Thursday, January 24, 2013

Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2013 Details

My love for the Valentino Haute Couture Collection knows no bounds. I was so happy to have stumbled upon the live stream by complete chance and will confess to having watched it twice. Interesting to note: according to Tim Blanks review '...the duo [Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli] enumerated the human cost in the show notes that sat on everyone's seats' One such labour-intensive 'artisanal effort' was a tulle and gauze dress, scrolled and enveloped with a lattice cage of rolled piping, which -as noted by Blanks- 'According to the notes, it took 500 hours of hand-rolling to produce the piping.'

Photo credits: Vogue.it Gianni Pucci / Gorunway / Indigital

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So dreamy!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Cosmopolis (2012)

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Selected stills from David Cronenberg's cinematic adaptation of Don LeLillo's amazing novel, Cosmopolis. I enjoyed the mixture of crisp and grainy cinematography, and Cronenberg's vision of the slick retro-futuristic, custom stretch limo interior, although, unfortunately the film could not fully encapsulate the Gotham like New York as crafted in DeLillo's brilliant book. Robert Pattinson is aptly cast as sadistic billionaire Eric Packer, as is his beautiful wife played by Sarah Gadon. While I was slightly disappointed, I can still recommend downloading the film at blu ray quality, or better yet, reading the book!