Author Archives: classiq
Style in Film: Gena Rowlands in Gloria
Gloria loves clothes. She cares about them. They are perhaps about the only thing she cares about. She suddenly finds herself on the run, but she takes her clothes along. So she should. They are Emanuel Ungaro and they … Read More
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Doster: 80s/90s
“It’s a book filled with passion, and the man behind the camera goes deep into the essence of the object… It all comes down to passion,” is what Michael Doster said about his photography book, Doster 80s/90s, when asked … Read More
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Games? Must We?
This may be a line from one of my favourite Hitchcock movies, North by Northwest, but there is nothing fictional about the subject I am approaching today. It’s very much real. And it is a sad reality sport and … Read More
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Style in Film: Spotlight
What do The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Great Gatsby, The Artist, Memoirs of A Geisha, Chicago and The Aviator all have in common? They are period movies which have all won the Oscar for costume design. In fact, over … Read More
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A Sporting Life: Nacho Figueras
Last summer I was writing about tennis and about one of the greatest, and most stylish, players of all time, Björn Borg, while making a plea for outdoor sports. Sport and style are not exactly natural bedfellows, but there … Read More
