So do you want to hear about D R A M A? So in September Nikki Lipstick, independent fashion label, runs a catwalk show based on Barbie and does some supercute, fun and tongue in cheek Barbielicious styling. Next day Jeremy Scott sends his models down the runway in almost exact replicas. All hell breaks loose. Apparently Jeremy scott has been busted before for art theft, including a very excellent “I’m A Mess” slogan from none other than Nikki Lipstick, previously.
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Here is SS 2015 from Jeremy Scott for Moschino. All drama aside, I am LOVING IT! So drag, so fun, so silly and ultimately totally wearable by trannies everywhere. COOLIO!
Portia xx
Heya APJ,
Sorry this is late! As you already know I love the Louis Vuitton aesthetic and the fun they have with their advertising often has me smiling at their audacity, quirkiness and general bonhomie. While we await their fragrance let’s look at how they see their customer in an LA setting.
Blake Lively and GUCCI, together they look to be the perfect match. Fun, lovely, easy going glamour. Blake lively makes it all seem completely effortless and spontaneous.
From GUCCI: As captivating as the original fragrance but with a lighter point of view, Gucci Première Eau de Toilette is a flirty new scent. Watch the short film, shot in Los Angeles and starring Blake Lively.
So maybe I’ve told you before. I styled myself on two legendary superstars and their kiddy re-animations. The two stars? Loretta Switt and Divine. Re-animations? Miss Piggy and Ursula the Sea Witch.
Someone who I thought was kind of funny but admired much more for her dedication and ability to rise in a job where women were less than welcome was Joan Rivers. That kind of tenacity is amazing and even more so when you saw her, a tiny little doll like woman. She was quite old when I met her in Sydney at the Mardi Gras for a very short moment, and she was basically being held up by her minders to get through the crowds, but in my two seconds with her she was lovely. Now she’s gone but there is so much to remember her by.
You want to talk iconic? The orange box is DEFINITELY an icon in and of itself. I had a blanket box from Hermès for years till it got ruined. I loved it so dearly, kept it on display like art, and in many ways the Hermès box IS art.
I love it when luxury brands give us whimsical and fun pieces. These little Hermès snippets are so far from what I expect of the old school, stylish and magnificent house of Hermès that when I saw the first one I laughed out loud. This is exactly what I love about the modern age of Guerilla marketing
Enjoy,
Portia xx
Hermès: Observatory of orange boxes – Observation 01
Hermès: Observatory of orange boxes – Observation 02
Hermès: Observatory of orange boxes – Observation 03
Hermès: Observatory of orange boxes – Observation 04
GUCCI is a brand with heaps of awareness through the ages. Even when no one was buying GUCCI it was still a name associated with lavish lifestyles of the rich and famous. Then came the dreary years when you may have bought GUCCI shoes, they were exquisitely produced even to the turn of the century, but not much else. Then Tom Ford came and reignited the brand, brought it to a whole new world of middle classes who wanted to feel rich & famous and who could afford some fragrance, a belt, some shoes or if very lucky a suit/gown/skirt etc
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Now GUCCI is on the slides again but they are doing some fun and interesting advertising, love this mini movie and maybe they will get back to making excellent shoes.
Here we have another block in the Gabriel “Coco” Chanel story/myth/legend. She has been so painted, glossed and glammed that she could be a decoupage. The house lives on in splendour and Karl Lagerfeld is the reigning monarch. Still the house CHANEL is a major player and an international billion dollar money making factory.
I hope you enjoy their latest mini movie, a piece about the atelier, store and apartment at 31 Rue Cambon and Coco. Magic.
Who better to advertise a fragrance for men than the Italian Silver Medalist swimmer. He is handsome, great body, successful and has a killer smile. This ad is so freaking beautiful I wanted it to go for 15 minutes.
Acqua Di Giò by Giorgio Armani 2014: Luca Dotto
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Giorgio Armani has always known how to sell their product but this is taking it to a whole new level.
Enjoy,
Portia xx
Acqua di Giò: Scent of Freedom – Giorgio Armani
Acqua Di Giò: Scent of Freedom – Introducing Luca Dotto
As you may know one of my girlfriends here in Australia works for L`Occitane en Provence. well this month she has sent me a great set. I gave the hand cream to another girlfriend and she was most impressed by the scent and the softening properties, Anna Maria wore the hand cream for a week to make sure and was very pleasantly surprised with the results.
Fragrantica gives these featured accords: Top: Mandarin, pepper, saffron flower Heart: Grasse rose, lily of the valley Base: Violet, sandalwood, blonde woods, tonka bean
Something light, fresh and breezy. A lovely wash of fragrance in which the singular notes don’t make huge statements but are a very harmonious and gentle waft. I can imagine Arlesienne being the spritz and go daywear for sunshine days, through spring to autumn. While Arlesienne does not smell wildly expensive or extravagant it does have a sheer, shimmering and youthful zing that will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.
From L’Occitane Press release: The fragrance is inspired by the Venus of Arles, a Roman statue discovered in 1651 and everything that it represents—the woman of Provence, the ideal of female beauty and the muse of artists such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Léo Lele, Mistral, Bizet, Christian Lacroix and many others.
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Louis Vuitton has been doing some collaborating and I wanted to show you this fun 1 minute Louis Vuitton Celebrating Monogram Collaboration Video. Asking some super great designers, artists and innovators to take their monogram and make something entirely special and new. I think you’ll be suprised with some, desperately want others and be impressed by the sometimes discrete, sometimes overt, pushing of boundaries.
From Vuitton: 2014, Six Iconoclasts, One Icon: Christian Louboutin, Cindy Sherman, Frank Gehry, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Newson, and Rei Kawakubo take inspiration from the icononic Louis Vuitton Monogram.
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