When your fashion mag has been around for so many years, I suppose it's not to strange that you might want to have not one, not two but six covers for the month of May. And...should you decide to produce 6 covers, wouldn't it be the most ideal concept to have modeling's brightest shining stars grace them? Well, DUH...of course.
I. Have. Been. Waiting. for a campaign just like this!!!
I'm trying to express just how much Gucci stole my heart with this campaign and for many be what could be the first time EVER, I can't find the words. Not only is it rare to see African American/Black models in a luxury campaign but for the entire pre-fall 2017 campaign to be 100% black...well, that completely unheard of. The smiles on their faces and the fun that undoubtedly ensued, as captured in the photos, is matched only by the overwhelming happiness in my fashion heart. Here are few of my favorite shots...
Madewell tapped model Liniesy Montero to show off their newest looks for the weekend. Want to look cool, effortless, relaxed and comfortable all at the same time? Try this...
Whether you're headed to Coachella or not, these looks are perfectly casual and wonderfully chic.
Here's something to add to your social calendar: This year, Cinco de Mayo finally falls on a Friday and Dos Equis is giving fans everywhere the tools they need to ignite their fiestas early. To celebrate 120 years of heritage and the Mexican spice of life, Dos Equis is challenging consumers 21+ to "Spice Up Your Cinco" and embrace the adventurous side of the holiday.
On April 27, fans in New York City will experience this year's hottest Cinco de Mayo Party as Dos Equis brings "Spice Up Your Cinco" to life in a way only Dos Equis can. Inspired by the bold colors, flavors and unmistakable bustle of a Mexican street market, guests will be captivated by the sights, sounds, and tastes of a busy day spent at a market south of the border. To accentuate the brand's "Stay Thirsty" mindset and to continue to encourage our drinkers to seek interesting experiences, Dos Equis is enlisting legendary DJ Questlove to spin a fiery soundtrack for the night. Attendees will also have the chance to mingle with The Most Interesting Man in the World.
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"Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of the year for Dos Equis as we share our heritage, the Mexican spice of life, and a real Mexican cerveza with our drinkers," said Andrew Katz, VP of Marketing for Dos Equis. "There's no better way to celebrate our 120th anniversary than bringing to life the elements of an authentic Mexican market and teaming up with DJ Questlove to bring the heat this Cinco de Mayo."
In the weeks leading up to Cinco de Mayo, Dos Equis is ensuring fans nationwide to have a spicy celebration by offering the chance to win daily prizes and a grand prize trip to Mexico, including an exclusive tour of the Dos Equis Brewery and vacation time in Cancun. Consumers can enter by texting XXCINCO to 88500 for a chance to win.
The Most Interesting Man in the World is also featured in a new English and Spanish campaign-themed commercials slated to run today through May. The spot features The Most Interesting Man daringly eating ghost peppers with ease, as he goes head-to-head against his helpless challenger: "attending his Cinco de Mayo party, requires signing a release form."
For more information on how to "Spice Up Your Cinco," and for updates on ongoing contests and news, please visit the Dos Equis Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/DosEquis, follow us on Twitter @DosEquis, Instagram @DosEquis or head to DosEquis.com. Dos Equis "Spice Up Your Cinco" is part of an ongoing commitment to help fans live the "Stay Thirsty" mindset.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Irving Penn (1917-2009) mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, detail, and printmaking. Irving Penn: Centennial, opening April 24, 2017, will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the great American photographer’s work to date and will include both masterpieces and hitherto unknown prints from all his major series.
Long celebrated for more than six decades of influential work at Vogue magazine, Penn was first and foremost a fashion photographer. His early photographs of couture are masterpieces that established a new standard for photographic renderings of style at mid-century, and he continued to record the cycles of fashions year after year in exquisite images characterized by striking shapes and formal brilliance. His rigorous modern compositions, minimal backgrounds, and diffused lighting were innovative and immensely influential. Yet, Penn’s photographs of fashion are merely the most salient of his specialties. He was a peerless portraitist, whose perceptions extended beyond the human face and figure to take in more complete codes of demeanor, adornment, and artifact. He was also blessed with an acute graphic intelligence and a sculptor’s sensitivity to volumes in light, talents that served his superb nude studies and life-long explorations of still life.
