Creating a Look

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Costume designs by Theadora Van Runkle (pictured above), the award-winning, self-taught costume designer who died Friday at the age of 83.

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie & Clyde

Jacqueline Bisset and Steve McQueen in Bullitt

A Theadora Van Runkle sketch for The Godfather Part II

Marisa Berensen in S.O.B.

Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair

Raquel Welch in Myra Breckinridge

Leigh Taylor-Young and Peter Sellers in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas


I Love You Alice B. Toklas trailer

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Wooooo magazine's Jason Crombie as Joan Didion's butler? Gold.

Get the new Wooooo (featuring interviews with James Franco, Alex Olson, Maura B. Jacobson, Grace Slick, Jane Moseley, MellowHype, Alek Wek, Michael Rapaport, Warren Smith, Les Moonves, Matthew Griffin, and Jay Howell) here. And by 'get it here' we mean get it.

In No Particular Order

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I've been totally snowed under for the last month and a half owing to a new job, so just recently I had a chance to look at a few of the Spring 2012 shows. Some picks from the first 3 that I (somewhat) randomly selected are below – and from a 4th, which came recommended. The critics (well – the one I was reading, at least) seemed a little bored, but I feel like this bodes pretty well for the ladies' upcoming season.

Balenciaga:

Sporty.

Those hats!

I. need. these. pants.

The woman who walks down the street
in this owns the world.
Just my opinion.

Dries Van Noten. As usual, deceptively uncomplicated:

I'm obsessed recently with buttoning shirts
to the collar, can you tell?

I mean, it's almost "Mom," but ...

Dries in the new issue of Dansk:

I do two collections a year, and that's more than enough. There are too many collections, too much fashion, and too many garments in this world.

Duro Olowu; so lovely:

Theyskens' Theory:

Girbaud, anyone?

I have to say that I'm really impressed with how Olivier Theyskens came from what he was doing at Rochas, and then pulls this out so seemingly effortlessly. It's still him, but it's completely adapted and appropriate. It's not an analogy, but for some reason it makes me think of the scene in The Beautiful Fall where Karl Lagerfeld displays his particular genius by drawing (accurately) what every other designer would be showing that season ... an ability to disassociate from your own ego and see the world clearly from someone else's design viewpoint. Or maybe it just looks right because it's what I want to see right now.

via style.com

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Crabbing with my brother last week near Hat Island WA.
(We had two pots down for about an hour and just got three Dungeness, but it's always good times and I have high hopes for Winter crab season.)

Wall Wall

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Agnés Varda: Mur Murs (1980), a documentary on street art and culture in Los Angeles circa 1980.

I remember seeing this guy's work in a Bicycle Motocross Action magazine ad when I was a kid and thinking it was cool... I'll see if I can dig it up.

Anyway... embedding is disabled but you can watch Mur Murs in six parts on YouTube.


(hat-tip egotripland)

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UPDATE: Here's that ad from the BMX magazine:

Murmurations

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A murmuration of starlings arriving at Gretna in the
Scottish Borders on November 1, 2011.
Photos by Owen Humphreys–PA/Landov.

From Time:

No one knows why they do it. Yet each fall, thousands of starlings dance in the twilight above Gretna, Scotland. The birds gather in magical shape-shifting flocks called murmurations, having migrated in the millions from Russia and Scandinavia to escape winter’s bite. Scientists aren’t sure how they do it, either. Even complex algorithmic models haven’t yet explained the starlings’ acrobatics, which rely on the tiny bird’s quicksilver reaction time of under 100 milliseconds to avoid aerial collisions—and predators—in the giant flock. Despite their show of force in the dusky sky, starlings have declined significantly in the UK in recent years, perhaps because of a drop in nesting sites. The birds still roost in several of Britain’s rural pastures, however, settling down to sleep (and chatter) after the evening’s ballet.

See the whole series of photos at Time LightBox.

h/t to Chris & Joel