2012 styles that made our heads turn

Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on, and consumers respond to, is buzz.

OFFBEAT: Princess Diana wedding cake slice auctioned next month

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Sisters Bridal gives gives customers wedding gown blues

Signs critical of Sisters Bridal hang Tuesday on the door of the Valparaiso shop.

Justin Bieber's new album impresses

Justin Bieber performs June 17 during the 2012 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto.

Pantones new color

Couple tango dancing

YE Deaths 2011

In this Sept. 25, 1953 file photo, actress Elizabeth Taylor stands on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at age 79.

Military brides receive free dresses

Anne Walda, of Decatur, Ind., looks through wedding dresses Thursday at Here Comes the Dress in Valparaiso. Here Comes the Dress was giving out free dresses to military brides.

Military brides receive free dresses

Jessica Wright, of Hamilton, Ind., has her veil adjusted Thursday by Here Comes the Dress co-owner Aubrey Rettig during a wedding dress giveaway to military brides. Wright is getting married to a National Guard member and was one of the brides to be given a free dress.

Military brides receive free dresses

Jessica Wright, of Hamilton, Ind., is helped Thursday by her friend Jamie Kitzmiller, of Fort Wayne, while trying on wedding dresses at Here Comes the Dress in Valparaiso. The boutique was giving away free wedding dresses to brides in the military or getting married to someone in the military.

Women dressed as men aren't going to excite men

I was disgusted to read that designer Nicole Miller is trying to make women into men.

OFFBEAT: Debbie's auction nets big profit, she's resting more easily without debt worry

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

YOUNG VOICES: Wouldn't life be great if it were like prom night?

If you aren't a teen or don't have a teenager in your household, surely the satin and chiffon lining the racks of every store have led you to one realization: It's prom season.

Cold Feet?

Elizabeth Taylor: classic beauty in every sense

In this Sept. 25, 1953 file photo, actress Elizabeth Taylor stands on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nichelle Nichols

Actress Nichelle Nicols, who originally hails from Robbins, Ill., has donated her costume she wore on the television series "Star Trek" to her hometown museum.

Woman's gown dreams rise from ashes

Bride Tiffany Collins poses for a picture by her friend Antoinette Dodds before the start of her wedding Saturday in East Chicago. Collins lost her gown in the Nov. 17 fire that destroyed Eva's Bridals in Oak Lawn, Ill. The designer flew to Amsterdam to get her a replacement of her custom ma…

Woman's gown dreams nearly extinguished

Bride Tiffany Collins, her sister Susaun Wade, left, and friend Antoinette Dodds say a prayer before the start of her wedding Saturday at Zion Baptist Church in East Chicago. Collins lost her gown in the Nov. 17 fire that destroyed Eva's Bridals in Oak Lawn. The designer flew to Amsterdam to…