Marks & Spenser departs from a tradition of signing celebrities for its ad campaign. The company has announced that star models Ana Beatriz Barros, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Noemie Lenoir will be replaced by ordinary models who will be promoting the for Every Woman You Are campaign.
clothing & footwear
Probably, the one of the best ways to immortalize a brand is to release a book dedicated to it. This approach has been used by a range of brands including IKEA, Nivea and Coca-Cola to name but a few, and New Balance decided to join these ranks. The sportswear brand has released a book titled Let’s Make Excellent Happen, in which it explores its most successful collections of the past and highlights the upcoming Fall/Winter 2012 collection.
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.
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.
PUMA has decided to find an answer to an eternal question many people would like to know—whether soccer fans love their team more than their wives and girlfriends. In collaboration with Droga5 and Bristol University researchers, the sports apparel brand did a study based on information from Newcastle United fans. Before the test began, the male fans had told researchers that their love to both their wives and their teams was equal.