Completely Cool at the
FWD, Los Angeles
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the Film premiere of "Inglourious Basterds" in Los Angeles. Photo: FWDThat's Tarantino's quirky film foray into World War II, with Pitt in the starring role. As Tarantino told reporters earlier at a press day for the film, "we've been wanting to work with each other for a little while now, and when I was writing this script with Aldo as the main character, Brad has been in my mind for a long time and he's always just been Aldo. It was Brad Pitt and then there was nobody else. I'm usually happy about having a second and a third choice, but not this time."
Tarantino got Pitt to play "this hillbilly, part Indian, who would know a lot about war history and Geronimo's battle plan, who would take a bunch of Jewish American soldiers, go behind enemy lines and do an Apache resistance against the Nazis," which should tell audiences that this is a slightly wacky, very R-rated war film.
No one seemed to worry much about the graphic violence as the movie unspooled at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, especially not Brad's German-born co-star Diane Kruger, who wore a minidress made with black glass fringe and a daringly low-cut open back.
"People are always asking me, 'Well, how is it going to go down in Germany?' People were cheering when we screened it there, because the truth is they've wanted to get rid of Hitler if they could, for years, get it over with for years," she said.
Joining in the cheering at the premiere were Tarantino fans Bridget Fonda, Sarah Silverman, Carla Gugino, Samuel L. Jackson, Tia Carrere, Tony Hawk, Christina Ricci, Jeremy Renner, Cloris Leachman, Maria Menounos, and the other stars of "Basterds" - Eli Roth, Melanie Laurent, B. J. Novak, Christoph Waltz, and Michael Fassbender.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
FWD, New York
FWD110 Model walks the runway at the Calvin Klein show during Spring 2010 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Photo: FWD
Architecture
seemed the key theme that ran through the latest women's ready-to-wear
collection from Calvin Klein on Thursday, Sept. 17, where the globular
forms, biological shapes and technical finishes recalled modernist
building styles.
The house's women's designer Francisco Costa has always been obsessed with volume and form, and his signature materials are frequently pretty high-tech, but the way fabric jutted, twisted and curled around the body in this collection were highly reminiscent of new hotels and corporate headquarters by architects like Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry. Indeed, the pale grays and soft whites used in the show were uncannily similar to the IAC headquarters on the Hudson River, designed by Gehry.
But what matters more than their inspiration is the clothes quality and style, and this collection had lots of ingenious ideas - like their striking silhouettes, where shoulders blossomed, jackets flared and hemlines drooped. They had an striking sense of the new, without being too bizarrely novel, and you just knew that any of the front-row stars - Eva Mendes, Thandie Newton, Molly Sims and Kerry Washington all attended - would happily walk out of the show space in most of the looks on the runway.
In terms of materials, this was one of the most innovative shows in New York this season, boasting stunning mixes of crinkled silk, metal mohair and lots of needle punched organza. Yet, while the fabrics looked stiff, they never appeared uncomfortable.
Costa also introduced some great new Geisha-like shoes, where sandals straps sat above long block soles. These worked particularly well with some beautiful washed silk A-line dresses in soft hues of citron or coral.
FWD110 Model walks the runway at the Calvin Klein show during Spring 2010 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Photo: FWDThe house's women's designer Francisco Costa has always been obsessed with volume and form, and his signature materials are frequently pretty high-tech, but the way fabric jutted, twisted and curled around the body in this collection were highly reminiscent of new hotels and corporate headquarters by architects like Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry. Indeed, the pale grays and soft whites used in the show were uncannily similar to the IAC headquarters on the Hudson River, designed by Gehry.
But what matters more than their inspiration is the clothes quality and style, and this collection had lots of ingenious ideas - like their striking silhouettes, where shoulders blossomed, jackets flared and hemlines drooped. They had an striking sense of the new, without being too bizarrely novel, and you just knew that any of the front-row stars - Eva Mendes, Thandie Newton, Molly Sims and Kerry Washington all attended - would happily walk out of the show space in most of the looks on the runway.
In terms of materials, this was one of the most innovative shows in New York this season, boasting stunning mixes of crinkled silk, metal mohair and lots of needle punched organza. Yet, while the fabrics looked stiff, they never appeared uncomfortable.
Costa also introduced some great new Geisha-like shoes, where sandals straps sat above long block soles. These worked particularly well with some beautiful washed silk A-line dresses in soft hues of citron or coral.
