Gisele lingerie for H&M?

Hold your pretty horses.....It's not confirmed yet. But rumors swirl that Gisele is in talks with H&M to design a line of lingerie to be marketed under her name.

Zara hits Hollywood

H&M and Zara are fighting over locations, as they are expanding their rapidly growing empires. A 17,000 square-foot Zara store is set to open on LA's Hollywood Boulevard next summer, just doors away from the new H&M shop, launching this Autumn.

Kylie launches H&M store in Shanghai

It has been quiet around the pop diva, but she's back. Kylie Minogue was looking fab at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum last Wednesday. Miss Minogue was there for the grand opening of theH&M store, where she is debuting a swimwear line.
Even though Madonna also has a line at H&M right now, Kylie might be taking the driver seat as the face of H&M worldwide! Chinese fans crowded the red carpet to catch a glimpse of the Australian sweetheart dressed in a lovely cheongsam.

Madonna calling for H&M?

H&M stores may have broken local laws when they telephoned customers using the computerised voice of Madonna, the designer of its new M by Madonna range. Hundreds of H&M customers have answered their telephones to the greeting of 'Hi, it's Madonna', only to find that it wasn't Madonna calling but a computer simulation of the pop star's voice touting her new clothing line for the chain. Many shoppers were unhappy to receive calls to their personal telephones featuring a computerised voice advertisement from the store. Maybe H&M was desperately trying to sell Madonna's collection, as it only received a lukewarm reception when it kicked off. Perhaps H&M consumers feel they've ‘seen it all before', to quote a recent Madonna lyric, or perhaps its due to the never-ending celebrity collaborations with high street conglomerates that one would need to invest in a plethora of wardrobes to keep up with the celebrity craze.
So despite a high-profile television and newspaper advertising campaign featuring the singer modelling items from her M by Madonna range, and celebrity admirers such as Jean Paul Gaultier saying they were keen to get hold of her designs, just 50 or so fans were waiting outside H&M flagship stores as they opened for the official launch of the collection. This unlike the queues and demand shoppers had for Stella McCartney or Karl Lagerfeld, where the collections sold out within minutes.

David Bowie jumps on H&M bandwagon

Oh no, not more collaborations....Stop! Well, at least there's no fashion involved this time. Rocker, David Bowie, will curate a new annual music and arts event called The H&M High Line Festival, which kicks off May 9 to 19. The festival will be inaugurated with a roster of performances, including a stand-up act by Ricky Gervais, as well as concerts by Arcade Fire, Laurie Anderson, Deerhoof, The Polyphonic Spree, and a triple bill of Daniel Johnston/Bang on a Can All-Stars/The Legendary Stardust Cowboy.
“I would really hope that the exposure this festival affords will help these folk get the attention they deserve,” said Bowie, an event co-founder. “The request was for me to choose artists and acts that I myself would go out of my way to see. Although this inaugural year will be modest in scale, we’ve been pretty lucky in that many whom I asked have accepted.” The H&M High Line Festival will be curated by a different world-class artist each year, with a portion of ticket sales benefiting Friends of the High Line, an organization currently working with the City of New York to transform Manhattan’s West Side 1930s rail structure into a park, set to open in 2008

Madonna's confessions on a sales floor

When promoting her new line at H&M recently, Madonna told the IHT that she has a new project in mind, and it's all about her. "I'm thinking about doing a 25-year retrospective (of all my clothes) . It would be multimedia, with video and photographs of me by Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Steven Klein and Steven Meisel."