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...squared off kind, seems to be a theme at the couture shows this season. Bruno Frissoni, the affable shoe designer who also heads up the creative direction of the house of Roger Vivier, presented a small collection of couture shoes and bags in his first-floor office on the Faubourg St.-Honore. The most stunning pair was called "Boxes" and consisted of black and gold lacquered wooden boxes stacked on top of each other to form a heel and a sole. "It's like placing your foot on a console," Frissoni said. Most of the collection, which also included clutch...
...dead man, Christopher Smith, 19, had survived Hurricane Katrina-evacuating to Dallas before the storm hit-but he could not, apparently, survive the new old New Orleans. It was the second murder of the day, coming after a man was robbed and then shot in the Faubourg Marigny, a nightlife neighborhood downriver from the French Quarter...
...await. Or there's 4X Gastraum, tel: (49-40) 4318 8432, an inventive seafood restaurant (and brainchild of one of Germany's emerging culinary stars, J?rgen Zimmerst?dt) that is rightly the talk of the town. If you want to fully appreciate Marktstrasse's progress from grunge ghetto to fabulous faubourg, just book a table here...
Generational succession is something Mendel, 46, observed growing up in Paris, where his father and grandfather worked in the family's store on the Rue du Faubourg-St. Honor�. At first Mendel was reluctant to join them. ?I wanted to come to it from my heart, not by necessity,? he says, but in 1981 he began apprenticing with his father. After eight months, he struck out on his own. ?My dream was to open a beautiful store on Madison Avenue,? he says. His first stop in New York City was Fifth Avenue and the headquarters...
...know she had an affinity for the designer's glamorous, effortless style. In the late 1970s and 1980s, when Azzaro was famous for dressing bombshells like Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch, Seward was a schoolgirl growing up just around the corner from the glitzy Azzaro boutique on Paris's Faubourg St.-Honor?. "In fact, my mother used to work there as a salesperson in the eighties," says Seward, "I knew the house quite well." By the time Seward broke into fashion, first as an assistant to Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel and later to Tom Ford at YSL, Azzaro's popularity...