Inspirations For The Week
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As a child visiting my Turkish family I would look longingly at the severe white collared, black outfit uniform worn by my cousins to school. It hinted at it’s post-revolution modernity and 1920’s roots.
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Rather like the more expensive version Chanel would create season on season in her house’s homage to the monochrome outfits worn by the nuns at her childhood orphanage.
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Which leads me to considering some 1920’s glamour: both literal and in the mood, of, as in this 70’s doing 20’s beauty from the original Great Gatsby film starring Mia Farrow…:-
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Thinking of the shoot I am prepping for the lovely magazine Rika I ponder the sheer originality of Nijinsky: from his gestures, to his balletic prowess, as well as the force of his costumes for The Ballets Russes:-
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And then as I look out across the London skyline, as day turns to dusk, I gaze stage left over to here:-
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