Caitlyn Jenner who fearlessly shared her transition with the world just partnered with MAC for a new lipstick shade called ”Finally Free” which totally describes her journey! The lipstick has a rosy-nude shade and will retail for 17$ at maccosmetics.com and in MAC stores. All sales of the lipstick Finally Free which will be available on April 7th, will go to M.A.C AIDS Fund Transgender Initiative in support of improving transgender lives.
Archive by Alexa brings together a modern icon of British style Alexa Chung, and a long standing icon of the British high street, Marks & Spencer. This is a unique approach to a collaboration. Using the rich and extensive Marks & Spencer Company Archive in Leeds, Alexa and the M&S design team have embarked on a journey of rediscovery. This project is the first of the ‘M&S &’ series. A sequence of unique, exclusive collections in collaboration with some of today’s most exciting designers, brands & fashion icons.The 31 piece womenswear collection has been carefully curated and handpicked by Alexa and the M&S design team. Bringing archive pieces back to life for 2016 using Alexa’s unique approach to style. Through introducing modern fabrications and an updated colour palette, a contemporary womenswear collection is defined with a heritage sensibility. The supporting campaign will launch in April with Alexa herself taking creative ownership of the mood and direction.
H&M teams up once again with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, creating a co-branded collection for girls and guys under the claim #HMLovesCoachella. The H&M Loves Coachella collection features a line-up of iconic pieces and freewheeling playfulness. The overall look is about personal style, mixing, not matching, and conveying a message of ease and freedom. For girls, the collection includes folksy blouses, beaded and fringed tops, allover print jumpsuits, denim cut-offs, and accessory essentials including floppy hats, sunglasses, and flat boots. Hemlines are short and embellishments provide a crafty tingle. For boys, it is all about printed T-shirts and mismatched shirts, bermudas, and denim shorts. The collection will launch globally in-stores and online at hm.com on March 31st.
Forever 21 and NBA collaborated for a third time and launched an exclusive collection for both women and men. It comprises of athletic pieces like hoodies, shorts, bodysuits, t-shirts, crop tops and bralettes with the logos of the most powerful baskeball teams like New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls on them. Even if you are not interested in sports, this line is special so you can definitely renew your looks with pieces like that!!
Christian Louboutin, designed a limited edition, and completely hand-crafted collection, called Zodiac, that will be sold exclusively at Moda Operandi, as part of their collaboration for the 5th anniversary of the site. The collection consists of 2 styles, the Akena Mule and the Rocket Flat, which comes in 3 color choices: black, blue, or purple silk satin. Each pair is hand embroidered with celestial details such as sequined zodiac symbols, studded constellations, and can be further customized, with initials and birthdates to ensure the shoes are as unique as the woman that wears them. The collection is already available for pre-order on Moda Operandi (shipping will start in June, and it requires a 50% deposit) for the hefty prices of $2,200 and $2,000 respectively, since only 45 pairs will exist worldwide, and will be available till February 20th.
It’s not the first time that David Gandy, has collaborated with Marks & Spencer for an Autograph line with his name, but it’s the first time, that he designed a sportswear & loungewear collection, instead of the underwear & swimwear ones he had so far. The new Autograph line, with his name, has already launched in stores & online worldwide, and includes a T-shirt, a hooded jumper, joggers, shorts and a crew neck jumper in premium fabrics and two colors – navy and gray. Judging from the ad campaign in which he’s modeling himself, we think it will be a huge success, like his previous collections. Don’t you think?
David Beckham returns as the face of H&M‘s campaign for its Modern Essentials selected by David Beckham collection. This spring, the famous football player chooses his favorite pieces from the menswear collection Modern Essentials and creates a wardrobe with renewed basic pieces and some classics ones so men can rely on it the whole season. He said that he liked adding new elegant and casual clothes in his closet because they were easy to combine and they could be worn in many different ways. The collection will be released in two phases, the first on 18 February and the second on March 10, 2016 and it will be available in all H&M stores that have men’s clothing department and online at hm.com.
It’s not the first time that Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s has partnered up with Marks and Spencer. They actually begun their relationship back in 2012 with lingerie and expanded to include a fragrance, activewear and sleepwear. Now, the latest chapter of their collaboration is a full make-up collection. “For me, make-up made sense as the next step because I have a genuine love for it. Like lingerie and fragrance it’s something that’s very personal to a woman, and something that we use every day”, Rosie said in her Vogue interview.
The 94 year old fashion icon, Iris Apfel debuted her own collection of wearable technology recently, in collaboration with WiseWear. WiseWear is the creator of smart bracelets that monitor your health. What distinguish them from the rest of wearable technology companies is that these bracelets are super stylish pieces of jewelry, and not just waterproof rubber bracelets like their competition makes. The result of this collaboration is a luxury smart jewelry collection which consists of 3 fashionable bracelets: “Calder,” “Kingston” and “Duchess”. The tech accessory includes standard features like activity tracking and mobile notifications, but it also provides a distress messaging function — giving wearers the chance to discreetly contact a pre-approved list of people with a geo-tagged location in case of emergency.
The Gossip front woman, Beth Ditto, is about to release an eponymous plus-size clothing line in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier, which she just announced with a special-edition T-shirt designed in collaboration with the designer. The singer says that the collection will feature “current styling with a vintage flair”, as well as “vibrant prints and well-tailored pieces, with silks, rayons and embroidery that are frequently missing from plus-size lines”. Ditto’s full plus-size collection will be available in February and the Beth Ditto x Jean Paul Gaultier shirt already retails for $165, available exclusively at BethDitto.com.
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