Thursday, November 18, 2010

Grace Kelly has a Mondrian mini dress by the young Yves Saint Laurent

No-nonsense loveliness: Grace Kelly
 
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No-nonsense loveliness: Grace Kelly  Photo: Rex Features
In those glass boxes, usually not too big stimulation. Fabric protection and display may have come a long way since I first started bothering Victoria and Albert museum childhood, but even the most cordial restore dress is really only shed skin beautiful, past creatures, through it. A tailor's virtual may show costume cut, but it cannot pull them skirt in motion or sasha vujacic silk lining.
This V&A new grace kelly: fashion idol exhibition without this problem, because 40 robes exhibit moviegoer brought dramatic effect, with the actress memories of a group of person. And those sad person could forget how beautiful kelly, how easily, style is decorous, spread in the space, she shimmered have lovely small circle of movies. In Hollywood, eh kindness grace at the altar, the actor; in Monaco: The bride and the princess.
The princess's wardrobe several times have after her death in 1982 V&A show different frock - fests obvious and recently in Paris, Moscow, roma and Monaco, bringing many new dress and gems to celebrate her spread and modern style magazine and taste.
Grace kelly acting career was more than you think, cram nearly 11 films, 1955 Oscar for best actress for country girl, only 5 years ago her life changed direction in 1956 when she announced their engagement to Monaco HRH prince Rainier (" calm Raynyay "for the obvious Philadelphia bulletin help explain night). This is a fairy tale, but kelly awarded as she gained various identity. From her dowry 2million usd construction tycoon father is a popular liquidity of the lens, for the cash-strapped Grimaldis Hollywood princess put their small on the map - well, almost. Kelly's mother while believe son-in-law, the princes of Morocco.
Helen rose, who designed for high society, kelly dress her last film, formal MGM entrust create wedding dress form the core concept V&A exhibition. The company has the tradition, for any bride wedding provide contract - Elizabeth Taylor's two goals, some couturiers are better able to offer kinds of needlewomanship royal wedding dress and requirements. 35 beaders army's work, and lacemakers spent six weeks to create demure style faille ivory silk and roses dot lace. This dress is a work of art with rework each seam lace appear part design. And small. Edith head, in all three kelly wearing her Hitchcock movie, once said her waist is too small (about praise with faint damns), and intense bought her endowment and prevent reporters sent to cover the wedding has almost 20in narrow her waistline.
MGM made its departing star a present of her High Society wardrobe and she wore the grey organza number a lot in her new home, but then Kelly was a no-nonsense dresser who had never had any qualms about clothes being “last season”. This refreshing and unflashy approach went down particularly well with British women – as the magazines on display testify. Until the mid-Sixties British fashion imagery was dominated by models like Wenda Rogerson and Barbara Goalen, who were styled to look as if they were an Honourable Mrs Whatsit en route to a smart lunch party. Kelly, with her understated tailormades, low-maintenance coiffure and trademark gloves, seemed to have stepped from the pages of Tatler, a starry endorsement of an existing bourgeois ideal.

Kelly’s trousseau had been a Who’s Who of American fashion but her style altered when she switched her loyalties to Paris: Dior; Balenciaga; Chanel. Her Sixties wardrobe saw some surprisingly bold choices, including a Mondrian mini dress by the young Yves Saint Laurent in 1965, but three children and three meals a day eventually took their toll. The lean, sporty suits morphed into mumsy tweeds and the satin sheaths of the Hollywood years gave way to a series of psychedelic loose covers such as the sunflower-printed Margot Leadbeater monstrosity by Marc Bohan in the Dior section of the display.

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