“ I love to over spend. Then I have to work harder to make more money, It makes me better at my job. Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary” Karl Lagerfeld agreeing with my philosophy on life.
“ I would rather have cheap food than cheap clothes” Mathilde Agostinelli the Prada Publicist in Paris on how why I am getting so fat.
“I think it was organic. It’s good for the skin,” Anna Wintour, outside Chanel in Paris, when an antifur activist shoved a tofu pie into her face ( how cheap)
“Wear more fur.” Wintour on being asked what actions she would take,
“ Even the doctor today - he was like, ‘Are you anorexic? Are you making yourself throw up? Are drugs involved?’ And I was like, ‘Are you saying this because you’ve read it in magazines? Because I don’t!’ But you know, I’m around girls, even in the movies, that are like, ‘I don’t feel good, I just ate a lot, I’m going to throw up.’” Lindsay Lohan (cheap Tofu anyone?)
“A short stay in a low-security prison could be the new ashram, You’d get a nice break from the rat race - and you’d really be able to relax because it’s probably one of the few places in the world that nobody can reach you,” Lesley Jane Seymour, the self-professed, constantly stressed editor of Marie Claire magazine. Cheap too! (Marie Claire could send their editors for a week, just to test out this hot new trend) .
“My life is about much more than what my cushions are like or what theatre show I should go to. It’s really poncey. I just think that they should leave straight people alone, ” Boy George on TV’s ‘Queer Eye ‘ ( and on spending his life doing much more like doing his makeup and hair)
“ I heard you were gay. Let’s get a room and prove that wrong,” one hapless suitor told Marcia star of Desperate Housewives ( who was forced to release a statement insisting she was straight)
“Sorry. I’d much rather be gay than sleep with you just to prove I wasn’t.” Her reply
“ We hit a little bit of reality, hardcore, after the first three weeks. But we handled it fine, and now things are starting to go really smooth,” Britney on her marriage ( hardcore? I thought that was Paris Hilton?)
“Sometimes I think, ‘Is he really out there, or am I just never going to find him?’ I just have to leave it to God, I really do.” Naomi Campbell ( even supermodels can’t get a date) Not angry just disappointed.
“This nine foot creature walked in and I went and shook her hand, saying, ‘Hello. Eamonn. How are you doing?’ She replied, ‘Iman.’ I said, ‘Hello… Eamonn.’ She screamed, ‘Iman!’ She started hitting me and slapping me, yelling, ‘I’m Iman.’ I said, ‘I know who you are – I’m just trying to tell you, I’m Eamonn!’ She thought I thought I was pronouncing her name wrongly.” EAMONN HOLMES on meeting Iman ( repeat after me: Eamon and Iman Eamon and Iman)
“Roberts Struggling with Large Bust “ headline on Imdb on Julie Roberts
“It boosted my confidence no end. I’ve had a face job and a new nose.” Ozzy Osbourne ( but no Brain job?) Ozzy struggling with brain.

Do you look into your bag and see a sea of black? Is it like a big black hole that sucks everything into it, even light ? Where things disappear never to be seen again? It’s time you grabbed the gorgeous little fabric coin purse from kikki-K. Made from groovy red and white Marimekko style fabric, it is also the perfect size for an ipod. Throw in your coins, your lip gloss and credit cards and off you go, secure that you will never have to fumble to find your black Amex again.

$12 Succulent red and cream coin purse from kikki-K.

After working at shopping all day there is nothing better than coming home to settle down, unpack all your purchases, try them on and admire yourself for hours on end in the mirror. And let’s face it, it’s hard and exhausting work thinking about your wardrobe and what goes with what. Which is why you need help at this strenuous time by reaching for your best friend: wine. But why drink out of daggy glasses when you can have the new ever so chic glasses from Bodum with a double walls layer of heat resistant glass? “Hand made and mouth blown, they cleverly feature two glass walls, trapping air between the walls to provide insulation, keeping hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold” With their own climate control they are perfect for drinking lattes too so you don’t get your fingers burnt. I’ll drink to that.
$39.95 for 2, Pavina glasses from Bodum

At the end of summer you look in the mirror and wish it was the beginning of summer. Summer 1990. So here’s a hint: stop looking in the mirror (or take off your glasses: out of focus is good) and indulge in the luxurious SK-II facial treatment mask. Not as good in the results department as plastic surgery but a lot less painful and so relaxing. It is “a deeply intensive moisture boosting mask that deeply hydrates the skin just like a facial leaving your skin radiant”. Radiant? I felt radiant just lying down for 15 minutes with my eyes closed in the middle of the day. But because it actually is a real mask you put on your face, it does leave your skin will feeling great, and looking revived. It’s a miracle!

$25 each or 6 for $132 SK-II Facial Treatment Mask from David Jones.

Here is the best idea for a holiday: http://www.gourmet-touring.com/experiences.html . Drive a glamourous car and do a gourmet tour through south west France, ( Bordeaux) all guided by a personal satellite navigation system. Yes! Please. Choose a snazzy sportscar, work out an itinerary with Gourmet Touring ( Vineyards, cooking lessons, lunch) and go!
Diane Arbus: Revelations is on at the Met in New York.
Crazy Homies is the name of the new Mexican restaurant of Tom Conran ( son of Terence) in Nottinghill in London
Check out the new groovyhotel in Singapore located in Chinatown called The Scarlet Hotel (very groovy website. http://www.thescarlethotel.com/
Best cheap hotels in Rome according to UK Conde Nast Traveller: The Beehive (http://www.the-beehive.com/english.html) : The Casa Howard (http://www.casahoward.com/)
Hotel Santa Maria(http://www.hotelsantamaria.info)
Hotel Teatro Pace (http://www.hotelteatropace.com)
And The Daphne ( looks good) http://www.daphne-rome.com
Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress and wife of Salman Rushdie signed on with Harper’s Bazaar to pen a column about fashion, jewelry and accessories.
Sofia Coppola trained with designer Gilles Dufour years ago when she did an internship at Chanel. Now the director is casting Dufour in her upcoming film about Marie Antoinette, which also stars Kirsten Dunst and Marianne Faithfull. “I play a drunk count,” Dufour said as he made his way into the Louis Vuitton show on Sunday. “I’ve already learned all my lines.”. Hic from WWD
Check out “Dazed & Abused,” a play that chronicles the inner turmoil and social masks of a group of young posh types. A sellout at the Edinburgh Festival last summer, the play makes its U.S. debut at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio in New York . “If you’re taking Prozac, it’s still a big secret — never mind that seven other girls at the dinner table are on it, too,” says the playwright 29-year-old Kinvara Balfour, actress, journalist and a granddaughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.
It didn’t quite sizzle, but Paris Fashion week delivered salable collections of romantic and subtly elegant clothes: designers have responded to fashion’s recent overload of faux gentility and retro embellishment with a turn toward sobriety.( and lots of black) “Somber feels right, but who’s the customer?” Marc Jacobs quipped the day before his Paris show. “That person has been running around in candy colors and bows. She travels with logoed luggage. She’s not going to give that up for a life of austerity, so it’s about delivering a darker spirit in iguana.” (poor iguana) .
LVMH Profits have passed $1 Billion ( mot so poor Marc Jacobs who works for LMVH)

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/fashion/index.html
Want the best report and (sometimes) humorous take on winter fashion shows in Paris, New York and Milan? I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Go to The New York Times and listen to Cathryn Horn talk about the shows and watch the slide show. It’s a very intelligent, interesting overview and her accent is extraordinary. You will chuckle listening to her pronounce Faccinetti (as in Alessandra of Gucci). Also click on her video of Marc Jacobs’ show in New York: Fascinating Fashionista fun. It’s a must click.

http://www.vanityfair.com/features/outtakes/050307feou
For all the guys out there (and fashion types who love to see a shoot) please go to the Vanity Fair website (again) this time to see the cover of the April issue and the New Supermodels. Watch the video of Patrick Demarchelier (probably on St Barts) shooting nine models in white bikinis, including Carmen Kass, Natalia Vodianova and Karolina Kurkova.(Girls, watch this at breakfast and you won’t eat again for a week at least.)

Jacqueline Stallone, the psychic mother of the Sylvester may be getting her own reality show. The fortune-telling mom — who does “rumpology” readings from clients’ buttocks and also gets messages from her psychic dogs — made headlines in the U.K. when she joined the British version of “Big Brother.” “It was live and not rehearsed and it made me an international star.The newspapers had photographs of me, comparing my face to Michael Jackson’s and Miss Piggy’s — but hey, any publicity is good publicity, and I’ve never had so many job offers in my life.” I am speechless: ( rumpology ? mine says eat less)
Russell Crowe was a kidnap target for Al-qaeda. ( Take him away!)
Just a week after Paris Hilton had her T-Mobile Sidekick hacked into, Nicky Hilton lost her phone at the Vanity Fair Oscar party at Mortons in Los Angeles.( don’t’ give those girls your number)
NAOMI CAMPBELL was spotted wearing a T-shirt with “Naomi hit me – and I loved it!”
Reports are that Donatella Versace ’s daughter Allegra Beck is ill after she was photographed leaving the UCLA Medical Centre. Beck has apparently never got over the death of her uncle Gianni. “Because he went out to buy magazines for her when he was shot,” a source told the New York Daily New (what a guy)
Celebrity skeleton report: Alexandra Von Furstenburg joins Mary-Kate Olsen and Allegra Beck in the anorexia club; Drew Barrymore continues to shrink.
Kate Mosshas sparked rumours she is to marry on-off boyfriend Pete Doherty after she was spotted wearing a gold band on her engagement finger.
Media doyenne Tina Brown has signed a major (possibly 7 figure) deal with Random House to write…a biography of Princess Diana. Um, Tina? Sweetheart? Are you okay? Have you been taking your medication? (Gawker)
Oh my God! Martha’s Stewarts post-prison plane landing of 2:08 AM violated the Westchester County runway hours! Gasp! Arrest her
Prince William is obsessed with “Desperate Housewives,” which airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. in the U.K. “Wills said he doesn’t like going out on Wednesdays anymore in case he misses it,”
Brad Pitt has moved back in with wife Jennifer Aniston .
Jennifer Aniston is angrily denying internet reports she split up with Brad after falling for another woman” Of all the preposterous things that have been written about Jennifer, this one takes the cake. (cheap cake? Tofu?)
Nicole Kidman will play tragic photographer Diane Arbus in a film.
Kristin Davis and Steven Martin are an item.
Kylie Minogue has bought a house on French Island,
Gucci’s Frida Giannini has been named the brand’s creative director for women’s ready-to-wear. She replaces Alessandra Facchinetti, who has resigned as Gucci’s women’s wear designer only two weeks after her second show in the post-Tom Ford era.
Robbie Williams’ hit, Angels, is Britain’s favourite funeral song .
Breaking news ! A cockroach sighting in the Condé Nast cafeteria ( home of US Vogue and Vanity Fair) . The offending insect was “hanging out between the peanuts and the bok choy at the Asian stir fry station.” Tasty — but did Graydon and Anna fight over who got to eat it? ( Tofu anyone?)
Leonardo DiCaprio says he almost didn’t make the Oscars. He was having lunch a few hours before the ceremony with his mother when he started to choke on a raw carrot. Luckily, Leo’s mom was able to perform the Heimlich maneuver ( Cheap food)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This is the top of the Amazon bestseller list and also the New York Times too, ( mmm is that good or bad? The Da Vince code is in there too) but it sounds like a great read and very interesting. No, it’s not about gossip, fashion or food ( good god) but about Afghanistan. C’mon keep reading…. “ In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini provides an educational and eye-opening account of a country’s political turmoil–in this case, Afghanistan–while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America’s collective consciousness (”people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz”), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon.
$14 from Amazon http://ww.amazon.com

The Christmas List:
Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux
To coincide with the upcoming retrospective of Coco Chanel at the Met in New York this gorgeous book by Edmonde Charles Roux has been updated and redesigned. It is full of divine photos of Chanel and all the glamour jet set of her time. “ A must read, after all this is the woman who said ‘ There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” (What about shopping?
$50 from http://ww.amazon.com Publisher: Vendome Press (March 1, 2005)

Economy.
Witchery: Has choc brown galore, nice change after too much pink: They have done a nice satin cami in choc brown if you haven’t bought one $79, a choc brown suede belted coat, very nice $399, a choc brown tweed skirt with a flip to it $79, a green leather simple shoulder bag with one strap $99, and the Balenciaga Lariat style bag is now in big and bronze, cool $200 ish. There is T bar, dark navy heels $149, a wrap skirt $99, and choc brown suede jacket $149, some flat black boots $229 and short choc brown suede boots $149.
Esprit: have a nice camel and light blue paisley chiffon blouse with a drawstring waist, cute $119 and nice soft tweed brown pants $129, woven Bottega Veneta bags $39 but the best buys are the ribbed knits with a V neck in browns maille $69, and the red narrow to the knee pants $79 (if you dare wear red pants). Sportsgirl: check out the black velvet round collar Chinese style jacket $79, the green jersey top with silver sequin neckline $89, and the best buy on sale are the cement Helmut Lang style chinos $59. Dotti: have the cord shrunken jacket in every colour for a mere $49 so that just says it all doesn’t it about cord shrunken jackets? Allanah Hill: check out the sweet, light blue chiffon garden party dress $449 (ouch) with green beading through it and the same fabric in a blouse $189. Zomp shoez: If you want some flat shoes on sale then checkout the Zomp store in the Pitt street Mall. Yes, I know the Mall. Scary but just pop on your sunglasses and ignore it. There is a huge selection here and the best thing if you head upstairs (above Marcs) you will find Max & co and Quick brown Fox. See not so bad. In QBF there are heaps of amazing cheap bags copy of Coach, marc Jacobs and Prada $69 Sportscraft: Is looking very good thanks to Jodie Boffa. Classic but cool. I like the knits, in stripe a bit Cacherel esque in black with wide colour stripes, $129, also check out fab thin red, orange and cream stripe sweaters $129, the cool red and orange stripe L/S cotton T $69 and the marc Jacobs style bags in burgundy $229. The rib poncho is great $129 and so is the white thicker cotton L/S T $69. David Lawrence have a beautiful camel coat $399.FCUK: have a cool little mohair black bolero $80, a nice denim pencil skirt with slits at front $120, a fitted black Helmut Lang very simple paneled dress $160, and plain handy black flared skirt $120 and a zip front black knit bomber jacket $99, the short camel belted jacket $240, and some nice,very good side pocket black pants $140.

Business:
Bettina Liano: has great narrow jeans but the rest of the collections is very punk/80’s/trash which is a pity because we used to love her clothes.
Zimmerman: has alot of new pieces in and also looking a bit eighties, good for the young. Check out the stone safari trench $565, the dark grey slinky top $196, the pretty black and white print Marc Jacobs style dresses garden party style $340 and the fabulously cut black suit jacket $497. Also buy now all the fab summer clothes with up to 50% off: a patchwork dress seen in the latest US Elle is reduced and so are all the swimsuits, lovely. Lisa Ho: She has some cool new leather bags, a bit Tods style, in cream or grey $399, a pink knit cardigan with silver sequin trim $277, the fur chubby is cool in blue $890 and so is the cami in lots of colours $331 . Check out the divine round neck black leather coat with chiffon ruffle edge on the pockets $2298, also in cream and blush, and the short jacket version too is quite beautiful too $1665. Plus check out the pretty embroidered beaded cream skirt $580.
Gary Castles; lots of new shoes in here; check out the Prada copy of the patent square toe sling backs in great colours and the snakeskin heels with bead details is cool,the Gucci style round toe snakeskin heels with horsebit on toe (is that legal?) $250 and the blue square toe flats are cool $330, plus lots of boots (but I can’t get my head around them it’s too hot). Von Troska; has lots of great scarves, and check out the one is a mondrian style print Wayne Cooper: we love the leopard print trench and the T shirts that say Femme Fatale $79. Dinosaur Designs: have the most divine bracelets in every colour, buy up big and please go into the Strand Store just see the divine twig/coral mobile, beautiful. Max & Co: Check out the choc brown coat, belted $1350 and the brown tweed princess coat $580, the beautiful simple cashmere caramel or grey polonecks $395, the tweed black and white skirt A line skirt $370. The lovely print red and black chiffon caftan style top $380 and the divine black peacoat $500 and the classic black princess coat around $900. QueensPark: Have a fab distressed tan leather blazer, quite fab $325. Country Road: have some big knit over sized sweater cardigans wraps if you like that sort of thing, a stone car coat in moleskin $399 and burgundy flecked cardigan $159 and stone/grey waxed trench $399 and also some cool thin belts in good colours are here too and I really like the short red peacpoat jacket with a frayed edge $429.

First.
Myer: have some Bottega Veneta style woven bags $1100 . Check out the major labels here in their import section: Valentino: You want the fab black fitted coat $2800 with a ruffle wool collar, the black dress $1499, the black s/s poloneck top with a lace back $1449, divine black trousers $$ and the black poloneck sweater and the pencil black skirt with a thin white line $1000.
Nicole Fahri: looks very classic but check out the suiting, good for work $799, the black and white tweed jacket are cool but are we over that already? $1100. Agnes B: check out the belted wool trench/jacket $799, her signature black leather jacket : round neck with press studs buttons, chanel style $1929, beautiful. There is simple white shirts $179 and fab soft wool knit jackets $599.Check out the cream rib (or dark grey) chunky knit sweaters, too chic and too simple $399! and I like the black round neck knit sweater with a black hear on the front $329.Donna Karan: Not so exciting but check out the black leather bomber $4000, and the choc brown leather skirt $1859. Et Vous: check out the fab black and white tweed princess coat with a thin black suede trim $1479, a bit sixities (big for next winter 06), the brown tweed pants $429, the cool jeans, the black satin pencil trousers and racer back B & W floral ruffle dress $559 ( compare to Allanah Hill) Alberta Ferretti: there are a lot of gorgeous black bias cut satin/silk dresses but are they from last season? (gasp!) Cacherel: I like this collection: you want the pretty liberty print shirt $249 (cheap: gasp!) , the Sonia Delaunay style circle print skirt $449, the good classic black pants $379, the pretty floral dress $579 and how fab is the watermelon trench? Very at $1149 and so is the multi tweed patchwork coat $1399. See By Chloe: you want the black baggy pants $599, the T shirts $200, the fitted black jacket $849 and the very chic b&w coat with a rope style pattern $1299
Christian Lacroix: not so exciting ( black and more black) but check out the pink and red swirl print skirt $509. CK Jeans : have a black leather jacket $999. who loves cheap food?

Chicken dumplings in broth (from Delicious)
This is absolutely delicious, quite hot and oh, so easy to make after work or for a dinner party. Serve it with lots of rice for men with big appetites who think they are just having soup for dinner.
All you do is whiz up some chicken breast, coriander and garlic, mush it into balls ( dumplings) then steam and serve in the broth.

You need for 4:
250 g raw chicken mince or a couple of breasts and whiz them in the whizzer.
1 or 2 garlic cloves
1 tabs coriander leaves
1 egg white
4 tabs light soy
4 cups of chicken stock
1 lemongrass stem chopped in half
a small chunk ( 2.5 cm ) of grated ginger
2 small red chillies
2 star anise
2 tabs lime juice
1 teasp sesame oil
1 tabs fish sauce
½ bunch garlic chives or spring onion or Asian herbs to scatter with
Rice to serve
Optional: Add a Bunch of bok choy to the stock if you need more vegetables and you can substitute any white fish instead of the chicken.

·Whizz up the garlic, chicken, coriander, egg white and ½ of soy (2 tabs) soy sauce in the food whizzer, don’t over process please.
·Watch the manicure because now you are going to stick your hands in this mushy mixture and roll it into balls in your palms,
·Se that was fun. You can delegate that bit if you don’t want to get dirty.
·Pop the dumplings mush on a plate and put in the fridge while you get the broth organised
·Check the fingernails, that wasn’t so bad….
·Now get a big saucepan and fill it with the chicken stock, lemongrass, ginger, chilli, and star anise with 2 cups of water
·Bring to boil then turn to simmer for about 5 minutes
·Put the rice on now because the dumplings will take 10 mins to cook and then bobs your uncle
·Now pop those dumplings into a steamer over the broth and steam them for about 10 minutes
·Now carefully toss them into the stock and then add the lime juice, the rest of the soy, the sesame oil, and the fish sauce into the broth too.
·Voila all is ready!
·Serve a couplings of dumplings in each bowl, bobbing around in the broth and add some chives or herbs for a bit of snazzy garnish
·You might want to throw a bit of soy on the table and a bowl of rice and some chilli bean sauce
Divine

1 tabs fish sauce
½ bunch garlic chives or spring onion or Asian herbs to scatter with
Rice to serve
Optional: Add a Bunch of bok choy to the stock if you need more vegetables and you can substitute any white fish instead of the chicken

Simmered Moroccan Chicken

Here’s another quick de la quick, but very delicious dinner to whip up when you want to get dinner happening fast ….before desperate housewives starts ..
Serve it with couscous or rice

You need for 4
4 chicken breast
1 tab of coriander leaves
1 tab olive oil
I leek
1 tsp chilli paste (or 1 red chilli depending how hot you want it)
½ teasp cumin
2 ½ cups of chicken stock
2 pieces of orange rind

·Slice up leek and cook it with the oil, cumin, and chilli paste until it looks golden as Donatella
·Add the stock and the orange rind to the leek and simmer for about 5 mins to get the flavours happening and let it educe a bit
·Then add the chicken breasts to the leeks and let them have a big poach in all that lovely flavour
·Sometimes its better to cut the chicken breasts into two if they are too thick or give them a good old whack to flatten them.
·Feels good to give them a whack think of your old boyfriend and off you go!
·While that’s simmering away it’s a good idea to make the couscous.
·The chicken should be cooked after about 10 mins or so
·Stir through some coriander and some salt and pepper
·Then serve with the couscous and the breasts lounging on top of the leeks looking fabulous
Wow! too quick, too delicious and too slimming !

The Door in the Floor …with Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger

Imagine a gorgeous, wooden, stylish, arty beach house in the Hamptons with an outdoor shower, a lawn going to the beach and a painters studio And in the middle of it all, Jeff Bridges wondering around in a caftan , drinking wine and tucking into huge slabs of cheese, painting, writing and carrying on like a big, charismatic cheeky monkey. Oh, what a visual feast this movie is! Oh the house! the furniture! the photography and the clothes! The big spunk Jeff Bridges! So what if he looks fat and old and middle aged (don’t we all?). The New York Times says ‘Jeff Bridges offers perhaps the wittiest and richest piece of screen acting by an American man so far this year “ (and that was last year) Warning: it is not a romantic comedy. Does it have romance ? Yes! Does it have violence? no (if you don’t count a crazy woman chasing Jeff Bridges down the street with a knife).Is this funny? Yes (if you count a crazy woman chasing Jeff Bridges down the street). Is it beautifully written and directed? Yes and Yes. An adaptation of a John Irving book ‘A widow for a year’ it is a quirky, deep,tragic and sometimes funny story about “ a long-married couple still reeling from the deaths, some years earlier, of their two teenage sons. Their 4-year-old daughter, Ruth born after the car accident that killed her brothers, but rather than help her parents move beyond their grief she traps them inside it, and herself as well. ” But don’t get put off by the sad story, just read these reviews instead: : “ a film to wrap around yourself like a blanket, huddling from life’s harshness and tasting its riches.”.
“ A beautifully acted examination of the bedeviling and perversely inspiring legacy of family tragedy, it’s one of the most sophisticated American films of the year.” OR “The richly rewarding film is funny, sexy, tragic, touching and sometimes kind of sweetly bizarre”

US Harpers Bazaar March:
With Gwen Stefani on the cover, don’t get it mixed up with the Aust Version; Read the fashion advice column by Karl Lagerfeld ( see Quote de la quote) who gives great advice such as ”Never lend to the poor” .Read the how to wear it guide on jackets ,full skirts ,baggy pants and dresses. Laugh reading Simon Doonan’s story on fashion’s new loving feeling “ that backstabbing bitchiness so often associated with the world of style has evaporated as quickly as you could say “ pass the Kabbalah water” , be amused by Dontatella Versace’s ‘why don’t you column’ i.e “why don’t you wear a gold python leather trench over your gym clothes?” Mmm why don’t you? Read Candace Bushnell on the trend of 50’s lady like dressing and how it is a sexist plot “ all those nipped in waists and tight sweaters are demure, demure whispers compliant ’ Checkout the peace movement shoot by Peter Lindbergh, and be horrified by the shoot of Dolce Gabbana as super heros with Naomi Camnpbell as catwoman. A good issue
UK Conde Nast Traveller March :
A great issue! Read about the gourmet driving tour of Bordeaux (see Globetrotter), read about the top cheapo hotels in Rome , read about Bill’s café by Neale Whitaker ( from Vogue entertaining etc). There is a fab story about Montreal ( you want to go there) and read and pray you can one day stay at one of the 20 best Villas on the GreeK Islands.
THe New Yorker
Read John Seabrook’s profile of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in the new style issue of The New Yorker, Gabbana is appearing in an Italian dating reality show called “La Sottile Linea Rosa,” or “The Thin Pink Line,” playing a “fairy godfather who drops in from time to time with fashion advice. He can be seen holding a magic wand, sitting in front of dozens of burning candles of different lengths, with leopard-print wallpaper in the background.” (Is it too much to hope for Trio to import this show and slap on a few English subtitles?) The amicable Dolce and Gabbana who are splitsville as a couple now travel together with their new respective boyfriends, “They’re sort of the Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee of fashion,” Also in the issue: a six-page series of Grecian mosaics by Michael Roberts; Daniel Zalewski’s piece on Rem Koolhaas; a meditation on the creation of Hermès’ latest scent, and Nancy Franklin’s look at two other addictive fashion reality shows, “America’s Next Top Model” and “Project Runway.” —WWD