Aside from a generous literary and cocktail recipes contribution, Ernest Hemingway produced two striking grandaughters, Margaux (1954-1996) and Mariel, born in 1961 and both famous for their luxuriant brows. I'd say even bigger than Brooke Shields'. Six feet tall Margaux - named after the wine - had to live with dyslexia, bulimia, epilipsy and toxicomany. She was the first model to ever cash a million dollars cheque, performed in a few films and was shaking her thing at Studio 54 with pals Grace Jones, Bianca Jagger & co. Sadly she was found dead in her appartment at 42.
Little sis Mariel modelled a bit and gave one of the most heartbreaking and pure performance ever in Manhattan. She later had a cameo in another Allen, Deconstructing Harry, but her acting skills were never used advisely by other directors.
She is now a wellbeing and spirituality guru and wrote a book with the longest title in the world: Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out: Every Woman's Guide to Real Beauty, Renewed Energy, and a Radiant Life.Great, it's Christmas soon!
There are a few things I am painfully ashamed of. To name a few: geography, mental arithmetic, talking with a pen hanging from my mouth and... modern art.
(and jazz and classical music).
Anyway, the lovelyGeorgia showed a couple of images from the late Japanese artist/video director/designer Nagi Noda (1973-2008). Her hair hats are the most amazing thing ever: creepy, beautiful, funny, poetic, a bit revolting.
Her videos combine perfectly humour and aesthetics. Forget about Jane Fonda, work out with poodles!
Here the AW10 campaign from Italian fashion house Valentino. Tati Cotlar, Monica Jagaciak and Freja Beha Erichsen, shot by David Sims, naked and not. Apparently the idea behind it was to present a more provocative and modern Valentino, to attract a younger audience. I love the selection of girls and I do appreciate the effort, but in times of Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs this is not super shocking to me and doesn't even make me blush.
Do you remember the time when you had a pen friend and, well, after a couple of badly written english letters it would miserably fail ?
It did work for Rosa and Pauline. Our relationship started with work emails and pouf, something clicked. When we finally met, it felt like we knew each other for years. And we had so many things in common, it was a bit spooky. Oh, and also we realised we both blush very easily. So why not make the most of your flaws and turn it into a blog?!
This is blushed