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Emma Watson is new face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle

June 16, 2008/9.49

Sources are reporting that Emma Watson, Hermione of the Harry Potter movie series, is the new face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle fragrance, replacing fellow British actress Keira Knightley (left).    Knightley’s contract for the fragrance ends in the summer, but Chanel will possibly re-sign her in another role.    The of?cial announcement will be probably made next […]

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A birthday surprise: Adriana Lima engaged to Marko Jari?

June 13, 2008/13.33

People magazine reports that model Adriana Lima and basketball player Marko Jari? are engaged.    Jari?’s publicist, James Weir, says that the proposal was on Thursday night, on Lima’s 27th birthday.    The pair had been dating for nine months.    Lima, who hails from Salvador, Brazil, is one of the world’s most recognizable models and […]

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Glamour UK announces star-studded 2008 award winners

June 3, 2008/23.23

The Spice Girls are the band of the year, in the Glamour UK Women of the Year awards (‘the Glammies’) held Tuesday at Berkeley Square Gardens, London.    The rest of the winners were popular choices, as can be expected from a reader poll-based award ceremony: Kate Moss is the magazine’s entrepreneur of the year; Joanna […]

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Photo shoot with Agent Provocateur’s one-off Mini

May 20, 2008/23.44

Agent Provocateur has designed a one-off Mini Clubman for the Life Ball, Europe’s biggest Aids charity event. The car will be auctioned after the Ball on Ebay from June 5 to 15, with all proceeds going to the charity. Below are videos from the photo shoot and from Joseph Corré, co-founder of Agent Provocateur, a man […]

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Tissot, Danica Patrick renew commitment for two years

May 17, 2008/10.09

Premier Swiss watch brand Tissot has renewed its contract with its brand ambassador, racing star Danica Patrick.    She endeared herself to the world when she made history by becoming the ?rst woman to win a race in the sport of US open-wheeled racing by clinching her victory in the Japan 300.    In 2005, Patrick became […]

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More on the Naomi Watts–Thierry Mugler Angel campaign

May 6, 2008/11.53

More details are emerging about the Naomi Watts advertisements for Thierry Mugler Angel, from the New York, rather than French, end of the business: Naomi Watts was the inspired choice for Thierry Mugler, over and above her beauty and her star image. Displaying a modern touch, the actress projects a personality that blends sensuality, voluptuousness […]

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Naomi Watts is new face of Thierry Mugler Angel fragrance

May 5, 2008/23.34

Actress Naomi Watts is the new face of the Thierry Mugler Angel fragrance, it was announced ahead of her début at the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.    The company says that Watts is ‘A true embodiment of the fragrance itself and all it represents’. The campaign breaks […]

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Forbes lists world’s 16 top earning models and supermodels

May 2, 2008/6.37

Gisèle Bündchen, whose face promotes products from Disney to Nivea and Aquascutum, is the world’s top-earning model, according to Forbes.    The magazine’s latest table of what it calls the top 15—there are actually 16 models—puts Bündchen’s earnings over the last 12 months at US$35 million, more than double that of Heidi Klum, in second place at […]

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The sex-obsessed world of the Miley Cyrus photographs

April 30, 2008/21.47

It’s not that we haven’t kept up with the row over the Miley Cyrus photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, which sexualize the teenage star, but I have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to news coverage.    There are quarters in fashion publishing which would deem these photographs appropriate and […]

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Agyness Deyn branches into music

/12.17

UK model of the moment, Agyness Deyn, will release a single, according to British media today.    It will be her first foray into music, in collaboration with New York-based band Five O’Clock Heroes.    Deyn contributed some vocals to the song, ‘Who’, and will appear in the video. You may also like Miranda Kerr […]

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