Which reminds me, if you haven't watched the documentary Unzipped about Isaac Mizrahi preparing for his Fall 1994 collection you are seriously missing out on life. It's crazy intresting to see how Isaac gets inspired and translates that inspiration into a collection. Not to mention the fact that, as we all know, Isaac Mizrahi is hilarious and the documentary is packed with all the great 90's supermodels, Naomi, Cindy, Linda, etc. It's on Netflix Instant so you have almost no excuse to not watch it...
This clip has three of my favorite lines from the whole film:
"It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dogs I think."
"Will you make me gowns?" "Are you kidding me, I'll make you nothing but gowns!"
"Orson, why did you bite me?" "And then he pushed me aside like a little mouse."
Watch this, then go watch Unzipped and make some gowns!
Something about grey, cloudy days make me want to take the day off work, curl up on my couch and watch old movies. Today is one of those days where I would much rather be home watching my favorite, Daddy Long Legs, than at my desk preparing for a Board meeting...
If you haven't seen it, Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 movie with Leslie Caron and the fabulous Fred Astaire. It's the story of an 18 year old French orphan (Leslie Caron) who is discovered by a rich American playboy (Fred Astaire) while he's touring the French countryside. His car breaks down on the side of the road and he catches a ride to the orphanage in hopes that the maintenance man can fix his car. He sees her out the window, teaching the younger children how to spell and is enchanted by her, so he secretly pays her way to come to America and go to college. She never knows who he his, but calls him her "Daddy Long Legs" because she sees his shadow on a building and the shadow has really long legs... Anyway, they eventually meet, fall in love and have lots of incredible dance scenes. Of course, being set in the 1950's, the clothes are gorgeous, but my favorite scene is when Leslie Caron first arrives at school and is surprised by trunks of gorgeous clothes appearing in her dorm room. This needs to be my life... Except for the orphan part of course!
