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New Year’s Eve Infographic: Champagne-Glass Pyramid

ChampagneSabering.com offers this diagram along with a table for calculating the number of glasses needed for building pyramids of various heights. Also tips for filling the glasses and all things related to Champagne. They can be hired to build a pyramid for your next event.

There is a page of Champagne quotes, including this one from Art Buchwald: "I like Champagne because it always tastes as if my foot's asleep."

May this be the only kind of Pyramid Scheme you encounter in the new year. Wishing a happy, healthy, and peaceful 2011 to all!

adieu schumieu

it wouldn't be a New Year without them.

"Have you made any New Year's resolutions?"
"Not yet; any complaints or suggestions?"

"A few."

"Which?"

"Complaints."

"All right, shoot."

"Well, you don't scold, you don't nag, and you look far too pretty in the mornings."

"All right, I'll remember: must scold, must nag; mustn’t be too pretty in the mornings."

not familiar?- take care of that deficit immediately here for a crash course

Goodbye 2010, hello 2011 !

Days are too busy…
Hours are too few…
Seconds are too fast…
But there is always a time for me to say…
Happy New Year…

To all of you

After the storm, Marina del Rey, CA , Dec. 30, 2010

Compilation of several posts from 2010

Favorite Posts of 2010 v: the Style Saloniste

"Carmen (Homage to Munkacsi)"

Coat by Cardin

Place Francois-Premier, Paris

August 1957

Diane Dorrans Saeks of the Style Saloniste says:
"This iconic sixties image by Richard Avedon captures my own mood when I'm in Paris—off the ground, leaping with happiness, and yet calm and focused."

while I might be more this-

AVEDON'S
Dovima with Sacha

Cloche by Balenciaga
Cafe des Deux Magots, Paris,August 1955

I am following as much to the letter as possible Diane's Paris Journal. though "My Trip" is not slated for the New Year, I return to this post time and again to take this wonderful trip with Diane to Paris, stopping at all of her favorite spots and drinking in the sites as only Diane can do. For the moment a ongoing pick me up is Diane's book Paris Style-

another of Diane's posts that I favored is her visit to Chateau de Haroue to see the chateau and the meticulously curated collection of Givenchy, Balenciaga, and Venet.

there is a truly delectable book accompanying this exhibit available that just happened to be one of my Christmas gifts!

Diane will be traveling the world again in 2011- no doubt- and whether I go behind her is suspect- So, happily with anticipation will I await her adventures and oh the stories she will tell.

Bergdorf's Windows

Bergdorf’s Holiday windows are, so over the top this year that they are a challenge to behold. ‘Labor intensive’ doesn’t even begin to describe this extravaganza of passementarie, quilling, encrustation, and taxidermy, with a dose of steampunk.

During the day, the reflections of Fifth Avenue
upon the glass offer some dreamlike surprises ...

But the general effect is dizzying.

If you visit after dark …

and get up close to explore …

you’ll be transported to a world of fantastical detail.

Glorious, but exhausting, much like the Christmas season in New York!

Favorite Posts of 2010 iv : Christina of Fashion's Most Wanted

Glamorous Christina Lindsay in a smashing dress made by Mrs. Jones. from a Harley Davidson flag

photographs from FMW.

Christina Lindsay of Fashion's Most Wanted is one of the busiest and most gracious of blog writers this one has met. I discovered Christina's blog this year from the House of Beauty and Culture- (affectionately known as HOBAC). Since HOBAC is one of those blogs I hold sacred and dear-whatever is recommended from that quarter I leap to.

a glimpse from Mrs Jones lookbook

I was not disappointed. Christina is a wonderful interviewer-being one of my favorite things to do as well-I am always studying the work of others. Two of my very favorite posts of hers are an interview with the fashion designer Mrs. Jones and a post Christina calls Me and Mrs Jones. These two damsels are friends- longstanding & great friends and it shows in these two stories.

I was taken with the friendship and the warmth of the interplay between the two. The interview introduces us to a woman doing things- not always smoothly- but Her Way and succeeding gloriously. I was captivated. Not to mention all the photographs Christina put together for the post- it is a fashion smash hit from the 80's and 90's!

Photography by Lee Jenkins

Mrs Jones (aka Fee Doran) with Christina of Fashion's Most Wanted

from the Evening Standard in 2001

Do not miss this story.

another wonderful interview from Christina is one with Julie Newmar. The interview came about when CL pronounced Ms. Newmar the best Catwoman ever ( I concur) & JN contacted her with thanks.

the rest is here.

MEOW.

I really can't wait to see what Christina has for Fashion's Most Wanted in 2011.

I will be reading.

& so should You.

Fashion - Fashion Photography Through Time

Fashion - Fashion Photography Through Time at Fotografiska is the most comprehensive exhibition of fashion photography ever to be shown in Europe. The exhibit features more than 200 works by 51 internationally famous photographers.
Fashion reflects the development of fashion photography over the decades, from Man Ray's experimental compositions in the 1920s, via iconic figures such as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, to the supermodel cult fostered by Steven Meisel and Peter Lindbergh in the 1990s. A few acclaimed 21st-century photographers are also featured, including Michelangelo Di Battista, Mikael Jansson and Esther Haase.

"Today, fashion photography is an art in its own right. A visual language that is both powerful and has extended the boundaries for what photography can be. For more than 90 years, we have been influenced and astonished by this dream world that is conjured up before us," says Jan Broman, founder and director of Fotografiska.

Russel James, "Scarlett", Los Angeles 2005