the PIPELINE: Style on Tap
- January 27, 2009 11:38 AM
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Cybill Shepherd's Naughty/Nice Girl Style in The Last Picture Show
The Movie: Set in the '50s desolation of Anarene, Texas, Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 coming-of-age film The Last Picture Show stars Cybill Shepherd as Jacey, a manipulative teenager from an oil wealthy family. Clad in plaid, she's the prettiest girl around, shallow, bitchy, a little slutty and terminally bored with her small town life.
The Style: Jacey wears pleated shorts, knotted shirts, ankle socks, saddle shoes and listens to Hank Williams while making out in cars, movie theaters, seedy hotel rooms, and is eventually seduced by her bitter mother's lover atop the local pool table. Batting her eyelashes in a cute gingham frock and attending a mid-winter pool party with the fast, rich crowd, Lacey attempts an awkward, giggling striptease on a diving board. While exposing beige stockings, garters and some serious white underwear, Lacey succeeds in making granny-pants sexy with her impulsive, paradoxical style.
Get the Look: For a dose of the nice that can turn quickly naughty, don the saddle shoe by F-troupe, Rag & Bone pleated Bermuda shorts, and the plaid boyfriend shirt from Steven Alan. Add the Schiesser white hip panties, shiny blond locks, a bit of a bad-girl streak and you're on the right path.
- January 20, 2009 2:24 PM
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Pop Tart: Yé-Yé Movie Style in Masculin, Féminin
The Movie:French yé-yé girl Chantal Goya plays Madeleine Zimmer, a budding New Wave chanteuse in Jean-Luc Godard's1966 film Masculin, Féminin. With a dreamy haircut, a ménage à quatre with her Marxist boyfriend and her single "Pinball Champ" # 6 in Japan, Madeleine's tone stays sweet and simple as she turbulently rises to the top.
The Style:Neatly winsome as she distractedly pulls her hair, Madeleine favors unassuming styles, round neck collars and her favorite light knit sweater. Dancing at La Locomotive, kicking it in the studio, watching a Bergman film or drinking a Pepsi, Madeleine keeps accessories minimal with a heart locket, stripe scarf and black purse with chain link details. Like all good hipster girls, she plays the jukebox and keeps her politics, pop charts and panache cute, but not cloying.
Get The Look: To release your inner yé-yé pick up a Sabrina Dehoff's 'personal treasures for tiny dames' gold necklace, a Three Layer Scarf in black and the beige NEAL by Neal Sperling stitch sweater and always, always dance to your own tune.
- January 13, 2009 12:40 PM
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Catherine Deneuve Stars in "The Woman with Red Boots"
The Film:
Catherine Deneuve plays Francoise, a struggling avant-garde writer in Jean Luis Buñuel's 1974 film "The Woman with Red Boots." When manipulated by an obsessed millionaire, clairvoyant Francoise experiences surrealistic visions with her chic style.
The Fashion:
While drinking the yolk from a pinpricked egg shell, Francoise wears a pair of bordeaux leather knee-hi boots over loosely fitted jeans, a ball pendant necklace, and an Aran bainin wool sweater. With her blond, backcombed hair, and draped cape trailing dramatically behind her, she flashes by old men in cafes and makes potential suitors draw straws for her affection. Surely Francoise could produce something more beneficial with her cute kinetics, but like us, she's too busy typing and channeling her mid-Winter savoir-faire to begin overtaking the world.
The DIY Fix:
Find your spectral chic in the mini length cloak by Lindsey Thornburg, a pair of Dolce Vita Luke boots, the single knot necklace from Lanyard and an Irish wool knit from Houndstooth Vintage in New York.
- January 6, 2009 1:45 PM
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Too Cool For School: The Mod Style of To Sir, With Love
James Clavell's 1967 film To Sir, with Love stars Sidney Poitier as a charming teacher with a classroom full of East End louts at London Docks Nth Quay Secondary School. Though the student body undermines their education with, "foul language, crude behavior and sluttish manner," we see a stylish future for these angst-ridden wastrels with their heavy eyeliner, matte lips, and denim-clad rebelliousness. "Miss Wong" in her pinstripe button-down shirt, Mod skirt, patent mary-janes, doe-eyes, floppy bangs and loose ponytail, gets an "A" for attitude. "Seales," in her corduroy cap, plaid shirt and tie, stovepipe denim, cockney slang, and leather lace ups is an Alex Wang muse 40 years ahead of her time. Finally, the lovely "Miss Pamela Dare" with her amusing name, tousled mane, mini-skirts, love of rock lads and partying puts any modern Peaches Geldof-types to shame.
- December 30, 2008 1:54 PM
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Party Girl: Anouk Aimée's New Year's Chic in LOLA
French film actress Anouk Aimée plays a lovelorn waterfront cabaret dancer frustrated by fate in Jacques Demy's 1962 "musical without music" LOLA. As she pines for love, Lola's life becomes a heartbreaking ode to missed opportunities and lost youth. But to her benefit, Lola can really shake it in our preferred New Years Eve outfit of fancy knickers and a top hat. While entertaining sailors in a sleazy seaside dance hall, Lola smokes with an elongated cigarette holder, wears a serious lacy, strapless boned corset, bed hair, black seamed stockings, and kitten heels. Donning the uniform of a beau, she sits bedside, nibbling bread during a sexy afternoon tête-à-tête, and when the fun's over Lola strolls back to her métier with a draped coat barely concealing her seductive underpinnings.
- December 23, 2008 10:30 AM
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A Fashionable Frau in Rome: Nico in La Dolce Vita
While focusing on what to give to others for the holidays, we ought to give ourselves a little something special too. Get inspired by blond German model, singer, songwriter, muse, notorious addict, and actress Nico (née Christa Päffgen) in Federico Fellini's sardonic masterpiece La Dolce Vita and get yourself a bangin' Holiday haircut, gifting family and friends with your spectacular personal aesthetic. It's a Christmas treat everyone can enjoy. Apparently Fellini spotted the charismatic Nico on the set of La Dolce Vita in Rome and offered her a role in his stylish film. With her trademark blond locks, icy presence and smoldering monotone voice, Nico parties with Marcello Mastroianni, speaks fluently in four languages and generally stands out from the plebeians looking cool with her superior charm. Wearing a simple black pantsuit, Nico's effortless yet sophisticated look is accessorized with blunt blond bangs, razor-sharp cheekbones, a large rhinestone brooch, and her own personal brand of sexy Teutonic intensity.
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