Celine Dion launches fashion collection
MONTREAL (CP) — Celine Dion is teaming up with a Montreal-based company for her foray into the fashion world.
The Canadian pop superstar announced the launch of her debut collection in partnership with handbag, luggage and accessory company The Bugatti Group. The line features more than 200 pieces designed in tandem with Dion, including a mix of handbags, luggage sets, and small-leather goods at various price points.
Last June, Dion teamed with licensing firm Epic Rights and strategic management conglomerate Prominent Brand+Talent to create and launch her eponymous collection in partnership with retailers and licensees.
In addition to fashion and accessories, her line will include health and beauty product categories and home furnishings. The fall-winter collection of handbags, luggage and accessories will be unveiled in Las Vegas on Feb. 21, and is slated to be available at select retailers this September.
America 1st? Europeans ask Who’s 2nd?
BERLIN (AP) — The Dutch started it with a humorous video highlighting their “orange” history and lax tax rules. Now other European countries are getting in on the act.
Broadcasters across the continent are publishing satirical videos directed at President Donald Trump, asking for their country to be second if he keeps insisting on America first. Switzerland’s public broadcaster SRF touted its “big fat mountains” and plentiful gold reserves in its pitch to Trump, who used to host The Apprentice reality show. A video by Portugal’s RTP television noted the country’s “huge, enormous beaches. You don’t even have to take your spray tan.” Several videos took more serious satirical digs, with an entry from German public broadcaster ZDF claiming that Adolf Hitler “made Germany great again.”
German satirist Jan Boehmermann, who last year made headlines for reading a lewd poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on air — prompting an international incident — invited other broadcasters to join the effort. By Friday, seven videos had been posted on a website called Every Second Counts.
Buble: Son progressing in cancer battle
NEW YORK — Michael Buble says his 3-year-old son Noah “has been progressing well during his treatment” for cancer.
The Canadian singer and his wife, Argentine TV actress Luisana Lopilato, say in a statement Friday that “doctors are very optimistic about the future for our little boy.” They say Noah has been brave during the battle and they “continue to be inspired by his courage.”
The family announced Noah’s cancer in November. They didn’t say what type of cancer he has or when he was diagnosed.