Finnish-owned label Lindex has released imagery from the second push for its spring 2013 season, featuring actress Penélope Cruz.
The first part of the campaign, which showed Cruz in casual and red-carpet settings, broke on April 24.
This latest campaign sees Cruz wearing her favourite items in a home environment.
The company says this part of the collection has a Latino inspiration, with neutral colours (khaki, black, grey, white) offset by pepper green and mandarin red. The patterns include animal and jungle prints, fringes and tie-dyes.
There are the usual staples of dresses, singlets and shorts. Lindex’s design manager, Nina Starck, gives the example of shorts, knitted top and a bikini underneath for a boho-chic look.
To emphasize a retro feel, Cruz can be seen in one image posing next to a turntable with an LP.
This latest part of the Lindex spring collection hits stores, online and offline, on May 6.
Cruz won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in the 2008 Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. News of the Lindex spring campaign breaking first surfaced on April 15.
While a Swedish-originated brand, Lindex was acquired by the Finnish retailer Stockmann in 2007. It currently has around 400 stores, including Russia and the Middle East.

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Oscar winner, Penelope Cruz, 38, and her younger sister Monica Cruz, 35, have teamed up to design a new diffusion collection for luxury lingerie company Agent Provocateur.

The line will be called L’Agent and is intended to retail at a more affordable price point than is typical of the London-based brand, averaging around $64 per item, according to the New York Daily News. The line is scheduled to launch for the Autumn/Winter 2013 season in department stores globally. The line will not, however, be found in Agent Provocateur’s stand alone stores where items run upwards of $300 a piece, reports Time. This is not the first time Monica and Penelope have collaborated, they previously worked together on collections for Mango and Samantha Thavasa.

At this point, Agent Provocateur has not released any images of the collection, so it is unclear how prominently either Cruz will be featured in the campaign.

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Penelope Cruz is in talks to star in a film titled “Gucci” about the Italian family behind the legendary clothing brand, TheWrap said.

Directed by Jordan Scott, daughter of Ridley Scott, the film tells the story of the late Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the Gucci founder, as he becomes heir to the family empire.

Gucci was gunned down in 1995. His ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, was jailed for the killing in 1999. The project was first announced in 2006 with Ridley Scott set to direct from a script by Andrea Berloff. A number of other writers have since been involved in the project, which is set up at Scott Free.  In 2009, Angelina Jolie was approached to play Reggiani, who was jailed for 29 years for allegedly ordering the killing of her ex-husband, when Ridley Scott was still attached to direct “Gucci.”

Reports of the film’s resurfacing came as Gucci makes a push to re-establish the brand as synonymous with Hollywood glamour, which it has been struggling to do since Tom Ford left the house in 2004. The company has become increasingly involved in the film world. Gucci has given more than $2 million to Martin Scorsese to help him restore old films, including Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America.”

The label also funds film scholarships and supports a weekly film series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Penelope Cruz not sure about Pirates future

Penelope Cruz does not yet know if she will be reprising her role as Angelica in the next ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie.

Penelope Cruz ”hasn’t heard” if she is going to be in the next ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie.

The 38-year-old actress played the role of Angelica Teach in the last instalment of the franchise ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ – alongside Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow – and while it is expected she may reprise her part, no one has confirmed anything to her.

She said: ”Have I heard anything? No, I haven’t. I haven’t read a script. I haven’t heard anything. With Johnny and the director Rob Marshall, it’s like anything. But I don’t mean movies. I consider them my friends. And I really love them and respect them.”

Penelope admits she had a great time making the last film because she was pregnant during shooting and was happy to have the support of the cast and crew.

She told Collider.com: ”I loved making that movie. Because, Johnny is an incredible human being. He’s a very good friend, and he’s always been so good to me.

”And you know, that was a very special time for me because I was pregnant through the whole movie and the way Johnny and Rob were with me, the way they protected me, the way they took care of me, I will never forget in my life.”

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Hollywood actor Penelope Cruz has previously admitted to being fond of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, and the Spanish beauty who will be seen in Woody Allen’s romcom, To Rome With Love, seems determined to share screen space with him. She plans to shoot the film in India, she reveals. The excerpts:

You’ve just shot an ad with your younger sister Monica, who’s called your lookalike… Do you see her as a competition?
My sister and I have been working together for years now, and it is always a great experience… She’s a very hard working actor. Yes, she does look like me and I look like her, but she definitely is not my competitor. We help each other at work a lot. For instance, she played my body double in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, when I was visibly pregnant.

Tell us something about your role in the Woody Allen film?
To Rome With Love is a comedy that follows the lives of various individuals, some of whom are American and some Italian, some residents and some visitors, all around the enchanted ancient city. My role is that of a hooker, who makes prostitution seem like a desirable career. She’s very professional, looks at her job with dignity, and wants to be the best at it. She’s convinced that she is helping people with her work, and that what she does is really necessary for society.

What was it like to work with Allen?
I have been a fan of Woody Allen’s work ever since I was a little girl. I was very happy to meet him, to be able to spend time with him. He makes me laugh all day long, so I feel like the luckiest girl.

Are you familiar with Bollywood?
I am a great fan of Indian cinema and I would love to work with Shah Rukh Khan. I have the rights to a book and we are going to shoot the movie in India.

Would that be your first trip to India?
No, I have been there several times. I love India, it is very special country. And I can’t resist its food too. I love rice, bread and yogurt, and these, I find are also an integral part of Indian diet.

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The filmmaker allowed the actors to improvise with the script for the romantic comedy/drama and converse in their native language, but he didn’t bother to find out exactly what they were talking about on screen – and remains completely clueless to this day.

Cruz tells W magazine, “He gave us the script he wrote in English, and he gave us the freedom to translate and improvise. Woody told me recently that he still doesn’t know if we are talking about the atomic bomb.”

The performance won the Spanish beauty the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, so Allen decided to put his faith in her again while shooting his latest movie To Rome with Love.

She says, “It’s the same thing in To Rome With Love – he doesn’t speak Italian. I translated my lines. So he still doesn’t know what I am saying.”

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