You know that amazing, intoxicating scent that envelops you when you open a brand new Apple product? No? Well, apparently it’s a thing and there is now a perfume that aims to perfectly capture that scent, in case you wanted to hold onto it a little longer.
Nicki Minaj has already had a pretty successful beauty career for someone who really isn’t in that industry. Her OPI nail polish collection is going strong this spring and she’s just been named as the new face (with Ricky Martin) of MAC’s Viva Glam lipstick. Nicki’s obviously a fan of beauty in all its incarnations and hinted late last year that a fragrance was in the works. Well, it’s happening now.
Marc Jacobs is having a bit of a creative beauty moment right now. He just announced that he’s working on a color cosmetics line with Sephora, and today WWD has a long profile on the designer and his new fragrance, Dot, the more flamboyant of his fragrances. MJ refers to his fragrances as “sisters” and Read more →
Madonna just can’t catch a break. First, her Mert and Marcus-directed “Girl Gone Wild” video for her new MDNA album was slapped with an 18-or-older age restriction on YouTube. Now her commercial for her new Truth or Dare fragrance has been deemed too sexy for TV by ABC, the New York Post is reporting. The Read more →
Andrej Pejic, the model we can’t seem to stop talking about, just landed his first major beauty campaign–and we’re betting it will get people talking even more.
News that Pejic would be signing a big fragrance contract first broke about a month ago on a French news channel, and we correctly predicted who it’s for: Jean Paul Gaultier, with whom Pejic has developed a bit of a designer/muse relationship. We wondered, though, whether the gender-bending model would front a men’s or women’s fragrance and today WWD confirms that Pejic will star in ads for Kokorico, Gaultier’s second men’s fragrance, which launched last summer in France.
Now, the burning question:
Not long after we learned Andrej Pejic was the star of a Dutch push-up bra campaign, comes a report that a new major campaign deal could be imminent for one of our favorite models.
Pejic walked in Jean Paul Gaultier’s fall 2012 men’s runway show last week and was subsequently the subject of a story on a French TV news channel, which followed the model on fittings and rehearsals. Frockwriter caught the broadcast, in which Pejic revealed some interesting tidbits.
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has struck again, this time against the ads for Marc Jacobs’ latest fragrance, Oh Lola!. The ads feature Dakota Fanning holding a huge bottle of perfume between her legs. The ASA will consider banning ads if it receives enough complaints, which is what happened in this case.
The ASA said, according to the Telegraph:
In case you didn’t get enough of Lady Gaga over the last few days with all the coverage of her enormous three dimensional Paco Rabanne outfits at the MTV Europe Music Awards, don’t despair. There’s lots more Lady Gaga news today.
First up, that fragrance of hers. You know–the one that supposedly will smell like “blood and semen”? Well, it reportedly has a name now, though WWD couldn’t confirm it with Coty Beauty, who’s producing the scent.
We have a little bit (OK, a lot) of celebrity fragrance fatigue, but this is an enitirely different thing. Iggy Pop, wearing gold sequined pants, is the face of Paco Rabanne‘s new fragrances, WWD is reporting. The scents, called Black XS L’Excès, will have versions for men and women and debut in France in January. A commercial was shot by Jonas Ackerlund, who’s been busy lately with fashion-y type jobs (see Harper’s Bazaar UK).
Snooki, who’s quickly becoming a multi-hyphenate like a lot of her fellow Jersey Shore castmates, can add “fragrance maker” to her resume. It was only a matter of time, people. And that time is now.
We got to attend a presentation during which Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi herself talked about her new fragrance, called Snooki by Nicole Polizzi. The room was completely snooked out, featuring lots of hot pink and animal print, piles of Snooki Slippers for the taking, and yummy treats like mini-cheeseburgers and cupcakes. While waiting, we were encouraged to take some Snooki swag, and we can say this:
Madonna is finally launching her own brand for grown-ups. Following the success of Material Girl, the junior’s line she does with her daughter Lola, Madonna is launching Truth or Dare by Madonna, starting with a fragrance deal with Coty. After that will come footwear, handbags and intimates. According to PR Newswire, Truth or Dare is aimed at women ages 27-50 “who have a timeless style and an innate sex appeal.”
If that sounds like you, the collection will reportedly be available exclusively at Macy’s (like Material Girl) for the initial launch in 2012, but the fragrance will get a wider distribution in 2013.
But why now?
What is so fantastic about Karl Lagerfeld is that he doesn’t hesitate to take on semi-silly projects (Diet Coke, pens) with the utmost seriousness of purpose. We first giggled back in August at the brilliant name of his new fragrance, Karleidoscope. Today WWD has more details about the fragrance, and we are completely intrigued.
There’s no denying that Lagerfeld is creative–he came up with the name, concept and advertising for Karleidoscope. He shot the ad–at left–with model Bianca Balti. And what it smells like?
