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Adidas “House Party” ad celebrates 60 years of stripes with a remix of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons’ 1967 hit Beggin’ by DJ Pilooski. The ad features many familiar faces (The Ting Tings, Katy Perry, Missy Elliott, David Beckham) and it´s created by Montreal-based Sid Lee.



Here´s the invitation ad with Russell Simmons, Missy Elliott, Katy Perry, Ile Nastase, among others.

Pop princess Rihanna teams up with Gucci for charity, she´s the face of Gucci’s UNICEF 2009 holiday ads, helping to raise funds for UNICEF. Gucci will donate 25 % of the sale of each Tattoo Heart Collection items to support UNICEF programs for orphans and children affeted by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Read more: www.gucci.com/unicef

Watch Rihanna´s Gucci ad below:

Armani´s Diamonds for Men fragrance ad stars Josh Hartnett and is soundtracked by Interpol’s epic song Slow Hands. Watch the ad below:

White Stripe´s Jack White has written the theme song Another Way To Die with Alicia Keys to the new James Bond movie. He has also penned a song for Coke Zero TV advert, an instrumental score that plays hommage to Bond themes. Check the track and the ad here (guardian.com). The agency behind the campaign is Wieden+Kennedy.

Brooklyn’s Chairlift and their track Bruises is featured in the new iPod Nano, the Nano Chromatic, ad. The iPod ads have boosted earlier Feist, CSS and the Ting Tings, and now it´s Chairlift´s turn. Check out Chairlift on their MySpace and watch the new iPod ad below:

As part of Levi´s 501 campaign Live Unbuttoned, Levi´s has a site where you can “unbutton” stars like Estelle and get free content for download.  Check out www.levi.com/estelle/ and download Estelle - No Substitute Love Remix.

Cat Power covers Space Oddity for Lincoln MKS ad. It´s an impressive ad technically and visually, and David Bowie´s Space Oddity sung by Cat Power sets the mood just right.

(From Pitchfork)

Roisin Murphy is to release a cover version of Bryan Ferry´s Slave To Love in October. Roisin revealed she´s also filming a raunchy video for the song. She says she wants to have a full-on sex scene in the video. Cool! Roisin is wonderful, I was really impressed last Spring when I saw her perform live.

The song Slave To Love is also being used for a Gucci ad. You can listen to Roisin´s cover of Slave To Love and see the making of the Gucci video below: