Bright Star Ritz Party & Screening Giveaway
Friday, September 18, 2009
I’ve been meaning to say how much I loved reading everyone’s comments for the September Issue giveaway. It relly got me excited for fall! So, let’s do another, shall we?!
Five lucky PB winners (and their lucky dates) will attend the party and advance screening of Bright Star, the latest film by Jane Campion (The Piano) and featuring Abby Cornish as a fiesty fashionista (Keats would shudder at the word). It opens in DC theaters Friday, September 25.
Monday, September 21
Party at the Georgetown Ritz (giveaways and Keats-inspired drink specials)
Screening at the Georgetown AMC immediately following
The film is about the passionate love between 23 year-old English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abby Cornish), an outspoken student of fashion. The synopsis:
This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother (Kerry Fox) and Keats’s best friend Brown (Paul Schneider) realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’s illness proved insurmountable.
Passionate love and fashion – what else is there (okay, plenty – but for out purposes…). And any movie, especially a lush period film, that makes use of the word “minx” is alright by me.
TO WIN: By 5:30 today, let us know what work of film or literature – or character or figure in film or literature – has inspired your taste in fashion. Good luck!
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Desk Set- I fell in love with this movie when I was younger and Hepburn’s high-collared style along with her “coworkers” A-line dresses have stuck with me. Not to mention the super long winter scarves!
Factory Girl:) I adore the colors and letting fashion suit the personality.
I don’t know how much I impliment the inspiration, but I’m always inspired by Cary Grant in Philladelphia Story. Those suits? Bananas. So crisp, clean and well cut…and the ease with which he wears them is inimitable.
One of my favorite books is The White Album by Joan Didion – as it’s a collection of her essays I suppose she’d be the inspiration; but aside from her fabulous picture on the front cover in big Jackie O sunglasses, the book is full of fantastic references to 60′s California culture. It makes me think of a great combo of rock n’ roll edge and that laid back West Coast look. I love that mix – like a tailored jacket over great jeans with funky accessories.
Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina. That ball gown is iconic, but her plaid shirt and white shorts on the boat and her all black outfit at the end are off-duty perfection. And someday I will have that hair cut.
But once upon a time, it was Stephanie in Sleepover Friends. Red and black everything. Did anyone else ever read those books? Sometimes I feel like I just dreamed them.
I am inspired daily by the world around me. Sometimes, it’s a coworker returning from a trip to Spain, a fashionista I see strolling around the District, there are so many different domains in which we find fashion. The character that first comes to mind is Audrey Hepburn’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. My poor mother, what I put her through watching that over and over again, but she was just so beautiful and personified class to the fullest. These days, I find myself addicted to Gossip Girls, not just for the exciting story line, but also to see what they’ll wear and what kind of music they’ll showcase. I think quite a few ladies would agree with me as I constantly hear comments comparing outfits to those that Blair or Serena would wear. I’m excited for this Keats inspired movie and cannot wait to see the designs they use for that period.
One of my Favorite Films that really brings in inspiration on the Fashion front would have to be Jane March’s Character in “The Lover”… Her Dark Messy Hair, Grandfather Fedora, Long Worn out Tank Dress with a thick belt, Flats, and the ring she receives that is solid platinum and pearls.
Truly Classic—
The list is endless- as the forging of Music/Film/Fashion are constant companions…
I do have to mention- that Factory Girl top Five as well….
Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick- It made me want to get the Haircut– Perfect Coif- Thick Kohl Eyeliner- nude lips- Slinky backless dress- knee high suede boots– Mod to perfection!!
Amélie! The gorgeous, timeless lines and colors worn by the stunning Audrey Tautou is unbeatable (except perhaps by the other timeless Audrey). So elegant while simultaneously managing to be unique and playful.
Edith Wharton, hands down. All of her books, esp the Buccaneers and The Age of Innocence, had such amazing descriptions of the clothes and fabrics that were at the height of fashion in her day. . .as one of the few major female writers of her time, she really gave us insight into what high fashion was at the turn of the century.
Reading Anne of Green Gables was a first great literary introduction the importance of clothing! The dress with puffed sleeves that Matthew buys Anne may not be something I have hanging in my closet, but it shows the great sentimental value clothes can have, and how important it can be to feel fabulous (even if that means wearing lacy mutton sleeves). As for what IS hanging in my closet, I am inspired by the vibrant sweaters, wraps, and dresses worn by Juliette Binoche’s Vianne in Chocolat; and by the boyish boating chic of Grace Kelly’s Tracy Lord in High Society.
You all rock! Chosing 5 of you was damn near impossible, so, as always, it was just a random pick. If you got an email from me a few minutes ago, you won. If not, you get to read this – a somewhat bawdier poem by Keats than the movie’s title poem, inspired by ladies…and likker.
xo
Rachel
Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff
Give me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out “hold, enough!”
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.
-John Keats
Reading Anne of Green Gables was a first great literary introduction the importance of clothing! The dress with puffed sleeves that Matthew buys Anne may not be something I have hanging in my closet, but it shows the great sentimental value clothes can have, and how important it can be to feel fabulous (even if that means wearing lacy mutton sleeves). As for what IS hanging in my closet, I am inspired by the vibrant sweaters, wraps, and dresses worn by Juliette Binoche’s Vianne in Chocolat; and by the boyish boating chic of Grace Kelly’s Tracy Lord in High Society.