Tom Ford Dresses James Bond, Will Debut First Menswear Collection in London

The world's most dapper dressed designer and has joined forces with the world's most famous secret agent. Today, fashion trade journal WWD announced that Tom Ford has exclusively designed all of delicious Daniel Craig's wardrobe in the new James Bond film, Skyfall. To keep up with the momentum, Ford will also show his menswear collection in London for the first time in January to coincide with his first British boutique opening. Dude is on a roll!Although it hasn't been determined if the designer will show his collection on a runway or in a super exclusive presentation setting, I'm sure that the guest list will feature a who's who of both the fashion world and Hollywood.
Newly Discovered Goya Going to Auction: A religious painting by Goya from the late-1770s, when he was an unknown 30-something designing wall hangings for palaces, is headed to the auction block in September at Zurich's Koller Auctions. The painting depicting Lot and his daughters was only recently confirmed to be a Goya, and though his works from this period typically only fetch a fraction of the value of later pieces, the "new" painting is expected to fetch between 600,000-800,000 Swiss Francs ($613,000-817,000). Archaeological Findings Push Stone Age Back 20,000 Years: Artifacts discovered in a cave in South Africa indicate that the late Stone Age started earlier than originally thought, a conclusion drawn from the bone tools, pigments, and poisons created by people living in the area 44,000 years before, filling the void between 40,000 and 20,000 years ago that previously existed in the history of South Africa. Researcher Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, said in a statement that this would set the Later Stone Age at "about the same time as the arrival of modern humans in Europe," or at Europe's Upper Paleolithic Period.
Women's Museum Opens in Dubai: Some of the United Arab Emirates art world's most powerful figures, despite the predominant patriarchal culture, are women, and though scholar, psychiatrist, and former Arabian Gulf University president Rafia Obaid Ghubash doesn't wield as hefty a purse as Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani, she has just opened the Women's Museum of the United Arab Emirates in Dubai's Deira neighborhood — after turning down a free site in the official heritage district of Bastakya. Her new three-story institution aims to connect the work of contemporary Emirati women with their historical predecessors: "Part of the tradition is kind to women," she says. "But part is very negative. Those who are not educated just utilise the negative part."