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Vanity Fair Presents Fashion In Film 2011

As part of New York Fashion Week, Vanity Fair is partnering with the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center to host the first ever Fashion in Film programme. From...

Almost Famous

USA, 2000 Directed: Cameron Crowe. Costume Design: Betsey Heimann. Starring: Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, Bukky Crudup and Frances McDormand. I’d be surprised if there is anyone out there who reads...

“Let’s Be Lovers We’ll Marry Our Fortunes Together”

Kate Hudson as Penny Lane (Almost Famous) After a long delay another film post will return soon.

Chambray Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe, Beverly Hills Baron, 1964 I love this picture of Marilyn. She looks as breezy as a…well summer breeze. I realised I do not own a chambray shirt of my own! I’m looking out. Here are...

The Tale of the Fairy

So did you hear Karl Lagerfeld made a movie!? Yep! The Chanel designer made a 25minute film called The Tale of the Fairy for Chanel‘s 2010-2011 Cruise show. Now I’m not going to act like I have...

Trashy Faces

Klio I found these stunning portraits by Arizona artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold who makes her work with a very unique medium. These beautiful faces were put together in mosaic entirely out of daily...

Breton Shirt (Marinière)

I never tire of these. The classic breton top. A few of my favourite starlet snaps from the style files. Anthony Quinn + Anna Karina Edie Sedgwick Audrey Hepburn Peggy Lipton If you are ever after...

Elizabeth Taylor Tribute

I will not be surprised if you’ve already seen this but I liked it so much I had to share it. Danny Roberts made this Elizabeth Taylor tribute for his blog Igor + André. If you haven’t seen it, GO...

Blink And You’ll Miss It

Broken Embraces This is a first attempt at a cinemagraph (first time ain’t easy). I’ll try to do more. After all, film should move.

Smokey Eyed

Anna Karina Even if you look this cool, smoking is still bad for you.

Something Borrowed, Something (Wallis) Blue

Have you gone royally mad after all the crazy Windsor Wedding coverage!? The media has been tireless. How much more could they say about the dress. Oh, the dress! Well…there has been an...

Links à la Mode: April 28th

If you aren’t all over the internets obsessing over the royal wedding, you might like to note the latest Independent Fashion Blogs weekly roundup. I was honoured to be selected for the round up and...

Sexy vs. Safe

There is a high likelihood that if you are reading this, that you frequent numerous other fashion blogs on a daily basis. I do so also. It is a fantastic phenomenon to be able to ramble through the...

Stylish Words

“Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those...

Fresh Floral Whites

Monica Vitti Fresh for Spring (not for me), why not dig out a white shirt? Take a look at these screen sirens I mixed up with some fresh florets just for fun. Audrey Hepburn Jean Seberg Jean Simmons

It’s Chebourgian Camouflage

I meant to upload these awhile ago, but alas, well, I didn’t. I’ve said before how much I love seeing different interpretations in fashion editorials. This here comes from Dear Creatures‘ Spring...

Beach n’ Bikinis

Marilyn Monroe The sun is still shining down my corner of the planet, and for most of you it’s coming out in full swing. Take my advice, don’t miss your chance to skip to the beach! Mine was short...

Ridin’ With Penny Lane

Marie Claire, April 2011. Photographed: David Gubert. Styled: Jana Pokorny I think of all the “fashion films” out there, Almost Famous is one of the most commonly mentioned. In fact, I doubt that...

Future Fashion Predictions (from the 1930s)

Meet Eve, who in this clip (circa 1930) has been dressed by designers anticipating how she might attire herself in the year 2000. The results are darling! And might I add, not so far off....

Sidney Lumet – 9 April 2011

Sidney Lumet with Sophia Loren on the set of via That Kind of Woman Sidney Lumet died yesterday aged 86. He was ceaseless in his work, his final film being completed just recently in 2007. He was...

Il deserto rosso/The Red Desert

Italy, 1964 Directed: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris. It’s cold outside. Everyone is abandoning the streets and wrapping up in a miserable mountain of blankets....

Stylish Words

“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.” -Louise Brooks

I Am Love Costume Sketches

It’s clear I love the elegant ensembles in I Am Love . Costume Desginer Antonella Cannarozzi teamed up with Jil Sander to design the outfits to express the decadent Milanese high life. I wanted to...

Stylish Words

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” - Katherine Hepburn (Does this apply to YOUR closet?)

El Monte

USA, 2010 Directed: Yelena Yemchuk. Starring: Natasa Vojnovic, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Melissa Auf der Maur. via Nowness This stunning dream vision was a film released last year as the opening...

Io sono l’amore/I Am Love

Italy, 2009 Directed: Luca Guadagnino. Starring: Tilda Swindon, Flavio Parenti and Edoardo Gabbriellini. Personally, when I think to myself about what a “fashion film” is, I’m not inclined to care...

Elisabetta

via Vogue I couldn’t resist this one. Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Bert Stern for Vogue, 1962.

Goodbye Great Dame

Snapped by Frank Worth on the set of Giant, 1955. By now I am sure everyone knows that Dame Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday aged 79. Some would say her death pulls the final curtain on a glamourous...

Beauties on Bikes

After this post on …And God Created Woman I wanted to take another look at Brigitte Bardot and her bike. The bicycle is one of the iconic european symbols. I like how Juliette rides in pencil...