Protest Sportswear releases fourth Green Up challenge: cleaning up Costa Rica
Protest Sportswear is walking the talk with two surfers—Alazne Aurrekoetxea and Laura Coviella—heading to Costa Rica to help clean up the shores as part of their Green Up the Ocean project. They helped with the efforts to collect single-use bottles, and tied them together with some bamboo and turned them into a “green” board. […]
Unique Aston Martin DB5 Vantage collection for sale, including one-off Shooting Brake
Fluid Images The most iconic Aston Martin is arguably the DB5, the one piloted by Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger. Aston Martin made 1,021 DB5s, including 60-odd in Vantage tune, and 123 convertibles. Getting a DB5 is hard enough, but getting three Vantages—a coupé, a convertible, and a one-off Shooting Brake—would qualify as […]
Zalando launches positive summer campaign preempting a post-COVID era
Zalando’s new summer 2021 campaign, Activists of Optimism, is yet another effort signalling hope as COVID-19 vaccines get rolled out among many countries. It aims to spread optimism, ‘through the simple act of making people smile,’ according to the retailer. The campaign launches May 23, and comprises 22 videos of 15 seconds each, which […]
Citroën redefines the large family car with the C5 X
William Crozes/Continental Productions Is this the future of the CD- and D-segment family car? Citroën has unveiled its C5 X, the third generation (if you don’t count the C5 Aircross) of the C5 line, blending saloon, estate and SUV ideas. Sales of conventional saloons and estates in this segment have been dropping for some […]
Cole Haan launches fashionable golf footwear collections for spring ’21
As a company that believes in accessible style, Cole Haan has launched its first golf footwear collection, débuting for spring 2021 and available now. There are three collections with names that Danes might balk at, as Cole Haan takes a character out of their alphabet for stylistic reasons and not pronounciation ones: ØriginalGrand, GrandPrø […]
Zalando’s spring 2021 campaign champions body positivity and broadens views on gender
Dan Beleiu Zalando, the online fashion platform HQed in Berlin, has launched its spring 2021 campaign, Here to Stay, championing diversity, inclusion and the empowerment of women, hoping to inspire and encourage people to broaden their views on gender fluidity and body positivity. Launched on Sunday, March 21, the campaign has been shot by […]
Reebok, Banana Republic and GMSV mark International Women’s Day
Reebok has a campaign called It’s a Man’s World, but with the words struck out, for its International Women’s Day promotion, created by the all-female creative collective Madwomen. Four sneakers in two collections are promoted—the Club C Double, Classic Leather Double, Legacy 83 and Zig Kinetica. The first collection features the sneakers with multiple colours […]
Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor models Self-Portrait’s autumn–winter 2021–2 collection
Nigel Shafran/Self-Portrait Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor is the face of Self-Portrait’s autumn–winter 2021–2 collection, photographed by Nigel Shafran. Given the UK’s difficulties with COVID-19, Self-Portrait forged on with showing its key looks with a more down-to-earth campaign, rather than a traditional fashion show, opting to photograph at Dynevor’s home in London. The aim was to […]
Hublot releases a limited edition of 50 Big Bang Tourbillion Automatic Orange Sapphire watches
The luxury watches in our ‘Year of the ox’ feature aren’t the only new releases for 2021. Hublot shows there’s still plenty of life in the skeleton look, and it’s showing off a new tourbillon movement (which is self-winding) along with a new colour, in its new Big Bang Tourbillion Automatic Orange Sapphire, limited to […]
A new take on geta from Andrea Gramaccia; Ruby’s latest for summer; Zegna shows winter ’21
Italian interior and product designer Andrea Gramaccia has created a wonderful, occidental take on the Japanese geta, the traditional footwear which has the form of a flip-flop but a wooden base. Gramaccia was contacted by the Japanese company Mizutori to create geta. Cleverly, he based the concept around a circle and cutting it in […]
