The FiFi Report 026

New York fashion week is over and London fashion week has just finished:
“It’s less of a Studio 54 moment and more of a Bloomsbury moment and therefore it might be a time in which an intellectual sex appeal is on the rise and a more obvious readily identifiable body-driven sex appeal is starting to seem a little tired.” WWD (tell that to Janet Jackson).
Hot tip: A tiny top and full skirt was the most important look of next winter as well as tweed, tweed and more tweed.
UK Vogue says Christine Mansfield’s East@West is London’s newest hot spot.
Alexander McQueen turned down the top job at YSL.
The Snow Show on in Finnish Lapland “brings together internationally recognized artists and architects (such as Tadao Ando and Anish Kapoor) to design collaborative installations using snow and ice as their primary materials” till end of march or before it all thaws out….
25 Hours Hotel is a cool new hotel in Hamburg with Bentwood furniture, Brionvega TVs, mod orange futons and a meditation solarium.
Luke Perry is in the stage play of When Harry met Sally in London (I’m busy that night)
Ilse Crawford, John Pawson and Vittorio Radice are all behind the Marks and Spencer’s Home wares range and the new Birmingham store called Life Store.
A ’size friendly’ resort for fatty boombahs has opened in Mexico with sturdy furniture, bigger bathrooms and no ladders in the pool (and the gym?).
Virgin Bush Safaris can organize a stay at Princess Caroline’s House on an Island off Kenya.
Amazon’s Canadian site got glitched to reveal the names of the writers of anonymous user reviews which gave us a little peek into the world of friends pimping friends’ books and bitter unpublished writers trashing other writers.
Cindy Crawford’s husband, Rande Gerber has opened a new groovy bar, Stone Rose, in the new 2.8 million sq-ft Time Warner Centre in New York.