Live at Six is a play for our media-obsessed times
Downstage’s brand is one of participation: look back through the theatre’s history and it’s been about innovation and democratization. The clue’s even in the name. Live at Six, the new production currently on at Downstage, embodies its ethos beautifully. Theatregoers are expected to bring their smartphones to film an incident that takes place in […]
L’Eau de Chloé launches Iphone app and competition
Chloé is getting into the app and Tumblr spaces with l’Eau de Chloé, the new fragrance modelled by Camille Rowe Pourcheresse that hit retailers last month, and linking them to its Facebook fan page. A l’Eau de Chloé Iphone application will be on the Apple Store from April 16. Users can enter a photo […]
Cheryl Cole Tweets that she and Louis Walsh have settled their differences
Have Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh made up over their recent spat—where Britain’s sweetheart, always good for a headline, accused Walsh of being an inactive manager, and where Walsh subsequently hit back? According to the Twitter school of journalism—the skill of reading Tweets and not getting a statement—they have. Walsh does not have […]
Lacoste Live heads to Brooklyn for spring 2012 campaign
A Lucire special promotion Mark Hunter Last September, Lacoste took its Live campaign to Berlin. This season, for spring 2012, it’s Brooklyn, New York, with a campaign featuring street tape artist Aakash Nihalini, Amanda Warner from the electro duo MNDR and Leyla Safai from the punk–hip-hop group HeartsChallenger. It’s fitting, too, that the spring […]
Rihanna appears in steamy Armani jeans commercial
Rihanna has appeared in a new minute-long advertisement for Armani jeans, with the singer heading to Twitter to tell her fans, ‘Enjoy.’ While selling jeans, the black-and-white footage largely features the singer wearing underwear. The ad is literally steamy: in the commercial, Rihanna turns on the hot water tap in her bathroom, the […]
Making sharing simpler (we hope)
Top The old news page layout, with two sets of buttons. Above Slimmed down as of today, hopefully making things easier to understand. We’ve had a very minor nip-tuck to our news pages, and if readers have few issues with it, we’ll be rolling out these changes to the rest of the site gradually. […]
Nine West’s spring campaign gets on board the Twitter and Instagram bandwagon
Marcus Gaab Nine West is getting into Twitter hashtagging: the four spring 2012 trends it proposes for its advertising campaign come with suggested hashtags to complement the imagery. It has tried to get some hashtagging going with the new campaign: blogs Keiko Lynn, Honestly WTF, Saucy Glossie and Song of Style will try to […]
Cheryl Cole sues Now over MC Harvey claims; Katy Perry, Russell Brand sign divorce documents
In entertainment news today, Russell Brand and Katy Perry have parted in an amicable fashion, according to reports. Perry signed her divorce documents with her trade-mark smiley face, while Brand is not making any claim on his ex-wife’s fortune. The couple did not have a prenuptial agreement. Forbes had reported that between May […]
Diet Coke and Minka Kelly prepare to promote the ’12 Heart Truth Red Dress collection at NYFW
The Heart Truth campaign has seen the Coca-Cola Company create newly designed packaging for Diet Coke to commemorate the soft drink manufacturer’s fifth-year support of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) campaign, to promote heart disease awareness. Diet Coke has also participated in numerous awareness-raising programmes to aid the campaign over the last […]
Stolen by Stolen Girlfriends’ Club reveals menswear campaign for autumn ’12
Maya Villiger Following on the heels of its autumn–winter 2012 women’s campaign, Stolen Girlfriends’ Club has revealed its shoot for its menswear label, Stolen by Stolen Girlfriends’ Club. The campaign was photographed by Maya Villiger from street-style blog Turned Out in and around New York City. Villiger is a self-taught photographer who grew […]
