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sabato 11 aprile 2020

Film n. 12: In the Mood for Love

mercoledì 15 maggio 2013

The proper clothes

I don’t know about you, dear readers, but I personally consider the way people are dressed in movies (and in real life) very important.
It is not by coincidence that my biggest passion in life, besides cinema, is vintage fashion.
In particular, I adore dresses from the ‘50s and '60s.

From the ‘70s on, just forget about them.

This is why I’m having so much trouble at the moment looking at the Season 6 of Mad Men.
Set in 1968, things are getting worse and worse: where are those fabulous dresses that Peggy, Betty and Joan used to wear in 1954?

And I always have in mind that amazing dialogue between James Stewart and Grace Kelly from one of my favourite movie of all time, Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock:
Jeff: Those high heels would be a lot of use in the jungle, and those nylons and six-ounce lingerie..

Lisa: Three-ounce...

Jeff: Well, they'd be very stylish in Finland, just before you froze to death. Begin to get the idea?

Lisa: If there's one thing I know, it's how to wear the proper clothes.
Well, to avoid thinking about the ugliness of modern fashion, I thought to share with you my TOP 5 of the Best Dressed Women in the whole cinema history:

N. 5
JEAN SEBERG in A BOUT DE SOUFFLE by Jean-Luc Godard (1959)
The white t-shirt of the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs-Elysées, the striped dress and top, the short haircut. The modern style is born. And the rest is history!

N. 4
MAGGIE CHEUNG in IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE by Wong Kar-Wai (2000)
Her body is the most fascinating silhouette of the cinema history. Wrapped in these magnificent chinese style dresses, it is almost too beautiful to look at. The word classy has been invented for her!

N. 3
KIM NOVAK in VERTIGO by Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
Double role for Kim Novak but just one genius behind her absolutely fabulous collection of clothes: Miss Edith Head. I have vertigo looking at them!

N. 2
GRACE KELLY in REAR WINDOW by Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
The woman who knew "how to dress the proper clothes", it is showing exactly what she meant in this movie. The dresses are (again!) by Edith Head. Simply irresistible!

N. 1
AUDREY HEPBURN in SABRINA by Billy Wilder (1954)
She is THE Best Dressed Women of the human history, not only of cinema, and I could have named ANY of her movies, but the dresses of Sabrina (by appointment to his majesty, Hubert de Givenchy) are just to die for. Elegance, is an attitude!

If you want to know more about the vintage dresses I like (and many other things), you can always have a look at Zazie's PINTEREST page!

mercoledì 30 maggio 2012

Midnight in Paris for Cinema Blogger

My faithful readers already know about my friendship with super-talented Australian photographer Carla Coulson: she is the woman behind all Zazie’s official portraits.

Carla and I simply LOVE working together and every time a new idea comes up, we immediately take the chance and go for it. For her series of night portraits called Midnight in Paris, we decided to make some shots inspired - in the most flamboyant way - to cinema.
It was such a funny night: walking around the streets of Montmartre like we were a filming crew, and stop at my place for changing my clothes and get ready to enter into a different universe that was first in our heads and imaginations before becoming a reality in her pictures. That’s the magic of photography as well as cinema: something you just dream about can become true!

Carla wrote about this night in her fabulous website: Midnight in Paris for Cinema Blogger Zazie, indicating the cinematic references we used for the job.

What I’d like to do here, is to share those "cinema pictures in my head” with you.

This proves that, even if I’m far away from being a movie star, sometimes you just have to really believe you can be one… and, well, maybe use a bit of imagination too!

MAD MEN - Betty Draper