After all the gossip about Miranda Kerr’s newest campaign and the hot new app that’s changing shopping? Read on…
It used to be the stuff of science fiction: an app that would update automatically with all the sales and deals in a 1km radius.
Well, we do live in the space age – because it’s now a reality.
Miibrand is an app that rewards customers for getting off their computers and going to the shops, by letting them know all the major sales and steals for local stores. It’s all done via Google Maps, locating your phone and pinging with sales in every direction.
And they’re hardly niche – they cover over 500 brands, from Witchery to LIFEwithBIRD. Plus Miibrand allows for savvy shoppers to get specific offers just for walking in – the days of member-only discounts may be numbered.
RESCU’s also excited about the ‘Shop And Unlock’ function they’ve unveiled for Christmas. Miibrand got some of their favourite Aussie brands to produce special ‘hidden’ discounts that can only be discovered by activating Miibrand instore.
It’s not your mother’s shopping trip.
It’s also a great way to get back outside into the experience of shopping – and aren’t you tired of waiting for overnight shipping, guessing your size incorrectly or discovering that perfect dress isn’t in fact the right colour when it’s delivered?
Apps are definitely the new face of shopping – there are a huge variety, from ones which pick out and arrange outfits for you to ones notifying you of sales – but this is the first big one we’ve heard that links location with bargain-hunting.
Rescu. loves the experience of retail, and Miibrand is a high-tech way to get the most out of the experience. How savvy. We like.
Image: Miibrand.
The new Spice Girls musical just opened in London, and Rescu. brings you all the fashion gossip from the red carpet.
Nobody gave the Spices the memo about a dress code, clearly, because they all showed up in radically different outfits- and we want YOU to pick your favourite.
Geri Haliwell went incredibly formal, in ice-blue taffeta and an up-do. Very Oscars, very Christmas, and also very cold (it’s -5 in London). She also had an updo and delicate earrings.
However, Scary Spice (Mel B) went for long and evening-ish in an entirely different direction – a long-sleeved black sequined gown with a thigh-high split.
Emma Bunton also went for volume, with a long blue-lace overlay over an LBD. Very in at the moment, but we worry that she was also very cold – and transparency isn’t the big trend for next spring.
Mel C, however, went in another direction again – a cropped A-line dress in military taupes and olives. For our money she looked sensational – military is very in, and her blue velvet pumps were to die for.
Surprising absolutely nobody, though, was the fact that Victoria Beckham commanded the red carpet like a pro. After all, this is the woman whose clothing line is now a global sensation of taste and excellence.
Notably, she was the only Spice to dress in trousers (impeccably tailored, of course) and to wear a coat – her own creation, a beautiful aubergine number with buttons at the waist – draped over her shoulders. She changed into a cropped tuxedo jacket for the final curtain call.
Warm and chic – though we do love the fact that she brought the best accessory of all, husband David Beckham, to pose with. Beckham refused to pose anywhere near her other Spices on the red carpet – she ran late and they’d already gone – and, considering her radically different style, it may have been for the best.
Who do you think made the best move at the Viva Forever premiere?
Image: The Spice Girls.
Jessica Chastain is one of RESCU’s serious fashion crushes. She’s redheaded, divinely pale-skinned and has a style to die for.
Now she’s put it all on show for another cause: art.
W Magazine’s “Art” issue has Chastain playing muse to four of modern art’s biggest players: George Condo, Rineke Dijkstra, Chantal Joffe and Mickalene Thomas. And she’s rendered in incredibly different ways on each cover: half-painted, in a revealing photograph, dressed in 70s couture and in oils.
If you think you’ve never seen the annual W Art Issue, think again. It was the one that featured Kim Kardashian in silver body paint, covered in slogans from artist Barbara Kruger: ‘It’s all about me/I mean you/I mean me’.
That earned plenty of controversy – partially because Kardashian was placed beside Dali and other luminaries, and people were wondering why W chose her – but they also chose supermodel Linda Evangelista to carry a sign in New York in 2009 saying ‘It Must Be Somebody’s Fault’, criticising the recession.
Chastain is probably going to be Oscar-nominated for her turn in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty – and, considering that she turned up in smashing McQueen at the last Oscars, we’ll be looking to see what she wears this time around.
We can guarantee, though, that it probably won’t be the 70s couture on the collectible cover of W…
What do you think: artistic or not so much?
Image: Jessica Chastain on the covers of W.
