Venice has approved a 60-storey tower designed and funded by fashion designer Pierre Cardin, reported British online publication BDonline. It will be the centerpiece of a vast project to build a whole new suburb on reclaimed land north of the historic city. City governor Luca Zaia described the Palais Lumiere project as Venice's Eiffel Tower and likened Cardin to Lorenzo the Magnificent, Florence's great Medici patron. Cardin, who was born near Venice 89 years ago, described the scheme as the "pinnacle" of his career. The tower will be built in the former industrial area of Porto Marghera and will be at the heart of a 1.6 million square meter project that will clean up polluted brown field areas and reclaim further land from the lagoon. Cardin's striking design involves 3 separate fins joined at a number of levels by six horizontal discs accessed by lifts. Its height and diameter will both be 244 meters. Conceived as a gateway to Venice, it will be a hub for the creative industries including a fashion and design college, exhibition space and incubators for start-up businesses. Some reports said it would also contain a hotel, restaurants, indoor and outdoor pools, a cinema, roof gardens, a heliport and even a hospital. The wider development will include 35 thousand square meter of residential, 25 thousand square meter of hotels and restaurants, 115 thousand square meter of offices, 600 thousand square meter of landscaping, 100 thousand square meter of parking, plus new infrastructure. The city authorities this week gave Cardin permission to enter a simplified planning process.

Fashion TV signs agreement with the Al Habtoor Group to build in Dubai the world's first Fashion Hotel. Fashion TV, this week at the Cannes Film Festival, announced plans, in collaboration with the Al Habtoor Group, to launch the world's first ever Fashion Hotel, in Dubai. The hotel, to be located in the heart of Dubai, will be owned and operated by the Al Habtoor Group. No specific details on location or opening dates were given. It will be 30-storey high and the exterior will display a projection using a 100 meter LED screen, broadcasting the latest Fashion TV highlights, around the clock. Its 200 rooms will be equipped with the latest lighting and audio-video technologies and will make extensive use of the latest 3D equipment. They will also have access to Fashion TV's 30 channels, as well as the biggest Fashion DVD library in the world, offering 50,000 DVDs on the history of fashion. The hotel will also have a wide variety of restaurants, bars, lounges, nightclubs, spas and cinemas, as well as fashion-themed rooms. Mohammed Al Habtoor said, "It's an exceptional project and one which is likely to have a massive impact on Dubai, making it the future fashion capital of the world. The city will certainly never be the same again." This won't be the only Fashion Hotel. Al Habtoor Group and Fashion TV said in an interview that plans are to open other Fashion Hotels in high-style locations around the world. We have our bets on Paris, Shanghai, New York, and Milan. The Al Habtoor Group has grown with the UAE, and while best known for construction, it is globally recognised through its involvement in the hotel, automotive, real estate, education, insurance and publishing sectors. It constructed Dubai International Airport, Dubai Hospital. Al Habtoor Group also built 321 meter high 7 star hotel Burj Al Arab and 600 room, 26 storey high Jumeirah Beach hotel.

When it came to advertise a new luxury apartment complex in Moscow, developer-billionaire Vladislav Doronin looked no further than the woman living next to him-supermodel Naomi Campbell! She has appeared in a TV commercial for the luxury apartment complex "Legend Of Tsvetnoy" in Moscow, developed by Capital Group, that is owned by her Russian boyfriend. Naomi really does her best to shift this exclusive property and a 60-second ad was enough for working out in the fully equipped gym and then taking a dip in the swimming pool, have a dinner in a restaurant and come back to the apartment with a panoramic views over Moscow city. The advert finishes with Naomi breathing the lines: "I listen to your heart, Moscow. Now you know where I stay". Indeed, for those who do not know where and with whom is the "black pearl", we report; in early 2008 Naomi Campbell met with Vladislav Doronin at the Cannes Film Festival, and they soon began dating. Wedding of Naomi and Vladislav was to be held in August 2009, however, the billionaire is having difficulties with the divorce ... Together with her lover Naomi Campbell has settled in Russia, while Ekaterina,( Doronin's wife), lives in London. According to "GQ" magazine, in the ranking of the most stylish men of Russia in 2009, the billionaire took second place, and according to Building.ru, he entered the top ten list of the most professional developers of Russia. To date, Doronin's assets are estimated at nearly two billion dollars, although data from different sources considerably vary - from one to six billion.