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Chic New Style Books to Collect — Diane Dorrans Saeks Loulou de la Falaise by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni and Ariel de Ravenel, with a foreword by Pierre Bergé and virtuoso photography by Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon and Steven Meisel (Rizzoli, $65). Loulou seems to have never made a move without a photographer nearby. The authors (longtime pal de Ravenel was a partner in Loulou's jewelry enterprise) interviewed the chic intimates: Betty Catroux, Christian Louboutin, Paloma Picasso, and Elsa Peretti. Can't wait for this celebration of an elfin icon. Snowdon: A Life in View by Antony Armstrong Jones, with a foreword by Graydon Carter and an introduction by Patrick Kinmonth (Rizzoli, $85). Contributors ranging from Grace Coddington to Suzy Menkes offer a who's who of the style world during the last five decades. The Royal Family is handsomely represented, with baby pictures at Buckingham Palace and weddings — but Tony had his louche side, and it's brilliantly on display. The Best of Flair, edited by Fleur Cowles, with a foreword by Dominick Dunne (Rizzoli, re-edition, $125). Artist and visionary Fleur Cowles published Flair magazine in the '50s, and devotees covet and collect these precious few issues. Cowles, like Diana Vreeland, was a style setter who loved to make statements — this, from the February 1950 issue: "Fashion is an eye. Every woman's eye. Your eye. And inevitably, fashion begins with the inner eye, with self-awareness, with understanding of all your powers, physical, mental, spiritual." Among her contributors: Lucian Freud, Tennessee Williams, the ubiquitous Jean Cocteau, Tallulah Bankhead and everyone who was anyone. BOOK FETISH. SIGHTED. FLIGHT OF FANCY. A manda Randolph Hearst's sunglass es collaboration with Oliver Peoples takes inspiration from her family's California castle. The white aviators will be my go-to shades for fall. oliverpeoples.com. Brooke Hortenstine VPC: STREET ART EDITION. To properly commemorate the big 20th year of PaperCity, we are literally taking it to the streets. We've commissioned a project by two artists who know their way around an aerosol can: museum-exhibited Michael C. Rodriguez (who inaugurated the Lawndale mural series) and under- the-radar Coolidge (check building corners and underpasses for his lyrical animal-themed output). With Winter Street Studios' Jon Deal donating a prime wall and paint, and Rodriguez and Coolidge contributing talent, you'll want to be there for the grand reveal Saturday, October 11, during Winter Street's Second Saturday. Stay tuned for images in our October art issue and via social media. Catherine D. Anspon Michael C. Rodriguez's Hola, Nice To Meet You, 2014 Coolidge's Untitled, undated Coming under the header of "Why did a hotel never do this before?" is this once-in- a-lifetime jetting opportunity. Come February 2015 (but book it now), Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts' newly monikered jet takes off for world tours and privately chartered trips. The chic black aircraft will pamper 233 passengers with leather flatbed seats, state-of-the- art washrooms and global Wi-Fi capability, plus in-flight chefs and concierges to plan spa treatments and tee times before you land and check into the finest Four Seasons Hotels around the world. World tours from $119,000 per person, double occupancy; solo travel $130,000; private charters from $110,000 per day (crew and staff included). fourseasons.com/ aroundtheworld. Anna Schuster W e'll be sipping bubbles in the ether and swimming amongst the clouds in the highest hotel, night-scene boîte and infinity pool in London, with staggering views of the Houses of Parliament, Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral. (At 52 stories, it's the tallest building in Western Europe.) Shangri-La Hotel, At The Shard, designed by Andre Fu, has opened on the South Bank of the Thames. The Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Group's first hotel in the UK references the aggressive architecture of the spire-shaped, glass- clad shard structure designed by Renzo Piano (the architect known for Houston's art gem, The Menil Collection). The astounding Asiatic-themed interiors, punctuated with contemporary design inspired by London's vibrant art, fashion and entertainment scene, were created by LRF Designers. shangri-la. com/london/shangrila. Megan Pruitt Winder LOBSTER HATS FOR ALL. LONDON CALLING. Lobster hats for all. Marco Zanini's first collection for Schiaparelli is on my fall radar. I can't help it: Coco's arch-rival (and her influence on fashion) is infinitely interesting to me. Viva la Schiap! Francine Ballard Schiaparelli A spen Art Museum will launch one of its first major shows in its new Shigeru Ban-designed building: "Yves Klein David Hammons" (August 9 – November 30). No one does shows like these better than AAM director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. This will be a unique, thought-provoking look at these two world-renowned artists and how their works reflect each other. aspenartmuseum.org. Greg Fourticq Jr. Yves Klein's Anthropométrie sans titre (ANT 154) (Untitled Anthropometry [ANT 154]), 1961 Right: Rendering of the new Aspen Art Museum B elle Lettres. Morton Auctioneers' sale of the immense personal collection of the late Messieurs George Zournas and Robert MacGregor is a fall event we highly recommend. Choice lots: correspondence between MacGregor and literary greats including George Bernard Shaw and Somerset Maugham (penned upon the most charming blue-and-red letterhead from his house on Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, La Villa Mauresque). All literate souls, myself among them, will doubtlessly find the sale most enticing. Antiques & Interiors Auction, November 6, 6:30 pm, 4901 Richmond Ave., mortonkuehnert.com. Seth Vaughan © YVES KLEIN AND ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) NY/ADAGP, PARIS; PHOTO BY BEN BLACKWELL E ver since I read Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, I've been a fan of Edward Albee's work. This fall, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance at the John Golden Theatre in New York. Previews begin October 20; the play opens November 20 for an 18-week engagement. adelicatebalancebroadway.com. Laurann Claridge DRAWING ROOM DRAMA. corduroy in new fall colors. Aaron Rambo PANTING. J. CREW THE BEST FALL DECORATION Arrangements of nothing but fall foliage branches. Aaron Rambo George Bernard Shaw Shangri-La Hotel, At The Shard I'm excited about the fall introduction of my latest candle collaboration with Nest fragrances, Exotic by Ken Downing. It's exclusive to Neiman Marcus, of course — subtle, sensual, sophisticated and downright sexy. I'm as obsessed with the tiger-print box and tortoise blown-glass vessel as I am with the scent itself. Ken Downing, fashion director and senior VP, Neiman Marcus Nesting.