Jessica Stam

Need a little dose of spring color? Prada has released a zippy little ad for the Spring/Summer 2011 line full of bright colors and catchy music. The psychedelic film entitled Real Fantasies 2011 showcases those bold stripes we first saw last year. The playful video directed by James Lima features popular models Jessica Stam and Ginta Lipana dancing around interspersed with odd surrealistic moments.

Land Rover and Range Rover added an extra dose of style to two of Fashion Week's hottest shows with a fleet of vehicles for VIPs. The new Land Rover LR4 was the starring attraction at the Rag & Bone show in Soho, sponsored by the famed UK SUV marque, where beauties like model Jessica Stam (above) and Mad Men's Jon Hamm made the scene. And at the presentation by Marchesa, designed by Georgina Chapman, Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports provided luxe transportation for the likes of actresses Vanessa Hudgens and Michele Trachtenberg, musician Eve, socialite and TV personality Olivia Palermo, and model Irina Lazareanu. At both venues the vehicles sported the designer's logos, and when lined up impressively outside got nearly as much attention as the scenesters themselves.

"Land Rover is expanding its marketing profile with, for the first time, supporting a fashion house, Rag & Bone, during New York Fashion Week," noted Stuart Schorr, vice president of communications and public affairs, Jaguar Land Rover North America. "The Rag & Bone brand, led by Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, is admired for its refined and versatile aesthetic. Both Land Rover and Rag & Bone were born in England and enjoy massive global appeal. The Land Rover LR4 has evolved a distinct design heritage that is rooted in both authentic luxury and rugged capability. Similarly, through Rag & Bone, Marcus and David have established a legacy through high levels of skill and craftsmanship." Might we dare to hope for a Ltd. Rag & Bone Edition LR4 edition in the near future....?

Moss Lipow (above), the avant-garde eyewear designer whose celebrity fans include David Bowie, M.I.A., Elton John and the Olsen Twins, was recently named a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist, the first eyewear designer to be so honored. He appears in the November issue of Vogue photographed by Norman Jean Roy with Victoria's Secret stunners Jessica Stam (left) and Caroline Trentini (right) sporting his unique creations. "Moss really found a way to make eyewear and sunglasses creative again," Stam tells Vogue in a video documenting the shoot, "and for that he's really a genius." Describing Lipow's innovative designs Vogue notes their look "suggests the wearer is shielding superpowers from mere mortals." The New York-based designer is also working on an authoritative history of eyewear, replete with 1200 images from his museum-quality collection of vintage and antique pieces, as well as examples of his own incredible custom creations, to be published by Taschen next year.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--As was first reported by Bob at Big Time Listings, Howard Stern has paid $15.1 million for the apartment directly below his West Side condo in order to create a massive over 8,400-square-foot penthouse. Stern's buy is a combination of three separate units. He first bought in the building in 1998 when he combined two penthouse apartments.
--Baseball player Alex Rodriguez has been spotted checking out a home at the San Remo co-op. The five-bedroom home is listed at $6.975 million, a little mdoest by A-Rod standards.
--Rachael Ray has finally closed on her Southampton home. The home on 6.2 acres had a list price of $2.9 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Model Isabeli Fontana just spent $3.37 million on a three-bedroom apartment in the Trump Place development on Riverside Boulevard. She already has a penthouse in a Trump condo a few doors down. Fontana, who currently fronts the H&M lingerie campaign, already has two children so perhaps she needs the extra room.
--Model Jessica Stam, who is just 21, has already bought her third New York apartment .She first sold a co-op on East 16th Street, for $510,000 in August 2004 and bought an $800,000 condo four blocks down. She sold that place for $935,000 and now has paid $1.4 million for a loft at the Petersfield on Fourth Avenue.
--DJ AM has paid $1.995 million for a 1,147-square-foot apartment at One Kenmare Square, André Balazs'condo on Lafayette Street.
--Ex-Senator George Mitchell, who recently released a report on baseball's steroids problem, has sold his 3,150-square-foot, two-unit apartment at the posh Grand Millennium condo at 1965 Broadway which was listed for $6.65 million.
--Author and motivational speaker Dr. Joy Browne has sold her four-room duplex penthouse for $3.29 million to the art publishers Martin Bondell and Juliette Galant.

Also from the Observer:
--Suze Orman and her partner Kathy Travis paid $3,610,886 and 34 cents in cash for a condo at the Plaza in New York.
--Bob Costas and his wife Jill Sutton have picked up an $11 million condo on Central Park West.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--The official price of Simpson's voice Dan Castellaneta's house sale is $3,305,000.
--A look at the real estate dealings of currently jailed actor/celebrated bad boy Keifer Sutherland. As many know he owns a large warehouse building in Silverlake with the downstairs as a recording studio and living quarters upstairs. He also owns two other L.A. area homes.
--Jack Black has sold a 2,694-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Beachwood Canyon area for $1.462 million.
--via the Wall Street Journal, Burt Reynolds has dropped the asking price of his waterfront mansion in Hobe Sound, Fla. from $12,900,000 to $10,500,000. The listing is here.
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have sold their four-bedroom house in Nashville for $2.36 million and picked up 36 acres in Franklin, TN for $2.45 million.
--The records have cleared on a Beverly Hills home once owned by pianist and composer Burt Bacharach. It was listed for $3,495,000 and sold on August 31 for $2,990,000.
--A home in Studio City that was once owned by actress Jane Leeves has sold for an undisclosed price after having been on the market for $2,995,000.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
A Southampton, N.Y., estate formerly owned by Martin "Marty" Richards, who produced the Oscar-winning 2002 film "Chicago" and many Broadway plays, has just gone on the market for $65 million. It is our estate of the day, later today.
--Thomas Theobald, a former chairman of Continental Bank and his wife, writer, Gigi Mahon have listed their Greenwich, Conn., mansion for $17.9 million. We covered the home as an estate of the day back in November.
--A Houston mansion originally owned by Joanne King Herring the socialite played by Julia Roberts in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War" has gone on the market for $3.5 million, shown above. Ms. Herring built the home in 1954. The exceedingly lavish home includes a ballroom with wood paneling decorated with gilded bronze cherubs, violins and lyres. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Phil Romano, the restaurant owner responsible for Fuddruckers and Romano's Macaroni Grill has put his Dallas, Texas home on the market for $17.5 million. Wow, the wine cellar is like a retail store. Check it out at the listing here.
--As the Real Estalker predicted, Ellen DeGeneres who recently bought Max Mutchnick's freshly built Bev Hills mansion for $29 million, has also picked up the Cabrillo Drive property across the street.
--The Real Estalker Mama breaks down just how many celebs are moving into the much vaunted 15 Central Park West building in New York.
--Linda Bollea (also known as Linda Hogan, wife of Hulk Hogan) was recently renting a home in Little Holmby Hills for a rumored $18,000 per month.

From the AP:
An estate that belonged to late society photographer Lord Lichfield has been sold for more than £34 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Johnny Depp has yet to move in to the penthouse he bought in the turquoise Art Deco Eastern Columbia Building in downtown L.A. All but half a dozen lofts on the penthouse level have been sold and prices run from the high $600,000 range to $2.2 million. Other buyers include comedian Ant and Slade Smiley, who was on the TV show "The Real Housewives of Orange County."
--Alfred Villalobos, a former deputy mayor to Mayor Richard Riordan, has listed his compound in a Woodland Hills gated community at $3.6 million. The listing is here.
--A portion of the property in West Hollywood that once belong to Irvin Willat, a silent-film director, is expected to be on the market soon for around $30 million.