La Vie En Rose

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Till later! Remember, life is brighter through rose-colored glasses...xRose

Rankin Up There

Lensman Rankin

Just off a long day at Milk Studios in Hollywood onset for Harper's Bazaar. Can't talk yet about who we shot--and I interviewed--for the October "Age" issue. But reclined on the ground much of the day, with his lens pointed at the well-known lovelies under the kleigs, was none other than Rakin .The Brit lensman was one half of the genius team behind Dazed & Confused, the influential magazine he founded with Jefferson Hack what seems like a million years ago, in 1991. He was absolutely lovely and not at all what I expected. And the work? Delivered as advertised. Loved what he got out of today's women.

Photo: From Ether

A Dress I Can't Get Out of My Hair

Just caught an ad-free run of "Shampoo," Warren Beatty's 1975 classic, on TCM.
As well as starring in the film, Beatty gets producing credits. And according to Peter Biskind's recent bio, he had a whole lot more to do with the film.
But I digress. I actually have a VHS tape of it (and I still have the machine to run the tape!). Yet I can always sit through another, spontaneous viewing of it on TV--not in the least due to Anthea Sylbert's costumes for the film.
The pièce de résistance, certainly, is this sequined backless turtleneck that the divinely looking Julie Christie turns up in at the Bistro in Beverly Hills. Of course, half the wow factor is Christie herself.