Rooney Mara In US Vogue: Scary Or Beautiful?
The star of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is in the newest issue of US Vogue, and the reaction has been decidedly mixed.
The front cover (which has just been leaked) shows Rooney with her stark Lisbeth Salander hair slicked back, in a very lovely black dragon-embroidered gown -but with oddly sunken cheeks.
Fashion commentators seem to be divided over whether the cover and inside photos, which show the skeletal Mara in a variety of poses in a garden, are delicious high-fashion or slightly off-putting. (For the role, Mara lost a considerable amount of weight and underwent copious piercings.)
Fashion commentators are said to be preparing for a backlash from anorexia campaigners – Mara is meant to be representing a woman with an eating disorder in the film.
However, the clothes are undoubtedly beautiful.
What do you think?
Image: Rooney Mara In Us Vogue.
The World’s Best Fashion Museums
With news that Pucci is opening a museum-cum-archive in Milan, Rescu. is compiling a list of their favourite fashion museums – all over the world.
London has both the Museum of Costume and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The Museum of Costume is a glorious history-of-fashion archive, but the V&A attracts the more glamourous exhibitions – from Diana’s wardrobe to Kylie Minogue’s to Yohji Yamamoto.
The Ferragamo Museum in Florence is the place to go if you’ve ever had a serious fetish about shoes. Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin – the museum leaves them both in the dust. It doesn’t hurt that it’s in a medieval palace.
The Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda, Lisbon, Portugal, is the national museum of costume and fashion, and it glories in nearly 7000 pieces of clothing. This is the place to go if you want to see corsets, 1930s coats and royal gowns, and wish you were born 200 years earlier.
And then there’s the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris. It’s the world’s best – a design museum to rival all design museums, with an archive of virtually every period of costume (though you can only see what’s on display that month). If you get acquisitive, you can always pop down to Didier Ludot’s boutique, which is basically a museum where you can pick up pieces of fashion history (the ultimate little black dress, for instance) for astronomical prices. Paris isn’t the home of fashion for nothing.
Image: V&A hat by Stephen Jones.
Andrej Pejic Meets The Queen – In A Skirt
Queen Elizabeth II will shortly be coming to Australia – and all of Australia’s UK-based identities, including Elle MacPherson, have been meeting her in preparation.
One figure who met the Queen in style? Increasingly famous androgynous model Andrej Pejic.
And his fashion choice? “Sharon Stone with a little bit nineties”. The incredibly feminine-looking Pejic chose a vintage Versace pencil skirt for the occasion, paired with all-designer accessories and his trademark waist-length blonde hair.
Considering that earlier in the week the Queen met Kathy Lette, who was dressed in a suit printed entirely with pictures of corgis, he perhaps didn’t make too much of a splash.
Apparently, though, Pejic chose not to curtsey when meeting the Queen, opting for a bow instead.
Australia fashion: always making new splashes.
Image: Andrej Pejic.
Tiffany & Co Creates Jewellery For The Great Gatsby
As if we didn’t have enough reason to envy the actors in Baz Luhrmann’s new Great Gatsby film, Tiffany & Co have just announced they’ll be designing the film’s jewellery.
The archetypal 1920s story, The Great Gatsby is set in the lush luxury of New York’s West Egg, amid palatial mansions and polo games – and Tiffany & Co is producing platinum-set diamonds and pearl pieces suitable for the period.
It turns out that F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote The Great Gatsby, loved Tiffany’s, and that the brand’s original designer was in fact a guest at the tremendous 1920s parties described by Fitzgerald in his novel – so it was destiny, really.
However, Rescu. imagines that the filming of the movie’s parties will be accompanied by many Tiffany’s bodyguards intent on protecting their gems.
They’re filming outside and around Sydney, so if you want a glimpse of original Tiffany & Co design – and possibly Leonardo Di Caprio – look out for them.
Image: Carey Mulligan, who will play Daisy Buchanan in the film.
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