The beautiful actress, Song Hye-gyo, is riding the media wave before the opening of her movie, Hwangini on June 6th. Here, she glams it up as for the camera as Hwangini for a feature shoot in next month’s Vogue Korea!
Song Hye-gyo is also featured in a more modern light in the June issue of Cosmopolitan Korea. Will put up pictures soon.
A raven-haired Miss Japan, Riyo Mori, was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday in a contest marked by protests, a banned dress and the withdrawal of one beauty queen on the ground the pageant degrades women.
Mori, 20, the 56th winner of the title, was given her $250,000 diamond-and-pearl crown by last year's winner, Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico, watched by a live audience of 10,000 and some 600 million television viewers worldwide. Miss Universe 2007 top 5 winners are: Miss Venezuela Ly Jonaitis, Miss Korea Honey Lee, Miss Brazil Natalie Guimares, Miss US Rachel Smith, and Miss Japan Riyo Mori.
Riyo Mori profile
Age: 20
Height: 5'8
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori was crowned by last year's winner, Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico
A lifelong ballet dancer from a village near Mount Fuji, Mori wore a striking black gown with colored lapels for the final. Winning surpassed the ambition of her grandmother, who told her as a child she wanted her to be Miss Japan one day.
"My mind went blank," she said of the winning moment.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori in long dress
During the evening gown parade, Miss USA, Rachel Smith, slipped on the runway and landed on her bottom, although the slip didn't stop her earning fifth place.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori waves her hand
This year's contest was marked by controversy, with a handful of Mexicans booing Smith in the run-up to the finals because of what they saw as U.S. unfriendliness toward illegal immigrants.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori in sexy low-cut dress
Miss Sweden, Isabel Lestapier Winqvist, unexpectedly pulled out of the event because of complaints in her country that it degrades women. Sweden has won the Miss Universe crown three times in the past.
In another hitch, Miss Mexico was made to change her outfit for the regional dress contest after her original dress, decorated with brutal images of rebels in a 1920s religious uprising being hanged or shot, drew accusations of poor taste.
Miss Japan 2007 Riyo Mori is Miss Universe 2007
The annual Miss Universe pageant -- which tries to present itself as something more meaningful than a swimwear parade -- was first held in Long Beach, California, in 1952. The event was taken over in 1996 by U.S. real estate mogul Donald Trump.
Riyo Mori was Miss Universe 2007 winner
This year, it attracted protesters wearing white dresses splashed with fake blood and sashes proclaiming "Miss Juarez", "Miss Atenco" and "Miss Michoacan" in reference to places in Mexico made infamous by killings or sexual abuse of women.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori in sexy bikini
In another quirk for 2007, the long, twisted dreadlocks of Miss Jamaica, the contest's first ever Rastafarian participant, and the close-shaved head of Miss Tanzania stood out from the lacquered manes of the other contestants.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori in black evening dress
Last year's Miss Universe event in Los Angeles also made its mark when winner Rivera caused gasps by slumping to the ground in a faint during a post-pageant news conference.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori in sexy black dress
As well as strutting in cocktail dresses and bikinis, the 77 contestants from nations ranging from Albania to Zambia traveled in Mexico in the lead-up to the event, visiting Mayan ruins and learning about endangered animals.
They also had to answer questions to put their personalities and public speaking ability to the test.
Riyo Mori is crowned Miss Universe Japan 2007
This was the fourth time the pageant was held in Mexico, which in 1991 won the crown with beauty queen Lupita Jones.
Mori -- the second Japanese woman to win the Miss Universe title -- will spend her year-long reign traveling the world to speak out on humanitarian issues like poverty and disease.
Miss Japan 2007 Riyo Mori in bikini
Source: Reuters
Riyo Mori image gallery
The Hanguk Ilbo talks with Korean fashion model Jang Yun-ju. Now, I’m not really into the “fashion model” type—half-starved as they often are—but Jang is a legitimately beautiful woman with “a body from God.” Some great photos here. Another thing I like about her is that nobody will ever accuse her of cutting up her face to look white—as one Naver.com commenter put it, she’s got the body of a Western chick, but the face of a Korean country girl. There’s some controversy in the Naver.com comments as to whether that’s a good thing, however—perhaps unsurprisingly, many Koreans don’t like their models to look like they just got off the intercity bus from the jibang. [Marmot's Hole]
한국의 케이트모스라 불리는 장윤주
가슴도 자연산이고,
허리도 s라인에 다리도 길고..
축복받았다고 밖에 말할 수 없다. ㄷㄷㄷ
진짜 호감인 장윤주♡
The model and actress Ursula Mayes, a fixture on the hit American game show “Deal or No Deal”, will come to Korea with her mother on Sunday to celebrate the Lunar New Year here. Mayes, whose mother is Korean, is attracting attention as a Korean-American celebrity.
Mayes has appeared in television shows like “Lost”, “CIS” and “24” and is currently on the NBC game show supporting host Howie Mandel. She was selected as one of People Magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” last year.
Mayes and her mother Lee Mi-hee will be here for five days. She is booked to appear on TV shows and participate in volunteer activities such as delivering donations to the needy. Another important part of the trip is a planned visit to a care center for mixed-race children. Mayes promised to donate her earnings from the trip to a charity that supports such children.
“I still remember the taste of tteok-kuk, the Korean rice pasta soup that my mother used to cook for me on New Years Day when I was young," Mayes said ahead of the trip. "I want to share these warm memories with children while eating home-made tteok-kuk with them and meeting with the elderly.” She said she is looking forward to helping mixed-race children in Korea, a project she shares with the football player Hines Ward and the actress Moon Bloodgood, both of mixed Korean parentage.
Mayes' German-American father was a U.S. soldier stationed in Korea, and she grew up in Korea until the age of six. She made her debut in entertainment after coming in third in a cover model competition for men's magazine MAXIM.
Source: Blog.sina.com
Last Friday (January 19, 2007), Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang (章子怡) and a gentleman said to be her boyfriend are seen attending the New York Knicks play the New Jersey Nets. They seem to be very intimate, with Ziyi smiling all the time. Anybody can tell from her happy face that she is thrilled about her man.
Source: Sina
Original article:
2007年1月19日，众多名人到现场观看纽约尼克斯与新泽西网队的球赛。其中最为人瞩目的便是章子怡和她的外籍男友。两人不时咬耳窃窃私语，章子怡满脸堆笑，幸福完全写在脸上。
