 
 Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 07/08 Marc By Marc Jacobs has opened a store for Marc-obsessed English fashionistas in Mayfair. The sensation of London Fashion Week, Marc's new showcase is on 24-25 Mount Street and already giving a youthful lift to the elegant neighborhood.
 7 rue Malaquais on the Left Bank is the place to go shopping this season. Belgian designer Dries Van Noten has created a haven of refinement with antiques, lush fabrics, carrpets and Delisle ceramaic flower chandeliers, making his already divine spring collection even more desirable.
 Former San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jane Ganahl has recently published a very funny memoir called "Naked On The Page", celebrating the under-rated double whammy virtue of being both a middle aged woman and a bad girl. Set in San Francisco, Jane obviously knows more than many of her peers, who claim the City by the Bay is not a hot spot for single women. You may order it from Amazon.
 What else is she carrying in that big bag "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" Bette Davis's immortal line in "All Bout Eve" comes alive at the Dolce & Gabbana Autumn 2007 runway. Whips, chains, wide patent leather belts and a dark atmosphere proves to the fashion world that Stefano and Domenico aren't finished yet with S and M.
 Cate Blanchett—we like her acting, plastic Read what two celebrity plastic surgeons consider the perfect looks for today. Surprise—for the most part, these girls are skinny and white.
 Like most fashionistas, we want most what we cannot have. Like these ivory python flats, which for some reason cannot be sold in California because python is ILLEGAL. If this does not make sense to you, please email the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and complain today. Snake charmers and other reptile lovers need not apply. http://www.fws.gov/
Gordon Parks The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces a retrospective of the works of the late Gordon Parks, opening on March 21, 2007. "Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks" features 73 works chosen specifically by Parks for The Capital Group as examples of his most potent imagery. The exhibition, which fills two galleries at the Cantor Arts Center, remains on view through July 1. Born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93, documented crime and poverty, as well as its opposite - glamour. An African American photographer who began working professionally in the 1940s, Parks tackled the harsh truth and dignity of the black urban and rural poor in the United States. He photographed aspects of the Civil Rights movements and individuals associated with the Black Panthers and Black Muslims. Parks established himself as a foremost fashion photographer, providing spreads for respected magazines such as Vogue. For 25 years, from 1945 to 1970, he served as staff photographer for Life, the magazine of current events that mirrored mid-century American society. In addition to his documentary and fashion photography, Parks was a filmmaker, author, musician, and publisher, a renaissance man whose career embodied the American ideal of equality and whose art was bound up with his personal life. "'Bare Witness' includes many of Parks's iconic images, such as those made for the Farm Security Administration, the Office of War Information, and the Standard Oil (New Jersey) photography project," said Hilarie Faberman, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Cantor Arts Center. Cantor Center for the Arts |
