Tiza Prom Dress and Pageant Blog

This Sunday, television's finest talents gathered in Hollywood to celebrate the 62nd annual Emmy Awards. For once, the ceremony actually yielded some surprises! But the fashion, with a few exceptions, was largely tasteful and without major shockers. Here's a roundup of some of our favorite dresses of the evening: 

Rumor has it that Madonna, the 80s-era cone-bra-wearing pop-star-provocateur, is desperate to tour with Lady Gaga -- our current iteration of that particular pop phenomenon. Sure, Madonna still has some worthy name recognition in the music industry, and many, many, many people still totally adore her. But would Gaga + Madge be a little bit... much? And would Madonna possibly be at risk of coming up short in comparison with Lady Gaga? I'm just remembering their SNL duet from last fall, where the two paired up, and the results were ...  well, kind of awkward.  Of course, it's likely that the two of them would require more stage equipment known to the history of live music performances. And the result might be spectacular.

Taylor Swift is out with her latest video, Mine, which pays homage to the country star's favorite kind of old-fashioned, fairytale-ending love story. As Toby Hemingway, Swift's love interest in the video, said, "it's [an] evolving family story," about a young couple struggling to make it work over time. Swift said the story was inspired by her "tendency to run from love," and "finding the exception to that." Mine debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs Chart and No. 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. Check out the video here and let us know what you think!

Now that she's a bona fide international beauty queen, Ximena Navarrete -- aka the newly-crowned Miss Universe 2010 -- gets to do her round-the-world publicity tour, wherein she makes appearances everywhere from state fairs to late night talk shows, and touts her new position and the causes she plans to take up as a result. This week, her responsibilities included making a Top Ten List-delivering appearance on CBS's Late Night With David Letterman -- and we think she did a pretty stand-up job.  What do you think? Are you a Navarrete fan?

...Speaking of Miss Universe: Ximena Navarrete wasn't the only contestant to don Sherri Hill on the night of the competition; all of the contestants wore versions of her original bandage dress design in the semifinalist lineup -- and Miss Ireland, Miss Albania and Miss Ukraine all wore Sherri Hill in the evening gown portion of the night. 

Earlier this week, Mexico's Jimena Navarrete was crowned Miss Universe 2010. The lovely 22-year-old, who was raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, wowed audiences with her poise, grace, and, of course, her beautiful Sherri Hill gown! Congrats, Ximena!  Check out her Sherri Hill design, below:

This week, the New York Times published a profile on pop starlet Katy Perry, calling the 25-year-old singer of this summer's indisputably most-everywhere jam, "California Gurls,"  "a regular girl gone big" who has followed a specific pop playbook in order to achieve a certain amount of fame. The playbook, as it were, does not exactly follow the rules of Perry's evangelical upbringing -- and the story implies that the has combined with her background in a rather contradictory way.