February 2012
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Marilyn Monroe white dress in The Prince And The...
I just started watching The Prince and The Showgirl and couldn’t resist posting about the white dress Monroe wears throughout the film. I found it hard to find out but the costume designer on set was Beatrice Dawson (not credited on IMBD) the dress is beautiful ivory silk and chiffon beaded with one beaded sleeve one plain chiffon. The beaded chiffon overlay encases the silk layer until the...
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Grace Kelly High Society
I am yet to watch more than TV snippets of High Society but after seeing the full montage of costumes Grace Kelly adorns I think I might have to do it rather soon! My favorite is the chiffon ball gown, audreyandmarilyn.tumblr.com actually pointed this out to me earlier. I love Grace Kelly I think she is beautiful, elegant and incredible in the Hitchcock pictures, and this dress is beautiful. I...
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Grace Kelly's blue dress To Catch A Thief
One of my favorite dresses in a film I’ve seen so far is this ice blue chiffon number by the wonderful costume designer Edith Head.
If you haven’t fallen completely in love with the colour then I doubt you ever will, for me it’s one of those ‘love-at-first-sight’ dresses; you instantly know it’s the one.
I have come across some interesting information about...
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Dress re-make: Cherry print wiggle dress worn in...
**At the minute I’m posting images and inspiration of garments I will be re-making in the near future, I will of course be updating you on my progress of these re-makes.
And so to another Marilyn dress I would like to re-make that I think could be fairly inexpensive to do; the cherry print dress from her last completed film in 1961 The Misfits. I really love this film, Marilyn looks...
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One of the first re-makes on the agenda . . .
Some Like It Hot is without a doubt one of my favorite films. It’s got 30’s fashion, it’s black & white, it has a hilarious love story, it’s got men in drag - dangerously handsome Tony Curtis and laugh-out-loud Jack Lemmon, and then comes the cherry (or should I say Sugar) on top; the delicious Marilyn Monroe.
The costumes in this film are divine, I really love...
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Dressing Marilyn
After drooling after this book in every bookshop I have seen it in recently I finally got it! The lovely girls at the studio I have been working at in Brighton got it for me as a leaving present. It’s such a beautiful thing full of two of my biggest passions; fashion and Marilyn. I’ve taken a few snaps of some great pages in the book (sorry for the poor quality isn’t great)
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Copacetic - What are you talking about??
So as a recent fashion graduate with a sudden burst of motivation and confidence I have decided to set up studio at home and get myself into gear making all the vintage clothes I adore from Old Hollywood films and have always wanted to make.
I plan to scour charity/vintage and fabric shops and make some fabulous vintage inspired pieces to sell online. This blog is mainly for me to post...
