Coca-Cola Light Gets Dressed By Another Designer, Karl Lagerfeld.

Coca Cola Light continues to honor fashion icons with their latest limited edition bottle designed by and featuring CHANEL's pony-tailed guru of couture, Karl Lagerfeld.



The designer's famous silhouette graces the aluminum bottle which comes in unique limited edition box, accompanied with a bottle-opener discreetly hidden in a drawer. Available now from Colette.



This is not the first fashion designer to create a special version of the famous Coca-Cola Contour bottle for their light soda. Below are several other limited edition bottles by fashion designers for the Coca Cola Light soda from the past few years.



Last year, in Italy, Coca-Cola Light had a Tribute to Fashion to celebrate 100 years of the recognizable contour bottle. Well known Italian designers Alberta Ferretti, Blumarine, Etro, Fendi, Marni, Missoni, Moschino, and Versace each designed the following beautiful limited edition bottles. Sadly, they were only available in Milan, but you can at least see them all here.

Blumarine and Etro:

Fendi and Ferretti:

Marni and Missoni:

Moschino and Versace:


Limited edition Coca-Cola Light bottle by Baum and Pferdgarten that was released exclusively in Copenhagen during the 2010 Copenhagen Fashion Week:



In 2009, Nathalie Rykiel, daughter of fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, created this designer bottle for Coca Cola Light:



Other designers who created limited edition Coca Cola Light bottles for specific fashion events in 2009, included these three bottles by, from left to right, Zac Posen, Manolo Blahnik and fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth:



And in 2008, these three Coca-Cola Light bottles were designed by fashion designer by Roberto Cavalli:



Thanks to various international Coca Cola sites and Colette for the photos.

The Controversial SHREK Fashion Editorial For Vman By Ellen von Unwerth

VMAN magazine has released a photo fashion editorial shot by the fabulous Ellen von Unwerth (with styling Nicola Formichetti) which features the animated Dreamworks Characters from SHREK posing in some mildly suggestive, but hilarious editorial photos with scantily clad fashion models.

The multi-page editorial coincides with the upcoming release of the latest movie in the SHREK franchise, Shrek Forever, on May 21st.



The editorial is getting lots of flack for being in 'poor taste'. Despite being approved and signed-off by Dreamworks, it's been the subject on tv news magazine shows and radio shows and is getting very mixed responses. Lots of angry parents and disappointed SHREK fans seem to feel it places the lovable characters; Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss In boots, The Gingerbread man and Shrek triplets in inappropriate scenarios.

In my opinion, the SHREK movies contain many adult references and have a very wry sense of humor meant for both young and old, the fashion editorial is in a magazine not read by children and is well-shot, composed and styled... all frankly, in good fun.

So, if you can maintain your sense of humor, the following images will amuse you:

above, Francisco wears:
Leather and chain vest Bliss Lau
Leggings and boots Dolce & Gabbana f/w 2010
Headband Alexander Wang f/w 2010
Arm warmers by Malene Birger f/w 2010

above, Agnete wears:
Top Alexander Wang f/w 2010
Briefs Agent Provocateur
Body cages Heather Huey
Necklace (worn as headband) Benoit Missolin
Shoes Designers Remix f/w 2010

above, Emma wears:
Bustier Agent Provocateur
Shorts Designers Remix f/w 2010
Leg warmers and shoes Alexander Wang F/W 2010
Headband Benoit Missolin
Gloves by Malene Birger f/w 2010
Paolo wears:
Leggings and boots Dolce & Gabbana F/W 2010
above: Francisco wears
Cardigan and pants John Varvatos F/W 2010
Ring Bjørg
Bracelet Shamballa Jewels
Cross Necklace David Yurman
Body chains (on torso and worn as belt) Bliss Lau
On hair, Redken for Men:
Maneuver Working Wax

above: Paolo wears:
Hat By Malene Birger F/W 2010
Pants J. Lindeberg f/w 2010
Boots Dolce & Gabbana F/W 2010
Francisco wears:
Body chains Bliss Lau
Jeans Guess Arm warmers By Malene Birger F/W 2010
Belt AND_i
Boots Jean-Michel Cazabat F/W 2010

above; Emma wears:
Jacket Designers Remix f/w 2010
Bra Chris Habana
Headband Benoit Missolin

above, Agnete wears:
Jacket Marc Jacobs F/W 2010
Dress Designers Remix F/W 2010
Corset Rag & Bone F/W 2010
Sunglasses and boots Alexander Wang F/W 2010
Bracelets Shamballa Jewels

above; from left:
Francisco wears cardigan Y-3 F/W 2010
Pants Mads Nørgaard – Copenhagen F/W 2010
Sunglasses Walter Van Beirendonck by Linda Farrow
Sneakers New Balance

Emma wears:
Dress Ann-Sofie Back F/W 2010
Headband AND_i
Sunglasses Mercura NYC NYC
Shoes Acne F/W 2010

Agnete wears:
Dress Alexander Wang F/W 2010
Necklace (worn as headband) Mawi
Necklace (worn as belt) and boots By Malene Birger F/W 2010

Paolo wears:
Sweater John Varvatos F/W 2010
Kilt Pringle of Scotland F/W 2010
Sunglasses Mercura nyc
Boots Dolce & Gabbana F/W 2010

Credits:
Location The Standard, New York
Hair Dennis Gots for Redken for Men
Grooming and Makeup Devra Kinnery for Christian Dior (Art Department)
Models Agnete Hegelund (Next), Emma Dumont, Paolo Anchisi, Francisco Lachowski (Ford NY)
Manicure Rica Romain for Chanel (See Management)
Photo assistants Christoph Lange and Jochem Sanders
Stylist assistants Emily Eisen, Natalie Hazzout, Jessica Bobince, Rian Fossett
Digital technicians Shannon Sinclair and Mario Torres
Production Tali Magal (Freebird Productions)
Production assistant Michael Flis (Freebird Productions)
Retouching Impact digital
All animated characters courtesy Dreamworks Animation
Special Thanks Laura Salvato at Paramount Pictures

Shrek official movie site.

The Lavazza 2008 Calendar: A Most Majestic Experience

If you didn't know, Lavazza of Italy produces a calendar that celebrates their brand and their product (espresso) every year. And it's no ordinary 'corporate calendar'. This is always a piece of stunning photographic art. Every year.

They've used an impressive stable of photographers. Coincidentally, the past three years happen to have used three of my personal favorites; Eugenio Recuenco, Erwin Olaf and Ellen Von Unwerth, which is how I even discovered Lavazza and their calendars in the first place. The infamous Helmut Newton shot the first calendar in 1993 for them. And well-known photographers David LaChapelle and Albert Watson have also shot the Lavazza calendar in the past.



This year's calendar theme is "The Most Majestic Experience". Models posing as aristocratic regal "queens' amongst luxury and animals. Shot by Finlay Mackay


Above: Photographer Finlay Mackay


The 2008 Calendar:

Above: the Cover, January~February


Above: March~April

Above: May~June

Above: July~August

Above: September~October

Above: November~December

In addition to creating a pretty piece of functional art, Lavazza's flash site for this year's calendar is a sight to see- and hear. Beautifully designed and easy to navigate, it's filled with goodies. Both a written and narrated story introduces you to each of the "queens" in the calendar:



And you get peek at the actual shoot, both in stills (as seen below) and a video (seen at the end of this post).





And they even have an online contest, Majestic Mahong, you can play and be automatically entered to win a 2008 Calendar or more.

So be sure to check it out when you have some time, because there's so much to see on their site.

In Lavazza's own words, The 16th edition of the Lavazza Calendar, is dedicated to important, aristocratic and determined women, women who feel like queens - in other words, all women. It shows an enchanted and precious world in which queens are surrounded by jewellery, silk, velvet and freely roaming animals proudly reign.

See the new 2008 calendar for yourself here.

Below is Finlay Mackays's tv spot for Lavazza 2008. Please be patient while it loads.



The Most Majestic Experience.
I want to credit all the right people for this wonderful work, and luckily for me, the fabulous client director at Armando Testa has furnished me with a list of the talented people involved on this project.

CREDITS 2008 LAVAZZA CALENDAR / THE MOST MAJESTIC ESPRESSO EXPERIENCE

Supervision & coordination: Luigi Lavazza S.p.A.
Creative project: Armando Testa
Creative directors: Michele Mariani, Germán Silva, Haitz Mendibil, Ekhi Mendibil
Art director: Andrea Lantelme
Copywriter: Cristiano Nardò
Photographer: Finlay MacKay
Assistant photographer: Christopher George, Alick Crossley
Agent: Marco Santucci Photography
Production Company: The Box Films
Set designer: Robin Brown
Costume designer: Moritz Junge
Stylist: Hannah Teare
Hair stylist: James Rowe
Make-up artist: Hiromi Ueda
Post production: Core Digital
Models/animals/etc:
Cover: Sofie Nielander
Queen Vanalika II: Maria Dvirnik
Davidina (Monkey, trained by Daniel Berquinì)
Queen Bao: Xiuli Gao (Queen)
Katsuya Tatsumoto (Painter)
Queen Sophie Margot: Sofie Nielander (Queen)
Massimo Viafora, Fabio Zerba (Servants)
Evija Petuhova (Harlequin)
Queen Yasmine: Anna Sjoberg (Queen)
Men: Silvio Biolcati, Luca Andolfo, Attila Fernec Csiszler
Women: Evija Petuhova, Paula Ludwig
Queen Kuk Grethel: Cicely Telman (Queen)
Falcon from Zoo Grunwalt s.r.l.
Queen Melissa III: Awoi Mac Bullen Geu (Queen)
Men: Luca Andolfo, Attila Fernec Csiszler, Niklas Erik Daniel Crlsson, Andrew Demarsh, Morgan Pieter, Augustin Grunefeld Lance Brolin Wuchterl, Trevor Pedrowski, Milan Gogora, Silvio Biolcati, Manuele Barbaglio, Fabio Rizzo, Giovanni Fortunato
Giorgio Colnaghi, Daniele D’Andrea
Special thanks to: Damiani jewels & Vivienne Westwood

You can see all the past years' calendars by going here.

To buy a calendar, you'll have to check ebay- they don't sell them to the public!