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September 30,2011
Friday! And many blogs seem to have gone giggly over the above image, of Karlie Kloss closing the Dior show.
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Friday! And many blogs seem to have gone giggly over the above image, of Karlie Kloss closing the Dior show.
Playing at the Film Forum in NYC is Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.
Comic book artist Joann Sfar interprets the life of ’60s pop star Serge Gainsbourg (née Lucien Ginsburg to Russian- Jewish parents),1928–1991, beginning with his childhood years in Nazi-occupied Paris, through his early years as a painter and jazz musician (brushing shoulders with Boris Vian), to his life as a wildly popular singer-songwriter, notorious bon vivant, and lover of some of the world’s most glamorous women. Gainsbourg’s two-sided personality (narcissistic and self-loathing) and his over-the-top antics with Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta), Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon), and beatnik icon Juliette Gréco (Anna Mouglalis) share the screen with a giant puppet alter-ego: a scary, libidinous bad-boy who personifies all of Gainsbourg’s worst proclivities. Featuring many of the musician’s greatest hits, with Eric Elmosnino as Gainsbourg and, in a cameo, Claude Chabrol as his record producer. Never have so many Gauloises been smoked to such great effect.
The WSJ magazine also has an article mentinoing Gainsbourg, for the October issue. It's titled Death of a Playboy, and can be read here. Gainsbourg is one of the Playboys of course.
Those international jet setters who once roamed the polo fields, ski slopes and azure harbors of the world—always landing the girls of everyone's dreams—are gone. One man mourns the end of an era.
Despite their many sins, mortal and venal—sloth, lust, familial ties to Nazis and brutal dictators—most of the great playboys shared noble attributes. They embodied elan, impeccable taste, extreme discretion (regarding money as well as sexual conquests), and general good-natured bonhomie. To hear those who knew them tell it, they were captivating one-man shows, room-holders who, when they had everyone's attention, often put others before them. And wherever they rested their fox hats and crash helmets, they left apocryphal stories behind, repeated in private clubs and lawn parties, tall tales that separated them from the wolf pack.
I wanted to do something for accessories that was very feminine, more sensual, more delicate, instead of the abrasive sexiness of the ‘90’s. To me it was stupid to just repeat the same things as Tom Ford because I am a different designer. I am a women, he is a man. It’s another era. Everything is different.
That's Gucci creative director Frida Giannini.
In her nine years as creative director, Giannini has returned Gucci to the credentialed jet-set brand of yore, when gentlemen lounged in Gucci loafers and Jackie Onassis toted her own Gucci "Jackie" bag. To bring home how important heritage has become to the house and to celebrate its 90th anniversary, this September the company opened Museo Gucci, a permanent museum in Florence with rotating exhibitions culled from the company's extensive archives. Housed in a 700-year-old building across from Chanel's sleek storefront in the city's central Piazza della Signoria, the museum is aimed at reminding the world that the new Gucci is, like rival Louis Vuitton, a luxe brand infused with an artisanal history.
The label, headed up by creative director Sarah Burton since Lee McQueen's death in 2010, came eleventh overall in the 2011 list of cool global brands - four places ahead of iconic Parisian fashion brand, Chanel, at number 15.
[The Telegraph]
The top 20 winners in full:
1. Aston Martin
2. Apple
3. Harley-Davidson
4. Rolex
5. Bang & Olufsen
6. BlackBerry
7. Google
8. Ferrari
9. Nike
10. YouTube
11. Alexander McQueen
12. Dom Perignon
13. PlayStation
14. Ray-Ban
15. Chanel
16. Nintendo
17. Vivienne Westwood
18. Agent Provocateur
19. Tate Modern
20. Maserati
A look inside Garage Magazine issue #1. [...]
See the 3 covers here. You can also see Dasha reading her new magazine.
Ksenia Golubeva by Andrew Hobbs for Madame Figaro Magazine October 2011. [...]
Google says that these changes mirror what’s available on the Boutiques.com shopping site that Google launched almost a year ago. In fact, the company says it’s planning to close Boutiques.com as of October 14 and redirect shoppers to the new Google Product Search. Users of Boutiques.com should get an email soon with details about saving data before the switch takes place.
Search Engine Land: Google Overhauls Product Search, Plans To Close Boutiques.com.
Boutiques.com will be less then a year old when it shuts down. In June, less then 6 months after it launched, their traffic had already dropped 94%, to a 170,000 visitors.
[Translated]
Thus began the slowly unfolding nightmare. From the first model to appear, one was struck by what looked like an out-of-style Gucci collection from more than ten years ago. The fussy complications of the cuts, the messy hairstyle of a girl after happy hour, and the overdone makeup. The models were literally spackled with foundation, glossy lipstick in Ferrari red, and sooty black eyeshadow.
After this inventory for Kim Kardashian, Tom Ford appeared on the runway. He walked out. And stayed there, in the middle of the catwalk, wordlessly awaiting his standing ovation. Perhaps people would oblige out of anguish, or sympathy, or because all of this is supposed to be fun, after all. But everyone just looked at their feet. The music kept playing. Ford tried to speak over the noise, but it was impossible to hear. One could see this baby-faced man was seeking desperately to clear the air. He threw himself on his longtime companion, Richard Buckley, and they embraced. (Ralph Lauren always embraces his wife Ricky after his shows, but he goes backstage right after.) But still nobody stood. Then Tom Ford retreated towards Anna Wintour, on whom he inflicted a hug. So this Texas playboy, whose praises reporters sang in the Gucci years, has become the man for whom nobody stands. If not the man one actively flees. But of this whole vignette, as of the actual collection, you’ll see nothing here. Tom Ford refuses to publish photographs of his shows.
Ouch. But concurs with this tweet. [Jezebel] [Le Figaro]
I bet it reads even better in French.
Tom turned 50 on Aug 27th.
- 214 (TopShop) AW 11.12 Gwen Loos by?
- Lula FW 11.12 Anna de Rijk by?
- Elle Brazil October 2011 Valentina Zelyaeva by Bob Wolfenson.
- VMAN 24 Tim Devos & Collin Tennant by Karim Sadli.
This Joyful Promise
Vogue Japan November 2011
Shot by: Andreas Sjödin
Model: Ymre Stiekema
[...]
Synopsis
Jackie Chan's 100th film is an epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty--and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful... and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the powerful Qings.
In theaters October 7th. Film website.
