Colette, the hip Paris boutique, is opening a Topshop corner later this month in tandem with a British-themed exhibition. Topshop is planning to open a permanent Parisian store within the 18 months, followed by stores in two other European cities and in New York. WWD.
Britain’s new-generation Harper’s Bazaar, formerly Harpers and Queen, hits U.K. newsstands this week. Norman Jean Roy shot Cate Blanchett for the March cover. Manolo Blahnik is the new film columnist, Sarajane Hoare is a contributing fashion editor and writer Justine Picardie will pen a column called Fashion Undressed, wwd.
Many in the tents at New York Fashion week wish they could channel the late Diana Vreeland, but Illeana Douglas actually did. The actress plays the famed fashion editor in “Factory Girl,” a film about Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick that has just wrapped. WWD
Prada’s flagship in New York’s SoHo is still shuttered following the fire in the building next door last month, and magazine editors and others are salivating over the prospects the damaged merchandise will be sold off for a song. Prada Fire sale.
Couture week in July will be sure to open with a bang — of fashion fireworks. The hotly anticipated Balenciaga exhibition at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles at the Louvre will be inaugurated with a gala dinner on July 4, hosted by designer Nicolas Ghesquière, wwd
Check out this chic hotel in London; http://www.sohohotel.com/
Stay here next time you are in France: http://www.chateaudecamon.com/index.htm
Vanity Fair says the Isle Of Elba off Tuscany is the next Hot spot.
Head to The Cowshed Virgin Atlantic Club lounge at London’s Heathrow for facials, massages, manicures, pedicures or get a blow dry from the Bumble and Bumble salon, it’s all ‘designed to leave you feeling Zen’ http://www.virgin-atlantic.com.Travel and Leisure rates these Hotels as the best in France, not modern but very classic http://villagallici.com/uk/navigation.htm and http://www.hoteldelacite.com
Karl Lagerfeld, whose 2002 retrospective book about Grace Coddington’s long career at Vogue was a complete sellout, is planning a double-pronged encore with his 7L publishing imprint. Abook about the long career of Babeth Djian, editor in chief of Numero in Paris, is in the works followed by another on Franca Sozzani of Italian Vogue fame.wwd
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