“They want the ceremony to be simple but elegant,” the magazine reports. “They’re having Nobu cater it, and Jay put together a special presentation showing him and Bee through the years.”

On Thursday, Beyonce let fans in on some personal moments of her life as well, with a newly launched Tumblr featuring photos of her and Jay-Z goofing off with family.

“This is my life, today, over the years – through my eyes,” she wrote on the site. “My family, my travels, my love. This is where I share with you. This will continue to grow as I do.”

The notoriously private star also wrote her very first tweet, garnering more than 3,500,000 followers in less than an hour.

That insurance company designed a height weight chart based upon the average American citizen. If your actual weight was 20 percent or more above the table weight, then you were considered obese. If it was 10 percent under, you were underweight. Today, however, the term ideal weight is irrelevant.The original weight table standards were designed for insurance purposes, not as guides for nutrition and fitness. These tables never considered body composition. In other words, they make no distinction between lean body weight and fat body weight. Most world-class bodybuilders (usually less than 8 percent body-fat) would be categorized as obese by the original weight tables.

In reality, Fat Albert really is obese while Jay Cutler is one of the healthiest people on the planet. The error is that the height weight chart doesn’t account for differences in body composition; it only measures weight. Therefore, without taking lean body weight vs. fat body weight into account, it’s impossible for the bathroom scale to tell you if you’re at your ideal body weight or not. More importantly, when you do begin to lose weight fast the scale will never be able to tell you if you’re experiencing fat loss or muscle loss.

What Is BMI, And Why Should I Care?

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a relationship between weight and height that is associated with body fat and health risk.

Body Mass Index (BMI) is widely used to determine an individual’s ideal body weight. Similar to the height and weight chart, it is essentially the relationship between a person’s weight and height. The formula used to calculate it is: BMI= (Weight in Kilograms) / (Height in meters squared).

This measurement, also known as the Quetelet Index, was developed around 1830 to 1850 and is attributed to a Belgian named Adolphe Quetelet.

According to most experts, a BMI of 20 to 25 is considered healthy. BMI of less than 20 suggests an individual is underweight while 25 to 29 indicates an overweight person. 30 and above is a sign of obesity.

Conversely, elderly people who have suffered some deterioration of muscle mass may have lower BMI with higher fat content.

Again, using our Fat Albert/Jay Cutler example, we find that their BMI is an identical 39.1 (obese). Remember that we’re using Jay’s real statistics here, and Jay is certainly not obese. That’s the danger of relying only on BMI as an indicator of fitness – without differentiating between lean body mass and fat body mass, the result is skewed.

Still, for the average American without Jay Cutler-size muscles, the BMI can be a fairly accurate measurement of health.

There are two convenient places where you can find a BMI calculator. First, just ask the friendly staff at your local health club. They will be more than happy to calculate your BMI and body fat percentage. Another resource is the on-line BMI calculator found at the Department of Health & Human Services site. Both sources are accurate and can help you determine if your BMI is in the acceptable range.The way to measure and determine one’s fat to lean muscle proportion is to determine body fat percentage. The body fat percentage is the percentage of an individual’s weight that is fat. It is entirely possible for a person that’s ‘heavy’ on the scale to boast a low body fat percentage. Jay Cutler, for example, weighs in at 265 pounds but has a body fat percentage well below 10 percent. Fat Albert, on the other hand, has a body fat percentage greater than 50 percent. Body fat analysis is the only method that truly reflects the fitness level of the person.

Only body fat analysis allows you to determine whether you are losing fat or losing muscle. The difference is critical to your weight loss success story, since losing muscle will only lead to further fat gain. On the flip side of the equation, if your goal is to gain muscle then only body fat analysis will show exactly what type of weight you’re gaining: muscle or fat.In short, body composition testing (also known as body fat analysis) is the only proven method to accurately test whether or not you’re at your ideal weight.

To have your body fat analysis done, visit your local fitness center. In just a few seconds they will accurately and safely determine your body composition. Your personal physician can also perform this test.

Many Americans are trying to lose weight. Unfortunately, the best weight loss program doesn’t focus on just weight loss but on real fat loss. When it comes to measuring progress, the scale and Body Mass Index (BMI) both fall short for many people because they don’t distinguish between lean weight and fat weight.

Only body fat analysis can provide an honest assessment of whether or not you’ve arrived at your ideal body weight. So what exactly is your personal ideal body weight? Whatever you weigh when your body fat percentage is in the recommended range!

Actress’ curves are noticeably missing from sexy ad.

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ample curves were drastically dialed down in a new advertisement for her upcoming show, “The Client List.”

Two ads promoting the Lifetime series were released — one showing Hewitt in her natural form, and another in which the actress appears to have undergone a serious breast reduction.

Photoshopping in advertising is nothing new — but it’s usually to enhance curves, not flatten them.

The 32-year old actress said she had no idea about the digital nip and tuck.

“Somebody sent me a copy of the photograph, and I was like, ‘Ummm . . . what happened?’ ” the sultry star told The Kevin & Bean Show from KROQ on Friday.

“I’m not quite sure what’s going on. But apparently somebody wanted me to have a boob reduction.”

While the original ads — showing Hewitt’s true curves — appeared on Hollywood Reporter and across billboards in Los Angeles, the altered ads only showed up in Entertainment Weekly.

“The thing that’s even crazier is that usually when they do that stuff, I had to see the photograph before they went out anywhere, and I never saw a new version of it,” Hewitt told the radio show.

“I don’t know what happened. At least [Entertainment Weekly] still ran the ad, and they’ve been very kind to us.”

“The Client List” is based on a 2010 Lifetime movie of the same name about a single mother who moves to Texas and begins working as a high-end prostitute.

Hewitt opened up about the risqué role in a recent interview with Parade magazine.

“It’s meant to be provocative and it’s meant to be a fantasy,” she said. “Television is supposed to allow you to escape into other worlds and watch other people do things and forget about your life for a minute.”