the PIPELINE: Style on Tap

• November 19, 2008 2:04 PM
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Adjani's Eerie '70s Style: The Tenant

By Sarah Maher

In Roman Polanski's 1976 film The Tenant, Isabelle Adjani plays Stella, the epitome of a sexy, bohemian-clad intellectual. Is Stella the love interest of a reincarnated dead woman? Or is she a compassionate girl with great hair watching her beau's slow descent into madness? Frankly, we're too busy checking out her spirited 1970's Parisian wardrobe to figure out the details. Stella frequents cafes, smokes Gauloises cigarettes and orders a small glass of wine while wearing shearling and glasses. She dances alone in a silver pendant necklace and black velvet pantsuit, wears a jumble of silver jewelry on her arm, while serving marmalade toast, and she throws on a white kimono and dark eye makeup for drinking after-hours tea. Her relaxed posture, naturally wild hair, tight leather boots, and zippered bag pulls together the effortless look, giving Stella a sexy sophistication while she pursues her spirited passions.

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• November 11, 2008 1:02 PM
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Bloodthirsty Hippies: The Revolutionary Style of Goddard's Weekend

By Sarah Maher

Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend is a satirical look at cultural revolution that begins as leisurely road trip and ends in traffic jams and cannibalism. Sensing a sea change in politics, society and racism, Goddard comments on bourgeois indulgences by blending music, violence, and brightly colored ensembles in '60s pop stylings. In a surreal forested fantasy land, the "Liberation Front of the Seine and Oise" are a band of revolutionary's who symbolize the end of Western civilization and adopt cool monikers like "Battleship Potemkin," "Johnny Guitar," and "Arizona Jules." Colored suede slouch boots, yellow scarves worn with turquoise sweaters, red thigh-hi tights or green knee-hi socks, skintight corduroy, blankets as cloaks, sweaters as caplets, men's shirts as mini-dresses, random pins, gold cuffs, and an impressive array of headwear make up the colorfully bizarre mishmash of stolen garments for the Front's revolutionary uniforms.

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• November 5, 2008 12:38 PM
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Shutter Buggin': The Eyes of Laura Mars' Photographer Psychosis Chic

By Sarah Maher

Fashion editorial-inspiring cult favorite, The Eyes of Laura Mars, stars Faye Dunaway as Laura Mars, a fabulously neurotic and provocative fashion photographer in true 1978 New Yorker ensembles. Escaping serial killers, pushy agents, psychic visions and dubious men, Laura navigates the fatal streets of Soho in the ultimate fall wardrobe. She dons a high-neck black satin dress, gold pendant necklace and red lacquered lips for her book launch, and falls for the wrong guy under Central Park autumn leaves in thin burgundy layered scarves. She shoots her sexy Guy Bourdin-style editorials in Columbus Circle wearing purple plaid wraps and knee high boots, and pairs a tweed fedora, tan plaid cape and camel colored heels for stressful waterfront loft productions. When upset, Laura sips chardonnay and reclines in a beige silk dressing gown; when distraught, she pops Xanax and keeps cozy in stacked heel boots, a cable knit sweater and fringed wool wrap.

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• October 28, 2008 1:31 PM
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Behind the Mask: The Scary Style of Eyes Without a Face

By Sarah Maher

Georges Franju's 1959 French horror film Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face) stars Edith Scob as Christiane Genessier, a lonely girl whose face is grimly marred from an accident caused by her father Dr Genessier. Trapped in a murderous mansion, surrounded by howling dogs and forced to wear an expressionless white mask, Christiane is haunted by her lost identity whilst wearing a wardrobe of exquisite yet ghastly elegance.

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• October 24, 2008 4:00 PM
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Chills, Thrills, and, Periodically, Frills: A Refinery29 Horror Film Fest

By Allison Sparkuhl and Max Berlinger

Again, we are determined to set you up for a stylishly scary Halloween if it kills you—and with this list of Netflixable films, it very well may. We suggest any of these creepy pics to give you just the jolt you need to start next week's horror fest right. From The Atomic Brain to Black Sunday, we tested each of these shock or schlock masterpieces on our interns, one of which died from fright and two of which died from laughing.

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• October 14, 2008 9:49 AM
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Who Are You Polly Maggoo? The Original, Magical MODEL.LIVE

By Sarah Maher

Who Are You Polly Maggoo? is the 1966 French film directed by former Vogue photographer William Klein and starring real life '60's model Dorothy McGowan as Polly Maggoo, the Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris. Shot as a faux TV documentary and spoofing high fashion, the media covers Polly's fame with a trite profile, Peggy Moffitt cameo, dental issues and a model's mod wardrobe to sell your soul for.

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