Ewan McGregor is making his West end debut in Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly theatre London.
Check out the nex exhibition “Neo-Impressionism: From Seurat to Paul Klee,” at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
An intense feud between maestro Riccardo Muti and musicians of Milan’s Teatro Alla Scala has ended with the music director’s resignation.
Marilynne Robinson received the Pulitzer Prizes in fiction for “Gilead,” her first novel in more than 20 years.
Denmark has kicked off a year-long celebration of fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen with a television spectacular, helped by the magic charms of celebrities.The Danish Queen, Margrethe II, was joined by other European royals, plus film star Sir Roger Moore, Chilean writer Isabella Allende, Danish football star Peter Schmeichel, Irish politician John Hume and many others. Amid all the razzmatazz some critics asked what stars of the 1980s, such as Olivia Newton-John and Tina Turner, had to do with Denmark’s literary icon. “No good. Try again!” wrote Ekstra-Bladet daily ( olivia Newton John?) wwd
Sporting a cloud-like puff of organza at their throats, Air France’s flight attendants are ready for takeoff with curvaceous new uniforms designed by Christian Lacroix.
A seaside English Manor estate is not the first place most people would think of to find a treasure chest of exemplary 20th-century fashion, but Doris Duke’s summer home in Newport, R.I., is about to offer just that. “Jet Set to Jeans: The Wardrobe of Doris Duke,” which will be unveiled at her house Rough Point on April 14, traces the late tobacco heiress’ style decade-by-decade. By marching out the contents of her closets, the Newport Restoration Foundation aims to shed some light on Duke’s determinedly cloaked life.wwd
Nicole Kidman has also been studying photography in preparation for her role as Diane Arbus, the legendary photographer of the Fifties and Sixties, in the biographical film “Fur,” which she’ll shoot this summer in New York with Robert Downey Jr. Nicole may well take off her clothes as she has done before because part of “Fur” will be shot in nudist camps where the photographer took many of her pictures. Arbus’ original photographs can currently be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has mounted a major exhibition of her work, featuring those nudes.WWD
A new hotel being built in MAdris is the Hotel Puerta de America. “This building has been designed by 18 famous architects and designers. Each floor, the gardens, the restaurant in the top of the bilding, the facade, the illumination… everything is from a different person. Here is the list of architects and desginers:Jean Nouvel, Javier Mariscal y Fernando Salas, Arata Isozaki, Richard Gluckman, Kathryn Findlay, Ron Arad, Vittorio&Luchino, Eva Castro y Hoger Kehlne, David Chipperfield, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, Christian Liaigre, Marc Newson, Harrieet Bourne y Jonanthan Bell, Arnold Chan, Jasón Bruges, Teresa Sapey, and Felipe Saes de Gordoa. This 5 stars hotel will be opened in May, will have 342 rooms.
Have I mentioned Phillippe Starck’s lastest creation? “There is life in the easternmost reaches of Argentina’s capital. Fashion impresario Alan Faena and design “bad boy” Philippe Starck have finally transformed an abandoned century-old grain depository into the 83-room Faena Hotel + Universe. The outside may be a prosaic brick box, but the inside is pure Starck: gold-leaf chairs, oversized chaise longues, and lots of claws, swans, and fleurs-de-lis. http://www.faenahotelanduniverse.com/web/homepage.php
Check out the Bigham Hotel in Richmond, Londom http://www.binghamhotel.co.uk .
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