CHANEL, HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR, and ART
OMG I have a new icy pink Zen Mozaic, and I’m absolutely mad over it. I’ve been adding all My fav videos and film clips, a lot of Marilyn Monroe home movies filmed by Milton Greene (My fav images of Marilyn are by Milton), Edie Sedgwick clips, and of course clips of MYSELF!! I can’t get enough of it! Next on the list of stuff I want to download to it are a selection of Lili St. Cyr burlesque clips, and Salvador Dali/Luis Bunuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou’. Below is a pic of it with a still of Marilyn Monroe reading, one of My fav pix of her! Isn’t it PRECIOUS?
OH, have any of you seen the Vanity Fair article about the supposed Secret Marilyn Files? There’s a great video featuring an interview with the writer, and some great shots of some of the articles in the collection. I really can’t decide what I think about it, it’s in some way connected to Robert Slatzer, who is a sheister that spent his entire life trying to make money off of Marilyn’s name, so anything coming from that direction I take with a grain of salt, however, it’s definitely intriguing.
On the Vanity Fair website there are links to photographs of the entire collection, a total of 586 items. Some of My favourites are contained within the JEWELS and CLOTHING. Also included is a large collection of personal papers, including shopping receipts and personal letters. One note from Marilyn to German Consulate General Volkmar von Fuehlsdorff reads, “Thank you for your champagne. It arrived, I drank it, and I was gayer.”
I love the images of her last two bottles of Chanel No. 5, one is the parfum, and one is the eau de toilette. The bottles look nearly identical to this day. Check it out, below is a picture of Marilyn’s bottles of Chanel No. 5 next to a picture of MY same bottles of Chanel No. 5 today.
Speaking of CHANEL, I just picked up the gorgeous new Limited Edition Red called ‘ENTHUSIAST’. It’s absolutely EXQUISITE. An effusive, rich TRUE RED! I always buy every new Chanel RED, especially the Limited Editions, which are My favourites! The head Chanel representative was there when I stopped by for the new red, and I was so pleased. She just ADORES ME, and I love when she waits on Me, we have fun talking about Chanel. She knows EVERYTHING Chanel, EVER. She had previously given Me her home phone number and asked Me to call her before I stop by so that she can drive down to wait on Me, but it never works out that way, because it’s always just a spontaneous thing, I never PLAN to go shopping, it just happens.
She was talking to another client when I came in, and after warmly greeting Me she told the woman she was talking to that I am her “No. 5 Girl”, her “little Marilyn“, as she put it.. so cute, lol. I told her I HAD to come in IMMEDIATELY because I just HAD to have the new Limited Edition RED, she knows what a CHANEL ADDICT I am, so of course she understood.
She also gave Me a preview of all the new specialty items coming out for Christmas, including the new No. 5 stuff (she knows I need EVERYTHING in the No.5 Collection) and a new RED coming out sometime in October for the Holiday – OMG I’m SO excited. LIMITED EDITION CHANEL CHRISTMAS PRETTIES.. My pulse races at the mere THOUGHT of it. I really wish we could just skip Thanksgiving and have TWO FULL MONTHS of CHRISTMAS festivities.
As most who frequent My website should know, I am very much into Silverscreen Hollywood Glamour, Flapper style, Vintage Haute Couture, High Fashion, Vintage handbags and evening bags. My latest OBSESSION is Vintage Costume and Couture Jewelry. Particularly pieces from the 1920′s – 1960′s.
I am absolutely crazy over signed pieces by Trifari, Coro, Vendome, Hollycraft, and so many more. I love studying about the different designers, like Alfred Philippe who first designed for Cartier before becoming chief designer at Trifari in the 1930′s, and Kenneth Jay Lane, whose coveted vintage pieces are now sold at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
In cue with My interests, the September issue of VOGUE magazine features fine couture costume jewelry throughout the issue, including a lovely demi-parure by Balenciaga on the cover, and a gorgeous pair of vintage 1966 Trifari rhinestone earrings from the collection of House of Lavande in Palm Beach.
Below are a few photographs of a couple of My recent acquisitions, including a gorgeous vintage cocktail ring of Swarovski Aurora Borealis crystal. Swarovski created the Aurora Borealis crystal in collaboration with DIOR in 1955. Doesn’t it just SPARKLE?! Note the fabulous Art Deco design of the black bakelite earrings, these are actually quite large, they look positively SPECTACULAR when worn with an elegantly streamlined black dress, complimenting My platinum blonde hair in stunning contrast.
Below are photographs of some of the gorgeous art books I have received recently. Pictured are two wonderful books on Jean Cocteau, one of My top favourite artists, a book on “Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form”, a biography of THE DIVINE Sarah Bernhardt, and a beautiful new book on Edie Sedgwick called ‘Girl on Fire’. I’m crazy over Edie Sedgwick/Andy Warhol/and ALL things factory related!!
The Edie book is filled with TONS of fabulous pictures of the famed Warhol Superstar, reluctant Fashion ICON, and effervescent Youthquaker, along with a CD in the back of her ‘Ciao! Manhattan Tapes’ – of COURSE I’ve uploaded them onto My new Zen Mozaic!! Her voice always sounds like a charming combination of bored socialite and vivacious brat.. I love it!!
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