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Fashion Network
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Valentino Garavani launches Vain bag campaign, Roger Vivier celebrates pre-fall collection
Two key European luxury labels have launched new campaigns with Valentino Garavani and Roger Vivier launching new creative marketing drives in the accessories and footwear sectors. Following the recent launch of the Nellcôte bag campaign, Maison Valentino now continues its storytelling journey with the unveiling of the second chapter: the Valentino Garavani Vain bag campaign. Conceived by creative director Alessandro Michele and shot by photographer Sharna Osborne, we're told the campaign 'is a tactile exploration of emotional intimacy and femininity. Evoking the aesthetic of analogue photography, it crafts an atmosphere where beauty is suspended in time'. The brand added that 'the images, with their faded colour tones and grainy backdrops, are imbued with a powerful texture that recalls the dreamlike sensibility of early film and the intensity of voyeuristic cinema'. Looking almost like video stills, the bag is the focal point of every image as the visuals portray two women 'in a series of compositions that suggest an atmosphere of private and shared allure. Whether together or apart, they appear caught in a world of whispered secrets and shadowy glamour, where the Vain bag becomes a silent witness to their intimacy'. The campaign supports new developments for the Vain bag this season with the introduction of a new top handle style featuring an elongated handle that allows it to be worn on the shoulder. There's also a new oval-shaped vanity bag, with a top flap acting as a lid, that 'brings a modern attitude to the line while preserving the original bag's refined codes'. The signature shoulder bags also return with updated finishes and 'rich surfaces', that is, multicolour floral embroideries rendered in beads, velvet, raffia, or leather, and a new printed animalier variation referencing the RTW collection. Vivier's Paris life Meanwhile, at Riger Vivier, the new campaign for the autumn 2025 pre-collection is called ' La Vie Parisienne ' and was conceived by brand creative director Gherardo Felloni 'as both homage and provocation'. Shot inside a hôtel particulier (one of the grand townhouses found in key French cities) 'and along hushed city streets, the story unfolds like a secret — caught in a glance, stretched across a brocade sofa. It captures something rarer than beauty: character. Here, elegance isn't constructed. It's instinctual'. So far, so very Parisian. But the company said that 'this is not the Paris of clichés. Nor is the Vivier woman one. She is elegant but unpredictable, refined yet untamed — never explaining, always becoming. Like the muses who once wore Vivier — Deneuve, Bardot, and beyond — she moves between worlds. Perhaps an art dealer. Perhaps a writer. Or neither. She doesn't follow fashion. She defines style'. It features a variety of both formal and casual shoes, along with bags. So who are the stars of this particular show? As far as the models are concerned, Felloni has cast three women 'who embody this spirit". There's Louise de Blegiers," with a modern intensity beneath her quiet poise; [plus] Zoé Adjani and Léa Rostain, actresses whose presence distills softness and edge. Parisian by birth or by affinity, these are not women who perform femininity — they reinvent it'.
Fashion Network
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Valentino Garavani launches Vain bag campaign, Roger Vivier celebrates pre-fall collection
Two key European luxury labels have launched new campaigns with Valentino Garavani and Roger Vivier launching new creative marketing drives in the accessories and footwear sectors. Following the recent launch of the Nellcôte bag campaign, Maison Valentino now continues its storytelling journey with the unveiling of the second chapter: the Valentino Garavani Vain bag campaign. Conceived by creative director Alessandro Michele and shot by photographer Sharna Osborne, we're told the campaign 'is a tactile exploration of emotional intimacy and femininity. Evoking the aesthetic of analogue photography, it crafts an atmosphere where beauty is suspended in time'. The brand added that 'the images, with their faded colour tones and grainy backdrops, are imbued with a powerful texture that recalls the dreamlike sensibility of early film and the intensity of voyeuristic cinema'. Looking almost like video stills, the bag is the focal point of every image as the visuals portray two women 'in a series of compositions that suggest an atmosphere of private and shared allure. Whether together or apart, they appear caught in a world of whispered secrets and shadowy glamour, where the Vain bag becomes a silent witness to their intimacy'. The campaign supports new developments for the Vain bag this season with the introduction of a new top handle style featuring an elongated handle that allows it to be worn on the shoulder. There's also a new oval-shaped vanity bag, with a top flap acting as a lid, that 'brings a modern attitude to the line while preserving the original bag's refined codes'. The signature shoulder bags also return with updated finishes and 'rich surfaces', that is, multicolour floral embroideries rendered in beads, velvet, raffia, or leather, and a new printed animalier variation referencing the RTW collection. Vivier's Paris life Meanwhile, at Riger Vivier, the new campaign for the autumn 2025 pre-collection is called ' La Vie Parisienne ' and was conceived by brand creative director Gherardo Felloni 'as both homage and provocation'. Shot inside a hôtel particulier (one of the grand townhouses found in key French cities) 'and along hushed city streets, the story unfolds like a secret — caught in a glance, stretched across a brocade sofa. It captures something rarer than beauty: character. Here, elegance isn't constructed. It's instinctual'. So far, so very Parisian. But the company said that 'this is not the Paris of clichés. Nor is the Vivier woman one. She is elegant but unpredictable, refined yet untamed — never explaining, always becoming. Like the muses who once wore Vivier — Deneuve, Bardot, and beyond — she moves between worlds. Perhaps an art dealer. Perhaps a writer. Or neither. She doesn't follow fashion. She defines style'. It features a variety of both formal and casual shoes, along with bags. So who are the stars of this particular show? As far as the models are concerned, Felloni has cast three women 'who embody this spirit". There's Louise de Blegiers," with a modern intensity beneath her quiet poise; [plus] Zoé Adjani and Léa Rostain, actresses whose presence distills softness and edge. Parisian by birth or by affinity, these are not women who perform femininity — they reinvent it'.
Fashion Network
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Valentino Garavani launches Vain bag campaign, Roger Vivier celebrates pre-fall collection
Two key European luxury labels have launched new campaigns with Valentino Garavani and Roger Vivier launching new creative marketing drives in the accessories and footwear sectors. Following the recent launch of the Nellcôte bag campaign, Maison Valentino now continues its storytelling journey with the unveiling of the second chapter: the Valentino Garavani Vain bag campaign. Conceived by creative director Alessandro Michele and shot by photographer Sharna Osborne, we're told the campaign 'is a tactile exploration of emotional intimacy and femininity. Evoking the aesthetic of analogue photography, it crafts an atmosphere where beauty is suspended in time'. The brand added that 'the images, with their faded colour tones and grainy backdrops, are imbued with a powerful texture that recalls the dreamlike sensibility of early film and the intensity of voyeuristic cinema'. Looking almost like video stills, the bag is the focal point of every image as the visuals portray two women 'in a series of compositions that suggest an atmosphere of private and shared allure. Whether together or apart, they appear caught in a world of whispered secrets and shadowy glamour, where the Vain bag becomes a silent witness to their intimacy'. The campaign supports new developments for the Vain bag this season with the introduction of a new top handle style featuring an elongated handle that allows it to be worn on the shoulder. There's also a new oval-shaped vanity bag, with a top flap acting as a lid, that 'brings a modern attitude to the line while preserving the original bag's refined codes'. The signature shoulder bags also return with updated finishes and 'rich surfaces', that is, multicolour floral embroideries rendered in beads, velvet, raffia, or leather, and a new printed animalier variation referencing the RTW collection. Vivier's Paris life Meanwhile, at Riger Vivier, the new campaign for the autumn 2025 pre-collection is called ' La Vie Parisienne ' and was conceived by brand creative director Gherardo Felloni 'as both homage and provocation'. Shot inside a hôtel particulier (one of the grand townhouses found in key French cities) 'and along hushed city streets, the story unfolds like a secret — caught in a glance, stretched across a brocade sofa. It captures something rarer than beauty: character. Here, elegance isn't constructed. It's instinctual'. So far, so very Parisian. But the company said that 'this is not the Paris of clichés. Nor is the Vivier woman one. She is elegant but unpredictable, refined yet untamed — never explaining, always becoming. Like the muses who once wore Vivier — Deneuve, Bardot, and beyond — she moves between worlds. Perhaps an art dealer. Perhaps a writer. Or neither. She doesn't follow fashion. She defines style'. It features a variety of both formal and casual shoes, along with bags. So who are the stars of this particular show? As far as the models are concerned, Felloni has cast three women 'who embody this spirit". There's Louise de Blegiers," with a modern intensity beneath her quiet poise; [plus] Zoé Adjani and Léa Rostain, actresses whose presence distills softness and edge. Parisian by birth or by affinity, these are not women who perform femininity — they reinvent it'.
Forbes
29-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
South African Bitcoin Circular Economy Project Deepens Community Ties
Bitcoin Ekasi, located in Mossel Bay, South Africa Frank Corva Founded in August 2021, Bitcoin Ekasi, a Bitcoin circular economy project based in a township in Mossel Bay, South Africa (Ekasi is slang for 'township' in Afrikaans) continues to expand thanks to the efforts of its dedicated members. Hermann Vivier, founder and Chairman of Bitcoin Ekasi, shared that the continued success of the project hinges in part on the work of The Surfer Kids non-profit, which Vivier founded in 2010. The Surfer Kids is an organization that teaches marginalized youth commitment and dedication through surfing and also provides them with after-school educational support. 'Bitcoin Ekasi operates with The Surfer Kids as its umbrella organization,' Vivier told me in an interview. 'The secret to Bitcoin Ekasi's success is the fact that we have a long-standing relationship with the community with which we work. We started operating in this particular community where Bitcoin Ekasi is based in 2015,' he added. This isn't to say that introducing Bitcoin into the community — one in which many of the residents have never even opened a bank account — was easy, though. Luthando Ndabambi, Project Community Leader at Bitcoin Ekasi and The Surfer Kids, recalled how challenging it was to onboard both merchants and everyday people alike to Bitcoin three and a half years ago. 'In the beginning, it was tough,' Ndabambi told me in an interview. 'Most shop owners in the township had never heard of Bitcoin, except perhaps from negative associations with scams, which made them understandably suspicious,' he added. 'I spent a lot of time walking them through how it worked. I demonstrated the process by using bitcoin myself to buy products. It took a lot of patience, and building trust was a slow process.' Now, however, 32 shops in the community accept bitcoin and the 21 employees for The Surfer Kids program earn their salaries in bitcoin. Many have been excited to see their bitcoin holdings increase in value since late 2022. And some of the most recent community members that the Bitcoin Ekasi team has onboarded to Bitcoin are the principal and teachers at the local public elementary school. Recently, the Bitcoin Ekasi team has been working more closely with the staff at T.M. Nanda Primary School, the local public school that approximately 75% of the youths who are part of The Surfer Kids program attend. 'We've built trust with the principal, teachers, and students through consistent engagement,' Thinus Mouton, Special Projects Coordinator at Bitcoin Ekasi and The Surfer Kids, told me in an interview. 'This has included regular visits as well as sponsoring a newly designed school emblem and entrance board,' he added. 'We also introduced the school staff and the students to international Bitcoin community members during the road trip that followed the Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town conference, which Hermann and Kgothatso Ngako, founder of Machankura, put on in conjunction with a local organizing committee including several of South Africa's most notable Bitcoin enthusiasts.' Vivier highlighted some of the other work that the staff members from The Surfers Kids and Bitcoin Ekasi have done with the school. 'We do quarterly meetups with the teachers and the principal where, amongst other things, we discuss Bitcoin,' said Vivier. 'We have created wallets for all of them and they have some sats (fractions of a bitcoin) in those wallets that they spend at the local shops.' Vivier, Ndabambi and Mouton all also mentioned that, for the past two years, the Bitcoin Ekasi team has recruited students from the school to join the Mi Primer Bitcoin diploma course that they offer at the Bitcoin Ekasi Center, a physical space dedicated to Bitcoin education in the community. The team is looking to build a bigger and better version of this space by the end of this year. The Bitcoin Ekasi project has had a center since the middle of 2022, as Vivier believed that it was necessary to have a location for in-person support if the community's residents were to truly adopt this new monetary technology. 'I knew from the very beginning we needed a place for support and education in the township itself,' said Vivier. 'It's for people who have issues with their mobile bitcoin wallets or for people who are curious about how to use Bitcoin. It's basically a walk-in support center,' he added. 'Imagine giving an iPad to your grandmother. If something goes wrong with it, she would have to have someone explain what happened and how to fix it to her in simple terms. You can't give her online resources to go and figure out what's wrong with the thing. This is what the Bitcoin Ekasi Center is for.' The current center, though, is simply a house in the community that the Bitcoin Ekasi team turned into a small educational hub. Vivier never planned for this location to be permanent. The current Bitcoin Ekasi Center Frank Corva 'Our current Bitcoin Ekasi Center has always been a temporary thing, and we've been planning to build a proper support center for a long time,' said Vivier. In April 2024, he submitted an application to the local government to purchase a small plot of land in the community, and, as of March 27, 2025, he received a preliminary 'yes,' though, the details of the purchase still need to be negotiated. If approved, the center will become a more official hub for the community, something to complement the newly-renovated Surfer Kids center and freshly-built international-standard skate bowl, which was funded by a Discovery Grant from Block last year. The recently-renovated center for The Surfer Kids Frank Corva If you take a closer look at the header image for this article, you'll notice the logos of Bitcoin companies and organizations painted on the sides of houses in the township. Vivier conceptualized this, as he wanted to freshen up the look of the homes, which are set against the picturesque backdrop of the ocean. He decided to use some of the organization's donation money to pay the residents of the homes 7000 sats per week (just over $6 at today's bitcoin-to-USD rate) under the agreement that they either save the sats or spend them in the community — they just can't trade them for South African rand (the local fiat currency). 'It's been a great way to get extra sats flowing into the community,' said Vivier. 'Plus, now we've come up with an additional requirement, which is that the people receiving those payments also clean up around their homes, which helps to drive the idea of being responsible for your property and taking pride in the appearance of your community,' he added. Ndabambi, who's been on the front lines of the Bitcoin Ekasi project since its inception, said that aside from the number of shops he's onboarded to Bitcoin, he's most proud of being able to reward the youths in The Surfer Kids program with sats for their successes and to see people in the community beginning to embrace Bitcoin. 'People are starting to feel hopeful, realizing they can save with bitcoin and build something for the future, which is an option they didn't have before,' said Ndabambi. With that said, Ndabambi noted that education is still a major challenge. 'Many people in the community struggle with reading and writing, so explaining Bitcoin, something they can't physically touch, to them is challenging,' he said. 'People are afraid of losing money or being scammed, so I'm always working to help them overcome those fears and build their confidence in the technology.' Mouton seconded the notion that education is a challenge and added that he, a white South African who isn't from the township, like Vivier, sometimes feels that simply earning the community's trust can be difficult. 'Winning the trust of residents directly can be challenging due to language and cultural differences, said Mouton. 'But by enabling these trusted locals to lead, I help bridge the gap indirectly, which feels like the most effective way to build credibility in a community I'm not originally part of.' For Vivier, the project's biggest success is simply that he can continue to run a daily program through The Surfer Kids to support dozens youths from a low-income neighborhood. 'It's amazing that we can sustain this, because, for the kids in the program, The Surfer Kids is everything,' said Vivier. The biggest challenge that persists, according to Vivier, is simply managing funds as a non-profit. 'Being a non-profit, you're reliant on donations,' said Vivier. 'I'm grateful for the 10 years that I spent running The Surfer Kids before starting Bitcoin Ekasi project because I learned the hard way that you have to manage funds today as if there is no future funding.' Vivier also noted that fundraising and spending in bitcoin is what gives the project leverage that other non-profits don't have. 'We're entirely reliant on donations, but because we operate on a bitcoin standard, we get three times the amount of work done with the same amount of funds donated,' he explained. 'Not only are the donations put to good use in supporting the kids, but our low time preference approach means we think very carefully about what we spend on so as to benefit from the long-term price appreciation of our reserves,' he added. 'Meanwhile the fact that we spend in bitcoin, which drives adoption, means that the positive ripple effects of the bitcoin has far wider wider effect than fiat donations would.'
CBC
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Carole Vivier 'led with her heart' as a champion for film, music in Manitoba
Tributes in memory of a Manitoba film and music industry trailblazer poured in this week recognizing Carole Vivier's legacy as a compassionate changemaker in the sector. Vivier, 73, was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister who worked to promote Winnipeg as a film destination in her role as the Manitoba Film and Music CEO from 1993 until she retired in 2019. Vivier died of lung cancer on Tuesday just four days shy of her birthday, according to her obituary published on Saturday. "Carole's warm smile, boundless love, and gentle spirit will be greatly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing her," the obituary said. Her death is a "great loss" for the film community across the province due to her tenacity and influence on building strong connections with people internationally and locally, said her colleague of almost 25 years, Kenny Boyce. Together they would provide film producers and directors with a tour of Winnipeg to scout possible set locations at businesses, residences, parks and city streets to support their creative visions, share their stories and stay within budget, Boyce said, who works as the manager of film and special events for the city. "We both knew that we had a big responsibility and that a lot of people counted on us to be able to market and promote Winnipeg and to close these deals," he said. "Those kind of stories … leave an imprint — things that I'll never forget." In 1997, Vivier was instrumental in lobbying the provincial government for the first film tax credit in western Canada which supports crews to hone their craft and make a living, Boyce said. It provides a 30 per cent credit on all production spending in Manitoba, or between 45 and 65 per cent for eligible labour costs, according to the federal government. She advocated for airlines to provide a direct flight between Winnipeg and Los Angeles — a change that came to fruition in 2022 — further boosting Manitoba's film industry by making travel easier for filmmakers and people working in the entertainment industry. Like many Winnipeggers, Boyce said he is reminded of Vivier's legacy whenever he sees a fleet of big trucks and thinks, "there must be a movie going on today." "She was a passionate champion of Manitoba's film and music sectors, and her contributions are truly immeasurable," a statement from Manitoba Film and Music said. Vivier started working at the agency in 1985 and helped bring high-profile productions including Channel Zero, Heaven is for Real, A Dog's Purpose, Shall We Dance, Aloft and Capote to shoot in Manitoba and co-produce with local companies, the statement said. She supported the careers of filmmakers including Guy Maddin, Norma Bailey and Madison Thomas and artists Royal Canoe, Begonia, The Lytics, Crash Test Dummies and Chantal Kreviazuk. "Her love for Manitoba musicians was palpable — she was forever raving about the latest album or singing along to her favourite Manitoba playlists," according to the statement. Vivier served on many boards of directors, including at the National Screen Institute, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Canadian Film Centre Feature Film Advisory Committee, Burton Cummings Theatre for Performing Arts and Film Training Manitoba. She helped bring the Juno Awards, which recognizes artists in Canada's music industry, to Winnipeg in 2005 and was the co-chair of the 2014 Juno host committee, Manitoba Film and Music said in its statement. Vivier "was an exceptional leader and changemaker because she led with her heart," the statement. She was the recipient of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, awarded to Canadians who have made significant contributions to their community. She was also the recipient of the Order of Manitoba in 2014 and the Order of Canada last year. "These prestigious awards reflected her tireless dedication to making the world a better place, whether through her volunteer work, leadership, or quiet acts of kindness that left a lasting impact on those around her," her obituary said.
