Life and Style
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.
(Reuters) - Twenty percent of Britons have managed to send racy texts to the wrong person, and nearly one in 10 has been caught red-handed "sexting," according to a poll on Tuesday.
Under-25s are the most careless, with 43 percent admitting to sending fruity texts to the wrong contact. Men and women were equally guilty.
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(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has pulled the plug on a new generation of smartphones less than three months after unveiling the devices that were part of its efforts to catch-up with Apple Inc and Google Inc in the fast-growing mobile market.
Microsoft said on Wednesday it had canceled plans to sell its "Kin" phones in Europe this Fall. The company added the internal team working on the Kin phones would be combined with the group working on Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Phone 7 software.
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.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A display inspired by travel and sponsored by a British newspaper took the top prize for best show garden at Chelsea Flower Show on Tuesday.
The Daily Telegraph garden designed by Andy Sturgeon and built by Crocus.co.uk Ltd brings together flavors of the Southern Cape, the maquis shrubland of the Mediterranean, the chaparral of California and Mexico and the matorral of central Chile.
Steel screens slice through the design and open clearings of sparse gravel provide places to pause on a journey that culminates in a courtyard at the rear, which is shaded by a cork oak and lulled by the sound of running water.
"I had the germ of the idea while I was on holiday with the children in Italy last summer, every day looking out at a dry landscape of evergreen oaks and lavender," Sturgeon told the Telegraph.
"I didn't want to do an exact copy or even a strictly Mediterranean landscape. I was just excited by the idea of capturing the atmosphere and the romance. Chelsea gives you a chance to experiment, and here I am definitely outside my comfort zone with the planting."
The Best Urban Garden award went to horticultural therapy charity Thrive for a small display created by award-winning designer Jo Thompson, which demonstrates how the charity helps people with disabilities change their lives through gardening.
The garden shows that age and disability are no barrier to gardening, and incorporates raised planter beds for ease of access, an outdoor fireplace, fountain and a seating area, whilst the trees offer support and shade.
Featured plants include Iris "Jamie Roo' making its show debut, as well as a delightful and rare Geranium 'Southease Celestial' alongside caramel-colored roses and rich blue and purple irises.
The Best Courtyard Garden award went to two English national parks for their "Two Moors Festival"
The garden sponsored by the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks Sustainable Development Funds and designed by Christina Williams reflects the landscape of Dartmoor and Exmoor and the festival's rural church concert venues.
BITTEN BY THE BUG
Chelsea 2010 Plant of the Year Award went to Streptocarpus "Harlequin Blue', the President's Award went to Medwyns of Anglesey and the Best Continuous Learning Exhibit to the World Land Trust.
Inside the Great Pavilion at the center of the Royal Horticultural Society's premiere London gardening show, long-standing competitors like Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres and Jacques Armand added to growing gold heaps.
Hillier won their 65th gold for trees, shrubs, climbers & herbaceous plants in a stand where the shrub Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii "Hartlage Wine" made its Chelsea debut.
Armand took its 24th gold medal for flowering bulbs & associated plants with a display that included some Champagne flute-shaped and amazingly dark Arisaema.
"You get bitten by the bug," John Jacques Armand told Reuters at Chelsea this week.
"It's my business, it's my hobby, it's everything to me."
(Editing by Steve Addison)
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