Hélèna Christensen on climate change: politicians’ ‘groundhog day’ is costing lives
Hélèna Christensen is one of the most active supermodels: today as an Oxfam Global Ambassador and photographer, she is raising awareness of climate change. Through her photography, Christensen has been documenting the plight of villages that are experiencing more extreme weather patterns. Christensen’s photographs will be exhibited in 2011–12 to continue raising awareness […]
Susan Stafford: a life well spent
From top Kato Kaelin with Pat and James van Patten. Billy Davis, Susan Stafford and Marilyn McCoo. Sean Kanan and Michele Vega. If you are a classic TV enthusiast or a person of a certain age, you will remember ’80s juggernaut game show Wheel of Fortune. Before Vanna White spent the decade turning letters with […]
Jake Gyllenhaal galore: Source Code UK trailer, Love and Other Drugs Australian trailer released
With all the talk going on about Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in Love and Other Drugs, it’s easy to overlook Source Code, another film starring the American actor. What caught our eye is the director—Duncan Jones—who gave us the cult science fiction movie, Moon. Gyllenhaal plays a decorated soldier, Capt Colter Stevens, who […]
Channelling Hemingway in Runtime
Last December a young, audacious Delhi-based technology company approached me to create an unusual brand extension for them. They wanted to commission a novel, set at a Delhi-based technology company. ‘We need Hemingway,’ they said. Of course, as a six-time finalist for the International Imitation Hemingway Competition, my interest in the project soared. Wasn’t the […]
Eco-luxe, conjured in the Bay, refined in Portland
Former fashion model and budding designer, Courtney Leonard, has no hidden agenda when it comes to conveying her love for luxury goods and the environment. The Oregon native, who has made her way back to the inspiring grounds of her childhood, creates what she calls ‘eco-luxe’ products, from accessories and dresses to one-of-a-kind leather handbags […]
Playboy launches Play It scents for women into Australian market
Playboy has successfully managed brand extensions for decades, be they into other editions or into clothing. Two years ago, the company signed a deal with Coty to produce a men’s fragrance. It’s now releasing a women’s fragrance—but how do you link a very masculine brand to a female market? Cleverly, the marketers have seized […]
Liam Gallagher, Fearne Cotton, Brendan Cole and others attend Drapers’ awards
Last Wednesday, Drapers held the 20th anniversary edition of its awards at Grosvenor House in London. Guests included Liam Gallagher, a bow tie-wearing Fearne Cotton, Reggie Yates, Jimmy Mistry, Come Dancing‘s and Strictly Come Dancing‘s Brendan Cole, accompanied by his wife Zoë, and Flavia Cacace from the latter show. In the above video, […]
Stutterheim marks the Swedish mood
[Cross-posted] Sent to me by Stefan Engeseth, Stutterheim Raincoats‘ website conveys a very Swedish feel, touching on one of the emotions we don’t always associate with Sweden: melancholy during the winter. The copy on the site even says, ‘Let’s embrace Swedish melancholy.’ With emotive photographs and a very Swedish soundtrack, it helps create an […]
Our colleague Alba Caponetto at Mosaicoon, a web communication agency in Italy, sent the above YouTube video to us. It’s one that her company directed, about fashion trends among the elderly population of Agira, Sicily. ‘I think it’s a new concept of video because we aim to pay tribute to fashion’s heterogeneity and its infinite […]
Lanvin for H&M’s NYC couture show and Alexandra Owen lead our fashion coverage
Dan Lecca There are two great fashion stories in the features’ part of the Lucire site today, each on top labels in their respective countries. Above are photographs, by Dan Lecca for Hennes & Mauritz, of the Lanvin Loves H&M haute couture show at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Thursday night. The […]
