DVF Projects – François-Marie Banier, Natalia Vodianova and David Lipman

This is an update for the previous posting about Diane Von Furstenberg’s 2008 Ad Campaign. Just to tell you that this beautiful campaign is now online also.

DVFProjects.com is the virtual gallery where you can see all the advertising posters as well as scenes from the studio or a film with the campaign. The site is very visual and tells the story of those involved – François-Marie Banier and Natalia Vodianova.

We knew we were all taking chances. The courage of Diane von Furstenberg is the courage of this campaign.

David Lipman

The Other Boleyn Girl, our dearest Natalie Portman walks the Red Carpet at the 58th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin for the premiere of the very movie in which she co starred Scarlett Johansson.

Few days ago she officially launched her vegan shoes line at Te Casan and she got herself a pair to walk the Red Carpet – the Paloma black satin sandal with rhinestone buckle (costs only $275).

The main thing that puzzles me is what happened with her dress?

She wrongfully chose the washing machine program? Doubt it. She accidentally caught her dress in the car door?

I’m counting out possibilities and come to admit the saddest truth – she must have handpicked this fashion-disaster dress personally.

It’s gotta be inspired by that vegan shoe design thing, otherwise I cannot explain how she blinded herself into wearing a half undressed-lingerie-like -scarf-of-a-dress. Either that, either she got Keira Knightley as a fashion adviser.

Was it a wise choice, from your point of view? or you fear Natalie’s evolution – first the Te Casan flop vegan line, now this? Were is she going to?

Update: I was contacted by Mr. Fred de Garilhe with a special request to remove the images from this article due to a Chanel imposing copyright related. Therefore I’m presenting you my apologies for having to delete the pictures of this conceptual product.

Let it bling over me gives you another fierce posting – The Chanel Choco Phone designed by Fred de Garilhe.

Looks awful, sounds even more – integrating 12 micro optical lighter fibers and displaying images between two glass parts. Lights only appear when opening the phone (or pushing the removable part on the side).

What happened to those days when a phone was only used to call or being called? Is there an end to all that? Next you’ll know, they’ll be making phones looking like champagne bottles and naming them bubbling phones!

Is this going too far or do you think tech things will never go bling enough?
(via kanyeuniversecity)

Beauty has good company. Jaeger-Le Coultre named a new Ambassador for the Jaeger-Le Coultre jewellery-watches.

“The Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud to have such a distinguished ambassadress join its circle of keen admirers.”

I’m having reserves for the Reverso Collection, instead I declare myself a fan of Joaillerie 101 (the black one and the white one with diamonds from the picture above). The Jaeger-Le Coultre Watches weren’t all that familiar to me, but I have to admit they’re beautiful. And that woman just doesn’t know how to get things wrong! Outfits or accessories, she’s all perfect!

(via jaegerlecoultre and celebutopia)

Fashion with issues! Has been my dream for some time now, but when looking at the actual happening, it’s not so good after all.

Because people long for superficial, because people who love to shop love their own perspective on life, on the world in general, they don’t need lecturing, don’t need a moral guidance or a preacher to sell them clothes. They just need money to buy more and more and more (and, eventually, someone telling them how gorgeous they look with the new acquisitions).

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Now that’s a post V-Day Miracle! One that can be spawned only by love. Love for art, love for architecture.

You know I can’t help it when finding something like that, even if it’s not signed by Karl The Lagerfeld or shown off by Kate La Moss, I absolutely have to share beauty with you!

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Missed a good Friday break? I’m sure you all know the famous dance scene from Pulp Fiction.

Well, it’s one of my favorites and it’s always a pleasure watching those two have such a blast on the dance floor. Inspiring! Makes you wish for a Friday night out!
Enjoy!

Luxury increases in irony even when trying out for morality. At least that’s my point of view about “Orient Sans Frontières” (Orient Without Borders), the Louis Vuitton exhibit.

We’re talking about the Champs Elysées LV store, the very one attended by hundreds of tourists daily (I wonder if they won’t make a fortune by selling tickets at the entering of the store, just for visiting purposes) in which a special exhibition inspired from a French expedition that took place in 1931. The discovery-silk-raid featuring special Vuitton outfitted Citroën cars made an astonishing route from Beirut to Beijing

The irony comes when exhibiting in such a palace of luxury themes so hard to look in the eye for the average human being, not talking about the average LV consumer. It’s too much of a contrast, even if they wanted it so to create a deeper effect.

Just imagine some of the scenes exposed there:

Iraqi artist Adel Abidin, who made the Baghdad sign, also created a video showing a seven-year-old girl scooping up fragments of broken pavement — perhaps after an explosion — with plastic spoons as a peace song plays in the background.Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen’s sculptures employ second-hand clothes purchased on trips that she transforms and displays in open suitcases.A video of a young girl learning to speak Arabic from flashcards with words like “car bomb” and “mass grave,” and photos of destroyed buildings in Afghanistan painted white, the color of mourning in Islam.

If you’re planning to induce yourself a ridiculously unhealthy dose of snob-emotional-reality, please go visit the LV store from Champs Elysées until April 27 (at the 7th level of the store, in the exhibition space) and share your impression with me. I’m curious enough (and I’m sure all of you reading these lines are) to see if the writings are any match to the actual reality. If you have any details about the exhibit, please feel free to comment.

(via wwd)