Vintage Vintage

I just fall in love with some vintage this week.

An amazing Bill Blass dress, a shiaparelli Hat, Oleg Cassini shoes 

and sequin dress, and some great 80's style clothes.

Attitude Broche 80's

1970's Bill blass amazing red dress.

80's Black suede Cowgirl boots


Shiaparelli hat


Oleg Cassini polka dot stilettos 80's 

1950 Gold stilettos

1980 Louis Feraud blouse 

Lucite hair comb

Picturegoer Magazine 1913-1960

Picturegoer was a magazine that was published in the United Kingdom between 1913 and 1960. 

Its primary focus was contemporary films and the performers who appeared in them.

All magazine covers HERE.

La Belle et La bête-Jean Cocteau

In his own eyes, Jean Cocteau was not a filmmaker.

 Of course, he was a filmmaker as well as a dramatist, novelist, poet, painter, decorator, boxing promoter, essayist, librettist, journalist, and full-time celebrity.

 His three great films of the fantastic – Le Sang d'un poète, 

La Belle et la Bête and Orphée – remain central to his visual legacy, 

yet Cocteau always insisted that in the field of film he was an amateur.

In 1946, at the age of 57, Cocteau directed his first narrative feature 

– La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast).

La Belle et la Bête is based on the famous children's story by Madame Leprince de Beaumont. In it, Cocteau combined mythical narrative, visual poetry, cinematic trickery.

For example, when Belle first walks through the main hall of Bête's castle, 

the film cuts to close-ups of candelabras lighting themselves as she walks past. 

Cocteau's use of reverse motion serves the contextual purpose 

of emphasising the magical atmosphere of Bête's castle.

Bebaroque tights perfect for this winter

I read on the Vogue UK website about Bebaroque tights Roxy.

The wonderful hosiery label Bebaroque, which started in July 2007 by Mhairi McNicol and Chloe Patience. 

Both girls attended Glasgow School of Art in 2005 before going their seperate ways, 

only to join together to create these fabulous tights.

The tights are designed and manufactured in Scotland using hand embroidery and print. 

When i was looking around the Bebaroque website,

i found another very sexy tight:

Brassy, they have a good rock'and roll style.

I want to order one of them for this winter

 but I didn't made my mind yet, 

Choose  your favorite one ?

Wanda Jackson: a sweet lady with a nasty voice.

Yes, i definitively love Ladies with nasty voices, like Brenda Lee and the fabulous Rockabilly girls from the 40's -50's.
I discovered recently the songs of Wanda Jackson.
I hope you will enjoy her too.



Jackson was just 16 when country star Hank Thompson took her under his wing after hearing her on an Oklahoma radio station. Her single "You Can't Have My Love," a duet with bandleader Billy Gray, became a national hit while Jackson was still in high school. In 1955 Jackson hit the road as the opening act for Elvis Presley, just months before Elvis' career exploded. The two hit it off, dating for nearly a year. Elvis gave Jackson his ring. He also encouraged her to stretch out beyond country by singing rockabilly.
"My dad always told me, 'If you're going to do something, be different at it,'" says Wanda Jackson, 'stand out in some way, do a little bit more.'" Jackson took her dad's advice. In the mid-1950s, at the dawn of the rock 'n' roll era, she became one of the fledgling genre's first female stars, an energetic 18-year-old rockabilly queen who dated Elvis, made frequent stabs at the Top 40 and tore through the music industry like a Midwestern tornado.

Wanda Jackson - Hard-Headed Woman
Wanda Jackson - Cool Love

It's my party: 50's & 60's Oldies

1. Martha & the Vandellas - (Love is Like A) Heat Wave 

2. Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 

3. Martha & the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street 

4. Johnny Burnette - You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful (And You're Mine) 

5. The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow 

6. The Crests - Sixteen Candles 

7. Elvis Presley - Mean Woman Blues 

8. Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby 

9. The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman 

10. Bobby Rydell - Volare 

11. The Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss 

12. The Monotones-Book of Love 

13. The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream 

14. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 

15. Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl 

16. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Baby Love 

17. The Shirelles - Baby It's You 

18. Frankie Valli And The 4 Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off You 

19. Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop song )

20. Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again 

21. Little Anthony & The Imperials-Tears On My Pillow 

22. The Jordanaires & Elvis Presley - All Shook Up 

23. Chubby Checker - The Twist 

24. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover 

25. The Chiffons - He's So Fine 

26. The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack 

27. Chubby Checker - Splish Splash 

28. Paul and Paula-Hey Paula 

29. Lesley Gore - My Party 

30. Jan and Dean - Surf City 

31. Ben E.King - Stand by Me 

32. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Going Out of My Head 

33. Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now 

34. Neil Sedaka - Calendar Girl 

35. brenda lee - all alone am i 

36. Chubby Checker with Dee Dee Sharp - Love Is Strange 

37. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock 

38. The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love 

Summer Shopping on ASOS

If you are in the mood for some summer shopping.

Check those links, it's just cool and inexpensive fashion.

On this english website you can even find very trendy dresses for a 16 or 18 uk size.

I recommend those dresses for the summer.

ASOS Jersey Wrap Dress

ASOS Shirred Waist Cut-Work Dress

ASOS Crochet Front Dress
ASOS LUXE Silk Embellished Halter DressPublic Beware Mini Star Print Batwing Shirt

1. Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
2. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
3. Prince - I Would Die 4 U
4. France Gall - Musique
5. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
6. The Ikettes - I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)
7. Gene Kelly - It's Wonderful
8. Brigitte Bardot - La Madrague
9. Glen Miller - Moonlight Serenade
10. Herbert Von Karajan with the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112

The Art of strip: EVELYN WEST

Evelyn West (1921- 2004)"The Hubba-Hubba Girl" was a burlesque legend 

of the forties, fifties, and sixties. She would often quip to her audience 

"I know you're looking at my shoes".

She became famous because of her spicy and shameless striptease shows 

and also because she insured her natural breasts with Lloyd's of London for $50.000. 

Since that moment she was known as "Evelyn $50.000 Treasure Chest West" 

or "The Girl with the $50.000 Treasure Chest".

What to wear in Paris this july ?

All the links for this style set:

K Jacques gladiator sandals

Red Ray-ban

Golden Dior nail polish summer 2008

WWF tee

Cologne di Santa Maria 

Chanel classic 2.55

Borsalino

Moleskine city notebook

Leica camera

Mini skirt topshop

Guy Bourdin - Art Vidéo

Out in Paris: The Demolition Party

In Paris, A demolition-party with 1500 guests took place at the Royal Monceau Palace.

Guests where invited to smash the walls with pecks

and to destroyed symbolickly some room of the hotel.

This party "was sold"as an artistic performance - it's just have been some childhish

and vulgar nightclubbers that behaved madly and ridiculously.

The palace owner already think that when the hotel will be reopened it will become the trendiest place in Paris.

Millionnaires wants to have fun, the prices would be high and they will party in the Palace.

The owner is choosing to make the Royal Monceau a decadent night clubbing over priced Hotel.The Royal luxury hotel Pile, in Paris, was the theatre of an artistic experience

on Thursday, June 26th consisting of the destruction of certain parties of the place by hundreds of VIP and under looks and encouraging acclamations of the public."

It is of the bourgeois punkitude.

It is very funny of middle-class persons who slum it by attacking blows of peckers in the symbols of the middle classes ", explains Eric Mitchell,

an American artist who regrets that all rooms are not used by the artists.

In a separate room, two concierges of the hotel : " we are all a bit sad to see this. we are a bit bitter... But we are of the small personnel, we do not have our word to be said. "

What had to remain a happening in mildly destructive madness is going to earn both lower floors where several rooms are decorated by contemporary artists.

Now we are in "Fight club" : the party-goers dissect the furniture of suites, shred mattresses, pulverize mirrors and bathrooms. Chain saws resound.

Some people make wee on the moquette while of other one hang in chandelier.

the DJ set began, some guests are making sex in the rooms.

Just depressing and vain ......

It is ironic ? Are they taking us for fulls ? What happen to Luxury ?

I invite you to boycoot this new Palace, that has just the name but

not the elegance and "savoir- vivre" of this kind of Palace.

This make me want to listen to Madame Hollywood from Felix Da Housecat Feat. Miss Kittin,
about the vanity of vips.And for me, those fake trendy hotels and party: "It's over
I decide it's over".



Everybody wants to be Hollywood
The fame, the vanity, the glitz, the stories
One day I'll become a great big star
You know, like the Big Dipper
and maybe one day you can visit my condo
On a big hill you know, like 9 0 2 1 0

Just imagine my face in the magazine
People analyzing my look, my body or any plastic surgery
You know like the Big Dipper
and maybe one day you can shake my hand
on the planet Hollywood

You say I'm not underground
I'm rich
I'm famous, I'm vanish, I'm glitz
I am the story, I am the the star
You know like the Big Dipper
Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll
It's over
It's over
I decide it's over

Everybody wants to be Hollywood
Maybe one day you can visit my condo
On a big hill you know
Like 9-0-2-1-0

Show People

I saw my first musical" Singin' in the rain" on  french T.V. 

Cyd Charisse was the first dancer who ever caught my eyes.

 My mother told me that she was known as "the legs" 

- the most beautiful legs of all Hollywood.

When i made my first Art video "Show People", i decided to work on musicals.

I try to create a story with movies scenes that were belonging to differents musicals.

My video is 30 min long. In this 2nd part,

 i use the famous Broadway Melody ballet with Cyd Charisse 

in her wonderful green sparkling dress.

I hope you will enjoy this tribute to HollywoodMusicals.

If you want to see the video click on the fallowing links.

I know sometimes you can't all see videos on blogger.

SHOW PEOPLE links:

PART 1

PART 2

PART 4

Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas. Hollywood's greatest dancer of all times first studied classical dancing. She was in the Russian Ballet in Monte-Carlo and worked with David Lichine and Leonid Massine, using the names Felia Sidorova and Maria Istomina. She married her ex-dance teacher, Nico Charisse, in 1939. 

In 1943, David Lichine asked her to appear in her first movie ballet, in "Something to shout about", in which she is credited as Lily Norwood. The same year, she played a Bolchoï dancer in "Mission to Moscow", by Michael Curtiz. Choreographer Robert Alton and producer Arthur Freed hired her, to dance with Fred Astaire in "Ziegfeld Follies", directed by Vincente Minnelli, and Cyd Charisse then signed a seven year deal with the MGM. 

In the next few years, she appeared regularly in dancing acts of several musicals, with Judy Garland, Esther Williams, and Kathryn Grayson. It is also the time when she married her second husband, singer Tony Martin (1948). 

She really became famous in 1952, with her fantastic appearance in the Broadway Melody Ballet scene, with Gene Kelly, in the most famous musical ever : "Singin' in the rain", by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. In Vincente Minnelli "The Band Wagon", where she starred with Fred Astaire was a real consecration. "Singin' in the rain" and "The band wagon" are Cyd Charisse's most important movies, and acts like the Broadway Melody Ballet, and, in the second movie, Dancing in the dark and The Girl Hunt Ballet, 

are forever in the Hollywood Musicals Hall of Fame. 

Cyd Charisse died on June 17, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Just for the pleasure

Dear readers,

Sorry for my late posting this week.

I won't stopped this blog.

I would like to share with you my last wish list.

I have been tagged this week and one of the question was:

What are 5 things you would do if you were a Billionaire?

One of my answer would be:

 Buy what i want, when i wish it and without really needing it.

I decided to share with you, the things i will buy this week if i could.

I will call those posts: Just for the pleasure.

In a way to write on my blog about something is a way to make it mine.

Today It’s about geek stuff, an artist photography, a painting, a design chair and a Headpiece.

Enjoy this first unreal shopping:

This customized ipod leather case by Vaja.

 This Louis Mariette amazing headpiece called « Fleur ».

This new chair from the Tropicalia collection by Patricia Urquiola.

This « Intrecciato » leather Bottega Veneta bag.

The painting « No me amenaces » by Catalina Estrada.

This photography of JeongMee Yoon: SeoWoo and her Pink Things.

And finally "just for the pleasure" few minutes of one of my favorite movie :

 Laura (1944) by Otto Preminger with Gene tierney. 

All about Fair Trade and Eco-Fashion in 2008

Dear readers,

I picked for you the best Fair Trade, eco and "Green" Fashion of all this summer 2008.