Yet another Fall 2010 advertising campaign has emerged, this one from French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent and starring supermodel Daria Werbowy.
The newads were shot by husband-and-wife team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, while YSL designer Stefano Pilati played creative director.
Werbowy was shot on the spiraling staircase inside the Hôtel de Clermont-Tonnerre, which is the Paris headquarters of Artemis, the holding company for Yves Saint Laurent parent PPR.
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Dita Von Teese has taken her famous burlesque act to the couture capital, Paris.
During Jean Paul Gaultier’s Autumn/Winter 2010 collection show, Ms Von Teese appeared on the catwalk in a black slinky dress.
The famous actress then walked down the catwalk and stripped off her robe revealing a black skeleton-looking bodice. Then came the models.
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Members of the public will be able to see the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner for the first time at next week’s Farnborough Air Show, the firm has announced.
The new Dreamliner, set to go into service later this year, will be presented alongside its rival Airbus’s A380 superjumbo at the show, which runs July 19 – 25.
It will be the official debut of the Boeing 787 with scheduled tours offered by Boeing to trade visitors on July 19 and 20.
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Toy store Hamleys, which is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, hosted an event to showcase their predictions for this Christmas’ must-have toys.
And this year, Hamleys is offering a small-scale Mercedes Benz SLS AMG festooned with Crystallized Swarovski Elements. Price: £1,500 ($2,250).
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After a tumultuous few years, Regent Hotels and Resorts is looking to return to its roots, the company has announced, opening more properties in Asia.
The brand was the first to introduce concepts such as the five-fixture bathroom, hotel shopping malls and villa resorts which have now become standard in luxury hotels.
The brand is now looking to revive its glory days since being purchased by Formosa International Hotels from Carlson, which owns Radisson and Park Plaza.
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Euromonitor has predicted that by 2020 China will be the world’s largest economy and that young Chinese, who already account for 25% of the world’s luxury market, will drive household consumption.
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Once again, Veuve Clicquot trusts Denis Boudard of QSLD Paris, to create its new giftbox: The Veuve Clicquot Fridge.
Ten years ago, Veuve Clicquot was revolutionizing the champagne consumption with its Clicquot Icebox. This box allowed savoring one’s favorite vintage at the ideal temperature.
From then on, Veuve Clicquot chose to rethink every year its coolbox collection, in order to offer freedom to consume champagne anytime anywhere.
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‘Avatar’ actress Zoe Saldana will front the Calvin Klein ‘Envy’ advertising campaign as the new face and body of the global brand.
Shot by photographer Mikael Jansson in New York City, one seductive image shows Saldana risking a nip slip as she leans provocatively in a lacy black plunging bra from the label’s new Envy line.
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Global hotel chain Banyan Tree is preparing to open its new beach resort in Koh Samui, which is a location known for it’s golden beaches and beautiful sceneries.
This will mark the third destination for Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts in Thailand since its flagship resort, Banyan Tree Phuket, opened in 1994.
Scheduled to open on July 15, Banyan Tree Samui is located on a tropical island rising from the shimmering Gulf of Thailand.
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After launching the Mahatma Gandhi limited special theme edition pens, Montblanc has launched Elizabeth I Limited Edition 4810 and 888.
This is part of Montblanc’s Patron of Art Edition honouring a legendary benefactor of the arts and culture since this writing instrument line was conceived in 1992.
The Elizabeth I Limited Edition 888 is a 750 solid gold fountain pen featuring a barrel and cap in precious lacquer.
Hand engraved on its 18 K gold nib is a bejeweled gold crown in which Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1559.
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Mercedes-Benz has passed Audi to become the second-best selling premium car brand for the first half of 2010, according to reports released in the last week.
Mercedes posted a 13 percent rise in global sales for the month of June, enough to push it past Audi’s year to date sales, despite Audi having held the second spot in global sales by a whisker for the first five months of the year.
Both automakers trail fellow German marque BMW, which sold 585,755 units in the first half of 2010 according to Automotive News.
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On Sunday we posted Miu Miu’s Fall 2010 ad campaign video, now here’s a look at the ad campaign shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott featuring Lindsey Wixson, Siri Tollerod, Ginta Lapina and Daphne Groenveld.
A view over Rome painted by artist JMW Turner was sold for 29.7 million pounds in London, setting a new record at auction for the British master.
“Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino” was bought Wednesday for the equivalent of 44.9 million dollars at Sotheby’s by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The previous auction record for a Turner work was 20.5 million pounds, which was set by “Giudecca, La Donne della Salute and San Giorgio” in April 2006.
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Motorists in southern Italy must have thought they had hit the jackpot after spotting piles of euro coins on a motorway.
A security lorry carrying some two million euros $2.5m) in one and two-euro coins overturned near Foggia.
The accident dislodged the boxes on board which burst open as they hit the ground, paving a vast stretch of the road with “goldâ€.
Before the police arrived, some drivers stopped their cars and made off with at least 10,000 euros.
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Princess Diana’s family has sold an important Old Master painting by Peter Paul Rubens for nine million pounds at auction.
“A Commander Being Armed For Battle”, which is thought to depict the 16th-century Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, was sold to an anonymous bidder at Christie’s auction house in London on Tuesday.
The painting, completed between 1612-1614, used to hang in Althorp which is the ancestral seat of Diana’s family and the late princess’s childhood home.
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The new city bike in carbon-fiber by Alberto Del Biondi Industria del Design for Le Coq Sportif, inspired by Tour De France.
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Italian luxe label Bottega Veneta has announced that it is planning to bring its newly revamped website, featuring exclusive video content, to the iPad very soon. In the meantime, experience the European Vogue magazines in a new way.
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Hermes has unveiled its latest advertising campaign showcasing its watches against a series of equestrian-themed images.
The set of advertisements depict horses in a variety of dramatic scenes and odd locations, running alongside images of the watchmakers newest models.
The pictures were taken by Tim Flach, and each image is separated by the brand’s ribbon, which reads: Hermes Sellier – Hermes Horologer.
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A monumental lion, teeth bared and one front paw resting proprietorially on a giant pearl, held centre stage, its golden coat caught in the setting sun under the glass dome of the Grand Palais.
Karl Lagerfeld is a past master at dreaming up attention-grabbing scenarios for his Chanel shows, and Tuesday night’s was no exception.
It looked like an allusion to Jean Cocteau’s Surreal masterpiece “Beauty and the Beast” when the traditional bride at the end was accompanied by a groom wearing a lion’s head over his wedding suit.
However Lagerfeld told AFP it had been inspired by a small bronze lion found in Coco Chanel’s apartment.
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A traditional wristwatch has a relatively straightforward role: to tell the time.
All that is needed is a hand for the hours, another for the minutes and perhaps a power reserve indicator to keep track of running time.
Horological Machine No4 Thunderbolt has a hand for the hours, another for the minutes and a power reserve indicator. HM4 Thunderbolt tells the time.
HM4 Thunderbolt is not a traditional wristwatch. The aviation-inspired case and engine of the Thunderbolt are one.
Neither would, nor could, exist without the other, yet each is so transcendental as to be able to stand alone as a work of art in its own right.
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Beijing International Airport has overtaken London Heathrow as the world’s second busiest, in a sign of China’s growing dominance of international travel.
In terms of seat capacity, Beijing International is now second only to Atlanta Hartsfield in the US, according to a July 6 report by aviation analyst OAG.
Beijing’s business has been boosted by a sharp growth in the number of passenger seats to Asia, a growth of nine percent which equates to some 15.3 million more seats flying to or from the region.
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