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SUNDAY E tutto finito - time to go home......

SATURDAY NIGHT Seen running to yet another fashion show and filing a piece by phone at the same time - please note that he is not winkin...

SATURDAY Seen in Brera Lifeball organizer Gery Keszler with Models Diana Gartiner and Debra Shaw - Buy your tickets now for Europe'...

FRIDAY NIGHT Seen at belt manufacturer's Claudio Orciani's 25th anniversary party "La Bambola" Patty Pravo treated us t...

FRIDAY Ferre # 3 This collection is so stunning, glamorous and photogenic that it seems made for the Oscars! Mr. Ferre describes it in...

FRIDAY Ferre # 2 In between shows Gianfranco Ferre is being coddled backstage by his assistant Giovanni and his manservant Kimbo who has...

FRIDAY Ferre # 1 "Senza Fine" Ornella Vanoni was one of the icons of Italian pop music arriving at the Gianfranco Ferre show -...

THURSDAY NIGHT Valentino Seen at the Valentino fashion presentation Roberto Geronzi - CEO of Wolford - wearing a Livestrong wristband ...

THURSDAY NIGHT Valentino - social # 2 Seen at the Valentino purple and yellow fashion presentation -Contessa Lavinia Borromeo now neo-wi...

THURSDAY NIGHT Valentino -social #1 Seen leaving the Valentino Spring Summer presentation - Principessa Marina Pignatelli - Contessa Gi...

THURSDAY Quiz # 2 Roxanne Lowitt Guess why "paparazza" Roxanne Lowitt is hiding her face...?

THURSDAY Quiz #1 Carla and Franca Sozzani Guess which foot and shoe belongs to which Sozzani sister?

WEDNESDAY # 4 Missoni Dennis and Victoria (wearing vintage Missoni) Hopper are doing the rounds of the fashion shows this week - he was ...

Wednesday # 3 Missoni Show This surely is Angela Missoni 's best collection she is so talented - her father Tai said that this colle...

WEDNESDAY # 2 Mixed together almost by chance is the theme to Alberto Biani 's collection: As when, the hyperfeminine jacket ends ...

WEDNESDAY - very early morning - first show Everybody is very tired, it's too early - it's been a hard days night - models are h...

TUESDAY NIGHT "Jackie made me famous" says paparazzo Ron Galella at the opening of his first European show at the New Photology...

TUESDAY # 3 more Leopard print I don't want to boast, but look at my shoes - yes leopard print - these Belgium Shoes are the moccas...

TUESDAY # 2 Behind the scenes Hush hush - I should not be showing you this sneak preview of what the dressmakers are sewing in Gianfranc...

TUESDAY Behind the scenes An unknown model going to a casting for a fashion show, walks the streets of "Montenapo" - note the...

MONDAY # 2 He's an Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper was just one of the many personalities at Albert Watson's retrospective FROZEN at ...

MONDAY Albert Watson and HRH Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco arriving at the opening of his exhibition FROZEN which was certainly the ev...

SUNDAY Today being Sunday and as Fashion Week is not quite yet in full swing - what could be more appropriate than to bring your attenti...

FASHION WEEK MILANO I am finally up to date - on my way to Milano for the pret a porter!

GREAT STYLE I'm not here to talk to you about music even if the subject of my blog is the famous conductor Claudio Scimone - I just ...

AN IDEA FOR LEFTOVERS! I was stuck for something to cook - this is really easy and so good - line an oven proof dish with sliced leftove...

CRUET SET Modern and Antique I'm still at Susanne for lunch and I liked the elegant way she put together this cruet set - note the...

MILANO in the rain I'm still back blogged - it's around September 15th - in Milano it is often grey, rainy and there is always a...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 9 U.S. PAVILION - PREDOCK_FRANE ACQUA ALTA photo courtesy www.transcond.com Called ...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 8 BRITISH PAVILION - JOHN PAWSON NOVY DVUR MONASTERY John Pawson is one of nine archite...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 7 CITIES OF WATER The floating city is really the first floating pavilion of the Biennal...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 6 BELGIUM PAVILION - MARIE-FRANCOISE PLISSART - Photographs and videos KINSHASA, THE IMA...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHTECTURE # 5 iTALIAN PAVILION - WILKINSON EYRE ARCHITECTS REFLECTIONS This dark and mysterious ins...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 4 ITALIAN PAVILION - MASSIMO SCOLARI TURRIS BABEL AND LIGHTING Not easy to miss these ...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 3 photograph by Manfredi Bellati JAPANESE PAVILION - VARIOUS ARTISTS OTAKU This little...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 2 ITALIAN PAVILION - KENGO KUMA & MICHITAKA HIROSE NIWA WHERE THE PARTICLE RESPONSES...

SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 1 New York Based contemporary art dealer Lucia Debrilli and Milan Photology gallery owner ...

twentyfour/seven I love this expression, it's so cool and modern - concise - it's full time

HAPPINESS is........BEING OWNED by a JACK RUSSELL TERRIER........ C 1997 The Jack Russell Store Let me introduce you to "Le Bambi...

PASTA ALLA VERNACCIA So, it's still the end of August and on my last night in Sardinia, my host Sebastiano, who is also a very g...

FREGOLA SARDA SALAD I'm so back blogged that let's pretend this is still the last week of August and I'm still holidaying in ...

LAVENDER # 2 Now that summer is coming to an end and I'm imagining fields of lavender in Provence with blue skies...the "simp...

VERY VERY VERY LIGHT SUMMER READING: BERGDORF BLONDES by PLUM SYKES - Penguin/Viking - 2004 Dear plum, I read your book in a day, it wa...

I LIKE LAVENDER: - the color - the smell - the plant - the perfume (ACQUA di PARMA is the best!) - the incense and hand made lavende...

EASY SUMMER APERITIVO: Open a packet of Carasatu, Sardinian flat dry bread, peel and slice thin some bottarga, drain tuna and mix with cre...

Even jpeg loves my food! Photo by Maria Gabriella Sorbara