Rumours are The Weinsteins are leaving Miramax to buy MGM with Steve Jobs.
Sylvie Guillem is dancing at The Royal Opera House in London August 8.
The Cadogan Hotel in London has been revamped by Grace Leo Andrieu who did the snazzy Montalembert in Paris.
Les Ambassadeurs is the new, hot restaurant in Paris at the Hotel de Crillon ( says T&L) with jaw dropping prices. Also everyone is talking about The Crsytal Room designed by Phiilipe Starck ( reported months ago here at FiFi HQ).
Lagerfeld, Lacroix and Kenzo have designed packs of sweeties for Canderel.
The first W hotel in Asia has opened in Seoul.
Princess Diana’s necklace, “Swan Lake,” boasting 214 diamonds and 7 Salt Sea Pearls, designed by Garrard will be auctioned off for charity. The necklace as bought for her by Dodi Fayed and is the only piece of jewelry she owned that is ever expected to be available for sale. The asking price is $1.8 million. WWD
Armani has reportedly pulled his advertising from the New York Times in response to a negative men’s wear review that Guy Trebay calling his shows “errant, confounding and stuck in a vision of an unrecognizable world.”
Check out The Straf hotel in Milan http://www.straf.it (listen to the chatter).
In Monte Carlo you must stay at the (about to opened) Hotel Metropole designed by the same people who did the Hotel Costes in Paris.
The Baron Alexis de Rede, the social grandee known for his opulent balls, fastidious manners and grand tastes, died in Paris He was 82. He was known for throwing sumptuous parities, like his Oriental Ball in 1969, when he transformed the Hotel Lambert into a lavish Eastern fantasy with turbaned figures on enormous papier-mâché elephants and platoons of half-naked Nubian torchbearers. One guest came dressed as a pagoda; her costume was so big and rigid that she had to be hauled in on a truck and was unable to sit down” wwd
In recognition of Ralph Lauren’s contributions to the Caribbean island of Jamaica, the country is considering putting the designer’s image on a stamp.
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