
Michael Kors has launched Island Palm Beach, the fifth and latest flanker to 2005’s Michael Kors Island. As Kors noted, Palm Beach is “the closest thing America has to Capri”…
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Michael Kors has launched Island Palm Beach, the fifth and latest flanker to 2005’s Michael Kors Island. As Kors noted, Palm Beach is “the closest thing America has to Capri”…
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More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

From Loewe, Quizás, Quizás, Quizás in the Colección Matador edition, inspired by the brand’s Matador Collection scarf. In 100 ml Eau de Toilette…
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Join designer Michael Kors and actress Debra Messing at Macy’s Herald Square on September 10th at 7 pm for the debut of Very Hollywood Michael Kors:
Join Michael Kors and Debra Messing at Macy’s Herald Square for a glamorous night out in Manhattan celebrating the launch of the Very Hollywood Michael Kors fragrance and Fashion’s Night Out…
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Very Hollywood is the latest perfume for women from Michael Kors. It’s meant to evoke the idea of Hollywood glamour: the bottle (see detail below) recalls the flashbulbs on old-style cameras, and the ad spot features “stars” surrounded by paparazzi on the red carpet. Kors called it the “most glamorous, indulgent scent we’ve ever done”.1
Remember Michael by Michael Kors? It came out in 2000, very nearly eons ago in perfume-land, and for awhile it seemed like women everywhere were wearing it. I still smell it on the street occasionally, and I think it’s pretty, although as I said when I reviewed it, I prefer to smell it from afar and not on my own person. Anyway, they’ve updated it several times: there was Michael Sheer, and then Very Michael Kors, and then Michael Kors Very Pretty. I bring this up only because after smelling Very Hollywood, I’m tempted to think the brief called for “a version of Michael that young girls would wear in 2009”, since Michael is, after all, not really the sort of perfume young girls go for these days.
Very Hollywood was developed by perfumers Laurent Le Guernec (who created the original Michael) and Pascal Gaurin, and it’s considerably more au courant. The opening is bright, fruity, sparkly and pink…
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Models Carmen Kass and Noah Mills in the promo spot for Michael Kors’ new Very Hollywood fragrance. The music is The Fame by Lady Gaga. Below the jump: the “making of”.