The FiFi Report 259

  • Emma Watson is the new face of Burberry: she looks gorgeous and the trench coats are divine.
  • “Fashion has been waiting for some good news, and Phoebe Philo is here to deliver it. One look at the designer’s confident, spot-on debut collection for Celine and it’s clear how much we’ve missed her.” Reports Style.com.
  • Then checkout all the resort collections including Prada and YSL.
  • “French billionaire Francois Pinault has dramatically extended his Venetian empire of contemporary art this week, and given the city a new museum. Pinault’s foundation has taken over one of the most prominent buildings in Venice: the old customs house, or Punta della Dogana.  An inaugural exhibition entitled “Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection” is currently on, both at the huge Palazzo Grassi on the Grand Canal and at the new space in the Punta della Dogana. There, architect Tadao Ando has transformed the 17th-century customs building, long derelict and inaccessible, into a cool 21st-century gallery space of the kind seen in New York’s SoHo or London’s Hoxton areas.” Reports Bloomberg.
  • To mark six years of collaboration and the release of the Multicolor Spring Palette, Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami have just released a colorful animated short film, “Superflat First Love,” as a sequel to Murakami’s “Superflat Monogram” short from 2003. Reports Fashionologie, see it here.
  • “The nightlife scene of early 80s New York was a playground for club kids and jet setters alike and this month Steven Meisel recreates the fun for Vogue Italia.” Reports Models.com.
  • “The turmoil for Peter Brant continues, in both his personal and professional lives. While Brant was in Europe last week, one of his bodyguards was arrested for shoving Brant’s wife, Stephanie Seymour, into a door. Brant and Seymour are in the midst of a messy divorce, and police have reportedly been called a number of times for disturbances on their property, ranging from a car windshield being smashed with a bat to a complaint from Seymour about a GPS unit placed on her car. Brant’s magazine Interview has also seen a lot of upset recently; editorial director Fabien Baron and creative director Karl Templer left after a few short months, (Fabien Baron is now back).” Reports Fashionologie.
  • Daphne Guinness’ first fragrance, Daphne, will be released in September. Reports WWD.
  • “Dolce & Gabbana are hoping their fall ad campaign will be a knockout inside and outside the boxing ring — while the summer one for their underwear is headed to the pool. Taking inspiration from Italian film director Luchino Visconti , the campaign, shot by Steven Klein, features Madonna’s beau Jesus Luz, and Eva Herzigova,” Reports WWD.
  • Gwen Stefani is on the cover of US Elle and see the video here.
  • Björk is on the cover of the latest Interview magazine and read the interview here.
  • “The dueling July covers of Harper’s Bazaar, which feature a pick-up shot of Angelina Jolie (for the newsstand) and a splendid Terry Richardson photograph of mega-model Doutzen Kroes (for subscribers). Glenda Bailey’s answer to the old fashion guard that constantly laments the tabloid mentality is to give them a bona-fide model on the cover of the magazine for the first time in recent memory.” …Oh dear, reports Fashion Week Daily.