PRADA

PRADA RESORT 2016 AD’ CAMPAIGN

Good girls go bad for the  Resort 2016 ad campaign.

Lexi Boling, Meghan Collison, Ina Jensen, Lineisy Montero, Julia Nobis and Greta Varlese are transformed into glam rock muses for the campaign shot by Steven Meisel.

For Montero, who walked 68 shows this season, it’s her second Prada campaign – the Dominican starred in the house’s AW15 visuals, also photographed by Meisel.

In these images the models are shot against a roller shutter, as if they are queuing outside a nightclub, so they resemble something akin to 80s club girls. In fact, they wouldn’t look out of place in a book by Derek Ridgers, who photographed London youth in the late 70s and 80s.

“Pop decorativism is subverted by industrial minimalism,” reads the press release, which also pays “post-modesty” a mention. Described as the “new normcore”, this term was coined by Miuccia Prada at Prada’s SS16 men’s show, where this collection was first unveiled.

The clothes themselves bear including rabbits, race cars, spaceships, arrows and eyes. “They represent any kind of symbolism,” she said backstage at the show. “Advertising, logos  – although I don’t like to simplify thoughts, so we chose stupid symbols, the most infantile, that worked graphically.”

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LE MARIE CELESTE

LE MARIE CELESTE GASTRO-PUB

03The Bar: “Le Marie Celeste gastro-pub in the Marais has top-notch cocktails and great food, all done with a slight Nordic twist.”

The Drink: “Ask for a glass of crisp Domaine Labet Savagnin, a great white from their strong list of small, biodynamic French wines.”

The Bottle to Bring Back: “Chartreuse M.O.F. It was co-created by a sommelier and is not available in the States. Mix it with a cold-brew coffee and you’ve got a crazy good caffeine cocktail!

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Source: lemaryceleste.com

DIOR

DIOR “LADY DIOR” CRUISE 2016 AD’ CAMPAIGN

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Raf Simons may be stepping down from his role at Dior but it’s business as usual for the luxury fashion house with the launch of its Cruise 2016 Lady Dior campaign starring Marion Cotillard.

The Oscar winning actress, who has been an ambassador of Dior since 2008, is captured by Mert & Marcus in the intimate setting of a bedroom. She models a slinky black dress with a geometric décolleté and the Lady Dior Carmine handbag andMetallic Cannage.

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