The FiFi Report 038

“Sweet & Sour: A Fashionable Exhibition of Provocative Paradoxes at the Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery in New York has invited six artists to explore the dichotomy between sweet and sour while drawing inspiration from the luxury brand. One piece, Amy Jenkins’ DVD of the artist breastfeeding her baby as in an Old Masters painting was dropped from the show because “the image might be offensive ” WWD (No breastfeeding. More gays needed)
Madonna, Marc Jacobs, Kate Moss, Elton John, Manolo Blahnik are among the 25 celebrities who will create one-off, black-inspired pieces for The Black event, on June 3, which will celebrate five years of the Blaxk Amex ( Amen)wwd
Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe marriage to Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, a divorced newscaster, on Saturday will be under heavy guard by NATO aircraft and Madrid airspace will close for an unspecified period of time,the matrimonial Rolls-Royce has been fitted with bulletproof glass and the guest list m is under wraps
Martha Stewart Living have announced the show will be suspended from the airwaves in September.
The Da Vinci Code is being made into a movie (badly written crap)
The ceramicist Jonathon Adler is designing a line of handbags.
Madonna has the film rights to the book ‘Model: The ugly business of being beautiful”.
Scott Hicks is shooting ads for Revlon like a mini movie with Julieanne Moore.
When in London stay at ‘Guesthouse West’ an up market Bed and breakfast in Westbourne Grove ( www.guesthousewest.com)
In Cyprus book into the chic The Almyra Hotel “fuses a Le Corbusier aesthetic with the white washed lines of Santorini” says Travel & Leisure
Dublin celebrates the centenary of Joyce’s Ulysses over 5 months (it takes that long to read it)
The Cross has opened up another shop in London across the road called ‘Cross the Road”
Check out the Edward Hopper exhibition at London’s Tate Modern till Sept
When in Paris check out the groovy snack bar Delicabar in the Bon Marche store
Next time you do a safari stay at the groovy Ecca Lodge in Sth Africa with polished concrete floors, modernist furniture and cool animal photos retinted in psychedelic colours (groovy baby!)