Sofia Coppola, who directed the lovely commercial for Miss Dior Chérie in 2008 featuring model Maryna Linchuk, is back with a new advert for the brand, this time starring ‘The Black Swan’ film’s leading actress Natalie Portman. The new campaign, which was announced back in December 2010, includes a series of prints as well as a TV advert to be officially launched in March.

Eat the city, drink the city, wear the city. Is it possible? With brands, there’s nothing beyond the bound of reality. The second part of our Brands and the City review is championing brand’s editions dedicated to metropolitan areas and smaller locations around the globe. Vodka, soft drinks, travel guides from luxury makers, burgers, accessories, coffee products, sneakers and a range of other goods, which pay tribute to various destinations, are now in the spotlight.

From time to time, brands invite their consumers to assist them in developing new products—as a rule, fans create package or apparel designs, commercials or even flavours of drinks, while naming usually remains in the domain of the brand’s creative team. adidas UK decided to step further and is now offering football fans a life-time chance to give a name to the official matchball of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Quite a bold step since the ball is not only the brand’s product, but a part of the international sports history as well.

A new online campaign for Wrangler’s 2011 Spring/Summer collection launched this week on the brand’s website. As always, Wrangler has surprised its consumers with the innovative approach. Not so long ago the brand unveiled Blue Bell campaign allowing consumers to manipulate the man on the screen merely with the mouse, and it has come up with a newer, more exciting idea. 

It’s not every day that five icons from the candy world decide to drop everything and venture to the Great White North, but their bags are packed, and they’re ready to go. Over the next ten months, Canadians are invited to join M&M’S® Spokescandies Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange and Miss Green as they criss-cross the nation and follow them on their new Twitter account, @mmscanada. The Spokescandies will tweet their travels, post photos and postcards, and ask Canadians to tell them where they should head to next.

In course of its online contest ‘Share and Win’ launched in Europe on February 9, Levi’s introduced a unique prize—a one-of-a-kind fixed-gear  bicycle decorated with denim and painted in a color that resembles jeans. This model was created by Levi’s in cooperation with Unik bike, Belgium’s pro in re-inventing vintage bikes, Fixerati, a shop specializing in supplying rare bike parts, and London-based Brother Cycles, which is considered N1 bike  frame manufacturer.