Gucci helps with Grammy musical archives’ preservation efforts
The Image Gate/Getty Images for Gucci Gucci celebrated its partnership with the Recording Academy at Baselworld by showing off its Grammy timepiece and jewellery collection, and announcing a preservation project being handled by the Grammy Museum. Announced last October, the partnership sees Gucci supporting the Academy and, notably, this latest venture. Recently unearthed […]
Cheryl Cole, Emma Watson, Blake Lively and other celebs sparkle at Elle Style Awards
Cheryl Cole, Emma Watson, Blake Lively, Alexa Chung, Eliza Doolittle, Alice Dellal, Courtney Love, Vivenne Westwood, Thandie Newton, supermodel Hélèna Christensen and Boy George were among those attending the Elle Style Awards at the Grand Connaught rooms in London. Numerous celebrity prizes were handed out at the London event: Watson won the Style Icon […]
On the red carpet at the Brit Awards; while Justin Bieber crashes Johnny Depp’s press conference
Take That has won the Best British Group at the Brit Awards this year, 21 years after its début. The group has, over its history, scored 17 number-one hits, and reunited in the 2000s. That That’s newest album, Progress, scored first-day sales of over 235,000, eclipsing Oasis’s Be Here Now of 1997. […]
Lady Gaga is worldwide number one, with ‘Born This Way’ topping download charts
Lady Gaga has become the first download number-one, after topping the charts in 21 countries. Her new track, ‘Born This Way’, topped the charts within hours. At the Grammy Awards yesterday, Lady Gaga arrived inside a giant egg, and “hatched” from it when on stage. The stunt was meant to tie in […]
Renault gets sexy with Dita von Teese and Rihanna joining Thierry Henry in Clio TVC
It’s not exactly Nicole and Papa as Renault went arty with its new Clio commercial on Sunday during ITV1’s Dancing on Ice. Rihanna, Dita von Teese and Thierry Henry star in its latest campaign, which also features Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando in footage, and a reference to David Bowie. The commercial aims […]
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 […]
Etam hits the Paris catwalk with its spring–summer 2011 lingerie
Etam Lingerie has shown its spring–summer 2011 Collection Natalia in Paris, prior to Valentine’s Day, with Natalia Vodianova once again leading the promotional campaign. There were live performances by Karen Elson, Boy George, Beth Ditto, Joeystarr, Alison Mosshart, Spank Rock, and Janelle Monae, while Charlotte Casiraghi, Alexa Chung, supermodel Kate Moss, Stefano Pilati, Emma […]
Elizabeth Caruana Let’s face it. Everyone has their own formula for productivity. For many people, it’s caffeine to provide the needed and wanted kick-start in the morning, or it may even be visiting a quiet and serene place that’s comforting to get into the groove of working. However, for designer Alison Rutherfurd, it’s simply music […]
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 […]
Alexandra Owen premières her Little Black Dress brand
Sopheak Seng Above The Alexandra Owen Little Black Dress models, in a tableau style. Below Designer Alexandra Owen. Jack Yan The little black dress has long been a wardrobe staple for every woman. From Chanel, to Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the allure, sophistication and chic of a little black dress […]
