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...dream destinations where they can disappear (and turn off the BlackBerry) for some respite: a bicycle ride through the Versailles gardens in France or a séjour at Thailand's Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, where guests learn how to interact with elephants. Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin likes to escape to a house he built on the Nile in Luxor, Egypt. New York City--based wunderkind designer Zac Posen recently ventured to Istanbul (a city currently experiencing a major luxury boom) to collaborate on a special clothing collection for the Turkish luxury-goods company Vakko...
Fashion?in the form of one of Turkey's oldest brands?is what lured Demet Muftuoglu, 36, back to her hometown. Muftuoglu, who wears curvy Zac Posen dresses and Christian Louboutin heels, was living in New York City when she was offered the art director position at Vakko?loosely Turkey's equivalent of Burberry. She brought New York with her, in the form of seasonal collections for Vakko by Zac Posen. "I think we have even more fun than in New York because of the Bosporus. It gives us such energy," she says...
...like places that tell the real stories of Paris," says Christian Louboutin, sitting in his cluttered office on the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "Hôtel Drouot, for example, is a place where you see people selling their estate, and when they do, you see really their whole life. It's not just an auction house with glamour sales of famous paintings." Among his other usual haunts: a gardening bookshop, a restaurant for the blind and a very reliable Parisian shirtmaker. Here's a peek inside the little black book of one of fashion's greatest footwear designers...
Opposite page, clockwise from left: Christian Louboutin crêpe de Chine and nappa Josephine shoe (Christian Louboutin store, 212-396-1884); Hermès Collier de Chien bracelet hermes.com) David Yurman cuff davidyurman.com) Versace Signature belt versace.com) Louis Vuitton Miroir Pochette louisvuitton.com) This page, clockwise from left: Donna Karan Collection Saskia ankle boot (Donna Karan Collection stores, 866-240-4700); Vertu 18-karat gold Constellation cell phone (Neiman Marcus and Tourneau stores, 888-888-4757 and 866-597-0595); Daniel Swarovski clutch swarovski.com) Pierre Hardy pump (Aloha Rag, 808-589-1352). Styled by Rachel Haas...
...Right now there's so much happening in the Middle East that it's top of mind, it's not by accident," says Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who recently returned from a tour of Riyadh and Dubai. Miuccia Prada, who showed her Miu Miu collection in Paris, at first resisted pegging her work this season as political. But she admitted that, for the first time, she felt the urge to "take more consciousness and more power for women." Her clothes--black anoraks and heavy shoes--reminded her of the more reactive '60s and '70s, she said...