Modeling the world

An unrehearsed fashion show in Los Alamitos celebrates women’s military service. Sponsored by GI Hope and Amvets, the event is designed to create the returning veterans feel welcome and special.

Until two weeks ago, Lindsay Higgins was resting on friends’ sofas and park benches.

However on Sunday evening, the 25-year-old former soldier donned a swirling black and cream evening gown and glided down the runway at an improvised fashion show in Los Alamitos celebrating women’s military service.

“I felt resembling I could be a model,” she said, beaming.

The event seized at the California Wok restaurant was organized by GI Hope and Amvets, which advocate for veterans and assist them locate services such as transitional housing, career advice, and mental health and substance abuse treatment.

“It’s very essential to us that our women veterans feel special, feel gorgeous and feel honored,” said Kenya Lawson, who runs GI Hope.

Not all Disney has Mickey Mouse on it. You can also discover plenty of Disney merchandise as fashionable as anything you’ll see in upscale department stores and boutiques — as well as apparel for women and men, twens and tweens, children and infants.

In particular fun are items in the new TRON collection, existing at Disney Store locations. For men, the TRON line comprises snowboards and snowboard boots, sportswear, surfwear and sleek eyewear. For women, futuristic-looking TRON stilettos and handbags.

And the Noir Cuff from the Fantasia line has a Halloween-ish vibe, don’t you imagine?!

The Disney Sketch wristlet bag from the Dooney & Burke collection is more “Disneyfied,” with its castle design. The Tonal Mickey Mouse Champsac bag does have the prominent rodent splashed all over it — but in a somewhat subtle fashion.

Autumn is in the air and we’re seeking to the stars to see what’s hot in fall fashion!

From the runway to the red carpet, neutral colors look like to be all the rage. Young Hollywood stars resembling Freida Pinto, Kristin Cavallari and Reese Witherspoon have stepped out in nude and camel colors.

Fur and velvet are keeping the celebrities hot this term. Vogue editor and fashion queen Anna Wintour is no alien to fur, however Eva Mendes, supermodel Kate Moss, celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe and Paris Hilton have also been wearing fur or faux fur. As for velvet, fashionisto Kanye West is an enthusiast of velvet blazers, whereas Meredith Vieira, Minnie Driver and Hilary Swank have just stepped out in velvet dresses on the red carpet.

Capes and ponchos are the newest trend in outerwear. Kate Hudson, Jada Pinkett Smith and the models on the runway have been sporting this fashion.

In addition to these fall fashions, plaid, sexy turtlenecks, flat boots, fancy socks and ’70s flare jeans moreover appear to be trending.

Earlier this week Emirati fashion designer Abeer Al Suwaidi introduced her most recent eclectic collection of bold and colorful abayas, those long, robelike dresses worn by women in a few parts of the Islamic world.

Although Al Suwaidi is recognized for her risque obtain on the traditional garment, as well as sexy, tight “skinny abayas,” her most pointed design debut this week came in the form of a strange and spiky accessory.

Some of her models tore through the catwalk sporting a pair of odd, pointy, glovelike finger coverings that appeared as if they came straight out of an “Edward Scissorhands for Her” fashion collection.

Kind of makes one wonder if Al Suwaidi was influenced by Halloween and horror movies, as the gold-plated “gloves” have such a Freddy Krueger-meets-Scissorhands type of flare to them.

Edgy fashionistas similar to Rihanna and Lady Gaga soon followed suit, and currently gloves are enjoying a handy resurgence on the runway and in retail stores.

Fashion expert Nellis illustrious a spike in high-fashion gloves a few years ago when pop star Beyonce Knowles begun wearing that shiny, metal robot glove on red carpets and in her “Single Ladies” music video.

Nellis said gloves are also a tremendous way to test out unusual fabrics that may not fundamentally be flattering on the rest of the body.

“Quilted gloves show cute on the hands, however that puffy material is not lenient on the body,” she said. “Hands can’t in fact appear fat.”

The Hells Angels aspiration their death’s head back.

The notorious motorcycle gang is accusing designers at Alexander McQueen of unlawfully using the Angels’ trademark symbol, the Financial Times reports.

The Hells Angels Corporation alleges that the “Hell’s Knuckle Duster ring” and other apparel and accessories use the gang’s icon without permission.

PPR, the lavishness parent company of Alexander McQueen, is named in the suit filed in California Federal court, as are Saks Fifth Avenue and Zappos for selling the merchandise.

It’s not now for economic reasons.  The bikers are apprehensive for the safety of the wearers of the death’s head since “anyone wearing them would be believed an imposter by club members,” says the gang’s longtime attorney Fritz Clapp.

The Angels have effectively sued before.

In 2006, the Hells Angels filed a lawsuit in opposition to Disney for using the Hells Angels name and membership images in its script for the film “Wild Hogs.”

The gang withdrew the grievance after getting assurances that its marks would not show in the film, according Clapp, reports FT.