My Style Icon: Little Edie Beale

Grey Gardens (1975), a documentary film by Albert and David Maysles, reveals a portrait of New York socialites Little Edie Beale and her mother Edith Beale in their decrepit East Hamptons estate.  

A former haute couture model and debutante in the '30s and '40s, Little Edie spent most of her life with her mother as they spiraled into isolation and a world of their own.  The film captures their relationship and a no-frills glimpse at the voyeuristic tendencies of American culture to gape at celebrity and high-society, as if nothing were ever amiss.

A family member of the Beales formed Grey Gardens Collections, a 

collection of vintage jewelry, accessories, journals, and home furnishings, inspired by Little Edie's personal style.

bowie was the man that fell to the earth

Jezebel has a great post on Ola Hudson, the designer behind David Bowie's outfits in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976), also the mother of Slash in Guns 'n Roses.

Betsey Johnson on '60s flair and Edie Sedgwick

An interview with Betsey Johnson on Edie Sedgwick and her irretrievable style borne out of the '60s, with heavy black eye makeup, short tank dresses and tights.

Islamic Fashionista

RIP Yves Saint Laurent

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2008/ysl_betts_multimedia/

joie de vivre

Podcast and slide show in the New Yorker about Godard, Truffaut and the French New Wave.

Both Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut were journalists that wrote for the cinema publication Cahiers du Cinema before they were film directors. I actually own a copy of "Hitchcock", by Truffaut, an interview/film analysis on Alfred Hitchcock that was published in the '80s.

Holly Brubach's column in the New York Times' Style Magazine

Holly Brubach writes about the challenges on the evolving cultural landscape in China from economic development relevant to the luxury goods market:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/16/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=0&pageName=16brubach&