Actress Taraji P. Henson REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Fashionable Folks

Actress Taraji P. Henson poses as she arrives at the tenth annual Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards in Pasadena, California, September 7, 2005. The syndicated television awards show honors the accomplishments of female recording artists in the fields of Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop, Rap and Gospel music. She wore a dress by fashion designer Nicole Miller and shoes and handbag by Italian shoe and handbag brand RODO: a beautiful beige georgette halter dress with turquoise beading by Nicole Miller and antique gold burma suede heels and a gold handbag by RODO. The dress is a part of the Nicole Miller Spring/Summer 05 collection; shoes and handbag are a part of RODO spring/summer collection.

In Other Fashion News…

Nicole Miller also dressed actress Kristin Cavallari for the premiere of “The Man.” Cavallari chose a cream cotton dress with a colourful Celtic design by Nicole Miller. The dress is a part of the Nicole Miller Spring/Summer 05 collection. Nicole Miller is launching her Spring/Summer 06 Signature Collection during the Olympus New York Fashion week.

Tennis player Anna Kournikova was at the Venice Film Festival for the Saadi Ghedaffi event benefiting the World Children Fund. She wore a raspberry ruffle chiffon cocktail dress with ruched halter by Monique Lhuillier.

Anne Heche attended the Nip/Tuck premiere screening in a long dress by Kenneth Cole New York. The actress, who will guest star on this season, selected to wear Kenneth Cole’s “Worth A-Dressing” - a three-quarter sleeve V-neck dress with a fitted empire waist in shade of deep teal blue. She paired the dress with a Swarovski crystal cross pendant necklace, Daniel Swarovski Paris black satin clutch with crystal horse-bit closure and black satin peep toe pumps with towering five-inch heel by Rickard Shah.


For the premiere of Shopgirl (also starring Steve Martin) at the Toronto Film Festival, Claire Danes wore a black top and trousers, accented with Kwiat Diamond Star earrings on Friday, September 6, 2005. Danes loved the Kwiat Star earrings so much that after wearing them to the press conference that morning, she kept them on for the big premiere that same night.

Toni Braxton selected a gown by Elie Saab Couture to present at the 10th Annual Soul Train “Lady of Soul” Awards, a taupe halter gown with sequined accents. This gown is part of Elie Saab’s Spring 2004 Couture collection.

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