black & white

Here are a few photos I recently got back. They were taken on my old 70s Pentax on regular old black and white non-professional film but they came out alright.

anna may wong

Anna May Wong acted along side some of Hollywood's heavy-hitters during the 20s and 30s (think Douglas Fairbanks, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich), received great acclaim for her onscreen performances, she even has a star on the Walk of Fame and yet she remains fairly unknown today.

 

 It seems that, despite the fantastic reviews and the accolade, Hollywood was reluctant to give her any honest to goodness starring roles. Even occasionally losing out on Asian roles to her white American contemporaries, her career was clearly a struggle. None the less, she was most definitely a pioneer in her field; the first Chinese American film star and the first Asian American to achieve international stardom at the time. Anna May seems to have taken her work very seriously. For example, when asked if she would ever marry she said: "No, I am wedded to my art."  

She continued to act here and there until the early 1960s but died at only 56 years old. I found out about Anna a while back and had been meaning to do a post on her for months and months but sort of forgot about her. This seems to be a common theme in her world. For more about her visit the anna may wong society.

Below are my favorite images of Anna May (photo-cartoons)

great, aren't they?

(images from flickr)

audrey as coco

be still my heart...



It's in french so I only half understand it but what I do know is that I can't wait to see this!

horror film fashion: the hunger

For round two of horror film fashion I thought I'd go for the villain rather than the victim. Enter Miriam, Catherine Deneuve's creepy yet genteel character in The Hunger. Deneuve plays a 2000 year old Egyptian vampire who still manages to look classy and chic even whilst relieving her lovers of their blood and their livelihood.

I love the splashes of 1940s/50s fashion that many Gothic 1980s movies had (eg: blade runner) and the Hunger is no exception.

earrings, dress & cat-eye sunglasses: f 21- gloves: saks - shoes: bally - jacket: topshop

ring & earrings: f21 - necklace: amazon- dress: vivienne westwood- coat: fendi - clutch: chloe - shoes: oscar de la renta