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Lillian Bassman, whose fashion photographs (often included high contrasts between light and dark) are considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, died Feb. 13 at her home in New York. She was 94.
Night Bloom: Anneliese Seubert in Givenchy Haute Couture by John Galliano, Paris. The New York Times Magazine, 1996. © Lillian Bassman and courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery.
Lillian Bassman, Barbara Mullen, New York. Harper's Bazaar, circa 1958. © Lillian Bassman and courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery.
Lillian Bassman, More Fashion Mileage Per Dress: Barbara Vaughn in a dress by Filcol, New York. Harper's Bazaar, 1956. © Lillian Bassman and courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery.
Stumbled upon this fantastic image from a 2010 exhibition at the Russian Art Institute.
SAVELYEV SORIN Fancy Dress portrait with a falcon. 1930 paper on canvas, watercolor, pencil. 90 x 78
Ferris Bueller Super Bowl ad…featuring one of my first new clients for 2012, The Montage Beverly Hills.
This year’s 20 brightest stars, uncensored and unzipped in W. Magazine. Photographs by Mario Sorrenti, styled by Edward Enninful.
VIOLA DAVIS IN THE HELP “No matter what, people don’t think of me for glamorous parts. I’ll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.”
George Clooney in The Descendants and The Ides Of March
- MICHELLE WILLIAMS IN MY WEEK WITH MARILYN “The movie that made me cry most recently was Silent Light, which is about the Mennonite community. The film is very naturalistic, and then all of a sudden, magic realism is introduced: A woman in her coffin slowly starts to wake up. I thought I was seeing things. I started to cry so hysterically that the person I was with suggested we leave—he said I was disrupting the audience. And he was bored. I think he was embarrassed by my crying. I made us stick it out, but that was kind of the end of that relationship.”
JEAN DUJARDIN IN THE ARTIST “When I won best actor at the Cannes film festival, Robert De Niro, the president of the jury, gave me the award. I was scared. It’s not my job to win a prize, especially a prize from De Niro. He leaned in and whispered to me, ‘You’re good. You’re good.’ I had grown up loving Goodfellas, and I almost fainted.”
OCTAVIA SPENCER IN THE HELP “I don’t know how to cook or bake or prepare anything in the kitchen, and my character, Minny, is a fantastic cook. That was the hardest part of playing her. I don’t know how to do anything other than get a plate from the cabinet and stick something in the microwave.”
ELIZABETH OLSEN IN MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE “The first movie I remember seeing is Pal Joey. Frank Sinatra could do no wrong in my book, and when he sings ‘The Lady Is a Tramp’ to Rita Hayworth, I wanted that to happen to me. I longed to be in his song.”
WILL FERRELL IN EVERYTHING MUST GO “When I read bedtime stories to my three sons, I try to do funny voices, and I immediately get a lot of crap for it. They say, ‘Papa, what are you doing? Just use a regular voice!’ They’re not impressed. They don’t find me funny.”
LEONARDO DICAPRIO IN J. EDGAR
KIRSTEN DUNST IN MELANCHOLIA
ROONEY MARA IN THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO “For a year, I was Lisbeth Salander—I only wore black; I lived her life. Before this movie, I didn’t even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and my eyebrow and nipple were pierced. The only thing that concerned me was riding the motorcycle. I wasn’t nervous about the anal rape scene, but the motorcycle had me worried.”
GARY OLDMAN IN TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
Brad Pitt in The Tree Of Life and Moneyball
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER IN BEGINNERS AND THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO “I call The Sound of Music ‘S&M.’ I did the movie for practical reasons: It was big bucks. And then I thought it would be bye-bye. I don’t sing—not even in the shower—and I thought, This will be a great lesson. But I didn’t think it was a very interesting part. I was determined to drink a lot and be sarcastic and cynical. S&M needed a bad boy to remind everyone how sluggishly gooey it might become. I may have kept the movie from becoming a sentimental bore.”
MELISSA MCCARTHY IN BRIDESMAIDS “When I watch Up, it makes me weep like a lunatic. I was pregnant the first time I saw it, and the first six or seven minutes destroyed me. I’m not allowed to watch it anymore because I turn into a complete wreck.”
TILDA SWINTON IN WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN “As a child, I felt like a changeling at odds with the planet I arrived on. I didn’t understand the world I was born into, and that feeling of dissonance colored my youth. I saw that rigidness existed, and as a result, for me, rigidness got a bad name. Looseness was far better. And I gravitated toward a different life.”
ALBERT BROOKS IN DRIVE “I got Drive because I told my manager that I thought I could make an interesting villain. I read the script, and they asked me to go to the director’s house to meet him. We chatted, and on my way out I pinned him up against the wall by his front door. He’s Danish, and he’s already very pale. ‘What are you doing?!’ he asked. I was very quiet: ‘I just want you to know that I have great physical strength.’ So he gave me the part.”
ANTONIO BANDERAS IN THE SKIN I LIVE IN “When you work in a different language, your emotional state changes. In Spanish, my mother language, words not only have the meaning they have—they also have a personal meaning. For me, it is more difficult to say ‘Te quiero’ than ‘I love you.’”
SHAILENE WOODLEY IN THE DESCENDANTS “I did a ton of commercials growing up. My friends would go to soccer practice, and I would go to an audition. It was just a fun hobby. It’s still a fun hobby—nothing more.” Read More http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2012/02/best-performances-2012-actor-portfolio-cover-story-ss#ixzz1kunXhvh4
CHARLIZE THERON IN YOUNG ADULT
Meryl Streep’s Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady is EXQUISITE…and certain to bring back sophistication into today’s fashion. Hooray!
Vogue Italy
