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Tuesday January 5th, 2010

Magazines

LOVE for Celine

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Tuesday November 17th, 2009

Magazines

Behind the Scenes With Inez & Vinoodh

In the December issue of W, Alex White directed an all-Armani shoot. In lieu of models, Bookings Editor Rena Lazaros (who narrates this video) cast a variety of artists, hence the title, Armani: United Artists. She gathered dancers, singers, performers and actors to sit for Inez and Vinoodh wearing Armani, Prive and A/X. The cast Read more →

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Monday October 5th, 2009

Richard Nicoll’s New Gig

Next season’s buzz (too soon?) will surely revolve around Marios Schwab’s debut collection for Halston. But there’s another Brit with exciting news — Richard Nicoll’s just been appointed Cerruti’s women’s wear designer. The old Italian house, founded by Nino Cerruti (who’s still very much alive) in the late 50s (women’s came ten years later), was Read more →

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Published at 9:23 AM

Thursday October 1st, 2009

Boss Black Makes Black the Boss

Graeme Black, the Scottish designer who walked away with this year’s Scottish Fashion Award and put in significant time at both Armani and Ferragamo, has just been appointed a “Creative Consultant” for Boss Black, the more formal section of Hugo Boss’ womenswear collection. Apparently, the only thing that made him stop and question whether or Read more →

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Published at 11:30 AM

Tuesday September 1st, 2009

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Bass Alert! We have yet to personally spy our fair Chuck in the ‘hood shooting this season. But thankfully Nylon offers up a scrumptious fix today in the form of a multi-image foreign ad campaign in their Korean edition, with Miss Waldorf of course. Man, we can’t wait for season 3 to start. {Nylon} Carrie Read more →

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Published at 12:50 PM

Tuesday August 18th, 2009

Models

Internet Anonymity at its Worst

Liskula Cohen’s modeled for Versace and Armani and landed international Vogue covers, but recently she’s made less fashionable headlines. Last year, a doorman smashed her over the head with a vodka bottle and this year she’s sued Google to reveal the identity of an especially cruel blogger. The both tragic and anonymous person used Google’s Read more →

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Published at 2:39 PM

Tuesday January 27th, 2009

Safilo’s Future Doesn’t Look Too Bright

Safilo, the Italian sunglasses manufacturer, is looking for its own financial bailout – preferably in the form of a private equity fund. Safilo makes pretty much everyone’s glasses, from the entire Gucci group to Marc Jacobs to Dior to Juicy to Armani and they’ve racked up about $753.8 million in debt according to WWD. So Read more →

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Published at 10:59 AM

Wednesday July 9th, 2008

Armani Diversifies

Not too long ago, we started to see David Beckham’s ten-pack all over the place as the body for Emporio Armani underwear. Now, Vogue UK reports that Becks will be joined in this endeavor by Takeshi Kaneshiro, the Taiwan-born actor who’s been making major waves in Asian cinema since the early 90′s. With the debut Read more →

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Wednesday May 14th, 2008

Josh Hartnett to Armani

Looks like Matthew McConaughey and Patrick Dempsey have got some competition pushing Dolce and Avon’s colognes – WWD reports that Josh Hartnett’s been named the face of Armani’s next fragrance, Emporio Armani Diamonds for Men. The fragrance launches worldwide in August, and Armani’s already talking about a “memorable TV campaign”. Can’t wait to see him Read more →

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Published at 9:05 AM

Friday March 28th, 2008

Trendspotting

Homme plus Homme

Years ago, in that strange and wondrous time called the 80s, mens’ clothing ads were different. Every man was in an Armani style power suit, presumably on his way to work, and about the age of my dad. Designers were definitely targeting who they thought could buy their clothes, moneyed older men, by featuring them Read more →

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