It's as if Rome was burning. As bright flames edged the tallest crest of Griffith Park, the 70 or so glamorously turned out guests—including Michelle Hicks, Minnie Driver, David and Courtney Cox-Arquette, Diane Kruger, Johnny Lee Miller—stood rapt on the expansive penthouse balcony of the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. […]

When Jack White decided he wanted to ape the iconic pearly king and queens of London’s boroughs for the White Stripes’ next incarnation, the duo’s stylist didn’t bat an eye. In part, because she admittedly didn’t know what the hell Jack was going on about.

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Turning the prosaic on its head is not simply an exercise for the guys at the Czech Republic-based Qubus Studio. It's religion. This is the studio, after all, that rendered life-size Wellington boots in porcelain—thereby flipping something that keeps water out into something that holds the wet stuff in.

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I suppose it should've been no surprise that Steve Jones-he of Sex Pistols legend and now lord deejay on Indie 103.1-clocked my T-shirt shift with the 18th century cherubs ringed in gold lame as Vivienne Westwood. […]