Showing posts with label style icon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style icon. Show all posts
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Andrej Pejic: Blurring Gender in the fashion world
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Lana Del Rey: New Face of H&M
Lana Del Rey is the face of the 2012 fall collection for H&M. Shot by fashion heavy weights, Ines Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the photos show Del Rey's signature 60's style in an pink angora jumper, leather jeans, chandelier earrings, big hair, thick cat eyes and sharp nails. "The mood is very LA noir." say H&M creative director Donald Schneider.
A commercial featuring Rey possibly singing "Blue Velvet" (inspired from the David Lynch movie) aired September 19th on the H&M website and then used for TV
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
You Look like the 4th of July! It makes me want a hot dog real bad!
(this is a photo of me from my high school year book)
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Lana Del Rey's National Anthem Channels Jackie Onassis and Marilyn Monroe
Today the Lana Del Rey music video for "National Anthem" was released.
Rey portrays a sort of Marilyn Monroe Jackie Onassis hybrid, and the video features A$AP Rocky as a Jack Kennedy/Barack Obama hybrid.
The video has already sparked a lot of controversy for recreating the 1963 Kennedy assassination, and the interracial relationship has raised a few eyebrows. Director Anthony Mandler says that was the point.
"We used the Kennedy framework to kind of implement this new Camelot, this maybe socially diverse Camelot...bringing it into the modern era, but still keeping that classic framework. There's a kind of micro commentary on this new royalty. I think with an African American president, it's still controversial to see him playing JFK, its still taboo, even though it shouldn't be."
He goes on to say "We didn't want to make it be a mockery. How many artists and rappers and singers have you seen running around in badly fitted suits acting like the president?"
Mandler says he wanted the video's theme to be about a loss of innocence and sort of a Romeo and Juliet story. He felt the Marilyn. Jackie O and Jack Kennedy love triangle "became this kind of ideal of what seemed perfect from the outside but was maybe rotting on the inside."
The video is amazing and it channels a modernized early 60's feel. It is hard not to have some emotional response to it. Rey is simply stunning in it. Is it controversial, perhaps? But it is also bold and I think the director created his vision successfully.
Rey portrays a sort of Marilyn Monroe Jackie Onassis hybrid, and the video features A$AP Rocky as a Jack Kennedy/Barack Obama hybrid.
The video has already sparked a lot of controversy for recreating the 1963 Kennedy assassination, and the interracial relationship has raised a few eyebrows. Director Anthony Mandler says that was the point.
"We used the Kennedy framework to kind of implement this new Camelot, this maybe socially diverse Camelot...bringing it into the modern era, but still keeping that classic framework. There's a kind of micro commentary on this new royalty. I think with an African American president, it's still controversial to see him playing JFK, its still taboo, even though it shouldn't be."
He goes on to say "We didn't want to make it be a mockery. How many artists and rappers and singers have you seen running around in badly fitted suits acting like the president?"
Mandler says he wanted the video's theme to be about a loss of innocence and sort of a Romeo and Juliet story. He felt the Marilyn. Jackie O and Jack Kennedy love triangle "became this kind of ideal of what seemed perfect from the outside but was maybe rotting on the inside."
The video is amazing and it channels a modernized early 60's feel. It is hard not to have some emotional response to it. Rey is simply stunning in it. Is it controversial, perhaps? But it is also bold and I think the director created his vision successfully.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
90's Revival: Shirley Manson
After a 7 year hiatus the band Garbage has put out a new album Not Your Kind of People
I have been dying to do a blog covering Shirley Manson's style!
The front woman Shirley Manson with her heavily lined eyes, fire engine red lips and ginger locks has an iconic look along with a powerful knack for singer and song writing.
(Not mention a unique fashionista)
I have been dying to do a blog covering Shirley Manson's style!
The front woman Shirley Manson with her heavily lined eyes, fire engine red lips and ginger locks has an iconic look along with a powerful knack for singer and song writing.
(Not mention a unique fashionista)
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