THE CULTURAL DIVIDE November

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Gotta Have It If you're gonna splurge on one chic bag this season, Botkier's Carlton doctor's satchel in bull-hide leather with brass detail, available in white, burgundy, black, and camel, will leave you satiated. For now. $935

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Janus Films, a pre-eminent company among those bringing foreign and art films to American audiences, has just released Essential Art House, a combination coffee-table book and DVD collection. It includes a tribute by Martin Scorsese, a history of the company, and capsules on 50 films by directors Hitchcock, Fellini, Truffaut, Kurosawa, Lang, and Bergman, among others. The set weighs 14 pounds. $850 (JANUSFILMS.COM)

Paris, Mais Oui!

At Paris Photo, an international art fair for photography at the Carrousel du Louvre, more than 100 galleries and publishers display the works of photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, and Slim Aarons, (l 1/16-11/19, PARISPHOTO.FR)

The gallery at Hermes in New York City mounts an exhibition of never-beforeseen stills taken from the MoMA film archives in conjunction with Steven Higgins's book, Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which spans the history of motion pictures, (OPENS 11/9)

Nicky O!

She is a hotel heiress, after Nicky Hilton's premier luxury hotel opens on Ocean Drive, in South Beach, this month. Designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Heatherette, Nicole Miller, and Betsey Johnson have designed ultra-posh suites. Nicky O Chicago, on Printers Row, in the historic Morton Salt building, will open later this year.

Whimsical Magic

Mary Poppins floats onto Broadway October 14 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Ashley Brown stars as the umbrella-wielding nanny, alongside Gavin Lee, as Bert.

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Flying in Style

Peter Beard, a Taschen limited-edition coffee-table book, designed by Ruth Ansel, is full of lush and graphic images of wildlife, African artifacts, beautiful women, safaris, and vintage shots of the handsome photographer. It debuts next month.