• Kirsty Hume (above)looks divine and so does the HUGE gold bag at the Chanel Boutique Opening in Los Angeles.
•Sofia Coppola has been hired to do a TV spot starring Maryna Linchukfor the Miss Dior Cherie fragrance, which will air inSeptember..reports WWD.
• Kristin Davis is launching a clothing range for American retailer Belk..reports WWD.
•’Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway shot a scene for their latest,progressive-sounding movie Bride Wars at Bloomingdale’s last week.Paparazzi showed up, fans followed, chaos ensued’…reports WWD
•‘Tate Liverpool is launching a sparking retrospective of works byGustav Klimt, the Viennese painter whose decadent Art Nouveau style hasbeen the gold standard for opulent art since the twentieth centurybegan. Klimt is the perfect accessory to wear with the Klimt-inspiredcouture that John Galliano launched this season at Dior’..reportsstyle.com
• ‘For those not quite content with just the Dior Christal watch and LadyDior bag, it’s time to add a couture mobile phone to your list ofmust-have luxuries with news that the French luxury house are branchingout into the realm of technology. Launching in mid-June, the Dior phonefeatures a chic geometrical pattern which the options of encrustedSwarovski crystals or, for the super-luxe, a diamond-studded version inblack, silver, white, red or pink. And for those times when yourconstant bag rummaging still fails to produce your ringing handset, theDior Phone comes with a mini-me – a smaller version that can be clippeddiscreetly onto the front of your bag and produces a sound signal ifit’s more than 10 metres away from its inseparable twin’. reports HarpersBazaaar.com.au
•Twonew boutiques will open their doors in Sydney this October: SergioRossi opens its first Australian store on Castlereagh St, followed by-Roberto Cavalli in Double Bay’ ..reports harpersbazaar.com.au
• ‘TheOlsen Twins are designing a line of jewelry for their Elizabeth &James clothing line. They’re teaming up with CFDA award-winning jewelrydesigner Robert Lee Morris available in the next few months’..reportsWWD.
• Bergdorf Goodman set aside 1,600 square feet of space for itsin-store Tom Ford shop, the largest of its kind in Bergdorfhistory…reports WWD.
• Tory Burch is working on a fragrance. reports BellaSugar.
•’Stores in London’s West End have gone wild for Artist Zoe Bradley’sbotanically inspired window displays. She started her career atAlexander McQueen, making stiff, doily-type clothing for one of hisshows. Bradley’s work can currently be seen in the window of Pringle’sBond Street shop (pictured below) where her cluster of sculptural rosesseems to tumble straight out into the street. And come the first weekof August, her work will be on display at the five Kate’s Paperiestores in New York…reports Style.com
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