Courtney Love wins this week with this hilarious quote in US Elle about Renee Zewelleger playing Janis Joplin (work that out) “Renee talked to Janis (Joplin). Janis seems not to have gone to the other world. A lot of people can get hold of her. I mean you can’t find Curt. Nobody knows where he is. But Janis is accessible. ” (He’s dead that’s why…) Or this “Logos and genitals scare me to death”
“Keep your pants on” Brad Pitt’s advice to Orlando Bloom on Hollywood (bummer)
“Being beautiful is not like being a great tennis paler and you get better as you practice’ Elle McPherson mm I know
“Reese Witherspoon is ridiculously over qualified to run the country” The New Yorker after Arnie got in or ” where the Terminator treads the Hobbits can’t be far behind”’ watch out America…
“A soft core renovation fantasy for educated women” The New Yorker on the Movie under the Tuscan sun
“I put on 180 pounds and one breast was half of that “Catherine Zeta Jones Models are the plankton of Miami
“She’s a ninnie wandering through a maelstrom” New York Times on Meg Ryan acting in ‘In the cut’

You might have a Batcave full of Diptique candles but excusez moi how are you actually lighting them? No! Do not save them for their good looks they are not Manolos! You need the cheap but chic lighter in groovy stainless steel about the size of a big pen (it has to be filled with lighter fluid) it even has its own little stand to sleep in between dinner parties. $11 Howard’s Storage World

There I was looking like an international cosmopolitan sauntering around the DFS store in the Rocks working hard shopping (checking out Coach, le Sport sac, Dior and Givenchy) when I saw THE item du jour for summer. Oo la la Fabulous Dior head scarves in the most divine colours and prints. Pink and red and oranges! Silk and chiffon and cotton. A gorgeous selection and all available at retail for the non-travelers such as you good selves: $99 a cotton one and $159 for silk. Perfect to razz up the jeans and white singlet for summer without actually resorting to wearing colour. If you don’t wear it around your head tied the back Babe Paley style just tie it to your Hermes bag!

The natural no lipstick look IS THE look of the season but as if we all want to do that! Are you kidding?? Me without lipstick is like Gucci without Tom Ford it doesn’t happen? mmm… Anyway everyone knows that nothing takes more effort than the appearance of effortlessness. And it will take no effort to swipe the little Nivea lip across your sexy lips for a petit touch of moisture and a hint of colour Go from drab to fab! Cool in pearly shimmer.

C.Z Guest the American socialite, style icon, one of the chicest women after Audrey a favorite of Bruce Weber and mother of Cornelia died at age 83
The American Cinematique is honoring Nicole Kidman\

About to be ex Gucci Tom Ford and Domenico have supposedly bought a stake in Versace! But keep denying it?. sexy does as sexy goes
Sotheby’s is auctioning pieces of the Concorde like the nose cone, and the cutlery

Taschem the cool publisher of groovy books is opening a Philippe Starck designed store in Beverly Hills

The Met in New York is having an exhibition of men in skirts called Braveheart (or called Queer eye for the straight skirt)

Hermes have teamed up with Leica to do a luxurious calfskin camera case

Sophia Coppola has designed a bag for Marc Jacobs

Ashley Judd is playing in A cat on a hot tin roof on Broadway

Bulgari are planning to open another hotel in Bali (First one opening in Milan)

Barneys have done its holiday windows as a tribute to Sex n the city

Liv Tyler is in the next Givenchy advertising campaign shot by Mario Testino

Marc Jacobs has shot Charlotte Rampling with Jurgen Teller (and if you don’t know who they are you need to keep reading FiFi?)

Jamie Johnson heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune has screened his documentary ‘Born Rich’ about the idle rich kids in America and they are all hysterical about it. Style.com said they were all vomiting at the premiere!

Galleries Lafayette in Paris is offering striptease lessons in the lingerie Dept

http://www.dubyaspeak.com
If I ever have any doubts that George is a complete idiot or I just need a laugh honey this is it! Read it for quotes such as this ” redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to a tough assignment’ need I say more !

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au
This is an online store so now you’ll never leave home to shop get all those groovy designers like Zimmerman. Kitten and all the groovy designers from Christensen Copenhagen (it’s their website). You’ll want everything. It means that you can shop online saving you time so you can go shopping!

Nicole wants to go troppo and walk away from the fast life and spend Christmas in FiFi sorry Fiji!

Lauren Hutton will be 60 this month

David Schwimmer is marrying his Italian girlfriend he met in a traffic jam

Justin Timberlake chased a bag snatcher (now there’s a good idea)

Madonna is apparently adopting a baby

Courtney Love thinks Marlon Brando is her grandfather

Christian Slater’s wife has been charged with domestic battery

Simona Fendi a daughter of the famous Italian fashion designer Paola Fendi died from an embolus at age 38

Ben and J.Lo are back on again and secretly planning their wedding ( soo secret!) more low key this time?

Demi and Ashton are planning a quiet wedding too (Womens Wear Daily blames it on the Kabbalah water they are all drinking)

Gwyneth and Chris were secretly married in Hawaii.. maybe

The Prince of Spain is engaged to a Spanish commoner

A Mighty Heart by Marianne Pearl
The book by the wife of Danny Pearl the Wall St Journal reporter who was kidnapped and executed in Pakistan after Sept 11. A personal and first person account of his life…everyone is talking about this book.. it’s a must read
Still Holding by Bruce Wagner
This looks hilarious and had rave reviews “A spiritual comedy of manners about Hollywood and Buddism and about the people who cater to the karmic needs of those facing celebrity death” Could’ve written it myself

CHRISTMAS LIST:
Dinner is served: An English Butlers Guide to the Art of the Table
Worried about those table manners and waving your cutlery in the air? You should be. Time to get this gem of a book to help you get through the round of Christmas drinks! Apart from having years of experience as a butler he worked on Gosford Park so he must be good!
The Georgetown Ladies social Club by David Heymann
From the best selling biographer of Jackie Kennedy, this looks like a great read about the power brokers of Washington – the wives such as Katherine Graham and Sally Quinn and Evangeline Bruce “ a captivating chronicle of the female power behind American politics”

ECONOMY

David Lawrence has a cute white boat neck top with a thin black stripe and ¾ sleeves very French $135 and cool black zip jacket $238 a fabulous double layer Helmut Lang style singlet $49 and a really cool canvas Khaki tote very similar to the Hermes ones with a stripe down the front $49

Jigsaw Have fab mesh black and brown singlets $49, a cute black shoe string strap simple top $39 and some great classic black skirts to hide big bottoms in an A line shape $149.They also have a caftan short but chic in lots of colours $129

Mollini have done some roman gladiator sandals last seen on Kate moss $100
Palm Beach shoes have the patent stilettos like the Louboutin ones in red and other colours $88!!

Dotti Have gone all 50’s and have done lots of party dresses with petticoats and have cute singlets with dysfunctional on the front $19 and cute Hibiscus print skirts $49

Witchery have got the summer must have cover-up the gray maille flash dance top with a wide neck and ¾ sleeves.cool $ 49 and some

Nine West have got some Enzo Angioloini sandals with a white shell buckle very chic $129 and some simple sueded mules with white stitching $119

BUSINESS

Midas have the most fabulous flat black or white sandal toe thong with a silver buckle on the side called Basila $ 248,lots of gold stilettos if you dare and some cool wooden mui mui style mules $328

Morrissey have done some great really narrow jeans $150 a cute cotton sateen belted dress $260

General Pants have Miss Sixty at 30% off and seriously narrow jeans by Levis
Cashmere House have the perfect cashmere shell top sin all sorts of divine colours $440

FIRST CLASS

The DFS store in the Rocks sells lots of divine things that are not just Duty Free Divine chocolate brown by Celine $ 2060, Givenchy black or brown logo totes $ 495 and messenger nylon Givenchy bags $.320.There is 30% off Etro scarves and Paul Smith winter wool stripe scarves $97

Christian Dior has the divine ‘Chris 47′ watches with red, orange or lime green straps $ 1000

Fusion at The Rocks have all the new Mui Mui in ! Still expensive but there is a divine dark navy velvet jacket $1500, sheer black shirts gorgeous Parka jackets, white denim coat $1500 shoes $655 and bags $800

EXRE in Castlereagh St has the most fabulous Costume National sunglasses and a Burberry skateboard.

Prada have the winter collection of doctor’s bags

Belinda has not yet opened her shoe store in Double Bay

The cast of thousands are coming over for dinner and you’ve been out shopping all day and don’t have a minute to slave over your makeup let alone the hot stove. Ne panickez pas whip up this pizza and you’ll have hours to do hair and makeup! (It takes about 10 or 15 minutes of chopping)

Prosciutto, Lemon Thyme and Goats Cheese Pizza
Don’t be afraid and groan and say, “as if I’m making pizza dough” .The trick is you don’t!! Instead use Pita bread or mountain bread or even Indian Chapatti. Anything with a thin crust to use as the base. Use one per person

To make the best pizza tomato sauce
*Chop some garlic very finely and throw into a glass
*Mix with a tablespoon or 2 of tomato paste
*Add some olive oil
*Pour in some wine (and one for yourself)
*Mix with a teaspoon so it’s got a good consistency to spread over the pizza bases
*Preheat heat the oven to hot

Topping (for 4 pizzas)
6 to 10 slices ices of Prosciutto
Punnet of baby tomatoes cut in half
1 Red capsicum cut into strips
1 onion roughly chopped
A handful of lemon Thyme
½ packet of Goats cheese feta
Anything else that takes your fancy like olives

To make
* Cut out some foil longer than the size of the pizza and put in a baking tray
* Drizzle with oil and pop the Pita bread/mountain bread on top (it makes it easier to chuck it straight in the oven if you do this now)
*Spread the tomato paste all over the base of the Pita bread to cover it
*Scatter the roughly chopped onion on top
*Throw on the Proscuitto on top to cover it
*Chop up goat’s cheese and crumble it over the pizza
*Scatter the chopped tomatoes around (preferably on the pizza)
* Ditto the Thyme
* Drizzle a bit of olive oil over it
* Lots of salt and pepper

Pop in the oven
Beware!! They cook really quickly. Basically just wait for the cheese to melt an the base to get a bit golden and bobs your uncle
Delicioso!!

(Another topping is mozzarella, tomato, basil, mushrooms, and capsicum….)

SeaBiscuit
We race to Fox studios, throw down a white wine and run up to the cinema and nearly have a conniption: they’ve brought out the red carpet (I told them not to make a fuss!) So yes we walked the red carpet except it was across instead of along ( It was the opening of The school of Rock with Jack Black) and Seabiscuit? I loved the book and I love love loved the movie. Toby Maguire stars and executively produced this movie, a true story about the famous racehorse in the depression. A wonderful story about never giving up (I know the feeling: shop till I drop) about having heart and soul about 3 guys who believed in the underdog of a horse (who loved to have his photo taken and adored the red carpet..true) Take tissues, waterproof mascara and sunglasses (to face the paparazzi on the way out)…

Vanity Fair Dec has a fashion hall of fame but why is Russell Crowe on the cover? At least he has a ponytailectomy
Tatler Lord Litchfield’s daughter is on the cover Tatler
American Harpers Bazaar have Linda Evangelista holding a knife to a John Galliano look a like on their Christmas cover
UK Vogue Dec has our Kylie sitting in a champagne glass on the cover
Travel & Leisure have a great story on Baja Mexico
W November has done a great story about Renzo Piano

* “You need to change the header on the report to 13 it still reads 12 hehhehehhe” (The subs had the day off sorry)
* “Wow Number 13 (or was it 12)? was faaantastic! Is Tom Ford really leaving Gucci? Maybe he’ll have a baby .!!”
* “I LOVE it and would love to be on your emailing list (if it’s not tooexclusive!!)
* Ya, so loved it, please keep me on the list.When is the website up?
* “Your Fifi report is very cool.”.
* “This was the best one yet”
* “Excuse me? what happened to the Hall of Fame I want to be in it..””
* “Sign me up sign me up !!”
* Can we have more recipes that take 10 mins ??
* “I have been in absolute hysterics all day - please put me on your emailing list (or do I have to pass some form of initiation test?)”