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Style for Christmas: She’s So Unusual
The Garb Wire’s themed ‘gift guide’ reflects who we are, crazed style obsessives who swing well to the left of the ordinary. For inspiration this year I selected album titles from Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500 Albums of all Time list published in 2012. The first edit, She’s So Unusual, is the name of Cyndi Lauper‘s debut album of […]
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Memoirs of a Geisha: Style Ideas for Spring
Memoirs of a Geisha was a 2005 American epic film adaptation of an original novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. The story reveals how Sayuri transcended her fishing-village roots and transformed into one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha. But with this success, Sayuri also learns the secrets and sacrifices of the geisha lifestyle. Though the story line may be far from our […]
MoreHair by Sam McKnight at Somerset House, London
Sam McKnight has influenced the images of Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Princess Diana. Hair at Somerset House is a major exhibition celebrating McKnight’s remarkable forty year career, from his start in the late 1970s to the present day. He remains one of the original session stylists to have carved out an exclusive […]
MorePalm Springs Weekend: Style Ideas for Spring
Palm Springs Weekend is a classic 1963 film. Each year during Spring Break, Palm Springs swarms with young men and women in hot pursuit of freedom and sunny California adventure. It’s a rom-com time capsule – somehow, any styling related to Palm Springs and the 1960s remained in spirit – fun, kitsch, fruity, repeat! Paging Stefanie Powers Though an Australian […]
MoreSpring in Park Lane: Style Ideas for Spring
Anna Neagle, Britain’s sweetheart of the 1940s starred with Michael Wilding in Spring in Park Lane, a jaunty ‘upstairs-downstairs’ romantic comedy set in London. Who doesn’t live for a light upstairs-downstairs scandal? Pretty proper with a side of scotch A mix of textures, subdued colours with houndstooth, tortoiseshell, suede and beading. Quiet, self assured details. She belongs here. Pictured L-R: JY […]
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KENZO World: The New Fragrance
Obviously we can all relate to this ingenious KENZO fragrance ad, I mean masterpiece, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Margaret Qualley. I mean, if you read The Garb Wire, you obviously know how it feels to want to break out. This is branding excellence. Obviously it’s not to everyone’s taste, which is entirely the point.
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