I think I'm more looking forward to the Fanny Brawne movie (mistress of John Keats). But the Coco Chanel should be interesting-- I'd like to read a bio of her at some point.
@Ailatan: YES! Thanks, forgot the name. I wonder if I've built up enough credit with my boyfriend by playing Halo and watching football to drag him to it? Hmm...let the negotiations begin.
I wonder how accurate the film is going to be. Most things I've read about this woman don't have her colored in the most flattering light. She wasn't a very good person. Especially during the occupation.
@curiousgeorgiana: Yeah, she had an affair with a nazi which (very understandably) decreased her popularity. She was arrested by the French Resistance forces.
She worked with a Jewish family that she wasn't fond of (they kind of screwed her, but she was pretty stupid to let it happen), and during the occupation she wrote a letter denouncing them to the nazis (but they already left for NY).
She was an awful person.
@curiousgeorgiana: It probably won't get up to the occupation if it "ends too soon" and is mostly just talking about her beginning and her "rise", yeah?
@greengrey: I wonder whether it's possible to create an accurate biopic of Chanel. Wasn't she famous for weaving stories about her life that rang false?
Nina Garcia's books are so charming. She offers a lot of solid advice. In the latest, she talks a lot about vintage/consignment shops and tailoring/mending and editing your wardrobe, and gives an extensive resource list that includes all her favorite Web sites. She's as down-to-earth as she is fabulous. And all three of her books are beautifully illustrated by Ruben Toledo. I'm a big fan. :)
@Penny: I've also been pleasantly surprised by Amanda Brooks's I Love Your Style. Whoever did the photo research for that one should be congratulated -- so many unusual pictures, it's so much fun to flip through.
33-24-35 IS curvy. It's an hour-glass shape. Why is "curvy" a euphemism for fat? I really hate that. Plenty of smaller women have curves. Plenty of larger women do not. Shape does not relate directly to size! And isn't that shape sort of a rarity in the modeling world lately? I mean I can't say I'd know, but most of the models I've noticed have tended to be pretty straight up and down
@colormeroutine: Yeah except that the whole point is the aforementioned lazy writers have completely co-opted the word "curvy" to mean thick or not of model proportions. So when they try to call Lara Stone curvy, the rest of us call bullshit.
What's so hard to understand, Georgia May? Your father is a famous rock star and your mother is a well-known model, so they always got plenty of media attention. They had a tumultuous relationship, so, again, they got plenty of media attention. You are their daughter and you've decided to enter the same industry as your mother, so now you get plenty of media attention. See, it's not so hard to understand, is it?
Yes, Tom Ford. I was trying to smell you. I'm not sorry, either.
Oh and this: I'm a little sad about Halston's reported troubles. I'm not sure why but when I was little I associated the label with the absolute height of fashion and wanted their dresses to wear at les discotheques. I was probably seven or so. Plus, they made that signature perfume and my favorite aunt wore it and to this day I love that smell.
@NefariousNewt a.k.a. General Awesomesauce: And his eternally-pursed lips bring to mind nothing so much as Marcia Brady thinking sucking in her cheeks gave her cheekbones.
Perhaps stylist Robert Verdi has been denied tickets to fashion shows because the Fashion World doesn’t want the rest of us to realise they actually have gay people working in it, let alone gay men. Or it could just be that he isn’t important enough to warrant one right now. As Heidi says, one moment you're in, the next you're out.
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She worked with a Jewish family that she wasn't fond of (they kind of screwed her, but she was pretty stupid to let it happen), and during the occupation she wrote a letter denouncing them to the nazis (but they already left for NY).
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Tom Ford: That's not amazing. It's rainbows and unicorns.
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Oh and this: I'm a little sad about Halston's reported troubles. I'm not sure why but when I was little I associated the label with the absolute height of fashion and wanted their dresses to wear at les discotheques. I was probably seven or so. Plus, they made that signature perfume and my favorite aunt wore it and to this day I love that smell.
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Zara....THANK YOU!
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Somehow, in my imagination, I am like the mom from The Sandlot
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Furthermore, he does not "rip off" the other designer; he is inspired by him or her.
You've got to take into account the presence of a muse in fluttering golden gauze guiding his hand.
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