Here is your first look at the new Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2010 Advertising Campaign featuring supermodel Ollie Edwards and Nimue Smit lensed by Josh Olins. [source: TFS]
Ollie Edwards was already featured on YVY in a exclusive series by Hudson Wright, check it out!
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Michel Comte is one of the most important photographers of our time and impresses with its uncompromising yet sensitive style. Besides his work as glamor and fashion photographer Michel Comte is involved with impressive photo reportage from the crisis areas of the world.
Some of his photographs are truly memorable, unforgettable even, encapsulating the essence of his approach to photography- is classics in other words. It comes as no surprise that they mostly show women or celebrities, since these are the areas where Michel Comte has developed an unsurpassed mastery.
For 15 years Michel Comte has provided a tremendously accurate, passionate portrayal of everyday life in Formula One. Watch the video directed and written by Michel Conte for BMW Sauber F1 Team AFTER THE JUMP!
Giorgio Armani is pleased to unveil new images from Emporio Armanis Autumn/Winter 2009-10 underwear campaign featuring David and Victoria Beckham photographed together.
The new advertising campaign was shot in Milan, once again by renowned fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and will appear in fashion and lifestyle magazines and on signature billboards in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Rome, Paris and Tokyo, from July 2009 onwards. Click on the links below for more images from the same campaign:
Above 2 of our favorite models, Jean Carlos and Sean O’Pry, and below more hunks for you direct from the last Giorgio Armani Catwalk Show at Milan Fashion Week
Architect: Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Programme: Multibrand – GIORGIO ARMANI, EMPORIO ARMANI, ARMANI/RISTORANTE, ARMANI/PRIVE’
Construction year: December 2005 – November 2007
Site: Ginza, CHUO-KU TOKIO
Client: Gruppo Giorgio Armani
Interior and Furniture Design Team: Filippo Bich, Ana Gugic & Maria Lucrezia Rendace
Lighting design: Speirs & Major Associates
Area: 7,370 sqm
It is always difficult to crystallise the image of someone, particularly a person as well known as Giorgio Armani, one of the most famous figures in the world. It is not a coincidence that Andy Warhol portrayed him as a one of the icons of our age.
For the Armani/Ginza Tower, it was considered essential to project not just his creativity as a designer but his special aura, recreating the atmosphere of the atelier of this Italian creative genius, as well as his aesthetic code and his personal image. How to translate these qualities into architecture? How to combine the concept of luxury with restrained elegance, the concept of absolute modernity with a lasting style… the Armani style?
It is in Tokyo that for the first time ever the entirety of his output is to be displayed within the same building. Tokyo, a city alive with continuous movement. The brightly lit buildings pulsate with the vibrant speed of the traffic all around them, creating through a ceaseless flux of brilliant images the expression of a metropolitan spirit. The irresistible appeal of the big oriental capital cities consists in the rapidity and speed of their endless transformations. These are cities that pulsate like living organisms, continually modified to adapt to the needs of new inhabitants. They represent the polar opposite to our own European cities, so dark, secret and suffocated by history. Read all the article here!
