ART IS LIFE AND LIFE IS ART

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

THESE ARE AMAZING COSTUMES-THE GREAT GATSBY EXHIBITION

From Fashionologie- The exhibit, Catherine Martin and Miuccia Prada Dress Gatsby, features an array of women's gowns intricately decorated with crystals, feathers, fur, and embroidery. Pradatold WWD her costumes for Daisy Buchanan, the story's female lead, "became about money, because [Luhrmann] wanted to show her as the most beautiful and rich woman on earth."

Prada added that she didn't have to adapt her work to a '20s aesthetic. "Yes, probably a few had that kind of edge, but almost none were meant to be the '20s when I did them," she said. "I was really fascinated by that."

Bright Star

I loved this film so much.A friend of mine told me about it months ago but silly moi had to wait months before finally watching this piece of heaven on earth.For period movie buffs like me,its everything a film{of the romance order]should be.It is so delicate and personal and the chemistry between John Keats and Fanny Brawne was surprisingly electrifying.I also loved everything Fanny wore and just wanted to live in that world so much as the costumes were so simple yet definably spoke alot...at least to me it did.To end i will Quote the film's titles poem by John Keats.....
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

THE RUNAWAYS

I am really looking forward to seeing this movie.I was a bit weary at first with all the buzz around it but now i'm genuinely looking forward to seeing it.Apart from JOAN JETT i've gotta say that LITA FORD kicks ass.Its amazing to think that these teenage girls were so brave at such a young age.They dominated rock n roll for chicks and that is never a bad thing.Plus its starring KRISTEN STEWART who will always have a place in my heart.(blame twilight.heh)