NOVEMBER 2007: DAISY’S PICK OF FILM, TV, BOOKS & CULTURE AS FEATURED IN THE MAGAZINES

Here is Daisy’s pick of the BOOKS, FILMS & CULTURAL SIGHTS featured in the magazines this month:

BOOKS

1. The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold (Picador, £16.99)

2. Playing Grown-Ups, Sophie Dahl (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, £12.99)

3. Vogue Covers (Little, Brown, £40)

4. Alek Wek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel (Virago Press Ltd, £12.99)

5. Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me (John Murray, £16.99)

6. Eric Clapton: The Autobiography (Century, £20)

 

 

FILMS

1. Elizabeth the Golden Age (Director: Shekhar Kapur / Starring: Cate Blanchett & Clive Owen among others)

2. The Nanny Diaries (Director: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini / Starring: Scarlett Johansson & Laura Linney) 

3. Stardust (Director: Matthew Vaughn / Starring: Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Robert de Niro Claire Danes & Michelle Pheiffer)

4. The Heartbreak Kid (Director: Bobby Farrelly& Peter Farrelly / Starring: Ben Stiller)

5. Run Fatboy Run (Director: David Schwimmer / Starring: Simon Pegg & Thandie Newton)

     

CULTURE

1. Paisley: Exploding the Tear Drop. Vogue says, “Eight contemporary artists respond to the classic print, traced from Babylon via eighteenth century Europe to mass production in Scotland and its heydey in the Sixties” (From November 16, PM Gallery, Pitzhanger Manor, W5, Free Admission)

2. The Golden Age of Couture. Visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/ for details.

3. Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft. Visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1637_outoftheordinary/ for details.

 

 

Pucci’s take on the Paisley Print

The Golden Age of Couture at the V&A