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Everyone wants to dress like David Beckham, in spring 2016 H&M campaign

January 30, 2016/23.24

David Beckham, in his ongoing collaboration with Hennes & Mauritz, has shot his latest campaign for his spring 2016 Modern Essentials Selected by David Beckham collection in Lisboa, Portugal. It is accompanied by a humorous film promoting the line, directed by Fredrik Bond.    The previous promo showed Beckham discovering that comedian Kevin Hart dressed […]

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Kerry Washington named Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year with festivities in Massachusetts

January 29, 2016/17.11

Darren McCollester The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theatrical organization in the US, and which has a philanthropic purpose, named Kerry Washington its Woman of the Year. Previous honorees since the award was established in 1951 have included Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Hathaway, Claire Danes, Dame Helen Mirren […]

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Parlux sues Jay Z over failure of fragrance line, seeks $20 million

January 27, 2016/12.46

Parlux Fragrances is suing Shawn ‘Jay Z’ Carter over his failure to promote the Gold Jay Z cologne which the company makes, and seeks US$20 million.    Parlux alleges that Carter failed to make six promotional appearances since Gold Jay Z’s launch in October 2013, and has made none. Allegedly, he failed to appear on […]

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Aishwarya Rai meets French president François Hollande at Republic Day luncheon

January 26, 2016/12.53

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and director Aditya Chopra were the guests of honour of French president François Hollande, who had been in India for an official three-day visit. Hollande marked the country’s 67th Republic Day on Tuesday with a luncheon in New Delhi, and the Élysée shared the above photograph of the actress […]

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Rosamund Pike, Adriana Lima, Karolína Kurková, Zhou Xun, Jessica Kahawaty at IWC SIHH launch

January 21, 2016/23.23

Chris Jackson, Harold Cunningham IWC Schaffhausen has released its Pilots’ Watches collection at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) show in Genève, with celebrities during the show and dinner including Adriana Lima, Karolína Kurková, Rosamund Pike, Hilary Swank, Zhou Xun, Marc Forster, Scott Eastwood, Christoph Waltz, American actor Chris Evans, Scott Eastwood, José […]

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Bang on trend, Karen Walker’s summer ’16 eyewear blasts off into space

January 20, 2016/23.55

Above Karen Walker Eyewear’s Cosmonaut, One Orbit and Star Sailor—which we’re choosing as the picks of the season in the wake of David Bowie’s passing. Karen Walker Eyewear’s Arrowed by Karen summer 2016 collection hits stores today (January 20), with new shapes dubbed Moon Disco, Moonwalk, Star City, and Lunar Flowerpatch, joining Harvest, Super Duper […]

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Montblanc launches Great Characters Andy Warhol range of writing instruments

January 19, 2016/14.23

Montblanc honoured Grace Kelly a few years ago with a limited-edition collection, and now it has turned its attention to pop artist Andy Warhol.    Its Great Characters line, which has already offered items based on the legacies of Leonardo da Vinci, Alfred Hitchcock and John F. Kennedy over the last seven years, sees a […]

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Working Style appoints Karl Clausen its new creative director

January 18, 2016/20.46

Karl Clausen is Working Style’s new creative director, after stints at Ermenegildo Zegna and Alfred Dunhill, among others.    Clausen was Working Style’s Christchurch director from 2002 to 2007, and replaces Eddie von Dadelszen, who has decided to move on.    Working Style founder Chris Dobbs said, ‘He’s well accustomed to the Working Style way […]

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