Updated with videos on May 23, 2013, 1.46 p.m. GMT Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
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In our opinion, the party at the Festival de Cannes that one should not miss is the one thrown by de Grisogono, the upscale jewellery brand, at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes. If you want to see who’s in the Zeitgeist at Cannes, this is the place to look.
This year, founder and president Fawaz Gruosi played host to actress Sharon Stone as the woman of the moment: the actress was resplendent in a red gown, complete with a thigh-high split. Now 55, Stone had aged remarkably little, and close-ups show that a good part of it is down to good genes and a decent beauty régime.
Stone, who is arguably more popular in France than in the US—French media raved about Basic Instinct in the 1990s—stole the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival throughout the day, with a cobalt blue gown earlier while attending the Michael Douglas starrer, Behind the Candelabra, the Liberace bio-pic.
Plenty of other celebs lit up the de Grisogono party at the Hôtel du Cap: Paris Hilton, Adriana Sklenaříková Karembeu, Ana Beatriz Barros, Alessandra Ambrosio (who was Instagramming the event), Lisa Verberght, Hofit Golan, Karmen Pedaru, Elisabetta Gregoraci, Jessica Hart, Toni Garn, designer Eva Cavalli, Fiammetta Cicogna, producer Harvey Weinstein, Dite Anata, Gary Dourdan, and Stacy Keibler.
Extra videos have been added at the end of this report from the Behind the Candelabra press conference and red carpet, as well as a compilation video of the fashion seen at the 66th Festival de Cannes to date.
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The Coen Brothers’ latest film, Inside Llewyn Davies, had its Cannes Film Festival première on Sunday.
The film is set in the 1960s’ Greenwich Village folk music scene, with Oscar Isaac in the title role. Carey Mulligan plays his love interest, Jean Berkey, who is in a relationship with Justin Timberlake’s character yet has become pregnant to Davies. John Goodman plays a jazz musician, and Garrett Hedlund his sidekick.
Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman and T-Bone Burnet, and directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, represented the film at the Festival de Cannes, where it is in competition.
The première attracted numerous celebrities to the Grand Théâtre Lumière’s red carpet: former Miss World, actress and Cannes regular Aishwarya Rai, Nadine Labaki, Jessica Biel, Maudy Koesnadi, Kirsten Dunst, Frédérique Bel, Hofit Golan, Cindy Fabre, Brahim Asloum and Isabella Orsini, Giulio Base and Tiziana Rocca, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman (who managed a public snog for the paparazzi), Vidya Balan, Olga Sorokina, Jane Fonda, Melita Toscan du Plantier, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, Christoph Waltz, Cristian Mungiu and Lynne Ramsay, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, and the chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob.
One of the main sponsors, Electrolux, has been hosting the stars at the Electrolux Agora Pavilion, and on Sunday, Jade Jagger paid a quick visit, greeted by two-Michelin-star chef Bruno Oger.
Updated May 17, 2013, 12.09 p.m. GMT with Italian TV report on Thursday’s incident involving Gandy and Le Bon’s Jaguar XK 120 Tullio M. Puglia
Jaguar is participating in this year’s Mille Miglia from May 16 to 19, 2013, fielding a total of 24 cars, including six from Jaguar Heritage Racing.
Its team includes Le Mans winner Andy Wallace and Alex Buncombe, and luminaries such as Olympian Sir Chris Hoy, Michael Quinn, three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, actress Hannah Herzsprung, models David Gandy and Yasmin Le Bon, and Salvatore Ferragamo, the grandson of the famed designer, with whom he shares his name.
The heritage models are three XK 120s and three C-types, while Jaguar will also field modern F-types, Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in for 2013.
On the first day, Gandy and Le Bon, co-drivers of an XK 120, were pushed off the road by another competitor, but have begun again at the starting line on May 17. A brief Italian news report is embedded at the end of the article.
Jaguar has previewed this year’s Mille Miglia with a short film, shown below, featuring Gandy, Le Bon, Buncombe, Murray Walker and, famously, Sir Stirling Moss and his 1952 co-driver Norman Dewis.
Ferragamo is the Jaguar F-type’s Italian ambassador, a duty he also has with Relais & Châteaux worldwide. He was presented with an F-type 3·0 V6 S at the Castello di Gabbiano, in Mercatale Val di Pesa, near Firenze. His co-driver for the event is Michael Quinn, grandson of Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons.
Bentley, meanwhile, says it will field two 4½-litre Supercharged Blowers, dating from the 1930s.
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Our day two coverage at the 66th Festival de Cannes—the Cannes Film Festival—sees two premières.
The first première was for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Fariga, Katie Chang, and Israel Broussard. The story is based on fact, about a group of teenagers who robbed celebrities’ houses. Zhang Ziyi was one of the celebrities of note at the première.
François Ozon’s Jeune et jolie, about a 17-year-old girl who becomes a high-class prostitute. Frédéric Pierrot, Geraldine Pailhas, director Francois Ozon, Marine Vacth and Fantin Ravat were on the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, while other celebrities included Virginie Ledoyen, Sonam Kapoor, Lyia Kebede, Fan Bingbing, Freida Pinto, Inès de la Fressange, Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff, Aimée Mullins, Marilou Berry, Hofit Golan, and Geraldine Pailhas.
Electrolux continued its support on day two with meals prepared by chef Anne-Sophie Pic at the Electrolux Agora Pavilion.
Meanwhile, Montblanc has sent photographs from Cannes, with celebrities wearing items from its jewellery and watch ranges, including Jimmy Jean-Louis and designer Jean-Claude Jitrois wearing Timewalker chronographs, Sarah Marshall with its earrings, necklace, ring and bijou de tête from the Princess Grace de Monaco collection, and Annabelle Belmondo (granddaughter of Jean-Paul).
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More proof that the economic focus is heading east: IWC Schaffhausen has made its first appearance as a sponsor of the Beijing International Film Festival.
The brand, which already has relationships with Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Jean Reno and Marc Forster in the occident, and Francis Ng, Julian Cheung and Anita Yuen in the orient, found it natural to extend its sponsorship to the Festival, holding a dinner, entitled ‘For the Love of Cinema’, at the Ming Dynasty city wall in Beijing.
Ng, Cheung and Yuen attended, along with actors Yu Nan, Joseph Chang, Li Zonghan, Andrew Lien and Xiong Naijin, as well directors Zhang Yimou, Chris Wedge, Chris Brown, Li Shaohong and Xue Xiaolu. IWC CEO Georges Kern and Benoit de Clerck, its Asia–Pacific managing director, played host. The event was supported by the Motion Picture Association.
The IWC Filmmaker Award was presented at the event to Zhang Yimou by de Clerck and IWC marketing and communications’ director Karoline Huber.
Huber said, ‘Zhang Yimou doubtlessly belongs to the greatest film-makers of our time, and he has won numerous awards and gained recognition at many national and international film festivals. It is an enormous pleasure for us to present him with this award.’ He was also presented with IWC’s latest Portuguese Chronograph Classic in stainless steel, with a special engraving on the reverse.
Aloe Blacc also held a private concert at the event, with DJ Miles Slater taking the party into the small hours.
TopGabrielle Chanel, Seen by Karl Lagerfeld, original drawing by Karl Lagerfeld. AboveAn Imaginary Meeting Between Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, original drawing by Karl Lagerfeld.
In our round-up of news from ‘The Scene’: as part of Chanel’s celebration of the jacket, the house has released a new video (below) featuring its history, with footage featuring Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel herself.
Designer Karl Lagerfeld has also released 11 sketches to celebrate the jacket, including illustrations of Gabrielle Chanel and an imaginary encounter between himself and the founder of the house.
The story picks up in the mid-1950s, when Chanel felt that the style of the time was too restrictive. The jacket was created for women who could wear it during the day with greater freedom and be stylish enough for the evening. The tweed jacket, which became a signature for Chanel, was also born. Style icons soon adopted the look: Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and Romy Schneider sported theirs. Karl Lagerfeld’s arrival in the 1980s saw a revival of the jacket.
Lagerfeld honoured the jacket with a book, The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, and a series of exhibitions. Milano will play host to the next exhibition opening April 4, with new works (featuring Keira Knightley, Diane Kruger, Carla Bruni and Carole Bouquet), before it moves on to Dubai.
Meanwhile, last week’s Gucci Private Suite at Ellerslie during the Auckland Racing Club’s race week was the place to be for New Zealand’s largest city. William Yoon, Gucci’s Asia-Pacific president, and Helen Koo, the managing director for Australia and New Zealand, played hosts. Gucci—in line with its own equestrian heritage—sponsored one race, the Gucci Sprint, where a horse named Vogue won. Celebrities included occasional Lucire correspondent Amber Peebles (in Gucci) and her husband Brooke Howard-Smith, Rachel Hunter, Academy Award nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes and Jonathan Morrison, Boh Runga, Clifton Piper, Cameron Ireland, Sandy Nairn, and Michelle Blanchard.
Top Amanda Seyfried catches the paparazzi’s attention at the 19th annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards. Above Bradley Cooper and best actress winner, Jennifer Lawrence.
Argo has won more awards over the weekend, both at the Producers’ Guild Awards on Saturday (for best film) and at the 19th Screen Actors’ Guild Awards on Sunday (for best cast ensemble) at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Directed by Ben Affleck, the Iran hostage drama is now widely speculated to take the Oscar for Best Film on February 24.
Daniel Day-Lewis won a best actor SAG award for his role in Lincoln, while Jennifer Lawrence—who suffered a ‘wardrobe malfunction’ as she went up on stage, won best actress for Silver Linings Playbook.
Tommy Lee Jones won best supporting actor for Lincoln, beating Robert de Niro, who was nominated for the category in Silver Linings Playbook.
Anne Hathaway won the best supporting actress SAG award for her role as Fantine in Les Misérables.
Screen favourite Dick van Dyke, 87, who was present with his wife Arlene Silver, was honoured with a lifetime achievement award. Last year, van Dyke presented the same award to his Dick Van Dyke Show co-star, Mary Tyler Moore.
Downton Abbey continued its conquest of the United States and won best ensemble cast for a TV drama. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Claire Danes (Homeland) won best actor and best actress for the television categories.
ABC’s Modern Family won best comedy cast ensemble for the third consecutive year, and Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) won best TV comedy actor for the eighth time. Tina Fey won best TV comedy actress, also for 30 Rock.
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Daniel Day-Lewis. Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman. Olympian Gabrielle Douglas and Jessica Chastain. Robert de Niro and Grace Hightower. Sofia Vergara. Anne Hathaway. Jordin Sparks. Arlene Silver and Dick van Dyke, and Ed O’Neill and Catherine Rusoff.
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Michelle Dockery. Justin Timberlake. Peter Facinelli. Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts. Sigourney Weaver. Gretchen Mol. Hugh Jackman. Ben Affleck. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Busy Phillips and Justin Mikita. Sophie McShera, Amy Nuttall, and Phyllis Logan. Katrina Bowden.
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Jennifer Garner. Jennifer Lawrence. Freida Pinto and Dev Patel. Jennifer Garner and Julianne Moore.
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Helen Hunt and John Hawkes. Adam Shulman and Anne Hathaway.
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Rainn Wilson and Rico Rodriguez; Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Marion Cotillard. Nicole Kidman.
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Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt. Sacha Baron Cohen, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck and Isla Fisher. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
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Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts. Tina Fey. Kerry Washington.
With the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) in Genève presently, each of the luxury watch brands is going all out to catch VIPs and media. IWC Schaffhausen is no exception, with its Race Night event on Tuesday night, MCed by Kevin Spacey, hosting other celebrities and guests including Karolína Kurková, Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima, Eric Dane, Zinédine Zidane, Ewan McGregor, Luís Figo, Helen Svedin, Julian Cheung, Anita Juen, Jean Reno, Peter Lindbergh, Matthew Fox, Abdulaziz Turki Al Faisal, Oliver Bierhoff, Roberto di Matteo, Marc Forster, Boris Becker, Lilly Becker, Francis Ng, Richard Krajicek, Ferzan Ozpetek, Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, Kiichi Nakai, and Ross Brawn. Jamiroquai provided the music, with Jay Kay arriving in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG specially designed for Race Night.
Some 800 guests were present at the Palexpo Hall 1.
IWC CEO Georges Kern played host, promoting the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team with Nico Rosberg and his Formula 1 racing car in attendance—although it should be noted that it was a replica. Mercedes-Benz also supplied a classic 1955 300 SLR Silver Arrow for the exhibition and Race Night event. Three race trucks were parked at the red carpet.
Kern also took guests on a tour of the IWC exhibition stand, which measured just under 1,000 m².
IWC Schaffhausen has inked a three-year deal as the racing team’s engineering partner.
The company has also introduced a new timepiece in a carbon case. In the IWC range are titanium, titanium aluminide, ceramic and platinum.
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