Mercedes-Benz previews CLA with Concept Style Coupé at Beijing Auto Show
We’re becoming accustomed to automotive world premières taking place in China, and this is no exception: Mercedes-Benz will take the wraps off its Concept Style Coupé (CSC) at Auto China—the Beijing Auto Show—recognizing the importance of the Chinese market to the Swabian firm’s fortunes. The CSC previews the styling the firm will use in […]
Miss Austria 2012, Amina Dagi, appears in new photo shoot by Manfred Baumann
Manfred Baumann Miss Austria 2012, Amina Dagi, has been photographed extensively after her win by photographer and pageant judge Manfred Baumann at the Casino Baden. Dagi, 16, was crowned Miss Austria by her predecessor, Carmen Stamboli, at the Casino on March 30, with Stefanie Steinmayr first runner-up and Marisa Gerhardter second runner-up. She is […]
Adidas and Alfred Dunhill have unveiled new videos showing off their products, while World has released a video featuring the making of its new flagship Britomart store. Adidas’s ‘Adidas Is All in’ campaign has new creative, with 30- and 60-second spots, featuring brand ambassadors such as FIFA World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, […]
MAC collaborates with photographer Chen Man on make-up range
Showing that fashion and beauty are moving eastward, MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Beijing photographer Chen Man (陳曼), best known for her work for Shanghai’s avant-garde fashion magazine Vision. MAC calls the Chenman range, subtitled Love & Water, a ‘bold, sensual and lyrical colour collection’, based around her fascination for love and water, […]
Beyoncé Knowles talks 4; Transformers 3 hits Shanghai
Paramount Pictures/Getty Images Beyoncé Knowles talks about her growing up, provides some footage of her performing as a child, and shows some of the behind-the-scenes preparations for her album, 4, in the clip below. The album is still holding on to its number-one slot for the second week. The name is derived from Knowles’s […]
Global round-up: international fashion; Japanese inspiration; Jessica Alba talks motherhood
The main part of the Lucire website has had some international fashion round-ups. Not only have fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Paris editor Lola Saab made their picks from the New York fall collections (with more to come), but Joanna Mroczkowska has filed her report from Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week in Poland, and, importantly, Yuka […]
Entertainment news: Zhang Zi Lin on modelling; more from Fashion for Relief; Oprah’s farewell
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images China’s biggest model at present, former Miss World (2007) Zhang Zi Lin, one of L’Oréal Paris’s many faces, talks about her early aspirations, her career in modelling, and her Elie Saab (‘one of my favourite designers’) dress that she wore to the première of Tree of Life at the Festival de Cannes. […]
Ian Gavan Top Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon and John Taylor of Duran Duran. Above Vanessa Hudgens attends the Belvedere Red party at Cannes. Last year it was Cheryl Cole and de Grisogono, but this year, Duran Duran rocked the audience at a private party for Belvedere Red at the Festival de Cannes […]
Gong Li discusses career, beauty, and L’Oréal
With Gong Li the most searched-for celebrity yesterday on this website, here’s an interview with the famed Chinese actress from Cinémoi, recorded at the Festival de Cannes on day one. Through an interpreter, Li, wearing Lanvin, discusses her career, her aim to have control over her roles (‘I choose the film I love the […]
Citroën announces DS5 crossover at Auto Shanghai
Citroën has announced its DS5 at Auto Shanghai, the Shanghai Motor Show. Originally touted as a crossover (blending saloon, coupé and off-roader), the result is more a sleek all-wheel-drive hatchback that carries on the design theme of the smaller DS3 and DS4. The DS5 features Citroën’s Hybrid4 diesel technology: 200 PS, four-wheel drive, electric […]
