Since opening on March 28, 2008 in lively Cheongdam-dong, 10 corso como Seoul has become an enigmatic emporium of cultural cool and sophisticated style. The space provides the virtual narrative of a magazine layout, allowing shoppers to promenade through fashion, art, design, and literature, snapping up Kelly bags, Galliano frocks, and poetry along the way.

The fashion boutique, bookstore, design studio, and Italian garden restaurant feature a top-floor gallery space for temporary photography and couture and vintage clothing exhibitions. The stunning three-level design features 10 corso como’s trademark circle motif, resin floors, and eye-popping art by American artist Kris Ruhs. 10 corso como founder and former Italian Elle editor-in-chief Carla Sozzani chose Seoul as the concept store’s first international location because of the city’s unique dynamism and her admiration for partner Samsung Group’s philosophy and attitude towards culture and art.

Image Credits: Vanni Burkhart

Elizabeth Arnau is joining the red carpet at Cannes for the last day of the fashion week, which coincided with the world famous film festival. The Spanish designer, who has already shown in the Haute Couture Fashion Week New York and China Fashion Week in Beijing, began her line in 2005, in New York city. Arnau has two lines, the ‘Red Carpet Collection’ with evening dresses, gowns and bridal, along with ‘Teens & Chic‘, a diffusion line.

Running from May 12th-20th, the fashion event founded by Richard Nilsson, has seen an extravagant mix combining LA film star glamour with French chic fresh from the Cote D’Azur, joining a hint of Bollywood essence as Indian designer Shaahid Amir made his debut at the world’s most glamorous fashion sequel. Arnau is showing on the last day of the fashion week, at Villa Oxygene and The Playboy Mansion, Cannes.

The spring/summer collection of Monte-Carlo society atelier, Elizabeth Wessel, is titled ‘La Mer Du Nord’ and is all about the Riviera Woman . Inspired by memories of long walks on the immense Northern Beaches with hair flying in the wind, arms outstretched, twirling, shouting her joy, it resembles a boundless sense of freedom.

With silhouettes cleverly architected for absolute elegance, with plenty of evening dresses for glamorous nights on the Cote D‘Azur, daywear comes in silk satin bodice, Long knitted boatmen cardigans, marine style sailor trousers, knot draped skirts; made from linens, cotton quilts, silks, cashmere, the colours follow those in nature and range from deep-sea-blue to blue-cloud-grey, lilac thistles, duck green, white cream and bee yellow and black.

Wessel, who trained at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne, began her career as a designer at Torrente in Paris and received the ‘Gala de la Presse’ on her debut show for her first sole boutique in Paris in 1974.

Since moving to Monte-Carlo in 1980, she has become one of the Riviera’s leading designers. The collection “The North Sea” represents fond memories of freedom,carefree, unobtrusive, and a tribute to her elegance.

Holly Gaboriault’s latest work in surrealist collage features animals wearing couture. The author and illustrator who studied at Rode Island School of Design, has now turned to fashion to present a paper collection that she calls “Fashion Bestiary”.

Fashion Bestiary is created from a marriage of illustrated animal heads upon human figures wearing rich textured colours that are cut to shape out of handmade paper and old vintage magazines.

Her work has been influenced by the Surrealists and the French designers of the 1920s that existed alongside that movement, in an effort to draw upon our own animal-like characteristics and find beauty in the unusual.

After an early interest in archaeology that ignited her imagination, her work continually reflects stories from different cultures that she tells with aesthetics of 2D and 3D. Her previous collage work has been exhibited in galleries, is currently held in numerous private collections, and as a designer she has worked with window displays, theater and ballet.

Outside of her work in costume, Gaboriault has written and illustrated children’s books, where she continues to create a series of collage in volumes, exploring themes ranging from Etiquette to fortune cookie fortunes, and French paper dolls.

Her Providence studio is shared with two felines and steaming cups of mango tea.

FrostFrench’s new Soho location showcases their “classical with a twist of pop” clothing line in an intimate setting– all the better for rubbing elbows with celeb disciples Kate Moss, Lily Cole, and Pixie Geldof. (The simultaneous launch of their website means you can browse in your pajamas too.) At the November 10th opening party, scenesters sipped on strawberry martinis and admired the collection’s flirty frocks and argyle shorts.

Shin Youjin, Editor-in-chief of Elle Korea, Karen Langley, Senior Fashion Editor of Dazed & Confused, fashion designer Richard Nicoll, and other leading figures from the international fashion scene discussed current trends in fashion design, branding, distribution, and marketing at a recent Fashion Week event for up-and-coming Seoul designers. There was a palpable excitement in the air as guest speakers traded insider tips, heralded the emergence of film as a powerful artistic, communicative, and branding tool, and mused on the effect of High Street and celebrity designers on the general perception of fashion and its value as a traditional craft. Seoul’s designation as the 2010 world design capital and the significant increase of global interest in Korean fashion lent particular gravitas to the proceedings. The October 19th event at The Bailey House gave the talented audience of designers tangible tips on how to capitalize on the buzz and significantly expand their customer base in Europe and North America.

On the forested peninsula of Cap Ferrat, sits the grand palace of the Côte D’Azur. A member of The Leading Hotels of the World, The Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat has been a frequent resting place for guests from poet Cocteau, to the artists Picasso, Matisse and Rodin.

With 17 acres of magnificently manicured land, it is positioned against the most sublime sea-views, that stretch right across to the rocky shores of Monaco. So celebrated is this scenery,that that they have added a sea front wing, designed by architect Luc Svetchine that features eight new suites with their own private pool and terraces overlooking the sea.This joins a Spa Garden, created with outdoor sundecks and five outdoor treatment pavilions, with additional features such as a sea-front outdoor gymnasium and exercise area.

Since 1950, guests including Charlie Chaplin’s children, have also taken advantage of the pool at the Grand Hotel and its greatest selling point,, Pierre Gruneberg, the world famous swimming instructor renowned for his ‘salad bowl’ technique.Other Grand Hotel guests from Picasso to Jean Cocteau, have captured these famous lessons, which have been saved in his book of Grand Hotel memoirs, “Le Livre D’Or”.

Then after a day of relaxing in the landscape of France’s most exclusive region, award-winning Executive Chef Didier Aniès, Meilleur Ouvrier de France,oversees all three restaurants, Michelin star Restaurant Le Cap, Club Dauphin for pool-side daytime meals and La Véranda restaurant, serving authentic Mediterranean cuisine.

For added enjoyment, cooking classes with award-winning Executive Chef Didier Aniès and award-winning Head Pastry Chef Luc Debove are offered throughout the year by special appointment for individuals and small groups. Wine weekends featuring France’s greatest Châteaux and wine tastings with their expert sommelier are also available throughout the year.

Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat,71 bd du Général de Gaulle, 06230 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat Côte d’Azur, France

Tel : +33(0)4 93 76 50 50 www.ghcf.fr

Kicking their brand off to a fashionable start, the INGRI:DAHL Hollywood-styled 3-d glasses have featured at the Fashion Nights Out after party, the Glee 3-d premier, and have covered the eyes of icons from actor and Youtuber Nathan Ryan to Hip Hop artist Mod Sun.

Made by the Norwegian sisters Kine and Einy Paulsen, these glasses make fashion-technology-entertainment meet and come with Polaroid lenses, which are sold direct from their hub in LA.

The mission behind the creation is to make 3-d moving-going more style-savvy, than giant theater-throwaways. All frames are inspired by Hollywood, and come with a quirky namesake after; Roald Dahl and Ingrid Bergman.

After several seasons of NY runway shows and with its first London Fashion Week show confirmed for February 21, a perfume launch party featuring the Norwegian DJ duo NO DIAL TONE at the famous Mayfair fashion hotspot Jalouse was the logical conclusion.

The idea for this conceptual boutique scent was first conceived of during the development of the À LA DISPOSITION collection “Collective Memory”, which was based on the idea that one of the main triggers of personal memory is scent. In order to reflect the complexities of post modern life and our innate individuality, a concrete conceptualization of a unique double aromatic aura was perceived.

The perfume has been developed together with bespoke perfumers, Carvansons, who provided their international expertise to create a harmonious pair of fragrances. The fragrances are both made with the same base and middle notes. What distinguishes them is a subtle hint of opposing top notes which allow for an interactive play between both ambrosial scents. When applied together, they create a unique mixture that reflects the complexity and uniqueness of its wearer. {{intangible}} thus becomes your own.

Hip homebodies can now score KENZO’s Dr. Jivago-inspired coats, skinny jeans, and leather accessories with a few clicks of their mouse. Available across Europe, the recently launched online flagship boutique is stocked with KENZO’s Fall Winter 2009/2010 collection, as well as new and limited editions, like the geometric and floral KENZO notebooks that aid child protection charity Tomorrow’s Foundation. http://e-boutique.kenzo.com