On Thursday evening, LA had the pleasure of hosting the latest stop on Derek Blasberg’s book launch tour. Celebs, socialites, fashionistas and tastemakers unite! CLASSY: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady is Derek’s first book – and a New York Times Bestseller at that! In this witty and informative book, Derek, Editor at Large at Harper’s Bazaar, Senior Editor at V and VMAN Magazines as well as Senior Editor at Large of Style.com, offers the modern lady tips on keeping it classy in an often trampy world.

The beautiful new Missoni store on Rodeo Drive hosted an evening of champagne, classy cupcakes and congratulations for Derek, who holds a special place in Starworks’ heart. Kate Bosworth, Nicole Richie, Margherita Missoni and style.com EIC Dirk Standen came out to host and support their fashionable friend for the evening. Other guests included Malin Akerman, Erdem, Dasha Zhukova, Nicky Hilton, Jeremy Scott, Cat Deeley, Rosetta Getty and Ali Larter.

Following the cocktail, a small group of VIPs joined Derek a few blocks away at Mr. Chow to continue the celebration over chicken skewers and lettuce wraps. Patricia Arquette and her husband Tom Jane (straight from wrapping for the day on his hit show HUNG), Vogue’s Lisa Love, Liz Goldwyn, Band of Outsiders’ Scott Sternberg, Olympia Scarry and Neville Wakefield were among the guests who joined to fete the man of the hour!

In a world where social etiquette do’s and don’ts are often blurred and challenged by a society where often anything goes, we can all use a little advice! For more information on where to purchase CLASSY, click here: CLASSY: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady.

-Samantha Brewster

Over 50 artists are presenting sculpture, drawings, installations, films, videos, sound works, performances and music in venues ranging from the city’s renowned Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum -taking part in this growing event for the first time – to the Hunterian Art Gallery and Tramway to diverse artist-run collectives, small galleries and temporary sites.

With many projects revolving around the theme of ‘past, present, future’, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art opens today, 16 April 2010 for two weeks. The Festival’s exhibitions program is complemented by a lively series of talks, screenings, seminars, performances and other events.

Artists include: David Shrigley, Susan Philipsz, Douglas Gordon, NVA, Joseph Beuys, Christoph Büchel, Leslie Thornton, Graham Eatough, Keren Cytter, David Maljkovic, Gerard Byrne, Linder David Noonan, Claire Barclay, and Jim Lambie.

www.glasgowinternational.org

Nicholas Kirkwood's Everywhere!!

Alexis Mabille Accessories

Lisa Marie Fernandez

Atelier Swarovski jewels!

The Menswear Loft

REILLY

The Screening Room

For those of you unaware of Starworks Group London’s Clients, see the list below:

WOMENSWEAR
ALEXIS MABILLE, ALICE BY TEMPERLEY, HUDSON, MARIOS SCHWAB, MOTHER OF PEARL, NOBODY, ROKSANDA ILLINCIC, SWAROVSKI FASHION COLLABORATIONS, TRILOGY STORES AND TUCKER

MENSWEAR
A.SAUVAGE, ALEXIS MABILLE, HUDSON, NATURAL SELECTION, NOBODY, REILLY, TST AND WOOYOUNGMI

ACCESSORIES & JEWELLERY
ATELIER SWAROVSKI, DAVID MORRIS, JONATHAN KELSEY, NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD AND PAURIC SWEENEY

For press inquires, please email press@starworkslondon.com

As you know, my mind thinks in terms of music, so this has been the tune I’ve been humming all day…a joyful favorite — “Adieu, Adieu, to you and you and you”…. For my last post, I thought I’d cull together some flashbacks working for Starworks. Here ya go….

My Top 5 Memories at Starworks

(Spinning Costello Tagliapietra Fashion Show)

5- All the cool Fashion Week gigs I DJ’ed for Starworks clients and beyond — La Perla, Costello Tagliapietra, and Sue Stemp… in addition to the other Fashion Week days and nights backstage snapping pics for our blog with the most talented Starworks PR girls.

Read Fashion Week DJ post
Read Fashion Week post 2
Read about Colette Party / Fashion Week

(Underwater Model for Mnemosyne)

4- Shooting underwater in a pool at night at a Hollywood movie lot (where The Abyss was filmed) in order to film Daphne Guinness’ art short for Mnemosyne. Our entire crew was is scuba gear pulling an all-nighter, including David Parker and Kai Regan.
See the Making Of Video Mnemosyne
Read Daphne Guinness Q&A
See Behind the Scenes at Mnemosyne

(Director Brody Baker at Sundance Film Festival)

3- All the Sundance movie trips with Greg Krelenstein and Marni Golden, where we deliriously (yet blissfully) screened up to 5 movies a day trekking in the snow. My favorite year was when we cast the experimental art shorts for the New York Times website (T Magazine) entitled Take, Utah directed by Brody Baker.
Read about Take, Utah, series

2- My voyage to Art Basel last year to shoot a series of videos for New York Times website with 6 artists. The memory includes Director Crystal Moselle, Photographer Dan Martensen, several Scarface quoting in Miami, and pulling all-nighters editing the video for 24 hour turnaround on the website. Ahhh, the deadlines for New Media. We love the pressure.
Read about Art Basel series

and the #1 memory working at Starworks is… (drumroll please)

1- Strolling into the Rockstar Games headquarters in New York with Karl Lagerfeld on one arm and Daphne Guinness on the other — to discuss getting Karl’s image and voice into Grand Theft Auto IV. It was a “home-run” meeting. Pretty classic.

Last night, Tucker’s Gaby Basora hosted a dinner at Leila’s (East London’s best kept secret). The menu was delicious with sprouting broccoli to start, roasted beef cheeks with celeriac and carrot gratin and roasted rhubarbs served with vanilla ice cream… Yum Yum!! — Bianca (Starworks London)

Visit: Tucker by Gaby Basora