Dreaming Of An Alber Christmas
Christmas at Claridge’s is fairy-tale stuff, on the list of “things to do before I die” for many. Add Lanvin to the package and the fantasy goes into overdrive. That’s what it was last night at the cozy soirée hosted by Alber Elbaz to unveil his new Christmas tree for the storied hotel.Elbaz takes over [...]
Joining The Jagger Cult
Last night’s dinner for Jade Jagger gave new meaning to the expression “tie one on.” The designer was in town to show off her new collection of jewelry, which included “disco diamonds” and baubles featuring Corinthian leaves and Apollonian arrows. “I wasn’t thinking of the Olympics, I promise,” noted Jagger, as plates of crab claws [...]
Have Pout, Will Travel
The lips run in the family, so no surprise that Jade Jagger stamped a kiss motif all over her new collection of sparkly tees for her Jezebel label. She was showing the new range—along with the jewelry she designs and produces in India—at Le Meurice hotel during Paris fashion week. All business, it would seem. [...]
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Last night in London, there was no shortage of parties—from private dinners to Natalia Vodianova’s star-studded Love Ball—so count it as a testament to how beloved Alice Temperley is that her Alice in Wonderland-themed fête at Selfridges was still a mob scene, with friends and fans doing their best to get down the rabbit hole. [...]
Blasblog: From Notting Hill to China
I’ll admit it: I did feel just a little bad about being so unpatriotic last week. You see, while my fellow Americans gorged on turkey, I hopped over to England, that island from which we separated so long ago, on the very holiday that celebrates the colonists’ famous feast on these fine shores. But nothing [...]
Born Lippy
In Jade Jagger’s new collection for her namesake jewelry line, one motif stands out: the “lip” shape in necklaces and rings, which put us in mind of another famous Jagger (or, now that half-sister Georgia is pouting for the camera, two). So was Dad cool with it? “I was just going to slip that by [...]
Vikram Chatwal’s Dream Comes True
Tourism is one industry hurting as badly as fashion, but in India, happily, business is still booming. Take Vikram Chatwal’s next Dream Hotel, in the lush city of Cochin in the state of Kerala, opening this weekend with one of Chatwal’s trademark over-the-top fêtes. It would be hard to best his week-long, multi-city wedding festivities, [...]
Blasblog From Paris: Jeremy Scott—London Bound?
Jeremy Scott has driven his fun-filled train of style through nearly every major fashion capital in Western civilization, putting on shows in New York and Paris, and basing his operations in Los Angeles. But the city he’s considering for his next takeover could be London—at least that’s what friend Henry Holland explained. “We’d take him,” [...]
Putting The Jezebel In Jade Jagger
As fashion followers well know, Jade Jagger does high jewelry. Her gold “skull rosary” necklaces, produced under her own name, go for £1,000 a pop; the pieces in her former collaboration with Garrard featured multi-zero price tags. What the stylish set is about to discover is that Jagger is putting her full name behind a [...]
Postcard From Dubai: Donna D’Cruz Reports From Atlantis
Last Thursday night was unreservedly iconic. The opening of Atlantis at Palm Jumeirah was filled with elegance, glamour, and a dazzling display of what happens in the crazy collision of East meets West with unbounded imagination, passion, and budget. The evening began with yours truly doing the cocktail set, which was attended by HH Sheikh [...]






