Guinevere van Seenus in 'Tender is the Night'
Photographed by Willy Vanderperre for Vogue April 2012

I love love Haider Ackermann's Fall Winter (2011/12) collection!  Inspired by Lord Byron with dramatic lushious materials and long flowy robes and tunics.

The collection features beautiful ensembles that layered different elements of black. Watteau-backed jackets and coats swung over satin-collared dressing gowns and hip-slouched pants, or skirts cut in artful spirals. The monochromatic looks were subtly punctuated with single elements of white, building to an all-white outfit, and eventually with elements of amethyst or mallard. Other looks were colored in extraordinary tonal nuances, like layerings of teal green, forest green, kingfisher blue, and deep jade, for example.

The cold weather outside makes me dream of warmer climates, travel, colours and blooming nature.

Visits to India, Africa and Japan informed Vionnet’s 2012 resort collection. Color-blocked tunics and dresses in vivid combinations like purple and gold, and orange and white, were reminiscent of 1960s Courrèges as well as of origami and effortless draping. Beautiful!

Actrice Evan Rachel Wood looks stunning in this chic flapper-inspired Gucci dress with matching 20's hairstyle.

I love the 20's influences in fashion. With its 2012
Spring/Summer Collection, Gucci unveiled a line that’s a throwback to
the roaring 20s with a little modern rock-chic and vintage glamour mixed
in.
Gucci Creative Director, Frida Giannini, was inspired by the opulence
and glamour of the “era of hedonism”. And with all that glittering
gold, beading and tassels, the line is pure indulgent luxury.

I recentely watched the remake of Mildred Pierce and Evan Rachel Wood
is great in it as the grown-up Veda Pierce.  Wood’s Veda blossoms
from a precious brat into a full-blown monster, a sly seductress whose
ambition and cunning are bottomless. It’s a high-wire performance,
pressing up against the boundaries of Greek tragedy and campy excess,
but Wood reins it in just enough to retain a sense of Veda’s twisted
humanity.Excellent!

Evan Rachel Wood got her action on in this Frank Miller-directed short
for Gucci.
http://youtu.be/7K2GAoBTuc4

Enjoy!

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