>> In the wake of the 23 percent decline in first-half profits it announced Monday, LVMH plans to postpone or suspend marketing and promotions for its brands that failed to be top performers, according to CFO Jean-Jacques Guiony.
He did not specify which brands would receive the "selective investments" still being made, but its wines, spirits, watches, and jewelry businesses were hurt in the past few months and seem like contenders for those being passed over. This new withholding strategy is part of LVMH's cost containment plan for the remainder of 2009.
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LVMH To Hold Out on Marketing Some of Its Brands for the Rest of the Year
Wed, 07/29/09 — 04:15:06 PM
Gisele Bundchen May Just Be Pregnant, This Time
Fri, 06/19/09 — 11:30:51 AM
>> There was an outright denial from her husband Tom Brady last month, but sources have confirmed to People that Gisele Bundchen is indeed expecting. Although the couple hasn't confirmed the information themselves — and may not, given how they handled press surrounding their wedding — Gisele has indicated in the past that she wants a big family.
While Gisele's still hard at work and walked the Colcci runway for Sao Paulo Fashion Week earlier this week, as she typically does every season, she was outfitted in much baggier clothes that the typical midriff-baring tops and tight bustiers they give her. Also adding to suspicion: the fact that all her new Fall 2009 Loewe ads have her holding a bag over her midsection. But if People's source is correct, Gisele is said to be "ecstatic" and due early next year.
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Amber Valletta Joins the Spring 2009 Supermodel Threat for Loewe
Tue, 01/13/09 — 03:55:26 PM
>> The supermodel campaign wave that started in Fall 2008 just keeps expanding in Spring 2009 — we've got Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista for Dsquared2, Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss for Versace, Stephanie Seymour for Valentino, Claudia Schiffer for Yves Saint Laurent, and now, Amber Valletta in a stunning campaign for Loewe. The move is logical, since brands are looking to squeeze out every penny they can this season, and these models are known to drive the money. As for this set, Steven Klein did the honors — props to Stuart Vevers for the art direction, which is surely going to help him on his mission to bring Loewe back to the forefront.
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Steven Klein Captures All the Pretty Horses for Loewe Fall 2008
Mon, 08/11/08 — 02:37:21 PM
>> Steven Klein's obsession with horses continues — that Madonna spread from W two years ago just wasn't enough. Over the weekend, he hosted an equine rescue benefit with Gwyneth Paltrow, and recently, he shot the Loewe Fall 2008 ads featuring — what else — but horses. Stephanie Stephanie commandeers the campaign, looking a little bit dominatrix, and a whole lot of woman.
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Gap Goes With Models, Awkward Photoshopping
Tue, 07/08/08 — 02:58:17 PM
»A Spring 2008 Gap ad features Chanel Iman, Julia Stegner, Coco Rocha, Du Juan, Vlada Roslyakova, Anja Rubik . . . and a shoddy Photoshop job [ONTD_FF]
»Is Lily Cole edging Kate Moss out at Rimmel? [The Cut]
»An unnamed male designer had a face-lift gone wrong last year [Page Six]
»Models had to practice walking on a simulated dirt runway before doing Givenchy Fall 2008 couture [Style.com]
»A first look at Heidi Mount in Bally's Fall 2008 campaign [FWD]
»Meredith Melling Burke wears a mustache! [Fashionista]
»The full Richard Chai for Target collection [FabSugar]
»Roberto Cavalli: Taking his company off the market [The Cut]
»Calvin Klein may be using Kirsten Owen, Guinevere van Seenus, and Agyness Deyn in a new CK One campaign [Fashionista]
»Full Givenchy and Loewe Resort 2009 collections [Style.com, Style.com]
Katie Grand: A Picture of Fashion Greatness . . . and Fashion Anemia
Mon, 07/07/08 — 02:56:00 PM
>> Katie Grand is a classic case of one person being both a have and a have-not. The stylist and founder of POP has become known as "Katie-Grand-a-Minute" for her £3,000-4,000 a day fees (which she makes a killing with, considering that she works 30-40 days a year for Louis Vuitton, 30 days for Loewe, and 30 days for "a big Italian name").
She has kept every piece of clothing she has ever owned since the age of 15, recently buying a bigger home just to house all the Alaia, Chanel, and Gap she's acquired over the years. She's got it all — photographers so willing to be published in POP that they "often" "are using their own money," and a memory of Miuccia Prada "spinning round to Kylie [Minogue]" — except something of a more personal matter.
From 15 to 25 I didn't really eat much. I just wanted to be thinner, but I couldn't get under eight stone [112 lbs] no matter what I did . . . I can remember meals I had during those years because they were so rare.
At 37, she's never had a period. She told The Guardian she's okay with it, because she doesn't want children, but when an editor like Katie is so blasé about something like that, it makes you understand why the fashion industry as a whole is so nonchalant about models and their health.
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Kate Moss: Not a Fan of Using the Loo Alone
Mon, 06/09/08 — 04:40:05 PM
»Kate Moss threw a fit about a bathroom policy? [Page Six]
»Heidi Klum gets back to high fashion for the Summer 2008 cover of Citizen K [Models.com]
»Linda Evangelista's first Fall 2008 Loewe ad has appeared [TFS]
»In addition to a Chanel bike and a Chanel football, the French brand is now making a Chanel fly-fishing rod [The Cut]
»Anja Rubik scored her first-ever Vogue cover with Vogue Deutsch's July issue [TFS]
»Natalia Vodianova was in Russia for a Jacob & Co. fine jewelry launch [Chic Report]
»Preview pictures of Monica Botkier's handbag line for Target [FabSugar]
The Supers Are More Super Than Ever; Plus, A First Look at the Chanel and Louis Vuitton Fall Ads
Wed, 05/28/08 — 11:59:12 PM
>> The '90s supermodels are turning out in droves for the Fall 2008 campaign season: Linda Evangelista is starring in Prada, Naomi Campbell in Yves Saint Laurent, Claudia Schiffer in Chanel (below, top middle) and Salvatore Ferragamo, Kate Moss in Stella McCartney, Eva Herzigova in Louis Vuitton (below, bottom middle), Stephanie Seymour in Loewe, Amber Valletta in Dsquared (below, left), and Christy Turlington in Escada (below, right). Phew!
Without further ado, a first look at the supers' Fall work (nothing stellar yet, but you know they got paid a lot for it):
Nadja Auermann is conspicuously left out of the bunch, but only because she's turned down offers to focus on her fledgling music career — who knew?!
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