Did You Hear? You Need To Know What Happened This Week

Yahoo decor editor Joe Zee is joining the like-minded!  “Decor and style are a true reflection of your personality and, with that in mind, it is a natural extension for us to add the important category of decor to Yahoo Style.”  The new section will feature stylish spaces with contributions from top interior designers and home enthusiasts, including behind the scenes footage from celebrities and tastemakers.  Kudos on the expansion Yahoo #abouttime

Simply White (OC-117) is Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year for 2016.  The brand announced the color, as well as its Color Trends 2016 palette, at a NYC party this week.  Word is that guests were privy to a coordinated menu that matched the evening’s “chapters”: course 1, before guests learned of the Color of the Year, servers donned black clothing and served up hors d’oeuvres on black trays. After Simply White was revealed, the servers wore white and passed around white trays with champagne and white-chocolate dessert treats!  The other 23 hot colors for 2016

The Color Trends 2016 palette also includes:
•    Paper White OC-55
•    Ice Mist OC-67
•    Mascarpone AF-20
•    Ballet White OC-9
•    White Heaven 2068-70
•    Morning Sky Blue 2053-70
•    Gray Owl OC-52
•    Lemonade 2024-60
•    Cream Puff 2174-70
•    Enchanted 2070-50
•    White Satin 2067-70
•    Kittery Point Green HC-119
•    Banana Yellow 2022-40
•    Ravishing Red 2008-10
•    Gentle Violet 2071-20
•    Luxe AF-580
•    Blue Echo AF-505
•    Weimaraner AF-155
•    Royal Flush 2076-20
•    Patriot Blue 2064-20
•    Black Ink 2127-20
•    French Press AF-170

Heading to the UK?  Don’t miss Tom Dixon and Wallpaper Magazine’s first pop-up department store Multiplex. Taking up a whopping 25,000 square feet in the the Old Selfridges Hotel in London, UK through Oct 18 it deliberately cross pollinating audiences including London Fashion Week, the London Design Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, Frieze London and “the people we’d normally address” which we can only interpret as the regular folk!

Kate Moss, model or designer?  Phillipe Starck & John Hitchcock’s firm Yoo, enlisted Kate (over drinks at the pub!) to design a 5-bed barnhouse estate in The Cotswolds (which is now for sale for a cool $3.8M in case you’re in the market).  Her goal: to create a luxurious haven in the woods to escape with family and friends; kudos Kate you did well.