Jim Jarmusch’s new movie is called Coffee and Cigarettes and has a series of 11 vignettes of people sitting around a café. The movie has Tom Waits,Iggy Pop,Bill Murray and Cate Blanchett who apparently steals the show playing 2 girls who are cousins.
Quentin Tarantino will be the president of the jury of The Cannes Film festival.
More movie news… watch out for the new Robert Redford movie with Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe,a thriller called The Clearing.
Solange Azugury Partridge the groovy jeweler in London is now the creative dirctor of Boucheron and has designed a perfume (bottle) called Trouble( sign of the times? Trouble.)
As part of a campaign by the UK National Army Museum to promote museums month, 30 black cabs will be “dressed” in military uniforms from different historical periods. They include a Gordon Highlander at Waterloo, and a Hussar from the Charge of the Light Brigade. The cabs’ exteriors will be covered, billboard-like, with a photo of the uniform,the flip-up seats inside the taxi will feature write-ups about the soldier whose uniform is printed on the cab.Kooky only the poms.From wwd
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana teamed up with Kartell and picked 30 of their favorite pieces from the company’s archive museum — particularly those from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies — and displayed them in their recently opened Dolce & Gabbana store
Yves Saint Laurent will award La Rosa d’Oro, or the Golden Rose, to artist David Hockney in a ceremony in Palermo, Italy, on May 25. Created in 1984, the prize was the brainchild of writer Jorge Luis Borges and has been passed on from one recipient to the next over the years. Henri-Cartier Bresson, Pierre Boulez and I.M. Pei are among those who have held the honor in recognition of their contributions to beauty, knowledge and learning.WWD
Selfridges will focus on Brasil as their annual promotion from May 5 to May 31, and will feature Brazilian fashion, food, drink, beauty, cinema, art, photography and furniture. During the month, Selfridges also will host two Brazilian icons: Pelé and Christ the Redeemer. Created by the scenery designer Abel Gomes, a 40-foot replica of the Jesus statue that stands on a mountain above Rio de Janeiro will be placed above the store’s entrance.Oh my god.
Tina Brown, the ex Vanity Fair editor turned talk-show host, has a deal to write a nonfiction book on money, power and the fall from grace of major
figures in American society. The book, titled “The Icarus Complex,” is expected out in 2006. “It’s about overachieving - the arc of rising and falling in American life that was accelerated by the tremendous accumulation of wealth in the 1990s, It’s how power and money affect behavior and create a culture of permission.” The book is not a memoir, according to her agent,( mmm guilt obviously a memoir.)
New York’s Metropolitan Museum was the setting for the annual Costume Institute gala that this year took the theme: ‘Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century’. US Vogue’s newly blonde Anna Wintour picked Jude Law and Renée Zellweger to host the event: Uk Vogue
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