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Tommy Hilfiger’s L.A. Flagship Opening: Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, Alicia Keys, and More!

Feb 14, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

Tommy Hilfiger opened his 6,600-square-foot west coast flagship in Los Angeles last night, and there were plenty of stars on-hand to help him celebrate! InStyle cover girl Jessica Alba (in head-to-toe Hilfiger) and her husband Cash Warren co-hosted the night’s events, which included a cocktail party at the store opening on Beverly Boulevard, followed by a private dinner filled with tasty crab cakes, mini sliders, and other bites at West Hollywood’s Soho House. “It’s really easy when you have Tommy Hilfiger throwing the party,” Alba told InStyle.com of her duties. “You just show up and then you can relax!” And the New York designer brought a piece of the east coast with him—six-foot flat-screen TVs surrounded the patio, broadcasting Hilfiger’s New York Fashion Week runway show to the A-list Tommy girls, including Drew Barrymore and “Girl on Fire” Alicia Keys. Click through the gallery to see more stars who celebrated Tommy’s L.A. opening!

— Kwala Mandel

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Grammys 2013: The Night’s Biggest Fashion Trends

Feb 11, 2013 @ 12:25 am

The Grammys are known for standout fashion moments, and tonight was no different! Taylor Swift (in J. Mendel), Alicia Keys, and Rihanna (both in Azzedine Alaïa) all hit high notes on the red carpet in peek-a-boo back-baring designs. And that wasn’t the only trend we spotted! Click through the gallery to see more of the night’s fashion moments.

Grammys Fashion Trends

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Super Bowl 2013: Watch Alicia Keys Sing the National Anthem

Feb 3, 2013 @ 7:33 pm

While Super Bowl XLVII is still underway in the Superdome, “Girl on Fire“ Alicia Keys helped open the game with her own patriotic pride. She performed a soulful rendition of the National Anthem seated at a gray piano to provide her own accompaniment. The star wore a full-length red Azzedine Alaïa dress while she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” choosing gold Marina B jewelry and black platform heels as her accessories. She performed the iconic song in a way only she could: at a slow tempo with plenty of New Orleans jazz-inspired sultriness, and enough soul to bring even the toughest football players to tears on the sidelines. Watch her belt out the song live above!

Plus, see the 10 other moments we’re excited about tonight!

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— Meghan Blalock

Super Bowl 2013: The Game Is On!

Feb 3, 2013 @ 6:57 pm

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Super Bowl XLVII is officially underway in New Orleans! Before the Baltimore Ravens kicked off to the San Francisco 49ers, Jennifer Hudson (in a black leather Monika Chiang turtleneck bodysuit and white L’Wren Scott pencil skirt) took to the mic with the vocal backup of the 26-children Sandy Hook Elementary School choir. Together they belted out “America the Beautiful” to a crowd of more than 72,000 people inside the Superdome—and millions more watching live from their Super Bowl parties—with not a dry eye in the house. Then “Girl on Fire“ Alicia Keys (in a full-length red Azzedine Alaïa dress and gold accessories by Marina B jewelry) shared her own patriotic pride, with a soulful rendition of the National Anthem she performed seated at a gray piano. Both singers will be followed up by fellow diva Beyoncé during the game’s illustrious halftime show—check back here after halftime for all the details about her outfits!

Plus, see the other 10 moments we’re excited about tonight!

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— Meghan Blalock

Grammys 2013: Alicia Keys, Frank Ocean, Maroon 5, and More Will Perform

Jan 31, 2013 @ 5:11 pm

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Justin Timberlake won’t be the only sexy crooner taking to the mic at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards! The Recording Academy has announced that Frank Ocean will perform, as well as his fellow Album of the Year nominees: The Black Keys, fun., Mumford & Sons, and Jack White. Alicia Keys—who we hope will wow us with a performance of her inspirational mega-hit “Girl On Fire”—is also slated to do a special co-performance with Adam Levine-fronted rock group Maroon 5. Tune in to CBS at 8/7c on February 10 to see all the vocalists in action!

Plus, see more of this year’s nominees!

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Bundled Families: Drew Barrymore, Alicia Keys, SJP, and More!

Jan 29, 2013 @ 3:41 pm

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Stars are really bundling up not only themselves—but also their little bundles of joy. Drew Barrymore and husband Will Kopelman took daughter Olive for a walk in cozy toppers, Sarah Jessica Parker put on a thick coat to take daughters Marion and Tabitha for a walk, Katie Holmes’s daughter Suri Cruise took inspiration from the ever-warm panda bear, and Alicia Keys’s tot Egypt wore an adorable knit cupcake with a cherry on top as a hat while in Cannes, France. See more stars bundling up in the gallery!

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Why Alicia Keys Wrote on “Girl on Fire”… and She’s Happy You Like It

Jan 25, 2013 @ 11:47 am

Alicia Keys is a Girl on Fire! Last week, she was in Park City, Utah to support the film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete as its executive producer and composer at the Sundance Film Festival, then she headed to Washington, D.C. to perform at the Presidential Inauguration in sparkling Michael Kors, and last night, she accepted the Best US Composer of the Last Decade honor at the 40 Principales Awards in Madrid. To top it all off—today is her 32nd birthday! She’s living an on-fire life, and she told us how important her now-megahit song “Girl On Fire” is to her (and to her fans) when we caught up with her at Sundance. ”It’s the coolest thing ever,” Keys told InStyle.com. “I identify with it because I wrote it from a piece of my life, and whatever I was going through and feeling. Then you see how many other people are relating to what you’re feeling, and they’re feeling the same thing. So that’s the cool part—when you see how we all are connected.” In honor of her special day, crank it up!

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Watch This: The Girl Rising Documentary Trailer

Jan 23, 2013 @ 5:01 pm

“I will read. I will study. I will learn. If you try to stop me, I will just try harder,” Anne Hathaway says in the inspiring new trailer for the Richard Robbins-directed documentary Girl Rising, an exploration of how a proper education can change the lives of girls growing up in underprivileged communities around the globe—and consequently change the world. (It’s not the first time the Les Miserables star has taken on a girl-power cause!) The film takes viewers into the lives of girls from Africa to India, and illustrates how simply trying to go to school is sometimes a significant challenge. Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Kerry Washington, Meryl Streep, Selena Gomez, and Cate Blanchett are just a sampling of the stars who lent their voices to the film, in addition to a haunting cover of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” by up-and-coming British singer Birdy, which also appears in the trailer. Watch the clip above and see the film when it hits theaters March 7th. And click here to find out how you can be more involved in the Girl Rising movement.