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Miss World 2010 Finals: Nick Verreos Rates The Miss World Evening Gowns!!!


And The Winner Is...

Kentucky Princess: The newly crowned Miss World 2010, 18 year old Alexandria Mills

Yesterday in Sanya China, a new Miss World was crowned and to a lot of people's surprises, the US representative, 18 year old Alexandria Mills, won. 114 contestants from all over the world competed. She was a favorite to make the finalist roster but not necessarily to take it all. But she did! Miss World--in case you were not "in the know" for international pageants--is a completely separate pageant from the Donald Trump-owned Miss Universe.

Top 5 Gowns: The five Miss World 2010 Finalists Venezuela, Botswana, USA, Ireland and China

While most of the Western Hemisphere (North and South America) consider the Miss Universe Pageant as the premier international beauty contest, the rest of the world (Europe, Africa, Asia) see Miss World as the leader. The Miss World Organization is based out of London and it's "Donald Trump" is CEO Julia Morley.

The new Miss World, hails from Kentucky and is a model with Elite Models in Miami. There is no "official" Miss United States World pageant and, according to THIS, since 2007 Elite Model Management has been in charge of choosing the US representative via portfolios and then sending the "winner" to the international pageant. But enough of the pageant nitty-gritty, let's get to the GOWNS: As usual with gowns we see at the Miss Universe, Miss World gowns tend to also either be "Oh-No-She-Didn't" or "Pageant Elegant" (beading, satin and a high slit somewhere!). While we don't expect to see actual "red carpet" gowns on these girls (one can only dream!), it's nice to see at least some who get it semi-right.

Winning White: The Winner, Miss United States Alexandria Mills wore a very "Pageant Safe" white taffeta one shoulder gown with beading. It featured a fitted silhouette but never went into too-sexy mode (Miss World Organization does not like sexy!) and appropriate for an 18 year old.

Black Peacock: Miss People's Republic of China Tang Xiao (who was a Finalist) wore one of my favorite gowns of the night: A Mermaid-shaped black dress with cascading peacock feather sequin detail. It was elegant, dramatic and impressive. The train was a little too long, however, and she didn't need it. The gown spoke for itself in all its drama without the extra 15 yard train!

South American Red: My favorite gown of the night was this red multi-layered chiffon dress worn by 2nd Runner Up Adriana Vasini from Venezuela. It was one shoulder (of course!) and featured elegant interwoven beading and a high slit (of course, Part Two!). On the stage, she worked that gown OVERTIME! I loved how the color stood against her porcelain skin and very dark hair. It reminded me A LOT of this one:

Worn by Miss Mexico Ximena Navarette, when she won the Miss Universe 2010 title earlier this year.

Canary Queen: An interesting choice was the gown worn by 1st Runner Up Miss Botswana Emma Wareus. It was a strapless bright yellow Mermaid-shaped (popular shape this year) dress with intricate silver and black flower embroidered beading and lots of feathers. This could have gone the "Oh huney that's a mess" route but Kudos to the designer and Emma for OWNING the look and making it work!

Dancing With The Stars, the Miss World Edition: Miss Puerto Rico, Miss World Beach Beauty 2010 Yara Lasanta was very "Dancing With The Stars" in this heavily beaded gown featuring A LOT of chest AND a lot of leg. When you have that amazing of a figure, pick one or the other. She won the "Best Body" already, there's no need to shove it in everyone's faces. It's a little too much, especially for Julia Morley to take. Now, if she was in the Miss Universe Pageant, Donald would have LOVED it!

Miss Thailand Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri, looked like a Hollywood (or Bankok rather) film starlet , in this. Love the heavy silver torso beading and deep purple velvet sweeping gown featuring a high slit and open sides/back. I was surprised to see such a SEXY Miss Thailand! How do you say "At A Girl" in Thai?

Penelope 2.0: Although she didn't even place, I still loved the gown Miss Spain Fatima Jimenez wore. It was creme, fully beaded and featured a draped front cowl and gold details at the bust. It was modern, chic and had a 1920's/1930's vibe. Loved the hair bun and the simple drop earrings. Muy elegante.

Beauty and The...Ball Gown: Miss Greece, Diamanto Gasteratou decided to go the Ball Gown route. Hers had a corseted bodice and silver sequin details. She is SO beautiful, I just don't know why she chose such an over-powering gown--that was frankly so Quinceañera. No Miss World since 1996 has won in this type of a gown (when incidentally, Greece won!), so it's a good bet it ain't happening any time soon.

Where's The Steamer: The very pretty Miss Finland Anne-Marie Nurminen unfortunately chose this not-so-pretty gown. I liked the lilac color but the dress itself was uninspired. Besides the wrinkled hem, the bust line had an odd fit problem and I pretty much know that the inner black tulle petticoat should NOT be showing like that. And what is with the oversized pukashell-looking necklace?

Finally, we must end with the winner of The Miss World Best Dress Designer Award: Miss French Polynesia Mihilani Teixeira. It was part Tahitian costume, part evening gown featuring several red tiers of printed crepe satin, feathers throughout and accessorized with an over-sized silver necklace. It's A LOT OF LOOK. If an actress wore this at the Academy Awards, Emmys or Cannes, she would be SLAMMED by the media. But somehow, at the Miss World, it worked for the judges (but not me!).

Click BELOW for the Crowning Moment of Miss World 2010:


Until the next Pageant--And remember: Keep it elegant, simple, modern and don't forget that high slit!

Alexandria Mlls-Miss World 2010

                                                      Alexandria Mlls-Miss World 2010











Jiah Khan – Maxim India

Bold and Beautiful actress of Bollywood Jiah Khan will be features on Maxim Magazine Indian Edition . Maxim is known to features bolly babes in there hottest avtaar as we seen many times in past. Most recent Minissha and Raima. Jiah Khan photoshoot shot by an ace photographer R. Burman and needless to say, Jiah is very much excite with this.



Jiah makes no effort to hide her excitement, “It was a lot of hard work but great fun shooting for Maxim. I am usually portrayed as sexy but actually I consider myself a regular girl.”





Pooja Bharati Pictures









USA WINS MISS WORLD

Alexandria Mills from the USA, was crowned Miss World 2010 in Sanya, China a short while ago. Her runners-up were Emma Wareus (Botswana) and Adriana Vasini (Venezuela). Rounding out the Top 5 were the delegates from China and Ireland. Red-hot favourite,Mariann Birkedal (Norway), made it through to the Top 7 before being eliminated.

And just to disprove my theory about white contestants from South Africa, Nicole Flint was included in the Top 25 before being eliminated. I wonder if the precise rankings for the Top 25 will be made known. I'd like to think that Nicole finished in 8th place, but I suppose we'll never know.

MISS CLAP-EZ-UELA?

After a near-perfect record from 2007 to 2009 when my hot picks from Venezuela ended up placing 3rd, 1st and 1st respectively at Miss Universe, I called it correctly this year when Marelisa Gibson failed to make the cut (although I have to admit that I added her to my Top 15 at the last minute just because she was Miss Venezuela).

Given the quality of contestants at Miss Venezuela this year, I am a bit surprised at the result. Whilst Miss Venezuela-World, Ivian Sarcos, (right) has a good shot at the Miss World title next year and was my pick to win first place (Miss Venezuela-Universe), I'm not sure what to make of her counterpart Vanessa Goncalves who will compete at Miss Universe.

She honestly looks like a used Orange County housewife that was great-looking 20 years ago when she was young. For now, she's going to be Miss Clap-ez-uela at Miss Universe next year, unless Aunty Osmel has a trick or two up her sleeve.

Raima heats up Maxim India Magazine

Raima Sen till time only known as sister of Riya Sen and a daughter of Moon Moon Sen. But now its seems she want her independent image. So she decide a complete make over of her image. To do this i found no other than Maxim as a platform. We seen many girl next door gets image make over with Maxim. Last we seen Minissha Lamba turning the heat and now its Raima. Many others on the card for next few addition. Here Raima’s photoshoot for Maxim





2010 MISS SA FINALISTS!

If you refer to an earlier post you will note that I included 10 of these finalists in my list of "in" contestants. Had I been forced to select a Top 12 and not a Top 17 as I did, my "score" would have been 9 out of the 12. Not too shabby!

From these 12 finalists, my pick for Miss SA 2010 is Dhesha Jeram. Her court will more than likely include Bokang Montjane, Chanel Grantham, Dorah Mtetwa and Anja van Zyl (in no particular order).

TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK!

In a few hours, my theory about white contestants from South Africa not fitting into the Miss World "contrived diversity" mould will be tested. Nicole Flint is either going to be a "hit" or a "miss".

Since I am a huge fan of the gorgeous Miss Flint, I hope that I am wrong and that she will not suffer the same fate as Cindy Nell did back in 2003. I'm not holding my breath for a positive outcome, but will be over the moon if I'm wrong.

Good luck Nicole. Whatever the outcome, you will always be a special young lady.