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.
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.
Thanks to CocoCozy for her kind mention today of including our Gatsby Dining Table on her top list of favorite dining tables. If you haven't had a chance to check out her fabulous Blog, it's a nice resource for home decor and solutions!
Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong in Shanghai Express, 1932 - seriously too (and two) much gorgeous for one picture.
I grew up with Carole King vinyls playing on my parent's record player, so it was a treat to see the two iconic singer-songwriters at their Troubadour Reunion Tour last night at the Hollywood Bowl - the title of the tour refers to the first time the pair appeared onstage together, at the legendary Troubadour in West Hollywood in November 1970.
I've always been a fan of Carole's raw and resonant vocals and found it completely inspiring seeing her and James dance and sing with the passion and vigor of performers at any age.Here's a Blackberry clip from last night - Thanks to Pete and Myrian for sharing their amazing box with us.
Google "Lady Gaga videos" and you'll find countless tributes and parodies. But the school recital performance of "Paparazzi" by boy wonder Greyson Michael Chance clearly rises above the crowd. I'm assuming he won't have problems finding a date to the Sadie Hawkins dance this year.
I'm looking forward to Conan's return to television on TBS this November. As you may or may not know, my husband Steven was a regular on the former Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - the initial news in January of NBC's decision took us all by surprise. Conan and his entire staff were nothing less than amazingly gracious to our family every time Steven was on, and I'm thrilled that they all found a new home at TBS.
Here's a clip of Steven putting Conan through stunt training - it was the last stunt segment (and most nerve wracking for me) they did with the NBC show.
More Conan/Steven stunt footage on Steven’s site
The now-controversial commercial features model, Ashley Grahm of Ford Models.
ABC and the clothing company Lane Bryant are locked in a war of words after the retailer accused the network of refusing to run ads for a new line of lingerie because it focused on full-figured women.
For almost a century, Lane Bryant has been selling clothes to full-figured women. So when the company came out with a new line of lingerie, the company decided to sex up their ad. Apparently it was a little too sexy for a couple of networks. The ads have not aired. Lane Bryant claims that's because of a bias against full-figured women.
A woman in the ad is curvy, graceful and showing off her assets.
"I think it's tasteful, it's elegant. I mean, I've seen much worse," said Kari Nevil of Burbank.
"We knew the ads were sexy, but they are not salacious," said a Lane Bryant spokesperson in a blog. "Our new commercials represent the sensuality of the curvy woman who has more to show the world than the typical waif-like lingerie model."
The last comment was directed toward Victoria's Secret, whose ads Lane Bryant says frequently air during primetime on ABC and Fox.
"It's definitely a double standard," said Ciara Jandreau, Burbank. "I think that if they get on the Victoria's Secret models for rolling around half-naked, they should definitely let anyone confident enough to do it. I think they should just let them."
The networks are firing back. Fox said the network is planning to air the ad, just with some minor edits, something they do with other commercials. ABC officials flat out deny the claim.
"Their statements are not true. The ad was accepted. Lane Bryant was treated absolutely no differently than any advertiser for the same product. We were willing to accommodate them, but they chose to seek publicity instead," ABC said in a statement.
And publicity it is getting, from New York Post calling it "boob-tube bigotry" to the buzz on the street.
"I saw it and I was just like, 'Oh wow, now I want to buy one,'" said North Hollywood resident Myra Venegas.
After all of this controversy, Fox said it will now air the ad next week without edits. The ad was originally supposed to air this week on ABC during "Dancing With the Stars," but now it's still unclear when the network will be airing that commercial.
By Subha Ravindhran
(Copyright ©2010 KABC-TV/DT)
GRACE KELLY, STYLE ICON: The epitome of understated chic, Grace Kelly was famed for her fashion sense. Now her stunning wardrobe has been brought back to life at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
With 40 of her iconic dresses on display and cabinets of shoes, bags, sunglasses and jewelry, the exhibit opened to rave reviews this weekend in the capital.
Paying tribute to her life as an Oscar-winning actress, highlights include the grey and pink silk chiffon dress embroidered with roses, which she wore in the famous dancing scene with Frank Sinatra in High Society (MGM later gave the dress to her and she wore it several times to various events) as well as outfits from the many Hitchcock films she starred in.
When Kelly left Hollywood behind to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956, she stepped up the fashion stakes, wearing haute couture by Chanel and Christian Dior but the Philadelphia-born fashionista never got complacent and according to the exhibition's curator, treated all of her clothes like "old friends", preserving them in dust bags and often wearing the same outfit more than once.
"She's one of the few people who deserves this title of style icon. It's very hard to find anyone else today who can be remembered in the same way 50 years from now," curator, Jenny Lister told AFP adding: "She liked beautiful fabrics, she always accessorized it very carefully with plain white gloves and jewelry."
And wasn't just her style that she left in her legacy. Two years after her marriage, Princess Grace became president of the Monaco Red Cross, using her many celebrity connections to organize fundraising events for the charity. In her first year as a princess, she started an annual Christmas party for the children of Monaco and in 1963 she became the founding president of AMADE, a nonprofit charity helping children in need around the world.
Looks like she wasn't called Grace for nothing.
By Monique Jessen for tonic.com
Erwin Blumenfeld Portrait of Grace Kelly New York 1955 © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld 2009
Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra In 'High Society' 1956 Eric Carpenter/MGM (Kobal Collection)
Grace Kelly with her Oscar ® award, 30 March 1955 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Prince Rainier and Princess Grace after the civil marriage ceremony, 18 April, 1956 © Rex Features
Grace Kelly Photograph by Bud Fraker
Grace Kelly in a dress designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly in a dress designed by Edith Head
Portrait of Princess Grace on her tenth wedding anniversary 1966 © Howell Conant/Bob Adelman books
Princess Grace at the Princely Palace About 1960 © Howell Conant/Bob Adelman books
Family portrait 1973 © Rex Features
The exhibition, "Grace Kelly: Style Icon" is showing at Victoria and Albert Museum in London through September 26.
