Showing posts with label Chloë Sevigny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chloë Sevigny. Show all posts

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Fashion From Panama City, Florida

... And back to the cold streets of New York City!

My trip to Panama City has been short but really energetic. 5 days of doing nothing, wandering around and going to the beach is quite nice.
Panama City is a quite lonely place on winter for the fact that is a 100% spring break destination. For this reason everything was very quite, and closed and a little decadent, the same way Coney Island becomes on winter.

As Odilean from Stylophile put it in her comment to my latest post, "i found the best stuff at a thrift store in Florida", I did so too when I used to go to Miami, being Florida a retirement destination par excellance, which means old people who doesn't need their winter clothing anymore and dropping really old and cool stuff to the thrift stores. For this reason I was very excited the day I went thrifting with my hubby to Panama City.

The sad truth is though that it was a total disappointment when we visited the two biggest thrift stores in the area and realized everything left was just junk, disposable clothing from nowadays, things people don't want that they bought just yesterday, nothing "vintage" or relatively old. Sure the places were huge and full of thibgs but we couldn't find even one thing to bring home with us.

This made us think that the years of thrifting are really going to an end because the closest we get to our time, the shitty the clothing, the most casual and sport, very few exciting items to die for.

In my way back to NY i bought the last issue of i-D magazine to read in the airplane and in an interview to
Chloë Sevigny I couldn't be more surprised when one of the questions regarded thrifting and her answer was so close to our thoughts while in Florida...

Q: But nowadays you can't shopt thrift because all that's left is all the disposable stuff. It's hard to find the great 40's or 50's pieces at those thrift stores.
A: That's where a lot of the great individual style came from. I think it's a generational thing about how Americans shop. Thrift stores aren't going to have that cool well-made stuff that we found as kids anymore. [...]

spring break paraphernalia stores in Panama City, FL

Panama City is, as I mentioned earlier, a spring break destination so all i could find were spring break stores... with names such Purple Haze, Wizards, Heat Wave, Ron Jon... this kind of stores have all kind of "beach crap" on sale, from bikinis to Hawaiian hula skirts (Hawaii is a big thing in this area, Tikis are everywhere), sandals, sun lotions, shells, coconut figures, beads, dolphin shaped beaded chimes...

I thought though these stores would be more fun to be in than they actually are so all I ended up buying was a princess crown that reminded me the movie I saw the night before, From The Terrace, where Joan Woodward wore a very similar crown herself...

crown.jpg picture by 123patricia
my only purchase, a crown

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Y ya estoy de vuelta!

Mi viaje a Panama City, en Florida, ha sido corto pero he regargado pilas de lo lindo. 5 días haciendo nada mas que ir a la playa y dar vueltas por ahí, oye, se agradece!. :)
Panama City es un pueblo de veraneo, donde los estudiantes universitarios pasan lo que en inglés se llama "Spring Break", que no es otra cosa que soltarse la melena antes de empezar la vida "adulta"... imaginaos ordas de gente toda borrachisima, quemadisima por el sol y llendose de fiesta 24 horas al dia... Panama City esta ideado especificamente para ellos asi que en invierno no hay absolutamente nada, es como ir a la Costa del Sol en pleno invierno: bien poquito y mucha tranquilidad.
Aunque por esta misma razón es un sitio bastante peculiar de ir en fechas como esta.

El día que nos fuimos a ver tiendas de segunda mano fue una gran decepción.
Al igual que Odilean de Stylophile, la cual me escribió en el ultimo post que hice,
"i found the best stuff at a thrift store in Florida" (la mejor ropa la he encontrado en tiendas de segunda mano en Florida), años atras encontré los mejores chollazos en cuanto a vintage se refiere cuando fuí de vacaciones a Miami, porque Florida es el destino par excellance de los jubilados aqui en America asi que las posibilidades de encontrar ropa antigua con rollo es bastante alta... o era!.

Para nuestra decepción lo unico que encontramos fue ropa actual que sus dueños no querian, basura basicamente, nada interesante, un panorama de lo más desolador.

Ir de tiendas vintage no es lo que era, aunque suene estúpido, por el simple motivo que cada vez nos acercamos más a épocas en las que lo que impera es la ropa sport y ya no hay ropa de calidad, se sabe que la ropa pasara de moda y por lo tanto la calidad de esta hace que dichas prendas no superen el año sin estar todas echas una ruina.

Lo mas gracioso es que al venirme a NY me compré la revista i-D donde, en una entrevista a Chloë Sevigny, esta se quejaba de exactamente lo mismo...


P: But nowadays you can't shopt thrift because all that's left is all the disposable stuff. It's hard to find the great 40's or 50's pieces at those thrift stores.
R: That's where a lot of the great individual style came from. I think it's a generational thing about how Americans shop. Thrift stores aren't going to have that cool well-made stuff that we found as kids anymore. [...]

Como ya dije anteriormente Panama City es una ciudad de veraneo especialmente dedicada a los "spring breakers" por lo que todo lo que se puede encontrar allí son mega tiendas con nombres de los más "hippy" como Purple Haze, Heat Wave, Wizards... estan bien surtidas de todo aquello que se pueda utilizar para ir a la playa o ir de fiesta: bikinis, faldas hawaianas (el rollo Hawaii se lleva mucho por aquí, puedes encontrar Tikis por todas partes!), sandalias, cremas para el sol, collares y todo tipo de parafernalia sexual... de todas formas suena más interesante de lo que realmente es, pensé que entrar en una de ellas sería una explosión de color, y lo es, pero hay cierto matiz decadente, no se... asi que acabé comprándome solo una corona de princesa que me recordó a la pelicula que habia visto la noche anterior, Desde la Terraza, con Paul Newman y Joan Woodward, la cual llevaba una corona bien parecida a la que yo me compré...



Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Gummo

The movies of Harmony Korine are not the easiest to swallow but they are, for the same reason, the most interesting and stimulating.

Someone told me once that Korine's films reminded him of Vice magazine; they both use "easy subjects" to shock the audience such sexual taboos, violence and marginal people.

I can agree on that but i find a big difference; the "poetry" of it all; Harmony's films are truly poetic, the music, the characters, everything has some kind of purity that I don't find on Vice; I personally find Vice a punch in the stomach. Korine's stories are a punch in the soul.

One of my favourite movies was Julien Donkey-Boy, but the one which wardrobe is definitely something to talk about is 1996's Gummo, a movie that the great Werner Herzog called "a masterpiece".

Gummo is the the follow up in the lives of a bunch of kids from Xenia, Ohio, where a tornado during the 70's left the town in ruins and whose inhabitants didn't quite recover from the event.
Kids are bored and apathetic, what leads them to spend their time in the best way they can: these include sniffing glue, killing cats, having sex, riding dirt bikes, listening to black metal, and meeting a cavalcade of quirky, bizarre, and scary people.

Chloë Sevigny was the Costume Designer for this movie and her work is superb.
Contemporary movies "cancel" very often the work of costumes designers because everyone has a very clear understanding of contemporary clothing; they live with it.

But people don't realize that each person dress different and that is what makes him / her the person he / she is. It's the job of a costume designer to create a character through clothing and put on an actor what the character would wear. Therefore the less you notice the wardrobe, the better the job is done because it means you know the character wearing that clothing.

So it's quite difficult to make a contemporary wardrobe interesting and fun, but that's exactly what Chloë got with this movie.





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Las películas de Harmony Korine no son precisamente las más fáciles de asimilar, pero por el mismo motivo son, a mi modo de ver, unas de las las más interesantes del cine contemporáneo.

Una vez alguien me dijo que las películas de Korine le recordaban en cierta manera a la revista Vice, que ambas recurren a temas "demasiado fáciles" para prococar al espectador, como son la violencia, los tabues sexuales y la gente marginal.

En cierta manera es verdad pero creo que la diferencia estriba en la "poesía", de la que carece totalmente la revista y de la que le sobra a las películas: donde una te pega un puñetazo en el estómago, la otra te lo da en el alma. Básicamente.

Una de mis pelis favoritas es Julien Donkey-Boy pero para hablar de vestuario tenemos que hablar de Gummo, que el gran director alemán Werner Herzog llegó a tildar de "obra maestra".

La pellicula narra las peripecias de un grupo de chavales del pueblo de Xenia, en Ohio, Estados Unidos, donde un tornado duranto los 70 dejó al pueblo con la mitad de habitantes y en un estado de lo más desalentador.
Chloë Sevigny diseñó el vestuario de esta pelicula e hizo un trabajo fascinante. Siempre es complicado para los diseñadores de vestuario diseñar para una pelicula contemporanea porque la ropa pasa desapercibida por todos (cuantos Oscars se dan a peliculas que no sean de época?) ya que todos tenemos pleno entendimiento de ella; la vivimos dia a dia.
Elegir la ropa adecuada para crear un personaje y a la vez hacerlo interesante es dificil y puñetero. Pero ahí tenemos Gummo, en el que cada uno de los personajes lleva lo mas estrafalario que te puedes imaginar, siendo precisamente eso lo que te esperas, y no te esperas de cada uno de ellos.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

No One Talked About The Best Dressed Girl in Cannes 2007

It's surprising that no one (or at least none of the blogs or fashion webs I normally follow) talked about the outfit that Chloë Sevigny wore in the past Cannes Festival 2007 in November when she was promoting the film Zodiac.
This post might be at little over but i just found the images from the event and couldn't pass up the opportunity to speak (again) of the smartest and most stylish girl in Hollywood.

As always, she was just stunning; teaching the people how to be chic and kick ass at the same time. [I'd love to know where she goes to the gym by the way... hers are the best legs ever!]


// Me sorprendió que nunca hasta ahora se habia hablado del modelito que nos lució la chica mejor vestida de todo Hollywood, la señorita Chlöe Sevigny, cuando presentó en Noviembre del año pasado la pelicula Zodiac en el festival de Cannes.
Enseñando al personal cómo ser cañera sin perder una pizca de elegancia...
y digo, tampoco me importaria saber donde va al gimnasio!.. menudas piernas :)

Friday, September 14, 2007

Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony

The add at the beginning of the video is quite annoying, but the content worths the wait.
Chloë Sevigny is probably the most interesting and smart girl in the buzz business.
Finally an intelligent collaboration in the market. Enjoy!

Monday, April 23, 2007

The Prada Factor

The shorter than ever look that Prada amused us with in her Spring 07 collection, was something I was hardly trying to see in normal bodies' fellas. I personally love the look, and was thinking hard the best way to pay good money at the gym to get the proper legs to look Prada this year.
But thanks to my fav Chloë, whose body is getting womanly and beautifully rounded, now I can see that is not all about the gym. She just looks gorgeous.



>> Chloë Sevigny at the Prada American's Cup Party in Valencia, Spain. April 15th 2007
* image at wireimage.com

>> Prada rtw spring 07

* image at style.com

Friday, March 02, 2007

Taking a Walk Can Be Fashionable Too

Chloë Sevigny is more than a great actress to me. She is the real girl next door with a BIG sense of style and joy for clothing. If I would ever go to take a walk again, please remind me not to wear anything but something else.




* Griffith Park, Hollywood Hills. Los Angeles
** pictures at chloesevigny.com/

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

A Beatnik Carousel

Have you seen the French nouvelle vague cult movie Bande á Part? If you haven't i really suggest you to do it! Jean-Luc Godard did a masterpiece of a movie with this one.
This film has been an endless source of inspiration for editorials, films and music videos, like the Christina Rosenvinge's A Liar To Love that was out this year. The school-girl look has never been so cool!.

Now it comes Carousel, the new and amazing video that Ritz Fine Jewellery has done for its last collection of jewellery. A 6 minutes long video that is all about Paris, film noir,chic and elegance... A mix of Charade, James Bond, Moulin Rouge and... Bande á part!!
Carousel is one of the greatest videos i have seen this year. It can be just an ad but for me it is THE ad.
The main character, She O. She, the Princess of Saint Germain... is played by the lovely Chloë Sevigny.
I couldn't find out the director of the short-film though... Any suggestions?