Category Archives: This summer we’re channelling
This Summer We’re Channelling: Léa Seydoux in “Saint Laurent”
One July afternoon in 1968, Yves Saint Laurent met Loulou de la Falaise. She represented both the aristocratic bearing and expressive freedom, both innate elegance and excess, both beauty and dark sensuality. Léa Seydoux has the presence and grace and luminous aura to carry out the role of Loulou de la Falaise in the film Saint Laurent. Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Catherine Deneuve in “Le sauvage”
Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Le sauvage feels like the movie that liberated Catherine Deneuve’s own personality on the screen. Her image in Le sauvage is hardly associated with fashion, and that’s part of the reason why this role is so fresh and different and liberating. Read More
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Breaking the Rules of a Leading Lady: Bette Davis in “The Letter”
There have been other femmes fatales dressed in white who commanded the screen with ferocity, but none of them had the audacity of Bette Davis’ Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, who not only inverts the symbolism of colour, but ironically inverts the roles of bride and mistress. Read More
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The Birth of the Androgynous Look: Greta Garbo in “The Single Standard”
It was 1929 when Greta Garbo introduced trousers into women’s fashion, when she appeared in her lover’s clothes in The Single Standard. It was Garbo who paved the way for Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn. She invented the androgynous look. Read More
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The Armani Aesthetic and Film Costume Appropriation: Sam Shepard in “Voyager”
By offsetting the functionality of his 1950s clothes with a modern stylishness, a stylishness that confers Walter Faber a universal appeal, Armani “surpasses the barrier of time” in Voyager. Read More
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