Although Lady Gaga has worked with luxury vodka Belvedere in the past, contrary to our story headlined “Grandmother of African art finds unlikely partner in war on Aids” (News, last week, page 23), she is not associated with the Belvedere Red campaign this year. Instead, John Legend is campaign ambassador, collaborating with South African artist Esther Mahlangu on the limited-edition bottle. Fifty per cent of profits from every bottle sold will be donated to the Global Fund to fight HIV/Aids in Africa.
An image entitled “hip-hop style, New York, 1975” (New Review, 7 August, page 11), showed clothes designed by the late Keith Haring that didn’t exist until after 1981 and were not mass- produced until 1983. An agency supplied the picture with an incorrect date, which we repeated.
“Elites must start listening to the ‘smelly citizens’ in the streets” (Comment, 7 August, page 29) misnamed a rightwing German movement as Pergida. It is Pegida: Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident).
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