Meryl Streep Rocks Steady In 'Ricki and the Flash' Opening August 7, 2015

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Actor Meryl Streep rocks steady in new ‘Ricki and the Flash’ images released by SONY Pictures. The three-time Academy Award Winner plays a musician who abandoned her family to seek rock-and-roll stardom but is now returning home to make things right with her family. Streep plays opposite her real daughter Mamie Gummer, who plays her fictional daughter in the film. The cast also includes Kevin Kline as Ricki’s ex-husband and Rick Springfield, who plays a Flash band member in love with Ricki. The film opens August 7, 2015.

Britain's ASA Rules Cara Delevingne Tom Ford Ad Not Degrading To Women

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Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has refused to ban entirely a new Tom Ford fragrance ad starring Cara Delevingne but has ruled that the image cannot be displayed within 100 metres of any schools. The ad has been criticised as being ‘inappropriate’ and ‘degrading to women’.

Complaints mounted after a huge billboard appeared on Brick Lane in East London.

The ASA disagreed that the ad is ‘degrading to women’.

‘Whilst they [Tom Ford] accepted the model was nude…they believe neither her pose nor facial expression were sexually suggestive and were classical in nature, and had been depicted in art,’ ruled the official ASA statement.

A Tom Ford Beauty spokesperson argued that the advert was “sensuous, not sexual”, adding that it was displayed in a ‘hip urban neighbourhood in which commercial advertising of a similar artistic aesthetic was common’.

Cara Delevingne, Pharrell Williams & Hudson Kroenig By Karl Lagerfeld For Chanel Métiers d’Art

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Cara Delevingne, Pharrell Williams & Hudson Kroenig By Karl Lagerfeld For Chanel Métiers d’Art

Chanel is celebrating its 11th Métiers d’Art show this year, an event honoring the fine craftsmanship its artisan partners bring to the Chanel collections. With an annual runway show that takes place outside the traditional fashion schedule, each year, Chanel turns to a different location  to pay tribute to the workshops that provide the house with everything from lace to silver buttons and fine embroidery work.

After Byzance, Bombay, Edinburgh and Dallas, Chanel headed to Salzburg for the 11th show at the Rococo palace Schloss Leopoldskron in Dec. 2014. The global luxury brand brought the Métiers d’Art show to Manhattan in early April 2015, for a show at the Park Avenue Armory.

Cara Delevingne, Pharrell Williams and the adorable Hudson Kroenig, who calls Karl Lagerfeld ‘uncle’ showcase the artisans associated with the Chanel brand, photographed here by Lagerfeld himself.

Edie Campbell Key Words New York By Daniel Jackson For Tiffany & Company

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How to sum up New York City in a few short words? Edie Campbell gives it a go in designs from the Tiffany T and Atlas® collections. The attitude and ambiance of the commercial by Daniel Jackson, along with the jewelry of Tiffany T, are part of Tiffany Design Director Francesca Amfitheatrof’s repositioning of the brand. 

“The letter T is sculptural and bold and very closely linked to the architecture of New York City” she explains. “I took the form of the T beyond style and turned it into a piece of engineering.”

Never 21 #BlackLivesMatter Forever 21 New York Mannequin & Window Takeover

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Forever 21’s Union Square New York store got a makeover last Saturday when activists changed out window and in-store mannequins, replacing stripes and florals with t-shirts broadcasting a powerful message: ‘Black Lives Matter’.

‘It’s a phrase that has taken on national significance in recent years following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, a hashtag #BlackLivesMatter that has evolved to become a call to action, a rallying cry,’ writes MTV.

The Forever 21 Project: Never 21 from Never21 on Vimeo.

Never 21’s website, designed to mimic the graphics and layout of Forever 21, is meant to call attention to the countless, underaged deaths of children at the hands of ‘vigilantes and disgruntled police officers’. The activists make the important point that the names in the headlines such as Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice, were children who never lived to see the age of twenty-one. Never 21’s focus is simple:

We care about the lives of Black men. We care about the lives of Black women. We care about the lives of Black CHILDREN

MTV interviews an anonymous member of the Never 21 collective, described as ‘a good amount of us. We all have our specialties in different areas, so we were all assigned different things to focus on, i.e. the legal repercussions, graphic design for the website and t-shirts, etc.’

The activist action, taking 4-5 months of planning, took about 5-10 minutes to execute.