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Bottega Veneta's Artistic Boxes and Dolce & Gabbana's Written Word

Bottega Veneta has commissioned artist Nancy Lorenz to create a series of decorative boxes, which will go on display at Milan's Salone del Mobile.

  • Bottega Veneta has commissioned artist Nancy Lorenz to create a series of decorative boxes, which will go on display at Milan's Salone del Mobile. The boxes cost €5,000, or $6,429 at current exchange. [Style.com]
  • Want a piece from Dolce & Gabbana's couture collection? Break out the stationery — all communication for Alta Moda is done with handwritten notes. [Telegraph]
  • JCPenney has tapped jewelry designers Lana Bramlette, Kenneth Jay Lane, and Kara Ross, among others, to participate in its new jewelry counter called Bijoux Bar. [Racked]
  • Marie Claire Mexico editor in chief Adriadne Grant has a transparent tip to success: "If you want the job, you have to be really clear of what you want," she said. "A lot of people come to me and say they really want to work at Marie Claire. OK, why?" [Daily Front Row]

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Salma Hayek Hits Up London Fashion Week Ahead of the Oscars

Salma Hayek made a stylish appearance at the Christopher Kane Fall 2013 fashion show during London Fashion Week yesterday.

Salma Hayek made a stylish appearance at the Christopher Kane Fall 2013 fashion show during London Fashion Week yesterday. She wore a purple Christopher Kane dress with a dramatic hat and a Saint Laurent purse. Salma was joined at the show by husband Francois-Henri Pinault, the CEO of PPR, a fashion conglomerate that owns Christopher Kane and other high-end brands like Saint Laurent and Gucci.

Francois-Henri was recently profiled by T Magazine about his career, but glimpses of his private life with Salma shined through. Salma admitted that she was "mean and nasty" with her now-husband when they first met because she was an activist and was "not into fashion at all." However, her attitude has changed since she started dating Francois-Henri, and now Salma is usually decked out in luxury brands. The big question is what she will wear this weekend at the Oscars, where Salma is slated to present an award. Don't forget to vote for your favorite movies and stars in our Oscar ballot for a chance to win $1,000 and an iPad!

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Salma and Francois-Henri Are Good Sports at a Soccer Match

Salma Hayek and her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, celebrated in the stands at a soccer match on Saturday.

Salma Hayek and her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, celebrated in the stands at a soccer match on Saturday. The duo attended the League 1 matchup between Paris Saint-Germain and Rennes in Paris, which Rennes won 2-1. Salma wrapped her arms around Francois-Henri during the game as they cheered from their seats.

Salma has been enjoying some time off of work since she made the rounds promoting Here Comes the Boom and Savages this Fall throughout Europe and the US. Salma will be back on the big screen in Grown Ups 2 this Summer, reprising her role opposite Kevin James, Adam Sandler, and Chris Rock. She finished filming the sequel in July. On her next movie, she'll be taking a behind-the-scenes role, coproducing an animated adaptation of Khalil Gibran's famed novel The Prophet.

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Salma Hayek Has Her Husband Along For a Fashionable Day Out

Salma Hayek had her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, by her side this morning at Balenciaga's Paris Fashion Week runway presentation.

Salma Hayek had her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, by her side this morning at Balenciaga's Paris Fashion Week runway presentation. The actress is a frequent fixture at fashion shows, with Francois serving as chairman and CEO at the parent company that owns Balenciaga and several other major design houses, including Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, and Gucci.

Salma was one of several high-profile attendees at today's show. Kristen Stewart attended Balenciaga's presentation as well. As the face of the brand's Florabotanica fragrance, the actress is often spotted wearing its designs, and appears in the perfume's ad campaign. For her part, Salma headed to Paris for the fashionable festivities after spending some time in Italy earlier this week. The actress debuted her film Savages in Rome with her costar John Travolta and their director, Oliver Stone.

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Salma Hayek Hits the Deauville Film Fest With Her Family

Salma Hayek continued making the film festival rounds with a stop at Deauville over the weekend.

Salma Hayek continued making the film festival rounds with a stop at Deauville over the weekend. On Saturday, she joined her husband, François-Henri Pinault, and their daughter, Valentina, for a special event — she unveiled a beach closet, a high honor at Deauville, with her name on it at the Promenade des Planches.

On Saturday night, Salma wore a Stella McCartney dress and Graziela earrings to join François-Henri and Valentina for the closing ceremony. Salma was honored with a tribute to her career. Accepting her honor, she spoke about her childhood dreams of acting and finding inspiration in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Salma said, "I realized in cinema you could have a river made out of chocolate, chew gum and then burp yourself back down to earth, take flowers made out of candy and eat them. I was always a bit sad, being raised Catholic, at the idea that we only got to live one life, so acting was my way of cheating this concept. As an actress, I can live many lives and I've been many different people. . . . Now I believe in reincarnation so I'm not as anxious."

Salma and François-Henri have been making the festival rounds, and were at Venice just last week. There, Salma and François-Henri toasted Blake Lively as the face of Gucci's Première fragrance and hosted the Gucci Award For Women in Cinema.

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Blake Lively Wears a Hot Mini to Celebrate Her Gucci Film at Venice

Blake Lively donned a Gucci mini to a party thrown last night during the Venice Film Festival.

Blake Lively donned a Gucci mini to a party thrown last night during the Venice Film Festival. Salma Hayek greeted Blake with a hug. Salma's husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, joined the ladies for pictures as well. Francois-Henri's company owns Gucci, and he's been at the film festival with Salma for a few days, prepping for the big unveiling of Blake's new ad for Gucci's Premiere fragrance. Blake teamed up with director Nicolas Winding Refn for the short piece. Nicolas made the rounds yesterday as well, along with Gucci's creative director Frida Giannini. Blake's boyfriend, Ryan Reynolds, accompanied her on the trek to Italy, but he managed not to have his picture taken at the event. Today, though, both Blake and Ryan were seen making a hasty exit from the city at the airport.

Salma Hayek and Halle Berry Party It Up With Their French Men

Halle Berry and her fiancé, Olivier Martinez, joined Salma Hayek and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, for a night out at LA's Little Door yesterday.

Halle Berry and her fiancé, Olivier Martinez, joined Salma Hayek and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, for a night out at LA's Little Door yesterday. Their get-together came just a day after Halle Berry's 46th birthday. We celebrated the milestone by checking out the hottest Halle Berry bikini pictures. Salma also had something to toast, as she nabbed the big September cover of German Vogue.

Salma and Halle have been friends for years, and now they share the bond of spending their lives with French men. Salma and François-Henri have welcomed Halle and Olivier to their place outside Paris, along with Halle's daughter, Nahla. In fact, Halle's looking to spend more time in Olivier and François-Henri's native France. Halle's going to court today to ask that her custody arrangement with Nahla's dad, Gabriel Aubry, be modified to allow her to move to Europe.

Naomi Campbell's Reality Show, Kate Moss's Charitable Portrait, and Linda Evangelista's Child Support

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.



Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Naomi Campbell is set to star in her very own reality modeling show called The Face. The show, which will air on Oxygen starting next year, will see Campbell and two other as-of-yet-undetermined supermodels supervising three teams of models who will compete until one is chosen as the face of a brand in the United States. "With The Face the audience will get a real insider's look at this exciting industry that has been so good to me," Campbell said. [The Huffington Post]

  • Kate Moss is donating a portrait of herself taken by Solve Sundsbo to a May 17 auction sponsoring Britain's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The portrait features Moss wearing nothing but a pair of gold pants and crossing her arms to cover her breasts. Its starting price is £3,000, or $4,866 at current exchange. [Vogue UK]

  • Linda Evangelista will find out this week whether a judge will grant her the $46,000 a month in child support she requested from PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault to help raise their 5-year-old son, Augustin. Evangelista revealed that Pinault was Augustin's father when she filed for child support in late 2011. Pinault is married to actress Salma Hayek; the two have a 4-year-old daughter named Valentina. [The Cut]

  • Alice Temperley is working with British high street label John Lewis on a capsule collection that will debut in September. Called Somerset by Alice Temperley, the line will range from $50 scarves to a $1,600 sheepskin coat. Day dresses will hit the $160 mark. "I wanted it to be very much a collection of essentials and to design a collection that would provide a feminine and functional wardrobe for women in their everyday life," Temperley said. [The Daily Telegraph]

  • There's been no formal explanation of why The Gap fired its creative director Patrick Robinson, but former members of the retailer's executive team say "his designs seemed lost on Gap customers." He also didn't want customers to see clothes styled any other way than how he showed them originally. "Merchants were literally told, 'You don’t get to change the product as it's presented,'" one former merchant recalled. [Fashionista]
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Salma and Alicia Join the McCartneys For Stella's Paris Show

This morning's Stella McCartney show during Paris Fashion Week brought out a range of famous attendees.

This morning's Stella McCartney show during Paris Fashion Week brought out a range of famous attendees. Alicia Keys wore one of Stella's designs to sit in the front row along with Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault, whose family's company owns a stake in the label. Stella's dad, Paul McCartney, posed with his pink-clad wife Nancy Shevell. Paul's other children, Mary and James McCartney, also came out to witness Stella's Fall 2012 presentation, as did Jefferson Hack and Vogue's Anna Wintour. The Stella McCartney Fall 2012 collection was full of sporty, chic pieces, and many famous models like Natalia Vodianova and Karlie Kloss hit the runway on Stella's behalf. Alicia went to France to fit in a few stylish shows, having also attended Givenchy yesterday.

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Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas Meet Up in Madrid For the Goya Awards

Salma Hayek hit the red carpet in Madrid last night on the arm of her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, for the 2012 Goya Awards, the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars.

Salma Hayek hit the red carpet in Madrid last night on the arm of her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, for the 2012 Goya Awards, the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars. She was joined by her Puss in Boots costar Antonio Banderas and his wife Melanie Griffith. Salma was in attendance as a presenter and nominee, having earned an accolade for her work in La Chispa de la Vida. Antonio was likewise up for an honor thanks to his role in The Skin I Live In.

Antonio lost to Jose Coronado, but Antonio's film still won in four other categories. The Artist, which also fared well in Spain, added another win to their long list of accolades with the best European film award. The Artist could be a major winner this weekend when the Academy Awards roll into Hollywood on Sunday. Don't forget to fill out your 2012 Oscar ballot for a chance to win an iPad 2 16GB Wi-Fi and a Prada case.