Monthly Archives: August 2010

You’re looking at the most expensive road car (possibly) never built.

The DiMora Natalia, brainchild of US industrialist Alfred DiMora: 16 speed transmission, a top speed of 270mph, a 256MB flash memory mp3 horn and a paint job that changes from black to white and back depending on the ambient temperature.

Price tag? $2 million, or $2.8 for the turbo.

The monstrous bourge-mobile is slated for release in 2012 but may never be made, given the current global economic climate. And the overall WTF-edness of the concept.

Boy, will Dermot Desmond ever be pissed off.

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Yet another comic book-based movie, this time with a man in chaps rather than tights.  Josh Brolin is the titular cowboy/bounty hunter Hex, with Megan Fox playing a hooker with (you won’t believe this) a heart of gold.

They’re up against John Malkovich as a Confederate General who wants to re-start the American Civil War. It went back for more than a few re-shoots to ‘expand’ on Fox’s character. That’s never a good thing.

Release Date (Ireland): This Friday, September 3.

Photographer: Annie Leibovitz

Clothes: Bono and Ali’s ethical clothing company Edun (49 per cent owned by Louis Vuitton parent company, LMVH). Ali carries a handbag co-designed by Edun and Vuitton.

Location: South Africa

Previous Adverts Have Featured: Mikhail Gorbachev, Keith Richards, John Glenn,  Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pele and Catherine Denueve.

Proceeds: TechnoServe, a nongovernmental organization that fosters enterprise in the developing world; Conservation Cotton Initiative, which supports sustainable farming in Africa and the Chernobyl Children’s Project:

A Word From Louis Vuitton That May Make You Ill: “When they [Bono & Ali] go to Africa, they don’t go to see the beautiful landscapes: They’re there to help people,”

Annoyance factor: Off. The. Scale.

Bono-Hewson To Appear In Ad For LVMH (WWD)