By Tyler Durden

Our friends across the pond in Amsterdam’s Property Of… are getting the early days of Summer and tease the rest of the world with their selection of summer bags to keep you functional, comfortable and stylish during this upcoming season.

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Audience Cut

7 For All Mankind along with the brand’s creative agency LIPMAN, 7 For All Mankind has once again teamed up with James Franco to create another video campaign. See the directors cut by James Franco and the audience cut after weeks of polling.

The SS13 campaign is called ‘A Beautiful Odyssey’ and explores the concept of LOVE & CONNECTIVITY symbolized through an aspirational white wedding. A white wedding, paired with the sensual surroundings of a California beach at sunset, provide the inspirational scenery for the campaign. Over the course of a day and a night, audiences gain a glimpse into the most intimate and sacred moments of a couple’s relationship; anything seems possible.

Director’s Cut (as imagined by James Franco)

Franco’s creative presence in the campaign represents his on-going role as a creative force behind the 7 For All Mankind image and branding. “Love is a beautiful thing. A powerful thing. But there are different textures to it. There’s a range of emotion that goes beyond happiness alone. People like to pretend that part’s not there, but that’s the way passion is. We didn’t shy away from that. We went for it– with a vision of a California beach wedding.”says Franco.

Photography by Kevin Ornelas

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The spring signifies the start of some welcome changes, such as longer days and bright colors added to your wardrobe.

Many people neglect their feet and their sock wear, forgetting that a simple sock might be all they need to brighten their look for the summer. We present to you our selections of Spring and Summer socks from some of the best brands today – Happy Socks, The Hundreds, Stance and HUF.

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This newest film by Trevor Undi artfully showcases Karl Lagerfeld’s stunning Chanel Paris – Édimbourg Métiers d’Art 2012/13 collection at Scotland’s Linlithgow Palace. Set against the poetic and emotionally haunting Retrograde from James Blake.

by Paige Reddinger

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You know spring has arrived when you receive a slew of invitations to galas and parties and your inbox gets inundated with all of the pre-coverage for impending music festivals. And then, the inevitable fashion conundrum dawns on you: What to wear? Jimmy Choo has the answer for every occasion with their new event-ready Pre-Fall 2013 line, aptly called “The Season”. The line, which launched in stores and online today, ranges from the perfect pair of pointy evening pumps for the upcoming Met Ball to shimmery rock ‘n’ roll boots for the Coachella crowd. We caught up with Creative Director, Sandra Choi to find out how she became inspired to tailor the collection to girls about town. As for Choi? Find out why she’ll be keeping her own party profile low this year.

Fun collection theme! How did you decide to theme a collection around events, galas, and concerts?

It came about naturally; we have an established presence on the red carpet and as our collections have developed we have created a portfolio of styles that cater to all event occasions. The pre-Fall Season collection presents a collection that will transport you seamlessly through the glamorous whirl of Summer’s social events from the Cannes Film Festival to The Met Ball to the Serpentine Summer Party to Coachella and Glastonbury.

Have you ever hit up those festivals?

I’ve been to Glastonbury and I love it, however it comes, rain or shine.

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by Keith Green

Ignited by deeply rooted passion and influenced by their exotic worldwide travels, the creative designers at Latitude have truly out done themselves with this year’s launch. Succeeding their impressive launch of menswear in 2012, the brand is proud to announce their emergence into women’s fashion this year. Presenting their new A/W13 & S/S13 Men’s and Women’s Collections, Latitude Supply Co. recently held their first exclusive photo shoot of 2013 in Malibu Beach, California.

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by Tyler Durden

Posen designed the one-of-a-kind couture gown in delicate fabric, featuring more than 10 thousand hand-embroidered 24K gold sequins in five different sizes which were hand-created from sheets of 24k gold. The design team worked with embroidery professionals to bring the dress to life, with two weeks spent handcrafting and sewing delicate gold sequins using a special embroidery technique to accentuate the female shape.

“Creating my first-ever 24-karat gold dress was a truly priceless experience,” said Posen. “I’m naturally drawn to luxury and love to push my creativity, so the design process of creating a couture dress made of gold was thrilling. I pulled inspiration from MAGNUM Gold?! for the dress design… the train reminds me of melting ice cream. The dress is so decadent.”

The details of the dress along with the intricate details of its design, will be shared immediately following its gold carpet debut during the Tribeca Film Festival. Additionally, a behind-the-scenes look at Posen’s design process will be available on the MAGNUM Facebook page leading up to its reveal.

by Mark Miller

Sex sells, right? Well, Louis Vuitton apparently thinks so as its clothing is the star of a new short film that features a few of its top models acting the parts of prostitutes in the dark streets of Paris. A naked woman in the backseat of a car, a half-dressed woman swaying down an alley, a woman undressing in front of a car’s headlights and a slew of come-hither looks fill up the new film that was produced by the U.K.’s Love Magazine and directed by James Lima.

Featuring the work of supermodels Cara Delevingne and Georgia May Jagger, who clearly has inherited her dad’s ability to draw a crowd, the film eventually intercuts scenes from Vuitton’s recent Paris Fashion Week show. Designer Marc Jacobs makes an appearance in those clips and one wonders if he had any idea that he would be appearing in a film that women’s groups are claiming glorifies prostitution, according to the New York Daily News. Inna Shevcenko, the leader of women’s rights group Femen, which is famous for going topless to gain attention for the issues it is fighting against, said, “Once again, naked women are used to create a buzz or sell clothes.”

According to The Huffington Post, “a piece in France’s Libération mirrored this sentiment: ‘What indecency, ignorance and indifference to play with the fantasy of porn chic: the social condition of the vast majority of prostitutes has nothing enviable, nothing fancy, nothing happy about it.’”

French publication The Local reports that the fashion house has distanced itself from the film, as it didn’t produce it, but there’s no doubt that the Louis Vuitton name will stay attached to the ‘gone too far’ controversy. However, Love magazine editor Katie Grand has spoken out, telling Fashionista, “We are very sorry for any offence caused. It was certainly not our intention.” The film has since been removed from Love’s website and has a private setting on Vimeo, Fashionista reports.

Ford learned a similar lesson earlier this week when it had to come out and apologize for ads that surfaced in India that featured misogynistic images including former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sitting in the driver’s seat with three prostitutes bound up in the trunk. The ads were never intended for publication, but were leaked by an agency in the country. That was enough to give Ford a black eye, particularly in a culture where women don’t show their skin quite as much as they apparently do in Paris.

by Tyler Durden

Although we feature content that caters to today’s modern man and women, many of us have little creative thinkers and doers of our own and just as much as we enjoy looking and feeling great, we must do everything in our efforts to keep our little tikes happy as well. More importantly, explain to them certain significances in the world we live in so as they mature and grow, they too will have a better understand of their world.

Partnered with Light Gives Heat (LGH), a Colorado based not-for-profit, and their SUUBI (hope) initiative, mimivail celebrates and supports girls around the world. Each dress comes with an exclusive handcrafted bracelet designed by the women living in Jinja, Uganda, an initiative to help empower these artisans, and their children, through the encouragement of economic sustainability and creative endeavors. Every season a newly designed colorful matching bracelet made of pearl-like beads from recycled paper will be introduced to complement the collection.  Little girls can wear their bracelet as a symbol of hope.

Believing in the goodness of little girls and the power of positive role models, the brand is presented through 5 fictional “girls” who hail from all parts of the world and who have their own distinct personalities: Bridget, Scarlet, Emi, Isabelle and Ruby. Each mimivail dress is designed with one of these exceptional girls in mind.  As the collection grows so will their stories and wardrobes.

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by Alison Moss

What a wonderful way to bring in your birthday if you are a beauty lover. Last week was Rihanna’s 25th birthday and it was revealed that the megastar inked a deal with MAC Cosmetics to create an exclusive line that will launch later this year. This is huge for the uber creative Rihanna who just launched her collaboration with River Island that previewed the week before.

The Mac Cosmetics line will feature an entire collection that is inspired by Rihanna including lipstick, eyeshadow, brushes and more with new products launching as the year goes on! Riri announced the news on Twitter on Feb. 20th.

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