No one breathes luxury and cinematic glamour like Hermès, photographer Paolo Roversi demonstrates these qualities, along with the French house’s timelessness, while model, Constance Jablonski looks absolutely stunning along legendary orange Hermès boxes, Birkin bags and an androgynous bowler hat reminiscent of 60s “The Avengers“.

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The youthful appeal of the new Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2010 campaign is exuberant, playful and quite sexy. Starring Lindsey Wixson, Siri Tollerod, Ginta Lapina and Daphne Groeneveld, the fantastic campaign is shot by the fantastic duo Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott. The campaign video is prersumeably shot by Madonna herself, after interrupting the campaign shoot, under the guidance of Mert & Marcus, using the amazing remix of “Generations Of Love” by Phunk Investigation vs. Boy George as the soundtrack.

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Supermodel royalty, Kate Moss marks her thirtieth Vogue UK cover with a simple and Rock & Roll glamorized editorial that is typical of Moss (even at her most elegant self), titled “The Moss Factor”. Lensed by Patrick Demarchelier, Kate Phelan styles Moss in Prada, Bottega Veneta, Roberto Cavalli, John Galliano, Christopher Kane, Miu Miu and a leopard print Balmain jacket.

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She is definitely one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, a fashion icon and a great actress, Scarlett Johansson collaborates with Dolce&Gabbana again (and again and again and again) for the Spring/Summer 2010 cosmetics campaign, and looking beautiful as ever. Channeling Marylin Monroe, “the sensual images capture classic feminine rituals and expose one of the most intimate and personal of feminine moments: a woman applying make-up in the privacy of her bedroom or sanctuary” (from the press release).

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The Prada men and women get together for a great night out in the 60s. The campaign, is sexy, moody and photographed by Steven Meisel. While supermodel Angela Lindvall stole the show, the campaign also stars Daria Strokous, Valerija Kelava, Miranda Kerr in fabulous beehive hairdos, and Clément Chabernaud, Kim Dall’Armi, Mark Cox and Mathias Bergh as the male leads. The campaign is accompanied by a short film with a fanatsic sultry rendition of “Fever”, performed by Katey Judd (and Angela Lindvall does a great job looking gorgeous and lip-synching).

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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are certainly having a great time with Madonna. Having the legend appear twice in your campaign in a thrill indeed. This time, in front of favorite photographer, Steven Klein, in Harlem, New York, Madonna seems to be channeling Italian actress Anna Magnani in the 1962 film, “Mamma Roma by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Megan Fox, the sultry vixen of Hollywood, stars in this outstanding editorial by an outstanding photographer for an outstanding magazine. Fox performs a pas de deux with a replicate mannequin for the lens of Craig McDean in Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, for the latest Interview magazine issue of June/July 2010. The editorial is risqué, dark and seductively homoerotic: essential ingredients for “fierce (any attempt to look like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction is absolutely welcome).

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This summer, MAC will release the limited edition makeup line which was created in collaboration with New York-based women’s fashion label Alice + Olivia.

Summer 2010 brights such as turquoise, pinks, purples and yellow comprise this range which includes lip glosses, eye shadows, and nail polishes. Shimmer pigment will also be available in flirty, sexy colors. Read the rest of this entry »

The “muse-affair” between Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick is legendary, full of turmoil, inspirations, art, and heartache. That affair is also the inspiration for this editorial, titled “Factory Story” by multi-tasker Karl Lagerfeld and French legend, Vanessa Paradis for Madame Figaro. The mood is sixties glamour with a raw edge, a reproduction of Warhol’s photography (and philosophy).

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The icon of all icons, the Queen of Pop, the number one best selling female artist of all time, Madonna grace the May cover of Interview magazine (for the seventh time) with all her Pop Royalty extravagance and raw powerful sexual assault that only she can pull off. The fantastic editorial is photographed by dual talents of Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, and accompanied with a conversation by one of the most incredible movie directors of our time, Gus van Sant.

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For the month of May, Vogue US has put together a ‘special issue’ of “Great American Women”, and on the cover is the sensational Sarah Jessica Parker, looking adorable and discussing her latest film “Sex and the City 2”, motherhood and her recent appointment at Halston. The “Old Hollywood” style shoot was photographed by the infamous Mario Testino.

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Gucci, the iconic Italian luxury house, is headed towards its 100-year anniversary in 2011 which will celebrate its rich heritage, its multiple decades of style creation, and the variety of directions taken by the brand to reach this milestone.

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Looking very preppy and totally British, actor Nicholas Hoult stars in the lasts Tom Ford campaign, for the Spring/Summer 2010 collection, Hoult also had a co-starring role in Tom Ford’s first and great film “A Single Man” . Also starring in the campaign as the sultry vixen with dangerous tan-lines, Carolyn Murphy.

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Ever since her spectacular performance as Claudia in “Interview with the Vampire” when she was only ten years old, the world knew that Kirsten Dunst will probably end up as one of the best actresses in Hollywood. Other fantastic films followed, such as “Little Women”, Sophia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides”, “Bring It On”, “Spider Man” and again with Sophia Coppola in her adaptation of “Marie Antoinette”. For V magazine’s 64th issue, Miss Dunst graces a Mario Testino photographer cover and editorial, as V pays tribute to her great cinematic, style muse efforts and her future projects.

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Posted on 08-03-2010
Filed Under (Luxury, Personalities, Pop Luxury, Watches) by Rachna Sundaram

In collaboration with Isabelle Garnerone, Editor-in-Chief, SQUA.RE Watches

The sideward gaze, swirls of smoke, the double-breasted jacket with top few buttons undone on impeccably tailored shirts, the white Repetto jazz shoes, the Breitling Navitimer watch, the Van Cleef and Arpels signature cologne and the unfailing stubble — the very name of Serge Gainsbourg conjures up such images of the stylish French icon.

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