Showing posts with label monica bellucci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monica bellucci. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

SMOKE

 "The most precious things are lighter than the air." Paul Auster wrote in his book "Smoke" that later became a film.
 If  the slang term "Bogart"  is used .to mean to keep something all for oneself, thus depriving anyone else of having any, derived from the last name of famous actor Humphrey Bogart because he often kept a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, seemingly never actually drawing on it or smoking it.
  How can we imagine  femmes fatale as Marlene Dietrich often portrayed with a cigarette in his hands or Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" and Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction" without a cigarette between his fingers? How would it be possible to describe the character of Zeno Cosini without his last cigarette!    In the last month in Italy circulates the absurd idea by  Minister of Health to prohibit the use of cigarettes in movies and fiction. Obviously some filmmakers have replied: "What sense does limit the actions of a fictional character? Artistic expression hasn't the mission to educate "

 « Le cose più preziose sono più leggere dell'aria.» così scriveva Paul Auster nel suo libro Smoke poi diventato anche un film.
 Se in slang il termine "Bogart" viene usato col significato di condividere, deriva proprio dal cognome dell'attore Humphrey Bogart il quale teneva spesso una sigaretta all'angolo della bocca senza apparentemente volerla fumare.
Possiamo immaginarci Femmes fatale come Marlene Dietrich perennemente ritrartta con una sigaretta tra le mani  o Rita Hayworth in Gilda e Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction senza la sigaretta tra le dita ? Come sarebbe possibile raccontare il personaggio di Zeno Cosini senza la sua "ultima sigaretta"!
 In Italia da un mese a questa parte circola l'idea assurda da parte del ministro della salute di vietare l'uso delle sigarette nei film e nelle fiction. Ovviamente alcuni registi si sono rivoltati: “Ma che senso ha limitare le azioni di un personaggio immaginario? L’espressione artistica non ha la missione di educare”
ph.Jeanlup Sreff-Harper's Bazaar 1964
Tippi Hedren by Philippe Halsman 1962
Marlene Dietrich
Catherine Deneuve by Helmut Newton
Coco Chanel by Horst P. Horst
Lisa Fonssagrives by Irving Penn 1949
Sophia Loren

Linda Evangelista by Helmut Newton


ph.Irvin Penn 1949
Sheila Terry
Angelina Jolie
Kate Moss
Candice Swanepoel by Steven Meisel
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Claudia Cardinale

Helena Christensen by Peter Lindberg
ph.Helmut Newton
Isabella Rossellini
Jean Moral "Femme a la cigarette" 1930
Kate Winslet
Keira Knightley
Lauren Bacall
Madonna
Monica Bellucci in "Malena"
Marilyn Monroe
Nadja Auremann
Naomi Combpell
Naomi Watts

Natalia Vodianova
Natasha Poly
Penelope Crutz
Charlotte Rampling
Piper Perabo
Romy Schneider
Rita Hayworth
Scarlett Johansson
Sasha Pivovarova
Brigitte Bardot
Sharon Stone

Sophie Marceau


Stephanie Seymour
Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction"
Jean Seberg in "A bout de souffle"
Vanessa Paradis
Audrey Hepburn in  Breakfast at Tiffany's
David Bowie and Liz Taylor
Sally Mann

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRA

100 years of bra!
November 3, 1914, New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob patents the design for a backless bra. She was having a major fashion emergency before a huge gala in 1913, her dress had to be in the latest fashion, a slinky white satin gown but it showed all the bumps and bones of her corset beneath! With a few silk hankerchiefs, some cloth and a little pink ribbon later Mary had made herself the first version of the modern bra, and by 1914 she had the first patent to sell the newly coined “Backless Brassier”. The inventor peddled brassieres under the name Caresse Crosby for a short time, before selling the patent to Warner Brothers Corset Co. for $1,500.
The styles of bra’s after that varied from decade to decade with the first cup sized bra introduced in 1928, the first strapless and underwire bras in 1934, the popular pointed/cone shaped wear of the 1940′s-60′s and finally in 1975 we saw the first sports bra emerge called the “Free Swing Tennis Bra” and by 1977 the “jockbra” hit stores as women’s athletics began to grow.

Photo: Alessandro Giuliano

Monica Bellucci by Ellen von Unwerth

Madonna

La Perla ph. Ellen von Unwerth

Susan Belridge 2007

Betsey Johnson ph.Steven Meisel

Eva Herzigova for Wonderbra
1968

Anne Bancroft - The Graduate

Catherine Deneuve - Belle de jour

Brigitte Bardot

Marilyn Monroe



Mary Phelps Jacob

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