Wine country

Wine barrels at the excellent Chappellet Winery outside St. Helena, CA

The lounge at Farm restaurant at the Carneros Inn

A view of wine country from the Carneros Inn

Carneros Inn

I made a new friend at the Carneros

The Bay Bridge on the way back to San Francisco

Glamour heiress

The gorgeous Julia Restoin Roitfeld, whose mother Carine is a close friend and former collaborator of Tom Ford's, was a perfect model for Mr. Ford's refined-sexy comeback collection, with her seamless mix of tasteful and edgy. These photos were taken by her and will appear in V Magazine.

One more thing, Santa!

$1,375

$1,445

Balenciaga spring'11 watches - I think they are kind of a steal! Which color should I get?

Norma Kamali

The fanciful neon flags at Norma Kamali's store on West 56th Street in NYC.

Oh, Santa

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Chanel Black Velvet nailpolish

Tiffany Moderne bracelet

Tamra Davis's The Radiant Child on DVD

Pamela Love's necklace for Purple Boutique

Phillippe Starck Louis Ghost chair for Kartell

Duckie Brown for Florsheim tall brogue boot

Too good

It's certainly tired at this point to rave over our beloved Emmanuelle Alt's "effortless" style, but this picture is just too good.

photo, of course, Tommy Ton

Nibbles of a certain world

My favorite Dean & Deluca in the country is in Georgetown (though I didn't pop in at the Napa location last week). In college we called it "our mama's kitchen," got sushi and Sapporos on the patio, and spotted John Kerry shopping for groceries. In a certain world, women push the chic D&D shopping carts among the gorgeous prepared foods for an easy dinner and buy apples for $3 a pound. Above, my very chic friend Trinity sips Pellegrino and puts her fabulous hat to good use to hide from my Blackberry lens.