Serenade your loved one this holiday season with a musical gift set from Jean Paul Gaultier. This beautiful keepsake music box features the luxurious CLASSIQUE fragrance in a 1.6 oz Eau de Toilette Spray coupled with a 3.3 oz Perfumed Body Lotion and plays Love Me Tender when opened.
We hear that Kenzo has set up a collaboration between British designer Ron Arad and French perfumer Aurélien Guichard, resulting in a new and, yes, revolutionary fragrance.
Available from March 2009, this new scent presents itself as a “perfume-object”, combining unusual yet attractive smell with a sensual as well as industrial looking bottle. Indeed, the main feature of this bottle resides in sleek steel curves, giving it a very tactile aspect, espousing the shape of one’s thumb.
This very appealing and contemporary look can be previewed at “No Discipline“, Ron Arad’s retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, opening on November 20 2008.
So now that the US elections got to their (happy) end, it is time for celebration. Get your dress quick and let’s go dance tonight ! I’ll wear my Rodarte for Sonia Rykiel jersey cheerleader suit and you’ll jump into the Pop Art Jean Charles de Castelbajac dress - wouldn’t that be ace??
The campaign shot by Tim Walker was finally unveiled - dreamy snaps of a fantasized Parisienne (Maryna Linchuk).
Still waiting to see the commercial directed by Sofia Coppola…
The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (until January 4) is almost identical to that of the V & A Museum in London one year ago. Lee Miller was without doubt an extraordinary woman. Her beauty, first was surprising, since an early age to his 70 years: a pure beauty and sculptural. The men fell under her charm, Man Ray, Picasso, Robert Roland Penrose and many others.
By her mid-thirties, already flooding the covers of British Vogue, Lee Miller chose to be at the other end of the camera in order to document the end of World War II. (She was one of only five female war correspondents.) Her photographs of London’s rubble & decay are amongst the finest war records. In Germany, at times her eye was cool – perhaps for self-protection – as when she photographed SS soldiers and their children, all dead by suicide. Although, when she encountered Hitler’s bathtub, she jumped in and playfully took a self-portrait. Her sweeping landscapes of the Middle East are like a lesson in geometry; and finally, the abstract female torsos she photographed can still moisten a few pants. Her knack for finding beauty in the most wretched places had quickly earned her “one of the seven most distinguished photographers.” [Vanity Fair]
Lee Miller produced some of the most powerful photographs seen this century, from portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, to her work as a correspondent with the US army in World War II. Beginning her own studio in Paris with artist Man Ray, she went on to work with Vogue, and in France, Egypt, and New York, being best remembered for her witty Surrealist images.
Sylivie Chateigner and team from THANX GOD I AM A VIP Parisian events just opened a shop showcasing a multi-ethnic & Parisian blend of styles, in a 200 square meters space close to Place de la République.On the first floor you will find a selection from Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Dior, Ungaro, Givenchy - womenswear, menswear, suits, shoes and other accessories. 
12 rue de Lancry 75010 ParisMétro République or Jacques Bonsergentopen from Monday to Friday 1h00 pm - 7h00 pm on Saturday 2h00 pm - 7h30 pm.www.thanxgod.com
The first ever Stella McCartney boutique in Paris will open its doors next November. The shop will be located at Galerie de Valois, at the Palais Royal, following the footsteps of Marc Jacobs, Pierre Hardy, Robert Normand, Didier Ludot, Acne, Rick Owens or Serge Lutens.
Palais Royal is definitely a hot spot for the fashion conscious and style savy.
As well as the commercial directed by Sofia Coppola, we are also eagerly waiting to discover Miss Dior Cherie’s printed campaign that was shot by “photographe extraordinaire” Tim Walker last July in Paris streets. Once again Miss Dior Cherie is incarnated by Belarusian beauty Maryna Linchuk. The campaign should be hitting the glossies soon. At last!
In the meantime you can get your fix of phantasmagorical pictures with his book published by teNeues earlier this year.
A book signing by Patrick Demarchelier at Colette, Paris
Saturay 27 September, from 5-6pm - Colette, 213 rue Saint Honoré, 75001, Paris
Born outside Paris in 1943, Patrick Demarchelier relocated to New York in 1975, where he began his editorial career with Harper’s Bazaar/Hearst Publications. His photographs appear regularly on the covers and in the pages of publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others. He was the 2007 recipient of the Eleanor Lambert Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He lives and works in New York.
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Gap has commissioned renowned Paris Boutique colette to create a special one-month installation in its rotating concept store at 54th and 5th Avenue. Colette X Gap store will be open from september 6 through October 5, 2008.
