Thursday is the perfect day to watch a movie. Why? Because tomorrow is Friday. Rest up before the big weekend! Get off those dancing feet and plug into a good film.
StyleGirl loves anything to do with fashion, movies included. Want some good recs to put on your Netflix queue? Look no further than the two films below.
StyleGirl loves anything to do with fashion, movies included. Want some good recs to put on your Netflix queue? Look no further than the two films below.
Blow Up
Blowup is my favorite Antonioni film (L'Avventura comes at a close, close second) and is my choice for the best fashion movie ever made.
A womanizing fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings and based on the real-life fashion photographer David Bailey, may or may not have captured a murder on film while taking photos aimlessly one day in a public park. The footage is blurry and obscured - a metaphor for reality and the way we interpret it. What does the camera see that we do not, and what can film tell us about the truth? Thomas, the fashion photographer, attempts to tell people about what he might have saw, but no one in his circle of acquaintances seems to care. What is more important, the murder he might have captured on film, or one of the many nameless models whose beauty he takes pictures of for a living? A backdrop to Blowup is London in the 60s, and the film is rich in all the accoutrements of fashion - from clothes to hair to makeup to music, this film is seeped in style.
Really, what more does one need than Audrey Hepburn, Paris, Fred Astaire, and some truly beautiful clothes designed by Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy to create a truly delightful fashion film?
The clothes. Oh God, the clothes. I covet everything Audrey dons in this film, even that dowdy librarian smock she wears when being introduced to Fred Astaire for the first time.
Like Blowup, Funny Face is about the relationship between fashion and photography. Fred Astaire plays a successful fashion photographer who falls in love with his model and muse, Audrey Hepburn (who wouldn't). In front of his lens, she turns from bookworm to butterfly, and we get to see many, many scrumptious outfits in the process. I get chills every time I watch the scene where Audrey descends the steps of the Louvre, right in front of the "Winged Victory of Samothrace", and opens her arms with that huge scarf billowing in the breeze. As beautiful as that Hellenistic sculpture is, it is completely overshadowed by Audrey in that to-die-for red sleeveless Givenchy gown.
A womanizing fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings and based on the real-life fashion photographer David Bailey, may or may not have captured a murder on film while taking photos aimlessly one day in a public park. The footage is blurry and obscured - a metaphor for reality and the way we interpret it. What does the camera see that we do not, and what can film tell us about the truth? Thomas, the fashion photographer, attempts to tell people about what he might have saw, but no one in his circle of acquaintances seems to care. What is more important, the murder he might have captured on film, or one of the many nameless models whose beauty he takes pictures of for a living? A backdrop to Blowup is London in the 60s, and the film is rich in all the accoutrements of fashion - from clothes to hair to makeup to music, this film is seeped in style.
Funny Face
Really, what more does one need than Audrey Hepburn, Paris, Fred Astaire, and some truly beautiful clothes designed by Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy to create a truly delightful fashion film?The clothes. Oh God, the clothes. I covet everything Audrey dons in this film, even that dowdy librarian smock she wears when being introduced to Fred Astaire for the first time.
Like Blowup, Funny Face is about the relationship between fashion and photography. Fred Astaire plays a successful fashion photographer who falls in love with his model and muse, Audrey Hepburn (who wouldn't). In front of his lens, she turns from bookworm to butterfly, and we get to see many, many scrumptious outfits in the process. I get chills every time I watch the scene where Audrey descends the steps of the Louvre, right in front of the "Winged Victory of Samothrace", and opens her arms with that huge scarf billowing in the breeze. As beautiful as that Hellenistic sculpture is, it is completely overshadowed by Audrey in that to-die-for red sleeveless Givenchy gown.
i loved funny face! so amazing!