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Victoria’s Secret Angel Taylor Hill launched the new Victoria’s Secret fragrance Tease Dreamer in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The limited-edition sister to the original VS Tease fragrance, channels the Hollywood Hills, Malibu, surf-loving California lifestyle. VS adds a note of coconut — a gourmand twist, they call it — for a perfect spring sendoff.
Alessandra Ambrosio Channels Her Brazilian Sensuality For Lascana Swimwear Spring-Summer 2019
Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio soaks up sun in Ibiza, posing in a range of red and black swimsuits from German brand Lascana. Alessandra makes the case for why she’s a great ambassador for the Lascana brand, prouding standing for passion and sensuality.
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Australian lingerie retailer Honey Birdette delivers its Spring 2019 lingerie ad campaign ‘London Calling’. The setting is spot on with news that Honey Birdette now has 63 stores worldwide and bills itself as the world’s fastest-growing lingerie brand.
The campaign follows “Dutch bombshell” Dioni Tabbers and “fierce French brunette” Charlie Dupont from Honey Birdette’s Indecent Manor campaign. The duo hookup again in London, and the sparks fly with the same ferocious heat.
A visit to the lingerie boutique’s new LA Westfield Century City location greets us on the Honey Birdette US landing page. This represents HB’s first lingerie shopping location in the US.
Supermodel Helena Christensen is enjoying a 2019 renaissance, racking up multiple exposures in the new year. Camilla Staerk styled Helena in lingerie-inspired outfits lensed by Christan Blanchard for TOMBOY Beauty Magazine February 2019. Helena embodies TOMBOY Beauty’s attitude: Fearless, Effortless. Irreverent. Progressive.
Top models Vittoria Ceretti + Liu Wen are styled by Fabien Baron for Tod’s Spring/Summer 2019 campaign, lensed by Craig McDean.
Tod’s, which also owns the Hogan and Vivier brands, has built a billion-dollar business selling chic leather loafers worn by royals and Hollywood stars, WSJ wrote last Friday. But the high-end artisan brand is struggling for relevance among younger consumers. Compared to the on-fire Italian brand Gucci, Tod’s is not on the radar for younger shoppers, generating new growth and even financial stability for luxury brands.
The brand gets less than 15% of its revenue from millennials, compared with 33% for Louis Vuitton, more than 50% for Gucci and 65% for Saint Laurent, according to investment bank UBS estimates.
“We aren’t going to chase millennials,” Diego Della Valle, Tod’s chairman and majority shareholder, said in the WSJ interview at his villa in Casette d’Ete, a small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast. At most, he says, Tod’s is aiming at the older end of the age group, currently ranging from 23 to 38 years old: “We want to get our clients when they’re 35 years old and then keep them.”
Net income at Tod’s has declined for five straight years, after previously advancing every year for a decade. The stock has sunk 70% since 2013 and is hovering near a 10-year low. Diego Della Valle insists that selling out to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Kering Co. or newly-named Capri Holdings (previously Michael Kors Holdings) is not on his radar.
Tom Ford delivers another iconic sizzling, sophisticated womenswear campaign, headlined by supers Gigi Hadid and Joan Smalls. Raphael Hirsch styles the Spring Summer 2019 Campaign lensed by Ferry van der Nat. / Makeup by Gemma Smith-Edhouse, hair by Orlando Pita
Model Grace Hartzel is styled by Elin Svahn in Carolina Herrera Spring 2019 Campaign, lensed by Theo Wenner./ Hair by Akki Shirakawa; makeup by Lauren Parsons
Lachlan Bailey Captures Anna Ewers For H&M In Sedona, Ahead of Fall 2019 Immersive Theater Project
Top model Anna Ewers is ahead of the H&M fashion pack, lensed by Lachlan Bailey, already in Sedona, Arizona in advance of H&M’s post-Paris Fashion Week Fall 2019 presentation. March 11-13. This is one strategy for making the fashion press a captive audience, ready for some R&R in Georgia O’Keeffe country.
" Presenting at Paris Fashion Week has been a great experience for us and we have always put ourselves to the test over the years " - said Kattis Bahrke, marketing manager at H & M. " It's always important for us to test new ways to surprise our customers and fans - this was the right time to change and explore a new format - it's very exciting for us to be able to show the collection in Sedona, Arizona, because it's part of the concept of the same collection. "
Cara Delevingne Lends Strong Gaze + Nude Body To Balmain Spring 2019 Campaign
Top talent and activist Cara Delevingne channels a 1993 Janet Jackson image for Rolling Stone image in French luxury house Balmain’s new Spring 2019 campaign, lensed by Berlin-based photographer Dan Beleiu. ‘Iconic,’ Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing said about Jackson's vintage image, which he shared on Instagram a day before his own 2019 spring campaign release.
Delevingne poses nude in images deliberately chosen by Rousteing to promote racial reconciliation. “The campaign shows the reunion of two skin tones, one black — or mixed race — and one white." Preaching the authenticity message, Rousteing saied:
Rousteing said Delevingne's look — including her signature thick eyebrows — was even more captivating stripped down and she didn't need to sport any of his clothing.
Model Giedre Dukauskaite poses for Zimmermann’s Spring 2019 campaign, styled by Romy Frydmann in feminine prints and silhouettes. Photographer Benny Horne takes the Australian brand team to Havana for the retro, romantic images. / Hair by Renya Xydis; makeup by Jodie Boland
Kaia Gerber Fronts Jimmy Choo SS 2019 Campaign, Lensed By Steven Meisel
Rising star Kaia Gerber is styled by Joe McKenna in images by Steven Meisel for Jimmy Choo Spring/Summer 2019 campaign.
Marcin Tyszka Flashes Catherine McNeil In 'Spanish Dressing' For Harper's Bazaar US February 2019
Model Catherine McNeil is styled by Kerstin Schneider in ‘Spanish Dressing’, lensed by Marcin Tyszka for Harper’s Bazaar US February 2019./ Hair & makeup by Angel Tragacete
Model Shirley Mallmann channels the movie ‘Swept Away’, styled by Catherine Baba in posh Riviera glamour for Georgine’s Spring/Summer 2019 campaign. Few photographers can capture this girl’s style mood as well as Ellen Von Unwerth, who shoots Shirley on the French island of Porquerolles. / Makeup by Romero Jennings; hair by Sebastien Bascle
Vogue.com called Porquerolles the Nantucket of the Mediterranean in August 2018.
Photographer Rankin brings a big of Italian Renaissance artistry to Coco de Mer’s Spring/Summer 2019 campaign. Models Ishioma Okenmor, Elle Dowling and Ellen G channel Sandro Botticelli’s famous ‘The Primavera’ painting, wearing luxe Coco de Mer lingerie fashioned with metallic threading, luxurious silks and sheer lace.
Sarah Stephens Roars Into Private Fantasies For Honey Birdett's 2019 #NOTYOURVALENTIN Campaign
Honey Birdette’s 2019 #NOTYOURVALENTINE campaign says “forget flowers, ditch the diamonds and abandon candlelight dinners”. Australian bombshell Sarah Stephens promises the ride of your Valentine’s Day life — presumably for the guys, but then again — with an intoxicatingly sexy woman, bound in a lot of leather and a little bit of lace. And she knows how to use lingerie to her advantage.
Photographer Florian Semanaz flashes Stephens on location at a vintage motorbike gallery in LA, where she plunges deep into lust and fantasy. Ashleigh Carter styles Sarah in this roaring testosterone celebration of strong women embracing their sexuality. And that could be YOU. Honey Birdette’s #NOTYOURVALENTINE collection launches on the 10 January 2019 and will be available exclusively at Honey Birdette Boutiques in Australia, the UK and the USA, as well as via their online boutique https://www.honeybirdette.com
Models Ruth Bell and Selena Forrest join forces with professional dancers in Dior’s Spring/Summer 2019 ad campaign, lensed by Harley Weir. Continuing the theme of dance, beauty and the female form as expressed in Dior’s spring runway show, the cast reference ethereal fabrics body suits, dresses and open-knit ensembles. Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri speaks to the campaign, saying: ''My work is related to the celebration of the body through clothing and the opportunity it offers us in how we represent ourselves in the eyes of others as well as in our own eyes.''
Femmes Adut Akech, Fran Summers, Guan Xiaotong, Indira Scott, Kiki Willems, Kiko Mizuhara and Sora Choi bring a fresh breath of global diversity to Coach’s Spring 2019 Ad Campaign, lensed by Craig McDean.
Models Lula-Allie Villain and Myrthe Bolt front a new Wolford hosiery Spring Summer 2019 campaign. Rife with seeming disconnects. Ellen Von Unwerth brings her signature image style to the campaign anchored in the tag #TrueCharacter.
Supermodel Kendall Jenner is joined by male model Luka Isaac in Roberto Cavalli’s Spring Summer 2019 #SAVAGEINSTINCT campaign, lensed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
While the Kendall naysayers are blistering their worn-down Twitter fingers to the bone, Ms. Jenner is quietly meeting with her money managers. Jenner leads the new Forbes World’s Highest-Paid Models 2018 list with an estimated $22.5 million in earnings. Noticeably absent are Victoria’s Secret Angels, who used to dominate the list.
“He’s so humble, but he makes these incredible, out of this world clothes that are just super eccentric and sexy in all the right ways,” Grace Elizabeth told Vogue about Jeremy Scott’s Spring 2019 Moschino Collection. “The premise for Spring was that I didn’t have time to finish the collection, so all I have are sketches,” Scott explained. There were bow-tied suits, wrap dresses, and ladylike shifts covered in what looked like scribbled marker (though if you zoom in, you’ll notice the “ink” is often embroidered with paillettes, too).
Scott’s Moschino Spring-Summer 2019 runway magic comes to life in high drama images by Steven Meisel. Styled by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, the Moschino images vibrate a high-aesthetic intensity conveyed by Adut Akech, Bella Hadid, Fran Summers, Meghan Collison and Vittoria Ceretti. / Makeup by Pat McGrath; hair by Guido Palau
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