I have just uploaded a beautiful photoshoot of Marina shot by the talented Gregoire Bernardi. There are 14 pictures in total, just click the thumbnails below to enter the gallery and view the full set.

Related Links > Photoshoots > 2010 > Session 25 : Gregoire Bernardi

What are the five key items in your wardrobe at the moment?

I have a white pussybow silk blouse I live in. A sequin tuxedo jacket with astrology signs on it, which I got on eBay for £12 (€13.25), gets worn a lot. I have a shoulder-padded blazer that is quite Balmain which I wear frequently with jeans. A gorgeous pair of Louis Vuitton heels, which I call my ‘mature heels’, take pride of place in my wardrobe and, finally, I have a big cardi to keep warm. Last summer I did 27 festivals so it got lots of wear.

What are you wearing today and how much did it cost?

In this shot (above), I am wearing an Ashish dress. That shoot was styled by a really cool Irish stylist called Celestine Cooney. I have no idea how much it cost unfortunately. The jacket is a vintage find and belongs to Celestine.

Where do you shop: online or the high street?

I love shopping online. There is a great site for designer clothes called www.theoutnet.com. I also browse www.netaporter.com, but if I have time in London, my favourite shop is Beyond Retro.

What are your favourite fashion haunts and websites?

I love the atmosphere of shopping in a market and I think Brick Lane market in East London is a great place to see what all the young fashion students are up to. I go on www.asos.com and type a name into the bar such as Alexa Chung and see what comes up, rather then going through the whole site piece by piece, or by designer.

A classic black dress or pair of trousers: how do you make it yours?

I like to emphasise my curves, so I would take a dress and cinch the waist in with a belt. I had a puffy heartshaped felt brooch that is very sentimental but which I unfortunately lost recently, and I would hypothetically add that and top it off with a really high pair of heels and great tights, preferably with a seam up the back.

Who in celebrity culture do you think dresses well and why?

I think Dita Von Teese is flawless. Katy Perry has a great sense of fun about the way she puts herself together. Alexa Chung always looks gorgeous and everything is so comfortable and perfect for her.

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If you were to wade into YouTube‘s morasses for the first time, you’d be forgiven for thinking the site exercised a strict editorial policy favouring hapless cats and/or crap pastiches of pop videos. Every man and his dog (or cat, or baby, or cellmate) seem to have posted their shakily filmed take on Beyoncé or Gaga‘s efforts.

Fan videos have now become a YouTube sub-genre in themselves – labours of love that often outshine the original, as artists are beginning to realise. Björk, Ke$ha, Radiohead and even the hot-out-the-boyband-oven quintet The Wanted, have all held fan video competitions online.

So too has Marina Diamandis, aka Marina and the Diamonds.

“If people are a fan of something, they love making videos for it, It’s all illusion and you can decide any way the song’s interpreted. Sometimes, fan videos are better than the artist’s.”

Anyone doing it solely with the hope of achieving YouTube glory with millions of views would be on a misguided mission: if there’s a science to what sends one unremarkable clip “viral” while another, funnier one languishes largely unviewed, it’s a murky one. So why then, does anyone bother?

“It’s a good question but really, it’s for the same reason that I bother to write songs, People want to be creative and YouTube is brilliant because it gives people a voice. Even if only a hundred people watch a video, the feeling that you have something out there is probably really satisfying.”

Read The Full Article By Hermione Hoby At Guardian.co.uk

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When in America, JustinTimberlake.Com caught up with Marina (a little random yes?) and had an interview with her. It is a cute video with some clips of Marina performing while she was over there. Watch the video above & the questions she was asked are below.

How would you describe yourself and your music?
How do you view your fans?
Describe your live show.
Did you start performing when you were a child?
What inspired you to start singing?
Do you write more from fantasy or experience?
With your Welsh and Greek background, what are your musical influences?
What are your family get togethers like? Anything like the film, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”?

Related Links > 15/08/2010 : Flow Festival, Finland

Rising popstar Sky Ferreira has admitted that she finds it “annoying” when she is compared to other female artists.

The LA-raised singer-songwriter, 18, has been likened to everyone from Ke$ha to Lady GaGa while promoting her debut single ‘One‘ – released in the UK on August 23.

However, when asked by Digital Spy which comparison she found most ridiculous, Ferreira chose half-Greek, half-Welsh singer Marina and the Diamonds.

“I really like her but I don’t think we’re anything alike. I sing, ‘I am not a robot but I feel like one’ in ‘One’, but I wrote that song a year-and-a-half ago in Stockholm, before I’d even heard of Marina and the Diamonds,” she said.

“That’s not even the point though, because the songs have completely different concepts, and musically, me and her are nothing alike.“