The FiFi Report 279

  • ‘Tom Ford’s directorial debut — a poignant, stunningly realized tale of loss and longing, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore — is ready for its close-up.’ We love Tom Ford ! here in W.
  • ‘Not since Titanic unleashed Leo-mania has an actor sparked the overnight adulation that greeted Robert Pattinson’s 2008 debut as Edward Cullen in Twilight. Now on the cover of Vanity Fair ! Whatever…
  • Check out photographer Nick Knights’s SHOWstudio and watch the live shoot with Natalia and then the amazing video ‘Fantasia‘ with Lily Donaldson.
  • Net-a-Porter have ditched the plastic mannequins and now have a video section on some pieces of clothing. (The model does not have a head but that’s OK.) Love it.
  • Check out the building of the set for the Chanel Spring Summer Show, days in the making! Amazing/.
  • ‘Brave model, Nastya Karzan, wore a spy cam in her hair during the Chanel show in Paris. Now watch the entire fashion show experience via mini camera. Cool.
  • Natalie Portman has a sexy androgynous look for the latest cover of V magazine. Mario Testino shot Portman in London and the actress talked to the magazine about her first-ever sex scene in the upcoming war drama, “Brothers” where she’s the loyal wife of a marine, played by Tobey Maguire. Says WWD.
  • We Love US Vogue’s Grace Coddington: here she is signing her book “The Catwalk Cats” (See FiFi Report 143) to benefit the Animal Rescue Fund. Bless.
  • What has happened to Gemma Ward?
  • Model Rianne Ten Haken is on the cover of the new Italian Vogue.
  • Check out the fabulous, new temporary Prada shop at Place Beauvau 92, in Paris, opened to the public until February 2010.
  • Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar’s December issue and there is a video too. Enough already.
  • Claridge’s Hotel in London has asked John Galliano to decorate the Christmas tree that greets the guests in its Art Deco lobby.
  • Love the shoot of Yasmin Sewell on Garance Doré.
  • After all those rumours months ago about Anna Wintour leaving Vogue to take a job in the White House, the President has finally given her a little side gig on the Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The Cut: New York Magazine’s Fashion Blog