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Ralph Lauren's Cars, Private Parrot Cay Villa & More in Bid to Save the Earth Auction - Part 2

Filed under: Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels, Luxury Cars & Autos, Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Charity, Celebrity Design

Parrot Cay Villa for auction in Bid to Save the Earth

Last week we reported on the host of international celebrities, creative icons, industry leaders and conservationists joining together with famed auction house Christie's to support the 2011 Green Auction, a momentous live event and companion online auction raising funds and awareness for the preservation and sustainability of the planet.

Christie's has partnered with luxury charity auction site charitybuzz.com to put more than 200 coveted auction packages online from now through April 7 to raise funds for Oceana, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Conservation International and the Central Park Conservancy. Supporters can make a Bid to Save the Earth at www.charitybuzz.com/BidtoSavetheEarth.

A companion invite-only event and live fantasy auction hosted by Seth Meyers will be held at Christie's New York on March 29 in partnership with Vogue's Runway to Green. The event will feature a fashion show sponsored by Tiffany & Co. on the night of the live auction, with designer collection selections available online through Net-A-Porter.com.

In part one of our report on the incredible experiences on offer, we focused on the big ticket items estimated at over $100,000 apiece, including a ride with Harrison Ford on his private plane. Now we're selecting some of our favorite lots across a range of expected prices (N.B.: Lagerfeld and Ducasse are being auctioned off live tonight):

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/13/11

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal:
--Ron Tutor, one of the new owners of Miramax Films, has leased his 19,000-plus square-foot mansion outside Los Angeles for $25,000 a month. It had been listed for $18.9 million last January and was most recently at $12.9 million.
--The price of Maui's Hana Ranch has been cut to $55 million from $65 million, after 2½ years on the market. This working cattle ranch is comprised of approximately 4500 acres. The listing is here.
The Meredith family, of magazine publisher Meredith Corp., is asking $16.9 million for a 10,000-acre Montana ranch. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is listing his never-lived-in apartment 50 Gramercy Park North for $5.5 million. He paid $6.575 million for the co-op in 2006. The sixth-floor residence has three bedrooms and custom bookcases Lagerfeld designed for his extensive collection.
--The Villa Maria estate in Water Mill, which once housed the Sisters of St. Dominic, is available as a summer rental for $1.5 million. The property is owned by Vince Camuto, one of the founders of Nine West and has 11 bedroom suites, a pool and a tennis court. He bought the former nunnery from the Sisters of St. Dominic for $35 million in 2005.
--Retired Revlon executive Jerry Levin and his wife, Carol, are about to put their condo at 11-15 E. 70th St. on the market for $18 million.
--Socialite Nancy Sale Johnson Rashad, ex-wife of Jets owner Woody Johnson and mother of the late Casey Johnson, has put her triplex at 817 Fifth Ave. back on the market for $21 million. The listing is here.
--David Zarin, president of Zarin Fabrics and stepson of "Real Housewife" Jill Zarin, is listing his prewar home at 12 W. 72nd St. for $1.395 million.The listing is here.
--Gerard Butler toured the $6.2 million, 2,900-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse at 46 Mercer St., listed by Prudential Douglas Elliman's Frances Katzen.

From the Daily Mail:
--Billy Joel's third ex-wife Katie Lee has sold the New York townhouse she got as part of her divorce. Joel had paid $5.9 million for the West Village home in 2006. It was renovated and redesigned by Nate Berkus. Lee put it on the market for $12.9 million but sold for $11.65 million.

From Zillow:
--Zillow rounds up the homes of Grammy nominees.

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Volkswagen Style by Karl Lagerfeld

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Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

In an effort to give their otherwise ordinary hatchbacks an added dose of Style, Volkswagen has teamed up with none other than the inimitable Karl Lagerfeld. Together the German icons of industry and fashion have put together the new Style packages for the Volkswagen Polo, Golf and Golf Plus.

The packages add special touches such as new alloys, tinted windows and lamp lenses and the special badges, while the Style Plus package upgrades the wheels again and throws in a sunroof too. Unfortunately both are only available in Germany for the time being. Lagerfeld's commercial for the cars (in German) is after the jump.

Gallery: Volkswagen Style by Karl Lagerfeld

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Lagerfeld Launches 2011 Pirelli Calendar with Julianne Moore

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Actress Juliane Moore and several naked supermodels, including serial nudist Daria Werbowy, Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Erin Wasson, Natasha Poly and more appear in the just-unveiled 2011 Pirelli calendar photographed by Karl Lagerfeld. For the first time, thanks to Lagerfeld's influence and the Greek and Roman Mythology-theme of the shoot, which took place at Lagerfeld's studio in Paris, male models appear in the famed flesh fantasia as well this year. "It's my favourite religion: a god for everything," Lagerfeld tells Vogue UK regarding the calendar's theme. "I am a polytheist. I prefer mythology without hell, no sin – an obstacle to happiness – without forgiveness. I love goddesses because they were the first liberated women, who were entitled to everything. The goddesses and the muses are feminists!"

Tags: Daria Werbowy, Erin Wasson, Isabeli Fontana, Italy, Juliane Moore, Karl Lagerfeld, Lara Stone, nude, nudity, Paris, photography, Pirelli, pirelli calendar, supermodels

Twenty Years of Claudia Schiffer by Karl Lagerfeld

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Filed under: Apparel, Books

Quirky Chanel kingpin Karl Lagerfeld has been photographing his muse, supermodel Claudia Schiffer, for the past 20 years. To celebrate their "anniversary", teNeues has published a special oversized portfolio under the auspices of Germany's Stern magazine compiling the best of the Kaiser's images of the famed beauty from his archives. Claudia & Karl features six different covers, capturing Schiffer's personas ranging from studious to sexy. Also included for the first time are some new self-portraits taken in Paris earlier this year of Lagerfeld posing with Schiffer, whom he first met when she was 19. "Right from the start, Claudia was a personality and not just a model," Lagerfeld notes. "That is something completely different."

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One Hundred Legendary Louis Vuitton Trunks [video]

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Books, Video

In November Abrams Books will publish an incredible volume showcasing 100 legendary trunks made by the famed French luxury goods house Louis Vuitton since the firm was founded in 1854. The luxe luggage includes bespoke trunks made for movie stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sharon Stone and couturiers from Jeanne Lanvin to Karl Lagerfeld, as well as cases designed for Ernest Hemingway, Leopold Stokowski, and Damien Hirst. The trunks have been designed to hold everything from beds to bicycles, desks and iPods. Illustrated with 600 images taken from the Louis Vuitton archives in France and new photographs made especially for this book, Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks is designed to be the "definitive history of personalized objects of both practicality and luxury." The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon, meanwhile you can check out this incredible video preview.

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Keira Knightley Straddles a Classic Ducati for Chanel

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Filed under: Apparel, Luxury Cars & Autos

Gorgeous British actress Keira Knightley is starring in a sexy new ad campaign for famed French fashion house Chanel shot in Paris the other day. Knightley, clad in a skintight, full-length bespoke beige leather bodysuit specially designed for her by Karl Lagerfeld, sat astride a classic 1970s Ducati Super Sport painted to match. She also wore a custom helmet from Les Ateliers Ruby, the French luxury brand which collaborated with Lagerfeld on a series of haute couture motorcycle helmets for Chanel a few seasons back. Of course, Knightley also sported a bespoke pair of riding boots and gloves to match, the whole a nod to Emma Peel of Avengers fame. The ad campaign was shot at Paris' famed Place de la Concorde, stopping traffic in the process.

[via JustLuxe]

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RSVIP: Starry Karl Lagerfeld Relaunch of the Chanel Boutique in Soho

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Filed under: Apparel, Events, Architecture & Design, Luxury Shopping

The economy didn't appear to be an issue when Chanel reopened their boutique at 98 Wooster Street in Soho on Thursday night with an effervescent Euro budget. Champagne and trays brimming with bits of foie gras just kept coming on the wide black walkway built around the side of the building with louvered walls open to the cobbled street.

Also served to celebrities on trays were black cans marked Chanel that looked as if they held spray paint. Instead, the device shot infrared to create graffiti on slick black wall monitors. "All right," said Claire Danes, aiming her can. "We need to do some graffiti!"

Graffiti has never looked quite so elegant.

With a bejeweled, shimmering black jacket over her shoulders, Sarah Jessica Parker mentioned that only her shoes and the bag were not Chanel.

Peter Marino, in head-to-toe black-leather, said that he had designed the new Chanel Boutique with Karl Lagerfeld. He described the interior as "only black-and-white, no beige."

"Beige is the color of Chanel," said Marino. "But this is strikingly youthful. And there is a lot of artwork by up-and-coming artists: works by Robert Green, Gregor Hildebrandt-- he melted old 45 records into cake pans. Richard Woods did the black-and-white faux-brick columns." Up high, fluorescent lights wrapped in rubber were also art.

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The Fashion Statement: Lanvin at H&M!

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Filed under: The Fashion Statement

I can see the lines snaking around the block now! H&M confirmed it: Men and women will be able to get themselves some Lanvin at about 200 H&M stores on Nov. 23, according to Women's Wear Daily.

Word broke yesterday that the sizzling hot Paris label may be collaborating with cheap chic retailer H&M. Fashion industry bible WWD reported that the Swedish retailer was expected to announce plans with Lanvin and its creative director Alber Elbaz within the coming week.

Upon hearing the news yesterday, the fashion blogs went nuts, writing things like "Yes, Please!" and "Cross your fingers." Even a few well-heeled ladies I talked to vowed they would pick up a piece or ten from the capsule collection.

To wet our appetites, H&M has been posting 23-second highly stylized black and white videos on Facebook and Youtube. Quotes from a mystery designer comes through the mouths of male and female actors captured in flashing images that show everything but an actual face. Initially, the rumor mill focused on Tomas Maier of Bottega Venetta and Carolina Herrera as possible originators of the quotes. Then, WWD wrote yesterday: "While the camera never lingers on the faces long enough for recognition in the clips, the voice-over of designer musings, while electronically altered, are unmistakable Elbaz-isms."

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Lagerfeld Photography Exhibition to Open in Paris

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Filed under: Apparel, Art

An exhibition of photographs by Chanel kingpin Karl Lagerfeld is opening in Paris this September in time for the city's Fashion Week. The show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in the historic heart of Paris will feature a mix of fashion photos, portraits, landscapes, architectural images and personal shots, including several of his longtime muse, Claudia Schiffer. Lagerfeld, who shoots all of Chanel's ad campaigns himself, has published several books of his photographs, and has his own art book publishing imprint and book shop in Paris called 7L.

"What I admire most is the photographers who have gone down to posterity with a single image," the designer tells La Parisienne. "An image - I prefer this word to the word picture - which went down in the collective memory of the civilized world [... ]. Today the picture is part of my life. It closes the circle of my artistic and professional lives. I look at the fashion world with the eye of the camera. This gives my work a basic critical detachment that helps more than I would have suspected." The exhibition runs from September 10 to October 15.

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New Sailing Superyacht with Interiors by Christian Liaigre

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Filed under: Yachts & Sailing

Famed French interior designer Christian Liaigre's services are coveted by some of the world's richest and most talented men – Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld and Rupert Murdoch are among his better-known clients. Most of Liaigre's projects keep him on dry land, but his newest multimillion-dollar commission is a 220-ft. sailing superyacht. Built by New Zealand's Alloy Yachts with naval architecture by Philippe Briand, the AY41 (above) is a high-performance sailing yacht capable of comfortable world cruising, with an aluminum hull and superstructure, with carbon fiber spars and standing rigging. The unnamed owner of the yacht instructed Liaigre to create an "urban at sea" environment for the interior of the sleek craft, set to launch by the end of the year. Accommodations include five staterooms and a convertible gym housing 12 guests along with 11 crew.

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The Berkeley's Roof-Top Midnight Movies, Martinis and Manicures

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

One of the chicest boutique hotels in London has just added a little more glamor by transforming the spectacular roof-top terrace of its spa into a midnight movie theater, complete with home-made popcorn, mini ice cream cones, martinis from its famous Blue Bar and even manicures.

The Berkeley, which is located in fashionable Knightsbridge, is offering the latest fashion documentaries on a big screen under the stars. On Friday nights until the end of August, hotel guests and Londoners alike are invited to The Berkeley to enjoy mini ice cream cones and home-made popcorn as they sit underneath beautifully lit palm trees watching documentaries that offer a behind-the-scenes look at some of the world's leading fashion houses. Featured documentaries will include: Le Jour D'Avant, featuring Karl Lagerfeld, Sonia Rykiel, Proenza Schouler and Jean Paul Gaultier, Signe Chanel, Valentino: The Last Emperor, The September Issue, Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, and Lagerfeld Confidential.

As guests enjoy the featured presentation, therapists from The Berkeley Health Club & Spa will give manicures that feature a choice of Chanel's latest Les Pop-Up nail varnish. If you feel a chill in the air, mulberry blankets are on hand.

The Berkeley's Midnight Movies, Martinis & Manicures packages start at £485 ($725) plus VAT based on double occupancy and include an overnight stay with access to the roof-top cinema. A special Midnight Movies, Martinis & Manicures package is also available for Londoners for £85 ($127) per person which includes full access to the movie theater between 10 pm and midnight, two signature Blue Bar cocktails per person, snacks and a mini-manicure with Chanel's latest summer colors.

The package is subject to availability and is available on Fridays in June, July and August, weather permitting. Reservations can be made online or by calling the following toll-free numbers: (866) 599 6991 in the United States and 0808 238 0245 in the United Kingdom.

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Goyard Limited Edition Book in a Bespoke Trunk

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Books

Goyard, the luxurious Parisian luggage maker founded in 1853, is coming out with a limited edition book about the history of the illustrious firm fitted in a bespoke trunk (above). Goyard, whose cases feature a pattern of interlaced chevrons, has long had a devoted clientele of celebrities and royalty. Aristocrats such as the Grand Duke of Russia, the Maharajah of Kapurthala and the Duke of Windsor all traveled with Goyard luggage; as we reported in April, Chanel kingpin Karl Lagerfeld now brings dozens of Goyard trunks and suitcases with him on his journeys. The book is limited to just 233 numbered copies available by special order only complete with custom trunks priced at about $7,250.

Purchasers may choose from 12 different colors for the trunk, with monograms, stripes and other embellishments available at an additional cost. The number of the edition is painted on every trunk. Continuing the heritage of Goyard's prestigious collections from the 1920s, the book "resonates with and celebrates the golden age of luxury travel, from horse-drawn carriages to the great transatlantic ocean liners." Traditional letterpress techniques were used for the book, produced in collaboration with famed French art publisher Devambez and printed upon custom made vellum paper featuring its own watermarks.

Gallery: The Goyard Book

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The Fashion Statement: Cannes Style

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Filed under: The Fashion Statement

Le Festival de Cannes got underway yesterday bringing Hollywood to the French Riviera. Among the highlights expected this week? The debut of Sir Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel.

But it's not the films that interest us. It's the fashion shows.

First up, the Robin Hood premiere: Kate Beckinsale and Eva Longoria (pictured above), in particular, did not disappoint the fashion gods. Both showed up in frilly frothy gowns with dramatic trains of tiered chiffon worthy of the crimson carpet. Beckinsale chose Marchesa. Longoria was in Emilio Pucci. (Pucci, by the way, has created a limited edition caftan to be sold in their Cannes boutique to celebrate the festival.)

Cate Blanchett attended a press conference in an elegant in a Giorgio Armani Privé daytime dress and later made an entrance (and headlines) in a black, off-the-shoulder gown designed by the late designer Alexander McQueen. The dress is emblazoned, front and back, with a silver eagle taking flight and was part of the last collection designed by McQueen before the designer killed himself in February.

Meanwhile, Salma Hayek debuted the first ever haute couture collection from Gucci Premiere in the form of a deep red Bordeaux silk one-shoulder draped gown. Yes, surprisingly, the Italian house has never in its history produced an haute couture collection.

Gallery: The Fashion Statement: Cannes Style

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Lagerfeld's Library & More from The Selby

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Filed under: Decor, Books

Fashion and interiors photographer and illustrator Todd Selby is the latest blogosphere star to bring out a book of his work. The cult favorite auteur of The Selby features the eclectic homes and favorite spaces of Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin, Simon Doonan, Erin Wasson, Helena Christensen and more in The Selby Is In Your Place (Abrams, $35). Lagerfeld's massive library in Paris is particularly astonishing. The book consists of over thirty profiles, most of which have never been seen before, accompanied by Selby's watercolor portraits of the subjects and objects from their homes, and illustrated questionnaires along with the photographs. Cities represented include New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, and London. Like the site that spawned it, the book is an alluring "insider's view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail."

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