Mélanie Crété

BBC Blogworld Superpower

Melanie Crete — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:00 +0000

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BBC launches a blog about blogs.

Blogworld highlights the (supposedly) best international blogs for a special BBC season about the power of the internet.

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Lovely game by Chanel

Melanie Crete — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:19:00 +0000

The latest application from Chanel: a 'lovely' slot machine game for your iphone.

Lovely.

Nowfashion

Melanie Crete — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:43:00 +0000

Another day in sunny (fashion) Paris and another new digital concept discovery: Nowfashion. The first online magazine to presents fashion shows in real time. Still a few bugs but great potential.

When cats front music covers

Melanie Crete — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:34:00 +0000

Vogue Paris Le Bar

Melanie Crete — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Paris fashion week has started yesterday under the sun and it seems the whole city is living the fashion dream... To recreate that very unique fashion atmosphere Le Crillon and Vogue Paris teamed up to launch a pop-up bar inside the prestigious hotel, welcome to Le Bar Vogue. Enjoy a selection of special cocktails such as the Carine's Tea Time (vodka, green tea and menthol sirup) while getting a quick make up fix at the Lancome beauty booth... And to make sure you don't miss a thing of what is going on, big plasma screens show the tweets from the Vogue Paris team.

Today I'm wearing...

Melanie Crete — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:45:00 +0000

Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley takes over from Alexa Chung this month on Vogue.co.uk, sending in a pitcure every day to show what she is wearing.

East London gift shop Maiden launches e-shop

Melanie Crete — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:53:00 +0000

Since its opening last Autumn, Maiden has certainly established itself as THE place to shop if you are in East London and in despair for THE ultimate gift. A good selection of amusing gadgets, games, home accessories, jewellery, books (including a great collection of vintage books in perfect condition), postards that will make everyone smile. And there are new products coming in store every week... I just bought there for a fiver a vintage album of my favorite TV show 90210!

Good news! Following the success of the Shoreditch High St based shop, Maiden has just launched its e-shop. Go and have a look here, it's never too late to give your sister a Christmas present!

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MAIDEN: 188 Shoreditch High Street, E1

www.maidenshop.com

http://twitter.com/MAIDEN_UK

Wear Surface to Air this summer

Melanie Crete — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:45:00 +0000

New SS10 collection available online now - frenchies do it better!

Click on the image below to start shopping.

Dolce Gabbana goes on the iphone

Melanie Crete — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:23:00 +0000

It seems pretty obvious that, right now, live streaming of catwalk is on trend - see my previous posts about Burberry and London Fashion Week. Dolce & Gabbana - the label has already been developing a strong online brand experience with its website Swide - goes beyond the simple live streaming as both its mainline show and the younger diffusion brand D&G will be exclusively live on the iphone for the very first time.

Download the app here.

Oh by the way guys, the show is today at 1pm, don't miss it!

Burberry 3D show

Melanie Crete — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:06:00 +0000

London womenswear schedule comes to an end and Christopher Bailey unveiled yesterday his autumn/winter 2010 collection for the second consecutive season in London, at the Chelsea College of Art. Following the lead of Avatar, the British label decided to stream its show in 3D at private events all around the world. Unfortunately I have not attended any of these very special events, I have enjoyed the 2D version available from the micro website though. Mister Bailey himself introduces us to the project at the beginning of the video... It is a bit like being front row at Burberry, minus the paparazzi and the freebies.

Narciso Rodriguez does ebay

Melanie Crete — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:11:00 +0000

Yes you heard right, Narciso Rodriguez has launched this week the first ever capsule collection with online auction site ebay. ''For me it's always been about dressing many women of all ages, all types, all sizes, and this special collection on eBay is a unique opportunity to reach a broad global audience'' says the American designer to British Vogue. The eight-piece limited-edition collection - including a denim jacket; denim skirt; asymmetrical jersey dress; python T-Shirt; draped shoulder dress; and water-resistant reversible trench - are available in sizes extra small to large - and pieces retail from between £40 to £225. Time to go shopping here.

London Fashion Week goes live

Melanie Crete — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:48:00 +0000

Yes it is this time of the year again, LONDON FASHION WEEK. This season the British Fashion Council goes 100% digital with the launch of Live From Fashion Week, a live stream series from London Fashion Week A/W 2010 featuring runway shows, style commentary, celebrity guests and interviews. Far behind the time when you had to patiently wait for the runaway pictures to be uploaded on style.com the following day!

When designers do Stylist

Melanie Crete — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:14:00 +0000

Stylist, the free women's lifestyle weekly launched in October last year (yes i'm talking about a free print magazine here), is celebrating London Fashion Week today with three different covers designed by designers Vivienne Westwood, Giles Deacon and Manolo Blahnik.

Pop vs Love

Melanie Crete — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:42:00 +0000

Thanks god Winter sales are officially over and Spring Summer 2010 issues are finally out. Last week it was all about the new issues of bi-annual magazines Pop (Bauer Media) and LOVE (Conde Nast) hitting shelves...

Condé Nast's title produced eight different covers for its 'fashion icons' issue, featuring naked cover stars including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Lara Stone. All shot by Mert & Marcus, art directed once again by Suburbia. On the website front, the team has kept is pretty minimal; black background and a simple player to The LOVE Thing, a movie directed by LOVE editor Katie Grand and James Lima (see below). More LOVE on the magazine's blog.

The LOVE Thing from LOVE on Vimeo.

One girl, two covers for Pop. Model is Abbey Lee Kershaw, shot by Richard Prince. Website wise, editor Dasha Zhukova launched Pop’s digital format as thepop.com last September. Providing an integrated platform for the Pop team and its partners, the website provides pretty good content. So many blogs on there, hours of browsing.

Dear lover,...

Melanie Crete — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:43:00 +0000

Struggling to find the right words? Well, here you go, poetry a la carte does it for you... Custom made poetry for £150. Say it with verse.

House of Holland's app

Melanie Crete — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:38:00 +0000

Designer Henry Holland is launching a new BlackBerry app this Fashion Week. BlackBerry users will exclusively be able to order pieces from the House of Holland slogan T-shirt collection as soon as they hit the catwalk by downloading the app from www.houseofholland.co.uk/blackberry

As far as I know this has never been done before, let's see how many tees Henry manage to sell next Saturday then!

God save McQueen

Melanie Crete — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:16:00 +0000

WWD series on Digital Media

Melanie Crete — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:42:00 +0000

WWD - Women's Wear Daily - is starting a series of conferences in NYC to explore how digital media can put a brand closer to its consumers. Part one of the series is on the 25th of Feb and will focus on topics such as the role of search in the marketing mix, direct to consumer vs. wholesale, invitation-only shopping, e-commerce and the luxury business... Speakers include marketing and online experts from Create The Group, Google, Mastercard, Puma, Diane Von Furstenberg.

Vanessa Bruno's Bel Ete

Melanie Crete — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:55:00 +0000

Le Bel Ete - understand here Beautiful Summer - is the beautiful movie by Stephanie Di Giusto for Vanessa Bruno's Spring Summer 2010 collection, live now on the fashion designer's website. The director represented by Partizan perfectly recreates Vanessa Bruno's poetic style: the muse Lou Doillon dances on a melody played on piano by Gonzales, loads of nude colors and natural locations for a pure and dreamy feel.

Do press 'Play' over and over again...

Do you want to be a Roitfeld?

Melanie Crete — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:32:00 +0000

Some people do. Here is the proof.