Milan Furniture fair was on last week so check out this website with lots of shots of what was hot http://www.core77.com/reactor/hb_milan2003.asp
“Peter Marino is building the new Chanel Tower in Tokyo and it will look like nothing else anywhere. The 10-story facade will be a dazzling, conceptual replica of a classic Chanel tweed suit. This effect is being achieved by using layer upon layer of woven stainless steel, liquid crystal glass from Austria and maybe four million light bulbs that will twinkle on and off, startlingly creating a building that could be made of tweed” from WWD.
Marks & Spencer’s Vittorio Radice is launching a magazine with Tyler Brulé. “The new general merchandise chief of M&S has just unveiled the first issue of Design Details, a slick, magazine-like shopping directory featuring home ware items only from M&S. The 72-page magazine comes out twice a year, created by Brulé, offers up everything from food pages, recipes to travel stories on Tenerife to lush spreads of uber-groomed suburbanites” from WWD.
The Brit tabloid The Daily Mirror has launched 3am Magazine, based on the 3am column which features celebrities at their worst with stories like “Whose Juicy Bum Is This?” with snapshots of the bottoms of celebs wearing Juicy Couture. Lovley.
Lilly Pulitzer has launched a book called “Essentially Lilly.”
“Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990” is at MoMA’s temporary Queens headquarters in Long Island City.
Helen Gurley Brown has released “Dear Pussycat: Mash Notes and Missives From the Desk of Cosmopolitan’s Legendary Editor” sharing 300 notes, and letters ‘I don’t think you can call somebody honey and you can’t call them darling, but you can be affectionate by calling them pussycat.” Meow
Andre Balazs is opening another hotel in New York that will be less expensive than The Standard, more like a hostel. (The SubStandard?) And will be very cheap with bunk beds.(crickey)
Gap is in negotiations to have Sarah Jessica Parker star in an upcoming ads
The Coen brothers’ remake of a 1955 comedy classic, The Lady Killers starring Tom Hanks will be screening at the Cannes film festival next month. Mike Moore’s entry this year is Fahrenheit 9/11, his indictment of the Bush administration for allegedly using the events of September 11 to push its own agenda. Shrek 2 will be screening and Irwin Winkler’s musical tribute to Cole Porter, De-Lovely will close the festival May 23.Can’t wait
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