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 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…

Prada takes detour for SS16 campaign

You can always rely on Prada to do something different every season and its ad campaigns are a good example of this. The company has moved away from the powerful silhouettes and clear, clean colours of its very product-focused AW15 campaign. This time the look is more laidback with the product feeling as though it’s…

SS16 ad campaign: Dolce & Gabbana continues Sicilian celebration

I’m always intrigued when each new Dolce & Gabbana ad campaign is released to see how the oh-so-Italian label will gently revamp its particular brand of luxe, sexy, southern Italian style. Just as the label’s collections are a continual reinvention of the same basic theme, so the ads recreate the dolce vita Sicilian sunshine lifestyle season-after-season.…