France’s former favorite lolita and actress Vanessa Paradis embodies the Chanel Coco Rouge for Spring Summer 2010.
With foundation replacing red lipstick as ‘recession must-have,’ according to last year’s report by the Financial Times, beauty brands have to come up with more original ways to market the makeup classic.
Chanel is not just relying on French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis’s allure, but is also debuting a new formula to attract lipgloss ‘addicts.’
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According to The Daily Mail, David Beckham has allegedly spent £2,000 ($3,300) flying his pet bulldog puppy to Los Angeles.
The British Bulldog puppy was a gift from Victoria and was put on a plane – first-class of course – and flown out to their LA home by a specialist service.
The Beckham’s used the UK’s premier pet transportation company, PetAir, for the 5,500-mile journey which reportedly begun with a slap-up meal at the home of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
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Worldwide sales of cognac fell for the second year in a row in 2009 with a 12.4 percent drop, even sharper than the 6.2-percent fall in 2008.
Nearly 130 million bottles were shipped last year, compared to 148.2 million in 2008, said the BNIC national trade office, based in the Cognac region of France.
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Britain got its fourth three-star Michelin restaurant on Friday as French chef Alain Ducasse’s restaurant at The Dorchester Hotel earned the rare top ranking.
Ducasse joins Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay and Alain Roux in the three-star elite club in the 2010 Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland.
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The Hurun “Best of the Best” 2010 Awards for preferred brands of China’s richest consumers were announced yesterday by Hurun Report.
The luxury business magazine is renowned for its annual “China Rich List”
In its sixth edition Hurun surveyed 383 mainland millionaires, each with assets of at least RMB 10 million ($1.5 million).
Among them 66 people have assets of at least RMB 100 million (USD 15 million).
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Mark Holmes, former Design Director of Established & Sons launched the first collection for his new brand, Minimalux, in Milan last year.
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Called the Bugatti Renaissance, this concept car is the creation of designer John Mark Vicente.
Vicente is a Communication Design graduate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. he drew the vehicle as part of his prior coursework.
“These projects are personal reflections of my understanding of design as an art, science, and philosophy,” Vicente says on his website.
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Tod’s have launched a helmet as part of their latest expansion which has included ready to wear collections for both men and women, a larger selection of accessories and more recently sunglasses.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been featured in new ads of the Spring/Summer 2010 campaigns for Emporio Armani Men’s Underwear and Armani Jeans.
In the new pictures that have been released by the famous clothing line, the 24-year-old athlete is seen taking off his clothes and baring his abs.
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The new Roberto Cavalli Underwear ad campaign will star Elisabetta Canalis, the 31-year-old girlfriend of George Clooney.
Shot in a nineteenth-century private house filled with gilded mirrors, baroque upholstery, the resulting campaign is pure Cavalli; sexy, decadent and feminine.
Draped on a Louis XVI style velvet sofa, Elisabetta gives the camera a sultry stare sporting mussed-up hair, smudgy black eyes and a set of leopard print Roberto Cavalli lingerie.
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The usually-glamourous Madonna takes up the role of simple housewife in a new series of ads promoting Dolce and Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection.
Already known as one of the hautest ski resort towns in all of Switzerland, Gstaad is the new home of the first of two new boutiques from Ralph Lauren.
The mountain lodge store is decorated with Navajo rugs, antique furniture, and unique artwork – reflecting both the brand’s Americana heritage and the boutique’s Swiss mountain surroundings.
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As mentioned last month, Lara Stone replaces Madonna to be the new face of Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2010 ad campaign.
Here’s a look at the making of Louis Vuitton’s campaign featuring the very beautiful Lara Stone.
The Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2010 ad campaign will break in the February 2010 issues of magazines worldwide.
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A buggy-styled Mini with an open top and removable doors made its debut at the Detroit motor show yesterday.
The four-wheel drive model has no conventional roof, and its doors can be taken out entirely to remove any elements that might limit the intensity of drivers’ contact with the outside world.
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As anticipation builds up over David Lynch’s ‘Lady Dior’ commercial, fans of French actress Marion Cotillard, who again stars in the ads, can already peek behind the scenes of the print campaign for the range.
The making-of shows star photographer Annie Leibovitz directing Cotillard, who is wearing Dior’s latest collections, as creative director John Galliano and other onlookers are watching the scene.
The latest chapter of the Alfred Hitchcock-inspired ‘Lady Dior’ commercial was recently shot by Lynch in Shanghai.
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As reported last October, Emporio Armani’s Underwear and Armani Jeans spring/summer 2010 ad campaigns featuring Megan Fox is finally out.
The new series of ads, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott will be unveiled in February on billboards in fashion meccas like New York, Tokyo and Milan.
The Underwear ad campaign was shot in a Los Angeles studio by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and for Armani Jeans, she appears in skinny denim, including a white version topped with a white shirt.
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Based on the popular Horological Machine 2 (MB&F‘s second watch), the SV offers a new view – literally. SV stands for “sapphire vision.”
Thanks to this transparent plate, this watch provides a great view into the exceptional automatic movement that drives the two dials.
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Just released by WWD, is the first shot of the Calvin Klein men’s Spring Summer campaign with the unbelievable David Agbodji by Steven Klein.
David opened and closed the Calvin Klein show (below) in Milan last summer.
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Former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair is set to take on a highly-paid advisory role at at luxury goods group LVMH.
Blair is understood to be in the final stages of negotiating a six-figure pay package at the group, which is owned by France’s richest man Bernard Arnault.
Blair already gets £2.5m from the U.S. investment bank JP Morgan and a further £2million as an adviser with the finance firm Zurich.
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Royal Caribbean claims that Oasis of the Seas is the most technologically advanced vessel in the world.
Children can wear a tag that sends their location, so that parents can pinpoint exactly where their child is on board the 16-deck, 225,282-ton monster.
The information is sent to “Royal Connect” branded smartphones rented to parents for a reported $17.50 a day.
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Georgia May Jagger will be the face of the Italian fashion house’s Spring/Summer 2010 campaign.
The 17-year-old daughter of rock legend Mick Jagger and world-renowned model Jerry Hall will replace Gisele Bundchen.
Georgia appeared on her first Vogue cover in November 2009, and was voted this year’s Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards.
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