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Note - March 9 - Still working on it!!! I'll be posting some new photos, paintings, and videos tonight!
I shall announce it upon my profiles... ~ The Fashioniste ~

“BaD-As$ BLoNde BiKeR CHicKs”
~ Just 2 of 'em, and it's nothing TOO scandalous... ~ Posted February 25 @ 12:30 PM ~

WHOA!!!! Check that out! Nice! In terms of texture, that is. I mean, they ARE pretty close!

On the left: Claudia Schiffer in a Versace ad by Irving Penn, for Fall/Winter 1992.
On the right: Brigitte Bardot on the cover of a Greek movie magazine, circa 1970.

And another...

Bardot on the cover of the Yugoslavian magazine Filmski Svet (Film World), March 12, 1970.

Info:

The full-size version of the black jacket Versace ad is here, and the red jacket one is here.
And here are the sources of the two Bardot magazine covers:
the Fashion Spot forum's Bardot picture thread (the latest page as of this posting)
and the version I posted of this other picture is slightly cropped and sharpened:
the Magazine-Covers.net Bardot series, gallery # 4

Comparisons:

In August 2009, British Vogue debunked the apparent misconception that Karl Lagerfeld had called Claudia Schiffer "the new Bardot," though it is done is rather confusing way, quoting him as saying: "When she started out, people thought she was a kind of new Bardot. In fact, she was not. I have always thought she was very different from any other girl. She had, and still has, a unique éclat, as the French say." (link) Maybe, however, he was actually using the German translation of the French word, which is written Eklat, but still pronounced the same way as the the French (and the English) version -- that is, "ay-klah." (link, with audio samples)

Furthermore, see this, from the December 31, 1990 issue of People magazine:
> Says Chanel designer and Schiffer fan Karl Lagerfeld, "She's beyond fashion." For her part, Schiffer, 21, would like you to know at least three things: 1) She is flattered by frequent comparisons with Brigitte Bardot, "but to say I'm the new Bardot is not correct. Everybody is different"; 2) She really wants to be a lawyer;
and 3) She never does anything "deliberately sexy." < (link)

Éclat is defined variously as an ostentatious display; a dazzling effect; acclaim; renown; and notoriety.
For example, the American novelist Louisa May Alcott wrote of a female character: "All she needs is a year or two at a fashionable finishing school, so that at eighteen she can come out with éclat" (Eight Cousins, 1875).

Well, this fashion model was actually discovered at 17, but still finished her education before beginning her career. So, WHAT was the 2nd German translation on that list again? -
http://www.dict.cc/?s=%E9clat

But really, as I said at the beginning, nothing so scandalous here...but still ostentatious and dazzling.

Anyway, this here is a good rock song – the lyrics, in both German and English, are in
the Description; just click "more info." Spider Murphy Gang - "Skandal Im Sperrbezirk" –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lGwr_g6hks&fmt=18

More soon!!!
~ The Fashioniste ~

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“Music Video Style-Alikes!”
Here are three -- and I have more that I am gathering!!
~ Posted Tuesday, February 16 @ 10:30 AM ~

Music videos featuring singers wearing tight red pants:

Kate Bush – "Moving" (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWgPt3yF2I&fmt=18

Q-Feel – “Dancing in Heaven" (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOKPRqIEwc&fmt=18

Red Hot Chili Peppers – "By the Way" (2002) @ 3:21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfyjwChuNU&fmt=18

Music videos featuring a sink faucet with metal cross handles, dripping water:

Soft Cell - Bedsitter (1981) @ 0:01, 2:01, and 3:23 shows the result
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaIhDLb_NE&fmt=18

Bauhaus - "She's in Parties" (1983) @ 1:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VyWNDxQQxM&fmt=18

U2 - "Numb" (1993) @ 0:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lbiS1fris&fmt=18

Music videos featuring arcade games, and what those games are:

Rush – “Subdivisions” (1982)
@ 4:35 – Tempest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9Ycq64Gy4&fmt=18
Tempest info:
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=tempest-model-136002&page=detail&id=2865

Joachim Witt – “Tri Tra Trulalla” (1982) (the song starts at 0:50)
@ 0:14 – Defender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdqZb_MaKuI&fmt=18
Defender info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_%28video_game%29

Depeche Mode – “Get the Balance Right” (1983)
@ 0:48 - Super Earth Invasion, then Galaxian, @ 1:10 - Cosmic Guerilla, and
@ 1:14 - Space Invaders
Click SD for higher quality (yes, it’s confusing, since HQ is lower-quality)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9d5ku_depeche-mode-get-the-balance-right_music
Super Earth Invasion info:
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=super-earth-invasion&page=detail&id=2718
Galaxian info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxian
Cosmic Guerilla info:
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=cosmic-guerilla&page=detail&id=509
Space Invaders info -- note the monster on the cabinet, same as in the video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
And a little historical note about that game:
> "Space Invaders was so popular in Japan that it caused a yen shortage and more coins had to be minted. Many regular produce and goods stores in Japan removed their products and converted into Space Invaders parlors overnight, complete with giant speakers broadcasting the 'thump-thump-thump' of the marching invaders. A true classic in every sense of the word."
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=space-invaders&page=detail&id=2537

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The first look from the Alexander McQueen, Spring 2010 runway show.

Lee Alexander McQueen: “The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.”

Speaking about his creative process:
“It’s always pushing it to the limit, the extreme limit, even if you have to re-edit it down to a certain level; but to me, push it as far as we can… If I start off weak, I can’t go above, but if I start off high, then I can re-edit it down. And I’ve suffered from that as well with collections, where I’ve pushed it so far that it’s unattainable in the mind of the people that’s viewing it, and that’s why I like control.”

Interviewer: “What’s the hardest thing to achieve in fashion?”
McQueen: “Evolution, keep on pushing… Making clothes that are not part of a wardrobe, but part of a person."

Here is the interview and the runway show:
http://alexandermcqueenlive.showstudio.com/

And here is the runway showon YouTube, if you want to save it to your Favorites -- the sound on the video doesn't start until 0:17 (and the "&fmt=22" in the link means HD) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrrJaa1-ysk&fmt=22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjMmBIebIE&fmt=22

And this is the interview on YouTube - that first quote is from Part 1, and the 2nd and 3rd
are from Part 2 of this 3-part version of it:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Stylistaonline#p/u/2/M8CHq6Ck92k

22 of his collections are featured on Style.com:
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/designerdirectory/AMCQUEEN/seasons/

Truly one of the best designers ever. As just as a side-note: on the mere 90 pages of this very site, McQueen's work has been featured some 36 times, as indexed on this Google results page - you can go to any of those pages and use Ctrl+F(ind) to see just a few of the ways in which he proved himself to be one of the defining figures in the world of modern -- and futuristic! -- fashion design.
And there is certainly more of it that I will be posting here...!

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January 26th - Two quick things!

~ 1 ~

The two perspectives on romance -
On one side of the argument are these two points:
1.
The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion we feel than from the passion we inspire.
Le plaisir de l'amour est d'aimer; et l'on est plus heureux par la passion que l'on a que par celle que l'on donne.
-François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer, insight # 259, Maxims (Maximes), 1665.
2.
The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
-William Somerset Maugham, early 19th-century British writer

And on the other side are these two points:
1.
Love – that's good, but there's something better – to be loved.
Kochać – to już dobrze, ale jest jeszcze coś lepszego – to być kochanym.
-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist, The Polaniecki Family (Rodzina Połanieckich), 1895.
2.

That's Australian singer Sabrina Batshon, singing the 1948 Nat King Cole song, “Nature Boy," in her audition for the seventh season of “Australian Idol,” in August 2009. As a contestant, she made it to the top ten.

Source info:
Wikiquote: Henryk Sienkiewicz quotations:
Google-translated from Polish to English (about 85% accurate) -
And here is the (actual) English Wikiquote page, with many longer quotes:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz

Wikiquote: François de La Rochefoucauld:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld
Full series of the Maxims, in French:
Google-translated from French to English (choose your own language at the top, though it only translates up to # 306!)
Here is one human-made English translation - if you scroll down 1/5 the page, you'll see them, they are numbered, and then if you scroll much further down, you'll see an useful index of topics:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm
I've never recommended a book here, but this is the most brilliant "jokebook" I've ever read (over and over) -
http://www.amazon.com/Maxims-Penguin-Classics-Rochefoucauld/dp/014044095X

Wikiquote: W. Somerset Maugham:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Somerset_Maugham

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American actress Taylor Momsen in New York City, February 2009 - yes, the picture has been tinted so that the overall colors match the dress in the painting, which is the portrait “La Sargantaine” by Catalan painter Ramon Casas i Carbó, circa 1907, which I have also cropped and brightened...

...and here are the originals:

Okay, that is all for the MOMENT!!

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-> Check out my interview at Fashion Zest! <-
1 page, 6 questions, and everything I said is there! Posted November 30, 2009:
http://www.fashionzest.com/interview/todd-the-fashioniste/
To translate it from English into any of 50 different languages,
just copy and paste the above URL into where it says "Translate a web page":
Google Translation homepage

“A Lovely-Smelling Theme...”
The pictures do the talking here, so scroll down slowly!
And don't worry, all the information is at the end. ;)
~ Posted Friday, November 27 @ 8 PM ~

The theme here, of course, was pictures of women with one armpit angled toward the camera.

Yup, scroll back up and get a second look ;D and if you happen to be a marketing executive at a deodorant company and want to use any of those pictures, OR if you're just interested in knowing who's who, here's the info! —>

1. A model in a fruit-printed halter-dress, on the cover of the January 1, 1940 issue of US Vogue.
2. American model Erin Wasson at the Alexander McQueen, Spring 2004 runway show.
3. Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista on the cover of German Vogue, April 1995.
4. American actress, singer, and model Marilyn Monroe in February 1956.
5. Italian singer Sabrina Salerno, from the scandalous video for her hit single “Boys,” 1987. (I’ll give you the link to the highest-quality upload on YouTube in just a moment.) You would be absolutely right to assume that I had to summon my entire knowledge of Fine Art, and of composition, form, and perspective, in order to create those two animated gifs. (They were made using the website gickr.com.)
6. Colorized picture of Marilyn from the same photo session as the other picture.

This update is not yet completed, but I did want to present this part of it, since I am so very pleased with how it looks, and I hope you like it as well (are you distracted by what you see above this? then scroll down a little more! ok, good). The rest of it will be posted very soon. I’ve spent much of the past month gathering new material, as well as working on some other projects which I will be linking from here at some time over the next week or two. I am teaching myself how to do all these Internetic things, so there is a sort of learning curve, but really, I have a certain level of appreciation for many types of curves...AS IF YOU COULDN'T TELL!! XDDD Well, you’ll get to see what everything is all about, and in the meantime, Enjoy... (and trust me when I say that THIS was one of the reasons that YouTube introduced High(er) Quality) ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytPa_IS5CaY&fmt=18

Thank you!
~ The Fashioniste ~

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