In Vogue...

Charlotte Casiraghi is on the cover of the french Vogue September 2011 issue. She looks stunning. I love the portraits of  " Secrètement  Charlotte", that Mario Testino has shoot for Vogue  Paris.

 Here is a selection of my favourite pictures. What do you think ? 

   Credit : Mario Testino for Vogue Paris

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

I am becoming more and more addicted to the Woody Allen Movies. I never understood all the hype that has been created when a new Woody Allen Film was released, but after seeing Midnight in Paris. I have to claim now I do understand it. The movie is under the best I have seen so far. It is funny but so typically Allen with well elaborated charaters. The sensibility and love for detail in it is just perfect. It is really worth to go and see it in the cinema and not to only borrow a DVD. This is how IMDB presents the film : A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.( IMDB) I just like the movie for the choice of actors, Carla Bruni, Marion Cottilard,... the first Woody Allen which I have seen without Scarlett Johanson.  Paris in the twenties, all these artists and the mood in the film is just marvelous. Happy watching ! 

xx Nadine

Inattendu

I found it, the perfect nail polish color for job interviews, ceremonies, special moments,where you need to have good looking nails but a discrete color on the fingertips. If you as untalented as me to put the nail polish super clean onto the nails and don't want to spend money every week on the manucure only because you want to change color of your nails. I would go for Chanel's Inattendue.  It is very natural sophisticated color but different from the classical rose pale. It is a nice beige tone and it easy to wear with a day or night outfit. This is the first high end nail polish that I am sure to wear a long time and believe me I love to change the colors of my nails as often as I find a new nice color. Any recommendations for other nice classical color tones ?Have a good start into the new week!

The Miu Miu Women's Tales: "MUTA" by Lucrecia Martel

I love the new Miu Miu campaign by Lucrecia Martel. What do you think of it ? 

The shoes of the new A/W 2011-2012 collection are a dream... 

Credit : Miu Miu Fall 11 Hailee Steinfeld by Bruce Weber

I know it has been a very long time since my last post, I will be better. September is around the corner and a lot of exciting things are coming up. Have a lovely Sunday! 

Sal Y Limon

I just discovered a very nice jewelry brand Sal Y Limon. The bangles are available in different colors and are the perfect accessories for summer dresses, bikinis or even a white shirt and jeans. This will be at the top of my birthday wish list.

credit : Sal Y Limon 

 It is a pity you cannot buy them online yet. However they have a few stockiest around the globe. Find the whole collection and the selling points here. 

Have a nice day! 

xx Nadine

Oh Land - Perfection

Fashion photography : William Klein

piazza di spagna (rome),1960
© william klein
courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan

smoke (paris), 1958
© william klein
courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan

b.barzini (paris), 1962
© william klein
courtesy galleria carla sozzan

simone daillencourt, 1962
© william klein
courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan

Screenshot from Who are you Polly Magoo?

Screenshot from Who ware you Polly Magoo ? 

Copy right William Klein

AS Robert Delpire says in ( Reporters without borders : 2 )  : " William Klein is an observer of his times, a man without borders."

"William Klein’s career is an intriguing amalgam of apparent contradictions. A self-exiled American living in France , he belonged  fully to neither country, yet defied the American-in-Paris stereotype. He was a painter who rejected  gallery careerism. He became  an extraordinary photographer, both purist and commercial, but reacted against  its limitations to make movies. As a film-maker he turned his back on mainstream cinema and , in this medium, too remained an outlaw. Nowhere, thought, is Klein’s determined heterodoxy more manifest than in his ambigious relationship with fashion. " ( Harrison M. 1994: 248 )

I discovered William Klein's work through the documentary "In & Out of Fashion". It is really nice as it shows also his work as a photographer before the 10 years at Vogue and the several films he has directed. Cannot wait to see Who are Polly Magoo ? More about the film soon on the blog.... If you want so see the artist's whole bigography, check out http://www.designboom.com/portrait/klein_fashion.html. 

Have a nice Monday! 

Nadine xx