Notebook pages

Here are my latest finds and news from style, fashion, film, photography and beautiful living.

I like everything about the space above, especially the framed photographs leaning against the wall. With a couple of exceptions, that’s the way we display all the art work in our home. And I like Jacqui Getty’s quote too (this is her Los Angeles home featured in the September issue of Lonny Magazine), because it resonates with my own thoughts.

And speaking of photography, in her book, 50 Photographs, Jessica Lange has gathered a beautiful collection of photos she has taken throughout her travels. She clearly has a cinematic eye for black and white photography. Needless to say, I would like a copy of the book for myself.

• Marc Jacobs interviews the visionary Calvin Klein for Interview Magazine
• An interesting read: Holly Baxter on Vogue UK’s attempt to airbrush its reputation in schools: “These magazines exist purely to dictate to their young audience, for a fee, what is beautiful, fashionable, desirable – and largely unattainable. Trying to tell us that their content shouldn’t change, but the attitudes of their disillusioned and apparently uneducated readership should, is depressing doublethink.”
• To frame: this Jessica Durant illustration
• On the agenda this weekend: Blue Jasmine. Cate Blanchett’s lead role and wardrobe have been creating plenty of buzz and I can not wait to see her in Woody Allen’s film.
• Casa e Bottega: wouldn’t you love to go treasure hunting in this little cafe and homeware boutique in Positano, on the Amalfi Coast?

Have a wonderful weekend!

photos: 1-Lonny Magazine / 2-6: Jessica Lange, from her book, 50 Photographs

8 Responses to Notebook pages

Natalia wrote on
--> 6 September 2013 at 3:48 pm

I briefly scanned the article about new Vogue initiative and it confused me. Mainly because I don’t really understand why Vogue needs to be taken to or discussed at schools – kids should be reading books, not fashion magazines. So it’s not the initiative that I feel gone wrong, but rather the whole perception of what real life values are… And it makes me very, very sad… x
- classiq wrote on
  --> 6 September 2013 at 7:23 pm
  
  It saddened me too, Natalia. Real life values have become so distorted that I think we are not even aware of from what young age children become aware of fashion, personal look, etc. Have you seen Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring”? It’s a witty depiction of the society we live in. Everything is so out of control nowadays. I don’t understand Vogue’s initiative at all, it only shows its duality.
Nadya's Side Of The Road wrote on
--> 6 September 2013 at 7:53 pm

I so agree with both previous comments by you Ada and Natalia. Fashion in schools? Wild!!! Let’s have all students wearing Prada and Tiffany jewelry! Why to learn literature, when you can be just fabulous! % /
christine | The Plumed Nest wrote on
--> 6 September 2013 at 10:48 pm

i am going to have mull that vogue article over a bit. on one hand i definitely think it is self-gratifying for the image industry to say “we aren’t going to change, so you should change how you perceive these things.” on the other hand i think young girls (women in general maybe), especially in this day and age do need to be educated on exactly what they are, or are not looking at, if indeed it isn’t going to change. interesting to think about.

i love sally hawkins!! i am so excited to see that she is in Blue Jasmine. this definitely makes me want to see the movie even more.

have a great weekend ada!
- classiq wrote on
  --> 7 September 2013 at 3:41 pm
  
  Christine, yes, it’s good that fashion magazines come forward and are honest about image-making that they sell. But it’s shocking that Vogue is discussed in schools. Have things gone so far that this step has become something necessary? The uncontrolled access to all this information from a very young age, when children are not yet able to discern between right and wrong, real and fake, plays a major role in all this.
  
  Sally Hawkins is good, but Cate is amazing. The film is hers.
Julie wrote on
--> 8 September 2013 at 9:19 pm

Dear Ada,

I’m dying to go to the Amalfi coast. I’ll check it out now. Thanks for the link.
justine wrote on
--> 14 September 2013 at 8:59 pm

You will not be disappointed with Blue Jasmine – it’s one of the best new films I have seen in a long, long time. It’s quickly up there with my favorite of Woody Allen’s, at least! I’m curious to know what you think when you see it, I could talk about it for ages!
- classiq wrote on
  --> 15 September 2013 at 9:43 am
  
  Justine, I loved Blue Jasmine. I am a big Woody Allen fan, but what I liked the most about Blue Jasmine was that it broke out of his usual movie universe. I loved the satirical ending and Cate is simply amazing in it. It’s one of my favourite Allen films of the last 20 years, along with Match Point (my absolute favourite of all) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.