• The Fondazione Prada will host an interactive film exhibit called "On Otto," about German artist Tobias Rehberger at during Milan’s design and furniture fair Salone Internazione del Mobile. "On Otto" attempts to construct a movie in reverse from the poster to the script enlisting a series of projections and some considerable talent like Kim Basinger, Willem Dafoe, Emmy Rossum, Justin Henry and Danny DeVito. More specifically, the actors play the part of spectators in a movie theater while the exhibit’s visitors become the protagonists of the film. Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone supplies the soundtrack. WWD
• Filmmakers trailed Marc Jacobs for six months for a documentary as he created his Vuitton and Jacobs collections, capturing funny banter with LVMH kingpin Bernard Arnault — who anoints Jacobs "a Ralph Lauren for the 21st century" — and with the likes of Demi Moore, caught rushing backstage to offer congratulations. "Look, famous people!" Jacobs yells, running to embrace Moore. The fast-paced 80-minute film reveals a stressed-out creation process fueled by cigarettes, protein bars and colorful macaroons. wwd
• One movie expected at Cannes Film Festival in May is already generating buzz in Paris. It’s Julian Schnabel’s "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," based on the acclaimed autobiography of the late Elle editor in chief, Jean-Dominique Bauby. Bauby suffered a stroke at age 43 that paralyzed his entire body save for his left eye, which he used to blink out his memoir. He died shortly after the book was published in 1997. WWD
• In London head to the ICA for The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 – 1988. http://www.ica.org.uk/The+Secret+Public+13096.twl
• Or check out the Living, Looking, Making Sculpture by Giacometti, Fontana, Twombly, SerraMarch 26 - May 19, 2007 at The Gagosian Gallery http://www.gagosian.com/
• Then head to the Monet exhibition at The Royal Academy http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
• While you are in London stay here: http://haymarkethotel.com/
• Or at this Hotel http://www.sloanesquarehotel.co.uk/
• Or here at this wonderful old estate hotel in the Marquess of Bath’s magnificent Longleat Estate http://www.batharms.co.uk/
• Check out this lovely hotel in Koh Samui, http://www.designhotels.com/library. The Library helps preserve coastal heritage property, while impacting minimally on its ecology. Divided into 26 suite/studio cabins, the complex avoids the monolithic hotel-complex look, scattering discreet buildings in lush vegetation’
• See Colette Dinnigan’s house in the latest issue of US Elle Deco http://www.elledecor.com/
• Check out theses gorgeous cushions and fabrics from Rifat Ozbek in Turkey http://www.yastikistanbul.com/
• In New York head to MOMA Queens to see Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990 from April 16-June 28, 2004. The exhibition demonstrates how the cinema and the amateur or personal photograph inspired the invention of a new visual vocabulary in fashion photography. Fashioning Fiction presents about 100 photographs from 13 photographers including Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Glen Luchford, Craig McDean, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Juergen Teller, and Ellen von Unwerth
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