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Johnnie Walker Double black. The taste of black.

Johnnie Walker launches a new label: Double Black. Inspired by the Johnnie Walker 1909 Black label, the master blender Jim Beveridge pushed the limits of black. And here you can see that...

Fashion Roundup: RiRi Takes Over LFW and Marc Jacobs as Hunky Diet Coke Man

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Each week FashionTV rounds-up the most fashionable highlights of the week from the web: The best cover shot of the week, sexy trends, and amazing videos!

Cover Shot of the Week:Sarah Jessica Parker covers the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar China, but the question on everyone’s mind is whether or not she’s been photoshopped? In fact the shot is so strange that the fashion guru (as she is described in the article) is being compared to an alien?! Too harsh? Well we think so too, but it will certainly be remembered as one of the year’s Photoshop fails. (Examiner)

Hot in the News:The biggest event in fashion this week was London Fashion Week, and the most talked about show from LFW is Rihanna’s debut collection for River Island. Unfortunately the reviews are not living up to the expectations, with RiRi slammed for being an hour late as well as criticism of collection that has been described as “a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen.” Nevertheless she helped stir huge buzz for the British brand -- even though she may have not actually designed the clothes! (Huffington Post)

Sexy Alert:If you have not yet seen Keira Knightley’s new Chanel commercial, then now is the time. The advert has been banned on children’s television networks by the ASA, as it is deemed “too sexy” for young viewers. Chanel defended the ad, saying it is “playful and sensual” rather than “overtly sexual.” Can Keira Knightley be too sexy? Judge for yourself… (Vogue UK)

Trend Spotter:This week on the trend spotter, we’ve seen a great collection of hot nails from London Fashion Week. From models wearing black nail polish at Moschino Cheap & Chic to the autumnal brown polish at Issa London. Take a look! (Bella Sugar)

Designer Special:Every fashion week, at least one brand will get a lot of attention for being technically innovative rather than for its fashion. This LFW it seems that Topshop got the most attention for announcing a partnership with Google+ for live streaming their Fall 2013 show on G+ Hangout. “What we need is infusion with technology,” says the brand. FashionTV has now been streaming live events from global fashion weeks for three seasons in a row! Is the future of fashion shows via the internet? (Bloginity)

Cool Video Spot:Marc Jacobs has been announced as the new creative director of Diet Coke for 2013. Jacobs has applied his skills to design the new line of Diet Coke cans and is starring in a new ad for the brand as the hunky “Diet Coke Man,” which is actually pretty adorable:

Tim Blanks is judging you

The International Woolmark Prize is the competition that launched the careers of Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld, Yves pipping Karl to the top spot in 1954, as decreed by Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Balmain.

Tonight sees the finale of the 2013 prize, in the revived Merino-promoting competition, which crosses borders and cultures to hunt out talent from around the world, judged by Diane von Furstenburg, Donatella Versace, Franca Sozzani, Victoria Beckham, Carla Sozzani and Tim Blanks.

What better chance to catch up with fashion's most eloquent, discussing both the prize, the ins and outs of showgoing and off-catwalk life.

Dazed Digital: What does the Woolmark Prize mean to you?
Tim Blanks: Recognition of a new wave of fashion talent.

DD: How has the judging process been? Has there been tea and garibaldis with Donatella? And what are you looking for in the winner?
Tim Blanks: So far, I've sat in on the judging for the European candidate. The global judging happens before the award. That's when the cookies come out for DV. I'm looking for the same things I always look for in a collection, technique and native talent, for sure, but also the ability to ensnare me with a story.

DD: Show season is upon us and you're a veteran of the marathon. What are your tips for getting through fashion month?
Tim Blanks: Berocca… and oysters.

DD: Have you ever seen a collection or show and been lost for words? In a good or bad way…
Tim Blanks: Yes, I've been moved, but never to the point where I can't verbalise why.

DD: Ever fantasised about doing a collection? What would it be like?
Tim Blanks: No, that's not one of my fantasies. But I wouldn't mind the whole Helmut Lang package.

DD: You're known for elevating the concept of a runway review. Is there a word you love so much you have to reign yourself in from using it all the time?
Tim Blanks: Transmogrify or Mitteleuropa.

DD: You've two Jack Russells, Annie and Stella. Why do you think dogs are so popular with people working in the industry?
Tim Blanks: I never thought about that. Why would fashion people be any more subject to the call of the canine? Besides, Jack Russells are impossible to resist, whatever your vocation.

DD: You came to fashion through music. What records are you enjoying at the moment?
Tim Blanks: First, David Bowie releases his birthday surprise, then My Bloody Valentine drops MBV out of the blue. I'm gripped! I also love Andy Stott's record.

The Latest Appointments: Bulgari, Burberry & Four Seasons

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Franois-Henry Bennahmias, CEO of Audemars Piguet

The Latest luxury industry appointments at Richemont, Burberry, Six Senses Resorts & Spas, Audemars Piguet, Givenchy, Cartier & Diet Coke

Kathleen Tayor is to leave the CEO post of Four Seasons hotels, after serving the Toronto-based hotelier since 1989. The company’s nine-member executive leadership team will assume management until a successor is found.

Over at Breitling, Franz La Rosee has stepped down, after serving as managing director of Breitling UK for the past 26 years. "I have enjoyed every one of those years and it has been my privilege to navigate the company through so many exciting, challenging and, sometimes stormy, seas,” he explained to Retail Jeweller.

Serge Jureidini has resigned as president of Lancme in the U.S. to become president and chief executive officer of Arcade Marketing. Jimmy Choo co-creative director, Simon Holloway, has also departed, leaving Sandra Choi as the sole creative director of the Labelux brand.

Finally, Mario Grauso will step down from his presidency at Vera Wang Group, and instead work with the brand as a consultant.

Bernard Fornas, Co-CEO, Richemont

Compagnie Financire Richemont SA has nominated Bernard Fornas – former CEO of Cartier – to the Board of Directors. The current joint deputy CEO will become Co-CEO alongside Richard Lepeu on April 1st, 2013, and remain a member of its Group Management Committee.

Source: Fox Business

Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO, Bulgari

LVMH have named Jean-Christophe Babin, who has led Tag Heuer since joining LVMH in 2000, as the new CEO at Bulgari. The appointment comes two months after Bulgari head Michael Burke was named successor to Louis Vuitton CEO Jordi Constans. Constans left a month after taking the post because of illness.

Source: Business Week

Carol Fairweather, CFO, Burberry

Burberry have announced a round of executive shake-ups, in which CFO Stacey Cartwright will step down to pursue other interests and be replaced by Carol Fairweather in July. Ms. Fairweather has been with the fashion group for six years, following service at News Corp’s British newspaper arm, News International.

Source: Reuters

John Smith, COO, Burberry

Burberry has also created a new COO role “to support the next phase of growth”, appointing media executive John Smith. Mr. Smith was most recently chief executive of BBC Worldwide, which sells content made by the British licence fee-funded broadcaster to other countries.

Source: Reuters

Laurent Feniou, Managing Director, Cartier UK

Laurent Feniou, a veteran banker at Rothschild in London has been hired as managing director of Cartier’s UK operations. Cartier has recently undergone a management overhaul that saw Stanislas de Quercize replace long-time Cartier chief Bernard Fomas at the end of 2012.

Source: Reuters

Riccardo Tisci, Creative Director, Givenchy

Givenchy creative designer, Riccardo Tisci, has extended his contract by three years with the LVMH-owned French house. Tisci joined Givenchy in 2005, which is now under the management leadership of former Prada executive Sebastian Suhl.

Source: WWD

Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Resorts & Spas

Pegasus Capital Advisors LP appointed Neil Jacobs, former president of Starwood Capital Group LLC’s hotel unit, to run its Six Senses Resorts & Spas division as it seeks to expand the ultra-luxury brand. Mr. Jacobs previously oversaw development of Starwood’s Baccarat and 1 Hotels brands.

Source: Bloomberg

Tara Ffrench-Mullen, Marketing & PR Director, Charlotte Olympia

Luxury footwear and accessory brand Charlotte Olympia has announced the appointment of Tara ffrench-Mullen as Global Marketing & PR Director, effective immediately. Tara previously worked in the PR and marketing team at L.K. Bennett.

Source: Fashion Monitor

Franois-Henry Bennahmias, CEO, Audemars Piguet

After serving as “general manager ad interim” since May 2012, Franois-Henry Bennahmias was recently made chief executive officer of the Audemars Piguet Group by the board of directors. The family-owned brand and previous CEO Phillipe Merk ended their collaboration last year due to “differences in company strategy.

Source: Watchtime

Marc Jacobs, Creative Director, Diet Coke

Marc Jacobs has been named Diet Coke’s new creative director for 2013, for which he has designed three cans, three bottles and three ad campaigns, each corresponding to a recent decade in fashion. One campaign features the designer himself stripping in a photo booth and posing in playful, pin-up-style ads.

Source: WWD


For more in the series of The Latest Appointments, please see our most recent editions as follows:

- The Latest Appointments: Harrods, Balenciaga & Louis Vuitton
- The Latest Appointments: Christie’s, Richemont & Ferrari
- The Latest Appointments: PPR, Cadillac & Baccarat

Burger Wave

Featuring Kingsland Road burgers, and inspired by "80s comic books and teenage photoromance magazines" and Kenneth Anger's short films, fashion photographer Alexandros Pissourios has made us an exclusive new film. Commemorating Milan's scooter ragazzi for this short commissioned to celebrate the re-release of the Henri Lloyd's Olmes Carretti jacket in its original vivid colourways, Pissourios has created an impressionistic portrait of the boys and girls of the Paninaro subculture, the Milanese scooter gangs that took the jacket to heart in their 80s heyday. Set to a disconcerting backdrop of intermittent abstract sounds of thunderbolts and such, the film languorously moves between rich, colour-saturated shots of a beautiful duo kitted out in the vivid collection, surrounded by kitsch all-American foods and the highway in the night. A garment that nearly 30 years ago crossed the English Channel to the Med is about to embark on another voyage. Race into the sunset, and slurp that shake.

Fashion Roundup: Beyoncé’s Super Bowl show and Cara Delevingne on British Vogue

Fashion Roundup: Beyonc’s Super Bowl show and Cara Delevingne on British Vogue

First time on British Vogue!First time on British Vogue!

Each week FashionTV trawls the web to round-up the most fashionable highlights of the week. This week read about the best cover shots, sexy trends, and amazing videos!

Cover Shot of the Week:Cara Delevingne will appear on the cover of British Vogue for the first time! The 20-year-old British model will feature on the magazine’s March issue, continuing her on-going takeover of the fashion scene. Delevingne stated that: “Vogue is so great; especially the March issue is the big fashion issue, the big thick one, it's gonna be pretty amazing, I'm gonna run out of the shops with 20 in my hand just like ‘Oh my god! this is me!’” (Telegraph)

Hot in the News:Beyonc, Beyonc, and more Beyonc…! The pinnacle pop singer put on what might be the greatest show of the year at the Super Bowl -- and people just can’t get enough of it. It was only a week ago that Beyonc was mocked for lip-syncing, but she has turned turned out on top with a tremendous performance that left no doubt about her singing abilities. Here are some great backstage photos of Beyonc and other celebrities from the Super Bowl. Enjoy! (Pop Sugar)

Sexy Alert:People love lingerie videos, but you don’t see a lingerie line like this every day. Chrysalis Lingerie is a company devoted to transgender women, specializing in bras and underwear that cater specifically to the need of the transgender body. The line was created in 2010 and is one of the leading brands for the community. (Huffington Post)

Trend Spotter:What will be the street style trends at New York Fashion Week? Focusing on unusual suspects that have emerged this year and really caught some attention. From Christopher Kane's crazy pant prints to Phillip Lim’s floral jacket. (The Fashion Spot)

Designer Special:Christian Dior Couture announced a sale rise of 24% in 2012, since Raf Simons joined the fashion house. A huge pat on the back for the Belgian designer, who also recently put on his first couture show for Dior. And this is only the beginning, with hot celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Marion Cotillard choosing to wear the brand for the red carpet, a trend which will surely only rise. (Grazia)

Cool Video Spot:Everybody is talking this week about Bar Refaeli’s kiss for the GoDaddy.com commercial. But for us, the most fashionable Super Bowl ad of the week goes to the most fashionable brand out there: Mercedes-Benz. Kate Upton, Willem Dafoe, and Usher in one great commercial for the official sponsor of many global fashion weeks. Take a look:

Anything else happened this week

Bread-line time

Called into the office, take a seat. "Napoleon" will be with you shortly. The chair beside me is vacant, the light in the windowless room scans at my eyes. I sign away my right to have a fellow member of staff present for the meeting. It’s a formality, they’ll be good to me, just as I’m good to all the authors I plagiarise.

A shock. At the end of my three-month probation period, I’m out of the cultural place, mumbling the wordswork ethicto myself like an item on a foreign menu, wondering if the managers decrypted or traced that email I sent anonymously.

“You can appeal,” says Napoleon.

I throw my hands up in the air. Then leave. Two days later my other job falls through. This is the nightmare of everyday life.

We’re clinging onto a liberalism that will, without doubt, be defeated at the next general election. A recent survey found that attitudes are hardening against the poor, even among young people, usually a more tolerant demographic. Outside the bubble of lefty blogs and comment pieces, we may forget that there is a general approval of what the government is doing. A majority of people, for example, would restrict what can be bought with benefits – this effectively means food stamps. So what’s the point? If you can’t get a table, get a waiting job, right?

My friends who used to be on the dole aren’t anymore. Maybe the government was right after all – there was game to be hunted, we just weren’t hungry enough. Is it a coincidence the promise of the dreaded Work Programme made us all crawl off the dole somehow? Cooking pizzas for cash-in-hand money, labouring on building sites, bumming around on friends’ sofas, applying for postgraduate degrees we’ll never be able to afford, moving in with our boyfriends, making life harder for the ones we love? Some of us would have (re)turned to shoplifting, or slept underneath beds, starving and screaming, but we’d have found something somehow, or we’d have killed ourselves on the drugs that seem to stalk the unemployed and hold their heads under the covers each morning, unable and unwilling to get up and look for work.

The truth is, and not many liberals will say this, but a lot of people don’t want to work. The government is probably right. We are lazy, we are choosy. Because don’t you think you’d really have to be masochistic to activelychoosea lot of the jobs out there? To actuallywantto do this work, given the choice, knowing what we know?

As far as I can tell, the reason we’re elitist and choosy is because work has come to stand for something so much worse than we were promised. Promised by ourselves, the lecturers, the poets, the rock stars, the hand of history itself, which we thought would move forward towards greater equality, more opportunity, less misery – an end to deference, the shattering of glass ceilings. But for the first time since I can remember, history seems to be spinning backwards. And as my friend, the nearly-always-on-the-money Dan Hancox says, not back to the 1980s, but the 1880s. Old hierarchies are being consolidated through new power structures – internships, tuition fees, the pricing us out of cities, the rebranding of social security first as welfare and then as charity.

But wait. Everybody’s an artist! Everybody’s got something to say! Have we been coaxed into thinking we can all work for our own disgusting selves and our crippled ideology, outside of the present reality – become graphic designers and freelance photographers and whatever it is university courses train people to do? Most certainly. Our ambitious have given our masters something they feel they need to slap down, put in its place, remind thatsomebody’s got to serve at the till, tend bar, punch numbers into the database. Of course, they’re right. Somebody got to do it. Nobody ever denied that.

So I can’t ignore the fact that there are better solutions out there if we’d only consider them. Take the idea that the national debt ought to be paid off by the richest in society, which they could handle many times over. A 20% tax on the wealth of the top 10% – less in percentage terms than the cuts to housing benefit – would do the trick. Boom – gone. No more austerity, no more “tough decisions” of the kind that always wind up hammering the young and poor.

It would be great too if workers weren’t treated like disposable pieces of machine; if there was an actual incentive to get a job – if it felt like it meant something, and was worthwhile, as opposed to just another form of coercion. Hancox also has some enlightening things to say about this, too, with relation to what’s happening in the ‘utopia’ of Marinaleda in southern Spain, where the rogue mayorJuan Manuel Snchez Gordilloseems to be restoring some dignity for his people.

This is dreamy stuff, I know. I have under a month until I’m totally out of work again. I’m not sure what I’ll do.

Cody by AG Rojas

TRIBUTE, the series of short films about youth selected and produced by cult rising film directors AG Rojas and Vince Haycock's firm MAINLINE, has been debuting on Dazed for the last two months. Featured so far have been the films of Matt Lambert and Focus Creeps, and debuting this morning is the work of AG himself.

Shot in Taft, California, AG's Cody continues his vein of lyrical, poetic and complex narratives about youth outsiders. This time, though, it's an all too real tale of youth and reticence he documents, and you can watch it exclusivelyabove, and let us know what you think on Youtube.

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