Maggie Gyllenhaal is the new face of Miu Miu shot by Terry Richardson
Kate Winslet is to star in Woody Allen’s first British film with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Karl Lagerfeld has designed a line for H&M collection in store in November.
Yauatcha is an $8 million Christian Liaigre-designed teahouse just opened in New York and it serves 150 varieties of tea with French pastries on the street level, with dim sum downstairs. The food is by Cheong Wah Soono from the ubergroovy Hakkasan, the U.K.’s only Chinese restaurant to win a Michelin star. Banquettes are embroidered with cherry blossoms and staff wear traditional Chinese teahouse-style uniforms designed by Tim Yip, who won an Oscar for his “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” costumes. wwd.
Ashley Judd is the face of a new skin care/color cosmetics by Estee Lauder.
Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen have bought the Gramercy Park Hotel, and plan to build 30 luxury apartments that will come with eighteen-foot-high ceilings, outdoor space, and a private park and will be designed by John Pawson.
A new series produced by reality TV pioneer Mark Burnett will have musicians vying for the chance to become the next lead singer of INXS
Paramount Pictures is worried that Meryl Streep’s edgy, chilling performance as a U.S. Senator in The Manchurian Candidate, is too close to the Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Meryl is brilliantly scary and evil,” Aflyonthewall.com
Check out Hix Island House a new groovy loft style hotel in Puerto Rico wwwhixisland.com
Azzedine Alaia is apparently opening a hotel in Paris with Carla Sozzani who already runs the groovy 3 rooms hotel in Milan.
The Costes Brothers of café Costes in Paris have a new bistro called Bertie.
The Verona Opera festival is on from June 19 to August 31 in the Roman Arena where some seats are so high up they come with seat belts.
A group show of emerging young American artists is on at the Bibliotheque Thiers in Paris til July 11. Showing the diverse mediums of painting, sculpture, photography and video. wwd
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