Are the irate angels ready to revolt over ‘toxic’ lingerie?

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Rumours: Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr

Fashion insiders fear lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret may lose some of its most famous models after being named in a Greenpeace investigation for using toxic chemicals.

The company, which has just opened a vast flagship branch in London,  was included in the report, called Toxic Threads: The Big Fashion Stitch Up, as one of 20 lingerie brands where chemical residue was found in its clothing.

Victoria’s Secret is famous for using supermodel ‘angels’ in a televised catwalk show every year.

The most recent in New York earlier this month featured Miranda Kerr, Gisele and singer Rihanna. British star  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has also been an angel.

Kerr considers herself an ‘eco-warrior’ while Huntington-Whiteley advocates the use of organic products.

Sources say the  news has ruffled Kerr, 29, who owns organic skincare brand Kora Organics.

Rumours in the fashion industry suggest that she may turn her back on the company should it ignore Greenpeace’s campaign which calls for an end to the use of toxic chemicals in the production of lingerie.

Chemicals were removed from Victoria’s Secret range of beauty products in 2003, but they are still used to make lingerie.

According to an earlier report from Greenpeace, their use pollutes the environment through the water where the clothes are made, and is also said to be carcinogenic when it comes into contact with skin.

Greenpeace spokesman Martin Hojsik said: ‘We found high levels of phthalates in the Victoria’s Secrets garments. If that product was a toy it would not be permitted in the EU. We need to replace these chemicals with safer substitutes.

‘The textile industry is one of the biggest polluters and we are asking brands to remove these chemicals from their supply chain.’

In 2008 the company faced a number of lawsuits from women who claimed to suffer from severe rashes and scarring after wearing  bras contaminated with formaldehyde.

A Victoria’s Secret spokesman said: ‘We are aware of the research but have yet to comment.’

Songbird: Helena Bonham Carter

Actress Helena Bonham Carter is to record a song by Guy Chambers, the man behind the Robbie Williams hits Angels, Let Me Entertain You and Rock DJ.

The song, a duet with Nicky Haslam for an album featuring the  73-year-old designer’s friends, has been called a ‘rousing anthem’ and is titled Last Man Standing.

‘I will be doing the duet with Helena and although we haven’t recorded it yet I’ve heard her sing in films such as Sweeney Todd and she has a great voice,’ Nicky tells me.

Other featured artists include Tracey Emin, Bob Geldof, Bryan Ferry and Cilla Black.

Three’s a crowd for Tamsin’s sexy debut

St Trinian’s actress Tamsin Egerton  certainly had a baptism of fire when she filmed her first love scene recently.

It involved comedian and renowned ladies’ man Steve Coogan – and another woman.

‘I play Steve’s girlfriend in the film The Look Of Love,’ Tamsin told me at a charity fund raising gala at London Zoo.

‘We had to do a love scene with Hannah Lederer-Alton. I obviously found it quite uncomfortable, but we had a lot of champagne afterwards.’

In real life, stunning Tamsin, who turns 24 tomorrow, has been dating hunky Hollywood star Josh Hartnett.

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True Romance: Couple’s adore was fake out of father’s comfortless death

Lynsie Holt always knew associate churchgoer Tanner Stevenson was special. Even her father, a pastor, knew.

One night about 11 years ago, a boys in a seventh-grade lady organisation during Metro East Baptist Church in Wichita, Kan., headed out to hang a girls’ homes in toilet paper. Lynsie says her father had called forward to give her a heads-up so they could ready H2O balloons. When they ran out of balloons, Lynsie says, she tackled one of a boys.

“I don’t know even what strike me,” says Tanner, who would eventually call Lynsie “my best crony that was a lady flourishing up.”

Lynsie, however, hold on to a vanquish for Tanner even into high propagandize though was too bashful to let him know. Tanner says he knew.

“Lynsie was such a tighten crony that partial of me only didn’t wish to let us go there since we didn’t wish to disaster that up,” he says.

Tanner and Lynsie kept in hold after she went on to Central Christian College in McPherson, Kan., and he attended Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kan. Over a years, no other child could magnitude adult to Tanner. When Lynsie ran into Tanner a summer before their youth year, she spilled her feelings.

“He was brutally honest and said, ‘We’re only friends. We could never date or be anything more.’ we was damaged from that.”

For a subsequent year, Tanner says he struggled as he satisfied he had substantially mislaid one of his best friends. The subsequent summer, Lynsie was hired as a tyro method novice during her dad’s church. On a initial day, she was ashamed to see that her father had hired Tanner, too.

“I went to my dad’s bureau and said, ‘Are we teasing me?’ And he had a large laugh on his face and said, ‘Oh, did we forget to discuss that?’”

Lynsie’s father asked her to lunch, afterwards invited Tanner along. They contend he was dynamic to mend their friendship.

They returned to college as friends again. Then an astonishing tragedy altered a march of that loyalty when Lynsie’s father died in a motorcycle collision in Nov 2010. She and Tanner grew closer as they struggled with their grief. By February, Tanner satisfied he was in adore with Lynsie after all. It’s roughly as if her father had known.

“That’s one of a initial things my mom pronounced when we started to date,” says Lynsie, 24. “‘Your father saw this entrance and was kind of instrumental in assisting Tanner to comprehend he didn’t need to date other girls anymore.’”

Tanner says that they took a transition solemnly and that in time a compare seemed perfect.

“Out of that terrible tragedy was kind of a beauty-from-ashes deal,” says Tanner, 24. “Obviously it’s still bittersweet.”

That May, they both finished their bachelor’s degrees — Lynsie in practice scholarship and Tanner in biblical studies and business administration. Tanner changed to Dallas in Jan 2012 to work on his master’s in divinity during Redeemer Seminary.

He afterwards designed to introduce during a revisit by Lynsie to applaud Valentine’s Day and their one-year anniversary. The Dallas skyline — a Omni Dallas Hotel, in sold — seemed like a ideal backdrop. When Tanner speckled a rooftop probability during 800 Jackson St., he motionless to inquire. Inside, he found a 5G Studio and a architects who designed a Omni Hotel. They embraced Tanner’s idea.

On Feb. 18, zero seemed out of a typical for Lynsie, not even a dress Tanner had sent her to wear that night. Tanner took her downtown and forked out a building.

“We’re unequivocally large on rooftop dinners,” she says. “It’s not surprising that he skeleton crazy dates.”

Once on a roof, Lynsie beheld candles — nonetheless all were doused since of a sleet — and afterwards she saw a Wichita photographer who had always taken their portraits.

“When we saw her, we knew accurately what was going on and was superexcited and so nervous, and so surprised, kind of stunned,” she says.

Tanner played a favorite strain on his guitar and afterwards forsaken to one knee. Lynsie was too repelled to answer. As Tanner slipped on a ring, they began to dance. Then he forked to a Omni Hotel where their families had a bird’s-eye view.

Tanner and Lynsie’s loyalty came full round on Sept. 8, when they marry during their church in Wichita. They’re flattering certain Lynsie’s father was watching.

 

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