What do you get when you get two living legends in front of the camera: amazing tv!
Watch Kate Moss and Dame Vivienne Westwood together at a British Fashion Council party. Kate received an award for being the winner of the London 25 award; a one-off honour to celebrate 25 years of London Fashion Week, voted for by the public, to find someone that makes “London a cultural force in the global fashion industry.”
Source: www.graziadaily.co.uk
I don’t know why suddenly there are so many great movies to watch and fab books to read, but this is another post about a brilliant book I found while wandering through my local bookshop: “70s Style & Design” by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop. “We wanted to explore the lesser know and in some cases forgotten designers of the decade,’ says Lutyens, ‘ without neglecting such perenially fascinating episodes of 70’s history, such as Biba and punk. A lot of looks that were born in the 70’s, such as the Debbie Harry/Fiorucci look became associated with the 80’s, because the mainstream was slow to catch up.’
The book is about 70’s cool (no synthetic fabrics, flares and the usual tat) and covers fashion, design, architecture, interiors and art. Divided into four themes: the pop movement and the rise of postmodernism; the Edwardian, 20’s and 30’s revivals; the back to nature movement and finally the decade’s avant-garde movers and shakers.
Expect images from the designs of Alan Aldridge, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Daniel Hechter, Jean Paul-Goude, Barbara Hulanicki, Laura Ashley, Ossie Clark, Celia Birtwell, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood.
From Tim to Tom: another great movie that will be out this winter: Former Gucci designer Tom Ford will make his directorial debut in an adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel “A Single Man”.
A Single Man is the story of one day in the life of a man (George), a gay college professor, who lives in Los Angeles. George’s lover has recently died, and George’s lifelong friend and student, helps him cope with his grief. The story is set in 1962. Colin Firth plays the role of George. Jamie Bell will play George’s lover who dies and Julianne Moore will play George’s lifelong friend.
In Dutch cinemas on the 4th of February 2010.
Aah, this is going to be amazing: This spring Tim Burton’s movie of the classis Lewis Caroll tale “Alice in Wonderland” will finally be released! And here’s the movie trailer:
Alice will be played by Mia Wasikowska, The Mad Hatter by an unrecognizable Johnny Depp, The Red Queen by Helena Bonham Carter and The White Queen by Anne Hathaway, just to name a few.
Alice in Wonderland will be in Dutch cinemas on the 11th of March 2010.
Sad News: Legendary photographer Sam Haskins has died on the 26th of november. Although he has been a photographer since the fifties, I first found out about his work because of the album cover art of the Last Shadow Puppets album ” The Age of the Understatement” from 2008. The cover one of the shots from his book Five Girls from 1962. The girl is Gill, an art student in Johannesburg in the early sixties.
Sam Haskins was a photographer best known for his contribution to nude photography, pre-Photoshop in-camera image montage, and his books, the most influential of which were “Cowboy Kate” (1965, republished in 2006) and “Haskins Posters” (1973).
From 2000 to 2005 he has focused on fashion photography for magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Allure. Recently “Fashion Etcetera” was published, his first book in 24 years. “Fashion Etcetera” is a thematic slice through his archives that explores a lifelong passion for fashion, style and design.
A small selection of some of my favorite pictures:
All photographs by Sam Haskins. Check www.haskins.com, www.samhaskinsblog.com.
