Virtuoso Life - November/December 2007 - (Page 24) LUXE REPORT iWATCH thiS iSSUE’S UpDatE For Great White North gourmets: Food Ontario’s new iPod wine and restaurant guides provide click-wheel access to Toronto and Vancouver restaurants (sortable by atmosphere, neighborhood, and cuisine) and info on the best of Ontario and British Columbia wines. Free download at http://toronto.foodontario.com/ipodguide.php. NYC’s new kid on the block. CLASSIC STYLE Baubles and Bangles Coco Chanel hired Sicilian-born Fulco di Verdura as a textile designer and quickly promoted him to head of her jewelry collection. Verdura’s gems adorned Katharine Hepburn, Doris Duke, Greta Garbo, and Chanel herself, who made his Maltese cross cuffs a key accessory in her iconic wardrobe. Verdura: The Life and Work of a Master Jeweler celebrates pieces such as his Lily of the Valley brooch (above) at the Houston Museum of Natural Science November 16 through February 17, 2008. www.hmns.org DRESSING ROOM BOX IT UP Santiago, Chile’s new Museum of Fashion and Textiles (Museo de la Moda y Textil) delves into history’s closet with a collection of 7,000-plus pieces. Housed in a midcentury modern residence, the gallery’s highlights range from Madonna’s conical bra by Jean-Paul Gaultier to seventeenth-century gowns. www.museodelamoda.cl 24 V I RT U O S O L I F E history’s closet THE NEW’S NEW LOOK Manhattan’s latest architectural landmark: a stack of seven shiny aluminum boxes housing the New Museum of Contemporary art, which moves from SoHo to the Bowery December 1. Designed by Tokyo firm Sanaa, the museum opens on its 30th anniversary with Unmonumental, a group show dedicated to found-object sculpture. www.newmuseum.org (NEW MUSEUM) ChriStophEr DaWSoN, (ViViENNE WEStWooD) MUSEUM of fiNE artS, BoStoN http://toronto.foodontario.com/ipodguide.php http://www.hmns.org http://www.newmuseum.org http://www.museodelamoda.cl
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