If you don’t know what to give your friends as a present on a great occasion, give them a gift card. Just in time for the upcoming holiday season, Google enters the gift card field by launching a bunch of certificates, which can be a great solution for those who are ran out of gift ideas. The Google Play gift cards will be available in the US only over the coming weeks, and so far the company doesn’t say if it’s going to expand it to other countries soon.
Author: Anna Rudenko
Jeans, which were once considered a work wear for labourers, have now transcended into an everyday piece of wardrobe and have become a great canvas for a range of designers. Now, jeans can highlight the best in your body and even help hide some shape defects thanks to cutting-edge technologies. In 2010, Levi’s introduced its Curve ID system, which offered shapes based on a women’s shape, not size, and this year Benetton reveals its own contribution to the family of shape-fitting jeans. The Italian clothing brand unveiled the Benetton Pin Up Denim line, in which two techniques were used, one for lifting and the other for shaping a woman’s body.
Can the black colour be festive? Of course, if the celebration involves Guinness, the legendary dark beer. The iconic beer brand is getting ready for the one of the biggest dates in its history, Arthur’s Day (September 27), dedicated to the brand’s founder Arthur Guinness. The new global ad, which was created by Saatchi & Saatchi, shows a small village, which is preparing for the celebrations—people are painting everything black.
Diesel has launched a new campaign dedicated to Autumn/Winter 2012 collections for men and women. The promotion dubbed ‘Screen Tests’ has rolled out on the official website of the brand and features visuals, which at first glance are usual images, but if you take a closer look, some parts of the some picture are subtly moving. The page with the promotion is designed in style of a theatre hall, with the red curtain and projectors.
Schwarzkopf has partnered with the MEC agency to develop a humorous campaign, which is poking fun at the old-school methods of advertising. The creative team created a promotion for the Taft FULL ON line, which includes two TVCs, parodying cheesy infomercials and featuring a weird hairpiece helmet Stylemet, as well as a microsite, where consumers can win the odd accessory.
SKYY Vodka, one of the biggest fashion friends in the alcohol drinks world, announced that it has become an official sponsor of upcoming Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2013 Collections, which is slated to be hosted in New York City, September 6–13, 2012. The brand, which has a great ‘passion for perfection’ (this message is reflected in its latest campaign), won’t present any clothing collections like Diet Pepsi did earlier this year, but will unveil something more relative—SKYY specialty cocktails, which are inspired by the season’s most prominent fashion trends.
The CoverGirl brand has tapped another hilarious lady as its ambassadress, who will share her talent and inspiring female consumers with her beauty and charm. Last week, rock star P!nk joined the brand’s family, and now the cosmetics label welcomes a new face, Janelle Monáe, who is on “a unique mission to encourage women to use all their artistic powers to play, change, and transform,” says the press release.
The days when the world’s attention was drawn to the Olympic Games, Vitaminwater France celebrated the professional athletes in ordinary people doing sports on tracks and pitches, in pools and at stadiums. The beverage brand has launched an offline humorous promotion by Sid Lee, raising amateur athletes to the new heights and making them believe that they are real winners and personal records beaters.
While Stella Artois is focusing on pouring rituals, the Nutella chocolate & hazel spread is tapping into the morning rituals with the new ‘Sunrise’ advert, developed by creative agency BMF. The new spot, which aired in Australia on August 12, is the first commercial of Ferrero’s in eight years across the country.