The Italian luxury label, Gucci announces Blake Lively as face of its new fragrance, Gucci Premiere with campaign film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.
About this latest campaign, Frida Giannini, Gucci Creative Director, comments, “In conceiving this fragrance I was inspired by timeless Hollywood glamour and the iconic leading ladies of Hollywood’s golden era. Blake’s unique style and charisma brings that allure to life in a very contemporary way."
Whereas Blake Lively states, “It is a pleasure to collaborate with Frida Giannini. I admire the qualities of the Gucci Première woman and feel honored to represent the fragrance.”
When you look at the imposing edifice of Taj Mahal from a distance, it seems like any other monument, wondered for being wondered, but once the halo of this extraordinaire piece of craftsmanship gleams into one’s eyes, romance is most likely to engender the poetic utterances.
The epitome of love, beauty and timelessness, Taj Mahal and its vicinity need more than hordes of clickety-clack foreign tourists in awe of its every stone. It deserves the support of all and sundry that for once touched its walls and be smitten by its charm. ‘With Love FromTaj’ is one such project dedicated to the timelessness of Taj, beauty of women, our cherished traditions and artistic refinements.
The yearlong project by photographer PravinTalan aims at creating memorabilia to promote arts, crafts, culture and tourism; creating awareness about, and promoting the exquisite craftsmanship that has for centuries flourished in small lanes and by lanes of Agra city – bringing together on a single platform India’s leading artists and artisans who have in their works some element or inspiration drawn from Taj Mahal.
The very first of its initiative comes in the form of an exclusive calendar shot at the monument featuring exquisite creations by some of the India’s most acclaimed designers like Rohit Bal, Tarun Tahiliani, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Shane &Falguni Peacock, Anand Kabra and Anamika Khanna.
The cloying tattoo fashion gets an interesting twist as Jean Paul Gaultier revealed the third design in a set of limited-edition Diet Coke bottles.
The newly-appointed creative director of Diet Coke, Gaultier has come up with a saucy tattoo corset design showing a risqué tattoo art in a corset shape. The latest design, the third one follows, ‘Day’ and ‘Night’ which the designer had revealed few months back, featuring Breton stripes and feminine corsets, respectively.
A unique showcase of pure design talent along with a bout of creativity, Tassel Designers’ Awards 2012 by International Institute of Fashion Design, Andheri, Mumbai is all set to take place on 29th June, 2012 at St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra.
The event will witness the efforts of 40 graduating students portraying their designs thus conveying their design thoughts, providing them a scope for growth in fashion industry and to establish themselves as a label.
The interesting mix of compilation crafted by the students comprises of themes like Hopak, Aztec, Samba, Old Bombay etc. Hopak is inspired by national dance of Ukraine using colour palette and floral prints whereas Aztec is drawn from ethnic group of Mexico who wore beautiful and colourful headdresses made of bird feathers.
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Tommy Hilfiger unveils its latest Fall Winter 2012 global advertisement campaign, Hilfiger Hunt Club.
The campaign features The Hilfigers, the beloved all-American family at the heart of the brand’s strategy taking the notorious group of eclectic characters far out of the city and into the country for the grand foxhunt of the season.
Photographed in Warrenton, Virginia by Craig McDean and styled by Karl Temper, the campaign reflects the ultimate personification of the preppy heritage and irreverent spirit of the Tommy Hilfiger brand.
Along with Hilfiger Hunt Club, the brand also released its Fall Winter 2012 Hilfiger Denim Campaign, Prep Denim, capturing the brand’s casual ease and quintessential cheeky edge by taking the classics and turning them inside out.
The campaign photographed on North Wales by Craig McDean is going off-road and into the country – keeping true to the brand’s preppy roots, but staying a rebel at heart.
Providing innovative, concrete and sustainable solutions for humanitarian purposes, Apopo is a new project initiated by Only the Brave Foundation, created by Diesel founder Renzo Rosso in 2008.
A social enterprise, Apopo researches, develops and disseminates detection rat technology for nobel purposes. The project trains over 200 “Hero Rats” to work in landmine detection and tuberculosis screening. Trained Detection Rats can quickly and accurately sniff out the disease in human sputum samples. Rats can evaluate 40 sputum samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician will do in a full day’s work. It takes nine months to fully train a detection rat.
There are currently 66 countries and 7 territories around the world that are affected by landmines or explosive remnants of war. Landmines pose a structural barrier to development and economic growth, long after war ends but many countries lack the resources for landmine clearance. Detection Rats are a cost and time effective solution to detect landmines and it is locally available. In Mozambique alone, Apopo’s mine action team has helped to return over 4.2 million square meters of land to the population.