So here’s the deal. If you go to Macy’s Men’s Store on Monday June 9th (that’s today, folks!) and are among the first 175 people to buy $200 or more of Emporio Armani Men’s Underwear on the first floor, and then come BACK to the store on June 18th you will get to meet David Beckham in person at the Union Square Park and get his autograph that day.
Got it?
But if you REALLY wanted to spend some personal time with him, I suppose you could just spend $35,000 on …

A reader tells me that David and Victoria Beckham were in the Napa Valley a few days ago to celebrate her birthday.
Oh, and by the way, they brought some friends with them.
Tom and Katie Cruise. Heidi Klum and Seal. Kate and Len Wisema .
I’m sure a few SFluxe readers were included as well… do tell us how it was! Any chance they like it so much they might move here?
More photos are at PopSugar.

There are only a few days left to enjoy the San Francisco Ballet’s “New Works Festival.” The amazing finale to the 75th Anniversary Season ends on the 6th!

By the way, SFluxe would be remiss in not pointing out how absolutely smashing everyone looked at the opening gala for the festival a few weeks ago. Some of our favorite style setters were there, looking their absolute best — like Karen Caldwell (who you see above in green), Yuri Pascarella, Marissa Mayer, Angelique Griepp, Lisa Grotts (some exciting news from …

I’m not one to usually enjoy paintings of flowers, but I recently met a local San Francisco artist who has changed my outlook. Magdalene Chan’s paintings of flowers and landscapes really focus the eye on what is truly beautiful, and often overlooked, in the natural world around us.

There’s nothing overly conceptual about her. She gives us color, form, line — beauty at its most basic. Or so it seems. How is it that, for thousands of years, all sorts of people have taken pleasure in the “basic” depictions of …

Dark clouds loom over the Palace garden. The Queen, mute and immutable, stands firm in a heavy woolen cape as the sky threatens thunderbolts against her. The lake, fed by water from the Serpentine, looks murky as does the rest of the normally idyllic landscape. There is something dark descending upon London.
This photo, “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London,” is prominently placed at the end of the Legion of Honor gallery showcasing Annie Leibovitz’ work. Although the exhibit features her output from 1990 through 2005, …

“I’ve gone up 1000% percent because I can say I met you,” says Dede Wilsey.
She’s referring to a 2:00 am conversation she had in her kitchen with son Todd Traina the night before introducing Annie Leibovitz to members of the media at the Legion of Honor. When she told Todd she was going to meet the legendary photographer, he started gushing about how much of a fan he is. And as he kept talking, the clock approached 3:00. “I’m so glad you love her. I have …

Annie Leibovitz has captured the icons of popular culture with her award-winning photography for decades. Beginning on Saturday, an important exhibition at the Legion of Honor gives us a look at 200 of these photos, but in a surprisingly open manner, shows us those that the legendary photographer has taken of her family and friends.
Some of them are very private images from a very private life, although she has described it differently. “I don’t have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work …

Luke Thomas and his team at the Fog City Journal were at the Persian Winter “Solh” Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts, along with around 500 other people, to celebrate Persian art and culture.
At a time when our relations with Iran are so troubled, and the general opinion of Iran so frightfully misguided, events such as this are of true importance. They not only inform, entertain and enlighten, but perhaps most importantly foster greater communication between the cultures. Bravo to all that, and I hope there’s more …

“Adjustable Wall Bra” (1990 - 1991), by Vito Acconci, as seen at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in 2001.
“We did it because we wanted to enjoy our art collection in a way we hadn’t been able to…. We’ll be changing the pieces every year. We have hundreds of pieces.”
That’s Norah Stone, describing the amazing “museum-cave” she and Norman Stone just built in Napa. Among the art displayed there, in their private gallery, is “Adjustable Wall Bar” by Vito Acconci, which you see above. Carolyne Zinko asked Mr. …

These days it seems the most popular neighborhood in San Francisco is Palm Springs. Who doesn’t know someone, or a few, who have taken a second residence in the desert valley? Obviously the weather, the extreme opposite-ness from what we have here, is a big draw, and its friendly atmosphere for the gay and lesbian population is well-known, but as Diane Dorrans Saeks shows in her gorgeous new book, “Palm Springs Living,” the true excitement about Palm Springs is its architecture.

Photo: Tim Street-Porter for the New York …