Opening a new window everyday

Fashion's Most Wanted's post Style Icons - Talitha Getty. Fabulous. But so is everything else.



*Opening a new window everyday - a quote from Auntie Mame that reflects her philosophy of Live, Live, Live!


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Fash. Ed. Supreme.

That was how Joanna Lumley's fashion editor character, Patsy Stone, in Absolutely Fabulous described her idol Grace Coddington.


Vogue's Grace Coddington
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With the release of The September Issue Coddington finds a new audience and confirms what those of a certain age already knew - she is genius.





Her 2002 opus Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue



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Easily said...

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. - Sophia Loren



White lie:
A white lie would cause only relatively minor discord if it were uncovered, and typically offers some benefit to the hearer. White lies are often used to avoid offense, such as complimenting something one finds unattractive. In this case, the lie is told to avoid the harmful realistic implications of the truth.



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Something for the weekend

Mission: Impossible

Seasons one through three. Why? Those were the seasons that Barbara Bain appeared as top model and actress Cinnamon Carter. So flawlessly chic in that knowing way.














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Chatelaine

Flora Sissy Goforth is our mystery chatelaine.

Played to the absolute hilt by Elizabeth Taylor in Tennessee Williams's film adaptation of his play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) entitled Boom! (1968). Appearing along side Miss Taylor are Richard Burton, Noel Coward (pictured above in his role as the Witch of Capri), and Joanna Shimkus.

The ravishing sets were created by the very talented Richard MacDonald, who had also previously worked with the film's director Joseph Losey.




While not generally well received in its own time, perhaps Boom!'s time has finally come. Perhaps this time as an opera.



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It is all connected

Mondrian's close friend, Maude van Loon, describes the painter's studio:

The front door was nothing special; just a wooden door. Between the front door and the studio there was a little vestibule and a dark corridor. Then you went through his door and suddenly there was a marvelous white studio with a colour plane here and there. It was like stepping into paradise….



Mondrian’s Paris studio, restored to colour ( Berlin, 1995)
Frans Postma and Cees Boekraad, with the assistance of Hans de Herder, RKD
National Gallery of Art





Piet Mondrian's Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930




Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian day dress, autumn 1965
The Metropolitan Museum of Art





Architects Titina Ammanati and Giampiero Vitelli's Mobile Totale living unit, 1965
Phillips de Pury



See?



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More ways to waste time

Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine in the 1966 crime caper Gambit.

Love this film. MacLaine is exquisite to behold and Caine is roguishly charming.

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Just as one is thinking...

What's the point?

The Decorator - An un-aired 1965 television pilot produced by Aaron Spelling, starring Bette Davis and Mary Wickes.

More ways to waste time

A Majority of One (1961)

Leonard Spigelgass's film adaptation of his stage play. A love story that probes into the nature of prejudice. Starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness.

Available on Netflix and Treasure Flix.

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Fall and switch

Sophia Loren




Princess Margaret




Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto


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