New York Fashion Week has started! Look out for fantastic gossip, quote de la quotes and squawkbox galore. “Forget bioethics — cloning yourself might just be the only way to make it to all the events magazines are throwing during fashion week.” Says WWD.
Olympus Fashion Week ( as it is called) asked former Gibò designer Julie Verhoeven to create this season’s tent exteriors, street banners and other fashion week materials. You know Julie she designed the patchwork on your Louis Vuitton bag last year.
Gilles Dufour has been signed by the French supermarket chain Monoprix to whip up a capsule collection that will hit stores in France late this year.
Sofia Coppola is guest editing French Vogue, which traditionally has a celebrity oversee its December/January holiday issue. Last year, it was Catherine Deneuve.
The Toronto film Festival film is about to take place and this year’s lineup is of a record 100 world premiers among 328 films from 61 countries.
Steven Spielberg was awarded with France’s highest award when President Jacque Chirac named him a knight in the French Legion of Honor.
Mike Moore has announced he did not submit Fahrenheit 9/11 for consideration in the Best Documentary category at this year’s Oscars because he wants as many Americans as possible to see his anti-Bush tirade on TV before the presidential election in November. Bring it on.
DVF as in Diane Von Furstenburg has finally opened her new store in Paris. Madonna, in Paris for two concerts, paid a visit with Lourdes, to the 1,600-square-foot shop at 14 Rue D’Alger, tucked behind Helmut Lang and just off fashion strip Saint-Honoré. There are carpets by The Rug Co bearing the famous DVF prints and Von Furstenberg — whose husband, Barry Diller, was in Paris last week working with François Catroux on the interior for his new yacht — said her store is also “a bit like a boat” with its chrome deck railing, Art Deco accents and gleaming white surfaces. wwd.
Adidas has signed Stella McCartney to do a label, a full collection of performance activewear for running, swimming and fitness bowing for spring.
What a pity you missed the wedding on the Lake Maggiore in Italy ‘of Lavinia Borromeo Arese Taverna, whose noble family has owned the islands for centuries, and John Philip Elkann, the 28-year-old grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli who is Fiat’s vice president. During a private affair for 60 friends, the couple tied the knot in a 19th-century chapel on the Isola Madre. The newlyweds then reached Isola Bella, escorted by police boats and helicopters that patrolled the blue waters, and were joined by 700 guests in the 17th-century Palazzo Borromeo for a buffet dinner of dumplings bathed in fondue and truffles, pesto and vegetable pasta, salmon and endive quiches, baby cutlets à la Milanese and roasted lamb.Yum !! WWD
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