SS16 campaigns: Blugirl channels Jane Birkin and some California cool

Blumarine’s younger label Blugirl has gone for a retro celebration of all-thing-Californian for its SS16 campaign with model Charlotte Cardin looking like an extra from The Graduate-meets-Love-Story-meets-Stepford-Wives. Shot by Michelangelo di Battista and styled by Viviana Volpicella, the movie links are underscored by the fact that the campaign was shot at Universal Studios in Hollywood…

SS16 campaign: Marni communes with nature

In case you didn’t get the celebration of nature in Marni’s print story for SS16, the label’s new ad campaign really rams the point home. Tom Hunter has shot model Suvi Koponen against a woodland backdrop with one shot resembling nothing less than a leopard sleeping after a big meal.

SS16 campaigns: Chloé’s new direction?

First the disclosure – I LOVE the SS16 Chloé collection. Those colour combos, the contrast between the semi-opaque silks and the sporty separates, the slip dresses, the sandals, the dungaree maxidress, the lace and much more. So I was always going to like the ad campaign too (unless they messed it up really badly of…

SS16 campaigns: Wang’s Balenciaga swansong

It’s always a bit weird when a designer’s final collection for any brand goes on sale. And it’s equally strange when the ad campaign is unveiled for that collection, which is the case for Balenciaga this season. While Balenciaga is poised for a new era under Demna Gvasalia, the fact is that the product (and…

SS16 campaign: Gucci geeks hit Berlin

Gucci’s SS16 ad campaign offers up few surprises given the new direction in which Alessandro Michele is taking the label. It’s a celebration of quirkiness, geekiness and youth – with perhaps just too much of a focus on excessively skinny models. Not that any of that is a criticism (well, the skinny bit is, but…