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I found myself at the Michael van der Ham show in Waterloo station at London Fashion Week on Monday, perched on a chair taking 100 photos a minute, craning my neck to avoid the heads of dozens of cameramen…
Thats London for you.
Reblogged from: www.styleandthensome.com
Posted September 22, 2011 at 8:09pm in London Fashion Week LFW SS12 Michael van der Ham Topshop Eurostar Waterloo London Style and Then Some
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No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.
Posted September 9, 2011 at 4:06pm in Femme Fatale Huysmans Lit Books Beauty Apocalypse À rebours
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Musidora: Greek for the gift of muses
She was friends with Colette and wrote and directed some of her own films. How modern!
Musidora as Irma Vep from “Les Vampires” (by hawkfall)
Fascinating. She (Jeanne Roques) was one of the original femme fatales in silent films. This clip is from 1915.
Wikipedia describes the first incarnations of femme fatales on film as
…often foreign, usually either of an indeterminate Eastern European or Asian ancestry. She was the sexual counterpart to wholesome actresses such as Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale
Posted September 9, 2011 at 3:57pm in Femme Fatale Film Film de Francais Irma Vep Les Vampires Musidora Silent Movies Vintage
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Want this. Now.
Created by one Romano Ricci. I don’t have time to think about the paradox of a bullet perfume pour femme created by a man/ the mystery and myth around scents created by the beauty industry right now okay?
I have to find out where I can buy one of these!
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Chaque jour, chaque mois, chaque minute!
I had the fortune of seeing this film at the Cornerhouse in Manchester (www.cornerhouse.org), on account of trying to learn French before my Erasmus placement.
Wonderful!
Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe are raised from the dead to star in this new Dior Ad along with Charlize Theron.
This is actually mesmerising to watch. I doubt it is the last time the ghosts of the most glamourous women of the 20th Century will be evoked, and it certainly isn’t the first. Monroe’s image is constantly being reinterpreted: it’s not a surprise to see Lady Gaga taking-after-Madonna-taking-after-Monroe.
However seeing these stars’ faces, exactly as they were when alive has a different effect on the viewer. Monroe et al are whisked away from the reminiscence of kitsch and let sparkle in an all new setting. This takes the dream of impossible beauty, the height of which is the fragrance ad, to another level.
Posted September 6, 2011 at 3:04pm in Dior Charlize Theron J'adore Marilyn Monroe Lady Gaga
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