“I’m primal on an animalistic level, kind of like, ‘Bonk me over the head, throw me over your shoulder. You man, me woman.’ Cameron Diaz.

“I’m sure I probably bought weed from him.” Cameron Diaz on former high school classmate Snoop Dogg.

” I hired Brad, this little angel, and then Taylor just went in for the kill. And I, like, did not see that coming. I always knew what she was capable of, but who knew that was going to happen with the camera?” Rachel Zoe on her ex-assistant Taylor….In for the kill on a primal, animalistic level?

“If I can’t lounge in it, sleep in it, or make love in it, I am not interested.”  Donna Karan’s philosophy

“He’s got more talent in those bangs than I’ve got in my whole body.” Megan Fox on Justin Bieber fever

“I asked [the director], ‘Why me? You could’ve had anyone you wanted.’ And he said, ‘You have period teeth.’” Jewel, on being cast in the Civil War drama Ride with the Devil

“I will keep doing it until I go to the bathroom and wipe my ears.” Joan Rivers on plastic surgery

“I was welcomed into the brotherhood of the sock. When you’re naked on the show, you have to wear a sock, and it’s not on your foot.” True Blood newcomer Joe Manganiello, on his nude initiation into the vampire drama.

‘When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl, then I say, “… you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today”. Lady Gaga. Put a sock in it.

We love and adore Anna Dello Russo (a front row fashion show fixture and fashion director-at-large for Vogue Japan) and so we were thrilled when we saw she had collaborated with e-tailer Yoox.com to launch a set of 10 fabulous T shirts.
“It all started with this t-shirt that a fan of mine [Lorenzo Oddo] made for me,” Dello Russo explains . “He wore it one night at the club Plastic and I saw a photo of him on the internet so I called him. When we talked, he told me that he was afraid I was going to report him. Instead, I asked him why he chose to put me on his t-shirt instead of Lady Gaga or Madonna. He said that it was because thanks to the internet, everyone can wear the fashion they like. For me, this was a very important message,” she says. “I proposed the idea of making these ten t-shirts thanks to Lorenzo, who is also a designer. Ten different t-shirts, each representing one of the ten years of Yoox, chosen as if they were cards. Like 10 faces of our personality.”

$20 Anna Dello Russo Tee ( they are scrawled with “J’Ador Lorenzo Oddo” on the back) fromYoox.com …But may have already sold out !

What: A hat for winter.
Which: You want a hat this season and you want a hat that is a little floppy, with a wider brim, a little 70’s and a little retro. It should probably be in black or brown or navy unless you feel you can carry off red. You might like animal print or faux fur.
Why: Because we are a little tired of those pork pie, trilby style hats. Because a small hat doesn’t keep you warm. Because this floppy style hat works so well with the 70’s vibe happening in fashion. Because it looks cool. Which is always the best reason.
Wear: with everything from sharp shouldered jackets to trench coats and biker jackets. Please don’t; wear a hat with earrings and necklaces and sunglasses. You will look like Patsy from Ab Fab. Check out all these shots of the fashion flock wearing hats here at Style.com
Where: Witchery , Country Road, Jigsaw, David Jones, Net a porter and Strand Hatters.

Reasons you need a makeup brush cleaner:

• Because horrible bugs probably love your Bobbi Brown eyeliner as much as you.
• Because you don’t want grey eye shadow as blush on your cheeks.
• Because your brushes are the louboutins of makeup application.
• Because you don’t need to rinse the brushes: you simply just spray and wipe, then let dry.
• Because you shouldn’t use ‘Spray n wipe’ on your makeup brushes.
• Because they say it “contains silk protein, pro-vitamin B5, a clean scent to leave brushes smelling fresh and alcohol”
• This does not mean you can drink it.

$22  NEW Brush With Success - Conditioning Brush Cleaner from Mecca Cosmetica

Libération , the iconic left wing French newspaper, invited Karl Lagerfeld to be editor-in-chief for the day last week… C’est drole Ca!…Reports Fashionista.com

” It’s so insane it just might be true! During men’s fashion week in Milan, the Principe is buzzing about Anna Dello Russo…and Stefano Tonchi? Yes, really: rumors are running rampant that Tonchi is trying to woo his longtime friend (and fellow Italian magazine editrix) Dello Russo for the fashion director gig at W.” says Dailyfrontrow.com

A new creative director has been named for McQueen’s diffusion brand, McQ. Pina Ferlisi, who was creative director at Generra and previously at Gap and Marc by Marc Jacobs. Vogue.co.uk

Check out this fabulous Vogue Paris video called  “Les filles en vogue” : it’s in French mais Ca va ! It’s a” documentaire de 52 minutes” with Carine Roitfeld and starring Sasha Pivovarova, Freja Beha, Natasha Poly, Constance Jablonski et Sessilee Lopez.. Apparently the DVD comes with the June July issue of Paris Vogue..if you are in France! . Vogue.fr

GIVENCHY has announced it is to stop couture catwalk shows in favour of individual client and editor appointments and present them in an 18th century town house on the Place Vendome in Paris.Vogue.co.uk

Blow by Blow, a play about the life of Isabella Blow (not related to the upcoming movie on the fashion icon), will premiere in New York next month.  Reports Fashionista.com

Tavi is guest blogging at Jezebel …”At 4′11″, aged 14 years, we have: Tavi Gevinson! She writes songs about Alber Elbaz. She strikes fear into the hearts of editors like Anne Slowey. And all week, she’ll be writing for us. About feminism, and fashion, and issues facing adolescents, and Daria. ” Jezebel.com

‘According to Madonna, her 13-year-old daughter Lourdes designed most of her upcoming collection for Macy’s. We wonder how someone born in the ’90s knows exactly how people dressed in the ’80s….’ Fashionista

“One doesn’t usually equate the word “shocking” with the house of Valentino, but the fall campaign has a new photographer - David Sims, who replaced Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and mixes nudity in with clothed models.” Yawn reports WWD

” All that getting sanctioned by authority, settling down and doing the right things-well, I can’t say it appeals much,” Helen Mirren once said to a reporter. “What I really fancy is getting a bit notorious … ” read more here Nymag.com

Elle, ( the magazine) is Not Camera Shy, Embraces Reality TV… “They say the camera adds 10 pounds. But in Elle’s case, MTV is making the women’s style magazine look like an 800-pound fashion world behemoth.” Says Nytimes.com

LOVE those girls ! Love those mad Prada Chandelier shoes! Thank you Garancedore.

“For the forthcoming Louis Vuittonfall campaign  Christy Turlington, Karen Elson and Natalia Vodianova are shown preening in front of old-fashioned makeup mirrors backstage, as if they were ready to take a stroll around the fountain of the Louvre’s Cour Carré in Paris. Ditto for the multigenerational casting - one model in her 20s, one her 30s, one her 40s ” reports Wwd.com

For a new angle on Gucci : Models Joan Smalls and Raquel Zimmermann have a snooze on the front of a car in the fall ad campaign. but Who needs a car? Give me the bags! Designscene.net

When is the PR GAGA machine going to explode ? She is now on the cover of Rolling stone, with gun in a G string : is this magazine just sold to 14 yr old boys?  Rollingstone.com

George Clooney’s Having a Wet, Hot, American Summer.  (Sounds good to me.) Obviously worried about eating those cakes.. Popsugar.com

Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom Make It Official Vogue.co.uk

Sunday Rose: Nic & Keith’s Country Cutie! People.com

Pregnant Stella reveals that she is ready to have a Fab Fourth Read more: Dailymail.co.uk

Jerry Seinfeld: Lady Gaga’s “a Jerk” Usmagazine.com

Monaco’s sovereign Prince Albert has announced that he is to wed his long-term love Charlene Wittstock.  Hellomagazine.com

Who was the most elegant guest at Princess Victoria’s lavish wedding? Princess Mary? NO!hellomagazine.com

PRINCESS Victoria of Sweden was given the Vivier treatment this weekend as she wore a pair of the designer’s silk satin shoes at her wedding to Daniel Wrestling. Vogue.co.uk

Prince Harry Plans to Advise Prince William as King…(  on how to drink more beer?) People.com

Kim Kardashian Slams Woman for Breastfeeding in Public “EWW I’m at lunch,” she Twitters. Yeh, So was the baby!  Usmagazine.com

Lady Gaga’s latest plane outfit consisted of a cape, chaps, a bandanna, and twelve-inch platforms.  Which is why she fell over. Fashion victim Thesuperficial.com

Baby Ben Brady Is Christened Tom’s Mini Me in Gisele’s Arms! Popsugar.com

Spencer Pratt on Father’s Day: My Dad “Wishes He Had Worn a Condom” ( we do too!) Usmagazine.com

Multi-tasking mother Jools Oliver struggles in the London heat. But looks fab! Dailymail

Vicky B attended a party at Claridge’s for Diane Von Furstenberg and her designs for the hotel. Nymag.com

Not Untrue and Not Unkind: A Novel by Ed O’Loughlin

“In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright’s desk containing a photograph that brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to a woman he once loved. Not Untrue & Not Unkind is Owen’s story-a gripping tale of friendship, rivalry, and betrayal among a group of journalists and photographers covering Africa’s wars. It is an astonishingly powerful and accomplished debut that immediately establishes Ed O’Loughlin as a mature master of the novel, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

“It’s a dark and expertly told soap opera… it’s an astonishingly powerful and accomplished debut novel written with great authority… This atmospheric book authentically carries the sounds and flavors of a Graham Greene novel, reading at times like a memoir with the seamless underbelly of a gritty Hemingwayesque tale… Buy, steal, or borrow this book. Whatever you do, read it.” — Sam Millar, New York Journal of Books

“One of the most powerful debut Irish novels of the last decade.” -Sunday Business Post

“Passionate, colorful … love story and tragedy, mystery and professional satire (à la Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop) all rolled into one.” -Irish Times “[O'Loughlin] makes readers see the storytellers as they describe the unimaginable.” — ForeWord Magazine
$17 Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (June 10, 2010) Amazon.com

American Modern [Hardcover] by Thomas O’Brien,  Lisa Light , and Laura Resen (Photographer)
I love, love, love Thomas O’Brien’s work:  you would have seen his divine, and very little apartment, in many interiors magazines such as Elle Deco.
‘Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O’Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles-from casual to formal, vintage to urban-alongside stunning photography and charming design stories.
O’Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects, including a downtown New York City loft, a traditional Connecticut estate, and a converted schoolhouse in eastern Long Island. Each home explores a view on the modern design spectrum he has created, as well as the individual choices that make the design unique and its mix essentially American.
American Modern is an inspiring design volume that will redefine the way readers think about modern interiors.’

$31.50 Publisher: Abrams; 1 edition (April 1, 2010) Amazon

Here’s what hot in the shops this week and my best buys from the sales..
Economy class.
General Pants:
You know that when something appears as an item du jour you can be guaranteed the copies will start to appear: I must say I love the cute version of the Alexander Wang Rocco bag I spied in here. It’s in a grey fabric with a few silver studs along the sides but not along the bottom of the bag. It has a shoulder strap as well. What a great price $45. What a great bag to the weekend. (Sorry about my bad photo from my iphone!)

K Mart:
I see a few bargain buys here but how can you go past the Khaki cotton shirt dress? So cool , so right now. Wear with gladiators when you hit St Tropez. yes, it’s also in black $25. Also check out the cute shirt dresses with a frill down the front and a brown belt $25.

Sportsgirl:
My pick here this week is of course a copy of the Rocco bag in pleather. (see below). It’s for those younger FiFi readers who don’t have a budget for the original but want a quick fashion fix for $49. Also check out the faux fur stone/scarf for $29, see below. Go for the black version: it looks chicer. There are cute black clogs /mules $129 too.

Esprit:
Love the cotton single breasted boyfriend blazer in navy or stone with requisite stripe lining so you can roll up the sleeves. It might not keep you warm now but it’s perfect for your beach holiday $149. What will keep you warm is the fabulous choc brown velvet stretchy blazer $149. The black has sold out but the brown is just as chic and will work with navy and chinos and jeans.

Witchery:
My picks in the sale is the accessories: Buy the Bonnie shoulder bag : it’s the Givenchy copy- it’s true - in fabulous vintage style leather now $169. It may have sold out in black but the cream is right for summer and next season anyway, also check out the crop nylon trench jacket as I mentioned previously for $69. what a bargain! Buy the bling crystal necklace on ribbon for $69( see below) and the faux fur pull through scarf $89 and you are all set for accessories.

Business Class;
Veronica Maine:
Head here for the best long sleeve tee to wear under jackets and blazers. It has just the right lowm round neckline and it’s stretchy and not too bulky so perfect for under layering. It comes in a chic burnt orange (which works with brown, black and navy) and a fabulous oatmeal almost grey. $89.

Country Road:
Love the new cotton utility jacket: it’s like a bomber with front pockets and buttons down the front: In a grey or shiny black. It has rib details on the cuffs and hem. Great for weekends to toss on when you still want to look groovy but casual $199 : Also buy the black knit cape sweater with an exposed zip; it’s so cool! $129. Great for weekends and eating a big croissant. Great for layering. Love the grey marle very Alexander Wang round neck sweat top as well $99.

Sambag:
Best buys here from the sale are: the black and white ocelet clutch with a silver clasp. So chic, so right. The only way to wear animal print is in accessories, now $117. Of course you probably own a lot of trench coats by now but hey why not one more? Check out the brown khaki double breasted cotton trench now  $132. Oh and there are ballet flats galore for $112. So there.

Max and Co:
One of my favourite stores and we are so happy to run in here when there is sale because the prices are almost economy! My picks are the black gumboots now $154, the fabulous black rabbit fur crop jacket, usually referred to in the fashion industry as a fur chubby now $600 and the very cool black and grey short sleeve knit dress with asymmetrical zip and paneling. I don’t think it’s too clinging and will look fabulous with flat boots or ankle boots. Now $237.

Arthur Galan;
My picks in the sale are:  the fabulous leather zip vest or more like a sleeveless jacket,  with a huge shaggy neckline trim now $499. Buy the gorgeous grey knit drape front V neck sweater now $199 and a lovely go anywhere, black chiffon floaty dress with puff sleeves and a stud belt $299. A lot of amazing bargains here plus shoes, scarves and jewellery.

First Class;

Here are my best buys from the online sales overseas: I recommend in buying accessories because it’s easier to fit into the bags and shoes: (Prices in US dollars).Remember some of the pieces are one off and may have left the building .

Net a Porter

• Yves Saint Laurent Essentielle suede sandals Was $995   Now $696.50
• Marni Leather shoulder bag Was $1,220  Now $854
• Lanvin Taupe leather strappy sandals Was $900   Now $450

BlueFLY

• Balenciaga natural canvas and leather ‘Lune Large’ tote Was $2500,  now $2000
• Prada black and grey saffiano travel tall tote $1,676 bluefly price,  retail value $2,095.00,
• Givenchy khaki lambskin ‘Pandora’ shoulder bag $1,500.00 bluefly price, retail value $1,875.

Saks

• Chloé Ankle-Wrapping Canvas Sandals $650.00  Sale $303.48
• Prada Spazzolato Sound Bag  $1,795.00  Sale $1,255.99
• Prada Nappa Antique Hobo $1,795.00  Sale $1,255.99

Pear and blueberry crumbles .….adulterated from Taste.com.au

Perhaps you are having a dinner party, a Sunday lunch or you just want to eat something warm and delicious when you are home alone with Breakfast at Tiffanys. Make these individual little crumbles and you have everyone smiling on a cold winter’s day.
You can make it a little ahead of time then throw in the oven just before serving..

You need for 6 girls, 4 men, 30 models:
5  Josephine pears, peeled, quartered, sliced
2 teasp fresh lemon juice
1/4 teasp mixed spice
1 teasp grated orange rind
1 tabs brown sugar
300g packet of frozen blueberries
Low fat vanilla yoghurt or full fat King Island cream to drool over.

Crumble mixture:
100g unsalted butter, melted
1/3 cup (70g) brown sugar
1 cup (90g) rolled oats
1 cup (70g) fresh breadcrumbs

• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Pour a wine or ten.
• Peel, quarter and slice the pears. Or Ask George Clooney to do it because it’s so boring.
• Zest the orange rind
• Squeeze the lemon juice.
• Find a saucepan and toss in the pears, and then stir in the lemon juice, spice, orange rind and sugar. A bit of vanilla essence would be nice to dollop in to.
• Cover it and let it cook over a medium heat for about 5 minutes or until pears have collapsed. Think Lindsay Lohan on a bad day.
• Now toss in the blueberries. They can be frozen. Think Nicole Kidman.
• Now while that is bubbling away you can make the crumble;
• So melt the butter ( if only you could do that so easily to your thighs).
• Then in a bowl you can pour in the butter, then toss in sugar, oats and breadcrumbs. You can add muesli if you don’t have breadcrumbs.
• When the pear mix is cooked you can spoon it into 6 cups of ovenproof dishes (strain off a little liquid if necessary).
• Sprinkle crumble mixture very chicly on top.
• Place the bowls on a baking tray.
• Bake until as golden as Chloe wedges.
• Serve with healthy yoghurt or naughty cream.
• Divine!