VB's Faves: Brian Atwood Dante Pumps

The Brian Atwood Dante pump is about as sexy as you can get... tall curvy heel, fishnet detailing, and lots of toe cleavage. Victoria Beckham definitely favors this style as she owns the shoe in not one, not two, but three different colors. She has the black patent leather, nude capretto, and now the pythons.

source: Brian Atwood, CelebrityGossip, CP

The Galaxy Announces Their 2011 Schedule

The LA Galaxy has finally announced their schedule for the 2011 MLS regular season. The club will play 34 games, 17 at home and 17 on the road, in 2011, starting with their season opener against the Seattle Sounders FC in MLS First Kick 2011, presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods, at Qwest Field on Tuesday, March 15. The Galaxy will play two games, one home and one away, against each of the other 17 teams in MLS this season.

The Galaxy will play their home opener on Sunday, March 20 against the New England Revolution at 5 p.m. (PT), live on Galavision from The Home Depot Center.

Of the Galaxy’s 34 games in 2011, 11 will be aired by the league’s national broadcast partners, ABC/ESPN and the Univision family of networks. ESPN and ESPN Deportes are scheduled to air six Galaxy games in 2011, including both games against Chivas USA (May 21 and Oct. 6), New York Red Bulls (May 7 and Aug. 28) and Seattle Sounders (Mar. 15 and July 4).

I already have my eyes and heart set on the Red Bulls game on August 28th!

You can see the entire schedule here.
source: LA Galaxy

Reviews: Beckham's Fashion Risks Pay Off

Victorian Beckham says, five seasons into her fashion brand, that she’s a more confident designer and a more confident person, and that allows her to take risks beyond the structured cocktail dresses that gave her cred with a famously finicky industry.

For her recent morning New York Fashion Week presentation, she wore one of the loose, cashmere cocoon dresses that she said she found intimidating when she was more of a novice.

The swing trapeze dress and a multimetallic honeycomb in a kaftan-like silhouette were also items she added to the collection with a surer hand.

These roomier designs take more work, but they are worth it so women can be fashionable, as well as comfortable, explained Beckham, her hair pulled into a long ponytail.

(She announced last month that she and husband David Beckham are expecting their fourth child.)

“I designed this collection before I knew I was pregnant,” she said with a laugh to the small crowd of editors, retailers and stylists gathered at her favourite Upper East Side mansion runway venue that allows her to individually greet guests.

A red V-neck tunic dress looked the simplest, she said, but “it was a nightmare”.

Using a palette she described as “desert brights”, Beckham offered a teal matte gazar V-neck cocoon that she said was “young red carpet”, but the finale gown in the same colour and fabric was the one to talk about: it had chiffon-covered resin bits arranged in a mosaic pattern that looked like shards of shattered glass around the neckline.

For the first time, Beckham offered coats, including a red raglan-sleeve coat with a buckle at the collar and a super-chic black coat with knife pleats from hip to hem.

She did several dresses with pleats, too, a look she always wanted to wear but couldn’t figure out how to until she started placing them below the hip bone.

The best versions were a saffron-yellow crêpe dress with a halter-neck and the honeycomb gown, also with a halter-neck, that had restrained pleats at the top and fuller ones on the skirt. That look, she said, was her favourite.

Beckham has numbered in order each style she makes. The autumn collection includes look No. 100, which has the more fitted shape with exposed seams and zippers that are her hallmark but adds the wrap shape that she built this season around.

“The 100th dress is a Victoria Beckham silhouette chosen as the perfect representation of everything the collection set out to achieve at the outset,” she said in her notes.
source: SAMANTHA CRITCHELL