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Louis Vuitton is set to open several new boutiques this year throughout the world as the iconic luxury handbag house prepares to unveil their first fragrance later in the year and expand their current jewelry line. Last night, Louis Vuitton kicked off the year of new store openings by hosting an exclusive party at their new Louis Vuitton shop in Rome, Italy. The event, Maison Louis Vuitton Roma Etoile Cocktail, attracted Louis Vuitton’s top clients as well as notable socialites and celebrities.

The famed handbag collection served as the backdrop to the event’s red carpet and everyone who arrived for the soiree carried a Louis Vuitton handbag from the current collection. Celebrities such as Cate Blanchett, Peter Marino, Natalia Vodianova, Antoine Arnault, Lauren Santo Domingo, Diane Fleri and Catherine Deneuve were on hand last night to celebrate the opening of the new store.

Guests of the “Maison Louis Vuitton Roma Etoile Cocktail” store opening event were treated to a special viewing of the store before it opens to the public this weekend. The event also showed off the new spring handbag collection which features Louis Vuitton’s iconic “Alma” satchel in bright, seasonal colors such as orange, teal and canary yellow.

The premiere fragrance will launch later this year and Louis Vuitton’s expanded jewelry collection will also launch next fall. Louis Vuitton opened new stores in November and December of 2011 in London and Sydney respectively. The rest of the new Louis Vuitton stores will open throughout the world during 2012. The luxury house has kept the exact locations of their new stores secret in order to make the unveiling more exciting when they are ready to open.

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London’s luminous art crowd turned out in full last night to help YBA Dinos Chapman celebrate his 50th birthday at the newly revamped The Scotch club in St James.

The new Mrs Bryan Ferry, Amanda Sheppard joined Lily Cole, Natalia Vodianova, Roksanda Ilincic and of course Dinos’ brother Jake and wife Tiphaine de Lussy at the club that was once the playground for swinging sixties London. Guests sipped gin and vodka cocktails, with the birthday boy calling it a night at 5am.

A camera shy Kate Moss was also in attendance, managed to also squeeze in drinks with Stella McCartney at nearby Arts Club in Dover Street and was joined by Polly Morgan and Mat Collishaw and Sharleen Spiteri.

Jerry Bouthier provided the eclectic soundtrack playing everything from Sister Sledge to New Order, which – with Tiphanine leading the way – certainly got the crowd on to the dance floor.

Happy Birthday Dinos!

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Right from an opening extravaganza of workers in hard hats toiling away to the tune of a drill, on through to a penultimate act featuring a horse and donkey, the entertainment was a gala evening managing to combine the Bolshoi’s long history of grand performance with modern Russia’s supposed cultural vacuity.

Stretched over two hours, Friday night’s over-the-top medley of ballet and opera, with enough theatrics to rival any Eurovision gathering, gave Russia a show to remember to celebrate the opening of the Moscow theatre’s doors.

Not that Dmitry Medvedev, dwarfed on the Bolshoi’s enormous stage, was going to let the assembled supermodels, politicians and ballerinas be in any doubt of the significance. “Today is a very happy day for our country,” the president said, kicking off the evening with a speech extolling the theatre’s symbolism. “We have, of course, a very big country, but one with a small number of unifying symbols, so-called ‘national brands’. The Bolshoi is one of our greatest national brands.”

A brand name appeared a crass way to describe a magnificent world-class historic theatre that has given the world some of its best ballerinas, opera singers and choreographers. Broadcast round the world, the opening was intended as a cultural event to mark a six-year renovation costing half a billion pounds.

Medvedev and his wife, Svetlana, in silver lace top and deep blue skirt, took the main box, which has welcomed tsars and Soviet premiers since the theatre first opened in 1825. The president spent much of the evening whispering to Yelena Obraztsova, one of several Bolshoi legends invited to his box. When a standing ovation was needed, it was Medvedev’s wife who nudged him with the back of her hand.

Supermodel Natalia Vodianova and Italian actress Monica Bellucci were there, as were former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Naina Yeltsin, widow of the former president, and Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. In a nod to Kremlinology, ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin, fired last month by Medvedev, was relegated to the last row. Former president Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, was notably absent.

As the curtains parted on the famous stage for the first time in six years, the grand hall, outfitted in lush red fabric, ubiquitous gold and opulent chandeliers, filled with a pounding squeal of drilling and repairs. New acoustics, a goal of the renovation, ensured it was deafening. After several minutes, a choir of many dozens dressed as building workers launched into Mikhail Glinka’s Ivan Susanin, singing “Glory to the Russian people!”

An all-Russian programme followed, with arias from Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and a Shostakovich’s tango from the Golden Age ballet was only outdone by an elegant adagio from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, featuring principal ballerina Svetlana Zakharova. French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.

Nearly all the pieces showcased the Bolshoi’s famous traditional style. Walking down a long red carpet after the end towards the dogs and riot police cordoning off the square in front of the Bolshoi, attendees seemed pleased.

“I liked it,” said Vitaly Mutko, the sport minister. “It’s culture. It’s the country.”

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