Burberry + Apple = Luxury Watch Sales

This year, Apple hired Angela Ahrendts, former chief executive of Burberry, to lead the company’s retail division and it will be very interesting to watch how Apple’s retail model begins to shift.  Apple's new Watch will be introduced in numerous versions from affordable to luxury. And Angela knows how to shift luxury items ...

Horst P Horst

At the V&A Museum in London from 6th September:  A retrospective exhibition of Horst P Horst's prolific 60-year career. The German-American photographer did shoots for couturiers such as Chanel, Schiaparelli and Vionnet in the ’30s, as well as experimenting with early colour techniques. His most renowned images will be on display alongside rarities and unpublished pictures, plus there will be a recreation of Horst's 1940s studio. Archive film footage, sketchbooks and letters will also give an insight into his creative process.

Kate Moss and Delevignge front Burberry launch

Today, in its biggest beauty launch to date, Burberry is set to debut its newest women’s fragrance, My Burberry. The ad campaign is fronted by Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss so is bound to drive fans to the fragrance.  "“Fragrance is driven by image, makeup is driven by improvement, and skincare is driven by loyalty. We know that we need all three.”  Not sure it is one for us ....

Puddings to end the Evening ...

For those with a sweet tooth - rejoice!  Remember when puddings were once strictly after-dinner ‘guilty pleasures’? Well, that’s no more. Now, it seems that dessert has been added to our double Ds (drinking and dancing). We noticed it first when our cocktails took a sweet turn – from the Coco Pop Old Fashioned at Duck & Waffle to the serious liquid desserts at BOBO Social (think rhubarb & custard tipples, death by chocolate martinis and apple crumbles in a glass). And now the idea has gone bricks and mortar with The Pudding Bar, a candlelit Soho sweet spot with a dessert-only menu. 

The Broken Arm in Paris

The Broken Arm space in the Haut Marais neighbourhood of Paris has become a haunt for cool creatives and is in danger of overtaking Colette as a must-visit destination.  Read all about it here
http://www.businessoffashion.com/2014/07/retail-recon-the-broken-arm-anais-lafarge-guillaume-steinmetz-romain-joste.html?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=12cefb5358-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2191372b3-12cefb5358-416980901

Kids at Play Pictured by Larry Clark

Los Angeles skate punks, topless teens and the cast of Larry Clark’s 20-year filmography feature at London’s Simon Lee Gallery—the director’s vast archive collection of unseen snapshots arrived in a wooden crate, following a similar sale at his Home Alone 2 gallery in New York earlier this year. “Of course, there’s some nostalgia for me,” says Fitzpatrick, who launched his career with Kids, alongside co-stars Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson and scriptwriter Harmony Korine  Full story on

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Secret Parties in London ....

Urban Junkies is a great resource for where to eat and club, and the best and newest places to visit in London.  Check out today's newsletter for where all the 'secret' events are being held - and how to get into them! http://www.urbanjunkies.com/london/current.html

Amazing Floating Sculptures

Colourant is a series of floating sculptures, made up of colourful liquid thrown and captured at 1/3500th of a second. Cassandra Warner and Jeremy Floto of Floto+Warner Studio are the brains behind the project, which appears as an optical illusion.See more here ...

Youth Matters say Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield make a point as they emerge from a café in New York. They held notes across their faces saying: "Good morning! We were eating and saw a group of guys with cameras outside. And so we thought, let's try this again. We don't need the attention, but these wonderful organisations do: www.youthmentoring.org; www.autismspeaks.org; (and don't forget:) www.wwo.org; www.gildasclubnyc.org. Here's to the stuff that matters. Have a great day!"

Bipping ....YAR! A Take on Blogging

Bip Ling's You Tube video takes a tongue in chic view of blogging and her favourite phrase, Yar.  A must watch for all would be bloggers and those fashion bloggers who take themselves too seriously ...

Painted Parisian Ladies

Scottish artist Jessica Harrison‘s creations are securely fastened and thoroughly impervious to any kind of clumsy seven-year-olds who may be lurking around the "FLASH" exhibition at Galerie L.J. in Paris, ready to accidentally knock her ceramic body-arted ladies off their pedestals at a moment’s notice.
 Harrison not only sculpted this collection, but she completed her PhD in Sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art last year. Named after the traditional tattoo templates, her conservative ball-gowned belles have been given a bad girl makeover with some finely applied ink (similarly subversive to Penny Byrne‘s psychotic ceramaic creations), and Harrison uses the archetypal symbols of body art – skulls, daggers and bleeding hearts – juxtaposed with the demure, feminine figures. Try not to break anything if you can visit the gallery; closing date is 26 June.

Julian Schnabel: Coming to London from Dallas

 “Poetry is the thing he left out”

…a quote from a full video interview on Nowness,  The Seven Days of Creation.

Julian Schnabel is enjoying his first US Museum Show Since the 1980s (Dallas Contemporary) and Londoners will be able to see a selection of work from the past ten years in Every Angel has a Dark Side which opens at the Dairy Art Centre in London on 25 April.

Dress to impress at the Matisse Exhibition

93 year old socialite Iris Apfel has been inspired by the Matisse at Tate Modern to dress in similar eyecatching and joyful style.  See the video at http://www.neverunderdressed.com/people/news/iris-apfel-dresses-for-matisse

Banksy Collection hits London Sale for Charity

STEALING BANKSY? at the ME hotel in London from April 27 will represent the most expensive collection of Banksy artworks ever assembled under one roof and is the culmination of a 12 month project to uncover, salvage and lovingly restore these pieces.

With the artworks on sale to support local charities, this will be the first and only time these pieces will ever be seen in their current state. 

Theonths by the world’s leadin

g experts at a cost of over £120,000.

Jean Paul Gaultier, Boundary Breaker

Exhibition at the Barbican, London, 9^th April to 25^th August 2014

From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk  is  the first major exhibition devoted to JPG whose place in fashion history as a witty and daring designer is deserved.  Fascinated by world cultures and countercultures  he has broken the boundaries not

only between cultures but also the sexes The infamous conical bra and corsets Madonna wore during her 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour are showcased alongside stage costumes designed for Kylie Minogue as well as pieces created for the films of Pedro Almodóvar, among others.

Kelly Slater Lux Sportswear?

For lovers of water sports, the announcement that Kelly Slater - the worlds most famous surfer - has divorced Quiksilver to join luxury fashion conglomerate Kering to introduce his own line of clothing, is more than simply exciting.  Here's crossing fingers its a lux sports based collection for women as well as men.  We'll be amongst the first to place orders .....

Alasdhair Willis in a Hold All

ALASDHAIR WILLIS, new creative head of Hunter and Stella McCartney's other half, is already making his mark on this heritage brand. Our tote of choice is a Goyard but this see-through version from Hunter seamlessly combines translucent PVC vinyl with soft Vachetta leather and moulded rubber. Contemporary and cool in a choice of six shades, we’ve pictured the grey although our preferred choice is black (but doesn’t picture well).  It comes with a removable purse to keep all your valuables safe. £175.