I was invited to the advance screening of Boardwalk Empire in Leicester Square – the show launches in the UK on the new Sky Atlantic HD channel. It’s set in Atlantic City during the early 20’s at the time of prohibition. The pilot cost $30 million, making it the most expensive pilot in history. I love the menswear - Steve Buscemi looks amazing! The shoes, the men’s socks, the fur coats – it’s all about details. John Dunn, the show’s costume designer uses lots of authentic pieces from rental houses in California. The background actors are dressed in original vintage pieces and often the costumes for the main actors are made from vintage fabric. It’s the early 20’s so the menswear is all about suits and the womenswear is a little less glamorous but still inspirational!
I love going to the theatre, but living in city with so much theatre it’s odd to say, but it’s hard to know what to go and see. By chance I just happend to pass by the Leicester Square Theatre and notice that Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie was performing in Celebrity Autobiography. I couldn’t give this a miss as I adore his character in Ugly Betty and you just get the impression he’s going to be great on stage – and he was. I know so many other fashion people who would have really enjoyed this show!
Eugene Pack’s hit New York show features memoirs of the rich and famous. It’s quite fun and you know you’re in for a good night when Sally Phillips (from Smack The Pony) starts reading Sex by Madonna. There are extracts from Hollywood’s most famous love triangle – Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Eddie Fisher, a reading from of Sylvester Stallone autobiography with Tommy Lee’s Tommy Land and David Hasselhoff’s Don’t Hassel the Hoff including his dilemma playing Jekyll & Hyde!
Dates for the next performances are 8 November, 13 December, 10 January. for more information check out Celebrity Autobiography.
I learn so many good things from TV. I was watching 30 Rock (NBC) when I first learned about the One Minute Dance Party and it just sounded like the most fabulous idea. Crank up your favourite tune, step away from your desk and just let loose for a minute. Just go for it, be as silly and nuts as you can be. After a minute is up go back to work and you’ll be surprised how productive you’ll be!
Skins 3 is coming soon, and the Skins creators are looking for new talent. They’re looking for a writer, director, costume designer, and production designer to join the team. Entrants need to be between 18 and 23 years old and UK based. The closing date for all four competitions is Tuesday December 9th at 6pm. For more information check out e4.com/skins!
Mad Men is a show set in the 1960’s in Manhattan. Life is fun and exciting, men are men and women are women but life is changing. It’s an age of innocence – where pregnant women smoke, dinner is on the table for you when you get home, you have a black house keeper, casual anti-Semitism and sexual harassment are acceptable and a divorcee is sexy & intriguing. Mad Men is all about lives of the men of the Madison Avenue advertising firm Sterling Cooper but you just can’t help but notice the women. They are strong, sexy and provocative and of course they have a fantastic wardrobe. The show is only in it’s second season and you just know that after watching a few episodes you’re going to be vintage shopping!
Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) is a junior copy writer from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Although she looks more sophisticated in the first picture she’s usually a bit more the mousey schoolgirl, wearing blouses and pleated skirts, hiding her fabulous body. She believes that being one of the companies first female copy writers since the war means that her smarts count for something.
Betty Draper (January Jones) – Wife of Don Draper, the Creative Director for the Sterling Cooper ad agency. Betty is the perfect housewife and seems to become more and more perfect as the show progresses. She’s immaculate. She has all the time in the world for perfection: the petticoats, the girdles, the stockings, the slip, the bra and perfect hair. If she’s not in a full skirt and fitted bodice she’s in the perfect sweater and cigarette pants.
Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) is the office manager and she has great assets. She looks like she can break any man: she’s engaged to a doctor and having an affair with Roger Sterling, a partner at Sterling Cooper. Joan is confident and believes that a woman’s sensuality is her strongest device. Joan dresses in jewel colours and her dresses are tight and cut to perfection, showing off every curve!
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I love going to the theatre, but living in city with so much theatre it’s odd to say, but it’s hard to know what to go and see. By chance I just happend to pass by the Leicester Square Theatre and notice that Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie was performing in Celebrity Autobiography. I couldn’t give this a miss as I adore his character in Ugly Betty and you just get the impression he’s going to be great on stage – and he was. I know so many other fashion people who would have really enjoyed this show!
