Dressed To Kill

Edith Head was an American costume designer who was nominated for 35 and won eight Oscars starting with The Heiress (1949) and ending with The Sting (1974). This is still a record in its category and the highest amount by any woman. 

 Along the way she had more influence over fashion and the design zeitgeist than any couture house on the planet. You've seen her work. You might not know it but you have. She worked for the Hollywood studios from 1924 all the way up to 1982, dressing icons and creating iconic images in every decade. Difficult to pick a few from her incredible body of work, but I've tried to narrow it down as much as I could! I think my favorite pieces are from What A Way To Go (1964) and everything she ever put Mae West into. Recognize and enjoy. 
Gloria Swanson, Sunset Blvd. 

Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, White Christmas

Grace Kelly, To Catch A Thief

Costume for Ginger Rogers, Lady In The Dark...thousands of sequins, trimmed in mink

Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina

Grace Kelly, To Catch A Thief

Hedy Lamarr, Delilah

Norma Shearer, Marie Antoinette

Liz wearing Edith's periwinkle dream, Oscars 1970. The dress that matched her eyes.

Grace Kelly, Oscars, 1955

The famous gown of Bette Davis from All About Eve, mink trim

Barbara Stanwyck, Ball Of Fire

Natalie Wood, The Great Race

Janet Leigh, Oscars 1960

Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast At Tiffany's

Mae West...inimitable in Edith Head

Mae in Sextette (1978) her last movie. She was in her 80's!!! Look how spectacular Edith Head made her appear.

Shirley MacLaine, What A Way To Go (1964)

Saving my favorite gown of all time until last: You can see Edith's legs holding up Shirley's pink mink. 

Blue Rondo a la Turquoise

So retro and so contemporary at the same time - turquoise, and lashings of it. You can pick out the exact vintage influences whenever the color is put to work, there's a direct ancestry. However, I really adore the way it's being blanketed and reinterpreted in rooms and objects. No vintage shots this time, everything you see is brand new, even if it looks authentic. If you want the short cut, turquoise is your man. Or woman.
Loft lunacy:

 Ball out blue on walls and cabinets

 Vivid velvet

 Fabulada hair

 Anna del Russo's turquoise suitcase

 Craig Bragdy creates a Persian rug at the bottom of a pool

 The Ice Hotel, Quebec

 Isabella Tuch

 The Jam Factory pale turquoise velvet, London

 Kam Tin's cabinet of turquoise stones

 Porcelain sculptures by Kim Joon

 Leandro Elrich creates an 'underwater' room with glass topped water illusion

 Martin Margeila's face of Turquoise

 Teac Retro style Radio and CD player, £199.

Best Foot Forward

I can only imagine what these designers would do with a whole room - anyone who can imagine and create such a work of art from the humble shoe is an across the board genius. They are miniature masterpieces. Without further ado, twelve of the wildest and most radical pieces of footwear to ever grace the planet. 
Dragon shoe:

 The Wolf

Mia Lamore. 18 carat gold heel, gold, onyx and agate bee, hand dyed silk petals.

H.R Geiger, the designer responsible for the Alien films, teams with McQueen

 Prada Cadillac with tail fins

Polyvore butterfly

Dolce & Gabbana black Jacquard with opening window pane to encased jewels.

McQueen's butterfly

Seriously metal boot

The Madonna shoe. Brilliance!

Dolce & Gabbana caged flowers

The inimitable Alexander McQueen, spiked jewels and jet