Hello, tailor.: Chinese steampunk action movie; superhero costumes; beautiful menswear; Julia Roberts, Evil Queen; catwalk makeup.

Saturday, 8 October 2011

A new black-and-white silent film, set in the jazz age: The Artist (via The Oncoming Hope).

Couture-style redesigns of X-Men costumes from artblog Project: Rooftop. (I love it when people link me to this kind of thing. Water-colour paintings of X-Men: YOU KNOW ME SO WELL.)
In a similar vein: Superheroes in classic art, from How To Be A Retronaut.
This film looks STUNNING: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. The visual beauty of The Fall in what is described as "Sherlock Holmes meets Crouching Tiger", a Chinese steampunk story involving... well, I can't really tell aside from lots of awesome action sequences, a female martial-arts expert, some kind of super-sleuth, a dastardly plot, and dubstep music. So, basically... what is not to love?
Menswear crush: Hackett Autumn/Winter 2011 lookbook. SO MANY AWESOME SUITS!

Another thing sent to me on Twitter: Jugend und Tolheit, a 1913 film about a woman who crossdresses and joins the army in order to be close to the man she loves. Ffff, I want to see this!
BEAUTIFUL NONSENSE: Lily Collins and Julia Roberts as Snow White and the Evil Queen. These gowns are perfectly cartoonish. Also, is that one of Giles Deacon's Spring/Summer 2012 swan hats?
Model-Morphosis. Photos of models with a slider to see their faces before and after catwalk makeup has been applied. I was actually surprised to see how little makeup they often seem to be wearing!

Christine8 October 2011 07:10
I hope the actual movie features some dubstep.
I love historical kung-fu movies. And Andy Lau.
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Sherri8 October 2011 08:08
I'm going to see Detective Dee on Monday! Yay!!
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hellotailor8 October 2011 08:27
ME TOO. but i doubt it. it'll probably be all sweeping orchestral soundtracks. BUT A DUBSTEP SOUNDTRACK WOULD BE SO AWESOME. they should actually just have that in the sherlock holmes movies too.
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hellotailor8 October 2011 08:29
JEALOUS!!! it seems to have come out in the uk about a week ago but i can't find any showings.
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Christine9 October 2011 08:08
If Sherlock had RDJ kickboxing to dubstep beats that would be EPIC.
Have you heard Downton dubstep?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXamyvRbjas
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hellotailor10 October 2011 00:15
omg... THIS IS AMAZING. :DDDDD holy shit. (now i really hope someone somewhere has made a Holmes fanvid with some really badass Chase & Status or something. IT'S LONDON, OK. YES. RIGHT.
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