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Simon Johnson SALE
When: Saturday 14th June from 8am-5pm. PH: 8244 8220
Where: Simon Johnson Alexandria, 24A Ralph Street.
What: Upto 75% off Food and Homewares. Brands such as Ortiz, Duchy, Valrhona and Mariage Freres. Olive Oil, anchovies, pasta, homewares, chocolates, biscuits, cheese, drinks, tea and lots more - all on sale.

Sambag SALE
When: 20th June and 21st June. 10am to 4pm
Where: Rear 164A Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra (enter from Davis Lane)
What: One off special sale of just past limited Summer stock and current season Winter samples. Discounts will be up to 90% off retail.

Pink Zebra SALE
When: On now until stocks last.
Where: NSW Stores: 380 Oxford Street, Paddington or Store G2A- Chatswood Chase, 345 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood. VIC Store: 1038 High Street, Armadale, VIC.
What: Up to 50% off your favourite denim brands, including Seven for All Mankind, Rich and Skinny, Paige, Anlo, JBrand, Union, Citizens of Humanity as well as YUM Cashmere and Damselfly accessories.

Little Joe by Gail Elliott SALE
When: On now until stocks last.
Where: Woollahra: 181C Edgecliff Rd. The Strand: Shop 70-72 Level 1 George St
What: Up to 50% off on sumptuous silk dresses, blouses and cosy knits from the Roses and Fire collections. And a selection of LA Made tee’s, Park Vogel knits, Rich & Skinny and Freedom of Choice jeans. From 12-5:30pm the Hawksburn Boutique is serving complimentary Be Genki Herbal tea. www.LittleJoeNY.com

WILLOW SALE
When: 2 days only! Friday 13th June - Saturday 14th June
Where: Suite 2a, level 2, 119 Kippax St, Surry Hills
What: Save from 50% - 75 % off on a selection of stock and samples from recent collections including ‘H20, Birdsong & EG’ as well as showpieces and samples from Willow’s current Autumn Winter 08 collection.

What: The Cocktail Ring
Which: It’sall about huge statement rings this season. Choose big stones, brightcolours or just simple black jet. The bigger the better. In silver orgold whatever tickles your fancy. Whatever tickles your budget.
Why: Becauseit’s a dramatic season. Because when clothes are strong andarchitectural the jewels can be too. Because it’s a way to weardesigner without paying a fortune. Because it’s a way to addpersonality and individuality to the way you dress. Because rings areeasy to wear , they always fit and unlike earrings you can actuallyadmire them when you are wearing them.
Wear: It’s about finding one fabulousring and owning it. Just because Catherine MCNeil (above) is wearing earringsand many rings doesn’t mean you will. Remember it’s about one piecethat should be the focus. It’s about pairing it down to a singular, strongpiece. As Chanel said “ before you go out the door always take onething off.” Pity Britney always takes off the wrong thing….
Where: Chanel(pictured below) www.Chanel.com, Head to Swarovski silver and crystalflower ‘event’ ring $285, Dior Fine Joaillerie www.diorjoaillerie.com, try Tiffany and Co for a Paloma Picasso sugarstacks ring with amythest with 18K gold $1,800. You want the EricksonBeamon (pictured below) Domed hexagon crystal ring. Race to Witcheryfor a silver round ring with black oval stone $39, Diva for a silverand black flower cocktail ring $9, or try Equip for a gold cocktailring with large oval pink stone in facet $8.

Reasons to wear hot pink lipstick:

• Because you don’t want anyone looking at your eye job.
• Because it makes your teeth look whiter.
• Because Paris Hilton/Jessica Simpson/dumb dumbs wears natural colour lipstick.
• Because you always like to know which is your champagne glass.
• Because you want to leave a mark on George Clooney’s collar.
• Because you don’t wear colour except on your face.
• Because it has no calories but tastes fabulous.

$40 Lancôme Colour Fever Roses Pink Lipstick available at department stores and selected pharmacies.

• Kirsty Hume (above)looks divine and so does the HUGE gold bag at the Chanel Boutique Opening in Los Angeles.
•Sofia Coppola has been hired to do a TV spot starring Maryna Linchukfor the Miss Dior Cherie fragrance, which will air inSeptember..reports WWD.
• Kristin Davis is launching a clothing range for American retailer Belk..reports WWD.
•’Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway shot a scene for their latest,progressive-sounding movie Bride Wars at Bloomingdale’s last week.Paparazzi showed up, fans followed, chaos ensued’…reports WWD
•‘Tate Liverpool is launching a sparking retrospective of works byGustav Klimt, the Viennese painter whose decadent Art Nouveau style hasbeen the gold standard for opulent art since the twentieth centurybegan. Klimt is the perfect accessory to wear with the Klimt-inspiredcouture that John Galliano launched this season at Dior’..reportsstyle.com
• ‘For those not quite content with just the Dior Christal watch and LadyDior bag, it’s time to add a couture mobile phone to your list ofmust-have luxuries with news that the French luxury house are branchingout into the realm of technology. Launching in mid-June, the Dior phonefeatures a chic geometrical pattern which the options of encrustedSwarovski crystals or, for the super-luxe, a diamond-studded version inblack, silver, white, red or pink. And for those times when yourconstant bag rummaging still fails to produce your ringing handset, theDior Phone comes with a mini-me – a smaller version that can be clippeddiscreetly onto the front of your bag and produces a sound signal ifit’s more than 10 metres away from its inseparable twin’. reports HarpersBazaaar.com.au
•Twonew boutiques will open their doors in Sydney this October: SergioRossi opens its first Australian store on Castlereagh St, followed by-Roberto Cavalli in Double Bay’ ..reports harpersbazaar.com.au
• ‘TheOlsen Twins are designing a line of jewelry for their Elizabeth &James clothing line. They’re teaming up with CFDA award-winning jewelrydesigner Robert Lee Morris available in the next few months’..reportsWWD.
• Bergdorf Goodman set aside 1,600 square feet of space for itsin-store Tom Ford shop, the largest of its kind in Bergdorfhistory…reports WWD.
• Tory Burch is working on a fragrance. reports BellaSugar.
•’Stores in London’s West End have gone wild for Artist Zoe Bradley’sbotanically inspired window displays. She started her career atAlexander McQueen, making stiff, doily-type clothing for one of hisshows. Bradley’s work can currently be seen in the window of Pringle’sBond Street shop (pictured below) where her cluster of sculptural rosesseems to tumble straight out into the street. And come the first weekof August, her work will be on display at the five Kate’s Paperiestores in New York…reports Style.com

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That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story by Marlena De Blasi
“Atvilla Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes Marlena deBlasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains ofSicily that she finds, accidentally, one summer while traveling withher husband, Fernando. There de Blasi is befriended by Tosca, thepatroness of the villa, an elegant and beautiful woman (of a certainage) who recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince ofSicily.Showcasing the same gifts that made bestsellers of ‘A ThousandDays in Venice’ That Summer in Sicily reminds us that in order to livea rich life, one must embrace both life’s sorrow and its beauty”.Fabulous.
$17 www.amazon.com Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 20,2008)

Christmas List
The Fashion Questionnaire BLACK:
In the tradition of Assouline’s bestselling Proust Questionnaire comes The Fashion Questionnaire. Proust’s legendary personality revealer has been recast with a fashion angle and posed to the fashion industry’s most important and influential designers. From legendary greats such as Carolina Herrera and Karl Lagerfeld, to contemporary designers who break the mold such as John Galliano and Thom Browne handwritten answers intimately reveal the personalities and tastes of each designer. The Fashion Questionnaire is rare, inside look at the creative icons who influence not just fashion but contemporary culture. An insightful essay by Michael Specter on the evolution of fashion and its influence introduces the designers’ answers. Like Proust, this volume also includes blank questionnaires for readers and their friends to answer.
$35 www.assouline.com Publisher: Assouline; White Ed. edition (March 2008)

There is no shopping this week.
FiFi is in Lake Como with George Clooney until the end of June. Sorry.

Please don’t cry. You have 214 back Issues of The FiFi Report to read….

The FiFi Report will be back on Friday July 4th, 2008.

Peach, Raspberry, and Riccadonna Asti Risotto….Adulterated from The Riccadonna Recipe book
It’srisotto for dessert…what a fabulous idea. What a delicious idea. What adrunk idea. You can use blueberries, pears or any fruit in season
For 4 girls, 30 models, 2 fat men you need:

750ml Riccadonna Asti sparkling wine
80g sugar
1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped
1 cinnamon quill
1 grated orange rind
1 grated lemon rind
300g Risotto rice
6 ripe peaches or pears
120g mascarpone
Half punnet of raspberries or whatever fruit is in season
A few crushed Amaretti biscuits for accessorizing

• Pour a wine. You are cooking with Riccadonna wine so it’s best you test it to make sure it’s right.
• Remove Balenciaga floral dress.
• Throw on leisure suit.
• Remove Hermes cuffs and tie hair back.
• Ignore phone/blackberry/calls from AA.
• Zest the orange and the lemon. Watch the manicure. * you can delegate this task while you sample more wine.
• Now get out a chopping board and peel, de-stone and chop the fruit into pretty, little quarters.
• You can delegate this task too. It’s important to make sure the wine is good enough. So double check another glass.
• Heat up a heavy based chic saucepan (that has a lid).
• Throwin the Riccadonna Asti sparkling white wine, the sugar, and the openedvanilla bean and seeds, the cinnamon, orange and lemon zest.
• Add the rice, and stir. Breathe in. It smells divine.
• Now turn it down and then cover it for about 20 minutes…stirring occasionally. .
• When you and the rice have both soaked up all the wine you will both be cooked.
• itmight take more than 40 mins. So Keep stirring and add a dash of wineif the rice is still still hard. It should be slightly mushy and aldente. Think cellulite thighs and you have the look.
• Add the peaches or whatever fruit you have to the rice.
• Please stir it once. You don’t want to mush it up like a bad face mask. Scary.
• Let it cool slightly.
• Remove the vanilla bean and cinnamon. They will taste awful if you eat these whole.
• Letit cool slightly. You don’t want the rice too hot or when you add theMarscepone (next) it will split. Like a bad headache. Ouch.
• Now stir the naughty mascarpone cream through the rice which is now risotto. Gently.
• Go on: Taste it and add more cream if you think it needs it.
• Now fold in the berries as gently as you would fold a Lanvin tuille dress.
• Optional: Mash up and crush Amaretti biscuits and sprinkle them over the risotto
• Serve warm with more cream and accessorized with a few more berries and another dollop of marscepone.
• Divine.

Peach, Raspberry, and Riccadonna Asti Risotto….Adulterated from The Riccadonna Recipe book
It’s risotto for dessert…what a fabulous idea. What a delicious idea. What a drunk idea. You can use blueberries, pears or any fruit in season
For 4 girls, 30 models, 2 fat men you need:

750ml Riccadonna Asti sparkling wine
80g sugar
1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped
1 cinnamon quill
1 grated orange rind
1 grated lemon rind
300g Risotto rice
6 ripe peaches or pears
120g mascarpone
Half punnet of raspberries or whatever fruit is in season
A few crushed Amaretti biscuits for accessorizing

• Pour a wine. You are cooking with Riccadonna wine so it’s best you test it to make sure it’s right.
• Remove Balenciaga floral dress.
• Throw on leisure suit.
• Remove Hermes cuffs and tie hair back.
• Ignore phone/blackberry/calls from AA.
• Zest the orange and the lemon. Watch the manicure. * you can delegate this task while you sample more wine.
• Now get out a chopping board and peel, de-stone and chop the fruit into pretty, little quarters.
• You can delegate this task too. It’s important to make sure the wine is good enough. So double check another glass.
• Heat up a heavy based chic saucepan (that has a lid).
• Throw in the Riccadonna Asti sparkling white wine, the sugar, and the opened vanilla bean and seeds, the cinnamon, orange and lemon zest.
• Add the rice, and stir. Breathe in. It smells divine.
• Now turn it down and then cover it for about 20 minutes…stirring occasionally. .
• When you and the rice have both soaked up all the wine you will both be cooked.
• it might take more than 40 mins. So Keep stirring and add a dash of wine if the rice is still still hard. It should be slightly mushy and al dente. Think cellulite thighs and you have the look.
• Add the peaches or whatever fruit you have to the rice.
• Please stir it once. You don’t want to mush it up like a bad face mask. Scary.
• Let it cool slightly.
• Remove the vanilla bean and cinnamon. They will taste awful if you eat these whole.
• Let it cool slightly. You don’t want the rice too hot or when you add the Marscepone (next) it will split. Like a bad headache. Ouch.
• Now stir the naughty mascarpone cream through the rice which is now risotto. Gently.
• Go on: Taste it and add more cream if you think it needs it.
• Now fold in the berries as gently as you would fold a Lanvin tuille dress.
• Optional: Mash up and crush Amaretti biscuits and sprinkle them over the risotto
• Serve warm with more cream and accessorized with a few more berries and another dollop of marscepone.
• Divine.