Deco Decadence
April 19th, 2012 § 3 Comments
The Prabal Gurung silk charmeuse gown in the first picture. Full. Stop.
There are no words to describe that kind of perfection,
or how much Scarlett Johansson does it justice.
And when you add in a liberal dose of deco, old Hollywood glamour, a leopard,
Red Lip, Mark Ruffalo and then put Mario Testino behind the camera,
you already know you’re right up my alley and banging on my door.
Quite well done, Vogue.
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Hey, Red! {Jessica Chastain for Vogue Italia April 2012}
April 9th, 2012 § 1 Comment
Well, now. I realize I haven’t posted about an editorial in almost three months. Is it because my interest has been elsewhere? Or perhaps because I just haven’t seen anything that has caught my eye? In any event, I have actress Jessica Chastain and Vogue Italia to thank for reviving my love of the editorial with an amazing set of images that hearken back to classic Hollywood and were coincidentally shot in one of my very favorite places in Los Angeles: the Fred Harvey Restaurant in Union Station — an art deco masterpiece that has been closed since 1967.
You can see my photographs from my last visit here.
Chastain giving her best Hayworth…
Please believe me when I say I know I will be married here — and I am not at all like that about weddings. Now all that’s left is to pin down the groom.
Details, details.
Photos by Michelangelo di Battista for Vogue Italia, via FGR.
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Which Dreamed It?
January 6th, 2012 § 4 Comments
Can I please live here?
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream –
Lingering in the golden gleam –
Life, what is it but a dream?
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
This amazing editorial shot by Chris Craymer for the December 2011 issue Italian fashion and lifestyle magazine Amica seems to have taken all of my favorite things, put them in a blender and served it up nice and frothy with teeny pinch of oddity — just the way I like it. At once modern, Victorian, and Edwardian, this quirky family portrait makes me long to be added — Cousin Marilyn style — to all their gloriously fabulous adventures. Such a dream.
Of course, what seals the deal here is the appearance of the ever lovely Carmen Dell’Orefice. At 80 years old, Carmen is currently the oldest working working model in the fashion industry. Completely apropos when you consider the fact that she covered Vogue at the age of 15…in 1947. She also covers this issue of Amica, with an accompanying article inside celebrating her amazing career.
Carmen Dell’Orefice, Daiane Conterato, Grace G and Matthew Avedon
photographed by Chris Craymer for Amica December 2011
Images via TFS.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
December 16th, 2011 § 1 Comment
There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest; Their’s is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.
–Robert Service.
Impossible to look at these pictures and not start scheming my next escape.
Valentina Zelyaeva and Ben Hill for the January issue of Vogue Australia.
Photographed by Lincoln Pilcher.
Via FGR.
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Call in the Cavalry {Arizona Muse for Vogue US November 2011}
October 30th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Inspired by Steven Spielberg’s upcoming WWI drama War Horse, the November issue of Vogue US features lead actor Jeremy Irvine, model Arizona Muse and a gorgeous horse in a brooding, military-inspired editorial.
So in love with this Dior coat.
Also love this look, but you knew that already.
Ralph Lauren Blue and Black Label, Hermes boots.
Photographs by David Sims.
Images via Vogue.com.
Speaking of War Horse, I’m having trouble fighting to the end of the trailer without tearing up. With the sweeping music, the rolling countryside, a boy’s love for his horse, the backdrop of the Great War and the valor of the men who fought in it, I’m guaranteed to be a complete mess when the lights come up on this one.
“…he’s my horse, sir!”
DONE.
War Horse arrives in theatres on Christmas.
Natasha Poly for Vogue Spain November 2011
October 26th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Two for the Road {Kendra Spears for Harper’s Bazaar Australia}
September 9th, 2011 § 2 Comments
Absolutely adore this editorial, down to the very last detail.
Photographed by Will Davidson
That tasseled Burberry Prorsum bag needs to be mine.
Love this image…
All images via FGR.
Suited for Fall {Wonderland Issue No. 23}
September 7th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Bit of the gamine in the latest issue of Wonderland that drew my attention.
How could I resist? You know I always love a lady in a tie.
I adore her eyebrows. Very 1980s Brooke Shields.
Definitely adding braces this fall. Preferably not clip on, though...
Images via FGR.
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We the Brave, the Mighty and the Wise {Love Magazine #6}
August 30th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Cannot get enough of these images…
Kate King = blowing. my. mind.
While it’s never very hard to get me to purchase a glossy foreign fashion magazine, even if it is $20, this editorial alone from UK import Love Magazine’s 6th edition (F/W 2011) was enough to sell me on the 400+ page tome. Featuring Alessandra Ambrosio, Hannah Noble and Kate King in pieces by Polo, DKNY, Sandro, Paul Smith and the European Army Surplus, Love forecasts precise tailoring and militaristic androgyny for the colder months. You have already guessed they have my full attention, yes?
The editorial, shot by Boo George and styled by Anders Sølvsten Thomsen, has quite a bit more photos than the ones I was able to source on the interwebs. It’s definitely worth picking up the issue, if you are as truly entranced as I am. (Sidenote: my source for my ridiculous and out of control foreign fashion magazine habit is Around the World.)
Alessandra!
Images 1-9 via: OFM. // Images 10-12 via Anders Sølvsten Thomsen.
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Man Up: Marina Muñoz for Vogue.com
August 8th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Familiar with Marina Muñoz? She is an amazing Brooklyn-based, half Argentine stylist I first learned about from Lizzie at Tomboy Style as I went through the Q&As to get a sense of the other ladies who had previously answered, in preparation for my own. When Marina referenced the young girl (Marguerite Duras, writing from her own life) in The Lover, one of my favorite books (and a gift from a very special Mister in my life), I knew this was a woman after my own heart. She’s been featured all over the interwebs, most beautifully by Tommy Ton on Jak & Jil.
In this recent shoot for Vogue.com, Marina styles herself in a combination of recent pieces from both menswear and womenswear collections. Beautiful girl in beautiful clothes, exhibiting an aesthetic that I completely embrace. In fact, today I’m wearing a shirt I may or may not have stolen from a completely different Mister. Our secret…
Can we talk about this jacket. Can. We. Talk…?
Neckerchief. J’adore.
All images via Vogue.com
