Summit teen starts program to help needy children
May 15, 2009FRISCO — Kristin Anderson’s vision to bring joy to-less fortunate children began in fifth grade. Now, the 13-year-old eighth grader is days away from her first program to help needy kids at Child to Child — a carnival-like fair at Denver Children’s Advocacy Center Saturday.
“I can’t remember when I exactly thought of it,” said Anderson, an animated blonde wearing a neon-colored sweatshirt and Ugg boots. “I’ve always just wanted to help kids that are less fortunate and with disabilities.”
On Wednesday, Anderson and her volunteers gathered in the middle school’s art room to make T-shirts to wear at Saturday’s event. The petite girl took control of 16 other kids, helping with them with decorating ideas, discussing each volunteer’s responsibilities for Saturday and even getting her hands covered in Puffy Paint.
The urban swan
Picture Estelle in the video for American Boy, her No 1 hit from April 2008.
And while she may ostensibly be just another in a string of R&B ingénues to grace the charts with her aerated paean to Stateside masculinity – a West London girl gone global, jamming with Kanye West – she might also just be something new altogether: the first hip-hop swan princess.
Today, Estelle is wearing a grey jumper with asymmetric zips that looks very much like European avant-garde designer Martin Margiela. It turns out to be Alexander Wang, teamed with second-skin indigo jeans, knee boots and a Louis Vuitton headscarf.
While Hepburn may seem like something of a hackneyed reference point, with everyone from Coleen to Posh citing her as their stylistic exemplar, the miscegenation of Hepburn’s look being adopted by an urban girl does offer a whole new aesthetic. “In Funny Face she was all in black for the majority of the film, and she was an underground hipster kind of a girl,” muses Estelle. “She was able to morph, she was able to go in any direction and still set a trend. Grace Jones was a piece of frigging art, she was a mannequin, she went with the androgynous thing, she took it and went as far as she could go with it; that’s fearless, that’s crazy, that’s not been done and I admire that.”
So, if everyone else is wearing PVC leggings or Ugg boots or any of the other unthinking trends that pollute our sartorial cosmos, does she buy into them? “No. I’d do it when it had finished or I’d do it way before they would do it.”
As you’d expect of a new-school swan, she’s a resolute classicist when it comes to labels. Her favourites are Fendi, Chanel and YSL. “Mr Lagerfeld, we love you. I’d love to meet him,” she enthuses. “I also like Jean-Pierre Braganza. He is great.”
But it’s shoes she reserves her most intense passion for. “I’m a shoe freak – the first thing I go for is a shoe. I’ve got 400 or 500 pairs. I go in for new shoe designers, like Charlotte Olympia. I love Nicholas Kirkwood; I’ve been standing in his shoes for two years. Shoes are like an artwork – they’re investments as well, and they always fit. For regular days, I’m all about the flats. I’m not into people who always run around in dumb high heels. The higher the better on stage, the higher the better when you’re going to a party and the higher the better when you wanna feel sexy.”
Cold Water Classic: Adam Melling Wins in Scotland
It feels pretty amazing. I just didn’t want to come second again that’s for sure,” said Adam Melling, who was runner up here last year to Adam Robertson. That sword is the best trophy ever,” he said. “Last year I was so envious of Robbo getting that. It’s going up on the wall for sure.
It is the third time in a row that an Australian has won this competition - following on from Nathan Hedge and Adam Robertson. Continuing tradition, it was also the third year in a row that the competition saw an all-Australian final.
The Gold Coast’s Luke Munro had earlier defeated French surfer Joan Duru in the first semi final of the evening on his last wave in the dying seconds of the heat. In the second final, Adam Melling from Lennox Head had another close heat against yet another Australian Blake
It was a long day starting with a 5am call, an 8am start, and a 35 minute final heat kicking off at 8pm, but no one was complaining. As the day progressed and the Cold Water Classic Scotland reached the final rounds - the wind magically died off, and in contrast to the surf reports the swell built.
The Australian-strong crowd of surfers supporting their friends from the reef were having trouble containing their excitement not only at the surfing on display but also at the quality of the sets coming in to this world-class left hand reef break.
“It’s been great to have the finals day in the best waves of the event,” said contest director Matt Wilson “We have achieved the grand final at Thurso East which is exactly what we wanted.”
It was definitely wild – with howling winds and hailstones integrated into the competition. There was no doubt that it was cold as the surfers covered themselves head to toe in the latest wetsuit gear and the spectators braved the winds in ugg boots, and outfits more often seen in the mountains than the sea, to watch all the action. And of course it was the most Northern surf contest on the planet.
As one of five competitions in the Water Classic Series, Adam’s win puts him at the top of the Cold Water Classic Series ranking – the winner walking away with a prize of $50,000.
With two events now completed in the Series –
So what was Depp like? And other important questions for Kate
My general rules, not just in publishing but in life, are one: never get too excited about anything Richard Branson says, and two: never get too excited about anything apparently written by a model. I’m not being snotty. I’ve just lived a long time.
However, news that Kate Moss’s impending autobiography is to be published by Virgin Books, is an excitement that clangs like a fire engine. Partly because Moss never gives interviews, so there’s so much to hear. Partly because as Branson put it, “she has led a celebrity life to the max”. But mainly because of the teeming unanswered questions, exposition on any one of which would easily be worth the £1m she is rumoured to have been paid.
1. Without being vulgar, it would be good to know absolutely every detail on the dating and general molestation of Johnny Depp. We’re never gonna get a straight answer out of Vanessa Paradis, are we?
2. I would like to know exactly how Jefferson Hack made his big advance … like, he’s an interesting fellow, but how, as a civilian, do you approach a supermodel, and then persuade her to stay and bear your child? I’m sure if we could unlock his strange charisma, it would be a good basis for a pyramid selling scheme.
3. Again, without being vulgar, can we just have some clarification on the Sadie Frost/Jude Law Danny Goffey/Pearl Lowe/ Rhys Ifans/Sienna Miller threesome - not sordid details, just schoolyard stuff - who liked who the most, if there were any threesomes, who got left out, or whether it was more like a six or sevensome?
4. Just en passant, what amusing, bitchy things did Stella McCartney say about Heather Mills?
5. Did Kate really like Ugg boots, or is there a secret contract in her desk drawer, in which she was paid more than the arms budget of
6. What’s the state of Pete Doherty’s life? Is it like any junkie’s - food on the floor and dead insects in glasses? Or do celebrity junkies have a dejunkifying service they can pay?
7. Did she snog Philip Green in Topshop, just to be friendly?
