Author Archives: classiq
Costume design vs. fashion and the Great Gatsby mania
The movie before the movie. I have the feeling I’ve already seen The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann’s remake that will only be released in May. There have been so many teaser clips, so much press talk about the costumes, about … Read More
in Fashion, Film
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Photography: Horst P. Horst
One of the old masters of fashion photography, Horst P. Horst worked for Vogue for 60 years, which included 87 covers for the magazine, and was one of the most significant fashion and portrait photographers of the twentieth century. A … Read More
Style in Film: The Great Gatsby
The 1920s. The Jazz Age. The age when Coco Chanel invented “a mode of brilliant simplicity” (Cecil Beaton), stripping women of their finery and freeing them of the tyranny of corsets and hobble skirts; she was also one of the … Read More
Fashion in Pedro Almodóvar’s films
When I read that Pedro Almodóvar personally takes care of the decor in his films, I knew why his movies remind me so much of Alfred Hitchock’s: he too oversaw every aspect of his films, from drawing every single scene … Read More
Artist Leigh Viner
How can you describe art that you love? It’s difficult, because, how can you describe beauty, or an emotion? A few months ago I discovered an illustration that I found so beautiful and profoundly emotional that it’s stayed with me … Read More
in Art, Interviews
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