Tom Ford’s debut movie, A Single Man, makes its U.S. premiere at the American Film Institute Festival tonight in Los Angeles. We’re sure it’ll be an insanely glam affair, like everything the designer-turned-filmmaker touches. We wish we could be there, and we don’t think we’re the only ones under Ford’s spell. Remember the killer white [...]

Yesterday in Milan, there was a kind of study in opposites. Bottega Veneta’s (ultrachic) casual walk in the park versus Gucci’s stomp in a vaguely futuristic cityscape.First, Bottega Veneta. As the Lord of Low-Key Luxe, Tomas Maier has never gone ridiculously Ricci-esque in his footwear. But we take these gently crafty wedges and nearly horizontal [...]

Frida Giannini may not give us the juicy fashion gossip we crave, but her self-decorated and renovated plush eighteenth-century Italian villa, complete with an olive grove, reflects the classic, bohemian luxury she brings to Gucci, and makes us more than a little envious.
Recently folded Playgirl magazine tried really hard to be a smart, topical, [...]