Gisèle for Versace eyewear The new campaign image for Versace’s Étoile de la Mer eyewear collection features supermodel Gisèle Bündchen, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott at an abandoned pool in the California desert. Giovanni Bianco art-directed. More in our story here, which includes photographs from the launch.
Eyeing up customers Again, very good targeting by the ad networks, without overkill. OPSM and Visique both vie for space in our Versace Étoile de la Mer eyewear collection story.
Time to act The last time we blacked out the web edition’s screen, it was 9-11. Here’s why we did it again today.
Changing the world Summer Rayne Oakes (above) and Benita Singh are behind Source4Style, a new venture which helps designers source ethical, sustainable fabrics in a transparent way. It’s global, so designers can be inspired by fabrics and cultures their competitors might not have tapped in to. Plus it helps the independent suppliers and their communities. We see win–wins at every part of the transaction.
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K-Gill as the Shrimp The BBC has released its first official image of Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton in the upcoming bio-pic, We’ll Take Manhattan. More info here. (Above image uploaded to Tumblr by http://my-ponchoboys.tumblr.com.)
Honor Dillon One of the articles rising quickly in the stats on our website is one from October 2010, on Jockey. Nothing like a bride-to-be, Honor Dillon (getting married to All Black Dan Carter this Friday) to get the perverts showing up for the last time before she’s married. Guys, you won’t get her! She’s taken!
Macbook Air pocket mirror Here’s one way to combine beauty with computing. (Via nevver.)
Marni at H&M In Lucire’s online edition yesterday, H&M’s next collaboration will be with Marni. Photograph of H&M’s Margareta van den Bosch and Marni’s Consuelo Castiglioni by Magnus Magnusson.
Selling Amy You’ve got to hand it to Google for running the right ads sometimes. Run a story mentioning Amy Winehouse, get Amy Winehouse ads.
H&M men’s We mentioned H&M’s spring 2012 women’s collection in Lucire yesterday, but we haven’t forgotten the fellas. Coverage of the men’s collection can be found on Lucire Men (which began as an insert in the main print magazine), along with shots from the remake of The Sweeney, and Manfred Baumann’s sexy photographs from his 2012 calendar for Bogner Steel in Austria.
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