Just about everyone was on Miami this week to attend the Dior pop-up shop. Stefano Tonchi and Giovanna Battaglia attended along with people like Pharrell Williams, VV Brown and Wendi Deng Murdorch.
Dasha Zhukova gets our vote for the best dressed look on the night. Who gets your vote?
Marks & Spencer have decided to cancel their star studded TV adverts. The move was initiated by the company's new chief executive Marc Bolland, who replaced Stuart Rose, who decided to give them the axe after re-evaluating the company's business strategy.
We can't understand why they would drop the campaigns. Sales have dramatically increased at the high street retailer since the campaigns began back in 2004 and they have been largely responsible to a younger more fashion focused customer shopping in the store. After all, M&S was seen as a store for middle aged and elderly woman looking for functional clothes and quality underwear but bringing on the likes of Ana Beatriz Barros, Danni Minogue and VV Brown helped jazz that image up.
Candice Swanepoel, you are ahead of your time. Most notably so while wearing Marc Bouwer's AW10 collection in a futuristic video that David Bowie probably would like. Bouwer teamed up with the South African model, best known for her work as a Victoria's Secret Angel, for a short fashion film that has us yearning to be space-age wonder women for fall.
In the video, Swanepoel struts across an illuminated, digitally created catwalk as the galaxies rush by on either side of her. But we didn't have time to focus on our favourite constellations, as Bouwer's sharp lines and strong shoulders diverted our attention. We can see one of our favourites, VV Brown, wearing an LBD with Bouwer's attention-grabbing voluminous sleeves - but for now, we're content with seeing an Angel walk the collection through the distant skies.
Even though it's still grey outside, we're already starting to perk up, as the first of the spring looks start to filter into the shops - and equally as ad campaigns start to hit the billboards. M&S is the latest brand (albeit high-street) to unveil the faces of it's spring campaign.
Alongside the usual suspects - Myleen, Twiggy et al - the retail giant has now added Danni Minogue, VV Brown (we know!) and Ana Beatriz Barros into the mix of cool, cute and quirky ladies. With plans to unveil the television and printed ad campaigns by March this year, we're definitely looking forward to the girls' debut.
For Spring/Summer 2008, we saw the legendary Prince perform at Matthew Williamson's show and last season saw VV Brown perfrom at Ashish during London Fashion Week at London's Hippodrome.
For their Spring/Summer 2010 collection, design duo Victor & Rolf followed suit with a performer at their show during Paris Fashion Week. Sporting a huge pink tutu dress with black jeans, the highly pregnant Róisín Murphy wowed the crowd at the brand's show performing two of her new tracks, 'Royality' and 'Demon Lover'.
Design for VV Brown
Topshop is without a doubt one of the coolest and most credible high street stores, so it comes as no surprise that the store was responsible for the fabulously on-trend looks offered up by VV Brown and Shingai Shoniwa of the Noisettes at this year's V Festival.
Brown sported leopard print harems, whilst Shoniwa teamed a red fringed jacket with a satin bra top and hot pants.
Brown and Shoniwa are not the only ladies to have been privy to this particular Topshop experience, as Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine was lucky to have received similar treatment for both Glastonbury and Lovebox festivals earlier this summer.
Dear VV Brown: Congrats on the vintage store [Grazia]
Barack Obama fights the "shine police" [HuffPo]
Diane von Furstenburg's "putrid" perfume wafts from store? [Page Six]
Not a bathing suit for the self-conscious [Racked]
