200The London based prolific designer Charlotte Olympia gets all festive and playful this Christmas as she launches a glitzy holiday season capsule collection along with an additional chance for her enthusiasts to win exciting prizes.

While her collection is all about the blingy glamour and velvet elegance, the online shopping extravaganza includes a slot machine filled with gifts, which will go live this December.1

To win gifts, a shopper needs three matching symbols including key pieces from the designer’s Christmas collection, from glitter kitty flats to a holly pandora clutch and jingle bell dolly platform shoes. The game can be played starting from 1st December to 12th December wherein prizes will be won every hour. Also, some classic signature styles including the spider web earrings will be on offer.

Sadly however, this game is open to UK residents alone. The Christmas collection, on the other hand will be available online for all from 8th December.

200The French footwear designer Christian Louboutin breaks all records by curating a limited edition of its Rouge Louboutin Nail colour adorned with 1,500 Strass crystals.

Aptly named ‘Starlight’, the expensive new glittery nail paint has been made in a limited run of 1000 and comes right in time for the holiday season.

The hand embedded strass crystals and that exquisite detailing makes the designer demand a whopping 495 pounds for the nail polish. Also, it would come packed in a fancy box adorned with red leather Strass flowers-a design borrowed from Louboutin’s Pensamoi shoe in the autumn winter collection.

Meanwhile, Christian launched her debut beauty range earlier this year with a line of nail polishes inspired by the brand’s iconic shoe soles in shades of hot red, moody autumn shades, bright colour pops and subtle nudes.

However, this lately created milestone will be available on christianlouboutin.com and in selected stockists including Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Harrods.

One of the leading internet retailers worldwide, Amazon takes yet another step towards its dedication to catering the fashion industry and an excellent customer experience by launching an all-new 46,000 sq. ft. fashion photography studio in London.

Scheduled to open next year, this studio is going to be one of the largest of its kind in Europe and will provide images for its fashion business across the continent.

Amazon warehouse PeterboroughThe retailer looks forward to generating more employment in London by opening the studio with 35 new permanent staff, 2,000 employees based in London three offices next year. This number is expected to increase to 5,000 in 2017 when Amazon opens an office in Shoreditch.

Speaking of its fashion business until last year, the e-tailer was able to sell as many as 1 million fashion items in a week on Amazon.co.uk during Christmas last year. While it started to sell clothing in 2008, it has this year geared up its focus in the sector.

As exciting as it looks, let’s see what the overall outcome of Amazon’s fashion photography studio will be like.

200Many of the best social networking apps out there have been around for a while, but as smartphones get smarter, so do the apps, as Viber launches its public chats, allowing users to get closer to their favorites.

The leading mobile communications app offering free messaging and HD-quality calls, today announced Public Chats, a new feature that allows users to discover, share and interact with conversations, communities and content on mobile.

Public Chats or live discussions between celebrities and personalities that Viber users can follow. Anyone on Viber can follow as many of these chats as they like on their mobile device or even invite friends over text, photos, audio, video, stickers, web links and more.2

With global celebrities, personalities and brands from Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Sonu Nigam, Ayushmann Khurrana, Shaan ,Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Saina Nehwal available on public chats, there’s never been a better time to find a social network that’s tailored to your tastes.

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300The Italian fashion house Versace has come up with an all new fragrance titled ‘Eros Pour Femme’ which is the female counterpart of its popular fragrance Eros.

A glimpse of Sicilian lemon and Calabrian bergamot along with a heartful of pomegranate, jasmine, and peony, the fragrance takes one into and exuberant, smooth, woody and heady musk ambience.

The golden bottle looks extremely vintage and antique with the classic Versace Greek key and gold Medusa motifs.

Meanwhile, the campaign for the perfume is shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, featuring the Dutch beauty Lara Stone with Brian Shimansky.

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200Karl Lagerfeld presents Chanel’s latest Métiers d’art collection in Salzburg next week along with an accompanying film featuring Cara Delevingne, Pharrell Williams and many other Chanel regulars like Lady Amanda Harlech, models Baptiste Giabiconi, Heidi Mount and the six year old Hudson Kroenig to name a few.

Titled ‘Reincarnation’, the movie re-enacts a crucial phase in Gabrielle Chanel’s life where she got mesmerised by hotel elevator operator’s jacket while she was vacationing at an Austrian resort in 1954.

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The operator is being confidently portrayed by Pharrell and the unusual jacket is to become Chanel’s next fashion icon. Lagerfeld has gathered the fast-paced clip with a lot of humour, wit and historical allusions.

Besides the film also has glimpses of pop art where- a production of a Franz Xavier Winterhalter painting of Sisi (Empress Elisabeth of Austria) lords over the lobby of the hotel, another of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and Cara and Pharrell dancing some moves as an imperial couple- can be seen.

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Meanwhile, the two will also join hands in the advertising campaign shot by Karl for the Paris-Salzburg collection, scheduled to arrive in stores in May 2015.

Reincarnation, however, will mark its debut on 1st December.

430Kinship for Humanitarian, Social and Holistic Intervention in India (Khushii), presented an art raffle called “Art Loot”in Mumbai at Tao Art Gallery.

Art Loot, was a fun and lucrative opportunity to win in a lucky draw, pieces of art all at one fixed price. The works are creations of well known Indian artists, whose art value is significantly more than what the buyer is paying.

Seen opening there raffles were Deepika & Ajay Gehani, Malti Jain, Bose Krishnamachari, Arzan Khambatta, Rouble Nagi, Mouni Roy, Shakti Mohan, Shraddha & Mayank, Pawan Malhotra, Julius Macwan, Nayana Kanodia and Arzoo Govtrikar and many others.

The Italian fashion atelier has come with an all new holiday campaign for 2014 titled ‘Special Delivery’.

A mysterious and whimsical short film about finding the perfect gift in the most unexpected moments of all, the campaign is all in all an endearing tale featuring a woman picking up a heap of Gucci gifts for the Holidays.

500The pivotal point of the video is when the woman stumbles and ends up having a major fall wherein all the gifts including scarves, ballerinas, hand bags, sling bags etc. fall down. The fall itself takes the viewer to the luxurious journey that Gucci promises to take its buyers into.

While the protagonist is shown entirely attired from top to toe in the brand’s cruise 2015 collection, the prior message that the video conveys is that how classy and refined it is to gift with Gucci and how despite the major fall, the user is still left in awe by that one big gift.

Well, all the Gucci enthusiasts out there should get ready for a mind-blowing luxurious holiday season this time.

430 1Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna launched their new flagship store in Defence colony on showing their support to the freedom of expression and love, splashed across their visual merchandize, through installations of mannequins in position depicting affection, clearly spelled out Freedom of Love.

While the USP of the store was the large metallic and blown glass chandelier at the entrance embodies the logo of the brand in twisted design, showing support to the duo on the launch of their 2 level amass were Kalyani Saha, Rohit Bal, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Gaurav Gupta, Varun Bahl, Sunil Sethi, Niamat Bakshi, Rahul Mishra, Amaan & Ayaan Ali, Malini Ramani, Subodh Gupta, Sunjay Kapoor, Priya Sachdev , AD Singh, Pankaj & Nidhi Ahuja, Gauri and Nainika, Ritu Kumar & Anju Modi amongst others.