I finally finished watching My Fair Lady. So after 3 full hours of endless songs and long conversations that spanned the full spectrum of high and low socio-economic British accents, I am still happy to have finally seen it. Audrey Hepburn is lovely but I found out afterwards that the role was meant for Julie Andrews, who at the time was lesser known. I wish that they had given the role to Julie Andrews. However, the same year Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Mary Poppins, which in my opinion is one of the best movies ever made. The real treat of My Fair Lady was the ascot scene where everyone was wearing the most incredible black and white outfits. Lovely.
Everyone wore black & white at the races, but
Audrey Hepburn’s dress was the show stopper.
Seems like Ralph Lauren was also inspired by Sir Cecil Beaton’s
famous black-and-white Ascot scene from “My Fair Lady” too.
Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2008 Collection
Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2008 Collection
In 2003 I had a solo show in Marsellies, France. Abi, Kim and I bought last minute tickets to France to attend my opening. It was one of the best decisions we ever made. We had an amazing time together and the best part was the few days spent in Paris. One day Kim and I randomly wandered into one of the oldest and most elegant tea salons in the world, Ladurée. I was vegan at the time but there was no way I could resist the rose petal adorned pastries and floral scented teas. ahhhhh…
Marie Antoinette (2006) directed by Sofia Coppola
Miller by Man RayLast night I read an amazing article on the incredible complicated life of Lee Miller by one of my favorite authors Judith Thurman in the January 21, 2008 Issue of The New Yorker.
Lee Miller, the playgirl, model, photographer, muse of Man Ray and others, and war correspondent. “She had the gift of finding beauty in a wasteland, and her eye tends to petrify what it looks at,†Thurman writes. “Organic forms and living creatures become abstract in her pictures, but movingly so—the way a nymph fleeing an aggressor is transformed into a star.â€
She was Painted by Picasso and also here.
A solarized portrait of Lee Miller
by Man Ray, circa 1930.
Piano by Broadwood, London, 1940 by Lee Miller
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Ah I just found these lovely images by
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Christina of Sweden
Gillian Bencke
Angelina Jolie, in vintage Hermès
with Brad Pitt, in Tom Ford.
Shrewd, Selfish Scarlett: A Complicated Heroine by Karen Grigsby Bates
Totally interesting NPR story that I heard today about one of my favorite (complex) characters of all time.
Necessary evils: Whether plotting a conquest at a picnic or engineering a comeback from poverty, Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) had no qualms about doing what it took.
In mourning: Scarlett broods while Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) woos.
Christian Lacroix Spring/Summer 2008
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2008
Nina Ricci Spring/Summer 2008
