‘Answered Prayers’ was meant to be famous American writer Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of NYC’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through never before heard audio archive and interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, this intimate documentary – ’The Capote Tapes’ – reveals the rise and fall of America’s most iconic gay writer. In the 35 years since his death, Truman Capote has remained a source of curiosity to many. His works, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, have maintained their place in the literary canon of great twentieth-century American literature and still…
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Juana Martín presents her SS21 collection « Córdoba, Patrimonio de Moda» on January 27th during Paris Couture Fashion Week, in collaboration with UNESCO and its World Heritage Sites. The four places in Cordoba designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: The Mosque of Cordoba, The Old Town, The Patios Cordobeses and The Medina-Azahara have served as a source of inspiration for Juana Martín for the elaboration of her designs. Once again, the city where she was born and its unique and emblematic places are references for the designer. “We can say that they are engraved in my DNA”, said Juana. For…
Daughter of Psyche and Eros, the goddess Voluptas inspired me a woman whose beauty is striking and emotional, at once earthly and celestial. To clothe her, I let my desire for a cinematographic and poetic allure, for a moving architecture, for structured flow. To highlight her sensuality, I wanted feminine lines with my masculine twist, soft and voluptuous materials, of emblematic drapes. I worked contrasting colours with relish to reveal her multiple facets, cutting midnight and blacks with springtime pastels, floral mirages and sparkling sequins. This collection is my amorous gaze for divine women. Long midnight blue crepe sheath, embroidered…
Mo (Haaz Sleiman) is a doctor who lives a Muslim lifestyle in West Hollywood. After a heartbreaking breakup, Mo is learning to navigate life as a single man, luckily with the support of his overbearing but very protective mother (Ruja Gardenier). Then enter Kal. Kal (an excellent Michael Cassidy), a very good looking and an All-American guy surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan. As they learn more about each other, they fall in love over what they have in common and, what they don’t. But Kal has lots of family issues,…
Nana Gotti’s The Future is Female pays homage to 80’s power dressing. This fierce collection showcases vegan-friendly and sustainable fabrics celebrated for their luxurious qualities. AW21’s sartorial offering is a bold flurry of colour and texture. Every piece makes a formidable statement with its ethereal draping or masterful tailoring. Shop faux leather skirts with sarong-style ties and impeccable trench coats with sumptuous linings. Elevate your evenings with ankle skimming dresses or update your workwear with chic shirts and trousers. Jewel hues mingle with citrus shades whilst monochrome tones deliver classic neutrality. Pussy bows, Grecian draping, and billowing sleeves are offset…
Arturo Obegero entered the official Paris Fashion Week calendar for the Autumn Winter 2021 season, nine months following the launch of his eponymous label. He is presenting a collection acting as a personal message to the fashion world and a tribute to performers. PURO TEATRO is the culmination of the designer’s emotional state, and the feelings he’s been willing to express. Bringing fantasy to overcome the grim reality of inequalities, political and economic uncertainty, and the pandemic is the essential message of the collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkDunhRlpjA&ab_channel=ArturoObegero “The world has become the biggest stage, and everyone performs for attention and validation. I…
Four women work together in a library dedicated to genocide, but when a couple of them start to receive death threats, the work situation gets tense, almost explosive, in the new psychological thriller ‘The Exception.’ Iben (Danica Curcic) and Malene (Amanda Colin) sit right across each other at the library, and are best friends in and out of work. They both receive a death threat in an email and initially suspect a war crime criminal who is still alive – one that may or may not have a close connection to one of the employees. Meanwhile Anne-Lise (Sidse Babett Knudsen),…
It is a collection that reads like an open book. A novel in which I am the main character, and whose scenes take place in Paris, my adopted city for 9 years, depicted in all its shades of grey, from slate to taupe, through the pearl. These are the hues that dominate my daily wardrobe, tinting my every activity with romanticism and cheerfulness. This collection is marked by interchangeable tailored pieces (coats, jackets, and cropped pea coats) in wool, occasionally mixed with a shiny and waterproof technological fabric for a subtle blend of tradition and modernity. With their broad shoulders…
Like London, Paris and Milan Fashion Week, the event that celebrates oriental haute couture will return to the web from January 24 to 28, 2021, with the first digital oriental fashion week Due to the pandemic, the fashion industry is reinventing itself and changing its habits. It’s time for innovation and the Oriental Fashion Show will be no exception to this new rule. The event, which usually crisscrosses the world, from stopover to stopover, in order to retrace the mixed history of oriental fashion and highlight an often unrecognized heritage, this time will explore the field of the virtual in…
For this season, OTEYZA uses the elements in nature as the source and origin of its creations. Such elements have always been important to the house, hence the work on natural raw materials such as Spanish merino wool or organic cotton. The FW21/22 collection ‘ARCADIA’ is a land of humanism and freedom, of deep values and profound creation, in which man is still in balance with nature, in time and space, and on which OTEYZA bases all his discourse and story of tradition and avant-garde. The collection has been conceived from materials with greater structure, losing the security of symmetries and enhancing…