Sarah Burton has been the perfect successor to Alexander McQueen. Spring Summer 2012 speaks for itself.

Shareen Joel, Miranda Lansell, Anna Skermer, Jane Kilpatrick, Romi Pack & Alice Davey!

Imagine an online interior design site that shares a curated collection of the ultimate product and interior design for your home and how to create the look.

That site is launching this month.

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Australian skincare brand Aesop have launched in New York with a kiosk at Grand Central that’s made from over 1000 copies of the New York Times. The newspapers were stacked, torn and bound in a wooden frame then topped with sheets of powder-coated aluminium. The kiosk is Aesop’s first venture into the American market and was designed by Brooklyn architect Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox.

Presenting the Fiat 500 by Gucci, Designed by Frida Giannini, the creative director of Italian luxury brand Gucci, This special edition, which  debuted recently at Milan Fashion Week and the Geneva International Auto Show, highlights Italy’s association with high-end fashion. It also serves to commemorate Gucci’s 90th anniversary.

My heart still lies though with the original 1957 Fiat ‘Bambino’ 500.

Emmanuelle Alt is the new editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris. After Carine Roitfeld stepped down earlier this year, the style icon has seamlessly filled the prestigious role. With her unique approach towards fashion and design, the new editor will undoubtedly place a fresh feel on the iconic magazine. Known for her French bohemian chic, Alt has become the new face of fashion around the world.

We are very excited to be shortlisted for the IDEA 2011 Awards in the single residential category for T Residence.

I am looking forward to you joining me at next’s Wednesdays ‘Conversation in Design’, where I will be discussing this year’s Milan Furniture Fair and key trends.

Nendo has done it again with another ingenious chair! Japanese design studio Nendo’s Transparent Chair appears as only backrest and arm rests but is a fully functioning chair wrapped in polyurethane film. a transparent material that is commonly used as a packing material for precision instruments and products susceptible to vibrations and shock. Nendo was able to use this material in a chair due to its high elasticity and ability to return to its original state.

The work of Nendo continues to invite the viewer into their creations for something a little unexpected and pleasant. the plastic chair seems to invisibly support one’s weight and form into a hammock while one’s body seems to float in space to other viewers.

London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood  invited food and design collective Arabeschi di Latte  to serve black food to guests at midnight dinners in a darkened apartment in Milan last week. Waitresses at the Underkitchen dinners wore perspex headpieces designed by Faye Toogood with milliner Zara Gorman and food included cheese served on coal, burned artichokes, bread dyed with squid ink and eggs cooked in black tea.

Titled Natura Morta, the Italian term for “still life”, the installation at Erastudio Apartment Gallery presented Toogood’s second furniture collection, Assemblage 2 . The outsized still lifes showcased in this provocative exhibition, which are composed from an abstract collection of hand-made and found objects, celebrate the darker side of the natural world. By replacing the delicate sycamore, brass and Portland stone found in Toogood’s first collection with more elemental materials, Assemblage 2 seeks to reinterpret its clean geometric forms made using leather, sand-cast aluminium, melted pewter, bronze, wax and resin.