Ahead of Christmas, Levi’s is launching a competition, which echoes the major theme of the brand’s latest ‘Go forth‘ campaign and is supporting the idea of its latest project dedicated to craft, Levi’s Photo Workshop. The brand teamed up with the Hipstamatic community to kick off the ‘Holidays Captured’ contest, which revolves around sharing the festive spirit and taking hilarious digital stills, which encompass the vintage style of film photography.

A unique exhibition is now taking place in Somerset House in London. From now and until January 09 you may see the most opulent and iconic works created by the famous fashion illustrator of the 20th century Rene Gruau, who for 40 years of his life worked with Dior. The exhibition is designed to celebrate this collaboration and show Gruau’s original artwork for the House of Dior, as the visitors may see over seventy original illustrations for Christian Dior sketches, perfumes, magazines and poster ads created by the artist.

Almost each season, Perrier-Jouët collaborates with renowned artists and celebrities to create another project to mirror the nature of the refined champagne. This fall, the brand unveiled a series of watercolour illustrations by Kareem Iliya, who dedicated his visuals to the theme of the Dandy Ball. Now, ahead of Christmas celebrations and exquisite parties, the brand presents a nice follow-up, “a lavish leather bag containing a bottle of Perrier-Jouët Fleur de Champagne, two glasses and a notebook on the art of drinking champagne,” which is sure to add to the festive spirit.

Ahead of Christmas, which is traditionally associated with something magical and surprising, Levi’s store in London got invaded by strange-looking festive denim toys. The shop-window of the brand’s Regent Street store was decorated by weird elves and polka-dot textile-wrapped walls and podiums (ерун also form a maze inside the venue), which are all crafted by London-based interiors designer, graphic and illustration artist Gary Card.

The world renowned brand Lacoste in partnership with Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, announced a prize to celebrate young and promising photographers at the exhibition dubbed ‘reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today’ that took place at the Swiss photography museum. Out of 80 photographers, the jury of the Lacoste Elysee prize comittee selected 12 nominants from different countries. Among them there were:  Ueli Alder (Switzerland), Benjamin Beker (Serbia), Jen Davis (United States), Di Liu (China), Camila Rodrigo Graña (Peru),  Kalle Kataila (Finland), Geoffrey H. Short (New Zealand), Tereza Vlcková (Czech Republic) and others.

Converse paints the walls of British towns to promote its recent collaboration with popular and emerging musicians. The brand is known for its projects focused on celebrating arts and music culture, and this summer and fall it released several tracks by GB and U.S. entertainers. Recently, the footwear company has partnered with Monorex, a group of graffiti-inspired visual artists, to pay tribute to influential musicians by promoting indie music genres with street art.