It was one of the most congested and crowded fashion shows this Paris Fashion Week. On Sunday, Oct. 1, onlookers crammed in front of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, while crowds stretched all the way up to Quai Voltaire, over a thousand-foot distance from the venue, to get a peek of the celebrities that turned up to see what creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli would put forth for the next summer season.
Andrew Garfield, Penn Badgley, Kris Jenner, Paris and Nicky Hilton, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley all drew an uproar as they stepped out of their cars. Garfield, dressed in a blush pink long Valentino coat, opted not to speak about attending the show, stating, “I’m striking.”
Jenner, a close friend of Piccioli, was dressed in a black-and-white number with a black tie from the brand. “This collection was gorgeous. I loved every single piece. This is one of Pierpaolo’s best collections ever.
Andrew Garfield, Penn Badgley, Kris Jenner, Paris and Nicky Hilton, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley all drew an uproar as they stepped out of their cars. Garfield, dressed in a blush pink long Valentino coat, opted not to speak about attending the show, stating, “I’m striking.”
Jenner, a close friend of Piccioli, was dressed in a black-and-white number with a black tie from the brand. “This collection was gorgeous. I loved every single piece. This is one of Pierpaolo’s best collections ever.
- 10/2/2023
- by Allyson Portee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marrakech – Chain smoking in a green, pleated Issey Miyake outfit, paired with cream loafers, his hair tied neatly back, Tahar Rahim, 41, speaks, between puffs, in such a convincing, powerful American accent, that you would never imagine that the actor grew up in the Paris banlieue, in a poor French-Algerian family packed with children.
His cinema education was as much as popping into the multicultural neighbor’s houses, to chat and drink tea, as watching films, when he could afford to, on local screens.
“France has changed,” he says. “I grew up in a suburb where we were all together. French, Egyptians, gypsies. You would go to each other’s houses. Drink tea. Chat. The conversations you have. It made me. Boundaries are just an imaginary line because to discover a new culture is rich.”
Serving as a jury member at this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov. 11-19), Rahim...
His cinema education was as much as popping into the multicultural neighbor’s houses, to chat and drink tea, as watching films, when he could afford to, on local screens.
“France has changed,” he says. “I grew up in a suburb where we were all together. French, Egyptians, gypsies. You would go to each other’s houses. Drink tea. Chat. The conversations you have. It made me. Boundaries are just an imaginary line because to discover a new culture is rich.”
Serving as a jury member at this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov. 11-19), Rahim...
- 11/15/2022
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
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If you’re going to do an Overboard knockoff that slides into the generic sludge of sentimental holiday-season rom-com, then at least find a couple of leads with the charisma and chemistry to pull it off. Unless you’re feverish with excitement at the prospect of Lindsay Lohan’s screen comeback — and if you are, I’m sorry for your life — Falling for Christmas won’t give you much pleasure beyond the recollection of Goldie and Kurt’s fractious, frisky rapport in the 1987 favorite about an obnoxious amnesiac heiress who falls for a blue-collar misogynist. As a model for stars with terrific comedy chops elevating mediocre material, there are worse starting points.
This sub-Hallmark dreck made by a bunch of hacks that don’t deserve to be named is the first film out of Lohan’s Netflix deal and her first feature in three years.
If you’re going to do an Overboard knockoff that slides into the generic sludge of sentimental holiday-season rom-com, then at least find a couple of leads with the charisma and chemistry to pull it off. Unless you’re feverish with excitement at the prospect of Lindsay Lohan’s screen comeback — and if you are, I’m sorry for your life — Falling for Christmas won’t give you much pleasure beyond the recollection of Goldie and Kurt’s fractious, frisky rapport in the 1987 favorite about an obnoxious amnesiac heiress who falls for a blue-collar misogynist. As a model for stars with terrific comedy chops elevating mediocre material, there are worse starting points.
This sub-Hallmark dreck made by a bunch of hacks that don’t deserve to be named is the first film out of Lohan’s Netflix deal and her first feature in three years.
- 11/10/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fashion designer Issey Miyake, known equally well for bold and timeless pleated pieces as well as simpler ones like Steve Jobs’ iconic black turtleneck, died at the age of 84 from liver cancer.
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Miyake founded and ran his eponymous design studio which became a titan of high-end women’s fashion lines. His incredible design appeal crossed generations and eras and is a consistent favorite among celebrities like Grace Jones, Solange Knowles, Meryl Streep and many more.
Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan. He revealed in 2009 that as a seven-year-old child, he was one of many Japanese people affected by the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He first wanted to be a dancer as a child, but later gained an interest in fashion by reading his sister’s fashion magazines.
Miyake graduated from Tama Art University in...
In Memoriam 2022: 100 Great Celebrities Who Died This Year!
Miyake founded and ran his eponymous design studio which became a titan of high-end women’s fashion lines. His incredible design appeal crossed generations and eras and is a consistent favorite among celebrities like Grace Jones, Solange Knowles, Meryl Streep and many more.
Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan. He revealed in 2009 that as a seven-year-old child, he was one of many Japanese people affected by the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He first wanted to be a dancer as a child, but later gained an interest in fashion by reading his sister’s fashion magazines.
Miyake graduated from Tama Art University in...
- 8/15/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
The late Japanese designer Issey Miyake was not just a favorite of the fashion crowd, he was a favorite of musicians too, with his flowing garments featured prominently on both red carpets and music videos alike.
In 2014, the designer dressed Beyoncé and her dancers for her “Mine” music video, the Drake-featuring single from Beyoncé’s seminal self-titled album. While the dancers were clothed in draped, flowing dresses in the clip, Beyoncé wore a dramatic veil from Miyake, in his signature pleated-style finishing.
But Beyoncé wasn’t the only famous...
In 2014, the designer dressed Beyoncé and her dancers for her “Mine” music video, the Drake-featuring single from Beyoncé’s seminal self-titled album. While the dancers were clothed in draped, flowing dresses in the clip, Beyoncé wore a dramatic veil from Miyake, in his signature pleated-style finishing.
But Beyoncé wasn’t the only famous...
- 8/11/2022
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Sofia Richie and Scott Disick enjoyed another date night on Friday, while she is also feeling extra love at home from not one but two new family members. The 19-year-old model posted on her Instagram Stories feed videos and photos of her new puppies, a dapple dachshund and a cream longhaired dachshund (often dubbed "wiener dogs"), playing near a dog crate. Later in the day, she and Scott, 34, were photographed dressed casually while leaving the Shibuya sushi restaurant in Calabasas. Sofia had introduced her dapple dachshund pup on social media last week, writing, "Our newest family member." She told People at the at the launch of Issey Miyake fragrances...
- 2/24/2018
- E! Online
Although Sofia Richie is 19-years-old, you may be surprised by how much she knows about beauty. Accompanying her Bff (sans Scott Disick), the model appeared at the launch party to celebrate the newest fragrances from Issey Miyake at Milk Studios, and shared with E! News exactly what it takes to keep her skin glowing and hair healthy. For example, the star's recent shift from a blond bob to brunette locks is more than a fun hair transformation. It's a beauty lesson learned. "When it was blonde, it would grow in a week and a half and I'd have to get my roots done, and for like four and a half years I did my roots once a week," she told E! News. "I was spending a fortune...
- 2/23/2018
- E! Online
It is often said that a couple that laughs together, stays together. Well, Sofia Richie jokes that boyfriend Scott Disick is the "male version" of her with regard to their senses of humor. The 19-year-old model and 34-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star have been dating for several months. Their romance is the longest Scott has had since Kourtney Kardashian, with whom he shares three children, broke up with him in July 2015. When asked what makes their relationship special, Sofia told E! News, "I just think he's the male version of me. Our humor. We have very similar humor." Sofia made her comments at the launch of Issey Miyake fragrances...
- 2/23/2018
- E! Online
Sofia Richie may only be 19, but she’s already decided to take a step away from her blossoming modeling career to pursue another passion: designing!
The star, who’s covered Billboard, walked in Kanye West‘s Yeezy season 4 show and starred in a Michael Kors campaign, opened up about her latest fashion endeavor at last night’s Issey Miyake fragrance launch party in L.A., which she attended without her 34-year-old boyfriend Scott Disick by her side.
“I started modeling just because I wanted to study designers, and then I started doing well and making money so I just continued doing it,...
The star, who’s covered Billboard, walked in Kanye West‘s Yeezy season 4 show and starred in a Michael Kors campaign, opened up about her latest fashion endeavor at last night’s Issey Miyake fragrance launch party in L.A., which she attended without her 34-year-old boyfriend Scott Disick by her side.
“I started modeling just because I wanted to study designers, and then I started doing well and making money so I just continued doing it,...
- 2/23/2018
- by Kaitlyn Frey
- PEOPLE.com
Chairs lined in Chanel tweed, a side table cinched with the gold belt of a Tom Ford gown — Caroline Stanbury‘s designer wardrobe can now have a place in every home.
The Ladies of London star, 40, isn’t chopping up her enviable threads, of course, but her closet does serve as direct inspiration for her fashionable new home collection. “Everyone’s obsessed with my wardrobe,” says the stylist turned realty star, “so I incorporated it into my line of furniture.”
The collection, created in collaboration with London-based interior design and development firm Earlcrown, includes 12 scene-stealing pieces ranging from lacquer dining...
The Ladies of London star, 40, isn’t chopping up her enviable threads, of course, but her closet does serve as direct inspiration for her fashionable new home collection. “Everyone’s obsessed with my wardrobe,” says the stylist turned realty star, “so I incorporated it into my line of furniture.”
The collection, created in collaboration with London-based interior design and development firm Earlcrown, includes 12 scene-stealing pieces ranging from lacquer dining...
- 1/24/2017
- by Mackenzie Schmidt
- PEOPLE.com
Kubo and the Two Strings is a stunningly gorgeous film, both in its touching tale and in its visual grandeur. The film is an action adventure, a samurai epic — a story that requires an ambitious scale rarely, if ever, achieved in stop-motion. It’s got sword fights and treacherous journeys across stormy seas and and all sorts of monsters. Kubo is “not the kind of story you typically see being told in our medium, in stop motion, and there’s a reason for it, because it’s really hard,” director Travis Knight told reporters during a visit to the Kubo set in June. The film ultimately achieved that epic scale by marrying both stop-motion and digital animation methods, as Oregon-based studio Laika has done on all its films since Coraline, its first feature. On both the handcrafted stop-motion side and the digital side, there’s an impressive amount of attention to detail.
- 8/12/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
After three years’ renovation, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, reopened on December 12. Its home has been restored and augmented with interactive displays, but really, the inaugural exhibitions illustrate one thing over and over: Man may go to the moon and beyond by building better and bigger computers and tools, but it all starts—as in these six irresistible objects—with the spark of a brain and the art of a hand.The Jarvik-7 was the first total artificial heart to be implanted into a human being. It looks as clunky as a space suit, but it performed a miracle in 1982. A refined version is still in use, typically for patients awaiting a donor organ. With its perfect piecing and stitchwork, this Yup’ik Eskimo parka (before 1925), made from the dried gut of a Beluga whale, sinew, and grass twine, could pass for Issey Miyake. This Paleolithic chopper, found in...
- 12/30/2014
- by Wendy Goodman
- Vulture
Costume designers can only speculate on what coming intergalactic fashions will look like, but as Star Trek and After Earth demonstrate, the future is nearly always skintight
Recent sci-fi, such as Jj Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness and After Earth (Shyamalan, 2013), are reminders of how film and TV so often depict future fashion as skimpy or skintight. The uniforms in Abrams' Star Trek revival have progressed from previous versions, but retain the hallmarks of the originals. The men's uniforms have a mesh outer layer, reminiscent of moisture-wicking sportswear. The female uniforms are more precise replicas of the originals, with miniskirts and knee-high boots. In After Earth, the stranded father and son are costumed in something reminiscent of an armoured wetsuit. These films are following a tradition established by films such as Logan's Run (1976), Buck Rogers (1979-1981) and Tron (1982), in which costume left little to the imagination.
Historically, fashion has tended towards being increasingly revealing.
Recent sci-fi, such as Jj Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness and After Earth (Shyamalan, 2013), are reminders of how film and TV so often depict future fashion as skimpy or skintight. The uniforms in Abrams' Star Trek revival have progressed from previous versions, but retain the hallmarks of the originals. The men's uniforms have a mesh outer layer, reminiscent of moisture-wicking sportswear. The female uniforms are more precise replicas of the originals, with miniskirts and knee-high boots. In After Earth, the stranded father and son are costumed in something reminiscent of an armoured wetsuit. These films are following a tradition established by films such as Logan's Run (1976), Buck Rogers (1979-1981) and Tron (1982), in which costume left little to the imagination.
Historically, fashion has tended towards being increasingly revealing.
- 8/9/2013
- by Barbara Brownie
- The Guardian - Film News
As the Tri-State area braced for the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Grace made landfall Saturday night at the historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The 64 year-old singer stormed the stage in wrap-up stilettos and dazzled the sold-out crowd for two solid hours with a hits-heavy set that featured a different costume for every song. Her only U.S. appearance this year, the show was a one-of-a-kind event conceived by U.K. milliner Philip Treacy to feature the singer (and former model) in outfits by designers Issey Miyake, Jean Paul
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- 10/29/2012
- by Mick Stingley
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London, July 24: Designer Diane von Furstenberg will create a limited-edition Evian bottle after teaming up with the natural mineral water brand.
The natural mineral water brand has asked the fashion designer to make its 2013 limited-edition bottle, which will be released in November, reports contactmusic.com.
The partnership is the latest designer collaboration for the French water purveyor, which since 2008 has created a new designer bottle annually with Issey Miyake, Sir Paul Smith, Jean Paul Gaultier,.
The natural mineral water brand has asked the fashion designer to make its 2013 limited-edition bottle, which will be released in November, reports contactmusic.com.
The partnership is the latest designer collaboration for the French water purveyor, which since 2008 has created a new designer bottle annually with Issey Miyake, Sir Paul Smith, Jean Paul Gaultier,.
- 7/23/2012
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Art director who created striking designs for Francis Ford Coppola, Björk and the Beijing Olympics
Performance in Japan has always depended on graphic design: the climaxes of kabuki and noh theatre are inseparable from the woodblock prints that advertise and commemorate them, while the appeal of a great geisha is assessed on her formal entrance in an ensemble of many layers and complex visual allusions – the costume is the performance.
The art director Eiko Ishioka, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, came from that Japanese graphic tradition and took it around the world in every medium – advertising, cinema, theatre, circus, fashion and the conjunction of them all that was the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, for which she designed the costumes.
Her father, a graphic designer, encouraged her childhood art work, but discouraged her ambition at Tokyo University to follow him into the business: Japanese graphic art was a male world,...
Performance in Japan has always depended on graphic design: the climaxes of kabuki and noh theatre are inseparable from the woodblock prints that advertise and commemorate them, while the appeal of a great geisha is assessed on her formal entrance in an ensemble of many layers and complex visual allusions – the costume is the performance.
The art director Eiko Ishioka, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, came from that Japanese graphic tradition and took it around the world in every medium – advertising, cinema, theatre, circus, fashion and the conjunction of them all that was the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, for which she designed the costumes.
Her father, a graphic designer, encouraged her childhood art work, but discouraged her ambition at Tokyo University to follow him into the business: Japanese graphic art was a male world,...
- 1/29/2012
- by Veronica Horwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Look what we got you at Sundance! Ok, not really. We intended to bring you home one of everything we came across, but we couldn't afford the extra baggage fee when we tried to get on the airplane. Instead, we are linking you to our favorite products/people/organizations from Sundance through a new social shopping site that benefits great causes. That way if you want to get your purchase on, you will be doing some good while you do your credit card some bad. Sarah's Swag Bag Sorel Boots -- Sarah literally doesn't ever want to take these off. Everyone should own a pair. They are warm and they are comfortable. They work with leggings, jeans and dresses. But most importantly, they saved her from busting her ass about 837 times a day. A snowboarding lesson with Danny Kass -- He was adorable with little kids, only laughed at us...
- 1/26/2012
- by Sarah Hall
- Moviefone
If you -- like millions of Apple fans -- have been following the treacherous tale of a Chinese toy manufacturer, In Icons, recent release of an eerily realistic Steve Jobs action figure, clad in his iconic fashions -- jeans, an Issey Miyake black turtleneck -- the inevitably disappointing news is that Apple's attorneys have put the kabosh on the toy. But here's an interesting statement posted on the In Icons website explaining the birth of the figurine and why the company has ultimately opted to cease production. It also includes apologies to the Jobs family and promises of refunds to all those Jobs fans
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- 1/21/2012
- by Elizabeth Snead
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LIVEstyle And Fulcrum Group Announce .Axe Hair Media Lounge and Groom Room and Supper Club. At The 2012 Sundance Film Festival
New York-based entertainment agency LIVEstyle Entertainment, in partnership with Connecticut-basedFulcrum Group, is preparing to launch the 9th year and 37th major festival installation of its signature multi-day branded entertainment programs, the LIVEstyle Film Lounge, The Supper Club and Axe® Hair Media Lounge & Groom Room, located at 628 Park Ave in Park City, Utah. The venue and integrated programs will be an anchor destination for filmmakers, celebrities, global film and consumer media outlets, world-class chefs, independent and major studios and producers. Through this platform, sponsors Axe Hair; Issey Miyake.s new men.s fragrance L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme Sport; Monster Energy Beverages; AriZona Beverages; hipswag.com; outdoor athletic products company Thule; IndieFlix.com; Pook Toque and official Festival sponsor Stella Artois will come face-to-face with the principal industry influencers, media,...
New York-based entertainment agency LIVEstyle Entertainment, in partnership with Connecticut-basedFulcrum Group, is preparing to launch the 9th year and 37th major festival installation of its signature multi-day branded entertainment programs, the LIVEstyle Film Lounge, The Supper Club and Axe® Hair Media Lounge & Groom Room, located at 628 Park Ave in Park City, Utah. The venue and integrated programs will be an anchor destination for filmmakers, celebrities, global film and consumer media outlets, world-class chefs, independent and major studios and producers. Through this platform, sponsors Axe Hair; Issey Miyake.s new men.s fragrance L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme Sport; Monster Energy Beverages; AriZona Beverages; hipswag.com; outdoor athletic products company Thule; IndieFlix.com; Pook Toque and official Festival sponsor Stella Artois will come face-to-face with the principal industry influencers, media,...
- 1/20/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A life of the late Steve Jobs catches the great man's many contradictions with unerring skill
Technology begets the future and, thanks to Steve Jobs, it sketched the next phase in the evolution of lame-brained Homo sapiens. The headquarters of Apple in Silicon Valley are located in a galactic street called Infinite Loop and Jobs felt at home in such an abstract location. His preferred non-colour was white and the transparent buildings he helped design had spiral staircases of glass shaped like coils of DNA. He was, he believed, "enlightened", a luminary to be ranked with Gandhi or Einstein.
As Walter Isaacson says in this incisive biography, Jobs behaved like a Nietzschean superman, using his will – transmitted through an unblinking stare – as a remote-control device that compelled others to do his bidding. As a child, he made his parents sell their house and buy another one that was beyond their...
Technology begets the future and, thanks to Steve Jobs, it sketched the next phase in the evolution of lame-brained Homo sapiens. The headquarters of Apple in Silicon Valley are located in a galactic street called Infinite Loop and Jobs felt at home in such an abstract location. His preferred non-colour was white and the transparent buildings he helped design had spiral staircases of glass shaped like coils of DNA. He was, he believed, "enlightened", a luminary to be ranked with Gandhi or Einstein.
As Walter Isaacson says in this incisive biography, Jobs behaved like a Nietzschean superman, using his will – transmitted through an unblinking stare – as a remote-control device that compelled others to do his bidding. As a child, he made his parents sell their house and buy another one that was beyond their...
- 10/29/2011
- by Peter Conrad
- The Guardian - Film News
Sony Pictures has struck a deal to tell the story of Steve Jobs, based on the authorized biography by Walter Isaacson.
Deadline reports the deal is $1 million against $3 million, a massive acquisition cost for a biopic. The eventual biopic will be only the second movie about Jobs’ rise to technological titan, though I imagine it will be infinitely more accurate than 1999’s TV-movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, in which Noah Wyle starred as Jobs.
Let the speculation begin on who Sony will cast for this narrative feature. I’d imagine a conversation will be had with Aaron Sorkin to adapt the novel, since he had a hand in both of the studio’s recent biopic hits: The Social Network and Moneyball. (Sorkin recently recounted a story in the Daily Beast about how he was asked to write a movie for Pixar.)
Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time Magazine and CEO of CNN,...
Deadline reports the deal is $1 million against $3 million, a massive acquisition cost for a biopic. The eventual biopic will be only the second movie about Jobs’ rise to technological titan, though I imagine it will be infinitely more accurate than 1999’s TV-movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, in which Noah Wyle starred as Jobs.
Let the speculation begin on who Sony will cast for this narrative feature. I’d imagine a conversation will be had with Aaron Sorkin to adapt the novel, since he had a hand in both of the studio’s recent biopic hits: The Social Network and Moneyball. (Sorkin recently recounted a story in the Daily Beast about how he was asked to write a movie for Pixar.)
Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time Magazine and CEO of CNN,...
- 10/12/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Spritz on a bouquet of floral and citrus notes—perfect for summer! 1. Dolce & Gabbana Rose the One. 2. Jo Malone Sakura Cherry Blossom Cologne. (Click here for U.K.) 3. Hermes Jardin Sur Le Toit. (Click here for U.K.) 4. Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey Summer. 5. Eau D'Italie Jardin Du Poete. 6. Caudalíe Zeste De Vigne. 7. Prada Infusion de Rose. 8. Kenzo L'Eau de Kenzo Amour.
- 7/8/2011
- Vanity Fair
Does Japanese period costume reflect on contemporary fashion? French born writer Aurélie Coulibaly appraises the hipster style of Norwegian Wood.
Youth, love, Japan, 1960s; Norwegian Wood (2010, directed by Anh Hung Tran) is a fable on loss and growing up. Set from the summer of ’67 through to a spring morning just a few years later, somewhere between child and adulthood, we meet an assorted group of angelic characters to move any sensitive soul.
We are in Tokyo, and along with the hectic political context of students’ protests against established order, alternatively contemplating tormented Naoko (Rinko Kikushi) and youthful Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) in their intense, yet poetic relationship with Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama). All are beautiful and secretive, ethereally flowing over the troubled waters of adolescence. Costume designer Yen Khe Luguern (first credit for a feature movie) selected different characteristics of 60?s fashion to subtly highlight the protagonists’ personalities. Khe Luguern’s...
Youth, love, Japan, 1960s; Norwegian Wood (2010, directed by Anh Hung Tran) is a fable on loss and growing up. Set from the summer of ’67 through to a spring morning just a few years later, somewhere between child and adulthood, we meet an assorted group of angelic characters to move any sensitive soul.
We are in Tokyo, and along with the hectic political context of students’ protests against established order, alternatively contemplating tormented Naoko (Rinko Kikushi) and youthful Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) in their intense, yet poetic relationship with Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama). All are beautiful and secretive, ethereally flowing over the troubled waters of adolescence. Costume designer Yen Khe Luguern (first credit for a feature movie) selected different characteristics of 60?s fashion to subtly highlight the protagonists’ personalities. Khe Luguern’s...
- 7/8/2011
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Does Japanese period costume reflect on contemporary fashion? French born writer Aurélie Coulibaly appraises the hipster style of Norwegian Wood.
Youth, love, Japan, 1960s; Norwegian Wood (2010, directed by Anh Hung Tran) is a fable on loss and growing up. Set from the summer of ’67 through to a spring morning just a few years later, somewhere between child and adulthood, we meet an assorted group of angelic characters to move any sensitive soul.
We are in Tokyo, and along with the hectic political context of students’ protests against established order, alternatively contemplating tormented Naoko (Rinko Kikushi) and youthful Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) in their intense, yet poetic relationship with Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama). All are beautiful and secretive, ethereally flowing over the troubled waters of adolescence. Costume designer Yen Khe Luguern (first credit for a feature movie) selected different characteristics of 60′s fashion to subtly highlight the protagonists’ personalities. Khe Luguern’s...
Youth, love, Japan, 1960s; Norwegian Wood (2010, directed by Anh Hung Tran) is a fable on loss and growing up. Set from the summer of ’67 through to a spring morning just a few years later, somewhere between child and adulthood, we meet an assorted group of angelic characters to move any sensitive soul.
We are in Tokyo, and along with the hectic political context of students’ protests against established order, alternatively contemplating tormented Naoko (Rinko Kikushi) and youthful Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) in their intense, yet poetic relationship with Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama). All are beautiful and secretive, ethereally flowing over the troubled waters of adolescence. Costume designer Yen Khe Luguern (first credit for a feature movie) selected different characteristics of 60′s fashion to subtly highlight the protagonists’ personalities. Khe Luguern’s...
- 7/8/2011
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
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