French musician Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris home
Located on the Rue de Verneuil, the exterior of Gainsbourg’s home has become a place where fans come to celebrate his greatness, hence the graffiti. Although the neighbours once tried to paint over the ‘mess’ it was quickly restored by Serge fanatics and daughter Charlotte has apparently been trying to turn it into a museum as everything remains intact as it was the day he died.
Lydia Forte
Lydia is the daughter of hotelier Sir Rocco Forte and his wife Alai who is currently studying history at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. She was previously educated at St. Paul’s School in London, during which time she was noted by the Tatler magazine as one of the most eligible girls in England, and is said to be good friends with Princess Beatrice of York. click through for more.
Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, Italian socialite and sister of boho-chic icon Coco Brandolini.
photographed by Ellen Graham on the rooftop of the Ritz Carlton New York, full article and picture credits from this nysocialdiary.com post. Continue reading below for more photos.
The novel by Dirk Wittenborn was turned into a film and two years after production has been released on DVD, but you can watch the entire film (starring Donald Sutherland, Anton Yelchin, Chris Evans, Diane Lane, and Kristen Stewart) at hulu.com for free! The plot lines of the novel and film are basically the same, middle-class boy and mother are taken in by family of billionaires and find out their benefactors are terrible people. Set in fictional Vlyville, New Jersey, the setting is clearly based on the Johnson family’s Oldwick, New Jersey, estate (Wittenborn’s sister married into the band-aid family and he is the uncle of filmmaker Jamie Johnson).
Wittenborn and Johnson at Sundance Film Festival 2003
Kira Plastinina
If you’re a fan of Dasha Zhukova then you might enjoy meeting 15-year-old fashion designer and Paris Hilton wannabe Kira. Another star of the young Russian “bratski”, Kira is a phenomenon in Moscow where she has her own chain of high street stores which specializes in cheap-chic apparel similar to that of H&M and Topshop. The daughter of businessmen Sergei Plastinin (co-founder of Wimm-Bill-Dann, Russia’
s largest dairy producer), Kira was given a £50million leg up from pops to start her line and he has been supportive ever since, reportedly paying Paris Hilton £1million in 2007 to make an appearance at a Kira show. Luckily for Sergei Kira is dedicated and hopes to study at Parsons while over seeing the New York store (which was supposed to open in March 2008). (click through for more)
