Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hailee Steinfeld’s Miu Miu ad is here — despite initial concerns about the teenager’s ability to convincingly hock designer threads to women twice her age. The Oscar nominee, 14, wears a black bird-print dress, to-die-for shoe boots, chic sunglasses, topped off with an oversized clutch in her first campaign for the fashion house.
The Autumn/Winter 2011-12 campaign was shot by Bruce Weber –- a change of direction for Miu Miu, which has used the famous photog-duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for its previous nine seasons of campaigns. Hailee was handpicked for the campaign by creative director Miuccia Prada after she struck up a friendship with both her Miu Miu and Prada labels. A very memorable Prada moment for Hailee was the strippy-print dress she donned at the 2011 Screen Actors Guild awards. The young actress also sat front row at Miu Miu’s Fall Fashion Show as a special guest of Miuccia.
“Miu Miu is such a perfect fit for her. Throughout awards season, they were the dresses she wanted to wear,” says Hailee’s stylist, Karla Welch.
The young star, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in 2010′s box office western True Grit, follows in some high-profile footsteps in modelling for Miu Miu. Lindsay Lohan posed for Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2007 line. Actress Kirsten Dunst struck a pose for the label in 2008. Maggie Gyllenhaal is also a former brand spokesmodel.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The work just keeps rolling in for La Lohan. Lindsay’s filmed an ad for Air New Zealand despite being under house arrest for jewelry theft. The airline is known for its zany advertising and tipped the trouble-prone actress to film a promotional clip for the company just hours before appearing in court for “allegedly” violating the terms of her probation by drinking.
Lohan, 24, spent Wednesday afternoon filming a sketch with Rico, the Kiwi airline’s furry puppet mascot, at her Los Angeles apartment, TMZ reports.
“It’s funny, but given Lindsay’s current situation … the timing ain’t ideal for her,” says a snoop.
Air New Zealand was in Los Angeles this week filming with E! hostess Giuliana Rancic and former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff, somehow LiLo made her way into the mix.
“[We] also swung by to see Lindsay Lohan,” the airline said in a statement.
The Mean Girls actress is the latest in a string of celebrities, including Snoop Dog and Richard Simmons, to pair up with Air New Zealand. The house-bound star also found time to film a super low-budget spot for auction website Beezid.com while doing time for being a trainwreck. Chillin’ at her Venice Beach pad, presumably wearing her ankle monitor, Lindsay smiles as she tells the world how much she loves the site in a commercial that surfaced online earlier this week.
Lohan was banned Thursday from partying while under home detention, but escaped jail after reportedly testing positive for alcohol.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Just call her Louis’ Girl! Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie poses in debut campaign as the new face of famed French fashion house Louis Vuitton and its “Core Values” campaign.
In the ad, unveiled on the pages of Woman’s Wear Daily (WWD) Monday, Jolie’s sits sans makeup with a weathered, monogrammed LV Alto bag at her side. She was photographed by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz aboard a wooden boat floating in a green marsh in Cambodia’s Siem Reap Province — an area the actress discovered during filming for her 2000 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
“People are not used to seeing Angelina in this situation,” Vuitton executive vice president Pietro Beccari tells WWD of the makeup-free image. “I like the fact that it’s a real moment. This travel message we give through personal journeys is a fundamental one for the brand.”
In April, Jolie signed a lucrative deal with LV for what E! News snoops say will be a print-only campaign. Jolie will be paid “close to $10 million” for her work with the brand, a source familiar with discussions reports. The gig is expected to be the most lucrative endorsement deal of Angelina’s career. She’ll reportedly donate all proceeds from the Vuitton deal to charity.
Jolie’s three-year endorsement deal with St. John ended in 2010. The mother-of-six recently launched a jewelry line dubbed Style of Jolie.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Aishwarya Rai sheds her inhibitions and flashes a lot of skin wearing a short white lace dress in a new L'Oreal commercial. The commercial promotes hair color and highlights, but its own highlight is - Aishwarya's short dress riding up as she crosses her leg. When that happens with the most beautiful woman on the planet, you will agree, it does get to be crazily sexy.
