AmFAR auction brings out Naomi Campbell, Janet Jackson, Gwen Stefani, Kiera Chaplin
The AmFAR Cinema Against Aids function held on Thursday was the social highlight this week. Celebrities at the event, hosted at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, included supermodel Naomi Campbell, Janet Jackson, Kiera Chaplin, Gwen Stefani, Goldie Hawn, Michelle Yeoh, Milla Jovovich, Patrick Dempsey, Harvey Weinstein, Jane Fonda, Donatella Versace, Brooke Shields, Freida […]
Jean Paul Gaultier creates 2011 Piper-Heidsieck bottle, to be revealed at Cannes
Designer Jean Paul Gaultier has created a new design for Piper-Heidsieck’s cuvée brut champagne, to be unveiled at a dinner at the Festival de Cannes on May 13. It is Gaultier’s second collaboration with the champagne house, the first in 1999. The design has been inspired by the can-can. ‘This is the […]
Nuptials are in the air as new book, Weddings and Movie Stars, released
John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Getty Images Ernst Haas/Getty Images Above Brigitte Bardot, and the wedding of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, are among the topics covered in Reel Art Press’s Weddings and Movie Stars, already released in the UK and awaiting release in the US mid-month. Reel Art Press is releasing a movie lover’s 288 pp. encyclopædia […]
Harvey Nichols shows Alexander McQueen to coincide with Costume Institute exhibition
Harvey Nichols is offering its London customers a chance to feel a part of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, with its McQueen-themed windows. The Harvey Nichols windows feature pieces that could not make it to New York due to customs’ regulations, according to Janet Wardley, […]
Royal Wedding recap: the dress, designed by Sarah Burton
As predicted by many, and originally denied by the Alexander McQueen company, Sarah Burton was the designer of Kate Middleton’s wedding gown. The choice of Burton stemmed from ‘its craftsmanship and its respect for traditional workmanship and the technical construction of clothing,’ according to an official statement. It continued, ‘Miss Middleton wished for […]
The fascination with Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding
Mario Testino Above Prince William and Kate Middleton’s choice of Mario Testino for the official engagement portraits led to the media dissecting everything from tradition to fashion. There have been many stories this month not just on the Royal Wedding, but on how unimportant the Royal Wedding is. It’s almost a backlash, as surveys go […]
Why aren’t we happy that Jennifer Garner is the new Miss Marple?
Annie Leibovitz Above Jennifer Garner models the Gap’s Product Red parka—not really whom you’d expect to see as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. There were two interesting casting decisions made this week in showbusiness. One was generally favoured and both we and British Vogue reported it: the casting Karen Gillan, Doctor Who’s Amy Pond, as […]
Karen Gillan to play 1960s’ supermodel Jean Shrimpton in BBC bio-pic
BBC Karen Gillan, who came to fame with her Amy Pond role in Doctor Who, will play Jean Shrimpton—‘the Shrimp’, one of Britain’s most iconic models of the ’60s—in a BBC film to be shown on BBC Four. We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on the four-year love affair between Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. […]
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes promote The Kennedys, while Lady Gaga thanks fans for her birthday
Copyright ©2010 Kennedys Productions (Ontario) Inc. and Zak Cassar Leading celebrity news today: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have headed on to the red carpet to promote Holmes’s mini-series, The Kennedys. Holmes said she had some concerns when the mini-series was scrapped by the History Channel, but it will now be broadcast on the […]
Gucci helps with Grammy musical archives’ preservation efforts
The Image Gate/Getty Images for Gucci Gucci celebrated its partnership with the Recording Academy at Baselworld by showing off its Grammy timepiece and jewellery collection, and announcing a preservation project being handled by the Grammy Museum. Announced last October, the partnership sees Gucci supporting the Academy and, notably, this latest venture. Recently unearthed […]
