New York fashion week is over and London fashion week is on: Although some of this city’s best-known names have dropped off the calendar, Paul Smith, Nicole Farhi, Frost French and Emma Cook showed collections blooming with color, a riot of flower prints and wild patterns. WWD
Annabel’s, the private London club that’s seen everyone who’s anyone glide through its doors, has launched Annabel’s, the magazine, featuring a mix of fashion and lifestyle stories. Contributors include Annabel , Nicholas Coleridge, who enthuses about London’s Bath and Racquets club, and stylist Charlotte Stockdale, who writes of her love of Chanell. The 110-page magazine was sent free to club members, and there are plans to publish it twice a year, wwd.
Fashionistas can finally have their Jimmy Choos — and eat them, too. The Berkeley hotel has introduced Pret-a-Porter, afternoon tea with runway-inspired goodies, including hot-pink cookies in the shape of an Oscar de la Renta dress, tiny éclairs with Missoni stripes, an Anya Hindmarch chocolate Pandora handbag and a gingerbread Jimmy Choo boot. “It started when Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger were staying at the hotel, and we sent up dress-shaped cookies to their rooms,” said Paula Fitzherbertm, p.r. director of the hotel. Wwd
Vivienne Westwood and Sex Pistols creator Malcolm McLaren, one of fashion’s most influential couples, will be reunited later this week — in an exhibition, that is. “Punk: A True and Dirty Tale,” which opens at The Hospital in London’s Covent Garden on Thursday, will trace the most significant points in punk rock’s history. Items from SEX and Seditionaries, the shops owned by Westwood and McLaren, will be on display at the multimedia venue and exhibition space opened by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.wwd
The German billionaire Friedrich Christian “Mick” Flick will celebrate his 60th birthday on Tuesday and another Flick milestone: The opening of the Friedrich Christian Flick collection of contemporary art. After considerable controversy and political debate, Flick’s extensive art collection will finally have a home of its own here in the newly renovated Rieck Halls of the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art. At least for the next seven years, the collection — which one art world insider described as “one masterpiece after the other” — will be shown to the public in a rotating series of seven annual exhibitions. The collection includes the largest group of works by Bruce Nauman, as well as key paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations by 150 European and North American artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Fischli and Cindy Sherman.
Located next to Gianfranco Ferré’s showroom in Brera, Clan Café is the latest Milan bar to court the cool crowd. Part-owned by Christian Vieri, an Italian soccer star who plays for Inter Milan, the Clan boasts all the right ingredients: First, there’s no drinks menu because the bartenders stir up beverages based on a customer’s favorite flavors. Then there’s the moody lighting that illuminates the bottles and glasses behind the bar, softened further by the latest house and lounge music that floods the space, with its curved lounge chairs, and filters out to the street — where many of the hip thirtysomethings congregate.wwd
Karl Lagerfeld for H&M line was launched at the Pompidou Centre in Paris
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