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Huwebes, Enero 7, 2016

9 style reference from films

Basing from Nina Garcia's Little Black Book of Style and using her template to continue and add stylish films that had got us drooling over their clothing choices and style.

Basic Instinct (1992)
Settings: San Francisco, 1992
Synopsis: Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is investigating the brutal murder of a rockstar. The main suspect is the victim's girlfriend, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a wealthy and bisexual writer who definitely have a big sexual appetite.
Style: Chic american closet that made a comeback in 2016.
Watch for: The interrogation where Sharon Stone's V is on a cameo role.

"You know I don't like to wear any underwear,don't you,Nick?"

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Settings: Rome,1963
Synopsis: During the height of the cold war, the CIA's most effective agent,Napoloen Solo (Henry Cavill), must collaborate with KGB's best agent, Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) to stop an impending end-of-the-world crisis.
Style: This movie is styled to the vintage gloss of 1960's fashion highlights morphing it into a glamorous movie. The mod, the jelly accessories, the big sunglasses and the big cocktail rings.
Watch for: Victoria Vinciguerra; the most fabulous,classy and beautiful villain that has immortalized a Cruella de Vil-like of a villain.

Napoleon: You can't put a Paco Rubanne belt on a Patou
Illya: She's not wearing a Patou
Napoleon: What's wrong with a Patou?
Illya: Nothing, if you're fat. The Dior goes with the Rubanne.
Napoleon: It won't match.
Illya: It doesn't. Have. To Match.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Settings: New York City, 2006
Synopsis: Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a fresh college graduate, lands a job as a co-assistant to the intimidating fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). A genre of magazine that Andy Sachs loathe and thinks it is a less intelligent magazine.
Style: This movie have been said to be the most expensively costumed film in history because all the clothes and accessories used in the film came from actual designers.
Watch for: Meryl Streep's creamy shoulders.

"You don't deserve the dresses you will get, you eat carbs for chrissakes."



Twilight saga (2008-2012)
Settings: Washington, 2008
Synopsis: A clumsy teenage girl, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) falls in love to a sparkly vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).
Style: Lumbersexual and androgynous chicset.This was the movie where girls started to shop at the Boys' section. Plaid shirts, Brown raincoats and peasant blouses.
Watch for: Bella's wedding dress and Alice's flowy tops.

"Don't do that. Smile like I'm your favorite person."




Coco Before Chanel, 2009
Settings: France, 1910
Synopsis: This is a biography of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (Audrey Tatou) before she became the magnate and icon in the fashion industry.
Style: Coco Chanel was known to be a modern woman who made clothes easier to wear for women. This film has laid down how Chanel made the 'borrowed-from-the-boys' style like making a dress from a jersey by cinching the waist.
Watch for: Chanel's collection from the last part of the film.

"Successful women do not fall in love."


Confession of a shopaholic,2008
Settings: New York,2009
Synopsis: Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a shopping addict who struggles to cut back and earn money to pay off her credit card debts.
Style: Obviously,this is a fashion film so you'll expect the whole runway of clothes flashing in the film. 
Watch for: The controversial green scarf that led to a web of lies.

"They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail."


While we're young, 2014
Settings: New York, 2014
Synopsis: Middle aged couple Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia Schrenbick (Naomi Watts) starts to hangout with two young couple and helps them with their documentary film.
Style: Hipster and Vintage. Somehow, the film showcased that style is subjective and not relatively timely. 
Watch for: The hats;fedoras, wide-brim and beanies. 

"He's not evil, he's just young."


Sleeping beauty,2011
Settings: Australia, 2011
Synopsis: Lucy (Emily Browning) is a college student who holds a number of odd jobs and gets  her already rough and complicated life more complicated when she finds a good paying job in an erotic freelance work.
Style: Soft and mute pastels. 
Watch for: Clara's bodycon dresses and pencil cuts skirts in dark,bold colors contrasting to Lucy's style colors.

"Rise up and walk, none of your bones are broken."




Hippie, Hippie Shake,2008
Settings: London, late 1960s
Synopsis: A memoir of Richard Neville (Cillian Murphy), a journalist and author who were put on trial for distributing an obscene issue of Oz as taking part of the counterculture of the 1960s
Style: Psychedelic and Revolutionary. The bell bottoms, psychedelic prints and long, long wavy hair.
Watch for: More and more hippie lifestyle, culture and outfits.

"Utterly unputdownable."




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