Check out the rumored new artwork for MDG, Madonna’s new sunglasses line with Dolce & Gabbana.
The new campaign was taken by celebrated photographer Steven Klein. It looks like these are screen captures from a video.
The photoshoot will premiere in Vogue Magazine and the MDG ads will reportedly run through February 2011.
Sex.com, one of the most expensive domain names in history, is up for auction, with bidding starting at $1 million, the Telegraph reports. The domain name was last bought in 2006 for a reported $14 million, and it’s not even the most expensive URL out there!
While the current market for internet domains is nowhere as solid as it was during the dot-com peak, the market remains strong and is experiencing solid growth.
Each year tens of millions of dollars are exchanged during the resale of domains. So what are the others in the top 10?
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Lady Gaga‘s and Beyoncé’s latest music/fashion collaboration, the new video for Telephone, had its world premiere March 11.
Stylist Nicola Formichetti shares the designs used for the clip, likely to cause a stir in the fashion world.
According to his blog (nicolaformichetti.blogspot.com), Lady Gaga wears in chronological order:
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A Scottish whisky firm on Thursday unveiled bottles of the oldest single malt whisky in the world, having spent the best part of a century inside an oak barrel.
Gordon and MacPhail’s Mortlach 70-Year-Old Speyside was sampled at a launch party in Edinburgh Castle, where it was escorted through the doors by pipers and a military escort.
“It matured for 70 years in the cask and that is what makes it the oldest whisky in the world,” a spokeswoman for Gordon and MacPhail told AFP.
The whisky was filled into its cask on October 15, 1938 by the grandfather of the company’s managing directors David and Michael Urquhart.
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Speaking to AutoExpress at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Aston Martin design director Marek Reichman said that he wants to set a new standard for personalization of Aston vehicles.
The aim is to form a team of engineers that would be able to make any of your dreams come true.
Reichman said that this could be accomplished using Aston’s historic Works Service department and the engineering and production staff who currently help produce the One-77 supercar.
“There is much more choice in the world,†Reichman said, “so our cars need to be much more personal.”
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China‘s seemingly unquenchable thirst for wine has ousted America as Bordeaux’s number one client outside Europe, latest figures showed Friday.
With overall exports down a large 23 percent in 2009, vintners are now looking to the East to drain their cellars.
“China has become our first client outside the European Union,” said Alain Vironneau, president of the CIVB, Bordeaux’s wine trade body, in a press conference, hailing both Hong Kong and China as “dynamic”.
China’s buying power comes at a particularly opportune moment as France’s leading wine region struggles to survive the economic crisis.
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Diamantini & Domeniconi have a range of contemporary clocks that both tell the time and add some significant design elements to your walls.
The Tribute model is a pocket-watch which can be transformed into a wristwatch in homage to Louis-Ulysse Chopard, who founded Chopard in 1860.
The Tribute is made of eighteen karat white gold with an alligator strap, only one hundred and fifty of the watches will be made to mark Chopard’s 150th birthday.
Kensington Palace will be taken over by British designers in a bid to lure in the masses.
The palace is at the center of a transformation project designed to make the royal residence in London more accessible to the public!
… even though the designs of Vivienne Westwood, Stephen Jones, or William Tempest — who are all involved in the project — usually aren’t.
Thought up by theater company Wildworks, the designers, joined by other UK labels including Boudicca, Aminaka Wilmon, and the illustrator Echo Morgan, are turning the residence into an Enchanted Palace through installations inspired by the princesses that lived there.
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Karl Lagerfeld has has just been tapped to receive the Légion d’honneur, the highest decoration in France, on the eve of the latest Chanel fashion show.
Lagerfeld was notified of the honor prior to the fashion show in Paris by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. A date for the official ceremony has yet to be set.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics giant late Wednesday unveiled the world’s first 3-D TV technology aimed at revolutionizing the home viewing experience.
At a glitzy ceremony in New York’s Time Warner Center, the leading consumer electronics maker announced the launch of a broad lineup of new sets, beginning with 46-inch and 55-inch C7000 models this month, showcasing the LED-lit TVs’ 3-D picture quality with incredible depth and perfect clarity.
Viewers are to wear electronic glasses that open and close rapidly in time, with images designed for the right and left eye, creating a three-dimensional effect.
Samsung also announced the expansion of its strategic alliance with DreamWorks Animation, the US maker of “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda” and other hit movies to speed up the worldwide deployment of in-home 3-D to mainstream consumers.
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The world’s new richest man, Mexican Carlos Slim, and a fresh crop of billionaires in Asia helped lead a comeback for the wealthiest few on the planet in 2010, Forbes magazine said Wednesday.
The publication’s annual rich list reflected a resurgence of wealth after the financial turmoil of 2009, with the top 10 wealthiest worth a combined 342 billion dollars, compared to 254 billion dollars in the previous year.
“The global economy is recovering. The financial markets came back, especially emerging markets,” said magazine editor-in-chief Steve Forbes.
“There’s a 50 percent increase in general global wealth compared to last year,” Forbes said.
Certainly the economy recovered for the super rich, who took a beating during last year’s stock and commodity market collapses, but saw across-the-board gains this year.
Forbes counted 1,011 billionaires from 55 countries, up from 793 last year, though still shy of the pre-crisis 1,125 listed in 2008.
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As previously rumored, mega-star Madonna will debut her fashion range for Macy’s, called Material Girl, this August.
“Material Girl is a newly created, fast-fashion junior collection that will launch exclusively in approximately 200 Macy’s stores and online at www.macys.com in August 2010 for the back-to-school season,” read a statement from the Iconix Group, with which Madonna has formed a new venture called MG ICON to release the clothing line for the US department store.
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Russia recently crowned its latest representative to the Miss World pageant, Miss Irina Antonenko.
Irina Antonenko won $100,000 and the chance to represent the country in the Miss World pageant, RIA Novosti reported Sunday.
The crown awarded to Antonenko is the world’s most expensive with an estimated value surpassing $1 million, RIA Novosti said.
The top 10 richest people in the world have a combined worth of 342 billion dollars in 2010, up from 254 billion a year ago.
Below are the 20 wealthiest in 2010, as reported by Forbes magazine in its annual list of the world’s billionaires. Check out our current update to this story, with the top 10 richest people in 2016 (so far). You’ll note that Ambani and Mittal are completely absent while Ortega is now number 2.
1. Carlos Slim Helu and family. Mexico. Telecoms. 53.5 billion dollars.
2. Bill Gates. US. Microsoft. 53 billion dollars.
3. Warren Buffett. US. Berkshire Hathaway. 47 billion dollars.
4. Mukesh Ambani. India. Oil, gas. 29 billion dollars.
5. Lakshmi Mittal. India. Steel. 28.7 billion dollars.
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6. Lawrence Ellison. US. Oracle. 28 billion dollars.
7. Bernard Arnault. France. LVMH luxury goods. 27.5 billion dollars.
8. Eike Batista. Brazil. Mining, oil. 27 billion dollars.
9. Amancio Ortega. Spain. Clothing retail. 25 billion dollars.
10. Karl Albrecht. Germany. Supermarkets. 23.5 billion dollars.
11. Ingvar Kamprad and family. Sweden. Ikea. 23 billion dollars.
12. Christy Walton and family. US. Walmart. 22.5 billion dollars.
13. Stefan Persson. Sweden. Hennes and Mauritz. 22.4 billion dollars.
14. Li Ka-shing. Hong Kong. Diversified. 21 billion dollars.
15. Jim Walton. US. Walmart. 20.7 billion dollars.
16. Alice Walton. US. Walmart. 20.6 billion dollars.
17. Liliane Bettencourt. France. L’Oreal. 20 billion dollars.
18. S. Robson Walton. Walmart. 19.8 billion dollars.
19. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud. Saudi Arabia. Investments. 19.4 billion dollars.
20. David Thomson and family. Canada. Inheritance. 19 billion dollars.
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The Italian luxury fashion house of Brioni is expanding their offering of select gentlemen’s leather goods with an incredibly stylish new watch box.
Featuring gold-plated hardware it holds six watches in removable compartments, along with a separate slim portfolio to hold additional watch straps.
Crafted of the world’s finest genuine alligator skin and lined with suede and glove-soft leather, the box is priced at $5,000 and comes in classic brown, black and red.
Brioni was founded in Rome by Gaetano Savini and Nazareno Fonticoli in 1945 and upholds the best Italian sartorial traditions.
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Tennis star Maria Sharapova is internationally known for her flawless tennis swing and impeccable sense of style, on and off the tennis court.
Now TAG Heuer Eyewear and Sharapova have collaborated to design a new collection of sunglasses that deliver both function and fashion.
Avant-garde, ultra-feminine and incredibly comfortable – the Maria Sharapova Collection by TAG Heuer Eyewear includes two distinctive styles.
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American Jon Shirley’s stunning 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Touring Berlinetta has won the coveted Louis Vuitton Classic Concours Award, selected from Best of Show winners at the world’s most prestigious automobile concours d’elegance.
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Spanish retailer Zara tops this week’s ranking of most popular Facebook fashion brands, followed by Swedish ‘arch rival,’ H&M.
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The sketch of a polar bear by Karl Lagerfeld on the invitation to his autumn-winter show for Chanel on Tuesday was already a big hint.
As a howling wind came over the sound system, screens were hoisted up to reveal gigantic ice floes, from which his models emerged enveloped in shaggy furs to keep out the Arctic cold and splashed through puddles of melted ice in knee high yeti boots.
With bouffant platinum blonde hair swept up, they snuggled into floor-sweeping snow white coats quilted like the Chanel signature handbag, with deep black fur hems, cuffs and stole collars.
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French actress and star of the current Chanel Rouge Coco lipstick ads, Vanessa Paradis has been announced as the face for the brand’s new Coco Cocoon handbag campaign.
Paradis previously starred in Chanel’s commercials for the Coco fragrance in 1992 and Ligne Cambon handbags in 2004.
Former star of the Coco Cocoon ads, singer Lily Allen announced via the British Radio 1 last year that she was planning to take a time-out from music for ‘at least one or two years’ in order to pursue a fashion career.
Following her last concert for the time being, for which she joined rapper Dizzee Rascal at the London 02 Arena this past weekend, Allen plans to open a boutique called Lucy in Disguise
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