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 ...
The first movie I saw Anouk Aimée in was A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme, 1996) written and directed by Claude Lelouch and was moved by her beauty, that is both sophisticated and mysterious in some way. Some of her other unforgettable movie roles were as Maddalena in La Dolce Vita (1960) and Luisa Anselmi in 8 1/2 (1963), both by Frederico Fellini. I also loved her as Anne in André Delvaux’s Un soir, un train (One Night... a Train, 1968), and as Barbara Spaggiari in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981).
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.
A fashion icon imbued with the most timeless classically chic style, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is still one of the most inspiring examples of style. Classic silhouettes, clean lines, and solid colors are part of her signature style ...
I still remember the first time I saw a photo of Loulou de la Falaise. It was at the Musée Galliera, and I was immediately drawn to her clothes, the styling, l’allure. I knew instantly that she was not just another model. She was the epitome of chic, elegance, grace and style ...
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.
On this day in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales passed away unexpectedly following a horrific car crash in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. She was only 36 years of age. To commemorate the 19th anniversary of her death, we’ve collected a few favourite photographs . . .
Giovanna Battaglia (now Englebert) has often been featured here at TIG for her immense sense of style. The W magazine contributor & fashion editor for Vogue Japan never seems to have a fashion misstep.
VOGUE ARABIA IS TO LAUNCH IN THE FALL, with none other than Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz as Editor-in-chief. “The Arab world consists of 350 million people, and they never had a Vogue,” she told the Financial Times.
The impossibly glamorous Festival de Cannes has just finished its 2016 edition, and we saw moments that will undoubtedly enter fashion history—cue Blake Lively’s style for the entire festival, Kristen Stewart’s rock-chic Chanel ensembles, or Amal Clooney’s princess moment in a cornflower yellow Atelier Versace dress. However, here at TIG, we love to reminisce on old Hollywood fashion icon...
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE CAPRI, for words are simultaneously too much and too little to characterise it, it’s as if every attempt falls short of reality. You have to live it.
EVERYONE CAN LEARN SOMETHING from the muse, model, former face of Chanel and current face of L’Oréal and Roger Vivier, Legion of Honor...
THERE IS SOMETHING PLAYFUL YET MYSTERIOUS about Argentinian Sofía Sanchez de Betak. Whether it’s the eerie, alien-like beauty that you can’t trace to a particular nationality, or the unexpectedly joyful smile she frequently shows in street style shots, she has become a fixture at fashion week, and is likely to remain that way.
SHE WAS A MUSE in all facets of her life, from her successful acting career to her passionate yet tragic personal life. Romy Schneider was born in Vienna, but moved to France when she was young to pursue a career in acting.
While many advocate finding your own style and every-day uniform, when one sees Gigi’s ever evolving ensembles they realise that need not be the case, for one of the great things about clothing is that it can serve as a costume for the woman you feel like being today.