Nike made a hilarious present to the ladies who want to highlight their individuality this year. The iconic sportswear brand decided to kill two birds with one stone by releasing Nike Sportswear WMNS Premium Print Pack, which includes sneakers all made of unique material, rarely used for producing footwear. To make these uppers, the brand used… recycled magazines (probably, the ones describing previous models of the brand).

Gap launched a new project to deliver more discounts to its fans ahead of Christmas through a holiday-themed ‘race’ of reindeer. For five days, the brand has been inviting its fans to visit the www.projectreindeer.com page and participate in the competition of the North Pole animals for a chance to pay less at the participating Gap stores across the U.S. The idea behind the project is simple: to save a Gap venue, you had to say the name of the winner of the every day’s challenge and get a discount he or she carries. The competition, which has been running December 15-19, is now over. 

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.

Nike has something in-store to impress and engage its fans in January 2011. The iconic sportswear brand is announcing its new groundbreaking project designed to combine the world of football and interactive movie. Is it possible? It will be with the ‘I AM PLAYR’ game, which will enable players to experience the life of a superstar striker just as he does it.

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.

New Balance, an American sports footwear manufacturer, teamed up with Counterkicks, the web-resource showcasing the news of footwear, to run a design contest aimed at finding the most innovative idea for an iconic and lightweight New Balance Sprint Spike shoes. Every pitch was evaluated by the panel of judges based on the following criteria: inspiration and story, innovation, and execution. This criterias were used by the judges (professionals from New Balance design team including Brett Golliff, JF Fullum, Kyle Strek) based on the criterias of evaluation for professional projects they normally use at work.

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.

Dior has presented John Cameron Mitchell-directed short-film entitled ‘Lady Grey London’, the fourth and the last installment of the colour saga, which takes the viewers across the globe. The creators of the video decided to dedicate it to the grey colour because it crowns the traditional weather palette of the capital and is considered to be one of the emblematic colours of the fashion brand. Just as it is with the previous videos, the key character of the story is played by award-winning French actress Marion Cotillard.