What's the easiest - and least expensive way - to personalize your look? Painted Fingernails! Nail polish continues to be just as important an accessory as the right shoe or bag, present on almost every single runway. The direction: moody, minimal-chic shades of mushroom, slate gray, and even blue.
-Vogue Beauty Guide
I always enjoy seeing one of our pieces make it to the big screen. Production designers definitely seem to share some go-to items with our line, but this is the firs time that our Lucca Chairs were ever featured - and at the scene of the crime nonetheless! Here's a campaign shoot featuring Kyra Sedgwick and Lucca Chair for The Closer.
Bold enough to be the focal point of a room, I used a houndstoothe fabric on this project as the outside upholstery and throw pillows on Plush Home Gatsby lounge chairs.
I love houndstoothe fabric for my wardrobe and upholstered furniture because of its classic nature. There is something both bold and modern about this pattern that I adore and unlike tattoo-inspired prints, houndsoothe won't go away or be featured in a VH1 "What were we thinking?" fashion special five years from now. It was given its name because its pattern resembles a dog's tooth - its name is French is pied-de-poule, which means 'hen's foot'.
Film-makers have portrayed many French celebrities in recent years: Edith Piaf, Coco Chanel and, most recently, Serge Gainsbourg have all had their lives re-enacted and rehabilitated on the silver screen.
Anyone wishing to do the same with Brigitte Bardot, however, had better watch out. The cantankerous former actor has warned that "sparks will fly" if a US director persists with reported plans to make a biopic of her – and cast his Hollywood star wife in the lead role.
"I am not OK with a film about me when I have not been told about it and when I have not given my agreement to the person playing my role," she told French radio today.
In an earlier interview, the erstwhile blond bombshell was equally strident. "A film about my life? But I'm not dead!" she exclaimed. "They wouldn't dare do it without talking to me. If they do sparks will fly."
It has been rumoured for several months that Kyle Newman, the producer and director of several moderately successful US films, is planning to make a biopic, provisionally entitled Bardot, in which his wife, Jaime King, would take centre stage.
However King, 31, could find it hard to convince her 75-year-old counterpart that she could live up to the legend. "I am typically French," said Bardot this week in reaction the news that a former fashion model from Nebraska was in line to bring her je ne sais quoi to the silver screen. "I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland," she added, for good measure.
"No one", she declared, was right for the role, whether French or foreign. "They have their own personalities but they don't have mine," she said. She claimed not to have seen Laetitia Casta's portrayal of her in Joann Sfar's Gainsbourg, Vie Héroïque.
Directors of previous French biopics have come under fire for skipping over some of the more controversial periods of their subjects' lives: La Vie en Rose ignored Piaf's activities during the Occupation, while Coco Before Chanel, a tale of the designer's early years, stopped short of her affair with a Nazi officer at the Paris Ritz.
Similarly, perhaps, any maker of a biopic about "BB" would have to decide whether or not to focus exclusively on her showbusiness career, which ended when she quit the cinema aged 38, or to follow her later transformation from sex symbol to animal rights activist and champion of the reactionary right.
The coquettish star of Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris has been repeatedly fined for inciting racial hatred and frequently makes derogatory remarks about immigration, Islam and homosexuality. Today, the day after French Muslims began observing Ramadan, she declared that halal meat had "invaded France".
Applauding Nicolas Sarkozy and his interior minister for their recently announced intention to revoke the citizenship of certain criminals "of foreign origin", she said: "Why should they continue to be French when all they do is do stupid, scummy things? … There is a certain dignity to being French." She added: "I have the courage of my convictions. I don't beat around the bush and I am about the only one who doesn't in this bloody country."
Lizzy Davies in Paris | guardian.co.uk, 12 August 2010
The new Fendi Fall/Winter 2010-11 campaign shot by Karl Lagerfeld. I <3 this.
It seems like anyone who's anyone in England these days is being dressed by Stella McCartney--first she was chosen to design the country's athletic uniforms for the 2012 Olympics, and now the guards who stand sentry at Buckingham Palace may soon have the honor.
The palace's army guards--you know, those guys who have become a tourist attraction in their own right with people doing their damndest to make them laugh or smile--have been wearing real bearskin hats since 1815, but if the animal-loving designer and her friends at PETA have their way, they could soon be replaced by a synthetic version. According to the Telegraph UK, they met yesterday with Peter Luff, Britain's Minister of Defense, to talk about the development of a new technology called Bear28 that would duplicate the hats' look and feel without harming any animals. McCartney would be commissioned to create the hats if the ministry approves.
"Historically, England has a very high regard for animals, so it makes perfect sense that the MoD should continue shedding ceremonial furs from uniforms," the designer said. "Initially the big bear fur hats were intended to make soldiers look taller as they marched over hills in battle, but they haven't been worn in action for over a hundred years. I've been working on this with Peta for a few years now and am really happy with the final product, as I hope the MoD will be when they see it."
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense stressed that "All bearskins used in the UK are sourced from Canada where bears are culled under the direction of the Canadian government to keep the bear population under control," but also said they were open to new ideas. Another report says that the British government needs 50 to 100 new hats each year, and that an entire bear is required to make just one of the 18-inch-tall pieces.
Tracey Lomrantz | Glamour
It doesn't get more classic than pearls. Pearls were once a mark of wealth and entitlement. But for many the image of a older woman wearing a row or two of pearls, while she sips on afternoon tea, is still the first thing that comes to mind when they think of pearls. And that is a shame. Pearls shouldn't be banished to the back of a jewelry box. They just need to be seen in a new light. To do this start wearing pearls in an unconventional way. Wrap a long sautoir of pearls around the neck to make a multi strand choker, weave them into the waistband of a pair of form fitting jeans or loop them around the wrist so they form a jewelled cuff. These styles will show off your pearls in a who new light. Another great thing about pearls is that they play well with others. Add a pearl necklace to a stack of other necklaces in contrasting materials and the look with be will transformed into modern mess of mode. Or wear pearls in unexpected colors. Black pearls are still a surprising choice and a single gray pearl fitted on a strap of leather and worn cradled in between the clavicles is oh so sexy. And let's not forget that with the advent of great fake pearls there is no need to worry about investing in the real thing right away. Have fun with the fakes. Stack them up in different sizes. Weave them into a grosgrain ribbon a la Lanvin. Or layer up a few long stains to lap against the body. Because every woman deserves her own set of perfect pearls.
Jessica Michault for Italian Vogue
Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong in Shanghai Express, 1932 - seriously too (and two) much gorgeous for one picture.
Rock the cheerleader pony.You don’t have to have spirit fingers or carry pom-poms to try this ponytail. Look fresh and sophisticated with this simple slicked-back high ponytail. For a bump-free top, try spraying a bristle brush with hairspray before combing hair back to tame kinks and flyaways. Turn up the volume on this classic style with sexy black liner and pretty pink lips.
The comfortable-chic look — a messy braid with loose layers in the front works for a bohemian style. To amp up the glam factor, try adding a little volume at the top by teasing the crown.
This look is as easy as it is glamorous. Start by giving your hair a side part and running a pomade through to define and smooth flyaways, then secure the pony near the top of the head with an elastic. Attach the ponytail to the nape of the neck by threading elastic string through both sections, but you can also use two large bobby pins for the same effect. Finish with a shine spray to keep your pony looking sleek.
Let a side part add some glamour to your pony. Use bobby pins and a smoothing cream or gel to hold back shorter layers. You can tease your pony and spritz with a volumizing hairspray for an added boost.
Go for the sweet yet seductive look with a slicked-back, curly ponytail and playful fringe. Ditch your everyday rubber band and opt for a ponytail holder that matches your hair color for the perfect party look.
A braided ponytail is the perfect look for a fuss-free center part and a low-slung side braid is great whether you’re hitting the red carpet or working that girl-next-door weekend vibe.
To get this bad girl ballerina look, pull hair into a low ponytail and secure with an elastic. Then spritz the tail with to give it some grip and staying power and divide your pony into two sections. Taking one half, twist the hair and coil it around the elastic (as if you were creating a bun) and secure with bobby pins.
Make a center part, gather the hair at the nape of the neck and secure it with a bungee hairband for a tight pony. Next, take a section of the ponytail, make a loop at the end and tie it with a clear elastic to prevent wispy ends. Then wrap this piece around the pony and secure it with mini bobby pins—finishing with a shot of hairspray to prevent flyaways.
excerpt from Amber Kallor for Glamour Beauty.
