Style Inspiration: Shelley Duvall in Nashville

It’s hot out there, ladies. Remember, never be afraid to let your freak flag fly.

 

Converse releases Sex Pistols inspired series

Nevermind The Yeezys, Here’s The Chucks. Without the Jamie Reid, Never Mind The Bollocks, or God Save The Queen art, I’ve gotta say that I’m disappointed.

http://www.converse.com/us/en/products/converse/sex-pistols?CSINT=HP_hero_SexPistols

The futuristic fashion of André Courréges

Great videos showing Courreges designs predicting what I hope will be a 21st Century Mod Revival gone to space! R.I.P.

 

Happy birthday, Edwige Fenech

The Goddess of Giallo, and Queen of Italian Sexy Comedies

Pic of The Day: Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger, 1967

Because even when you’re Mick Jagger, sometimes you’re not the most interesting man in the room. Delon’s style makes Jagger’s mismatched socks, beat down shoes and scruffy coif look entirely adolescent. Hell, Delon even has that uncanny French knack for turning a cigarette into a desirable accessory, while Mick is dreaming of the advent of the cell phone. Either way, Marianne’s in the proverbial catbird seat. Taken in 1967, at a discussion with director Jack Cardiff on his film The Girl On A Motorcycle, starring Faithfull and Delon.

R.I.P. to Warhol superstar and transgender icon, Holly Woodlawn

Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

Andy Warhol transvestite Superstar Holly Woodlawn, acclaimed for her performance in ‘Trash’, photographed in 1970. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

Happy birthday, Tina Weymouth!

Tina Weymouth in two parts: Pt I Talking Heads

Tina Weymouth In Two Parts: Pt II Tom Tom Club

08 Aug 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA — Tina Weymouth of the Tom Tom Club sings and plays bass in a concert performance on the Escape from New York Tour. — Image by © Neal Preston/Corbis

Tina Weymouth with Talking Heads

Happy birthday to designer, Emilio Pucci

“Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.”

“I rediscovered colour and created a symphony of combinations. Flowers of all colours grow together in harmony in the fields and almost any one combination looks beautiful.”

http://www.fashion-lifestyle.bg/designers_en_broi25

KRIS Likes… Emilio Pucci in the Home

Louise Brooks would have been 99 today

“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”

With that iconic, sharp bob, and a sexually liberated attitude, Louise Brooks virtually defined the Flapper era of femininity.

http://selvedgeyard.com/2011/02/08/the-original-it-girl-of-the-1920s-the-allure-of-louise-brooks/

1927: American actress Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985) wearing a frilly dress with a large G on the front for the film “Now We’re In The Air”. (Photo by Eugene Robert Richee)

1929: American actress Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985) wearing a long necklace which stands out starkly against a black background. (Photo by Eugene Robert Richee)

Here’s a BBC documentary, as I always find their docs entertaining and well produced (though I have not watched this one yet).

And her most enduring performance, as Lulu in G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film, Pandora’s Box…

It’s Hedy!

Hedy Lamarr would have been 101 today.
“I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.”

Hedy Lamarr