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Alex Box
Alex Box will be running a one hour workshop as part of Selfridges. The Masters project celebrating pioneers in beauty and fashion. As Creative Director for Illamasqua, Alex is hosting the workshop (limited spaces) to give an insight into her work. Alex is renown in the industry some her creativity and experimental looks so its no surprise that she’s offering something very different to a standard makeup tutorial – ‘a sensorial journey of light, surface texture and emotion with doors and minds open, spirits soaring.’
The workshop takes place on Tuesday 7th October, 6.30 to 7.30 at the Everyman Cinema of Selfridges (London) and tickets are £30
Wella
Model Chloe Norgaard is the queen of crazy hair colour and is set to open the doors to the Wella Instamatic pop-up salon so we can get the (semi- permanent) rainbow look too Crazy colours have been working their way into hair trends slowly but surely with poster girl model Chloe Norgaard leading the pastel revolution - and with Lily Allen, Nicole Richie and Kylie Jenner at her side. So revolutionary in fact, that now a wash of lilac, rose or cornflower actually isn't 'crazy' at all - just ask celebrity colourist Josh Wood, whose high- fashion clients have all been flirting with pastel washes recently. If you too have had a frisson with colour, or at least dallied with the idea of a technicolour 'do, then you might like to take a note of the Instamatic salon opening up during London Fashion Week this September.
The pop-up salon is the brainchild of Wella and its global creative director - who happens to be Wood - who will be showcasing the new Color Touch service which allows us to taste the rainbow without commitment (thanks to a new colour molecule which mildly oxidises hair apparently). And Nørgaard is cutting the rainbow ribbon when it opens on September 14 for two days only. Color Touch includes six pastel shade with just a semi-permanence, meaning colours will gradually wash out. Choose between Clear Dust, Pink Dream, Muted Mauve, Jaded Mint, Ocean Storm or Smokey Amethyst. (If you can't choose, enter the game of colour roulette for a chance to win a personalised colour appointment with Wood himself, who will make a guest appearance for one day only, and no doubt the very best choice for one lucky head of hair). To further prove its fashionable point, the Instamatic salon is popping up at the Premier Models headquarters in Covent Garden, Parker Street - with an equally of-the-moment zero pay price tag, which by the way includes a blowout to boot.

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Dove
Dove Advanced Hair Series Youthful Vitality BB Cream, £6.99, available nationwide
Want hair that's instantly more manageable and noticeably fuller? Try Dove's new BB Cream for hair on for size. Just apply 4-5 pumps throughout wet or towel-dried locks and style as normal; you'll notice the difference straight away.
Kardashian Beauty
Kim, Khloé, Kourtney and Farouk Systems founder Farouk Shami discuss the launch of Kardashian Beauty, a new line of hair tools and styling products. So it may be a challenge to take the ever-present- at-all-times Kardashian sisters seriously — except when it comes to their earning power. The cash keeps coming in with a capital K as Kim, Khloé and Kourtney pile up one commercial spin-off after another from mobile video games to book deals to fragrance. The latest example is a venture with Farouk Systems to launch hair tools and styling products in salon and mass distribution. Farouk Shami, executive chairman and founder, is all in, and he isn’t shy about his outsize sales ambitions for his deal with Kardashian Beauty, marking the first time his Houston-based company has been affiliated with celebrities. “I like big vision. I am going for a billion,” said Shami, speaking on the set of a photo shoot at Milk Studios here for Kardashian Beauty ads breaking in February-March magazines. “There’s no doubt in my mind it will be there in about five years, definitely. We know what we are doing. This is going to be an empire of beauty for Farouk Systems and the Kardashians.” He added one caveat: “It is not going to come overnight. We are looking for long-term business.”
Attaching a brand to celebrities is not without risks, and Shami admitted he had worried about the possibility of the Kardashian star fading upon making the deal with the sisters. Those worries have subsided. “I see their popularity going up and up and up and up,” said Shami. “Their name is at the top, not just in the U.S., but worldwide. I see more growth with the Kardashian name still. Even if it matures in the U.S., it hasn’t matured in the rest of the world.”

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But even Kim, Khloé and Kourtney recognize that they might not be in front of the cameras forever. “We are very aware that all things come to an end, and we are OK with that,” said Khloé. “We are so grateful and blessed, but we are all OK when that day does come. We have loved the ride. It is not going to come anytime soon, but we are not going to freak out and spiral when it does happen. I think that’s what people’s perception is.” Out of the gate, though, Shami expects the Kardashian Beauty hair product line to generate more than $200 million in retail sales in its initial year on the market. Launching next spring, the early assortment contains three hair tools — a flatiron, a blow-dryer and a three-in-one tool, all priced at $89.99 — and seven styling products priced from $14 to $17: blow-dry cream, volume mousse, dry shampoo, dry conditioner, firm hair spray, curl cream and Black Seed Dry Oil. The products with Farouk Systems mark the debut of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney in the hair segment, although the famous sisters have sold Kardashian Beauty makeup in partnership with Boldface Group Inc. since 2012. Separately or together, their beauty involvements also extend to fragrance with Lighthouse Beauty Marketing and sunless tanning with New Sunshine LLC. Shami’s confidence about the success of Kardashian Beauty in hair tools and styling products is due to the wide reach of the brand the Kardashians have built. Kardashian Beauty will straddle the professional salon and mass retail channels, and have a considerable international presence. Specifically, Shami mentioned that a deal with LG could spread Kardashian Beauty to Macau, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan and more. “There, you could talk about $500 million easily. They have their own stores. We are working on the marketing and sales there already,” he said. Kim, Khloé and Kourtney emphasized their goal is to cater to the hair-care needs of their enormous fan base. “The main feedback that we hear is that everybody wants luxury products at an affordable price,” said Kim. “We’ve worked really hard to accomplish that. We take all of the tricks of the trade that we’ve learned from all of our glam teams over the years, take the best products and make them affordable.” Chiming in about the items with Farouk, Kourtney said, “They really are salon-quality products at an affordable price.” Kim is the most done up on a regular basis of the three sisters. “If I could do it every day, I would,” she said, acknowledging that her beauty regimen has been scaled back since the arrival of North, her one-year-old daughter with Kanye West. “Ever since I had the baby, there was at least four months I went without makeup or hair products. I loved it. You can kiss your baby and you can snuggle. I am less on the makeup since I had a baby for sure because it makes it hard to kiss.” Kim still seems pretty dedicated to her hair-care regimen though. Detailing several days in the life of her mane, which don’t typically include much shampooing in order for her hair to retain its natural oils and strength, she said, “I start out the first day with a clean blowout. The second day, I put in dry shampoo, which adds texture. Then, the third day, I sleek it and I straighten it, and then, the fourth day, I put our oil in it, and I make it a really sleek look. I might do a ponytail or a sleek bun. That’s my hair plan, and then I start over.” Hair selfies are definitely part of the hair plan. “Sometimes you do a selfie just to capture the hair look. If you have fun braids in your hair, you want to show them off or if you have a cool, slicked ponytail. I love hair selfies,” said Kim. Rizzoli New York is scheduled to release a book filled with Kim’s selfies titled “Selfish” in April 2015. Khloé said, “I feel better taking a selfie when my hair is in my face. I don’t really like taking a selfie when my hair is up. I love a good selfie when someone takes it from the back.” The force of the Kardashian name doesn’t preclude the Kardashian Beauty hair products from having a point of difference to woo customers. Shami stressed that’s essential to make a dent in the market. He believes that the Black Seed Dry Oil provides a major point of difference. “It is so absorbent. Really, you want volume, you want healthy hair, you want shiny hair, it is so important to have that oil because the oil keeps moisture in,” he said.

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Sephora
Meet the new Sephora Dry Clean Solid Brush Cleanser it has argan oil and a warm Moroccan fragrance. Dry, solid, even brush gloves have been trending this Summer. New and innovative ways to clean your brushes seem to be the new hit of the moment so of course Sephora has gotten in on the act with this new Solid Brush Cleanser. The Sephora Solid Brush Cleaner is available now at Sephora.com for $14.
Ralph Lauren
Wearable tech is gaining ground as a concept and we have seen the development of ringing bracelets to smart watches. The latest wearable tech seems like serious stuff and surprisingly comes from the high end fashion brand Ralph Lauren. The iconic fashion brand’s sport of choice has been Polo and enjoys deep rooted ties with it. However, for their new creation they are calling Polo Tech, they chose the inaugural day of US Open to unveil the new product. It is basically a compression shirt with various sensors woven in its fabric that can take readings of both biological and physiological data.
Ralph Lauren has partnered with Canadian technology company OMsignal to develop this amazing wearable tech that can track heartbeat, respiration, energy output, stress level, breathing rate, breathing depth, steps and calories burned. On top of that it also boasts of an accelerometer and gyroscope. The device is capable of giving you an EKG. The readings captured by the sensors are transmitted to a tiny “black box” on the wearer’s ribcage which in turn relays the information to the new Ralph Lauren fitness app. David Lauren, executive vice president of advertising, marketing and corporate communications at Ralph Lauren Corp highlighted through a statement that the company aims to bring technology that will occupy every part of your life. The company believes in inspiring lifestyles and could put this technology easily in an Oxford shirt or a Purple Label tie.
The commercial production of PoloTech has not started as yet so currently it is available to the pro-athletes at the US Open and to some of the ball boys. It is likely to be ready for distribution sometime in early 2015. The Polo Tech will be available not only in polos but also Oxfords and even sweaters. The product is basically aimed at people who jog or workout to become healthier but this new technology and its implications are far wider. With the help of Polo Tech your vitals can be transmitted instantly and wirelessly to medical professionals worldwide. It can prove to be life saving for the sick and elderly. Lauren himself agreed that it is going to be a learning experience for them as they have just opened the door but are not sure how it is going to develop and grow.

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2011
Johnston Marklee
If Los Angeles architecture has a king, it’s Frank Gehry, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall is his crown. Any young architect working in this city has to contend with the long shadow cast by that icon of starchitecture. But that’s fine by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, partners in the firm Johnston Marklee and also domestically, who have unassumingly become the architects of choice for L.A.’s creative class.
“We are not part of the whole architectural crowd,” Lee says. “Everyone else has sharpened pencils at Frank Gehry’s office or Morphosis [the Los Angeles firm where Pritzker Prize–winner Thom Mayne is a cofounder], so there’s a clear lineage of very expressive and extravagant forms.”
The couple are sitting side-by-side in their conference room in a nondescript office building near Westwood; thick art books are scattered about, and the walls are hung with renderings for an addition to one of America’s leading architecture schools. (The project, in its early phase, is still top secret.) Lee is sporting a black T-shirt and horn-rim glasses that make him appear more youthful than his 47 years; Johnston, 49, wears an asymmetrical black outfit that suggests the deliberate plainness of pious communities. Both are genial and warm, cocktail party–polished, and it is striking how when they speak of their firm, it is in a single voice. Lee tends to hold the floor more, but Johnston chooses her moments to jump in. And when she does, he often nods along in agreement, as when she declares that they have always avoided creating a signature style. “The starchitect was very important for the cultural history of architecture in L.A.,” Lee adds. “But it’s not the Wild West anymore.”
Johnston Marklee is the antidote to wild: thoughtful, deliberate, and intent on solving architectural riddles in an elegant and comfortable way. Hill House, built in 2004 in the Pacific Palisades, amounts to a deft sleight of hand: A developer asked the architects to maximize the buildable square footage of a steep hillside lot, so they came up with a dramatic polyhedron clinging to the canyon wall like a futuristic observatory. “The client didn’t care about the look of the house,” Lee recalls. “That became an excuse for us to realize the design we wanted.”
The firm’s work to date has consisted of similar residential projects in the United States and abroad—typical commissions in an industry that considers Johnston Marklee “young” even as its principals approach 50. Johnston and Lee have also designed galleries (Honor Fraser, Roberts & Tilton), stores (Maison Martin Margiela’s Beverly Hills outpost), and architecturally sensitive additions, such as a writing studio they tucked behind the director Marc Forster’s vintage Richard Neutra house, a process that Lee likens to a “dance” with the older structure and a form of “oblique collaboration” with the original architect. After they met gallery owner Esther Kim Varet of Various Small Fires at an event at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in West Hollywood, she hired them to retrofit a historic building along Highland Boulevard with multiple exhibition spaces, offices, and a high-walled outdoor “gallery” that mirrors the interior. The new Various Small Fires opened in September. “What Johnston Mark-lee is very good at is carving space and getting volumes right,” Varet says. “They nailed the proportions.”
In 2012, Johnston Marklee beat out SANAA, David Chipperfield Architects, and Tatiana Bilbao to design the 32,000- square-foot Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. Renderings of their winning proposal show a long low-slung structure with a paper-thin steel roof that hovers beneath the site’s oak canopy. With its scheduled opening in 2017, the $40 million building will join an illustrious lineup at the Menil’s 30-acre campus, alongside the Rothko Chapel and Renzo Piano’s acclaimed 1987 museum. It will certainly push Johnston Mark-lee into the spotlight they have tried to avoid. “It is unheard of that they would hire a relatively young firm that hasn’t done a museum before,” Johnston explains. “But the Menil is an exceptional institution. Renzo was basically our age when he was commissioned.”

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Johnston Marklee’s aesthetic might be broadly described as minimalist, given the absence of ornament and rash gestures. “Humility is their middle name,” says the producer and environmentalist Laurie David, who first met the pair through a friend who now lives in Hill House. David hired them to integrate a 5,000-square-foot residence into a hillside lot overlooking wild parkland in Santa Monica. “Even though the house is very architectural, with a lot of design, it’s simple and elegant,” David says. “It pulls you in and makes you feel like you’re living outside.” Her house sits on a narrow plateau curved into the natural terrain; its white walls are cut through with careful apertures. The wow factor comes from the architects’ sculptural volumes—and a view-facing glass wall that opens to allow nature in. “The architecture,” Johnston says, “disappears.”
A beach house they designed in Oxnard for another client has such a precise and pristine exterior that it looks like a full-scale foam-core model, but the ceiling and walls are spectacularly pierced to admit air and light. And a house that Johnston Marklee built, in an almond orchard in Spain, is circular and elevated on a conical base, so that when the trees bloom, “you feel like you’re surfing on a sea of almond flowers,” Lee says.
As such poetic touches suggest, Johnston and Lee don’t strive for what Lee describes as minimalism’s “forbidding” perfectionism. They find inspiration in the more “generous” and “human” brand of modernism identified with Southern California thanks to such landmark designs as Charles and Ray Eames’s home and Pierre Koenig’s famous Case Study House #22. For Lee, L.A.’s architectural style is rooted in the informality of indoor-outdoor living pioneered by SoCal architects long before Gehry created the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown L.A. “Neutra, Schindler, Lloyd Wright—it always happened within the private realm,” says Lee, who grew up in Hong Kong and fell in love with Los Angeles when he was an undergraduate in architecture at the University of Southern California. “The history of architecture here really exists in the domestic.”
Johnston and Lee met 20 years ago in graduate school at Harvard. After they set up their practice, in 1998, their first notable project was for the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas, where they were seduced by the work of Donald Judd and befriended artists including Jack Pierson and Robert Irwin. They have stayed close to the art world ever since—they are currently working with Sterling Ruby on his vast new studio complex in Vernon, California—and drew on friendships with artists to create their first book, House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House, out this fall from Birkhäuser. Rather than issue a standard architectural monograph, Johnston and Lee invited Pierson, James Welling, Luisa Lambry, Livia Corona, and others to photograph specific houses as if they were “characters” in their work. “It’s the artists showing us what we’re doing,” Johnston says.
This idea of “perpetually becoming,” as Johnston puts it, of constantly learning something new about their own work, is more appealing to them than developing a signature style. “We hope we’re never at the point where people expect us to do what we did last time,” she says. “Discovery with our clients is what we really enjoy.” Lee, of course, concurs. “We are always partnering with people who are fellow travelers,” he says. “We are more interested in collaborators who are going places we can go to together—as opposed to someone who has already arrived and hires us as a trophy.”
Girls Only LDN
East Londoners take note: the Girls Only project has popped up in the underpass of Old Street tube Station. The project's ultra-cool curator, Antonia Marsh, has rounded up twelve of London's brightest young female artists, including Lotte Andersen and Bella Howard. Catch the exhibition before it closes on Saturday evening.
GIRLS ONLY LDN is open from 11am to 7pm until September 13 at Unit 2, Old Street Underground Station.

Oct 2014
2011
Ai Weiwei
Alcatraz Prison is a well-known space where criminals used to go to live out their days behind bars, but now artist Ai Weiwei has transformed this space to be an area filled with artwork. He has set up a mixed media installation filled with audio and visual pieces that are aimed at questioning this system of imprisonment.
Interestingly, the artwork also relates to Ai Weiwei's own situation, since he is not allowed to presently leave Beijing. As such he had to create the pieces from his own art studio back home and have someone else set up the installation. China is extremely strict on its citizens speaking out against certain matters, but Ai Weiwei still expresses his views through his artwork, and rightly so.
Salt House
Thousands of pore-like 3D-printed structures made of a salt and concrete mix are built up into the walls of a highly unusual house devised by architecture firm Emerging Objects. ’3D Printed House 1.0′ combines traditional construction methods with 3D printing, using renewable, locally procured materials. Commissioned by the Jin Hai Lake Resort in Beijing, this ultramodern salt house is partially enclosed within a more conventional shell, the amorphous, organic salt-based shapes rising up from the roof like strange chimneys to bring in natural light.
The semi-transparent 3D-printed components are made of a salt polymer called ‘saltygloo.’ Emerging Objects created a 1:1 model of ‘Salt Volume’ to put the characteristics of this material on display. Each individual oculus is supported on the back end by a grid of geometric shapes, with an opening varying in size depending on how bright and private that particular area of the house is desired to be. It’s unclear whether these structures, remaining open on the exterior, would end up offering a tempting place for all sorts of creatures to take up residence.

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Boots
When bespoke skin care brand Ioma launched in Harrods two years ago, it thrilled us with its spacey-looking gadgets, almost-forensic analysis of our skin and mixed-before-your-very-eyes face creams. Now, as of this week, you can get the very same services at eleven new locations around the UK, in selected branches of Boots, analysing everything from your skin's hydration levels to antibacterial activity. What's particularly brilliant about the brand going "local" is that you'll be able to take advantage of the opportunity to check back every few weeks to see how your face cream is working. (A mirror will do just as well, but a few stats with which to impress your friends won't hurt either).
Boots Rather than having to take two trips to the nail salon, this handy gel nail polish remover tool helps you strip off your no-chip gel manicure at home. The tool is equipped with three different heads, including one for sanding away that tough topcoat, a second for removing polish without damaging your natural nails and a third tool for filing and shaping afterwards.
The entire unit is tiny and has a pen-like shape, so that tucking it away with the rest of your nail polish supplies at home is easy. As well as saving you on trips to the nail spa, the device costs just under $40, which will delight those who love to go for frequent manicures, but also want to save some cash.
The Portland General Store
The Portland General Store delivers all-natural skin care lines by way of its Portland, Maine operations base. Available online via the pesticide- free distributor are colognes, haircare, shaving products, soaps, facial masks and an assortment of moisturizers. Products geared towards men offer up an enticing mixture of beauty care with rugged additions, seen in the Willow Toner with Black Willow Bark. After a deep face wash, The Portland General Store advises customers to apply the Willow Toner's cleansing concoction. The purifying mixture boasts an unusual vegan and alcohol-free blend of apple cider vinegar and bark, all of which will rid pores of dirt and oil. The accompanying crisp, woody scent will also be of much appeal to male skincare connoisseurs.

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2011
NUDE
Perfect Cleanse Omega Cleansing Jelly. Exclusive to SpaceNK A daily cleanser that transforms from an airy gel into a soft milk, lifting away impurities to leave skin clean, smooth and toned. Omegas 6 & 9 hydrate, bitter orange soothes and annatto seed extract purifies. The all-natural formula removes face and eye makeup for a transformative cleansing experience and a healthy, luminous glow. Ophthalmologist tested. 100 ml £32.00
Sisley
Black Rose Precious Face Oil is Sisley’s first skin care oil for dry or mature skin. With a high concentration of active ingredients, this silky-smooth dry oil prepares, nourishes and has an anti-aging effect: Rich in omega 3 and 6, it prepares the skin to receive its daily skin care. With its powerful blend of plant-based active ingredients that nourish, regenerate and protect (Padina pavonica, Unsaponifiables of avocado and natural Tocopherols), this oil provides the essential elements for the skin’s vitality and youthfulness. Plum and Camelina oils maintain the lipid balance of the epidermis. Black Rose extract lies at the heart of the formula and lends a wonderful silky softness. It is combined with essential oils of Bulgarian Rose and Magnolia which have toning and soothing properties for a delicious awakening of the senses. Visibly smooths wrinkles and fine lines, revitalizes the skin and gives a radiant complexion. 25 ml £136.00
Stop
Stop Night Cream Exclusive to SpaceNK Stress less, dream big. Slightly richer than the day cream in the same range, this nourishing formula is designed to hydrate and protect skin overnight. It contains a concentrated blend of powerful actives including the 'youth molecule' resveratrol and anti-glycation agent carnosine.Resveratrol is an organic chemical produced by a number of plants and is one of the most powerful antioxidants ever discovered, with an incredible ability to counteract environmental damage. A multi-tasker, it’s also a powerful stimulator of sirtuin genes, which enhance cell longevity. Carnosine is a natural protein in the body, and is another potent anti-oxidant. It also helps prevent the binding of proteins that occurs in glycation: the process by which sugar molecules in the bloodstream bind to collagen in the skin, stiffening the collagen fibres and causing skin to lose its youthful suppleness. 50 ml £40.00

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2011
Revive
Revive Intensite Line Erasing Serum Powered by RES Technology and featuring Line Relaxing Complex, this potent serum dramatically softens the appearance of lines and wrinkles for natural looking facial rejuvenation. The targeted, clinical formula works instantly and overtime to visibly firm and tighten skin, correcting the appearance of deep facial lines and wrinkles while preventing new damage. Skin will be luxuriously smoothed and softened for a lifted, youthful, radiant future. 30 ml £380.00
NuFace
NuFace Mini Facial Toning Device The NuFACE mini is a petite, portable microcurrent facial toning device that is FDA- cleared for facial stimulation. Provides a 5 minute facial-lift on the go. The NuFACE mini is a petite, portable microcurrent facial toning device that is FDA- cleared for facial stimulation. The mini gently stimulates the larger surface areas of the face to improve your appearance to provide a 5 minute facial-lift. Compact and convenient, it’s the perfect starter kit or for travel on-the-go. Clinically-tested for improved facial contour, skin tone and reduced wrinkles in as little as 5 minutes a day. Ideal for – Beauty Seekers who want to lift, tone and contour- lift jowls, contour jawline, reduce nasal labial folds and wrinkles, lift eye brows, open eyes. £180.00
Perricone
Perricone Hyalo Plasma. A powerful treatment with three forms of Hyaluronic Acid to deliver the appearance of youthful convexity. Specifically enhanced to nourishes the collagen responsible for firmness, imparting the appearance of fuller, more supple skin while restoring youthful convexity. Creates a customized action that intelligently identifies, adapts and addresses skin’s individual hydration needs no matter what skin type. Superbly prepares the skin for makeup application. Oil-free, luxurious in texture and fast absorbing; a hybrid between a serum and a cream. 30 ml £110.00

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2011
NuFace
NuFace Trinity Wrinkle Reducer The NuFACE Trinity Wrinkle Reducer Attachment is a red LED treatment attachment, FDA-cleared for the treatment of full-face wrinkles to be used with the NuFACE Trinity Device. The Trinity Wrinkle Reducer delivers a precise combination of red, amber and infrared light that penetrates different depths of the dermis, targeting fine lines and deeper wrinkles. The Trinity Wrinkle Reducer naturally reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
£135.00
Bare Minerals
Bare Minerals Whipped Velvet Eye Color is a new rich, cream eyeshadow that transformed to a matte finish on the set. These have a velvety, mousse texture with an easy to blend formula that allows for long wear without creasing. The sponge applicator has a 45 degree angle that allows color to be easily applied all over the eye. You get four full size shades in this:  Whipped Velvet Long-Wear Eyecolor in Royal Violet  Whipped Velvet Long-Wear Eyecolor in Opulent Taupe  Whipped Velvet Long-Wear Eyecolor in Luxe Brown  Whipped Velvet Long-Wear Eyecolor in Rich Stone The set is $32 and getting massive reviews on QVC.com.
Avon
Avon Ultra Matte Color Lipstick are a velvety rich formula according to Avon with True Color Technology so what you see in the tube is the same color you get on your lips. Shades:  Matte Amethyst  Matte Berry  Matte Ruby  Matte Nude  Matte Melon  Matte Fuchsia Avon Ultra Matte Color Lipstick are available now at www.avon.com.

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2011
MAC
MAC collaborates With Brooke Shields for a new upcoming collection inspired by the legendary actress with gorgeous shades of color Brooke Shields own favourite looks for day and night – easy, modern and beautiful. This limited edition MAC Beauty Icon Collection is made all the more special with Brooke’s signature embossed on light grey packaging with brilliant orange accents.
Illamasqua
Ready for take off captain! Illamasqua teams Up With Virgin Atlantic to celebrate its 30th Anniversary in style revealing redesigned iconic red uniforms. And of course, to go along with them Illamasqua hops on board with a Glamore Lipstick shade, entitled Virgin, that was designed exclusively for Virgin Atlantic. Illamasqua will be Virgin Atlantic’s makeup of choice for all ground staff and cabin crew with a fresh makeup look that was designed exclusively for the airline!Virgin Atlantic’s new look conveys simple yet incredibly stylish charm and this can be seen in the make-up with soft natural definition to the eyes and brows and subtle contouring to create a complementary shape to the face.
Illamasqua created a lipstick to specifically match Virgin Atlantic’s famous vibrant red uniform which is entitled Virgin ! Illamasqua Glamore Lipstick in Virgin is a hydrating, satin finish lipstick, appropriately named Virgin and offers ultimate comfort and smooth application without compromising on color. Virgin Atlantic’s model above wears Skin Base Foundation and Skin Base Lift to create her flawless skin finish, followed by Sculpting Duo and Powder Blusher in Lover to add a natural flush of color and definition to the cheekbones. The eyes are created using the Neutral Palette which provides a quad of shadows that work together to add awakening brightness and soft smoke. These are then further defined with a generous coat of Masquara in Raven. Finally, the look is finished with Lip Pencil in Lust and that all- important Glamore Lipstick in Virgin (Make-up by Illamasqua South Trainer, Clare Lille). The Illamasqua Glamore Lipstick in Virgin is available on illamasqua.com now!

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Topshop
Top Shop is creeping into the base makeup range as this week they debuted a new Concealer Palette as well as a liquid Foundation. Top Shop The Concealer Palette $18 A selection of three concealers that can be mixed and matched as well as a translucent finishing powder to set. Top Shop Concealer $16 Formulated for dark circles and blemishes this easy blend formula is available in several shades!
Top Shop The Foundation $20 Available in several shades Top Shop’s foundation formula is skin tone adapting with medium coverage foundation for a true-to-skin finish! The new Top Shop Foundation and Concealer range is available now
Avon
The new Avon Anew Vitale Skincare is marketed to restore your skin’s luminosity and glow within a week of use. Avon Anew Vitale Day Cream Broad Spectrum SPF 25 Formulated with Avon’s VitaToneComplex this day cream contains an SPF 25 to protect skin and is formulated to work in a week’s time to get more even toned and vibrant skin, restoring your lit from within glow! Avon Anew Vitale Night Cream Formulated with Avon’s VitaToneComplex this night cream is formulated to work in a week’s time to get more even toned and vibrant skin, restoring your lit from within glow!
Avon Anew Vitale Gel Cleanser A cleanser that won’t try skin and is promoted to be gentle enough to use around eyes and powered by VitaToneComplex to even out skin tone and get your glow back! Avon Anew Vitale Eye Gel Cream Avon’s new Vitale Eye Gel Cream adds moisture under eyes and a touch of radiance for a more lifted, awake eye look! The new Avon Anew Vitale Skincare Collection is available now at avon.com.

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Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Sparkle Eyeshadow & Eyeliner ($29) gives eyes rich color or can be used as a liner and smudged out for a sparkly smokey look! The long wearing creamy formula promises up to 12 hour of wear without creasing or smudging! Shades:  Midnight Forest  Night Sky  Smoky Topaz  Sunlit Bronze  Thunderstorm Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Sparkle Eyeshadow & Eyeliner is available now at Bobbi Brown counters or online at nordstrom.com.
NARS
Looks like NARS Spring 2015 will include a new Christopher Kane for NARS Collection! In conjunction with Christopher Kane, NARS Cosmetics will launch a full color makeup collection featuring products for eyes, lips, and cheeks! “NARS has been a long-standing and valued partner of ours, so this collaboration was an obvious fit,” said Christopher Kane. “NARS has the same unapologetic aesthetic that is signature to the Christopher Kane brand and I’m excited to share what we’ve created together.” NARS and Christopher Kane collaborated on shows at London Fashion Week since 2012 so it was only a matter of time the duo teamed up to create a full color cosmetic collection! The collection combines NARS’ iconic and bold beauty philosophy with Christopher’s unexpected and innovative design aesthetic.
Lioele
Lioele Crystal Balm Lip Lacquer is a hybrid formula lipstain, gloss, and balm all in one that launched in Korea in four different shades.
Lioele Crystal Balm Lip Lacquer is a thick, balmy gloss has the full coverage of a lipstick, the lovely shine of a gloss, the texture of a balm and the long wear of a lip stain Available now at ebay.com from seller F2Plus1.

Oct 2014
2011
MAC
MAC is introducing a Rocky Horror Picture Show Collection for Halloween 2014 With 40 wonderful years under its belt, the Rocky Horror Picture Show is kicking things up in style for their 40th anniversary with a new MAC Collaboration. In 1975, the cult classic film came to life bringing together UNFORGETTABLE characters! This Fall, MAC adds to the legend by introducing an incredible collection of makeup as an ode to the classic film and characters! The MAC Rocky Horror Show Collection launches October 2 at MAC stores only and at maccosmetics.com September 29, 2014.
Zoella
The secret to beauty blogger Zoella's success lies surely in how relatable she is. From her bedroom somewhere in the UK, Zoella, real name Zoe Sugg, has been connecting with over six million teenage subscribers (aged between 11 and 17 years old) who tune in adoringly to her ultra-friendly beauty tutorials. Pint-sized 24-year-old Sugg is of course saccharin sweet, but she's also sharp as a pin. She has nailed the ability to connect with the viewer, in a "real girl" kind of way, and her how-tos we have to admit, are addictive. In a world of airbrushed beauty campaigns fronted by elusive models, her unmasked, open-minded, true-to-self tutorials are refreshing to say the least, and of course utterly appealing to young teenage girls. Zoella puts it down to, "girls wanting to relate to a normal personal, it's a truthful place. And it's about finding a connection with that person, and as a viewer you can be selective, if you like what they say you can go back for more." Zoella's nature means she wears her imperfections and flaws on camera, makes them a subject of her tutorials, and because she's so smart has just created a range of cutesy bath and body products to ease the nerves, because she too suffers from anxiety. "I just want to offer that reassurance, and let girls know someone else has those same issues. It really is a normal thing. If I was 14, I'd like to hear that from someone I looked up to as well," she's right.
On her anxiety, Zoella explains how she's not actually a natural in front of the camera, "I used to be so nervous, but over time the camera becomes your friend," along with a few million more apparently. But she admits for bloggers starting off now, "it's a lot more daunting, there's just a lot more pressure," so she lends some advice that's put her in good stead; "be yourself, talk about things that you are passionate about and that you enjoy. And ask around - does anyone you know make videos?"

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And this is where her nifty product marketing move comes in; "when life catches up with us we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath and beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place," she says. If you're wondering how they smell, "uh-may-zing scents," says Zoella, and she's talking about a grapefruit, jasmine and musk blend here, that probably does more to appease a teenage audience. And it's all in "utterly adorable packaging, it's all just too precious not to share!" she tells us. If you want a share, you'll have to part with between £4 and £10 (at feelunique.com), - another accessible move. Wondering how someone so deeply connected with the public eye manages to find that "me time"? Zoella says it's something she has to be considered about; "there are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now." Plus, she relies on a few apps to keep her calm, Headspace and Relax Melodies, and unsurprisingly takes time out to read other blogs, including her best friend's Sprinkle of Glitter, Velvet Gloss and Sacconejols, "an Irish family of bloggers, who are a bit like the new reality TV box set you want to watch again and again," says Zoella. And there's always chocolate, which she admits she's addicted to. Back to her products. If you are going to buy one, or two, or the entire collection of five (plus two cases) here's Zoella's how-to - we know how you love them - on getting to that "happy place": "Run your bath, pour some Soak Opera bubble bath in. Break off a square of Fizz Bar and drop into the bath. Light the Let's Glow candle. And soak. Apply the Creamy Madly Deeply Body Lotion after you bath, and add a spritz of Blissful Mistful to go." "So, breathe deep, be yourself and drift away on a calming cloud of serene scents, dreamy creams and a fun pop of froth and fizz - trust me, 'Instant Happy'!" she says
Shu Uemura
Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette reveals 'Shupette', her new collection in collaboration with Shu Uemura The beauty world is just as smitten with that kitten named Choupette. Karl Lagerfeld's fluffy dearest Chou Chou has just been asked by beauty company Shu Uemura to design yet a collection of cosmetics for Christmas 2014, and this is the sneak peek. "The secret to my #beauty is out! Fluff, puff, and plump with my @shuuemura_ww collection! #shuuemura #Choupette," said Choupette from her Instagram account. The collaboration, neatly named "Shupette," will, says Shu Uemura, makes us "all purr with delight" - their words not ours. We do however think it's rather pleasing - no surprise as we hear Choupette's owner Karl had a little say in the design aesthetic too.
Lagerfeld, a good friend of the late Mr Uemura, has a long-standing relationship with the Japanese beauty brand - he famously does all his sketches using its make-up pencils. And of course this isn't Lagerfeld's first foray into design for the company; remember his lovely little Mon Shu collection back in 2012? (We still have memorabilia). While it's not the feline's first taste of fashion (she has of course just unveiled a new accessories line) It is however Shu's first collaboration with a cat. Described by Shu Uemura as "the snow-white long haired pussycat princess," Choupette's self-portrait, created by Lagerfeld, does decorate the Christmas collection beautifully. You'll find her pretty little self fronting six of Shu Uemura's most iconic products, from curlers and creams, to its powders, palettes and UV Under Base Mousse. Prices start from £17.50 and the fe-line goes on sale in November at www.shuuemura.co.uk.

Oct 2014
2011
Naked Nail Trend
Get your hands on some cuticle oil (try Essie's or Solar Oil), some hand cream (we like L'Occitane's and Deciem's) and find your perfect-match nude polish, because if you nail the fashion for healthy hands and manicures, then you've pretty much cracked the spring/summer 2015 nail trend. Forget rainbow colours and fancy-pants nail art, according to nail galleries of the world's leading nail artists doing the rounds at London Fashion Week, next season we'll be painting our fingers with a new healthy-wealthy finish.
MAC
MAC Cosmetics create more runway beauty looks than any other make-up brand (more than 200 shows were covered last season, MAC artists using 800 sets of lashes and waving 3,810 wands of mascara at the last count). So if any brand is going to predict what we're going to be wearing on our faces in six months time - even though we've got London, Paris and Milan spring/summer 2015 fashion weeks still to go - it is MAC. Which is why we wanted to tell you about their SS15 Forecast Palettes. Unveiled today these two palettes give us a snapshot into the colours we'll be wearing on our eyes, lips and cheeks say their leading global team of make-up artists, who include Val Garland, Andrew Gallimore and Lucia Pieroni. Get your hands on one of the Forecast Palettes, £35, and you'll be "equipped with all the essentials shades for the season," says director of make-up artistry at MAC Terry Barber (lined up to lead the make-up at Antipodium and Marques' Almeida by the by) - and all six months ahead of schedule to boot.
"From a mushroom glaze, pastel wash, or an inky, stained smoke on the eye to Nineties inspired neutrals and chic, blue-toned red on the lips, the palettes speak of modern sophistication and balmy, sumptuous classics," Barber explains. In real talk, that means one palette for the eyes, with a surprisingly autumnal matte palette of green, taupe tones, aubergine and plum, and another for the lips and cheeks in a beige through to crimson colour-wheel with oranges, coral and reds in-between. We look forward to getting our eye in to said colour trends as we cover the backstage beauty for spring/summer 2015 in the coming weeks.

Oct 2014
2011
Estee Lauder
The product is part of a new line the brand is launching called Enlighten, which is targeted to address discoloration. In case you've missed it, there's been a ton of research lately about how the environment affects our skin. (In a nutshell, the worse pollution gets, the worse we'll look when we're older.) Oxidative stress and free-radical damage caused by pollutants have been linked to an increase in dark spots and hyperpigmentation — which are rapidly becoming the token skin concerns of our generation. The EE is designed to be just one element of protecting the complexion, while the other products (a night cream and a moisturizer) focus more on treatment. (Kudos to Estée Lauder for not pretending like this is miracle makeup that will cure everything.) "It's been developed to create an immediately even effect and a more uniform tone," says Nadine Pernodet, MD, the vice president of research at Estée Lauder. (This is different from the flash-in-the-pan "Extra Exfoliating" cream from earlier this year.) "It's a woman's first line of defense against daytime damage — for example, when you're walking to and from work."
The color correction happens thanks to a blend of pigments and optics that cheat a natural-looking radiance. This isn't exactly a new concept in the world of makeup, but it's a lot more compelling because it's easy to blend and comes with SPF 30. When you apply the EE with your fingers, it has an instant brightening effect — almost like Touche-Éclat -meets-BB-cream. You could add more to the tops of your cheekbones, the bridge of your nose, under your eyes, the center of your forehead, and your chin for luminosity, without looking dewy or heavy.
"Estée Lauder's BB creams offer sheer, buildable coverage," says Dr. Pernodet. "This is designed to create an instant uniform tone." We like to think of it as an SPF concealer — in bottle format. Get ready for the onslaught of EE creams inevitably coming our way after this launch.
Jo Malone
Jo Malone London Christmas Advent Calendar, £250, www.jomalone.co.uk
OK, so we've met some beauty advent calendars in our time, but this is the Rolls Royce of Christmas countdowns. Packed full of little Jo Malone London luxuries, if we had this in our lives we'd actually be disappointed when the big day came…as it would spell an end to our daily treats.

Oct 2014
2011
Chanel
Chanel Rouge Allure Gloss, £26, for stockists call 020 7493 3836
We just knew that when Chanel joined the glossy stain party they would have something special to offer; and we haven't been disappointed. Bringing nine covetable shades to the table, the Rouge Allue Glosses give high-pigment high- impact glossy colour in one click. We love 'Suprême' for a punchy autumn pink.
BareMinerals
BareMinerals BareSkin Foundation, £26, www.bareminerals.co.uk
Forget foundation with a touch of skincare, if you prefer skincare with a side helping of colour, BareMinerals' new BareSkin formula is one for you. Part glowing colour base, part brightening serum, the super-smooth foundation is a light but buildable liquid perfect for the summer-to-autumn transition. Apply with the clever Perfecting Face Brush (£24) for guaranteed skin success.
Laneige
Finding the perfect concealer is probably one beauty dilemma that is plaguing many women. A liquid formula concealer offers moisture but lacks in coverage, while a balm-type concealer gives the ideal coverage but tends to be dry and result in a cakey texture, resulting in fine lines on the area it's applied on. At the forefront of K-beauty, the researchers at Laneige has identified this issue and developed their very own Watery Cushion Concealer to address the concerns. With Long Lasting High Coverage that adheres like a second skin and dual effect moist flocking puff that lightens blemishes with repeated use. Using feather-light strokes, apply Laneige Watery Cushion Concealer on concerned areas and blend using the ring finger in a gentle tapping motion. Available in three shades.

Oct 2014
2011
Dr Brandt
Dr. Brandt Skincare Laser FX Bright Serum
What it is: A brightening serum that targets and corrects skin discolorations while improving the look of dark spots and skintone. What it is formulated to do: Laser FX Bright Serum fades dark spots and discoloration for a more even, uniform, and brighter skintone. It prevents future spots from resurfacing, and helps fight photo aging including infrared-induced aging and thermal aging.
What else you need to know: This serum is inspired by laser procedures performed at Dr. Brandt’s medical office. For optimum results, Dr. Brandt recommends to use daily UV protection with SPF 30 or higher, such as BB Flexitone, and avoid prolonged times of sun exposure. Thermal aging involves heat stressors that can damage collagen and elastin, causing accelerated and premature aging including wrinkles, skin discoloration, and sun spots. Research results: In a clinical test conducted on 25 volunteers who used the product morning and evening for 4 weeks, in a measure of luminosity and overall pigmentation: - 88% instantly experienced a more luminous complexion - 76% saw brighter skin after 1 week - 72% saw visibly diffused imperfections after 2 weeks - 88% saw dark spots and discolorations fade after 3 weeks - 88% saw more radiant and even skin after 4 weeks
$78.00
MAC
MAC The Matte Lip Collection. Featuring matte shades for lips and cheeks this new fall 2015 MAC color collection is definitely worth checking out.
Availability
International Launch Date – 9 October 2014 at MAC Locations
Japan Launch Date – 1 October 2014

Oct 2014
2011
McDonalds
Hungry for a McDonald's but short of cash? No problem, if you live in Sweden.
The fast food restaurant chain has rolled out a green festival campaign, which sees it accept empty cans as a form of currency in a bid to get people to clean up their act.
McDonald’s stores, mainly near festivals and green spaces, are hosting billboards announcing it accepts "cards, cash and cans".
One clever twist is the billboards also dispense black plastic bags for revellers with a printed 'price list.'
For 10 cans hungry festival goers can cash in on a hamburger. And those with more of an appetite can swap 40 cans for a Big Mac. Yum.
Harrods
Harrods has performed a revamp nothing short of divine on its shoe department, making it now the largest luxury shoe destination in the world.
The 17 interconnected bespoke boutiques, some of which have been designed to reflect signature features of the brands, ooze opulence and allure. Flats, heels and boots - there is something to meet all tastes - glimmer impressively on every wall.
To mark the opening of their new shoe salon, Harrods have launched Stiletto Wars, its own App which challenges players to form rows of designer shoes against the clock. You can then submit your score to a leader board for a chance to win a £500 Harrods Gift Card and a Harrods VIP shopping experience, so Shoe Heaven could be closer than you think.

Oct 2014
2011
Fashion Week SS15
New York
Michael Kors
Much of the collection was a variation of the streamlined circle-skirt and sweater girl Fifties template. The florals became denser, more textured, in embroidered layers on gauze, only sometimes replaced with latticing. The skirts were occasionally matched with angora-fluffy jumpers or a man's shirt left unlinked to allow its cuffs to unfold over the model's hands - one of which almost invariably slung a satchel.
Jason Wu

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2011
Jason Wu's second outing for Hugo Boss delivered sleek, gently-demonstrative attire for conservative consumers of taste. Darkest-blue trousers and jackets came delicately edged with lighter, lurex-blue colouring. Dramatic show shoes - super high gladiators - played foil to straight-man fitted dresses gridded with Stanley knife rhomboidal pattern. Any flirtation with decadence was tempered with a stolid counterpoint; thus a sheer skirt was topped by a blazer. Rippled steamed-window plissé formed the outer shell of neat skirts and clinical evening dresses
Proenza Schouler
Argyle was pared back to its basic lines then imprinted in serrated black and blue onto white leather, or turned into a vacuum patter on tops with the diamond lines cut out like a stencil. The check, meanwhile, was washed out then applied in panels to the overcoats worn over panelled leather trousers or hybridised against white python relief lace.The designers' favourite python hissed again across trenches or the chest panels of polo shirty dresses. Using a basket mesh of what looked like raffia, the designers produced skirts of delicious 'swishiness' - they danced from left to right - and at the end avalanched via fringing south of a great check vest-neck dress worn with a duster clutch bag.
Ralph Lauran

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2011
For next summer's collection Lauren took two far-removed genres - rugged adventure gear and feather-light, ultra-bright, high glamour - then adroitly mixed them together. Box pleat flap pockets and epaulettes featured on an open-backed white silk gown with a metallic-treated webbing belt at its waist. That mannish classic, the safari jacket; a close relative to the US Army M65, was turned into a semi-sheer floating shirtlet of gazaar in poppy red and fluoro-tinted lime.
London
Jonathan Saunders
It takes a steady hand to marshal as many disparate elements as Saunders had in his collection and produce an end product of such focus and beauty. His Lurex flashes, collarless shirts in classic menswear patterns, kimono-belted jackets and trousers, organza ruffles, and cropped leather jackets could have bickered busily, but got along swimmingly. The palette was Cornish crockery shot through with milk chocolate and olive, and there were plenty of Matisse-ish leaf cutouts. My favourite pieces were the green and blue leaf-print cotton dresses, gathered at the neck and calf.
Roksanda

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2011
Less statuesque princess than previously, this Roksanda collection displayed an impressive facility for making rowing blazer colour clashes easy on the eye. Valentino ruffles adorned shoulders, waists and hems, and loose-but- fitted dresses pulsed with competing strip splodges of collage. A few safely monotone, belted, waisted dresses and easy-to-wear orange and navy contra-ribbed sweatshirts apart, this was a tricksily look-at-me collection that on the whole merited the looking. Nicholas Kirkwood's panelled flats were Grand Designs for the feet.
Mary Katrantzou
Teenagers forced to endure double geography should check out Katrantzou's show: it was a comprehensive geology lesson, complete with a catwalk of sparkling crystallised black magma. That magma was actually rubber chips, but everything else was authentic: eveningwear with glittering panels inspired by tectonic plates; lace woven to represent foliage on minidresses; tropical fish embroidered on the barnacled crystal surface of a shift dress. Not one to disappoint, Katrantzou gave the Creationists serpent-embroidered minidresses, constructed from scale- woven python guipure lace. Who cares about Original Sin when cover-ups are this tempting?
Paul Smith

Oct 2014
2011
There was a sense that everyone at the Paul Smith show was mentally making space in their own wardrobes for the clothes he put out for spring - a series of wearable, modern classics in khaki, china blue, grey, black, white, with a flash of red in the stripes. Five things we'd like to order right now? A couple of those roomy, round-necked cotton shirts. The leather-fringed tunic. The striped drop-waist dress with a pleated skirt. A squashy, two-tone tote. A pair of loose- fit, deckchair-striped shorts. There's more, Sir Paul, but that'll do for starters.
Milan
John Birt
John Birt - he who claimed the tax back on his Armani suits while director general of the BBC - was in Milan to see this vintage collection. Great grey suiting teamed with season-defying shorts, opened the show. Then came black or grey daywear that featured soft leather jackets, a fantastic double-lapel blouse, and the odd growl of animal print. These were teamed with briefcase-handbags and twists of lime for eye-appeal zing. More lime zinged in an evening wear section that showed red carpet dresses - and party wear - needn't look leaden and stiff.
Prada

Oct 2014
2011
Let's begin with librarian-length pinafore dresses cut as loose as overalls. Make them transparent and layer over printed boy pants and we're approaching that familiar cat-and-mouse territory Prada likes to inhabit when it comes to kinky sexuality. In store they will come lined. Rubberised tango shoes and red-wedged knee-high boots added two more of the deliberately jarring notes Prada fans adore. Classic clothes were threaded in almost surreptitiously: Bauhaus-print pea coats and graceful silk dresses in melancholy but beautiful shades of autumn.
Dolce & Gabbana
And so to that medieval sense of simplicity, with its slightly raised waists, sweeping sleeves and gently flaring silhouette, which looks just as lovely today, albeit in tweaked and highly romanticised versions. If only Eleanor of Aquitaine had been at this show. She would surely have adored the woodland influences - the wool, felt or velvet owls, foxes, squirrels and wolves that were bonded on to short cape-coats, silk-brocade skirts, jewelled slippers and crystal-encrusted bags. The craftsmanship was as playful as it was skilled
Missoni

Oct 2014
2011
A tweedy, greeny-brown knee-length skirt with a poppy blue seam of colour at its thigh-high split was the winner in this mixed-up collection. It played on sportswear: oddly-cut combats, hoodies, bumbags and knee-socks pulled high. Sometimes these looks scored. Just as often they missed completely.
Valentino
Paris
The idea of the collection was as a Grand Tour through Italy, an ode to the country through an outsider's eye. Those opening, five-ish trousery looks seemed the traveller's uniforms, and the phases of dresses we then encountered - feathered, painted, rainbow-strafed, foliaged cut leather, under linen painted macs, crepe, layered silks - seemed the scrapbooked impressions of the designers' Romantic wanderings. But you should look through the pictures and embark on that 80-plus look Valentino Grand Tour yourself. Because as that expatriate in Italy - and this-collection inspiration - Stendhal so rightly reckoned: "pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
Celine

Oct 2014
2011
Celine was light and at times playful (curvy dresses with loopy fringes?). It's possible too, perhaps, that the straps attached to the dresses and tunics, some of them reminiscent of those on JW Anderson's knitwear, others dangling, symbolise an unbuckling of the Céline armour. And there's a lovely thrown-together look about the sleeveless ivory jumpsuits, with their tracks of contrasting buttons, and the belted jackets and maxi skirts, which featured a motif that looked like tailor's tacking marks.
Chanel
What Chanel's brand of feminism really boils down to is wearable items - and lots of them. Need a classic-but-not- boring navy and cream tweed trouser suit? A cute-but-grown-up splodge-patterned wool skirt? Military-glam khaki cropped turn-ups? Silky shirt-dresses? Thigh length Breton knit cardigans? Pinstripe long shorts? Seek no further. There was even a handful of beautiful navy T-shirt shaped evening dresses, composed of tiny metallic tiles that one could imagine wearing if one lived the life one was meant to be living. That too was quite radical. Most catwalk evening dresses these days appear to have been designed for Cate Blanchett at her Blanchiest. "This was not about red carpet moments," said Lagerfeld firmly, "but about clothes all women could wear".
Hermes

Oct 2014
2011
The idea of wrapping was evident from the start; buttermilk-coloured water snake dresses featured shawl necklines, it gave the idea of cocooning and protection. Elsewhere, crisp poplin white shirts and side-slit skirts had a length of suede that wrapped around the waist and knotted in a sash. Another highlight was the inky blue leather shirt and tailored indigo Capri jeans combo, and the blown-up scarf prints, which were transferred onto loose, tonal bordeaux suede dresses.
Ikea
"Every once in a while, something comes along that changes the way we live," says Ikea's "chief design guru" Jorgan Eghammer, in a hilarious ad by the Swedish furniture retailer.
In a parody of an Apple iPad launch, the two- and-a-half minute ad reveals the Ikea 2015 catalogue – "a device so simple and intuitive it feels almost familiar".
In fact, the "Bookbook" is so hi-tech it even comes fully charged with eternal battery power and doesn’t even need cables.
Navigation is based on tactile touch technology – where users can swipe right and left. What’s more, all the pages are preloaded, so no need to wait around for the catalogue to load. Users can even ‘share it’ with others – by simply handing it around.
It’s a sharp, witty and clever ad that makes a catalogue launch decidedly more exciting than usual.
Greggs
To herald the roll-out of its new hot dog, Greggs went to the spiritual home of the snack, New York, to see what the city's notoriously picky residents thought of the bakery chain's new product.
Greggs armed itself with several hundred hot dogs and fresh rolls and took a tour of the Big Apple's most famous landmarks, including Times Square.
The stunt saw Greggs set up its own limited edition street stall and, somewhat audaciously, give hot dogs to New Yorkers and seek their comments.

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"My name is Lou, I'm a native New Yorker and I approve of this hot dog," said one resident during the YouTube film, in a parody of a political campaign spot.
The film runs to nearly two minutes and Greggs will also promote its campaign on Twitter by rewarding one customer who posts a picture of their hot dog with the #HotDogsOnTour hashtag with a trip to New York.
The approval of one of the world's street-food capitals paves the way for the roll-out of Greggs hot dogs to 1,700 shops across the UK.
Graeme Nash, head of customer and marketing for Greggs, said: "We wanted a campaign that not only showed how excited we are to introduce our new hot dog, but also demonstrate its quality credentials, by conducting the ultimate taste test."
Dove
The Dove Self-Esteem Project has reached 14 million young people to date, with the aim of easing their beauty related pressures. But for its latest confidence boosting strategy its speaking to their mother's. Dove's new film, entitled "Legacy," is going on to prove the power of a positive role the generation before them plays in how young girls feel about beauty. "The way girls feel about their beauty starts with how we (women!) feel about ours," says Dove. The project is driving home the message that when girls have a positive role model, they shake off anxieties associated with the way they look. "Essentially, when mothers and role models recognise their beauty and express it with confidence, their girls are learning to do the same with their own looks and bodies," Dove adds.
Don't take Dove's words for it though, watch the film instead; what Legacy does make clear is how inextricably linked a mother and daughter's attitude towards beauty is - subconscious or conscious, positive or negative. In the film you'll see a mother, Sarah, and her daughter, Phoenix aged seven, both independently talk in to the same tune about their legs; "I'm not keen on my legs but I just try to focus on the fact that they are very strong and that I'm a very good runner," says Sarah. Later in the film Phoenix is asked "why do you like your legs?", "because they're good for running," she answers. While Dove agrees however that the mother-daughter relationship is the biggest influencer, in fact a girl will have three major female role models when it comes to how she feels about beauty. For the study, Dove asked 900 girls between seven and 17-years old, in six countries, to rank their beauty guides in order and this is how the list looked: mother, step-mother, guardians, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, extended family, teachers, friends, world leaders, writers, authors and artists, actresses, musicians, models, business leaders, religious leaders, community activists, counsellors, characters in books and movies. So the message is, while you may not have a daughter, or for that matter be a world leader, it's more than likely you are playing an influential beauty role over somebody's little girl. When Dove's last piece of research suggested that 71 per cent of girls feel the pressure to be beautiful, and a startling eight out of 10 didn't like one aspect of their physical appearance, the beauty company agreed that the next step needed our involvement. "Whether she is a mother, aunt, coach, teacher, or sister, every woman has the opportunity to make a difference to a girl's self-esteem," says Lucy Attley, Dove UK brand director. "By ensuring their own beauty legacy is positive, all women can help the next generation of girls grow up to be happy and content, free from the pressure of beauty stereotypes and the burden of self-doubt." Watch the film and become a beauty legacy, a good one.

Oct 2014
2011
Burberry
Burberry has put consumers at the centre of its launch campaign for My Burberry perfume, and brought together its star models Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss for the first time.
The campaign is themed around the fact that customers can have their initials carved on a 90ml My Burberry bottle for free, as part of Burberry's new monogramming service.Consumers can create their own virtual monogrammed bottles through interactive TV, billboard and social media ads.
Smartphone users passing Burberry’s interactive billboards in Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden in London, or the Meatpacking district in New York, will be able to submit their details via a dedicated site to see their monogrammed bottle appear live on screen.
After users enter their details on myburberry.com, their device will show a countdown until their personalised video appears. Their phone will then show directions to the nearest Burberry store.
Burberry has also partnered with Channel 4 to create similar personalised ads for registered 4oD desktop viewers.The ad spot will display "Monogrammed for" with the viewer’s name, then end by showing their monogrammed bottle.Social media users will be able to create their own monogrammed bottles from within the Twitter and Facebook apps, while Google will offer the same functionality through interactive ads.
The My Burberry name pays homage to the brand’s iconic trench coats, often referred to by their owners as ‘my Burberry’.The campaign was devised by chief creative and chief executive officer Christopher Bailey and features Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne together for the first time, shot by Mario Testino.
The Body Shop
The Body Shop has launched Red Musk, a new fragrance for women. Ready to spice things up? Discover the hot NEW Red Musk™ collection, an intensely different feminine fragrance that is heating up the perfume establishment with its smouldering blend of spiced musk with hot notes of pepper, cinnamon and tobacco – and no flowers! Red Musk was developed by perfumer Corinne Cachen. The Body Shop Red Musk is available in 60 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum and in 30 ml Perfume Oil.

Oct 2014
2011
Nobile 1942
Italian niche line Nobile 1942 has launched Rudis, a new fragrance.Rudis is the first part of a paradigm shift in the history of Nobile 1942 - a new direction, towards strong, intense and opulent scents - created by the Newcomer of the Year: Antonio Alessandria. The first fragrance of this collection is dedicated to a special characteristic: strength. "Rudis" was the wooden sword that was used in ancient Rome of gladiators during their training. It was designed in wood and for training purposes and should not cause any injuries. However, "Rudis" was also the symbol of freedom and courage. The sword was a gift that a gladiator got, when he got rid of his status as a slave - as a reward for the bravery he had shown during the battles. "Rudis" is the beginning of "Gladiator career", as well as for the ultimate goal: freedom.The notes include wine accord, dry fruits, rose, geranium, cedar, leather, patchouli, vetiver and incense. Nobile 1942 Rudis can be found now at Jovoy Paris in France or Essenze Nobile in Germany, €195 for 75 ml Eau de Parfum.
Parfums d’Orsay
French brand Parfums d’Orsay will launch Al Kimiya, a new luxury collection of layerable fragrances. The initial duo includes Oud et Bois and Ambre et Musc. Oud et Bois ~ "Al-Kimiya Oud et Bois is a dark combination made of oud resin and patchouli. The fragrance is a fest of this two essences and Oud et Bois wants to celebrate its sacred and aphrodisiac strengths. To ensure additional warmth labdanum has been added, gets an enhancement by cypriol and pushed to the limit with elemi. Oud et Bois is a liquid oriental myth - its a sulfuring perfume. Its notes: Elemi, Australian Sandalwood, Genuine Oud Wood from Laos, Patchouli, Cypriol, Frankincense, Labdanum, Golden Stone and Amberwood."
Ambre et Musc ~ "Ambre et Musc is like a secret between lovers. It is very intimate and caress the wearer like lingerie. It is melting into the skin and becomes a part of it. Ambre et Musc is a skin perfume, a blend of precious and natural essences that slowly reveals its carnal and smooth facets. Amber and benzoin together with the gurjum balm are creating a sensual harmony. It gets powerful support by amberwood, white musk and vanilla - this way it is possible to create a unique and voluptuous signature. The notes of Ambre et Musc: Benzoin, Gurjum, Labdanum, Liatrix, Vanilla, Sandalwood, Amberwood and White musc." Parfums d'Orsay Oud et Bois and Ambre et Musc can be found now for pre-order at Essenza Nobile in Germany, in 40 ml Extrait de Parfum, €185.

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2011
Angela Flanders
London-based indie line Angela Flanders has launched Bleu de Chine, a new limited edition fragrance inspired by vintage Chinese textiles. Many years ago, when I was creating the perfume which became our very successful scent Earl Grey, as so often happens, a second equally interesting version appeared at the time. It was difficult to decide which version to go forward with, in the end I chose the rosier version with Palmarosa, buried deep in the heart. The other fragrance, with Lavender notes, I have always thought of as a Blue scent – Bergamot, Lavender & Patchouli. These last two ingredients, when perfectly blended together, create a third, indefinable scent – and that magic happened here.
Recently our friend Noel Chapman, a consultant designer and textile expert, whilst working in China discovered a cache of wonderful vintage indigo and white resist printed fabrics...Seeing these lovely textiles I was reminded of my Blue perfume and thought what a perfect reflection of the cloth and patterns it would make, and so, at long last, it has been resurrected! Angela Flanders Bleu de Chine is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette and matching candle.
Michel Germain
Michel Germain has launched a new duo of fragrances, Very Sexual and Very Sexual Pour Homme. The tag line: "There's no such thing as too much Sexual."
Very Sexual ~ "Sparkling. Inviting. Irresistible. Inviting, sparkling mandarin, orange blossom, and sweet raspberry entice with heady gardenia and passionate patchouli. Sophisticated black pepper is softened with creamy, delectable vanilla." A fruity oriental; additional notes include ginger lily and amber. $70; Eau de Parfum.
Very Sexual Pour Homme ~ "Seductive. Inviting. Irresistible. Sparkling grapefruit, intoxicating cardamom, and woody juniper berry blend with passionately charming lavender and violet leaf. Seductive, warming amber and sophisticated black pepper mix with an irresistibly masculine suede accord." A woody oriental; additional notes include star anise. $65; Eau de Toilette.
Michel Germain Very Sexual fragrances are available in 75 ml.

Oct 2014
2011
Balmain
Balmain has launched Extatic Intense Gold, a new fragrance for women. Extatic Intense Gold is a flanker to Balmain Extatic. An addictive, heady version of the original Extatic eau de parfum, Balmain Extatic Intense Gold radiates sensual, couture style. The seductive fragrance opens with night-blooming jasmine, which is illuminated, as if by golden light, with heliotrope and vanilla blossom. Wild, carnal, labdanum, with glamorous amber and warm, sunny accords, complete this golden fragrance.
Extatic Intense Gold was developed by perfumer Émilie Coppermann, who also did the original Extatic. Balmain Extatic Intense Gold can be found now at Selfridges in the UK, £70 for 90 ml Eau de Parfum.
Stetson
Stetson has launched Caliber, a new fragrance for men. We would love to introduce you to Stetson Caliber, a new fragrance for the modern gentleman. He still exists— the rare man of honor with a dash of true grit. It may seem old-fashioned, but recent research shows that most people think chivalry is still important today...The Stetson Caliber fragrance opens with notes of sparkling lime and black pepper. The warm heart of the scent contains nutmeg and violet leaf. The Earthy Oakmoss adds depth of character, while the true star is the woody red sequoia note. Embodying the subtle vigor and fervor of the modern cowboy, the Red Sequoia tree gives the fragrance a sexy, masculine finish. Stetson Caliber is available in 15 ($15) and 30 ($19) ml Cologne.
Diane Pernet
Blogger Diane Pernet of A Shaded View on Fashion will launch her debut perfumes later this week. The four unisex fragrances — Wanted, To Be Honest, Shaded and In Pursuit of Magic — were developed under arrangements with Intertrade Group. Wanted ~ "an oriental garden as the mist rolls in", with clove, juniper, nutmeg and musk. To Be Honest ~ "stumbling upon an ancient church while walking through the woods", with myrrh, black pepper, cedar, patchouli, vetiver, leather and amber. Shaded ~ "salty seaside memories" with ocean mist, vetiver, musk and guaiac wood.

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In Pursuit of Magic ~ "a familiar yet parallel world", with citrus. Diane Pernet Wanted, To Be Honest, Shaded and In Pursuit of Magic feature a spider charm by designer Marco Salvucci.
La Perla
Italian lingerie brand La Perla will launch Peony Blossom, a new perfume for women. LA PERLA PEONY BLOSSOM Eau de Toilette reflects a subtle seduction. She is a confident and modern woman: her beauty appears illuminated from within. Satin, silk and pale, crystalline jewels shimmering against bare skin. Her fragrance fascinates, capturing the light. Like a discreet yet perfect diamond to be worn anytime, anywhere, with timeless style.
Peony Blossom features notes of orange blossom, white peach, pear, black currant, jasmine, violet, peony, patchouli, vanilla and musk. La Perla Peony Blossom will be available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette.
Agonist Parfums
Swedish niche line Agonist Parfums will launch White Oud (not shown), a new fragrance celebrating the brand's 10th fragrance launch: "Ten special ingredients, ten tempting aromas, ten years of dedication." To celebrate the release of the tenth fragrance in the collection, AGONIST has created a unique and truly exceptional perfume that combines the depth of OUD with the light and crisp feeling of the Scandinavian north. Exotic touches of ylang ylang flowers, patchouli, and tonka beans are balanced with cypriol and a poetic white musk accord. An ode to the intricate mystery of Nature- a pure essence, whose olfactory sensation is as striking as its caress is delicate on your skin.Additional notes include violet, lily of the valley and rose. Agonist White Oud will be available in 50 ml; look for it in October/November.

Oct 2014
2011
O'Driù Italian niche line O'Driù has launched Pathétique, a new "performance perfume". Pathétique is much more than just a fragrance: it is an art project where the smell is an olfactory synthesis, that can be reached through the various expressive forms and languages that, while staging the pathetic to its maximum, finally manages to overcome it, to revive the creative research in the artistic perfumery.
Extraordinary, out of box – in one word: unique- like all the fragrances created by Angelo Orazio Pregoni for O’DRIÙ – Pathétique is out of any olfactory schemes, offering the originality and continuous evolution. [...] Pathétique, therefore, is not described by listing its ingredients, but through the path that led to its birth. Creating it, Pregoni has played with “the fashion trends” of the contemporary marketing (particularly social media and viral connections phenomena) to desecrate his own world to which he belongs, bringing to the scene and demolishing manias, narcissism, presumptions and out of control stardom. He did all this by implementing a split self, alienating “the pathetic” part of his ego and then interpreting it, that is how Gian Clod, the phenomenal Nose, discoverer of the “goat’s blackberries”, the fictional main fragrance ingredient, was born; then Alessandroecarlomagno, P.R.; the dog waher GustaVino and all the other quirky characters, that make their outline, all this unlikely and parody-like “dynasty” with its familiarities to a third-rate soap opera. This sui generis company, plagued by the pompous ignorance of its management, presents itself in a very pathetic way, adopting the most absurd marketing strategies. Playing the characters of this small world and getting his hands and his imagine dirty without any fear, the odd Nose of O’DRIÙ unmasked the pathetic “real” perfumery with its inner workings and its whole vainness. At the end of this, paradox in another paradox, there is Pathétique - Performance Perfume: in spite of its name and of its fictional creators, it is an astonishing beautiful fragrance and a whole sincere one too.That’s why Pathétique is also “Path Ètique”: “Ethic Path”. The “performance” in the payoff is indeed that one of a perfume that keeps its promise – finally! – not only the on-line Pregoni’s performance...Notes include black truffle accord, bergamot, incense, juniper, black pepper, burned wood accord, moss, mimosa, vetiver and amyris. O'Driù Pathétique is available now at Luckyscent, $210 for 50 ml Eau de Parfum.
Memo
French niche line Memo will launch French Leather, a new unisex fragrance. French Leather joins Irish Leather and Italian Leather in the Cuirs Nomades collection. French Leather centers around rose and suede; additional notes include lime, cedar, sage, musk, vetiver and pink pepper. Memo French Leather will be available in 75 ml Eau de Parfum

Oct 2014
2011
Carven
Carven has launched Carven Pour Homme, a new spicy woody aromatic fragrance for men.If Paris chic were a trail, it would be that of CARVEN POUR HOMME, a racy and elegant essence. A fragrance with woody, spicy, aromatic notes in the Carven tradition of great men’s fragrances, yet with a burst of modernity that will carry it through the years. Violet Leaf dominates the top notes, its spontaneous freshness underscored by that of Grapefruit. A spicy trio of Nutmeg, Cedar and Sage lends warmth to the heart. Vetiver, with its many rich facets, lends its distinctive signature to the base, softened by milky notes of Sandalwood. Carven Pour Homme was developed by perfumers Patricia Choux and Francis Kurkdjian. Carven Pour Homme is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette and in matching grooming products.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched the Cannabis Culture Collection, featuring four fragrances: Rocky Mountain High; I Love You, Mary Jane; Agrestic and The Green House. Also new from the brand is Seve de Pin. Inspired by the landmark 2014 decision to legalize cannabis in Colorado, this four fragrance collection speaks to and of the cannabis (sub)culture that has been developing and thriving since the Jazz Age. What was once a secret society is now open to the public.

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Rocky Mountain High ~ "Here in Colorado, the scent of ponderosa, spruce and sweet balsamic pines are redolent on just about every trail. And more recently, there’s an added aroma to many places that you go from hiking to camping; green smoke with a touch of skunk. For some, its the essence of the Gods." I Love You, Mary Jane ~ "Inspired by the more fruity strains of the cannabis sativa and it’s sticky buds, I Love You, Mary Jane is playful and fun loving. There is nothing serious about it except that it’s seriously delicious." Agrestic (shown above) ~ "A lavish countryside of rolling green hills filled with various flora and fauna. Do we know everything that’s growing up there? Agrestic is fascinating take on the modern fougere with tomato leaves, and plum in the topnote, sweet hay, dusty lavender, and oakmoss in the drydown, and of course a ‘weed’ accord in the heart." The Green House ~ "In the lush atmosphere of the green house, there’s more than just flowers blooming. This cannabis design reflects the balmy, humid quality of fresh green leaves and buds mingling with hot house flowers wafting in the background. You can even sense the dirt in the pot(s)." The Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Cannabis Culture Collection fragrances are available in 3 ($5) or 30 ($70) ml Eau de Parfum or 1 dram Perfume Oil ($30). A Discovery Set is $18.
Avon
Avon has launched Far Away Gold, a new fragrance marking the 20th anniversary of Far Away for Women. Other recent Far Away flankers include Far Away Bella and Far Away Exotic. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our best-selling Far Away Fragrance Collection with Limited-Edition Far Away Gold! This new scent is inspired by the original Far Away, with enhanced oriental and floral notes. Experience the long lasting sophistication of rich Mohéli ylang, precious Indian jasmine and seductive Madagascar vanilla. Avon Far Away Gold is available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum, $23.
Bentley British car manufacturer Bentley has launched a new limited edition luxury fragrance, Lalique for Bentley Blue Crystal Edition. Lalique for Bentley Blue Crystal Edition is the second in the series that started last year with Lalique for Bentley Crystal Edition. Like the original Lalique for Bentley Crystal Edition, Lalique for Bentley Blue Crystal Edition was developed by perfumer Mylène Alran. The notes include pink pepper, juniper berry, pear, vetiver, amber, musk, cedar and incense. Lalique for Bentley Blue Crystal Edition is £3,600 for 40 ml Eau de Parfum; it will be available at Harrod's later this fall.

Oct 2014
2011
Bench
British youth-oriented clothing brand Bench has launched 24-7, a new fragrance duo "for a 24 hour life". 24-7 for Her ~ A fruity floral with kumquat, pear, grapefruit, mimosa, rose, amber and sandalwood. 24-7 for Him ~ A fresh fruity fragrance with bergamot, grapefruit, pink pepper, lavender, patchouli, jasmine, amber, vanilla and musk. The Bench 24-7 fragrances are available in 30 and 50 ml Eau de Toilette.
Molton Brown
Molton Brown has launched Shisur, a new addition to their Navigations Through Scent series. The scent was named for the possible location of the lost city of Ubar, in Oman. London via Oman May contain mystery. A thousand Arabian nights in a city beneath the sand; a legend bathed in golden slumber. The forgotten spectacle of trading glory, rediscovered in the heady oil of oudh, brooding and rich. Opulent. Precious. Intense.
Shisur was developed by perfumer Jennifer Jambon; notes include orris, caraway, saffron, frankincense, cedar and oudh accord. Molton Brown Shisur is available now at Molton Brown in the UK, £90 for 50 ml.
Valentino
Valentino has launched Valentina Rosa Assoluto, a new fragrance for women. Valentina Rosa Assoluto is a flanker to 2012's Valentina Assoluto, which was a flanker to 2011′s Valentina. It follows 2013's Valentina Oud Assoluto. Rosa Assoluto is a new chapter in Valentina’s travel to Orient. A tribute to a precious oriental rose, it is inspired by rich Middle Eastern colours, precious scents, and fine quality ingredients. The most luxurious facet of Valentina. Valentino Valentina Rosa Assoluto is available now at Harrods, £92 for 80 ml Eau de Parfum.

Oct 2014
2011
Jo Loves
British niche line Jo Loves will launch Shards of Cedar & Red Thyme next month. “Warm, sharp and sophisticated, this scent is full of exciting aromatic notes that weave confidently one into the other. With just one spritz, I'm reminded of 'that' moment when someone walks past you wearing the most beautiful cologne, so intoxicating that you stop and turn your head.” Jo Malone
The notes include bergamot, mint, lavender and vetiver. Jo Loves Shards of Cedar & Red Thyme will be available in 30 and 100 ml.
Smell Bent
Indie line Smell Bent has launched Five, a new fragrance celebrating the brand's fifth anniversary. Collection: classic characters in a nutshell: caramel cigar box notes: a spicy, spanish cedar cigar box steeped with caramel, aged tobacco and 5 years of fragrant memories fun facts: FIVE was created to celebrate sb's 5th anniversary. FIVE was designed around the note of wood, which is a traditional 5th anniversary gift. Smell Bent Five is available in 4 or 50 ml Eau de Toilette; 5 ml Perfume Oil. Smell Bent orders of $15 or more will get a free 4 ml spray of Five during the month of September.

Oct 2014
2011
Dior
Christian Dior has launched Dior Homme Parfum, a new concentration of 2005's Dior Homme. Dior Homme Parfum follows recent releases Dior Homme Eau for Men and Dior Homme Cologne. Dior Homme Parfum is the quintessence of Dior Homme. An unusual concentration for a smooth and intense fragrance. The noble quality of its ingredients is conveyed differently on each person's skin. The notes include iris, rose, cedar, sandalwood and leather. Dior Homme Parfum is available now at Sephora in France, in 75 ml, €102.
Hyper-Natural
The exhibit Hyper-Natural: Scent from Art to Design will open at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne later this month. Hyper-Natural is curated by Chandler Burr and the sponsors include Guerlain. A maze of clustered clouds will offer a sensory exploration of scent design when an installation and exhibition by New York curator of olfactory art Chandler Burr opens in the back garden of the NGV this Spring. Hyper-Natural: Scent from Art to Design will present seven small scent stations shrouded in man-made clouds and scattered throughout the NGV’s garden. Each station will house one of seven specially selected synthetic scent molecules and be paired with a major olfactory work of design, or perfume, in which that molecule is a vital design element. These seven molecular scents tell the story of olfactory design and innovation, offering visitors a visceral exploration of this little considered design medium. The experience begins with the first molecule created in the 1850s and weaves its way through the misty landscape to the sophisticated molecular scents of today. Chandler Burr commented, ‘In Hyper-Natural we consider the beauty of synthetics and their ability to free the designer from the constraints of nature, allowing for previously unimaginable designs, that introduce abstraction, surrealism and photo-realism to the design medium.’ Director of the NGV Tony Ellwood commented, ‘Like any art form or design discipline, the creation of a scent results from curiosity, experimentation and innovation. Yet, perfume and scent creation is rarely appreciated as the thoughtful design process it is. For this reason we are thrilled to be presenting the first Australian exhibition to recognise scent as an important medium of artistic creation and design production.’ Hyper-Natural: Scent from Art to Design will run from 25 September through 30 November in the Grollo Equiset Garden at National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road. Admission is free; Chandler Burr will also be giving two talks, see website for details.

Oct 2014
2011
YSL
Yves Saint Laurent has launched Paris Rebel Collector, a new fragrance for women. Paris Rebel is a flanker to 1983's Paris. Yves Saint Laurent reinvents the rose in this daring combination of sweetness and provocation. A modern new fragrance that tells the story of contrasts, fusing original notes of tomato with feminine Rose Absolute. Paris Rebel was developed by perfumer Loc Dong, who noted the difference between Paris Rebel and the original Paris: Both fragrances are based on rose flower. The original PARIS evokes a romantic city and its rose absolute is sublimated by a powdery violet accord. However, PARIS REBEL COLLECTOR reveals a vibrant facet of the city, illustrated by the original combination of the rose absolute with notes of tomato leaves that bring a green freshness. The dry-down notes of this new edition are also quite different from the original one, offering a new woody vibration.
Additional notes include citrus, pink pepper, amber and musk. Yves Saint Laurent Paris Rebel can be found now at Saks Fifth Avenue, $105 for 75 ml Eau de Parfum.
Victoria’s Secret
Victoria's Secret has launched Fearless, a new floral fragrance for women. Attitude is everything. Sexy sophistication meets downtown edge in a rich blend of blackcurrant and iris for a modern take on seductive floral fragrance. Victoria's Secret Fearless is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum, 7 ml rollerball or 250 ml Fragrance Mist.

Oct 2014
2011
Google
Google has built and tested its own 'Project Wing' drone system, with the aim of speeding up deliveries.
Project Wing has emerged from Google X, the search company's secretive R&D arm, and follows a similar drone scheme from Amazon.
Google said it had been working on the drones project for around two years, and that it foresaw multiple uses such as improving deliveries and even disaster relief.
Google has been testing the drones in Australia, but is now looking for partners to help turn the technology into a product. Its list of potential partners include commercial and retail brands, aviation, educational institutions, non- profits and government organisations.
Astro Teller, Google X boss, said: "Throughout history there have been a series of innovations that have each taken a huge chunk out of the friction of moving things around. "Project Wing aspires to take another big chunk of the remaining friction of moving things around in the world."
Nicholas Roy, the founder of Project Wing, said it was "years from a product" but is the first prototype Google wanted to support.Dave Vos, Project Wing lead, said: "The next phase is to take the momentum and enthusiasm we've achieved internally and drive it to enabling the dream of delivering stuff more quickly with proper and due safety."
As Roy acknowledged, it will be a long time before Google can make its dream a commercial reality. Amazon's rival drone project is unlikely to see much progress before 2018, namely due to strict regulations around the commercial use of drones in the US. Amazon last month said it had written to the US Federal Aviation Administration for permission to test its Prime Air goods delivery service.
Dyson
Dyson is expected to launch its first robotic vacuum cleaner later this week, following the launch of a cryptic YouTube video.
The video, entitled, "Dyson project N223: what new technology is ready for launch?" shows a panoramic view of a camera watching technicians at work. It cuts to a shot flickering between Dyson’s logo and the date "4th September".

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The only text accompanying the video is, "16 years. 200 engineers. £28m investment. The result? Tell us what you think it is. #DysonInvents."
The 25-second clip, which rolled out last week, has already been viewed over 350,000 times on YouTube.
Although the brand has not confirmed, many speculate that Dyson is on the verge of revealing its first robotic vacuum cleaner product, allowing it to take on brands such as Miele, Samsung and LG.
It follows the announcement earlier this year that Dyson invested £5m in a robotics lab at Imperial College, London.
In June, Dyson was voted alongside Amazon, Google and Apple as the most entrepreneurial of blue-chip companies by a panel of business experts.
The ‘Super Entrepreneurs’ report from the Marketing Agencies Association placed the four companies in the double- A category, ahead of brands such as Facebook, Samsung and Twitter.
Walkers
Walkers has transformed three London bus stops into tweet-activated vending machines as part of its ongoing 'Do us a Flavour' campaign.
Bus shelters in Clapham Junction and two in Oxford Street have been set up with tweet-activated vending machines in a campaign created by OMD UK, AMV BBDO, Talon and Clear Channel. The installations will remain in place until 11 September.
A series of short clips show Gary Lineker appearing to sit inside the bus stop vending machines. Passers-by are then encouraged to tweet @Walkers_busstop, triggering the vending machine to dole out free packets of crisps. "Walkers loves bringing fun to the nation and we are extremely excited to launch the first ever Twitter vending machine on the streets of London," said Walkers marketing manager Lee-Teng Chung.
"The 'Do us a Flavour' campaign has taken the nation by storm, so we are delighted to offer them the chance to try the new flavours through the first ever interactive Twitter vending machine. We can’t wait to hear more about what the public think of each of the unique flavours." The 2014 'Do us a Flavour' campaign launched in January. The six ‘finalist’ flavours include: Sizzling Steak Fajita, Chip Shop Chicken Curry, Pulled Pork in a Sticky BBQ Sauce, Ranch Raccoon, Cheesy Beans on Toast and Hot Dog with Tomato Ketchup.
The vending machines will be stocked with one of the six finalist flavours and will dispense 260 packets of crisps daily. The public will be encouraged to vote for their favourite flavour online and a YouTube video featuring the making off the footage will be released on 8 September.
Meanwhile, Walkers is also ramping up its radio activity through a two-week collaboration with Capital FM brokered by OMD UK. From Monday, the station’s DJs will promote their own favourite flavours from the shortlisted finalists.

Oct 2014
2011
Barclays
Barclays is looking beyond the PIN code, launching a scanner that confirms a user's identity by reading the blood in their fingers.
The scanner has been developed with Hitachi Europe, in what Barclays is claiming as a first for UK banking and a major step forward in combating fraud.
The idea is to give users a safer, faster way to log into their online bank accounts. Rather than entering multiple pins and passwords, users hook up the reader to their PC via the USB port and scan the unique vein patterns in one of their fingers.
The technology is different from standard fingerprint scanning and, according to Barclays, safer.
The bank said: "Unlike finger prints, vein patterns are extremely difficult to spoof or replicate. The scanned finger must be attached to a live human body in order for the veins in the finger to be authenticated. Barclays will not hold the user’s vein pattern and there will be no public record of it."
The service will be available from next year, but only to corporate banking customers, for a fee.
Ashok Vaswani, Barclays chief executive of personal and corporate banking, said: "We have shown the technology to a range of businesses and the interest and enthusiasm for the product is tremendous. The technology has also been tested by Hitachi for many years and it will be game-changing for UK businesses and consumers.
"Ultimately, I hope this will pave the way for other institutions to adopt equally robust technology in the fight against online crime."
Hiut Denim Co.
UK's Hiut Denim Co. brand set up an interactive shop window at a River and Hide store in London, making use of conductive paint to deliver the brand's story. The interactive ad is made up of several brightly colored yellow circles, which "talk" to people passing by when they are touched. In order to encourage people to touch the dots on the window, an audio clip is activated when people pass by, prompting them to stop, look and touch.

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Each of the conductive ink circles on the glass store window represents a different facet of the Hiut Denim Co. brand jeans, such as focusing on its history, or how each of the denim pieces is crafted by hand. The interactive installation was created for the Hiut Denim Co. by the Knit agency.
Farm Fresh
A lot of the time, it's easy for consumers to forget the process of how their food and drinks get to them, but this organic juice packaging from Grimmway Farms communicates all of the hard work that goes into cultivating the crops for the drinks. Although the bottles have a slightly rustic look to them, each of the juice bottles is labeled with colorful text and imagery that stresses the wholesome and fresh nature of each of the drinks. Established in 1968, Grimmway farms is one of the largest family-owned carrot producers in the world. Although there is a 100% Carrot Juice beverage as well as its own green juice blend of fruit and vegetables, these drinks also include other exotic flavors like Tropical Mango, Bananaberry Crush and a Wild Berry Blend.

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