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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Supermodel Tyra Banks reveals why she moved to Australia as she launches upmarket ice cream store in Sydney
Tyra Banks has officially unveiled her dream project in Australia – launching her first-ever SMiZE & DREAM ice cream store in the heart of Sydney 's Darling Harbour. In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Australia, the American supermodel-turned-entrepreneur revealed she fell head over heels for the Harbour City after visiting regularly for over a year while producing ice cream for a cruise line account. 'I was coming for about a year and a half and just fell in love with it,' she said. 'And I said, should we make this move? And here we are.' The 51-year-old said Sydney's relaxed charm and community energy helped seal the decision to base her global business Down Under, with one spot standing out above all others. 'I love Darling Harbour because of this park. Tumbalong Park is magical,' she said, adding that even before her shop opened, she and her family would spend their weekends there. 'I have friends that live an hour and a half away and on the weekends they drive here just to go to the water and put their feet in with the kids.' 'There's a playground for older kids, one for younger kids, Darling Square nearby, the harbour – it just felt natural.' Tyra's passion for the brand is personal, down to the flavours themselves. When asked about her favourite scoop, she didn't hesitate. 'My favourite flavour is called Tyra's Favourite – very creative, isn't it?' she laughed. The flavour features salted sweet cream with butter-roasted pecans and a thick, savoury caramel butter swirl. 'It's not your traditional ice cream taste – it has this surprising, rich sensation in the mouth,' she said. She also teased a potential first celebrity collaboration, revealing a well-known Aussie star is already in talks. 'I have a very good friend – she's coming today – and we've been talking about doing a collab,' she revealed. 'She's very known here, so I'm touched that she wants to do something. I think she'll be the first, hopefully.' Beyond ice cream, the SMiZE & DREAM founder wants the business to stand for something bigger – encouraging others, especially women, to reinvent themselves no matter their age. 'It's never too late,' she said, when asked what advice she had for women starting over. 'But we have to know our stuff. Unfortunately, women – we have to be better. We have to be smarter. We have to know more.' Her message was firm and inspiring: 'Just go deep, study hard, walk into that room head held high. You're going to hear 'no's – but one day you're going to get that 'yes'. And you just have to be ready for it.' Previously speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the former America's Next Top Model host revealed that she has embraced the Aussie lifestyle fully – and says even her mother can't believe they live here now. 'Australia's not real to Americans,' she said. 'I know you guys, this is where you're from, but this is like fantasy land.' She's swapped designer boutiques for shopping sprees at Kmart and lazy weekends in the park. Previously speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the former America's Next Top Model host revealed that she has embraced the Aussie lifestyle fully – and says even her mother can't believe they live here now 'I went the other day and bought stuff for our kitchen,' she laughed. 'Kmart here is fancy! Where's the cheque? This is ridiculous—I just keep talking about it!' Tyra hasn't ruled out returning to television – and this time, it could be in Australia. 'I think I'm going to go back to do some TV,' she teased. 'I might even do stuff here – morning shows, hosting, something. When I do, it's going to feel like home.' She admitted that after years in front of the camera, it's being a businesswoman that's truly tested her. 'I used to think, 'Oh, I'm so stressed with all these TV shows,' she said. 'But that is nothing compared to being an entrepreneur. When I go back to TV, it'll actually feel relaxing!'
CNN
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Towering heels, epic fall: Remember when Naomi Campbell turned a catwalk catastrophe into career gold?
What do they say about all publicity being good? When the world saw Naomi Campbell fall on the Vivienne Westwood runway, the supermodel was soon inundated with calls from other designers — asking her to do it again. It was an iconic moment in fashion history: Vivienne Westwood's 'Anglomania' show in Paris, March 1993. Campbell was 23 when she took the tumble, wearing a pair of the designer's 'Super Elevated Ghillie' platforms that measured about 21 centimeters (8.2 inches) in heel height. (The brand still sells a similar pair for $1,125.) The towering shoes, made of bright blue imitation crocodile skin and fastened with silk ribbons around the ankle, were inspired by styles from the 18th and 19th centuries. Campbell's famous pair, now housed in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, are clearly identifiable: Her name, 'Naomi,' is scrawled on the inner sole in blue ballpoint pen. 'It looks like you could've broken both of your ankles… that was a nasty, nasty fall,' said David Letterman when Campbell was a guest on his talk show, criticizing how no one came to the supermodel's rescue at the time. Campbell, who played off the accident with a smile, agreed with Letterman's observation. 'No one moved, no one moved a muscle in their face,' she said. 'They were just nervous until I started laughing, and then they started laughing too.' The model has since said that the fall had less to do with extortionate heel height, and more to do with the pair of white rubber stockings she was wearing. In a 2024 video recounting the incident — dubbed her 'Great Fall' — for British Vogue, Campbell explained that she couldn't feel her feet or toes in the stockings. Similarly, in a conversation between Campbell and Westwood filmed for British Vogue in 2019, the designer also placed blame on the stockings. 'The reason you fell is because you had these rubber tights… and your thighs caught together and so you wiggled on the shoe. And you've only got to wiggle slightly and you're over,' recalled Westwood, who likened Campbell's 'beautiful' fall to that of a gazelle. 'I was embarrassed… also it was not the right time of the month for a woman to fall,' said Campbell during their exchange, adding that she felt she should have practiced walking in the shoes more. After her initial descent, the model went backstage and tried the runway once again, demanding that Westwood come and retrieve her if she fell a second time. This time, the stockings were off, and Campbell was given a walking stick to aid her — though she refused to use it and held it at her waist instead. The next day, Campbell visited a newsagent in Paris with a group of models including Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista to buy the British papers reporting her fall. 'We were just howling,' she recounted of the images detailing her tumble, step-by-step. Related video Remember when Madonna's cone bra made its debut? Not long after, the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired the shoes to become part of their permanent collection. Elizabeth Murray, a curator at the museum, said in a video that someone from the V&A's textile and fashion team got in touch with Westwood 'almost immediately' after Campbell's fall was seen around the world — recognizing it to be a historic moment. In a newspaper clipping from the acquisition file for the shoe, the late Queen Elizabeth II reportedly saw them on a visit and said she wasn't surprised Campbell fell in them, added Murray. Her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, said they looked like someone was walking on stilts. Though the platforms became the star of the show, other parts of Campbell's ensemble, which included a bright pink feather boa and a Scottish inspired kilt, were also made famous by the fall. The kilt's tartan, called 'Westwood Gordon Pink' was woven for the designer by Scottish manufacturer Lochcarron and has a listing on the Scottish Register of Tartans, an official government registry. 'Naomi Campbell famously had a fall on the catwalk whilst wearing a skirt of this tartan,' reads its entry. 'There's about 2,000 pairs of shoes in the V&A collection which span about 3,000 years of design — but no doubt these are possibly the most requested and most well-known pair of shoes in it,' said curator Murray. She noted that platform shoes have existed throughout history and were Westwood's way of quite literally 'putting women on a pedestal' and elevating their status. Looking back on the fall, Campbell doesn't seem too fazed. She was quoted by the V&A, which hosted an exhibition celebrating the model's career earlier this year, saying, 'That fall is part of me, so I own the fall. It's OK, people make mistakes. The most important thing for me is just getting up and doing it again.' On her Letterman appearance back in the 1990s, she also boasted that the fall led to her booking two commercials. The V&A sell memorabilia magnets of the moment Campbell fell down (they are currently sold out) and the model even sported the shoes once more on The Jonathan Ross Show, where the host surprised her with the exact pair in 2013 (she stumbled for a moment, but managed to complete her walk). So, would Campbell ever fall on the runway again, as requested by media-hungry designers all those years ago? As she recounted to Westwood, 'I said absolutely not, it goes against everything that I stand for. I'm not falling purposefully.'
CNN
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Towering heels, epic fall: Remember when Naomi Campbell turned a catwalk catastrophe into career gold?
What do they say about all publicity being good? When the world saw Naomi Campbell fall on the Vivienne Westwood runway, the supermodel was soon inundated with calls from other designers — asking her to do it again. It was an iconic moment in fashion history: Vivienne Westwood's 'Anglomania' show in Paris, March 1993. Campbell was 23 when she took the tumble, wearing a pair of the designer's 'Super Elevated Ghillie' platforms that measured about 21 centimeters (8.2 inches) in heel height. (The brand still sells a similar pair for $1,125.) The towering shoes, made of bright blue imitation crocodile skin and fastened with silk ribbons around the ankle, were inspired by styles from the 18th and 19th centuries. Campbell's famous pair, now housed in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, are clearly identifiable: Her name, 'Naomi,' is scrawled on the inner sole in blue ballpoint pen. 'It looks like you could've broken both of your ankles… that was a nasty, nasty fall,' said David Letterman when Campbell was a guest on his talk show, criticizing how no one came to the supermodel's rescue at the time. Campbell, who played off the accident with a smile, agreed with Letterman's observation. 'No one moved, no one moved a muscle in their face,' she said. 'They were just nervous until I started laughing, and then they started laughing too.' The model has since said that the fall had less to do with extortionate heel height, and more to do with the pair of white rubber stockings she was wearing. In a 2024 video recounting the incident — dubbed her 'Great Fall' — for British Vogue, Campbell explained that she couldn't feel her feet or toes in the stockings. Similarly, in a conversation between Campbell and Westwood filmed for British Vogue in 2019, the designer also placed blame on the stockings. 'The reason you fell is because you had these rubber tights… and your thighs caught together and so you wiggled on the shoe. And you've only got to wiggle slightly and you're over,' recalled Westwood, who likened Campbell's 'beautiful' fall to that of a gazelle. 'I was embarrassed… also it was not the right time of the month for a woman to fall,' said Campbell during their exchange, adding that she felt she should have practiced walking in the shoes more. After her initial descent, the model went backstage and tried the runway once again, demanding that Westwood come and retrieve her if she fell a second time. This time, the stockings were off, and Campbell was given a walking stick to aid her — though she refused to use it and held it at her waist instead. The next day, Campbell visited a newsagent in Paris with a group of models including Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista to buy the British papers reporting her fall. 'We were just howling,' she recounted of the images detailing her tumble, step-by-step. Related video Remember when Madonna's cone bra made its debut? Not long after, the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired the shoes to become part of their permanent collection. Elizabeth Murray, a curator at the museum, said in a video that someone from the V&A's textile and fashion team got in touch with Westwood 'almost immediately' after Campbell's fall was seen around the world — recognizing it to be a historic moment. In a newspaper clipping from the acquisition file for the shoe, the late Queen Elizabeth II reportedly saw them on a visit and said she wasn't surprised Campbell fell in them, added Murray. Her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, said they looked like someone was walking on stilts. Though the platforms became the star of the show, other parts of Campbell's ensemble, which included a bright pink feather boa and a Scottish inspired kilt, were also made famous by the fall. The kilt's tartan, called 'Westwood Gordon Pink' was woven for the designer by Scottish manufacturer Lochcarron and has a listing on the Scottish Register of Tartans, an official government registry. 'Naomi Campbell famously had a fall on the catwalk whilst wearing a skirt of this tartan,' reads its entry. 'There's about 2,000 pairs of shoes in the V&A collection which span about 3,000 years of design — but no doubt these are possibly the most requested and most well-known pair of shoes in it,' said curator Murray. She noted that platform shoes have existed throughout history and were Westwood's way of quite literally 'putting women on a pedestal' and elevating their status. Looking back on the fall, Campbell doesn't seem too fazed. She was quoted by the V&A, which hosted an exhibition celebrating the model's career earlier this year, saying, 'That fall is part of me, so I own the fall. It's OK, people make mistakes. The most important thing for me is just getting up and doing it again.' On her Letterman appearance back in the 1990s, she also boasted that the fall led to her booking two commercials. The V&A sell memorabilia magnets of the moment Campbell fell down (they are currently sold out) and the model even sported the shoes once more on The Jonathan Ross Show, where the host surprised her with the exact pair in 2013 (she stumbled for a moment, but managed to complete her walk). So, would Campbell ever fall on the runway again, as requested by media-hungry designers all those years ago? As she recounted to Westwood, 'I said absolutely not, it goes against everything that I stand for. I'm not falling purposefully.'
CNN
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Towering heels, epic fall: Remember when Naomi Campbell turned a catwalk catastrophe into career gold?
What do they say about all publicity being good? When the world saw Naomi Campbell fall on the Vivienne Westwood runway, the supermodel was soon inundated with calls from other designers — asking her to do it again. It was an iconic moment in fashion history: Vivienne Westwood's 'Anglomania' show in Paris, March 1993. Campbell was 23 when she took the tumble, wearing a pair of the designer's 'Super Elevated Ghillie' platforms that measured about 21 centimeters (8.2 inches) in heel height. (The brand still sells a similar pair for $1,125.) The towering shoes, made of bright blue imitation crocodile skin and fastened with silk ribbons around the ankle, were inspired by styles from the 18th and 19th centuries. Campbell's famous pair, now housed in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, are clearly identifiable: Her name, 'Naomi,' is scrawled on the inner sole in blue ballpoint pen. 'It looks like you could've broken both of your ankles… that was a nasty, nasty fall,' said David Letterman when Campbell was a guest on his talk show, criticizing how no one came to the supermodel's rescue at the time. Campbell, who played off the accident with a smile, agreed with Letterman's observation. 'No one moved, no one moved a muscle in their face,' she said. 'They were just nervous until I started laughing, and then they started laughing too.' The model has since said that the fall had less to do with extortionate heel height, and more to do with the pair of white rubber stockings she was wearing. In a 2024 video recounting the incident — dubbed her 'Great Fall' — for British Vogue, Campbell explained that she couldn't feel her feet or toes in the stockings. Similarly, in a conversation between Campbell and Westwood filmed for British Vogue in 2019, the designer also placed blame on the stockings. 'The reason you fell is because you had these rubber tights… and your thighs caught together and so you wiggled on the shoe. And you've only got to wiggle slightly and you're over,' recalled Westwood, who likened Campbell's 'beautiful' fall to that of a gazelle. 'I was embarrassed… also it was not the right time of the month for a woman to fall,' said Campbell during their exchange, adding that she felt she should have practiced walking in the shoes more. After her initial descent, the model went backstage and tried the runway once again, demanding that Westwood come and retrieve her if she fell a second time. This time, the stockings were off, and Campbell was given a walking stick to aid her — though she refused to use it and held it at her waist instead. The next day, Campbell visited a newsagent in Paris with a group of models including Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista to buy the British papers reporting her fall. 'We were just howling,' she recounted of the images detailing her tumble, step-by-step. Related video Remember when Madonna's cone bra made its debut? Not long after, the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired the shoes to become part of their permanent collection. Elizabeth Murray, a curator at the museum, said in a video that someone from the V&A's textile and fashion team got in touch with Westwood 'almost immediately' after Campbell's fall was seen around the world — recognizing it to be a historic moment. In a newspaper clipping from the acquisition file for the shoe, the late Queen Elizabeth II reportedly saw them on a visit and said she wasn't surprised Campbell fell in them, added Murray. Her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, said they looked like someone was walking on stilts. Though the platforms became the star of the show, other parts of Campbell's ensemble, which included a bright pink feather boa and a Scottish inspired kilt, were also made famous by the fall. The kilt's tartan, called 'Westwood Gordon Pink' was woven for the designer by Scottish manufacturer Lochcarron and has a listing on the Scottish Register of Tartans, an official government registry. 'Naomi Campbell famously had a fall on the catwalk whilst wearing a skirt of this tartan,' reads its entry. 'There's about 2,000 pairs of shoes in the V&A collection which span about 3,000 years of design — but no doubt these are possibly the most requested and most well-known pair of shoes in it,' said curator Murray. She noted that platform shoes have existed throughout history and were Westwood's way of quite literally 'putting women on a pedestal' and elevating their status. Looking back on the fall, Campbell doesn't seem too fazed. She was quoted by the V&A, which hosted an exhibition celebrating the model's career earlier this year, saying, 'That fall is part of me, so I own the fall. It's OK, people make mistakes. The most important thing for me is just getting up and doing it again.' On her Letterman appearance back in the 1990s, she also boasted that the fall led to her booking two commercials. The V&A sell memorabilia magnets of the moment Campbell fell down (they are currently sold out) and the model even sported the shoes once more on The Jonathan Ross Show, where the host surprised her with the exact pair in 2013 (she stumbled for a moment, but managed to complete her walk). So, would Campbell ever fall on the runway again, as requested by media-hungry designers all those years ago? As she recounted to Westwood, 'I said absolutely not, it goes against everything that I stand for. I'm not falling purposefully.'
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Elle Macpherson, 61, reveals her VERY slender frame and slimmed-down face as she attends Cannes Lions event
She is affectionately known as 'The Body' - a nickname given to her in her modelling heyday. But Elle MacPherson unveiled a noticeably slimmer frame at the Cannes Lion International Festival this week in France. In a series of Instagram photos, the Aussie supermodel, 61, revealed her tiny waist, slender arms and slimmed-down face as she posed in a designer ensemble. She showcased her svelte frame in a figure-hugging Victoria Beckham black dress teamed with oversized sunglasses and chunky silver jewellery. The mother-of-two wore her blonde locks down in her signature waves and accentuated her ageless visage with light makeup. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Elle recently shared an old interview of her on NBC's Megyn Kelly Today discussing her diet. 'When I turned 50 I wasn't feeling very well and I wasn't looking very well,' she said. 'I noticed my skin, hair, and weight... I was just not feeling inspired, I had sugar cravings, and poor digestion.' She continued: 'So, I went to my nutritionist and said listen, something is wrong, I need to address my lifestyle. 'She said I was taking a lot of synthetic vitamins so she put me on a powerful multivitamin, prebiotic, and probiotic powder. 'So I started taking it because I was kind of malnourished and I wasn't sleeping much and I wasn't eating enough fruit and vegetables and I was drinking too much coffee.' The supermodel said after being on this new nutrition plan for a month and taking this natural multivitamin, her life was 'transformed'. 'I saw such a change and my friend, who is now my CEO, said 'what are you doing you look amazing?' and I told her I was taking this green powder and it's changed my life'. Elle's dramatic transformation led her to starting her own natural supplement business and wellness empire, WellCo. Previously joining Amanda Wakeley on her podcast Style DNA, Elle revealed her tips for getting a good nights sleep after realising the importance of getting 8 hours. She said: 'I go to bed with a smile. I go to bed with a happy heart. And an eye mask. No clothes. My skin.' She also previously spilled some of her beauty philosophy on Instagram. 'When it comes to beauty, I have always believed that when you're well within, it shows on your skin,' she wrote on social media. 'Like anyone, I've experienced both sides to this coin so when I'm not feeling my best, it will often result in dry, agitated skin. 'This is an intelligent and poignant signal from my body, telling me to go inward. I am constantly in awe of the miraculous design of nature. 'Healthy, glowing skin is both a reflection of your spirit and the supreme intelligence of the natural world expressing itself through you.'
