Mickey Mouse joins cricket fans across India and brings a little magic of his own into ‘Mickey Cricket’, a limited edition merchandise range that is perfect for every field. Mickey unveiled the brand new special collection that includes apparel and accessories, footwear, stationary, home and toys, all featuring Disney’s Fab Five in fun cricketing attire.
 

The exciting merchandise range is created for kids age 4-14 and will be available at leading shopping destinations across the nation, and also online. Disney will also run a special consumer promotion titled “Scratch it!” during this IPL season to offer a special opportunity for fans to meet Mumbai Indian players, win free tickets to Mumbai Indians matches and take ‘Mickey Cricket’ merchandise home.

When it comes to Karl Lagerfeld surprises are bound to occur. Right from designing bottles for coke to shooting sexually charged fashion calendars, the portfolio of this German designer screams versatility, not to mention his extravagant larger-than-life showcasing of Chanel.

The latest in the series of his dabbling with different creative mediums is designing luxury helicopters. The 78-year-old designer has collaborated with helicopter maker Agusta Westland to redesign its line of VIP choppers. It’s the creativity and sophisticated style of Karl Lagerfeld which will reflect in the interiors and exteriors of the luxurious model AW 139, with a seating capacity of 15 people. Expectedly, the designer will later move to revamp other commercial models.

The year of grapevine after John Galliano was sacked from his position as the Creative Director of Dior came to an end lately when the French fashion house announced the appointment of Raf Simons as a replacement.

The Belgian fashion designer who has been holding the reins of Jil Sander since 2005 will replace Bill Gaytten (ad –hoc designer) to assume the role of Creative Director overseeing Christian Dior’s advertisement campaign besides couture and womenswear.

The name of the designer known for his minimalistic designs meant for high powered career women as opposed to Galliano’s vivid ones got confirmed after the rounds of rumors suggesting the names of the veterans like Marc Jacobs, Ricardo Tisci, Stefano Pilati and Alber Elbaz for this coveted position.    

The hunt is on for the next generation of aspiring designers and young talent. Creative Pearl – Pearl Academy of Fashion’s largest annual national level inter-school talent competition is open for students in class X, XI and XII.

Designed to encourage creativity and lateral thinking among school students, the annual competition challenges young minds to innovatively project their design acumen via T-shirt designing, Paper Modelling, Photography and Mobile Videos.

Speaking at the launch of the competition, Dr A K G Nair, Group Director, Pearl Academy of Fashion said, “Creativity is an important component of design and Creative Pearl aims to unearth and develop future creative professionals annually. In 2011, more than 1300 students from 208 schools across the country participated in this nationwide talent hunt competition. The increasing interest and overwhelming response from the students motivated us to scale up the event through the online medium and reach out to students across India.”