Here is the best idea for a holiday: http://www.gourmet-touring.com/experiences.html . Drive a glamourous car and do a gourmet tour through south west France, ( Bordeaux) all guided by a personal satellite navigation system. Yes! Please. Choose a snazzy sportscar, work out an itinerary with Gourmet Touring ( Vineyards, cooking lessons, lunch) and go!
Diane Arbus: Revelations is on at the Met in New York.
Crazy Homies is the name of the new Mexican restaurant of Tom Conran ( son of Terence) in Nottinghill in London
Check out the new groovyhotel in Singapore located in Chinatown called The Scarlet Hotel (very groovy website. http://www.thescarlethotel.com/
Best cheap hotels in Rome according to UK Conde Nast Traveller: The Beehive (http://www.the-beehive.com/english.html) : The Casa Howard (http://www.casahoward.com/)
Hotel Santa Maria(http://www.hotelsantamaria.info)
Hotel Teatro Pace (http://www.hotelteatropace.com)
And The Daphne ( looks good) http://www.daphne-rome.com
Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress and wife of Salman Rushdie signed on with Harper’s Bazaar to pen a column about fashion, jewelry and accessories.
Sofia Coppola trained with designer Gilles Dufour years ago when she did an internship at Chanel. Now the director is casting Dufour in her upcoming film about Marie Antoinette, which also stars Kirsten Dunst and Marianne Faithfull. “I play a drunk count,” Dufour said as he made his way into the Louis Vuitton show on Sunday. “I’ve already learned all my lines.”. Hic from WWD
Check out “Dazed & Abused,” a play that chronicles the inner turmoil and social masks of a group of young posh types. A sellout at the Edinburgh Festival last summer, the play makes its U.S. debut at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio in New York . “If you’re taking Prozac, it’s still a big secret — never mind that seven other girls at the dinner table are on it, too,” says the playwright 29-year-old Kinvara Balfour, actress, journalist and a granddaughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.
It didn’t quite sizzle, but Paris Fashion week delivered salable collections of romantic and subtly elegant clothes: designers have responded to fashion’s recent overload of faux gentility and retro embellishment with a turn toward sobriety.( and lots of black) “Somber feels right, but who’s the customer?” Marc Jacobs quipped the day before his Paris show. “That person has been running around in candy colors and bows. She travels with logoed luggage. She’s not going to give that up for a life of austerity, so it’s about delivering a darker spirit in iguana.” (poor iguana) .
LVMH Profits have passed $1 Billion ( mot so poor Marc Jacobs who works for LMVH)
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