15|11|2013
“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.”
Eminem
TRENDS
TREND OF THE MONTH
SPORTY
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TRENDS
ACCESSORIES
CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION: BALLER STATUS BACKPACK
Deep-pocketed gents in search of the perfect haul-all that marries utility with supreme luxury should be happy to find that Calvin Klein Collection is offering this backpack.
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FASHION SHOWS
THEMES
SWEATSHIRT
Themes from Spring | Summer 2013 | 2014 Collections
Alexander Wang
Iceberg
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SHOPPING
THE BOOK
EMINEM: THE WAY I AM
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MUSE
EMINEM
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor. In addition to his solo career, Eminem is a member of his group D12, as well as one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, alongside Royce da 5’9″. Eminem is one of the world’s best-selling music artists and is the best-selling artist of the 2000s. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone magazine which ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The same magazine declared him The King of Hip Hop. Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has achieved ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200. His worldwide albums sales stand at more than 115 million, singles 120 million, and the estimated sale of over 220 million records worldwide. In the United States, he has sold 49.1 million albums and 42 million tracks.
After releasing his independent debut album Infinite in August 1996, Eminem rose to mainstream popularity with the release of his February 1999 album The Slim Shady LP. The LP also earned Eminem his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His next two records The Marshall Mathers LP, and The Eminem Show, also won Best Rap Album Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. This was followed by another studio release in November 2004 titled Encore. Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. He released his fifth album Relapse in May 2009. In June 2010, Eminem released his seventh studio album Recovery. Recovery was an international success and was named the best selling album of 2010 worldwide, joining The Eminem Show, which was the best seller of 2002. Eminem won Grammy Awards for both Relapse and Recovery, giving him a total of 13 Grammys in his career, making him the best-selling rap album artist of all-time. Eminem’s eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was released in November 2013.
Eminem has opened other ventures, including his own record label Shady Records with his manager Paul Rosenberg. He also has his own radio channel, Shade 45 on Sirius XM Radio. In 2002, Eminem starred in the hip hop drama film 8 Mile. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, becoming the first rap artist ever to win the award. He has also made cameo appearances in The Wash (2001), Funny People (2009), and the television series Entourage.
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BEAUTY
FRAGRANCE
LACOSTE: EAU
Eau de Lacoste is a new feminine fragrance, the equivalent of the L.12.12 men’s fragrance collection. The perfume comes on the market in early 2013.
This rich fragrance of white flowers recalls clean white cotton shirt scent. It is made of notes of white pineapple, mandarin and bergamot at the top; Sambac jasmine, orange blossom and pineapple blossom in the heart, and sandalwood, peru balsam, vetiver and vanilla in the base.
Bottle design is inspired by the shape of a tennis ball. It exudes simplicity and universality which are ideologies of the Lacoste brand.
The face of the campaign is actress Amy Adams. Eau de Lacoste is available as 30, 50 and 90 ml Eau de Parfum with additional body lotion and shower gel.
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NEWS
ISN’T IT IRONIC: MAURIZIO CATTELAN ON HIS NEW CAPSULE SWEATSHIRT COLLECTION WITH MSGM
The Milanese fashion pack tends to migrate on Saturday nights to Plastic, the popular club where snazzily dressed regulars go to see what other people are doing and wearing. It was here that the artist and sometime Milan resident Maurizio Cattelan spotted the flamboyant, kitschy prints and New Wave style of MSGM, the irreverent Italian fashion upstart that has become a magnet for a new generation of trend-happy shoppers.
This month, Massimo Giorgetti, the label’s energetic founder has collaborated with Toilet Paper, the audacious art magazine begun by Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, to create a lineup of bold unisex summer sweatshirts destined for a festa near you. Given carte blanche to use the irreverent magazine’s visual archive as he wished, Giorgetti picked ten charged images to appear on the cult label’s crewnecks rendered in acid colors and ice cream hues. His cheery and cheeky designs recall Italy’s high energy glory days and buzzy collections from the likes of Fiorucci, despite the designer’s reluctance to revisit decades past. “I don’t like nostalgia,” says Giorgetti. “I prefer irony.”
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