EMIRI SUPERSTAR but girl-next door
December.9,2009
Photo taken after the Kick Off event at Omotesando Hills.
PHOTO BY JUN SATO
Below Emiri in anan magazine this month and also Glamorous for Prada! Check it out they are on sale now and she is soooooooo beautiful. Emiri is working hard, she only has a day- off each week and she works a 12 hours non-stop each day. She is busy with numerous television shows, magazines interviews, also shooting with JJ as regular model (she loves it!) and the sponsors events, the diners to attend ect… she isincredibly busy but mega happy (dixit Emiri).
I am proud of you Emiri chan! And keep being the loving, funny and humble girl that you are, never change, it would be too sad…. mom
Behind the senes, the making of..
MY NEW HAIRCUT BY SUNAO
December.9,2009
TONI&GUY YESTERDAY, I WENT WITH MY SONS TO TONI&GUY IN HARAJUKU (behind Kiddyland on omotesando or Uniclo on Meji dori).
I did my highlights with Noriko (the best colorist in Tokyo for sure) and asked Sunao to cut my hair, as I had enough of my signature ponytail (kind of Larry King with his suspenders)… enough is enough with the same style, it was time for a change but I have been tooi busy.
I love my new look! My clothes look better, I feel fresh and ready to relook the 14 finalists. 2010 here we come!
Thank you Noriko and Sunao, you are the best! 2010 STARTED!
December.6,2009
I will post photos of yesterday as soon as I get them… but I wanted to share this video with you.
aligato gozaimashita…..
December.5,2009
私のホームレスの友人たちへの食料を持ってきてくれたみなさん、どうもありがとう。
誕生日プレゼントをお断りする代わりに、私が支援している原宿の女性ホームレスグループへの缶詰や生米をお願いしていました。
私のバースデーパーティーに駆けつけてくれた、約200名のゲストたちに心より御礼申し上げます。誕生日翌日には、200名ほどのホームレスの方々に食料を配ることができました。
また、私のリクエストに合せて追加で大量の食料を届けて下さった、ガシー・レンカー・ジャパン株式会社（プロアクティブ）のCEOマイケル・アレン氏には特に感謝申し上げます。おかげで更に200名の方々へ食事を届けることができました。
明日も原宿の公園に寄って、二回目の大量の食料を配る予定です。
最後に、ジュリエットと私の父、そして大雨の中、食料の運び出しを手伝ってくれた美馬寛子、どうもありがとう！
2010 kick off
December.5,2009
I just arrived home.
I am soooo happy with the 14 girls that have been selected finalists for 2010.
I cannot wait to start working with them all.
I still cannot believe how many people came to see the selection today (from 56 semi-finalists to 14 finalists).
It must be all over the TV right now because so many press covered it. I shall post pictures tomorrow. Very tired… going to bed!
2010 will be a good year for Japan!
KICK OFF FOR 2010 TOMORROW, COME SEE IT!
December.3,2009
2010 MISS UNIVERSE JAPAN 公開オーディション＆ファイナリスト発表会のお知らせ
全国5都市開催オーディションツアーで約4000名の応募者より選ばれた、地区代表（セミ・ファイナリスト）56名が、来年3/9（火）に開催される最終選考会への出場権をかけて戦います。15名のファイナリスト誕生の瞬間をみんなで迎えたいわ。
日時： 2009年12月5日（土）
12:00 第1部選考： 東京、名古屋 地区代表 （28名）
14:00 第2部選考： 大阪、福岡、北海道 地区代表 （28名）
17:00 第3部発表： 2010 ミス・ユニバース・ジャパン ファイナリスト（15名）の発表
場所：表参道ヒルズ スペース オー(東京都渋谷区神宮前4-12-10-B3F)
当日は、審査員として、私、絵美里、2010年のプレゼンティングパートナー ION 化粧品さん,過去のウィナーが参加します。
今年はどのようなファイナリストが選ばれるか今からとても楽しみなの！
どなたでも見れるので、是非各地区のセミ・ファイナリストを応援してあげてちょうだい。
当日皆様にお会いできるのを楽しみにしてます。
INCREDIBLY TALENTED….
December.3,2009
This video shows the winner of “Ukraines Got Talent”, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a womans face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young womans face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house..
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
“I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And theres surely no bigger compliment.”
