ACTUALLY (finally) saw Blow-Up (1966) just last summer. It was one many “classic” cultural films on my list, and the first I’d seen in which Jane Birkin appeared. The Michelangelo Antonioni directed film was one of her first roles and while it was a minor one, you could already tell back then that she had screen presence ...
FRENCH actress and model Anaëlle Duguet practiced artistic gymnastics for 12 years and recently graduated with a Fine Arts degree. Since then, she has been working as a fashion model in Paris, and for the past two years, has been pursuing a career in acting. Duguet has just finished a short film in Florence Foresti's new tv show for Canal+. The model has worked with Chloé, Dior, Chanel, and YSL, among others.
This week's Style Icon is American Actress and model Marisa Berenson. Born Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson in 1947, she was the granddaughter of couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. She has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Time, and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret. Berenson was one of the highest paid models in the world in the sixties.
ONE OF THE fashion world’s most beautiful and enduring platonic love stories was almost never to be. As the story goes, in 1953, while filming Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn paid a visit to French couturier Hubert de Givenchy's studio in Paris to discuss the possibility of his designing the dresses for the film.
TODAY is Audrey Hepburn‘s birthday–the stunningly beautiful British actress & humanitarian would have been 85. And so, a few very favourite photographs to celebrate her birthday and the elegance of her life . . .