nupop comes to the UK; toy watches are SO 2008

Y’all know how much mediacation loves a good celeb-fashion collaboration. News JUST in is that style icon and Grammy Award winning superstar, Jermaine Dupri (also once know as Mr. Janet Jackson) has teamed up with jewellery designer, Pascal Mouawad to launch his Warhol inspired NuPop Movement watches in the UK. They are ACTUALLY uber-hot pieces of “wearable art” – I totally approve. Eye-catching, oversized cases, vivid colours, and analog digital movement, dubbed as “urban geek chic for the wrist”, what is not to love?

JD and Janet

They were launched Stateside in November 2009 and have finally made their way over here sold exclusively at Selfridges stores nationwide, as well as the NuPop Movement website.

NuPop Movement Watch - Jermaine Dupris

Celebs known to be rocking them include Lindsay Lohan, Janet (no surprise there really) and Nelly.

JD was quoted as saying, “I grew up loving fashion watches and admiring Andy Warhol. A lot of my inspiration came from that. I wanted to create a watch that was stylish and affordable.”

mediacation presents: twentyteneightyfour – issue 1.0

twentyteneightyfour is one of my favourite women’s fashion blogs (written by a good friend) coined as “the musings of a twenty-something london girl that thinks about fashion before anything else”. I am honoured to be able to present one of her amazing posts on mediacation and hope this will be more of a regular occurence. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the piece below:

This week: The Good and the Bad

The Good: London Fashion Week goes Digital

Everyone knows that the online world is having a fashion moment. Bloggers on the front rows, live tweeting from the shows and now a dedicated digital schedule for London Fashion Week. This week, the British Fashion Council announced that this month shows will be streamed live online allowing anyone, anywhere in the world to have access to the shows. In addition to the shows, there will also be a selection of digitally presented fashion films created by some of London’s most innovative designers. No need to worry about getting an invite. No need to worry about what you’ll wear. No need to worry about whether you made front row. It’s great that the Brits are leading the way. A few designers – Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen – streamed their shows into people’s living rooms last season and I think this move by LFW will mean the other fashion weeks will follow suit. Times are changing in the wonderful world of fashion. The exclusivity seems to be evaporating…

The digital schedule will go live here on 19th February, at the start of London Fashion Week. Let’s hope their servers can handle it!

The Bad: The rising cost of Vogue

Has anyone else noticed that the cost of Vogue magazine has risen to £4?! I know we’re supposed to be on our way out of the recession but blimey, that’s a whole 40p increase from the previous £3.60 cover price! Thing is, for me, gone are the days that Vogue is worth going hungry for a la Carrie from Sex and the City. I’d much rather go hungry for my copy of Elle every month, which in my opinion, is a much better read than Vogue. The only comforting thought is that the latest issue is a tome, no joke. It’s not even suitable for carrying around in your handbag – you’ll probably do your shoulder or wrist in!

There is no denying that there is not a lot more satisfying than turning the crisp pages of a magazine, ogling over the editorials and coveting the clothes that fill the pages… but at what cost? With online magazines popping up everywhere and blogs satisfying our never ending need for fashion, has the traditional print magazine had its day?

Alexa Chung - Vogue UK March 2010

kellan lutz KNOWS how to sing for his supper

Or at least, Calvin Klein HQ briefed the HELL out of him. Good job either way – just count how many times Kellan Lutz (the new Marky Mark) uses the words “iconic”, “classy” or “sexy” – someone memorised his briefing notes well.

Kellan Lutz - Calvin Klein X Underwear 3D campaign

The images went live last week, but check out the behind-the-scenes video from the shoot. Hot.

Fernando Verdasco, Hidetoshi Nakata, Mikael Jansson and Mehcad Brooks are also featured in the campaign.

Fernando Verdasco - Calvin Klein X Underwear 3D campaign

Hidetoshi Nakata - Calvin Klein X Underwear 3D campaign

Mehcad Brooks - Calvin Klein X Underwear 3D campaign

filthy hot: megan and cristiano do knightsbridge

Hubba. Knightsbridge Emporio Armani store has made my day today (via @peachclub). HUGE fuck-off campaign images of Cristiano Ronaldo and Megan Fox.

Megan Fox - Emporio Armani - Knightsbridge

Cristiano Ronaldo - Emporio Armani - Knightsbridge

fuck your blog

Massive respect to @jenlong for this one:

Fuck Your Blog - Jen Long, Cardiff 4/2/10

SUPERFLAT

paying rihanna $100k to sit on the front row of your show at fashion week is a bargain

Trust me, I/we have paid celebs a lot more than that for A LOT less coverage generation. Anonymous industry sources reveal Princess Ri-Ri fetches $100,000 or more for rocking a seat on the front row of a show at Fashion Week. Meanwhile, Beyoncé makes less, at around $80,000 to $100,000. This is purely because Ri-Ri is that liiittle bit more tabloid-fodder worthy post Domestic Disturbia 2009. On the other hand, Lindsay Lohan is more likely to be “uninvited” – two words, “Ungaro disaster”.

Rihanna Front Row at Paris Fashion Week

Here is the full breakdown via fashionista.com:

A-List
Rihanna ($100,000 or more)
Beyonce ($80,000-$100,000)
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen ($80,000 each)
Julianne Moore ($60,000)
Maggie Gyllanhal ($60,000)
Chloe Sevigny ($60,000 or more)
Jenny Lopez (circa 2005: $80,000; circa 2010: $30,000)
Lindsay Lohan (circa 2006: $60,000; circa 2010; UNINVITED)

B-List
Blake Lively ($50,000)
Leighton Meester ($40,000)
Hillary Duff ($40,000)
Other Gossip Girl cast members ($25,000 a piece)
Jared Leto ($25,000)
Cliven Owen ($10,000)
Kristen Bell (unpaid, but airfare, makeup and clothing are taken care of)

C-List
Kim Kardashian ($35,000-$50,000)
Amanda Bynes ($25,000-$30,000)
Eliza Dushku (unpaid, but airfare, makeup and clothing are taken care of)

D-ListParis Hilton (free or UNINVITED)
Jersey Shore cast (UNINVITED)
America’s Next Top Model Winners (free)

imogen’s twitter dress at the grammys

One of the only Brits actually AT the Grammys this year, let alone one of the only winners, Imogen Heap took home the Grammy for Best Engineered Album. This woman has redefined celeb crowd sourcing and social media engagement. Back in March, she used Twitter, or more specifically, invited her fans via her YouTube vBlog, to write her new press biog using Twitter. More than 1500, 140 character tweets were received. The result is the ‘Tweet:Biog’ – the first crowd-sourced press biography for a musician.

Imogen Heap 'Twitdress' - Twitter Dress

Imogen took the whole social media thing to a WHOLE new level on Sunday night at the 2010 Grammys by wearing a ‘Twitdress’ – the oversized necklace was a digital sign displaying messages that her fans were writing on to her Twitter profile, using the tag #twitdress. The tweets were relayed to via a wireless router, embedded inside her black dress. She said, “I just thought it’d be nice for [my fans] to come with me so I’ve got a live Twitter feed from them.”

What a legend. Totally beat Gaga to this one.

donni hotwheel’s britney megamix is the shiz

Ok so back in November when Britney Spears’ The Singles Collection launched, there was (to put it lightly) a bit of a fuck up on Jive’s part with regards to the b-side track on the single “3″. This included a misprint on the actual CD stating that the track would be the Donni Hotwheel Megamix (when I say misprint, apparently there was some loyalties debacle with regards to the track and it was pulled at the last minute and replaced with the Groove Police Club Mix).

ANYWAY, the track is HOT and here it is:

Oh and here is the misprinted cover, via poponandon.com:

Donni Hotwheel Megamix? via poponandon

#GAGAGOTROBBED

Two Grammys? Two. Just two. This woman MADE 2009. She literally stole the year, musically it was hers. #gagagotrobbed ended up trending on Twitter last night. I believe THAT speaks for itself.

#gagagotrobbed - Lady Gaga 2010 Grammys

Her performance with Elton John at the 2010 Grammys was OUTOFTHISGAGAWORLD. The woman knows how to put on a show and stack up the column inches. Major kudos.

Lady Gaga & Elton John - Grammys 2010 - Backstage

You can check out the performance below:

Lady Gaga won awards for Best Dance Recording for Poker Face and Best Electronic/Dance Album for The Fame.

mancrunch: an old school pr stunt

Those of you that read mediacation regularly, will know that I am a huge fan of dlisted. Michael K is a pretty media-savvy fellow and posted this great story a couple of weeks ago. I couldn’t NOT share it with y’all.

CBS has officially rejected this Super Bowl commercial for the gay dating website ManCrunch.com. By the way, ManCrunch is not only the name of a gay dating website, it’s also what Tommy Girl’s laundress has to scrub out of his panties on a daily basis. But I digress…

A bunch of bitches are lighting their torches over this decision, because they don’t think it’s right that CBS rejected this ad but approved a pro-life commercial starring Tim Tebow (which is probably going to be gayer than ManCrunch’s ad). CBS only had this to say for themselves:

“After reviewing the ad – which is entirely commercial in nature – our Standards and Practices department decided not to accept this particular spot. As always, we are open to working with the client on alternative submissions.”

A rep for ManCrunch believes that if the ad featured a chick and a dude kissing, CBS would’ve accepted it. The rep also said that the company has the cash to pay for the spot, because they recently raised $40 million from investors.

ManCrunch’s commercial is almost as low budget as a Heidi Montag musicvideo. It looks like it was shot on a Flip cam for a community college project. The only bitch I would make out with SOBER (key word being SOBER) in that commercial is the bowl of chips. And why is that other dude grossed out by the two guys kissing?! Basically, this commercial sucks.

I’m no Detective La Toya, but my guess is that ManCrunch knew CBS would reject the ad, which would get them tons of free publicity. It’s a brilliant move. Well played, ManCrunch even though MadTV did it first:

Story 100% via dlisted. MASSIVE love to Michael K. What are your thoughts on this one? CBS has had a troublesome few months with the gays…n’est pas?