This November 2012 the doors will open at 27 Bruton Street, W1; a six floor beautiful Georgian building dedicated to the World of Temperley. The building will house all three Temperley collections: Temperley London, the ALICE by Temperley contemporary line and Temperley Bridal across two floors equaling 2,500 square foot of retail space including a ‘By Appointment’ private shopping salon. The Bruton location will also hold the Press and Wholesale showrooms and their teams, and the Financial and Ecommerce offices, becoming the new Head Office location for Temperley London Ltd. The Colville Mews boutique in West London’s Notting Hill open since 2002, will be redesigned and become a destination store for Occasion Dressing with a focus on eveningwear and the expanding Temperley Bridal range including ready-to-wear and bespoke bridal collections. Can’t wait to see all of this!

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What happens when you are at the beach and you suddenly decide you would rather be skiing? Ugh oh. Not to worry following the recent opening of Moncler’s  new boutique in Cannes. The location joins those in Tokyo Aoyama, Beijing Sunlitun, Copenhagen, Geneva, Vienna, Naples bringing the brand’s store network to 75 freestanding boutiques, and features warm contemporary interiors designed by Gilles & Boissier.

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Last month  Angelo Galasso, bespoke menswear brand with outposts in London, Milan and Moscow, set up shop in the United States with its first location at the Plaza hotel in NYC. Located in the hotel’s historic Edwardian Room off of the main lobby the boutique features unique views of Central Park and 5^th Avenue. A thoughtful renovation of the space incorporating the hotel’s antique design elements matches the beautiful couture like quality of Galasso clothing. Visit AngeloGalasso.com for more information.

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Tomorrow the new ”Louis Vuitton–Marc Jacobs” retrospective opens at the Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Fifteen years ago the iconic French luxury goods house first partnered up with the wacky New York designer and since then a range of insightful and successful collaborations including the popular Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse products have emerged. The exhibition will illustrate how with over a century between them, both Louis Vuitton, founder of the house of Louis Vuitton in 1854, andMarc Jacobs, its artistic director since 1997 were able to fully discern their specific era and take advantage of all the possibilities offered.

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Set in his grandfather’s home town in southern Italy, the film director and winemaker Francis Ford Coppola’s Palazzo Margherita is the latest dream location in his series of resort spots. The beautifully restored 19th century mansion in Bernalda looks like the set of one of his daughter Sofia’s movies (it was the location of her wedding to Phoenix front man Thomas Mars last year) and is just fifteen minutes from the Ionian Sea. Visit PalazzoMargherita.com for more.

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Last week Paris’ newest must visit boutique, a concept shop conceieved by fashion forward friends Tallulah Rufus-Isaacs and Julia Van Hagen, called The Space was launched. Housed in the former boutique of American couturier Vicky Tiel (Tallulah’s godmother who used to dress Elizabeth Taylor) on Rue Bonaparte, the shop will stock up and coming luxury brands such as Australia’s Zimmeran and Willow and RDuJour favorites Bex Rox and The Sanaz Shirazi Collection.

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What is a Surfing Cowboy you ask? It is a term that Wayne & Donna Gunther coined to capture the lifestyle of freedom, transformation, and reinvention they found in California. It’s the reason why people come to California from all over the world. It’s the essence of the The West, whether you find it on the range, in the ocean or living in your heart.

When Surfing Cowboys opened its doors a special name was required. After all, nothing about the store fit into traditional categories. Think of surfers riding the waves, scooters riding the streets, cowboys riding the range. All these things evoke a sense of freedom and spirit for living. Surfing Cowboys evolved out of a similar spirit.

California. It’s the place where the desert meets the sea, where people come from all points on the globe let their hair down and live the way they want to live, being who they want to be. The perfect home-base for Surfing Cowboys.

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London restaurant / bar owners Hassan Abdullah, Stefan Karlson, and Michel Lasserre, of the popular Les Trois Garcons and Loungelover spots, acquired Chateau de la Goujeonnerie in 2006. Left in a derelict state they have since restored it with 21st Century comforts while respecting it’s past. Oringinally constructed in 1872 by the architect Arsene Charier in Loge Fougereuse, Vendee. Charier had been commissioned to restore the Chateau d’Azay le Rideau, one of France’s national treasures and was clearly inspired by it in the design of Chateau de la Goujeonnerie and very evident by the floating towers on the 3 corners of the chateau and the overall design.  Continue reading to view additional images of the fabulous interior renovation.

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From spring 2012 the V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers.  Displayed over two floors, Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 will feature more than sixty designs for social events such as private parties, royal balls, state occasions and opening nights.

The exhibition will cover over sixty years of a strong British design tradition that continues to flourish. Eveningwear from the V&A’s vast collection, by designers including Victor Stiebel, Zandra Rhodes, Jonathan Saunders and Hussein Chalayan, will be on show alongside dresses fresh from the catwalk shows of Alexander McQueen, Giles Deacon, Erdem and Jenny Packham. Read more and pre-book tickets at Vam.ac.uk.

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Iconic fashion model Carmen Dell’Orefice is the subject of a new exhibition (opening today) at London College of Fashion’s Fashion Space Gallery. Titled Carmen: A Life in Fashion, the exhibition features a series of photographs from the model’s personal archive:

Fashion Space Gallery presents the first major photographic retrospective of Carmen Dell’Orefice.   At eighty years of age, Carmen has become one of the world’s most enduring supermodels and a celebrated icon of both twentieth and twenty-first century fashion imagery and culture.  She began her modelling career at the age of thirteen, when she was discovered on a bus in New York on her way from the Park Central Hotel swimming pool.  In 1947, having become a favoured model of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, she appeared on her first cover of Vogue.  It was to be the launch of a long and illustrious career in fashion, in which Carmen has and continues to work with many of the most iconic names in the industry. Visit FashionSpaceGallery.com for additional information.

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