PHOTOS: MET GALA 2014...Fashion Hits And Misses

Kimye were delighted to be there – honest (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

The Costume Institute’s Met Gala is the Oscars red carpet without the three hour awards show.....
It’s an excuse for Hollywood and fashion’s finest to get their glad rags on and pose on an unfeasibly long and glamorous staircase.
And with a dress code of ‘White Tie and Decorations’ for this year’s ball, in honour of the Met’s newest exhibition, ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’, we were looking forward to some top high society frocks and tails.
Here’s our pick of the best and worst dressed...

Best dressed

 

Suki Waterhouse is best dressed in Burberry (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Suki Waterhouse, date of ball co-chair Bradley Cooper (who wore Tom Ford), looked every inch the high society debutante in blush pink and cappuccino tulle frills by Burberry. The red lip was the perfect 50s flourish too.

Zoe Saldana is sophisticated yet still brings the glamour in Michael Kors (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Zoe Saldana looked sleek and glamorous in monochrome Michael Kors, with a low V-neckline and gorgeous tiered puffball skirt.

It was all about the colour and florals for Emmy Rossum in her Carolina Herrera dress(Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Just fabulous colour and floral print from actress Emmy in this Carolina Herrera gown.

Kendall Jenner looks great at her first ever Met Ball in bespoke Topshop and back-combing (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kendall Jenner was the model ingenue in a very pale pink corseted fishtail bespoke dress by Topshop, no less. The back-combed hair gives this a subversive spin a la 90s film Heathers.

Benedict Cumberbatch is dashing in white tie (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Benedict in a Ralph Lauren Purple label black tux tailcoat. How white tie should look. That is all.

Blake Lively is the glamorous Gucci girl with hubby Ryan Reynolds (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Blake always does old-school glamour well and this pink sequinned Gucci dress worn with a 40s wave didn’t disappoint.


The power couples

Keep David but ditch the dark eye makeup Victoria (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

It was a case of classy and understated from Victoria, in her own cream design, and Becks in Ralph Lauren. We can’t help wishing Victoria would drop the dark eye makeup though.

A glowing Kim with her dashing fiancé (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Kim looked very pretty in her teal Lanvin dress which suited her colouring and Kanye rather suits tails too. It wouldn’t set the world alight but nice to see them prove their doubters wrong.

    Beyonce and Jay-Z were stylish but safe (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Queen Bey played it safe in this rather predictable sheer sequinned black Givenchy wrap dress that was more Grammys than Met Gala. We do like the face net though – and Jay-Z’s white tux.

Worst dressed

What was Katie Holmes thinking? (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Sorry Katie but this is a bit of a disaster, from the custard yellow shade of the Marchesa dress, to the unattractive creasing and general pirate wench styling.

Lea Michele looks a little Alexis Carrington in her gold frock (Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Wearing Joseph Altuzarra, Lea looked a little Dynasty-gone-wrong in her glitzy gold dress with high split and that ageing up-do. Wrong dress, wrong event.

SJP’s dress was better from behind (Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

 

Sarah Jessica Parker was a bit of a disappointment in Oscar de la Renta. Although we loved the train autographed by Oscar himself (SJP, your label’s showing), and the gloves, the dress was underwhelming from the front. And what was happening on her head? The croissant shaped do and floral headpiece were too fussy and made us think of Bette Midler for some reason.

Rita Ora looks as though she went crazy in the Disney Store (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Rita looked a little like a drowned mermaid in her gold Donna Karan Atelier design. The wet look hair, strange strapping round the arm and blinged up bodice didn’t quite work. And don’t even get us started on the shoes.

Lupita Nyong’o has a rare fashion fail in this Prada dress (Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

 

We really wanted to love Lupita’s chain mail Prada dress with nude bodysuit, but just couldn’t do it. Perhaps without the jewelled headband and matchy-matchy accessories this could have worked. But, proof that even the best can get it wrong.

We like Kristen’s Chanel dress for her but perhaps not for this dress code (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

 

Kristen’s Chanel dress with sequin top and layered feather and sheer tulle is perfect for her but doesn’t quite fit the dress code. It would have worked better for last year’s punk theme. There’s no denying the exquisite detail though.

 

It's official! Kim Kardashian and Kanye West ARE married

 


Reality star, Kim Kardashian reportedly tied the knot with her rapper beau Kanye West on Sunday in California ahead of the official ceremony in Paris later this month.

According to Life & Style magazine, the superstar couple received their wedding licence over the weekend before jetting off to New York City.

However, they may have to wait till France for a proper honeymoon with the new Mrs West likely to be busy at the annual Met Gala on Monday.

Not much is known about the top-secret ceremony, although we have our suspicions about how the first big day might have gone.

The pair are now expected to tie the knot in an official, lavish ceremony in Paris on May 24 in front of around 200 family and friends.



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#BringBackOurGirls: Boko Haram claims responsibility for girls' abduction

"Man claiming to be Boko Haram's leader says he'll sell the more than 200 girls his group abducted from Nigerian school."

Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in April.

About 230 girls are still believed to be missing, prompting widespread criticism of the Nigerian government.

"I abducted your girls," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video obtained by the AFP news agency.

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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan orders the arrest of Protest Leader, Naomi Mutah Nyadar....accusing them of fabricating abduction!

 

Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan has ordered the arrest of Naomi Mutah Nyadar.

Naomi Mutah Nyadarv took part in a meeting called by First Lady Patience Jonathan and was then taken to a police station, they say.

Another leader of the protest, Saratu Angus Ndirpaya, told AP State Security Service agents drove her and Mrs Nyadar to the police station after an all-night meeting with the First lady at the presidential villa in Abuja.

She said police immediately released her but held Mrs. Nyadar. She told AP the First Lady expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to Boko Haram.

Mrs. Ndirpaya told AP the First Lady accused them of fabricating the abductions. “She told so many lies, that we just wanted the government of Nigeria to have a bad name, that we did not want to support her husband’s rule,” she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Mrs Jonathan reportedly felt slighted that the mothers of the abducted girls had sent Ms Nyadar to the meeting.


Ms Mutah, a representative of the Chibok community where the girls were seized from their school more than two weeks ago, last week organised a protest in the capital, Abuja.


The protesters, and many Nigerians, feel the government has not done enough to find the missing girls, who are thought to have been kidnapped by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

Boko Haram has not commented on the accusation.

Pogo Bitrus, another Chibok community leader, told the BBC he had been to the Asokoro police station where Ms Mutah is reported to have been taken but could find no written record of her being there.

He described the detention as "unfortunate" and "insensitive".

He said he hoped Mrs Jonathan would soon "realise her mistake".






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Charly Boy's dad, renowned Justice Oputa passes on @ 96

After a long battle with stroke, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, known as the Socrates of the Nigerian judiciary  finally gave up the ghost in Abuja Sunday at the age of 96.

He died yesterday at the Abuja home of his music superstar son, Charles Oputa,otherwise known as ‘Area Father.’

Justice Oputa left be­hind his 92-year-old wife,Margret. Amidst tears, she described her late husband as a man of peace. She was inconsol­able, as she wailed and recounted her good old days with the respected Justice.

Justice Oputa , until breathing his last in the afternoon, was said to have read newspapers with his grand sons. Re­living his father’s last moments with members of the house, Charly Boy said there was no premo­nition that he would die yesterday.

His words: “My Dad read newspapers and joked with his grand­children this morning (that was yesterday). He told me in the morning, ‘please sorry for the in­conveniences.’ I told him which ‘inconveniences? He was served his food and he ate very well and cracked some jokes.

“His facial look didn’t suggest someone who was about to die. He looked strong and bois­terous.”

The entertainment guru described his father as a man of peace, who preached peace, justice and fair play even at the point of death .

“My father was a man of peace. He hated cheat­ing. He told us always to be fair to everybody,”the younger Oputa said.

On his relationship with his late father, he said: “ Initially, he was not happy with me but we reconciled 25 years ago. His name was pre­cious to him, he always warned me against doing anything that would tar­nish his name. We have been living together be­cause there was nothing I consider priceless than them. “

Asked if his mum can cope without the late Justice, he said : “I don’t know oo. You can see the way she has been crying . We don’t know what to do to stop her from cry­ing. They were too close. Only God will console her.

“ It is painful for me, he is a man of peace. We discuss everything espe­cially politics and gover­nance.”

On what the late Justice thought about Nigeria before his demise, Char­ly Boy said :” He was pained about the killing of innocent Nigerians by Boko Haram sect. Most of the discussion I had with him in the last few months centered on what must be done to return the country to glorious era.”

He did not mention when the burial of the icon would take place. He simply said “when the time comes we will let everybody know”

Other members of the family also wept pro­fusely for the late jurist, but the cry of the aged wife eclipsed that of other mourners . She called him several pet names, shook her head timelessly and often clutched the air to drive home her pain.

The late judge, reputed for his courage,  headed the Human Rights Investigation Commission  now popularly called  the Oputa Panel, to investigate abuses during 15 years of military rule, which ended when President Olusegun  Obasanjo took office on  May 29, 1999. 

Reacting to his death, Lagos-based Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr. Joseph  Nwobike said:  “How are the mighty fallen! This is the end of an enviable era ,  the era of justice  according to reason, good conscience  and progressive legalism. 

 “The man was an epitome of what a judge should be. His judicial exploits  and expositions will continue to resonate for centuries in the entire Commonwealth.....


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#BringBackOurGirls : Christian Association Of Nigeria Releases ‘List’ of Abducted Chibok Girls

Some of abducted girls who escaped from their captors

 

Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye of the Old Time Revival Hour Church in Kaduna has published a list of 180 abducted girls of the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, calling on all Nigerian Christians for lamentation prayers for their safe release. 

He did not say how he obtained the list, and we don't know the authenticity of the list ...
Chibok Local Government is 90% Christians,” he said in a statement on Sunday. “Majority of the girls abducted are Christian! Why did Boko Haram visit Chibok Local Government? Why didn’t they visit so many other Local Government Girls Secondary Schools in Borno State?”......

Here are the names of our daughters.
S/No. Name Religion


These are the Christian Girls:
1 Deborah    Abge Chrstian
2. Awa          Abge
3. Hauwa      Yirma
4. Asabe       Manu
5. Mwa         Malam pogu
6. Patiant      Dzakwa
7. Saraya      Mal. Stover
8. Mary         Dauda
9. Gloria       Mainta
10.Hanatu     Ishaku
11. Gloria     Dama
12. Tabitha Pogu
13. Maifa      Dama
14. Ruth       kollo
15. Esther    Usman
16 Awa         James
17 Anthonia Yahonna
18 Kume       Mutah
19 Aisha       Ezekial
20 Nguba     Buba
21 Kwanta   Simon.
22 Kummai Aboku.
23 Esther      Markus
24 Hana        Stephen.
25. Rifkatu   Amos
26 Rebecca Mallum
27.Blessing Abana.
28. Ladi        Wadai
29. Tabitha Hyelampa.
30 Ruth         Ngladar .
31 Safiya      Abdu .
32 Na'omi    Yahonna.
33 Solomi     Titus .
34Rhoda       John
35 Rebecca Kabu
36. Christy   Yahi.
37. Rebecca  Luka.
38. Laraba    John
39 Saratu      Markus.
40. Mary      Usman.
41 Debora    Yahonna.
42.Naomi     Zakaria
43 Hanatu     Musa
44. Hauwa   Tella
45.Juliana     Yakubu.
46. Suzana   Yakubu
47.Saraya     Paul.
48. Jummai Paul
49. Mary      Sule
50. Jummai John.
51.Yanke      Shittima.
52. Muli        Waligam .
53. Fatima    Tabji.
54. Eli            Joseph.
55.Saratu      Emmanuel.
56. Deborah Peter.
57.Rahila      Bitrus.
58. Luggwa   Sanda.
59. Kauna     Lalai.
60. Lydia      Emmar.
61.Laraba     Maman.
62.Hauwa     Isuwa.
63. Confort Habila.
64. Hauwa   Abdu.
65. Hauwa   Balti.
66.Yana        Joshua.
67.Laraba     Paul.
68.Saraya     Amos.
69. Glory      Yaga.
70. Na'omi   Bitrus.
71. Godiya   Bitrus.
72. Awa        Bitrus.
73. Na'omi   Luka.
74. Maryamu Lawan.
75. Tabitha Silas.
76. Mary      Yahona.
77. Ladi        Joel.
78. Rejoice   Sanki.
79. Luggwa   Samuel.
80.Comfort Amos.
81. Saraya    Samuel.
82. Sicker    Abdul.
83.Talata      Daniel.
84. Rejoice   Musa.
85Deborah   Abari.
86. Salomi    Pogu.
87.Mary        Amor.
88. Ruth       Joshua.
89Esther       John.
90. Esther    Ayuba.
91. Maryamu Yakubu.
91. Zara        Ishaku.
93. Maryamu Wavi
94. Lydia      Habila.
95. Laraba    Yahonna.
96. Na'omi   Bitrus.
97.Rahila      Yahanna.
98. Ruth       Lawan.
99. Ladi        Paul.
100 Mary     Paul.
101. Esther Joshua.
102. Helen    Musa.
103. Margret Watsai.
104. Deborah Jafaru.
105. Filo       Dauda.
106. Febi      Haruna.
107.Ruth      Ishaku.
108.Racheal Nkeki.
109. Rifkatu Soloman.
110.Mairama yahaya.
111.Saratu   Dauda.
112.Jinkai     Yama.
113.Margret Shettima.
114.Yana      yidau.
115. Grace   Paul.
116. Amina Ali.
117. Palmata Musa
118. Awagana Musa
119. Pindar Nuhu
120.Yana      Pogu.
121. Saraya    Musa
122. Hauwa   Joseph.
123. Hauwa    Kwakwi.
125. Hauwa    Musa.
126. Maryamu Musa.
127. Maimuna Usman.
128. Rebeca Joseph.
129.Liyatu    Habitu.
130. Rifkatu Yakubu.
131. Naomi Philimon.
132.Deborah Abbas.
133. Ladi      Ibrahim.
134. Asabe   Ali
135. Maryamu Bulama.
136.Ruth      Amos.
137.Mary     Ali
138. Abigail Bukar
139 Deborah Amos
140. Saraya   Yanga
141. Kauna Luka
142. Christiana Bitrus
143.Yana      Bukar
144. Hauwa             peter
145.Hadiza   Yakubu.
146.Lydia     Simon
147. Ruth     Bitrus .
148.Mary     Yakubu
149.Lugwa Mutah.
150 Muwa   Daniel.
151 Hanatu Nuhu
152. Monica Enoch.
153. Margret Yama.
154.Docas   yakubu.
155. Rhoda peter
156. Rifkatu Galang
157. Saratu Ayuba.
158. Naomi Adamu.
159. Hauwa    Ishaya
160. Rahap Ibrahim
162. Deborah Soloman.
163Hauwa    Mutah
164. Hauwa   Takai.
165. Serah   Samuel.

Below are the Muslim Girls.
166. Aishatu Musa.
167. Aishatu Grema.
168. Hauwa     Nkeki
169. Hamsatu Abubakar
170.Mairama Abubakar.
171 Hauwa Wule
172. Ihyi       Abdu
173. Hasana Adamu.
174. Rakiya   Kwamtah
175 Halima   Gamba.
176. Aisha    Lawan .
177. Kabu    Malla
178. Yayi      Abana.
179. Falta     Lawan.
180. Kwadugu Manu



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Brad and Angelina to star in first movie together since 2005

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are to star in their first film together since Mr & Mrs Smith came out WAY back in 2005 and they started dating.

The 38-year-old Tomb Raider actress has reportedly penned the script for an upcoming movie, which will be set in Europe.

Angelina is currently working in post-production on her film Unbroken. The yummy mummy impressed with her directorial debut in The Land
of Blood and Honey in 2011.


Meanwhile, Brad, 50, has just wrapped up filming for the World War II action movie Fury, which will hit the big screen in the US on November 14.


Would be jolly good to see them on screen together again!




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