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A Christie’ s employee wears a Pierre Cardin “satellite cape” valued at GBP 4,000-6,000 (approx 5,000-7,500 euros/6,300-9,440 USD) at a press viewing of items from the “Resurrection: Avant Garde Fashion” auction at Christie’s in London. The auction takes place on October 30 and features many items from the pioneering resource for vintage and historic modern clothing; “Resurrection”.

These pieces look amazingly current.  Were the designers ahead of their time or are always looking back for inspiration?  Probbaly a little bit of both.  If you’re hard up for cash, perhaps this would be a good time to rummage through your closet to see if you have pieces by the designers in the Christie’s auction catalog, such as Courreges, Hermes, Cardin, Rudi Gernreich, Ossie Clark and Seditionaries.  The auction is likely to drive prices up on vintage items by these designers on Ebay in a ripple effect.  See some pieces by the featured designers in action from our archive here.

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Apartment Therapy noted today that the November issue of Architectural Digest features the homes of both Diane Keaton and  Woody Allen.  This former couple has been on our minds lately because the book: Woody Allen At Work, The Photographs Of Brian Hamill has been floating around the office.  Thumbing through pages of beautiful on set photographs shot from Annie Hall to Mighty Aphrodite has reminded us of the intriguing, long-term relationships Allen has had with his leading ladies, Mia Farrow and Diane Keaton and has inspired some of us to re-watch all of his films in order.

Keaton lives in an airy, historically significant,  Spanish house built in the 1920’s in Beverly Hills, which is very appropriate given the fact she is a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  Read her thoughts on the levelling of  historic Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles here.   Allen lives with Soon-Yi Previn in a cozy, but expansive Victorian apartment on New York City’s Upper East Side.  Both homes were designed by Stephen Shadley and highlight healthy book libraries,  otherwise, they are vastly different in style.  See Architectural Digest’s features here (Allen) and here (Keaton).

Brian Hamill has photographed Allen’s productions and private life extensively.  To see some of Hamill’s Woody-er work and the couple in their day, see this lightbox.

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Today the new Bob Dylan album, Tell Tale Signs , a collection of rare and unreleased material from 1989-2006 was released to rave reviews.  The album is part of the Bootleg Series, Volume 8 and received a glowing write-up with a four and a half star rating from Rolling Stone Magazine.

A bearded man with a preference for plaids sits next to me at the office.  His name is Mitch Blank.  If you watched the closing credits for Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home, you might have chuckled at his credit: “Hypnotist Collector”, a reference to lyrics in “She Belongs to Me”.  The credit is appropriate because Blank is afterall, “THE world’s premier Dylan archivist”.  Mitch Blank was instrumental in selecting the songs that appeared on the (three) discs that comprise Tell Tale Signs and he is mentioned in the liner notes (pg.s 4-5).

Getty Images is the proud distributor of Bob Dylan imagery spanning the musician’s career from the late 1950’s to the present.  You may notice some material in the lightbox is from “Blank Archives”.  That’s Mitch too!

Blank also consulted on the recently published, A Freewheelin’ Time, written by Dylan’s one time girlfriend, Suze Rotolo.  You know her as the gal walking down Jones Street in the West Village under Dylan’s Arm on the Cover of 1963’s Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.  What better time than now to take these two works in tandem?

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Today, actress Anna Karina attended a Master Class during the 13th Pusan International Film Festival at Grand Hotel in Busan, South Korea. The biggest film festival in Asia showcases 315 films from 60 countries.

Then, in 1969, Karina was on set shooting Justine, directed by George Cukor and Joseph Strick and she had been divorced from director Jean-Luc Godard for two years.  This seven year romance was accompanied by her participation in at least six of his films, including Une femme est une femme and Pierrot le fou.   Karina had a unenviable childhood, traded by grandparents, foster parents and her mother.  She started her career as an actress and singer in her native Denmark, later moving to Paris at 17 where she befriended Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and began modeling.  Karina has always had a bewitching presence on screen and anyone who relishes the modish styles of the mid to late 1960’s will appreciate the bohemian tinged glamour Karina embraces.  Let her filmography guide your vintage inspiration this weekend.  Let her photos take you back now.

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Here, accessories are the great equalizer, it seems. They can almost transform Katie Holmes on the street in New York this weekend into Jackie Kennedy-Onassis when over-sized sunglasses are paired with a headscarf. Zoe Kravitz at the Chanel show in Paris last week echoes Bianca Jagger with the help of a beret and shades. Recipe to convert Jane Doe into “suspected starlet”?  Combining the ultimate trio of sunglasses, headscarf and trench coat.  What is your accessory secret weapon?

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Your stovepipe jeans feel a little tight don’t they?  I know mine do and it’s not because I’ve had too many cookies from the “snack table”.  I’ve been looking at pages of high-waisted, loose as a goose, slouchy trousers from Fashion Weeks in New York, London and Milan and anything tight looks passe to my eyes.

For most women, the thought of flowy pants conjures the image a middle-aged healer from Sedona.   My mom called an extreme variety of the loose, dropped crotch pants people wore in the late 80’s: sh_t bag pants.  I’m not sure anyone would endorse MC hammer drop-crotch balloon pants now, but the nuanced “new loose” looks modern, comfortable and even cool.  Designers such as Moschino Cheap & Chic, Jaeger, Blumarine, Paul Smith and Sportmax have banished our perception of breezy silk trousers as matronly.  Will you be opting for more flow this season?  See these breezy pants in action in the spring/summer 2009 collections here.

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Another cool styling execution swept runways at Japan’s fashion week for Spring/Summer 2009 collections. Everlasting Sprout, a line designed by Keiichi Muramatsu and Noriko Seki, showed silhouettes reminiscent of ballerinas, but in hooped crochet, over flimsy slips. Wabi-sabi was at play here: relaxed, over sized separates with baggy pockets in a bleached out palette had a resort meets hippie-mom quality.  white-grey wigs cloned the models and gave the collection a courtly look.  Earlier in the week, Mikio Sakabe’s collection used blond mop top wigs to unite models into an army of uniformity.  Have a look at the wigged out runway.

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