After hearing all the buzz, I finally got around to trying Bistrot Bruno Loubet this past weekend. Opened roughly five months ago, the restaurant is located in The Zetter, a Clerkenwell-based boutique hotel on St John's Square, a very pretty classical square in an otherwise gritty part of London. It serves what I would describe as updated classic French bistrot food and it does so rather well.
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In case you were wondering what Guillaume Henry has planned for the newly relaunched Carven fashion brand this summer, I can tell you that it starts with "P" as in "Pop-Up". The young French designer whom influential Parisian retailer Maria-Luisa Pomaillou recently identified as one of five young designers to watch, launched last night amidst the Jardins du Palais Royale a pop-up store. His host for the summer will be none other than Didier Ludot, the éminence grise of Parisian haute couture.
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As I mentioned last week, I was invited to the Luisa Via Roma celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of its transformation from a strictly bricks and mortar fashion multi-brand boutique to online fashion emporium. The celebrations entitled Firenze4Ever took place in Florence and included among other things, a Styling Lab where bloggers were given access to the latest Fall/Winter 2010-11 collections (many pieces straight off the runway), a professional make-up artist, models, a photographer and some of the most beautiful settings across Florence to stage a photo shoot.
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Cristóbal Balenciaga in conversation with then Editor of U.S. Harper's Bazaar Carmel Snow.
Each time a new exhibit examines the work of one of fashion's great masters, I wince just a little. I wince because exhibits such as these serve as a reminder to current generations of just how impoverished modern fashion has become in comparison. A sense of loss and regret is precisely how I felt when I left the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2008 and I suspect I will feel the same when I see the new Cristóbal Balenciaga exhibit, BALENCIAGA: Spanish Master, at New York's Queen Sofía Spanish Institute scheduled to open in Manhattan this November.
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French champagne house G.H. Mumm is launching an online photography competition to select participants for its next Mumm Explorer Experience, a series of gastronomic dinners organized in "unexpected" locations (a drifting iceberg in the middle of Sermilik Fjord (Greenland), a sandbar in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, etc.). To get a chance to win a place for the next installment in the series, G.H. Mumm is appealing to your creativity and photographic skills.
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Art & Culture: Joan Mitchell and the Sexual Politics of the 1950's Art World
I was very excited to learn over the weekend that American abstract expressionist artist Joan Mitchell is to be the subject of a first U.K. solo exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Inverleith House) this summer from July 27 until October 3, 2010. And it's about time too!
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