Entries from April 2009 ↓

New York Times Magazine’s T Style is all about Cannes. The Cannes Film Festival is the next glam destination the Red Carpet adorers worldwide. Not only it’s a festival about film, but it’s also in France. France, where everything, even the air you breathe is chic. so they say. Diane Kruger as photographed by Jean-Baptiste [...]

Barnaby Barford’s aesthetics could look traditional but will change the way you think about ceramic figurines forever. I always had the feeling that ceramic figurines had something innocent and pure in their static form. Always perfectly shaped, irreproachably curved, the china display is so démodé but so untouchable. British artist Barnaby Barford added a modern [...]

Seeing John F. Kennedy advertising for Omega I said to myself this has to be one of the most tasteless, risqué ads ever. But I’ll have to ask you what your feelings are in order to draw a relevant conclusion. Omega cooperated with the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to use JFK in the promotional [...]

If Lagerfeld’s Chanel golden/silver anniversary edition coin looked inappropriately loud, you’ll love the discrete way Bvlgari fetes its 125th anniversary! Bvlgari teamed with the Poste Italiane and brought us the Made in Italy Bvlgari stamp. Worth $0,77 (0,60 euros), this special edition Bvlgari stamp shows the image of a dazzling necklace from 1965 made from [...]

Becks has caught the design bug from Posh – he teamed up with James Bond (Undefeated) for a collection for Adidas Originals by Originals Fall Winter 2009/2010. Whether David Beckham opened wide his wardrobe for Adidas professional designers to find inspiration or he just autographed the so-called design-contract, is yet unknown. I’m waiting for little [...]

Universal Music and Nagahori, the Japanese jeweler presented “Woman, Sweet 10 Diamonds”, a CD with “18 songs by female vocalists”. Nothing unusual so far. However, the CD’s case is in platinum studded with 10 diamonds, worth $100,000. Now that’s something to consider for Mother’s day! (Luxist)

Natalie Portman is the co-founder of Making Of, the first behind-the-scenes portal that offers everyone the chance to experience and interact with the a-to-z of the filmmaking industry and more. I hope this new adventure will turn out to be more interesting and long lasting than Natalie Portman’s last (vegan-)mission! (Te Casan filed for bankruptcy [...]

Barbara Hulanicki’s Topshop Collection may launch April 28th for the rest of us, but very important fashionistas seem to have been treated with a preview-prewear! Mary-Kate Olsen was photographed wearing the evil-moth dress as created exclusively by Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki for Topshop. I loved that dress from the moment I saw the sketches and Barbara [...]