Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
'Dragon Tattoo' Star Rooney Mara's First Photo As Lisbeth Salander
After the leak of a few unauthorized photos snapped during pre-production on David Fincher's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the appearance of a short-haired Rooney Mara on a recent red carpet, we finally have our first official look at the actress who will play Lisbeth Salander in the American adaptation of the hit mystery tale.
W magazine has splashed Mara, in character as the damaged hacker, across its February cover. She's rocking a jagged, black hairdo, eyebrow and lip rings, and a chest tattoo declaring her surname. Oh, and her hands are covered in blood. But according to the accompanying story, there originally wasn't enough blood for Fincher's liking.
"I think we need more blood," he said. "Lisbeth Salander is not about suffering! She is not Jesus! She is about vengeance!"
Indeed. Salander is one-half of the narrative engine driving the story together. As fans of Stieg Larsson's worldwide best-seller know, Salander teams up with disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (to be played by Daniel Craig) to investigate the decades-old disappearance of a teenager born into a fabulously rich, wildly dysfunctional family. She is brilliant yet haunted, covered in tattoos and almost autistic in her relation to the world.
"Before I read the book, I didn't think I could do it," Mara said. "I locked myself in a room for a week and read all three books, and decided I really wanted to be Lisbeth. But I thought I had no shot at it."
Another W photo captures Mara, revealing some skin as she gets a tattoo, a cigarette hanging from her mouth. That's the Salander we know. But according to W, the film will depart significantly from the book. Blomkvist is apparently set to be less of a playboy, Salander will be even more aggressive than Larsson had written her to be, and the dramatic ending has been completely altered.
"Sony and [producer] Scott Rudin told me they wanted to be in the adult-film-franchise business," Fincher said. "And they said, 'We want you to kick the A in adult.' "
To that end, Fincher auditioned a range of well-known Hollywood names: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as unexpected actresses like Yo-Landi Vi$$er, the lead singer of Die Antwoord. Many of them he subjected to reading through a vicious rape scene.
"David added the rape scene at the last minute, and I said, 'Ohmigod! They must be really serious,' " said Mara. "They did one test, then another a week later. They shot me in the subway in L.A. in full hair and makeup with a motorcycle. Every day they had a new request. On a Monday morning, David called me in, and I said, 'What do you want me to do to my hair now?' I was at the end of my rope. He told me I had the part. I hadn't even read the script yet."
Marc Jacobs on Takashi Murakami
Marc Jacobs, artistic director for Louis Vuitton, discusses his collaboration with Takashi Murakami in advance of the exhibition "© MURAKAMI."
It's Good To Be Da King! Jay-Z Spends $350K At Hermès on Christmas Eve
Jay-Z departing Hermes Madison Avenue on Christmas Eve
image: justjared.com
Jay-Z reportedly spent $350,000 on Christmas Eve in a private room at Hermès Madison Avenue. Beyoncé must have had a lot of orange boxes under the tree! Why not? Jay-Z is getting paid $1,000,000 for performing at the opening of the Cosmopolitan casino and hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve.
from the New York Post:
A spy reports: "Jay was in a private room of Hermes doing last-minute shopping. He had a guard standing watch outside. He spent $350,000 on Birkin bags, among other things."
The full story here.
image: justjared.com
Jay-Z reportedly spent $350,000 on Christmas Eve in a private room at Hermès Madison Avenue. Beyoncé must have had a lot of orange boxes under the tree! Why not? Jay-Z is getting paid $1,000,000 for performing at the opening of the Cosmopolitan casino and hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve.
from the New York Post:
A spy reports: "Jay was in a private room of Hermes doing last-minute shopping. He had a guard standing watch outside. He spent $350,000 on Birkin bags, among other things."
The full story here.
Tommy Ton's Street Style at Pitti Uomo 2011
via GQ
Street Style Photog Tommy Ton shows us just what the most stylish men are largin' at this years Pitti Uomo in Florence.
Street Style Photog Tommy Ton shows us just what the most stylish men are largin' at this years Pitti Uomo in Florence.
Craigslist is Very Very Very Entertaining
Low self-esteem looking for loser - 46 (So Bay)
Date: 2011-01-13, 8:52AM PST
I'm middle-aged 40lbs overweight (though I still get hit on believe it or not usually by younger guys) with a crappy attitude coupled with mood swings and a tendency towards yeast/bladder infections. Looking for a lying loser whose dinner I can pay for since you don't have a job or are underemployed (like me.) You too, will have mood swings but deny it 'cause you're a guy. You either only want me for sex or else are no longer interested at all in sex but want to date a woman who will buy you dinner. Please be obsessed with some/all of your exes and I'll tell you how all the local morons done me wrong too. We'll be a match made in heaven. In fact, just thinking about it is building my anticipation to an unbearable level.
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Carine Roitfeld as shot by The Sartorialist
No longer the editor of French Vogue and rumors of a collaboration with Tom Ford, the following photographs shot by Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist, is a exemplification of Carine's aesthetic to fashion.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Jeffrey Deitch Invites Rodarte Designers To Exhibit At MOCA Los Angeles
via The Huffington Post
Jeffrey Deitch announced today that fashion house Rodarte (designed by two sisters, Kate and Laura Mulleavy) will have their own exhibit at MOCA's satellite space in West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center.
This is not the first foray into museum exhibitions for the sisters. An exhibit titled "Quicktake: Rodarte" was on at New York's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in 2010. The pair also recently designed the costumes for "Black Swan" and their designs have become runway and red carpet mainstays.
The exhibition will include
Watch the video from their Cooper Hewitt exhibit here:
Jeffrey Deitch announced today that fashion house Rodarte (designed by two sisters, Kate and Laura Mulleavy) will have their own exhibit at MOCA's satellite space in West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center.
This is not the first foray into museum exhibitions for the sisters. An exhibit titled "Quicktake: Rodarte" was on at New York's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in 2010. The pair also recently designed the costumes for "Black Swan" and their designs have become runway and red carpet mainstays.
The exhibition will include
pieces from Rodarte's spring 2010, fall 2010 and fall 2008 runway collections, plus original ballet costumes that the Mulleavys designed for the movie "Black Swan." The museum expects the show to feature about 25 pieces, which will be installed as a series of "interrelated conceptual vignettes," both static and in motion. (LAT)This is yet another in a string of signs showing that art and fashion do, indeed, have a strong relationship. From LACMA's recent acquisition of an enviable costume and textiles collection to today's announcement from the Met that their costume department will undergo an intense overhaul, fashion seems to have found its place in the art world.
Watch the video from their Cooper Hewitt exhibit here:
Inside Trussardi 1911
Milan Vukmirovic talks to yoox.com for the launch of the Red Camo collection, designed by Trussardi 1911 Exlclusively for www.thecorner.com, The New Yooxer met Creative Director Milan Vukmirovic who discussed the Greyhound Maison's trademark elegance and love of luxury.
Can Pubes Save American Apparel From Bankruptcy? The Hipster Retailer Backs Away From More Conservative Advertising
via fashionista.com
Remember when it seemed like American Apparel was toning down their notoriously porn-y ads?
There was that ad that featured Dov Charney working on his laptop in bed flanked by his creative directors. Then there were those illustrated ads, that showed frontal nudity and pubes galore, but the girls were, you know, CARTOONS. We figured that was as far as American Apparel would go when it came to showing pubic hair. We were wrong!
Here, in an ad in Purple Magazine (go figure), unearthed by Copyranter, American Apparel advertises their sheer undies on a young model with her pubic hair prominently showing. Not that there’s anything wrong with not waxing it all off like it’s become de rigeur to do, of course, and really why is it that pubic hair makes everything so much more taboo? We checked in with Jessica Grose, managing editor of Slate’s women’s blog, Double X for her quick take on this.
“Pubic hair is thought of as gross and undesirable now,” says Grose, “It used to just be titillating but now it is thought of as icky, or at least untamed, so it signifies something unruly, slightly gross and out of control…it’s a provocative ad.”
Copyranter questions whether it’s American Apparel’s sleaziest ad ever.
What do you think?
This seems to be part of a trend for American Apparel in returning to it’s more provocative roots. Other recent ads to have surfaced show a model climbing a tree with just a shirt on (no pants, no panties, natch), and another shows a topless model casually painting her nails in a room full of naked mannequins.
There was that ad that featured Dov Charney working on his laptop in bed flanked by his creative directors. Then there were those illustrated ads, that showed frontal nudity and pubes galore, but the girls were, you know, CARTOONS. We figured that was as far as American Apparel would go when it came to showing pubic hair. We were wrong!
Here, in an ad in Purple Magazine (go figure), unearthed by Copyranter, American Apparel advertises their sheer undies on a young model with her pubic hair prominently showing. Not that there’s anything wrong with not waxing it all off like it’s become de rigeur to do, of course, and really why is it that pubic hair makes everything so much more taboo? We checked in with Jessica Grose, managing editor of Slate’s women’s blog, Double X for her quick take on this.
“Pubic hair is thought of as gross and undesirable now,” says Grose, “It used to just be titillating but now it is thought of as icky, or at least untamed, so it signifies something unruly, slightly gross and out of control…it’s a provocative ad.”
Copyranter questions whether it’s American Apparel’s sleaziest ad ever.
What do you think?
This seems to be part of a trend for American Apparel in returning to it’s more provocative roots. Other recent ads to have surfaced show a model climbing a tree with just a shirt on (no pants, no panties, natch), and another shows a topless model casually painting her nails in a room full of naked mannequins.
Tommy Ton's Street Style: Men Who Birng It
via GQ
A salute to the men who brought their A-games to this season's European shows—and who raised the street-style bar for this week's shows in New York
Photographs by Tommy ton
Adam Kelly, men's contemporary and designer buyer, Selfridges
"There's definitely that English, Savile Row quality to the way that Adam dresses, but he manages to do it with such ease that he doesn't look too buttoned-up or uptight. It's the way he casually accents a look with a neck scarf or opts for a Dries T-shirt under a jacket that inspires you to dress up with a more relaxed attitude."
Francesco Cominelli, fashion editor, Vogue Hommes International
"Francesco has a way of wearing clothes in such a way that they become completely unidentifiable on him. You wouldn't know whether he's wearing Kenzo or Zegna or a market find; that's a gift of Francesco's styling abilities. He has fun layering and mixing patterns, textures, and colors, and it's refreshingly young and sartorially playful at the same time."
Toni Tanfani, buyer/owner of Gisa in Ancona, Italy
"Mr. Tanfani is possibly one of the most elegant men I've ever photographed at Fashion Week. Incredibly well-polished, with a sophistication that very few other men have, Mr. Tanfani embodies all the qualities of the ideal Italian man: well-groomed, good-looking, stylish, and confident. There isn't really much of formula to Mr. Tanfani's look: navy double-breasted blazer, classic white dress shirt, and reflective aviators. But it's the man behind the clothes that make the clothes. And Mr. Tanfani only gets better with age."
Joe Scarborough, Glenn Beck Feud Erupts (VIDEO)
via The Huffington Post
A war of words erupted between Joe Scarborough and Glenn Beck on Tuesday, after Scarborough said that Beck was delivering a "vile message to Americans every day," and Beck said that Scarborough could never back up his assertions with facts.
Scarborough spoke on Tuesday's "Morning Joe." He was talking about his hope that amped-up media rhetoric would cool down in the wake of the Arizona shooting, and he used Beck as an example:
Scarborough also said that Beck was a "nobody" until Fox News chief Roger Ailes brought him to his network. "If Roger Ailes decides to kick him out of Fox News, he'll go back to the Glenn Beck he was before," he said.
Beck--and, especially, his radio sidekicks--responded later on Tuesday. Beck's co-host Pat Gray was the most outraged by Scarborough's statements.
"How do you know what Glenn Beck says and does," he almost screamed. "You moron. Joe, there's a reason that everyone you know listens to and watches Glenn's show, including your mom, and not yours: you suck!"
But Beck also had some words for Scarborough."Every day on their show you hear about how the Tea Parties are violent," he said. "What is the difference, except that one has facts to back it up and one does not?"
A war of words erupted between Joe Scarborough and Glenn Beck on Tuesday, after Scarborough said that Beck was delivering a "vile message to Americans every day," and Beck said that Scarborough could never back up his assertions with facts.
Scarborough spoke on Tuesday's "Morning Joe." He was talking about his hope that amped-up media rhetoric would cool down in the wake of the Arizona shooting, and he used Beck as an example:
Scarborough also said that Beck was a "nobody" until Fox News chief Roger Ailes brought him to his network. "If Roger Ailes decides to kick him out of Fox News, he'll go back to the Glenn Beck he was before," he said.
Beck--and, especially, his radio sidekicks--responded later on Tuesday. Beck's co-host Pat Gray was the most outraged by Scarborough's statements.
"How do you know what Glenn Beck says and does," he almost screamed. "You moron. Joe, there's a reason that everyone you know listens to and watches Glenn's show, including your mom, and not yours: you suck!"
But Beck also had some words for Scarborough."Every day on their show you hear about how the Tea Parties are violent," he said. "What is the difference, except that one has facts to back it up and one does not?"
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