A Manolo Blahnik shoehorn? A Deepak Chopra yoga mat? A director’s chair by Ewan McGregor? Habitat, the London home furnishings store, will unveil those objects next month to mark its 40th anniversary. There are 30 items that include a hanging hammock chair by Carla Bruni, a folding guitar stool by Gilberto Gil, a book caddy by Louis de Bernieres and a velvet-covered safe by Solange Azagury-Partridge. They’ll be sold in 87 Habitat stores in the U.K. and Europe for a year, and will be available to order from the ing’s Road store in London. Although the objects are not limited editions, they will have special packaging and be featured in the store windows. wwd.
The Venice Film Festival is on and Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg were there to promote The Terminal, the first screening of this year’s event.
There’s alot of buzz surrounding Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s new book, What We’ve Lost, about George Dubya.
Bruce Weber has launched his own clothing line, called Weberbilt, which will be sold, exclusively, at the Tomas Maier boutique, in Miami (opening October 2004), and the Comme des Garcons store, on Dover Street, in London.
Tim Robbins has staunchly defended his critically-mauled satirical Iraq war play Embedded. Robbins, an outspoken critic of the US-led war against Iraq, wrote the play to examine the policy of “embedding” news journalists with coalition troops during the war. It’s on at The Riverside Studio in London, IMDb.com.
Friendster, the Internet social networking service in New York has launched a magazine. The New York-based quarterly hitting newsstands next month is called Me. Co-editors in chief Angel Chang and Claudia Wu, who met while working at Visionaire, created the magazine. wwd
Comme des Garçons is opening a new “guerrilla” store in Warsaw. Guerrilla stores exist for one year in emerging neighborhoods with local partners selling a mix of Kawakubo’s lines. The Warsaw unit is slated to open Sept. 24, headed by a Polish professor of demography. Other guerrilla locations bowing this month include Ljubljana, Slovenia; Stockholm, and Helsinki, Finland, the latter located in an old pharmacy — with all its nifty Fifties wooden cabinetry intact. WWD
Guests at “God Save New York” party to benefit the New York Civil Liberties Union, got a surprise when their emcee, performance artist Karen Finley, brought a George W. Bush look-alike onstage, then pulled off his drawers and shaved him, declaring, “Get rid of Bush” WWD
Indian director Mira Nair has been approached to do the fifth Harry Potter film in 2007.
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