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Sickest Ball on Earth – French Vogue turns 90

Our Little Truffle Hunters — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:28:11 +0000

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Last night French Vogue celebrated its 90th anniversary with a masked ball at the Hotel Pozzo di Borgo in Paris. The theme was “Eyes Wide Shut.”

SICKEST guest list EVER: Viktor & Rolf (Rolf Snoeren and Viktor Horsting), Gisele Bundchen, Lily Donaldson, Dita Von Teese, Carine Roitfeld, Lara Stone, Calvin Klein, Alessandra Ambrosia, Tyra Banks, Charlotte Casiraghi, Christian Louboutin, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Louis-Marie de Castelbajac, Bianca Jagger, Jade Jagger, Leigh Lezark, Karolina Kurkova, Sasha Pivovarova, Izabel Goulart, Natalia Vodianova, Jean Paul Gaultier, Caroline Sieber, Nathalie Rykiel, Lou Doillon, Margherita Missoni, Bianca Brandolini D’Adda, Lapo Elkan, Sarah Marshall, Jean-Claude Jitrois, Elettra Wiedemann, Jeremy Scott, Léa Seydoux, Eugenia Silva, Delphine Arnault, Antoine Arnault, Astrid Munoz, Lenny Kravitz, Renzo Rosso , Vladimir Roitfeld , Mariacarla Boscono , Ricardo Tisci, Vanessa Traina, Alberta Ferretti, Gareth Pugh, André Saraiva, Hilary Alexander, Victoire de Castellane and husband, Anna Dello Russo, etc.

Pics from Vogue, UK Telegraph, Wireimage, Front Row Daily and friends

Met Ball Costume Institute, 2010 breaking NEWS! FULL WHO WEARS WHAT

Lauren Brokaw — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:47:07 +0000

Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Exhibit 2010
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

Open May 5th – August 15th, 2010

Hosts

Patrick Robinson (GAP)

Anna Wintour

Oprah

*Lady Gaga to perform*

The MisShapes DJing the after party @ the Boom Boom Room

*I wonder if Leigh Lezark, Misshape member, will be wearing Chanel, as she is a Chanel Ambassador?

Whose wearing what?

Anna Wintour in Chanel Couture

Bea Shaffer in Balenciaga

Oprah in Oscar de La Renta

Burberry Table: Emma Watson, Mario Testino, Daniel Craig, Claire Danes with Hugh Dancy, and Ed Norton.

Liv Tyler , Kate Hudson, and Naomi Watts wear Stella McCartney

Lady Gaga and Iman in Prada

Gwen Stefani in L.A.M.B.

Maggie Gyllenhaal in F/W Louis Vuitton

Kate Bosworth in Spring 2010 and Anne Hathaway in Valentino Pre Fall

Mamie Gummer and Karlie Kloss in DKNY

M.I.A., Gisele Bundchen and Zoe Kravitz in Alexander Wang

Kerry Washington and Riley Keough in Thakoon

Rachel Weisz in Oscar de La Renta

Sienna Miller in Pucci

Jessica Alba and Vera Fermiga in Sophie Theallet

Katie Couric wears Carmen Marc Valvo

January Jones in YSL

Eva Mendes wears Dolce & Gabbana

Brooke Shields in Michael Kors

Sarah Jessica Parker in Halston

Kirsten Dunst and Jamie Bochert in Rodarte

Ivanka Trump and Jessica Szhor in Versace

PDiddy wears Dries Van Noten

Jennifer Lopez in Zuhair Murad

Blake Lively, Joy Bryant, Eva Longoria (EW) in Marchesa

Amy Fine Collins in Alice and Olivia

Carey Mulligan in Miu Miu

Camille Belle in Jason Wu

Elizabeth Banks wears Gucci

Mariska Hargitay wears Vera Wang

Lily Collins and Kristen Stewart in Chanel

Thandie Newton wears Vivienne Westwood

Emmy Rossum in Kenneth Cole

Kristen Bell wears Diane Von Furstenberg

Chloe Sevigny and Lauren Santo Domingo in Proenza Schouler

Nicole Richie in Marc Jacobs

Melania Trump in Christian Siriano

Diane Kruger, Zoe Saldana, and Penn Badgley in Calvin Klein

Rosario Dawson in Giambattista Vali

Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, and Taylor Swift in Ralph Lauren

Models

Bar Rafeli in custom rag and bone

Liu Wen in Naeem Khan

Coco Rocha in Zac Posen

Jessica Stam in Rachel Roy

Constance Jablonski in Jason Wu

Hillary Rhoda in Prabal Gurung

Angela Lindvall in Versace

Lily Donaldson in Marc Jacobs

Anja Rubik in Altuzarra

Makeup

Nars:

Jo Stretell with Demi Moore

Elaine Offers with Blake Lively

Vera Steimberg with Zoe Saldana

Jeanine Lobel with Amber Valleta

Francelle with Vera Farmiga

James Boehmer with Erin Fetherston

Jeanine Lobel with Catherine Keener

Dior’s Makky works with Carey Mulligan

Gucci Westman works with Cameron Diaz

Chanel’s Fulvia works with Naomi Watts

Pat Mcgrath works with Taylor Swift

Hair

Mark Townsend does Rachel Weisz hair

Ted Gibson does Anne Hathaway and Emma Watson

Danilo does Katy Perry and Gwen Stefani

Juan Carlos Maciques does Jennifer Lopez

Giannandrea does Cameron Diaz

Cosma Dimarins does Chloe Sevigny

Marco Santini does Rachel Bilson

Hallie Bowman does Liv Tyler

Renato Campora does Jessica Alba and Kirsten Stewart

Naked: Kellan Lutz for Calvin Klein – slamming Twilight star takes it off for New Ad Campaign

Caroline — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:47:00 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CALVIN KLEIN UNDERWEAR FEATURES FOUR MEN IN FULLY INTEGRATED GLOBAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN FOR SPRING 2010

Actors Kellan Lutz, Mehcad Brooks and Athletes Fernando Verdasco, Hidetoshi Nakata to be Featured in Upcoming “Mark Your Spot” Global Advertising Campaign

NEW YORK, NY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 – Calvin Klein underwear, a division of The Warnaco Group Inc. [NSYE: WRC] and Calvin Klein, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation [NYSE: PVH], today unveiled the brands’ graphic Spring 2010 global advertising campaign, which will be seen in an impactful and complementary mix of print, outdoor, and digital media around the world beginning next month, including a fully dedicated microsite that will debut February 15, 2010.

For the first time, the men’s Calvin Klein underwear campaign will feature four men in one campaign to promote the new Calvin Klein X underwear line. The talent in the campaign spans different backgrounds and nationalities and includes American actors Kellan Lutz and Mehcad Brooks and two international sports stars, Spanish tennis star Fernando Verdasco, and Japanese soccer player Hidetoshi Nakata.

“The launch of Calvin Klein X underwear is a truly global initiative, so we believe it is imperative to feature talent from our most important regions – Asia, Europe, and the USA in the launch advertising, said Tom Murry, President & CEO, Calvin Klein, Inc. “The creative is in the spirit and tradition of the most innovative of Calvin Klein underwear campaigns.”

“Our newest campaign is a wonderful representation of today’s Calvin Klein underwear consumer, reflecting the breadth and diversity of our global reach in a way that speaks to their lifestyle with a resonant message through media that is relevant to them, said Helen McCluskey, President, Warnaco Intimate Apparel and Swim. “We expect that this will give us an opportunity to communicate to even a broader audience worldwide.”

The campaign will debut Calvin Klein underwear’s new Calvin Klein X line, which comes in two modern fabrications for ultimate comfort and fit: cotton modal and microfiber. Modal provides softness and luster whilst the cotton allows for comfort and breathability; the microfiber is an ultra-luxe premium fabrication. Both have stretch for ease of movement, and styles are distinguished with colored, microfiber logo waistbands – cotton features a blue logo, microfiber in red. Each is overlaid with a distinctive center front gray patch with an embossed “X” over the signature Calvin Klein logo in bold proportions for maximum impact.

The imagery for all four campaigns includes both still photography by fashion photographer Mikael Jansson and digital films produced by Darius Khondji, shot in New York City. The campaign was directed by Trey Laird of Laird & Partners. Ads will break globally in April 2010 magazines. Impactful imagery will also be featured in a global outdoor advertising program spanning key sites in markets across the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia.

To complement the brand’s e-commerce site, cku.com, and add further dimension to the campaign, a branded microsite created exclusively for the Calvin Klein X launch – at xmarkyourspot.com – will become the designated destination for all materials and videos featuring all four of the men, allowing consumers to hear from each of them, and get a peek behind the scenes at the campaign photo shoots, and sign up to receive more information on the campaign and the product. It is planned that the digital campaign will begin to be revealed online the last week in February, leading up to the full reveal of the campaign which will take place at xmarkyourspot.com, beginning on Monday, March 1^st, to coincide with the campaigns’ outdoor and print creative which will include other unique online and offline components, including an Augmented Reality (AR) initiative with GQ and QR codes at point of sale.

In support of the digital component of the program, Calvin Klein underwear has executed its largest digital media buy to date, including a 20+ market buy on Facebook.com as well as other key regional portals and search engines, which will feature short videos or banner ads to engage and encourage click-through to the branded microsite.

Said Robert Mazzoli, Chief Creative Officer, Calvin Klein underwear, “We’re excited to be presenting the latest chapter of evolution in communicating Calvin Klein underwear’s iconic brand image by using four distinct personalities and leveraging them across a range of media in a bold, engaging, and fun way.”

The four men featured in the Spring 2010 Calvin Klein X underwear campaign, include:

Former model and actor Kellan Lutz, 24, is best known for playing the vampire ‘Emmett Cullen’ in the popular Twilight films, and will be featured in the latest release in the series, Eclipse, which will be in theaters beginning June 30^th.

Mehcad Brooks, 29, is a native Texan, who first worked as a model before transitioning to acting. For the last two seasons Brooks has starred in the HBO hit vampire series, True Blood, and will next be seen in a new ABC television drama, The Deep End.

Hidetoshi Nakata, 32, is a former Japanese National footballer who has played most of his career in Europe. Nakata has played for Japan in two Olympic Games (1996, 2000) and three World Cups (1998, 2002, 2006). He was one of the first Japanese players to play outside of Japan, in Italy and the UK. During his career in Italy he has won the Italian Championships and Italian Cup. He has received Asia Player of the Year twice. In 2006, after a strong performance in the World Cup Germany, Nakata announced his retirement from professional football. Nakata is known in Asia as a social entrepreneur and fashion icon, regularly attending runway shows and sporting designer fashions.

Madrid native Fernando Verdasco, 26, is a top ten ranked professional tennis player in the world and second in his home country of Spain. This year marked his best performance to date, climbing to number seven in the ATP world rankings and capturing his third ATP world tour title in New Haven.

Calvin Klein, Inc. is one of the leading fashion design and marketing studios in the world. It designs and markets women’s and men’s designer collection apparel and a range of other products that are manufactured and marketed through an extensive network of licensing agreements and other arrangements worldwide. Brands/lifestyles include Calvin Klein Collection, ck Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein jeans and Calvin Klein underwear. Product lines under the various Calvin Klein brands include apparel, accessories, shoes, sleepwear, hosiery, socks, swimwear, belts, eyewear, watches, jewelry, coats, suits, fragrances, and cosmetics, as well as products for the home. For more information, visit calvinklein.com.

The Warnaco Group, Inc., headquartered in New York, is a leading apparel company engaged in the business of designing, sourcing, marketing and selling intimate apparel, menswear, jeanswear, swimwear, men’s and women’s sportswear and accessories under such owned and licensed brands as Warner’s®, Olga® and Speedo®, as well as Chaps® sportswear and denim, and Calvin Klein® men’s and women’s underwear, men’s and women’s bridge apparel and accessories, men’s and women’s jeans and jeans accessories, junior women’s and children’s jeans and men’s and women’s swimwear.

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EDITORIAL CREDIT: Calvin Klein underwear introduces Calvin Klein X underwear xmarkyourspot.com / cku.com

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The details on Calvin Klein’s FIRST LA soireee

Lauren Brokaw — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:37:41 +0000

Jean Shin, Francisco Costa, and Italo Zucchelli

Hier Soir (last night), art was in the air in Los Angeles … finally !! This month has been deemed L.A. Arts month, with the night starting off at the Pacific Design Center for the Art Los Angeles exhibit, followed by the chicest of events (put on by Nadine Johnson and associates), Calvin Klein and the Los Angeles Nomadic Division’s (LAND) cocktail event for Calvin Klein Collection for Spring Summer 2010 and L.A. art month.

THIS WAS CALVIN KLEIN’S FIRST EVENT IN LA EVER !! Wtf took so long, he has events in NYC all the time… lol. I will forgive everyone at CK, just because this event was one worth waiting for!

People say location location location, right? Well, this event was on the fabulous Melrose, next door to the Balenciaga store, and across the street from the Pacific Design Center: Gold star!

Incase you didn’t know, Francisco Costa is the creative director of Calvin Klein and Italo Zucchelli is the menswear design director.

The very cool art installations were done by Jean Shin, Jennifer West, and Neville Wakefield.

The focal point of entrance was perfect, why you ask? Pieces of fabric in the same colors as the clothing from the Spring collection were cut out in funky origami shapes and hung from various points in the ceiling. This collection was very plain and simple (they brought the more interesting pieces of the collection to the event), so I really enjoyed how they added these cutouts from the ceiling over the dresses that were standing from the floor; it made the spring outfits pop out a lot.

Calvin Klein Collection hung from the ceiling, actress Melissa George and Nicky Hilton stroll through the hanging clothes.

I’m now going to take you on a tour of the grounds of the event:

This was the right side of the large and long room that was behind the entrance.

Mickey Church

Once you walked all the way to the back, there was a stair case leading you up to the second floor. The second floor was composed of this room, which had very interesting videos playing, followed by a sitting area with a lookout of the first floor, and lastly, there was a room in which the lights changed color and menswear hung from the ceiling.

Caroline started to take pictures of the menswear and all of the sudden the room turned dark in the middle of her picture…very unexpected and was comical for us. Thru the tunnel of Calvin Klein Collection for men to the roof!

After the 2nd floor, you walk up 2 flights of stairs to the 3rd floor….where the REAL party was! The 3rd floor was a very large rooftop, where 150+ guests played in the dark. Guests sipped champagne, wine, ginger beer, and Pellegrino, while sampling hors d’oeuvres and delish mini desserts.

Caroline loved how there were trash buckets filled with Veuve Clicquot.

That concludes our tour of the grounds!

Guests left with sleek CK gift bags with Calvin Klein perfume and cologne.

Lauren and Caroline at the Calvin Klein event

GUEST LIST: The eclectic guest list included: Dasha Zhukova (editor of Pop Magazine, art collector and girlfriend and baby mama of Roman Abromovich) came with her pal Olympia Scarry (artist, London socialite and granddaughter of children’s book writer Richard Scarry), both wore white dresses and black shoes, Olympia’s shoes are Givenchy from Spring 2010. Australian artist P.C. Valmorbida and Stavros Niachros were also in attendance with Dash and Olympia. Actress Clemence Posey (LOVE HER), Elle Magazine’s Joe Zee, Twilight’s Twilight’s Kellan Lutz and Peter Facinelli (Kellan in the new “Mark Walberg” of Calvin Klein – look for his bare chested billboards soon!!), L.A, designer Jasmin Shokrian, Socialite China Chow, New York converts Adrian Muzinich and Will Koppleman, Tallulah Harlech, daughter of Chanel muse Amanda Harlech, Kate Bosworth with her stylist (my former boss) Cher Coulter (no Alex Skarsgaard in sight), actress Ali Larter with husband Hayes MacArthur, Prism gallery owner and LA native Jared Najjar, designer Santino Rice, actor/ musician Jared Leto, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Trammell from True Blood (ahhh Jason Stackhouse!), Lady Victoria Hervey, Brittany Gastineau with a flock of very gorgeous guys, stylist George Kotsiopolous, actress Ginnifer Goodwin, actress Milla Jovovich (L.A. native!) with husband Paul W.S. Anderson (LA native), actress Penelope Cruz, LA friends Mickey Church and Charlie Eisner, actor Eric balfour, actress Melissa George, actress Monet Mazur (L.A. native!), Teen Vogue West coast editor Lisa Love, Style.com writer Derek Blasberg, stylist Jessica Paster with publicist Cade Hudson, actress Maggie Grace, Photographer Mark Hunter aka the Cobrasnake, Marc Edouard Leon, Designer Magda Berliner with husband photographer Alex Berliner, Molly Sims, LACMA board member Chris Hopkins, realtor Jay Luchs, Saweda Kamara Bullock, Elliot Hans and Kaya B of Literature Noir clothing, Maverick Records’ Guy O’seary, British ex-pat Nellee Hooper, model Coco Rocha (in town to cover the Grammy’s for MTV Canada), actor Ryan Phillippe with girlfriend Abbie Cornish in Calvin Klein Collection from Spring 2010, actor Matt Boomer from White Collar, socialite Brooke Davenpoort … and many more!

invite to the partyyy

Penélope Cruz in new calvin klein collectionat the party

Milla Jovovich in new calvin klein collection at the party

ginnifer goodwin in new calvin klein collection at the party

Ali Larter in new calvin klein collection at the party

abbie cornish in new calvin klein collection at the party

Kate Bosworth in new calvin klein collection at the party

molly sims in new calvin klein collection at the party

Lauren and Caroline at the CK event

Photos from Daily Truffle, Mark Hunter, Style.com and Wireiamge, Collage by Moi

It’s a dress Daddy, Says who?! Calvin Klein!”

Caroline — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:57:43 +0000

And Penelope, and Abbie, and Ginnifer, and Milla, and Kate, and Ali, and Molly!! Celebs stepped out in Calvin Klein Collection spring/summer 2010 last night to launch L.A. Art Month – we were at the party and snagged some great pics! See party coverage here: The details on Calvin Klein’s FIRST LA soiree

Photos from Style and Wireiamge