MILANO

Hey Folks

I am like TOTALLY TOTALLY JEALOUS about what Pippa has been up to while I was at a trade show in Milan! OMG - can you imagine who she met?! [see below!] I know that she will be a little interested to know that I met Emilio Fiorucci in Italy and his lady trundling around the show in a navy blue sweater and jeans, and his wife was in a navy blue mac and a Marimekko print cotton bag over her shoulder.

I have to say I'm not as enthralled with Milan as I am with Paris, Hamburg or Hobart and I was so relieved to be home again but there were some cool parts:


Two nights we went to a restaurant called Bagutta for dinner. Here is what an Italian calls scampi! Bagutta is a restaurant with an amazing history and is worth a visit mostly for the amazing art work all over the walls in frames and the literary awarded books in shelves in the hallway. The restuarant opened in 1924 and attracted a lot of artists, journalists, writers, actors etc etc. A group of them met their regularly, so regularly in fact that they decided to start a system of fines if someone didn't make it. The money was used to start a literary award - "BAGUTTA" for their favourite book of each year. The Bagutta is the oldest literary award in Italy. On the walls the paintings are from the nights awards were presented or the group met to honour someone prestigious. One of the waiters also told me that sometimes the owner of the restaurant would swap artwork for a meal from one of the diners instead of payment. They styles of this artwork as it changes through the decades is fabulous.


Some examples of the artwork.


Bagutta wasn't my favourite food place though - I prefered this other fish restaurant we went to and I can't remember the name. Check out how cute my dessert was though!


I did get some time to party on one night - and it seems that in Italy, Italo will never die. I so wanted Max to see these two party people.


And here is my new best friend I met at the club, Chiara, throwing the new sign I showed her. She has an amazing collection of glasses frames - she doesn't even need to wear glasses...

So that is enough from me.

xx Emma

Encore....

Je ne comprends pas pourquoi mais je suis fatigue.....I ALWAYS seem to begin a blog with how tired i am! "You've always been tired, girl..." i can hear the dulcit tones of Miss Murphy now!

Anyway Paris was tres fantastique - i know where the accents go honestly but how do you do that on a computer? (answers please to shop at maison b) - we spent time with Jean Touitou from APC, more about that soon.... I think my favourite story was the party he held with Maripol for Madonna in Fiorucci!!! anyone who knows me and Max will understand we were GAGGING!!

Here's Max and Jean Touitou, a couple of swells.
We also went to our buying appointments at APC and sonia rykiel. I fell in love with this dress and crazy dolly shoes - now i have to wait 6 months til we get them in! I hate that!!


Wierd coincidence; I was seated on the Eurostar next to a friend of mine, Antionette...she's a lovely girl who's been coming down to The World According To... and Shop before that for about 7 years or so, young girl to gorgeous lady, and i've always enjoyed chatting to her, but we got the chance to spend several hours together, even a couple of glasses of rose and got to know each other better, she was in Paris for much less frivolous reasons than me.....despite the circumstances it was great seeing her.

Then it was glamour all the way at Sonia Rykiel, where there's a huge Warhol portrait of her at the end of the entrace hall, past a whole corridor's length of scent bottles all lit by lilic light - they must be filled with coloured water though, even still the temptation to pop one of those gorgeous bottles in the pocket is overwhelming!!!!


We hung out with the Eley Kishimoto gang, they'd been partying like crazy all week and we had some fine french sancerre with them and Richard from the George even shared his japanese hangover meal with me - how kind!
Lots of exciting things happening, Emma's told you about Bodymap...I'm djing with max at the Hoxton Bar and Grill on friday night with Pinky Brown and the Lovely Jonjo, it's called Fun City like the Soft Cell song...Trash Fashion are playing http://www.myspace.com/112274396. I'm loving it down at the cake shop and we've got lots of plans for the next few months which will unfold.............soooooon!!