Elegance: Most elegant women of the year. On November 19, 2003, World Art Celebrities Journal conducted an international poll on the most elegant stars of year 2003. The Paris Desk sent 2,500 questionnaires to selected readers in France, Italy, Spain, England, United States, Austria and Germany. Believe it or not, all the questionnaires were completed and sent back to the magazine within 6 hours from the time, the first questionnaire was e-mailed! This is the readers’ pick. The readers’ choice was in no way influenced or manipulated by the magazine editorial staff. WACJ readers selected: Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Liz Hurley, Donatella Versace and Debbie de Coudreaux.......46

Stars: When we made our shopping date at Harry Rosen, Eleventh Hour star and best dramatic actor Gemini nominee Jeff Seymour needed a few accoutrements to go with his Giorgio Armani tuxedo. (He'll be presenting an award at Monday night's gala.) "They think I'll be halfway through, and I have no idea where lead actor falls, so I'm going to be a brave boy about the whole thing." Our wardrobe doctor is Bob Dunham, who dresses Seymour's character Kamal -- last season a TV newsmagazine producer and next season an on-air journalist -- in Hugo Boss and Armani. Clothes may be the only thing Seymour needs help with these days. The episode he's nominated for, Mad as Hell, was a scorcher in which Kamal produces a segment about a case of air rage. Right off the bat, Dunham steers Seymour toward a classic bow-tie and white-shirt combo. "So, people wearing bow ties aren't being laughed off the stage?"..............47-48

Mosquito: The Mosquito fashion. Anti-poverty charity World Vision has teamed up with the London College of Fashion to stage the first ever "mosquito net catwalk show". Hosting the event was It-girl Tamara Beckwith, who also helped show off a sexier side the bug-blocking fabric. The show came about after World Vision called on some of Britain's top designers to create outfits made of mosquito net, in an effort to raise awareness of malaria in the developing world. Ultimo underwear tycoon Michelle Moon was one of the fashion luminaries to participate. And the designer says her team gave it their all to create the ultimate mosquito net undies...............48

Beauty: Beauty Behemoth. When most people think about beauty, "behemoth" doesn't come to mind. But makeup buying is a $210-billion-a-year global industry, and if it came down to one store, it would be Sephora. Sephora is an international company that has outlets from Nice to New York. It sells 250 different brands, from Alchemy to Zirh, and 20,000 items. In layperson's terms, it's the big box of beauty. Sephora calls itself "the beauty democracy," and for the makeup-crazed, it is. Until now, however, it was out of Canadians' reach. But by the end of the month, the company's on-line store will begin shipping to Canada. The Web site Sephora sells regular brands (drugstore, department store and boutique names such as L'Occitane) and hard-to-get items. There's a searchable list of keywords and a help line (1-877-SEPHORA) for picking the right shade. With impulse products in the beauty-to-go section bearing pornographically descriptive names, "must-have" comes to mean things such as Sephora's line of ultra specialized accessories, which includes a heated eyelash curler and a nail polish corrector pen................................................................................................50-52

Galliano: Designers in the City of Light channel a range of high-spirited women from Marlene Dietrich to Gauguin's Tahitian princesses. John Galliano is on a garter high. The current Marlene Dietrich exhibit at the Musée Galliera has inspired a frenzy of retro lingerie looks for his Christian Dior collection, complemented by big frizzy hair and cocky berets. Galliano knows sex sells. The pièces de résistance of his spring 2004 collection shown this week in Paris include gold lamé bikinis, and lime green and pink python jackets with fox trim. Outside the tent where the designer is showing, on the grounds of the Tuileries gardens, I run into Marisa Berenson, who tells me the current Philadelphia retrospective of the work of her legendary grandmother, designer Elsa Schiaparelli (who dressed Marlene Dietrich) is chock full of clothes that could easily be worn today. But it's unlikely much of what's on Dior's runway will have that kind of longevity.....................................................................................................................................................53

Vuitton: At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs is going for gold. In tribute to old world MGM glamour, he's playing with gold beaded fringe skirts and belts, and dashes of gold lamé. The gold ostrich trench that closes the show, worn by Toronto model Jessica Stam, is eye-popping. But the real story here is the handbags: Jacobs riffs on the canvas bag with smart little straps and buckles in an assortment of colors. I can just hear the cash registers ringing. It's a shining gold coat that closes the Lanvin show too -- this one breathtakingly beautiful on Linda Evangelista..........................................................................................................................................................56-58

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