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January 6, 2012
There are few ways to more efficiently solidfy yourself as a symbol of classic beauty than to nab a beauty endorsement deal with the likes of labels like Louis Vuitton, Chanel or Dior. We can now find Mila Kunis on the list of classic beauties because she’s just been added to an all-star lineup of Hollywood spokeswomen like Charlize Theron, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law: she’s the latest face of Dior.
In the photos, Kunis keeps it simple, with her hair drawn back and dressed in [...]
January 3, 2012
2011 was a great year for Fashion!
From Nicki Minaj’s open declaration of her love for Michael Kors on the "A$$" Remix, to Versace’s blowout H&M takeover, fashion took over the lives of everyone from wealthy celebs to bargain hunting shoppers.
LIST: GlobalGrind’s Best & Most Memorable Books Of 2011
In honor of the past 365 days of catwalk heaven, the shopping site Polyvore put together a list of the most-searched-for brands for 2K11!
Ranging from high hitters like Alexander McQueen and gucci, to British chain stores [...]
October 7, 2011
Und weiter dreht sich das Moderad. Es geht nach Mailand, wo heute die Modewoche startet. In London werden nur noch die Männerschauen gezeigt. Und doch gibt es ein kleines Skandälchen am Rande beider Wochen: gucci hat die Models geklaut. Ohja.
Die London Fashion Week war schon immer ein bisschen das Stiefkind und hat es schwer zwischen den Giganten New York und Mailand. In der englischen Hauptstadt gab es in den letzten Tagen einen ziemlichen Model-Engpass, da die Konkurrenten aus Mailand den Londoner Designern reihenweise die Models weggeschnappt und sie [...]
August 24, 2011
Hold onto your handbags. Fiat says it will unveil upscale gucci-themed versions of the otherwise proletariat 500 coupe and 500c convertible on Fashion’s Night Out, Sept. 8, to kick off New York Fashion Week.
Developed in collaboration with Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini and Fiat’s Centro Stile, Fiat says the two models, one finished in pearl-glass black paint and another in pearl-glass white, are inspired by neo-classic black-and-white film.
"With Gucci as our design partner, we’ve amplified the Italian Style of our Fiat 500 with unique exterior [...]
July 19, 2011
The Tom Ford A/W ‘11 campaign is OUT! After all the build-up and anticipation, what do you think? SPEC-tacular, n’est pas? Ever wanted to know the worst dressed cities in America? Well now you can!
The McQueen exhibition is sooooooo popular that they are keeping it open an extra bit longer The formiddable KMidd effect STRIKES AGAIN! Katie Holmes wows the world with her scintilating views on pants and other stuff.
If Jamie Oliver is going to have a food festival, then WHY ON EARTH can’t Savannah Miller darn well [...]
July 19, 2011
Traditionally, in mid-July, us Graziettas are bare-legged and boldly flaunting the latest lacy LWD so the last thing on our sunny minds is the black-on-black autumn/winter wardrobes that loom. But not this July. If last weekend is anything to go by, summer 2011 is wetter than our silky kaftan post-Glasto >grumble<
SO let’s look on the bright side (every cloud, dears) because the A/W’11 campaigns are landing thick and fast and having seen the snug wares on display, we cannot wait to get our goose-bumped bods into cape coats, [...]
June 22, 2011
A government office worker who faked a spinal tumour stole £70,000 to to buy 22 designer handbags has been jailed.
Zaira Beg cashed 35 forged cheques so that she could splash out on luxury items including a £4000 Louis Vuitton bag.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that her haul of exclusive leather goods also included top name designers gucci and hermes. And that when they were discovered some of them remained unused and in their original packaging.
Beg, 26, forged the cheques over a nine month [...]
June 22, 2011
In her latest letter to a big brand leader, Solitaire Townsend imagines gucci transforming consumerism by selling aspirational green lifestylesHappy birthday Gucci. It’s 90 years since Guccio Gucci started stitching luxury handbags from an artisan studio in Florence. Today you are the world’s most coveted luxury brand, with 20% of global consumers eager to buy Gucci (if they could afford it), including a staggering 41% of Indian consumers naming Gucci as the most desirable brand in the world.
Can a designer brand be sustainable? Unfortunately the pesky [...]
June 22, 2011
Imagining Michael Caine is a cottage industry in Fashion. We are talking about the early Michael Caine, the little-known British actor who became an international star in “Alfie,” a 1966 film that The New York Times critic of the era said “bubbles with humor and ripe modern wit” and that only those who now qualify for Social Security benefits are likely to have seen in its first run.“I was thinking about Michael Caine of the ’60s,” Frida Giannini, the gucci designer, said backstage on Monday before her [...]
June 22, 2011
MILAN (AP) — With a tip of the hat — raffia that is — Milan designers salute old-Style summer elegance, as they preview next year’s warm weather styles.
The breezy brimmed straw hat has dominated the current menswear Fashion week, making it the symbol for the romantic refined look designers propose from beach resort to pool side.
The latest in the series of those who have reinvented the vintage head cover, including Dolce and Gabbana and Ferragamo, is Kean Etro, who previewed his collection Monday.
Into the third day of Milan [...]
