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POV headlines | week2 of July 11

- Mme. & M., the press presents you the predictable new born style icon – Duchess of Cambridge.
- Philip Treacy talks about the question he asked the Queen, Gaga, Liz Taylor, and that “fascinator”.
- Commune de Paris 1871 x 10 Corso Como’s summer tee – 45€ each, exclusively at the Tokyo store.
- What do Marc Jacobs, Lili Barbery-Coulon (VogueParis’s beauty editor) and many other share? Joelle Ciocco! And it’s not available in HK?!!!
- Can someone give Lula or Diglee a big fat check to make an app similar to The Fashion Story, it’d be so much fun.
- Chic in motion~ wanna channel a frenchman’s 7-day outfits (modeled by Alexandre Cunha)? Check this.
POV headlines | week1 of May 11

- “Because you’re worth it, Inès!” You’ll see her around even more. At 53, de la Fressange has become the “Paris ambassadress” for L’Oreal, while hosting book launch, talks and posing for Jean Paul Goude chez Lafayette.
- An official clarification made: the site that features insiders’ home ‘n treasure is now renamed - The Coveteur.
- After the footage of Dior’s niece, could this be another piece to help Galliano? Go, dig it all out!
- Lanvin always nails it, aren’t they? An old pic was found and they now make kid’s kit to echo the heritage.
- DG’s Spiga2 highlights Daniele Carlotta on Swide.
- A commoner’s dress lingers for good. Burton rebooted McQueen the brand. Question: did the family sell the rest of his share to PPR? Did Anna and PPR even think about inviting the McQueens’ to the MET?
On The List | May 2011

Protected: POV Convo | Prada’s Beijing show
Carine leaves VogueParis
I think she already hinted at the end of this CNN special from last March. At the time I secretly thought, like everyone’s assumption today, is she going to Tom Ford? … rather accurately, as the narrative said at the end – “It’s at perhaps, that it is an impression rather than words that she leaves us with.”
Weekend Wonder | ooops! it’s all about bags…

- Melancholia chez Givenchy par Riccardo Tisci continuer, pourquoi pas?
- Drawstring bucket bag style has come back big time, and I mean BIG! And this is one of the perfect modern ones.
- You just can’t have enough la Carla (chez Roger Vivier, not Palais de l’Élysée), especially when they come in giraffe patterned pony skin.
- Last but not least, I simply pro-Chyc (chez YSL) next fall.
On The List | February 2010

The Beautiful Fall | the movie
So, according to style.com, <The Beautiful Fall> the movie is in the making: “…here’s the fashion movie we’d really like to see made: <The Beautiful Fall>, set in 1970s Paris with pretty boy Rupert Friend in the YSL role and as nemesis, Karl Lagerfeld … the studly Gerard Butler.”
Is the casting director taking the piss or what? Guess Karl would love the idea to have a ‘Butler’ to play his hunky-dolly self back in the day. And can the actor go really camp in French, Italian and English- all with heavy German accent? And Friend to become Monsieur Saint Laurent. Oh no no no no no, sure this’ll get lots of disses, maybe in 2010 … Until then.
Read it first if you haven’t!
A Matter of Fact | Carine’s shirt
Reading this just now alerted me, but followed by style.com shocked me. Although the report is about Equipment, the French shirt brand founded by Christian Restoin, Carine Roitfeld’s partner, being revived by Serge Azria, CEO and creative director of Joie and Current/Elliott, and Restoin has signed on as a creative consultant. What caught my attention was both Fashionologie and style.com suspect the silk khaki shirt Carine wore during recent fashion week was from that line, when it’s in fact from Paul Smith’s FW09 (exit 22 to be exact).
