Fashion Flashback, Claudia Schiffer 90s Chanel
Some oldies of Claudia Schiffer hitting the runway for Chanel in the 1990s. Photos include looks from the 1997 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection and the 1993/4 Autumn/Winter haute couture collection.
Cléo de 5 à 7
Cleo from 5 to 7 is Agnes Varda’s famous rive gauche film that follows a young pop star around Paris for a day as she awaits the results of her biopsy. RDuJour absolutely loves Cleo (Corinne Marchand) wardrobe, including those little black sunglasses she wears during the cafe scene here. You can watch the entire film for $5.00 on the Criterion Collection’s Website.
Cinema Style: Paris When It Sizzles
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden star in this romantic comedy that portrays a screenwriter (Holden) with a script deadline in three days. When he asks his temp secretary (Hepburn) to help construct ideas, she ends up acting out a series preposterous plots. Beautifully shot on location in Paris by the famed Claude Renoir, with Hepburn outfitted in fabulous Givenchy ensembles. Continue reading for full movie.
Cinema Style: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Hold tight for a minute with the clip above…once Bond is out of HQ and on the road in his Aston he is sidetracked by the site of a beautiful woman in distress. You will simply die for Diana Rigg as she flounces around in the ocean waves in a sequined kaftan (the lamest and yet most glamorous suicide attempt ever put on screen). Then you’ll have to go and rent the movie to see the rest of Diana’s character Contessa Teresa (just call me Tracy because I’m no saint) di Vicenzo’s fabulous outfits. Many Bond aficionados call OHMSS the best film in the franchise .. apart from Bond himself. George Lazenby is no Sean Connery. Apparently Diana Rigg didn’t think so either as she was rumored to have eaten garlic before every kissing scene just to make things unpleasant for him and director Peter Hunt wouldn’t even speak to Lazenby. Nonetheless the clothes and scenery are fabulous . Continue reading for image gallery.
Beauty Flashback: Gene Tierney
What’s a bored debutante just out of finishing school in Switzerland with fabulous cheekbones to do in the late 1930s? Hit Broadway and then Hollywood, of course! Raised in Connecticut where she attended Miss Porter’s School, Tierney was discovered by a director while on a trip to California and later went against her parent’s wishes to purse her acting career. She received an Oscar nomination for best actress for her performance in Leave Her to Heaven. RDuJour loves Tierney as Isabel Bradley Maturin in the 1946 adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge. Continue reading for additional photos.
Fashion Flashback: Lilly Daché
Lilly Daché was a French born milliner who opened up a salon in New York and helped popularize the turban look in the 30s. She is famous for having said, “Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.” Lilly was also the author of two books, Talking Through My Hats and Lilly Daché’s Glamour Book. Continue reading for more photos of Lilly and her work.
Vintage Vogue Paris Channeling Jackie O.
An old editorial from Vogue Paris dedicated to Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Model Linda Morand channels Jackie in a series of Chanel, Dior, Patou, Ferraud, Scherrer, and Givenchy outfits. Continue reading for full editorial scans.
Cinema Style, Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette
Before Sophia Coppola glammed up Kirsten Dunst in her 2006 film there was Norma. RDuJour loves Norma Shearer styled as the young French queen in the 1938 Van Dyke adaptation of Marie Antoinette. Continue reading for additional photos and video clips.
Fashion Flashback: Virna Lisi
There aren’t really words to describe how fabulously glamorous and gorgeous Italian actress Virna Lisi was in 1960s and 70s. I love her platinum blonde hair and those cat eyes! My favorite picture in the gallery below is of Lisi riding in the back of a limousine in a bejeweled white turban. Continue reading for additional photos.
Fashion Flashback, Queen Paola of Belgium
In the 60s Queen Paola of Belgium was known as Princesse Paola, the glamorous Italian aristocrat who married Prince Albert, heir to the thrown of Belgium. Some of my favorite vintage magazine editorials are those that feature Paola in her pill-box hats and well-set hair. Continue reading for additional photos.
