hot air
Bikram Yoga Paris is the latest hot spot (literally) for fashion insiders in the City of Light. This form of yoga, which is practiced in a room that’s heated to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, is old news in New York, but the trend is just taking hold among workout-averse Parisians (though co-director Marine Ochin assures [...]
dinner is served
Should someone feel compelled to give out an award, Akris would win hands-down for the most elegant party of Paris fashion week. On Wednesday evening, designer Albert Kriemler received about a hundred guests at the company’s City of Light HQ, a flat in the tony 16th arrondissement. As they looked out at the reflection of [...]
postcard from (late night) london
A far-flung correspondent reports from the zebra-striped ottomans of Bungalow 8’s new outpost:
There were apparently 17 parties on Monday night of London fashion week. A brutally edited cross section might have begun with Vanity Fair’s fête for Michael Roberts at Tim Jefferies’ gallery, Hamiltons. It was very friends-of: Mario Testino, Daphne Guinness, Elizabeth Saltzman Walker, [...]
e-mail from dr. lisa airan
Botswana is absolutely beautiful! The daily adventures into the bush are fascinating—it’s a different experience each time. We saw the Big Five: a lion, a leopard, an elephant, a buffalo, and a rhino. The various tented camps each have their own charm. Mombo has the best game viewing in Botswana. Abu is an elephant-back safari—we [...]
sweet surprise
Independent projects by the siblings of Hollywood stars don’t always fare well (see Frank Stallone, musical career of). But a recent trip to the Gesine bakery in Montpelier, Vermont, proved there are exceptions. Owned by Gesine Bullock, sister of Sandra, the Green Mountain store stocks a selection of goods as sweet and wholesome (and [...]

