You'd better hurry if you want to see the hats, shoes, dresses and immaculate gloves that were an essential element of the style which made Grace Kelly a fashion beacon for millions of women around the world.
The "Grace Kelly: Style Icon" exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert museum will be closing its doors in September, so there are only a few weeks left to see the clothes, mementoes and videos which replay the life of Hollywood royalty turned real-life princess.
Sporting top hat and tails with a pink rose in his buttonhole, the ebullient Italian argued that when it came to elegant racing it was no contest. Ascot beat the Kentucky Derby and Arc day in Paris every time.
"Absolutely. At Royal Ascot we have had 300 years of practice," he told Reuters, reveling in the fashion extravaganza as women paraded in their finest for Ascot Gold Cup day. For Dettori this is "the Olympics of racing."
(Reuters) - A bidder has agreed to pay $2.63 million for a steak lunch with the billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a charity auction held on eBay Inc's website.
The highest bid in the 11th annual auction topped the previous record $2.11 million paid in 2008 by Zhao Danyang, a Hong Kong investor. Wealth manager Salida Capital Corp of Toronto won with a $1.68 million bid in 2009.
(Reuters) - Simon Cowell on Wednesday will end his nine year run as the judge Americans love to hate on "American Idol", with no word on who will fill his shoes.
Cowell has said his successor on the TV singing contest should give honest critiques and have solid music industry experience.
Following are some of the names mentioned in the U.S. media as possible candidates for Cowell's "Idol" job. Fox television executives have not said when they will make an announcement.
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australia's fashion industry is putting on the glitz for its major annual show next week with prospects brighter after the financial crisis and rising global interest in a new guard of Down Under designers.
Last year's Rosemount Australian Fashion Week was 15 percent smaller than the previous year with only 41 shows which mirrored similar cuts at shows in the major fashion capitals of London, Paris, New York and Milan.
But Daniel Hill, general manager of event organizer IMG Fashion Australia, said interest had picked up this year with more than 60 shows scheduled between May 3-7 and over 165 registered international buyers and media, up from 134 last year.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A work blending surrealism and the Cuban variant of voodoo tops this week's Latin American art auctions, which also feature long-unseen paintings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera and wife Frida Kahlo.
The Christie's sale Wednesday and Thursday and Sotheby's Thursday and Friday auctions each have high estimates of $25.2 million, sums reminiscent of strong demand in 2008.
"People are starting to enjoy their money again, not keeping it," said Sotheby's Latin American art chief Carmen Melian. (Some) buy cars, boats and houses ... others invest in art."
The following guest post by Hena Zuberi caused great debate and discussion among the MM staffers as to whether to ignore the subject or let Sr. Hena’s voice be heard. There were concerns about being too reactive as well as piling on a “non-practicing sister” (who later declared herself free from Islam). However, some of us felt that what was at stake was above and beyond the Miss USA competition. Rather, it was about role-models and the type of role-models that Muslims have become so desperate to cheer on. It was about our own dignity and integrity. It was about being sandwiched between terror and bikinis. Here’s to highlight the diversity among us!