The intersection of fashion and music will come alive on Thursday, Feb. 7, when In Style and The Recording Academy present the first ever GRAMMY Salute to FashionSM, it was announced today. The event will be hosted by Recording Academy Chair and four-time GRAMMY-winning producer Jimmy Jam, and will include a special performance by current four-time GRAMMY nominee Rihanna. CoverGirl is the presenting sponsor.

Curated by In Style’s fashion director Hal Rubenstein, the fashion show will feature spring collections from Beyonce and Tina Knowles’ House of Dereon, Sean Combs’ Sean John Women’s, Jay-Z’s Rocawear, Jennifer Lopez’ justsweet, Jessica Simpson’s Jessica Simpson Collection, and Justin Timberlake’s William Rast. Also showcased will be The Recording Academy’s fashion line, GRAMMY Brand. Elizabeth Stewart will serve as the show’s stylist, makeup artistry will be provided by CoverGirl, hair styling will be courtesy of Paul Mitchell, with a jewelry showcase by Le Vian and shoes by Steve Madden. (more…)

Considering Jennifer Lopez has spent the bulk of her pregnancy swaddled in Roberto Cavelli, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that the mom-to-be is planning on going couture during her stay on the maternity ward. A source close to Lopez said that the singer’s scheduled a Caesarean section, has packed her bags and will be checking into the hospital with four pastel-colored couture hospital gowns and a coordinating robe all designed by dearjonnies.com in tow.
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Marc Anthony hopes his baby will wait for him. The Latin singer of Jennifer Lopez shares to apprehension to Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia about how his concert schedule is conflicting with the birth of their child.”I’ve been with her 24 hours a day, and I’m going to be away from her for just a few hours - she can’t go into labor during that time. I mean, I’m praying that doesn’t happen.” The singer has a scheduled concert in the country on February 8. Lopez is due around that date also. She is set to give birth in a Long Island, NY hospital.

The impending child is Marc Anthony’s fourth and Lopez’ first. They had announced the pregnancy on November 8, after weeks of speculations. They had been married June 2004. It was reported that Lopez is set to give birth to twins as she was spotted shopping for matching blue and pink onesies. The singer did not give any more details about the baby.

Leah Remini is auditioning for the role of a lifetime: Godparent to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s unborn baby. “We’re asking for an audition for godparent roles,” Remini, 36, joked to PEOPLE at the premiere after-party for Eva Longoria’s new comedy Over Her Dead Body Tuesday night. “Um … so, we’re waiting to hear back.”

The actress says she and husband Angelo Pagan, “need like a day - because we’re not good at cold-reading - so that we can just prepare.” Added Pagan: “Not sure whether it entails that we have to sing, dance, recite a monologue, but we’re ready!”

Asked how Lopez is doing now, Remini added, “Great! She’s great! I mean, look, she was on tour. She’s a strong girl.”
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Shakira landed on the No. 4 spot in Forbes.com’s first list of the Top 20 richest women in music, after industry giants Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion. Other Latinas making the cut were Christina Aguilera at No. 7 and Jennifer Lopez at No. 18.

Bronx-born diva Jennifer Lopez cashed in $6 million despite weak album sales of her first Spanish-language album “Como Ama una Mujer.” J.Lo’s earnings came mostly from her catalog, clothing sales and up to six highly successful fragrances. Lopez, 38, also collected a paycheck for producing and co-starring with hubby Marc Anthony salsa star Hector Lavoe’s biopic “El Cantante.”
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Online reports that Jennifer Lopez is in labor are “not true,” Marc Anthony’s rep tells Usmagazine.com. “It’s not true,” the rep tells Us. “We have been getting the same phone calls since last week. Everybody figures it is happening around now so they have started throwing out the story hoping they will be right and be the one to break the news but it isn’t yet.” Lopez and Anthony have been married since June 2004. She is expecting twins, their first children together. After weeks of speculation, Lopez finally confirmed her pregnancy during the final stop on the couple’s El Cantante tour in Miami November 7.
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As rumors swirled that a pregnant J.Lo had checked into a Manhasset medical center, the hospital Tuesday denied that the Bronx-born superstar was there. Jennifer Lopez kept coy when first asked if she was expecting, and that air of mystique continued as the buzz on the Web and on newsday.com was that J.Lo had checked into North Shore University Hospital under a false name.

“She is not in the hospital,” said hospital spokeswoman Adina Conn. “She is not here under a pseudonym.” A hospital source, however, said Lopez, who is expecting twins, was “in the house.” Lopez, 38, and her husband, singer Marc Anthony, live in Brookville and announced in November they were expecting. Rumors circulated throughout the hospital yesterday that Lopez, who has not announced her due date, was there.

Visitors to the hospital in recent days have reported hearing staff talk about “the J.Lo room,” and — no surprise — it’s a little more lavish than what you find in the average maternity ward. Representatives for Lopez and Anthony did not return e-mail requests for comment. On Monday, usmagazine.com reported that Anthony’s representatives said that online reports that Lopez was in labor were “not true.”
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They’re not yet born, but Jennifer Lopez and hubby Marc Anthony have already picked out names for their twins. Star has learned exclusively that the parents-to-be have chosen Max and Emme! On Jan. 18, the day before the 38-year-old Grammy winner’s fabulous baby shower at New York City’s chic Gramercy Park Hotel, J.Lo’s mom, Guadalupe, was spotted picking up two gold-rope baby ID bracelets engraved with those names from Genesis Jewelers in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Unfortunately for Guadalupe, she wasn’t alone in the store, and another shopper heard exactly what she ordered!
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Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez, 38, did a little shopping at the trendy baby store Giggle at their New York Upper East Side location. A store insider says:“She was so nice, just a delight.” Jennifer supposedly picked up two Maxi Cosi car seats, two sets of CozyChic blankets, cardigans and hats, and quite a bit of Mustela baby care products.
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Eva Longoria went shopping for baby clothes in London Wednesday - but don’t jump to any conclusions! The 32-year-old Desperate Housewives star - who recently told bump-watching reporters “no pregnancy, not yet” - snapped up miniature Dolce & Gabbana gear for mommy-to-be Jennifer Lopez, her rep tells PEOPLE. (Although Lopez, 38, has kept mum, multiple sources have told PEOPLE that she’s expecting twins.)

As for her own family planning, Longoria (who attributes her current, curvy look to “cooking and eating” during the writers’ strike) said she and hubby Tony Parker are leaving it up to fate. “We’re so happy if we get pregnant, and if we don’t, we’re okay,” she said Jan. 13 during an interview for her new movie, Over Her Dead Body. “We’re just letting God decide it.” The actress was in the U.K. to promote the romantic comedy.
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From Never Land to flying carpets to the forested domain of an Indian princess, stars travel to their very own Fantasylands in a new round of celebrity images from famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The new images continue the “Disney Dream Portrait Series” of celebrity photography produced by Leibovitz as Disney Parks extends, through 2008, its “Year of a Million Dreams” celebration on both coasts. Leibovitz’s images capture the transformational power of Disney dreams during a celebration that invites visitors to live out their own Disney dreams as never before at California’s Disneyland and Florida’s Walt Disney World resorts. The latest installment of Leibovitz photography spotlights more celebrities living out their fantasies by starring in Disney dream scenes:

“Where a whole new world awaits”: Aboard their genie-powered magic carpet, Jennifer Lopez (Jasmine) and husband Marc Anthony (Aladdin) soar through the Arabian night. Complete with Whoopi Goldberg (Genie) pushing them among the stars, the two images comprise a dream scene straight from a magic lantern in a scene entitled “Where a whole new world awaits.” For Lopez, the Leibovitz shoot was both transformational and inspirational: “It’s unbelievable,” she said, “a modern princess and the guy with the flying carpet… and the idea of maybe in the future my children seeing me and Marc as Jasmine and Aladdin… I think that would be pretty cool.”

Added Goldberg: “I think those genie-like qualities worked best for me. For me to come out of a bottle and give somebody three wishes seems like a pretty good bargain.”
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Released by Disney Parks, singers Jennifer Lopez, portrayed as Jasmine and husband Marc Anthony as Aladdin from Disney’s “Aladdin,” soar through the Arabian night in part two of a dream scene entitled “Where a Whole New World Awaits,” created by photographer Annie Leibovitz. This Leibovitz image unveiled Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, was created for the “Disney Dream Portrait Series” to celebrate Disney Parks’ “Year of a Million Dreams.” Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida commissioned Leibovitz to create images featuring international celebrities in fairy tale settings.

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Jennifer Lopez and guests arrive with presents to her baby shower held at the Gramercy Park hotel in New York City. The presents arrived along with TV host Diane Sawyer and also Jennifer Lopez’s mother, Guadalupe Lopez. The presents had a tag on one of the giant silver packages reading ‘Petit Tresor,’ where Jennifer is said to have registered. They are also are designing her baby room.
See video of them arriving @ TMZ.

Jennifer Lopez celebrated her pregnancy with a baby shower Saturday on the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. The singer and her husband Marc Anthony both attended the afternoon shower, which was hosted by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lopez’s producer on the 2002 film Maid in Manhattan. Lopez, 38, “looked very pretty — and very pregnant,” according to an eyewitness, who saw the couple arrive flanked by bodyguards. Among the guests were actress Leah Remini and designer Roberto Cavalli, who gifted Lopez with a pink leopard crib, according to a source. As for the decor, everything at the shower was blue and pink — and the room was covered with Swarovski crystal, said the source.

Last month the singer, who is due in a few weeks, was given matching pink and blue Tuni & G onesies from her sister Lynda Lopez. The pop star has been mum about whether she’s expecting twins, though multiple sources have told PEOPLE she’s having two bundles of joy. The singer first announced she would be starting a family with her husband of three years, Marc Anthony, 39, last November after months of speculation. “This is a special time in our lives,” Lopez told an audience during a concert in Miami, the final stop on the couple’s El Cantante tour.

Even as her baby bump grew increasingly noticeable with each performance, Lopez had avoided discussing her impending motherhood. “We’re just getting used to the fact that we’ve told everybody” Lopez tells Harper’s Bazaar for its February issue. When asked how long she is planning to take off from her career as a singer, actress and designer, Lopez says, “I don’t know — and I like that.”
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Jennifer Lopez has been out of the spotlight since announcing her pregnancy, but she hasn’t been idle! The 38-year-old is set to have a baby shower on January 22 at The Private Roof Club and Garden at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York.”It’s going to be huge,” an insider tells In Touch. “And there will be a lot of celebrity friends there.” The best part: J. Lo is giving out Swarovski-encrusted baby pacifiers in the gift bag. Check out In Touch for the latest on J. Lo’s baby joy.
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It’s all over between Jennifer Lopez and her manager, music biz legend Irving Azoff. Our Azoff sources tell TMZ he just fired J.Lo for being “unprofessional” and for allowing hubby Marc Anthony to “constantly meddle.” The mama-to-be got a letter from Azoff last week, we’re told, detailing “in blunt terms” why he was ditching her as a client after less than a year. There was also a “heated phone call” last week between Jenny’s handlers and Azoff. But Lopez’s rep tells TMZ stories of a bitter split are completely untrue. The rep says “she let him go on Friday with no drama.” As for the letter? Jen’s camp has no knowledge of it.
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