Barbara Bestor is undoubtedly One-to-Watch among the new wave of architects. I spent an afternoon at her new masterpiece for this feature for Paper, appearing in February's fantabulous issue devoted to Los Angeles…and which I'm finally posting here:
High above Los Angeles, in the Los Feliz Hills, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, a sprawling residence that conjures a Mayan temple via the looking glass of a twentieth-century modernist, doesn’t so much overshadow this city’s architectural community as much as serve as a kind of mecca to the possibilities.

Eight-thousand, five hundred pages of images fill the many, many journals of Ed Fella, an artist whose inky sweeps and lines have illustrated poster announcements and other everyday graphic art for five decades.

In case you're only now finding out about the truly eccentric Tilda Swinton, whose love life might be garnering more attention this post-Oscar morning than her billowy Lanvin and makeup-free face, you can get the full details in this Daily Mail article today.

Red returned to the Academy Awards Sunday night with some of the most striking, Hollywood-worthy gowns of the evening as worn by Hellen Mirren, Victoria Duffy-Hopper, Heidi Klum, Katherine Heigel, nominee Ruby Dee, Suzie Templeton (who also scored an Oscar for best short animated film) and Anne Hathaway (pictured here in a gorgeous Marchesa).

The fashion world is a twitter over the comments French Vogue editrix Carine Roitfeld made about American Vogue editrix Anna Wintour in this week's New York magazine. Industry bible Women's Wear Daily printed their telling reactions today, as reported by Paris bureau chief Miles Socha and correspondent Stephanie D.

As if the movement for all things remotely eco hasn't already gone manic, evidence of the pending apocalypse played out Thursday afternoon with Kimora Lee Simmons attempting to jump on the bandwagon.

Curator extraordinaire Aaron Rose opens his latest show at the Marella Gallery in Milan Thursday night. Called "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” it includes new works by many of the artists who Rose first championed at his Alleged Gallery in New York more than a decade ago: Barry McGee, Mike Mills, Ryan McGinley, Ed Templeton, Clare Rojas, Matt Leines, Raymond Pettibon, Deanna Templeton, Ari Marcopoulous, Phil Frost.

No other red carpet moment compares with the Academy Awards, so no other book launch this Oscar week could compare to that of celebrity shutterbug Patrick McMullan’s latest picture book of the social and fabulous, Glamour Girls.

If you ever pledged your adoration for Carine Roitfeld, the utterly chic editor of French Vogue, but never knew or understood the full extent of her attraction, this week's issue of New York magazine spells it out in a lengthy feature by Amy Larocca.

Even if you can't be in Paris any time before March 31 to catch "Paris en Couleurs," an exhibition of photographic homages to the City of Lights at the Hôtel de Ville (the town hall), check out this review by Mary Blume in a recent issue of the Internationl Herald Tribune:

PARIS-Paris will always be Paris, the cliché goes, and like many clichés this is true.

The opening of the Comme des Garcons guerrila store this Saturday isn't the only major excitement in downtown L.A. Head there tonight for the Downtown ArtWalk, where more than two dozen galleries, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, open their doors until 10 p.m.

Even on closing night of the Murakami retrospective at MOCA, the partyers who ventured out on a Monday for the Gen Art-hosted bash couldn't help but turn out in the most vivid and wacky looks.

The Grammys wasn't the only circus in town this weekend. Also clogging up the roads and keeping caterers clocking overtime was the crammed schedule of events related to the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum-a.k.a.

While the reviews for Calvin Klein Collection were favorable, a couple wondered whether they could generate excitement come fall. Really? Because I could be very excited with about 3/4 of the 38 precisely tailored looks shown on the runway.

Of all the coverage of the celeb slamfest in New York Wednesday night for the opening of the Gucci flagship, er, the fundraiser for Madonna's Saving Malawi event (and there will likely be much more to come), today's report in The New York Times by the brilliantly witty Guy Trebay sums it up superbly.

What of Super Tuesday? In Celebritydom, bloggers seem to be more interested in Lindsay Lohan's return to magazine covers-specifically the March issue of Harper's Bazaar. (She's appears the same month on the cover of Paper in a spread shot by Jeremy Scott.)
The Peter Lindbergh-photographed feature is not out on newsstands yet, but the full text of "Lindsay's Super Comeback" is online.

The touted return of Halston came and went Monday, and it appears the only thing looking forward is its dedicated site on Net-a-Porter, which launched Super Tuesday.
Fans with $1,495 to blow on a jersey shirt dress could slip into one by Wednesday night because of a deal brokered between site and house, whereby two looks determined well in advance of this week's show by the Net-a-Porter powers would be ready to go within 24 hours.

If you live in one of the 24 states holding presidential primaries today, VOTE.
Regardless of your political picking, exercising your basic democratic rights by casting a ballot for the next leader of this great nation is no choice.

No doubt Juan Carlos Obando has the theme song to "New York, New York" blaring in his head and heart today. The reviews are already in from Style.com and WWD on his inaugural presentation in New York yesterday, and they are GOOD.

Don't forget to tune in this Monday night at 8 p.m. to the Sundance Channel for the U.S. television premiere of “Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton," the acclaimed doc by filmmaker Loïc Prigent.

Just as I'm sitting here musing Pantone chips for a better choice of gold for the inside pages of the book I did for Rachel Zoe (it's being readied for a second printing), the authority on all colors releases its Fall '08 report.