VV Brown's Marks & Spencer campaign looks

Brit islandista VV Brown has been picked as one of the front women for one of the UK's biggest commercial contracts - the Marks & Spencer campaign - and finally the pics and tv ad are out.  

 

 



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 Previous faces for M&S campaigns include Twiggy (who is also part of this campaign), David Beckham, Claudia Schiffer and Noemie Lenoir - so it's a big deal. 

Check out some more of her best shots from the campaign which, if you're in the UK, should be in a high street near you. 

 

  

  

 

 

Islandista on the rise: VV Brown

Islandistas, have you heard of VV Brown?

If you haven't, you probably will soon.

The British-born soul rocker of Jamaican and Puerto Rican parentage has only been on everyone's Hot List for 09.

Seriously.

The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the LA Times, the Independent and BBC all placed her on their lists of ones to watch in 2009. 

Her musical style is a bit vintage, like that of other female stars of this new Brit invasion such as Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele.

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 However, unlike them, VV draws more on  more up-tempo, 50s and 60s era doo-wop and rock, as heard in her breakout hit Crying Blood which is easily the most cheerful sounding song about a heart-wrenching break up that we have ever heard.

If that is not enough for you, VV (real name Vanessa) is well set to take her place among the ranks of other islandista it girls such as Rihanna and Vashtie Kola, whose sense of style is so quirky, fierce and yet independently theirs, that fashionistas are falling over themselves.