Demi Moore chose a minimally structured column gown from Victoria Beckham’s Fall ‘10 collection for the Hollywood Domino pre-Oscars gala last night. A tricky silhouette? Not for a red-carpet pro like her. The royal blue against Demi’s dark hair is a great color combination—especially now, when the fashion world is giving a full-on embrace to [...]

I love Bulgari’s Parentesi collection, but diamond-encrusted high jewels are a little heavy for every day. (They’re also a little out of my reach, but that’s neither here nor there.) This new leather necklace, on the other hand, is cool, young, and fresh. It reminds me of army tags, so it’ll layer beautifully with my [...]

The Standard’s ultra-chic 18th-floor bar (which will likely be known as the Boom Boom Room until the day it dies) is now a live-music venue. Singer Sasha Lazard became the space’s first official performer last night when she turned a corner platform into a stage for herself and a handful of musical collaborators and treated [...]

It was a reunion of sorts: Ginnifer Goodwin, Selma Blair, a host of fabulous Bulgari jewels, and me. The occasion was Bulgari’s dinner at L.A.’s Sunset Tower last night, in honor of the upcoming Christie’s auction of the Italian jewelry house’s 125th Anniversary Collection. It was just six months ago that we’d all celebrated Bulgari’s [...]

The e-tailing juxtaposition of very old and very new is, well, not new. Vintage obsessives have been trawling eBay since two crashes ago, but the latest news on the front comes from Bluefly.com and Yoox.com. The former is teaming up with fine jewelry buyer CIRCA for a 48-hour sale, starting at 6 a.m. on June [...]

As a special treat for the American VIPs attending Bulgari’s 125th anniversary soirée tonight (more on the gala and 500-piece exhibition tomorrow), Nicola Bulgari hosted an intimate welcoming dinner in an unexpected location yesterday evening: his underground garage! Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Alba, and Ginnifer Goodwin mingled with Bettina Zilkha, Debbie Bancroft, and CNN’s Alina Cho [...]

Come February 2010, shoppers in Dubai will be able to peruse the racks at the first Bloomingdale’s outside the United States. The iconic New York department store is slated to anchor the world’s largest indoor shopping center, the Dubai Mall, which clocks in at 12.1 million square feet—and which boasts the world’s largest aquarium. (You [...]

“Get yourself down to Bulgari now, fab party!” was the text one rather taken-aback journalist received yesterday evening from a fellow writer already knocking back Champagne at the jeweler’s store opening on Avenue George V (store openings do have a habit of veering toward the bland, hence the surprise). So get down there I did. [...]

“Los Angeles is molto Bulgari-style,” praised Tuscan-born accessories director GianLuca Lera at a private luncheon celebrating his arrival on the West Coast and honoring the California State Summer School for the Arts yesterday afternoon. “Each of the women are like jewels, especially the ones I see here today.” Lera was referring to the likes of [...]