Nine d’Urso, daughter of Inès de la Fressange, to be face of Bottega Veneta
Inès de la Fressange might have been a supermodel had the term been coined slightly earlier. Karl Lagerfeld’s muse for Chanel through the 1980s, she is well known in fashion circles and remains involved. But today, it’s her daughter, Nine d’Urso, who’s making the headlines. D’Urso will be the face of Bottega Veneta’s first […]
Heidi Klum and AOL to launch women’s online content
Heidi Klum and AOL have announced they will create online content focusing on fashion, beauty, parenting, relationships, lifestyle and arts and crafts. Klum says that women’s advice is ‘so scattered online’ and their attempt will consolidate the information on one site, to be hosted at the aol.com domain. ‘During my 15 years in […]
Michael Kors launches eyewear in New Zealand through Visique
Visique now exclusively offers American designer Michael Kors’s eyewear range for the New Zealand market. The eyewear is priced from NZ$249 to NZ$299 and is available through Visique outlets. Visique is a New Zealand-owned network of independent, qualified optometrists and celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. You may also like Karen Walker Eyewear releases […]
Pirelli PZero shows its Rubber Racer shoes, I Cut jacket for spring
Pirelli has been extending its brand into fashion since 2002, extending its P-Zero designation into its own label. The aim is to have PZero (without the hyphen) denote high-tech fashion, with modern materials, expanding into a full fashion line. For spring–summer 2011, the company has released, inter alia, a sailing shoe, the Pirelli PZero […]
Twilight film studio sues Bella Swan jacket designers
Above left The BB Dakota jacket at the core of the lawsuit. Above right Kristen Stewart, as Bella Swan, wearing the jacket. Summit Entertainment LLC, the studio behind the Twilight film franchise, is filing suit against BB Dakota, Modcloth and Metropark. BB Dakota created the jacket worn by Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan character in the […]
Beyoncé, Eva Longoria to début fragrances
Looks like 2010 will begin with more celebrity fragrances. As revealed earlier this month, Beyoncé Knowles’s Heat, for Coty, will launch in February, with hints of red vanilla orchid, magnolia, neroli and blush peach. From being a L’Oréal Paris face to having a scent of her own, Eva Longoria-Parker will launch Eva by […]
Cheryl Cole: latest celebrity linked to Cowell–Green venture
The company being created by Simon Cowell and Sir Philip Green, which the UK media have been reporting as involving supermodel Kate Moss, has tapped another name to get it headlines: English singer and The X Factor judge Cheryl Cole. Cole, who came to fame through the pop group Girls Aloud, and who now […]
Kate Moss tipped to join forces with Simon Cowell, Sir Philip Green
Left: Kate Moss’s Topshop range has been a success for the high street chain. Reports are emerging today, initially from an English tabloid, that supermodel Kate Moss will join forces with Sir Philip Green, the owner of Topshop, which whom she already cooperates, and Britain’s Got Talent’s Simon Cowell in a new business venture. […]
Rescuing the Britney Spears image
With all the negative attention that Britney Spears gets, is it a good time to be marketing her Believe fragrance? It’s what we’ve alluded to in our beauty article online today. We hope Ms Spears will get well—and that the paparazzi lay off her a little. Unfortunately, the Britney economy is worth hundreds of […]
I still think of Katherine Heigl as the girl I should have tried harder to secure a cover with, because she’s now huge in 2008. Prior to that, Katy came into conversation as she was a classmate of a Lucire team member, and I had probably seen Under Siege 2 more times than I should […]
