British artist-designer Patrick Ian Hartley makes what he calls "face corsets," an apt descriptor for what's essentially custom neck art in carefully molded leather, silk, and PVC — a lot of PVC. And you thought 17th-century ruffs were the height of neck art.
Naturally, Lady Gaga is a client, as well as heaps of other musicians looking for something a little exotic to wear in their music videos. Haute magazines, too, are stampeding to Hartley's studio, hunting for that certain something to help their editorials stand out — literally stand out, like the partial exoskeletons you see here. They may look uncomfortable, but stiletto heels probably also looked uncomfortable, before they were everywhere.
Saint Laurent, the biopic we've been breathlessly posting about,
has finally popped out a trailer. (This is separate from a concurrent
film, Yves Saint Laurent, which seems to be a more anodyne look at his
early years at Dior.) And judging from fleeting glimpses of Gaspard
Ulliel as the young to middle-aged designer and Louis Garrel as his
forbidden boytoy Jacques de Bascher, the final feature film, when it
hits French theaters in September, is going to be full of all le smoking hot sex scenes you could ask for — nay, demand.
The
trailer has been a long time coming, as the film already premiered at
Cannes (competing for the Palme d'Or prize). And it isn't subtitled, but
you don't need to know French to recognize on-screen sizzle, even if it
is a little melodramatic. Willem Dafoe (as Andy Warhol) and Léa Seydoux
(as Saint Laurent's muse, Loulou de la Falaise) will no doubt balance
out the histrionics. Indeed, the fact that it isn't authorized — by the
brand in its current state — suggests that a fair amount artistic
license has been utilized. All the sexier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W441yvk2xj0
