Showing posts with label make-up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label make-up. Show all posts
Ladies and Gentlemen...
The other evening, Monorail film club showed Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler, 1981) at the GFT. Starring Diane Lane (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish), Laura Dern (Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart), Ray Winstone (Scum, Sexy Beast) - as well as Steve Jones and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols and The Clash's Paul Simonon - it tells the story of 3 teenage girls who, dissatisfied with their lives, start a punk band called The Stains who carry the motto "We Don't Put Out!".
Lead character Corrine Burn's costumes and hairstyle, which quickly become slavishly imitated by the band's legion of female fans calling themselves 'Skunks', are but a few of the things that helped make the film acquire a cult following of its own, with fans such as Courtney Love and the underground filmmaker Sarah Jacobson. If you haven't seen The Fabulous Stains, I urge you to hunt down a copy NOW.
Lead character Corrine Burn's costumes and hairstyle, which quickly become slavishly imitated by the band's legion of female fans calling themselves 'Skunks', are but a few of the things that helped make the film acquire a cult following of its own, with fans such as Courtney Love and the underground filmmaker Sarah Jacobson. If you haven't seen The Fabulous Stains, I urge you to hunt down a copy NOW.
Since Yesterday
Got my crimpers out again and today I'll be channelling Jill and Rose...
P.S. Check out Rose's NAILS!
Black Swan
Just got back from seeing Black Swan at the GFT. My thoughts, when I was able to formulate some after shrieking like a madwoman at Aronofsky's insane (and over the top) jumpy bits, were mainly about:
- Natalie Portman's incredible Black/White Swan make-up.... and how I hope Pixiwoo do a tutorial soon.
- Natalie Portman's incredible ballet body. Apparently she lost 20 lbs training for the part. How the hell did she even have 20 lbs going spare?? I, on the other hand, need to book some dance classes A.S.A.P.
- Natalie Portman's incredible Black/White Swan make-up.... and how I hope Pixiwoo do a tutorial soon.
- Natalie Portman's incredible ballet body. Apparently she lost 20 lbs training for the part. How the hell did she even have 20 lbs going spare?? I, on the other hand, need to book some dance classes A.S.A.P.
I'm a sucker for bony shoulders and collarbones.
As the 'virginal' White Swan.
Portman succeeding in making 'Madonna arms' desirable.
Reckon we'll be seeing a trend in feathered headwear?
Finally, the gorgeous movie poster...
Lady in Red
I stumbled upon this picture online (no idea who it is or who it's by)
but the hair & make-up and styling remind me of one of my all-time favourite style heroines, La Marchesa Casati:
although the colours remind me more of the Otto Dix (another favourite) painting of Anita Berber (ditto):
If anyone has any information about the origins of the top photograph, who it's by and whether it's part of a series - I'd love to see more - then please let me know! x Oh and Merry Yule/Happy New Year!
Bygone Beauty
Just discovered a wonderful blog called Beauty is a Thing of the Past filled with countless magazine clippings from the 1930s and 1940s providing tips on styling your hair and creating the perfect make-up look. I'm obsessed with stuff like this, even if I don't always have the time to sit and painstakingly pin curl my whole head.
Get tHe Look
Great spread in issue .22 of Tush magazine. Photos by Txema Yeste and make-up by Victor Alvarez.
Images courtesy of fashiontography.
Bygone Fashion
Just discovered a great livejournal style blog, Bygone Fashion. Here are some images by the photographer Mark Shaw who shot some of the most classic and elegant fashion photos of the 1950s/1960s and was also known for his documentation of the Kennedys home life.
Model in Dior
1920s style shoot for LIFE magazine.
Model on the beach, circa. 1950
'50s Ballerina
Paris 1960.
Dreaming of Daphne
I just posted about Daphne Guinness' latest charitable endeavour over on my other blog, and while continuing my stalking session I came across this beautiful photo set by Bryan Adams (yes, that one) for Zoo magazine (not that one). Among them are some of my favourite images of the great lady. In images that recall those by Man Ray and the silvery sparkly portraits of Cecil Beaton, Adams succeeds in capturing Guinness as a surrealist heroine (in one image she is seen drinking out of a Meret Oppenheim-style fur teacup) of both the past and the future.
view the complete set here.
Pretty Pretty
Earlier this month, I styled a Barbarella-inspired photoshoot for the Glasgow Guardian. The model was the brilliant Christin Haussman and the photographer was Rosalind Blake. The location was the retro-futuristic Kibble Palace at Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. Here are a couple of my behind-the-scenes shots, watch out for the final edits in the next issue of the Glasgow Guardian (out now).
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