Diet Coke is unveiling the next stage of its collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier. Following the appointment of the world’s most famous fashion designer as the brand’s creative director back in April 2012, Diet Coke then revealed a Madonna-inspired new packaging for an iconic contour bottle. The new stage sees the Gaultier’s ‘Night and Day’ designer cans, showcasing his famous Breton stripes and lace corset looks, along with a new tattoo bottle hitting stores as a gift with purchase from 17th October in Boots stores across the U.K.

IDEAS4RETAIL, operating in the non-food retail segment in Russia and co-founded by prominent businessmen Enveny Butman, the founder of ECS Group, and Alexandr Mamut, best known for founding the SUP Media company, is now launching a new retail brand of kitchen appliances called COOK HOUSE. This is the first own brand of the company, which has already been operating such franchisees as Imaginarium, Hamleys, Mamas & Papas in Russia.

We recently talked to Drew Smith, Founding Partner and Creative Director of Lumen Group, who told Popsop about why he ended up in Milan and founded his own branding company there, why being sustainable meant being profitable, and about the relationship with Russia and Lumen’s Moscow-based partner agency Mildberry.

Pernod Ricard’s luxurious whisky Chivas Regal 12 YO launches a new creative initiative— the annual collaborations with famous people of art and craft aimed to create limited-edition series of packaging inspired by gentlemen style, masculinity and craftsmanship called ‘Made for Gentlemen’. The brand has debuted the first collaboration of this kind with British luxury shoe designer Tim Little, the owner and creative director of a male shoe brand Grenson, who designed a collectible tin featuring a stylish deconstruction of classic English leather shoes.

Western Union, an international money transfer system, in collaboration with the Dutch creative agency 180 Amsterdam have launched a new promotional campaign, a social project called PASS. The initiative is  fronted by former international football star Patrick Vieira and start during the Group Stage of the UEFA Europa League Season 2012/13, which kicks off on September 20 across Europe.