Film composer John Barry, the man behind the James Bond sound, dies
Film score composer John Barry, OBE has died in New York of a heart attack, we have learned, aged 77. Born John Barry Prendergast in 1933 in York, his father was an impresario who owned cinemas in the area. Barry once told the story of how, as a child, he went into the projection […]
Vintage Chanel, Dior pieces will go on the catwalk at ID Dunedin
As an extra drawcard to 2011’s ID Dunedin Fashion Week, whose tickets go on sale on the 27th, pieces from the Darnell collection of vintage fashion (including labels such as Chanel and Christian Dior) will go on the catwalk on April 8 and 9. Charlotte Smith (left), owner and curator of the largest private […]
Vanessa Paradis models Chanel Rouge Coco Shine
Chanel has sent us the latest images for Rouge Coco Shine, its next lipstick, with singer–actress Vanessa Paradis as its spokeswoman. Paradis is a confessed fan of Karl Lagerfeld, who she calls a man who ‘looks well beyond fashion’ in a recent interview with our colleagues at Marie Claire. As mentioned in our […]
Scarlett Johansson stars in Moët & Chandon’s 2011 campaign
Tim Walker Moët & Chandon never really strays too far from a fashion audience—our 2002 article on the pronunciation of Moët is one of this publication’s most-Tweeted. And when we went to Champagne, we made it a point to visit the house. Now, Moët raises its currency in the fashion market even more with […]
Above Keeley Hawes may have style in Upstairs, Downstairs, but publisher Jack Yan argues that Rufus Sewell, in Zen, paints a far more desirable fashion world (ignoring the tobacco smoke). Fashion editor Sopheak Seng and I had a great meeting today, discussing trends. A couple of weeks ago, he told me that he had seen […]
Kellwood acquires Rebecca Taylor
Kellwood, the company which already owns Baby Phat, Phat Farm, Vince, and Adam has acquired Rebecca Taylor, the eponymous Manhattan-based label co-founded by an expat New Zealander and her business partner Elizabeth Bugdaycay. Taylor came to prominence through the Gen Art Fresh Faces in Fashion show in the late 1990s, and successfully developed her […]
Blogs are good for fashion, as long as we can find them
Above Journalist Simone Werle’s Style Diaries: World Fashion from Berlin to Tokyo uncovers the fashion blogosphere and the personalities behind some of the influential blogs. (Click for Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Deutschland.) The first time I encountered a fashion blog, I thought it was pretty crap. All its ideals aside, blogging, initially, seemed to […]
Angelina Jolie and Jesús Vázquez celebrate UNHCR’s 60th anniversary
Alonso Serrano/UNHCR Angelina Jolie continued to highlight the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—UNHCR—as a Goodwill Ambassador for the international refugee agency on Thursday. She met with fellow ambassador Jesús Vázquez, the Spanish TV presenter, to celebrate the organization’s 60th anniversary in Madrid. The UNHCR was only […]
Deckers launches another lawsuit over Ugg trade mark
On December 7, Deckers Outdoor Corp. filed suit in the US District Court in the Central District of California against Emu Australia, Inc. and Emu (Aus.) Pty. Ltd., claiming infringement over the Ugg Australia trade mark. Emu has this week issued a statement in response to the lawsuit, claiming that in Australia, Ugg has […]
Barkers, Flying Nun collaborate on T-shirts commemorating classic Kiwi artists
Barkers and record label Flying Nun have collaborated on a range of T-shirts, featuring the sleeve images from four of the label’s famed artists’ releases. Barkers is also re-releasing the Flying Nun “fuzzy logo” T. The four limited-edition T-shirts feature images from the 3Ds, the Bats, the Clean and Gordons. Each T-shirt comes […]
