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Rihanna’s MAC Viva GLAM Campaign

admin — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:11:43 +0000

So this just happened! Following in the footsteps of living legends including Gaga, Ru Paul and um…Nicki Minaj comes Rihanna’s campaign for MAC Viva Glam – and wow. Shot by Inez & Vinoodh (you should really read this NY Times article about the all conquering duo), the Illuminati Princess is topless (duh!) and looking completely immense. One hundred percent of the Viva Glam “lip stain” sales goes to the MAC AIDS fund to help those affected by the HIV AIDS. It’s available from now.

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An ARTPOP Film starring Lady Gaga

admin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:33:58 +0000

If I haven’t said it publicly enough, I am completely in love with ARTPOP and the more hate and negativity that Gaga receives, just makes me admire her (and stan for her) more.

We knew that video content was shot by Inez & Vinoodh during the campaign photography stages of artwork for the album, but to be honest – after countless brilliant live performances, SNL, radio interviews and magazine covers – I had kinda forgotten that this would ever come out.

I’d have expected it to be slightly more slick and graded – but the rawness and sketchy lighting is what actually makes the film – the tears, the smudged make-up, the passion in her eyes, the pain – and set to the most iconic (title) track from the album. Here is “An ARTPOP Film starring Lady Gaga” by Inez & Vinoodh. It features all of the “iconic” looks and wigs from the campaign including the moss dress (GARDEN PANTY) and the cyber tech chair/throne. Now all we need is the Terry Richardson documentary.

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Music Video: Lady Gaga – APPLAUSE

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:16:32 +0000

Before we go into the details of this piece of art, let’s take a moment to appreciate that in spite of a slew of negativity online and criticism from the broadest spectrum of individuals you could even imagine, from anonymous trolls to leading journalists combined with sales figures that have been subsequently affected by this (and the fact that the global public isn’t able to relate to a high concept track about fame as much as they can various self-empowerment anthems), Lady Gaga was still given the honour, hype and prestige of premiering the video for APPLAUSE on Good Morning America – creating a national (and global) pop culture moment reminiscent of Madonna, Britney and Michael.

Directed by Inez & Vinoodh, the video for APPLAUSE goes back to (and outdoes) the high concept world of The Fame Monster (Bad Romance, Alejandro) and to a certain extent the commercial for The Fame (fragrance). Every shot as enigmatic as the last, with her facial expressions and choreography throughout, the clip contains bountiful references to her official body of work (reaching five years this week) and unofficial body of work (with one look referencing Stefani Germanotta of Electric Kiss and Captivated fame). The iconography of the burnt our Fame Monster yellow wig look to the reincarnation of Shiva on the catwalk to the Daphne Guinness style green jacket and colour painted black swan Meret Oppenheim-esque rebirth (my favourite) are all incredibly telling visions demonstrating once more that Gaga is the most self-aware popstar in the history of time.

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Lady Gaga’s Artwork for APPLAUSE

admin — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:30:41 +0000

The first single from ARTPOP was today officially confirmed to be a track produced by DJ White Shadow, called APPLAUSE. Here’s the official artwork by Inez & Vinoodh (Gaga wears Gareth Pugh in the photo) as released to Women’s Wear Daily. Inez & Vinoodh (who Gaga first worked with at the V Magazine cover shoot in 2009) have also been shooting the promo images and V cover story for Gaga’s return to the spotlight.

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ARTPOP

admin — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:50:56 +0000

After the dramatic (and likely staged) social media (namely Twitter) outage last week, it was only a matter of days before the official ARTPOP announcement was set to land. Firstly, kudos to journalists and social commentators that are actually capitalising the word, nothing would piss me off more than to have my brand “spelt” wrong everywhere. Secondly, congratulations to Gaga’s team to detaching her from the announcement and keeping it in the third person. Her proximity to fans is probably what has lead to a lot of them being such trolls, like I said before, she needs to let the music speak for itself and although the promo for this is digitally lead (not dissimilar to Bjork’s Boiphilia album), it will hopefully allow her to communicate through art rather than press.

Without further ado, here’s the official announcement, dates and first promotional image by Inez & Vinoodh. Simple, clean and how we all wanted this era to be. In translation, the first single lands in FIVE weeks.

Built by TechHAUS, the technological branch of HAUS OF GAGA, the app itself is a musical and visual engineering system that combines music, art, fashion, and technology with a new interactive worldwide community — “the auras”. Altering the human experience with social media, we bring ARTculture into POP in a reverse Warholian expedition.

Exploring Gaga’s existence as a cultural interface, the user will share in the ‘adrenaline of fame’ as they build and share their own projects, chat with one another, and watch in real-time on a virtual globe as ARTPOP explodes onto the physical and virtual universe at once on November 11, our “BIG BANG!” On this day HAUS OF GAGA venges with forte to bring the music industry into a new age; an age where art drives pop, and the artist once again is in control of the ‘icon.’

In turn, the album ARTPOP musically mirrors Gaga’s creative process as she passes through the mediums of each artist she collaborates with, scoring a blueprint of her journey. The result, a “rage” of electronic passion and fury, defining each artistic process from beginning to end, ARTPOP could mean anything. But for her, this is a celebration of obsession. And on November 10, she will host an evening of artRave exhibiting Haus of Gaga’s projects as well as collaborations with Inez & Vinoodh, Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons.

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l’invitation au voyage for louis vuitton by inez & vinoodh

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:54:17 +0000

Directed by Inez and Vinoodh comes the beautiful L’Invitation Au Voyage – a new campaign film for Louis Vuitton. Starring Arizona Muse, the film is shot within the Louvre itself.

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BLK DNM for vogue paris photographed by inez & vinoodh

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:33:42 +0000

For the last few months, social media has been abuzz with mentions and Twitpics of a new BLK DNM (The J. Lindeberg Project) collaboration with acclaimed fashion photography duo and KARLISMYUNKLE favourites Inez & Vinoodh. Now we finally get to see it come to life.

Here are images from the November issue of Vogue Paris celebrating “Beauty at Every Age” featuring six strong women in BLK DNM, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh.

The portraits include Daria Werbowy (28), Lauren Hutton (68), Stephanie Seymour (44) and Loulou Robert (19) each wearing BLK DNM Leather Jacket 1.

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lana del rey by solve sundsbo for H&M – winter campaign 2012

admin — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:10:44 +0000

Following the initial wave of images featuring the AW12 collection from the H&M line modelled by Lana Del Rey and photographed by Inez & Vinoodh, comes the second set of images by Solve Sundsbo, with a much darker tone. They’ve been appearing ad hoc on billboards around the globe, but here they are (finally) in hi resolution.

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lana del rey by inez & vinoodh for H&M AW12

admin — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:51:59 +0000

The second batch of stunningly beautiful images of Lana Del Rey for H&M’s AW12 campaign have arrived. Photographed by Inez & Vinoodh. Read about the full campaign and check out the first two images here.

In other H&M news, the brand released further underwear campaign images of David Beckham by Alasdair McLellan today and are promoting the launch by erecting Beckham for H&M statues around the world. More images under the cut.

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lana del rey by inez & vinoodh for H&M AW12

admin — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:31:20 +0000

H&M has finally cleared up the rumour and speculation by announcing Lana Del Rey as the face of their AW and Christmas campaigns. The creative was shot by Inez & Vinoodh (preview image below) and a TV commercial featuring Lana covering Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton (listen to the original below) will be released on September 19.

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