Ford aims to beat Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf with Focus Electric
Top Ford’s Focus Electric. Above Ford has cleverly included technology that make the Focus feel high-tech, and satisfying for drivers, including informative dashboard displays. Above The MyFord mobile app provides information on charge and range. Below Charging the Focus Electric—executive chairman Bill Ford demonstrates at the Consumer Electronics’ Show. Instead of launching at the Detroit […]
Kellwood acquires Rebecca Taylor
Kellwood, the company which already owns Baby Phat, Phat Farm, Vince, and Adam has acquired Rebecca Taylor, the eponymous Manhattan-based label co-founded by an expat New Zealander and her business partner Elizabeth Bugdaycay. Taylor came to prominence through the Gen Art Fresh Faces in Fashion show in the late 1990s, and successfully developed her […]
Gossip Girl is in the Zeitgeist as Jessica Szohr promotes SoBe
Albert Ferreira Gossip Girl must be in the air: while it’s not as iconic as Blake Lively for Chanel Mademoiselle, Jessica Szohr is the subject of a promotion for Pepsico. Szohr is the face of SoBe Lifewater—and she has donned a sexy skinsuit to model the range. Pepsico says a spread featuring Szohr […]
Blake Lively is the new face of Chanel Mademoiselle
Blake Lively has been named as the face of Chanel’s Mademoiselle handbag line, the company announced today. Karl Lagerfeld will shoot the campaign with Lively. It will début in March. Lively, 23, is best known for her role on Gossip Girl, but is also a regular on the Hollywood social scene. She began […]
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 […]
Blogs are good for fashion, as long as we can find them
Above Journalist Simone Werle’s Style Diaries: World Fashion from Berlin to Tokyo uncovers the fashion blogosphere and the personalities behind some of the influential blogs. (Click for Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Deutschland.) The first time I encountered a fashion blog, I thought it was pretty crap. All its ideals aside, blogging, initially, seemed to […]
Mini previews Paceman coupé concept
Mini has released images of its next concept ahead of its official début at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The Mini Paceman is, once you take away the marketing-speak, a coupé version of the Mini Countryman crossover, and shares its frontal look with that model. Parent company BMW calls […]
Trialling Viviscal as it gets more buzz in Hollywood
When the holidays arrive in Hollywood, you know the award-show season is not far behind. Along with the arrival of up-dos, a new crop of fragrances and glittery eye shadow, as well as red carpet-themed spa packages offered by top hotels, many women’s minds snap into self-improvement mode—and not just in terms of slimming down […]
Deckers launches another lawsuit over Ugg trade mark
On December 7, Deckers Outdoor Corp. filed suit in the US District Court in the Central District of California against Emu Australia, Inc. and Emu (Aus.) Pty. Ltd., claiming infringement over the Ugg Australia trade mark. Emu has this week issued a statement in response to the lawsuit, claiming that in Australia, Ugg has […]
US–New Zealand couple wins Michael Hill’s Ultimate Engagement Ring competition
Michael Hill Jeweller‘s international competition, ‘The Ultimate Engagement Ring: Search for the World’s Best Couple’, has found its winner: Shariyah and Cameron Morris of New Zealand. The Morrises have received their prize, a 22 ct princess-cut diamond ring, from TV celebrity Kim Kardashian and jeweller Michael Hill at Lavo Restaurant on East 58th Street […]
