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Happy Birthday

Criticism isn’t an artistic creation. It will always be inferior.
-Jean Luc Godard

Happy Birthday, Godard.

Icon - Jane Birkin

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

--Jane Birkin via birkingainsbourgdoillon.

Icon - Sofia Coppola

I’m not a girl, nor will I ever be. But if I were a girl, I’d like to be Sofia. She’s very feminine. And she’s very quiet. But then, her movie’s done. She loves fashion and music and art and film, and she is able to combine them in a way that all seems to be quite natural. There’s nothing forced about it — she doesn’t have that gritty hunger to prove what she knows. There are certain people who have confidence and absolutely adore themselves and, five minutes around them, I just want to not be around them anymore. Sofia is confident in such a lovely way. It’s not aggressive or arrogant, and that’s a gift. I’m sure she works quite hard, but it all seems effortless.

--Marc Jacobs on Sofia Coppola via sofiacoppola

Icon - Alexa Chung

My gripe is that a lot of young girls aspire to be super sexy and I don’t see why. What is attractive or alluring is not necessarily how much flesh you bare, but how good your brain is, or how much charm you have. Fake tan, fake tits - this porn thing has become embedded in our culture. It’s a shame. Maybe it’s because I’m a country girl, but I hate it when women only dress for men. I think it’s more exciting to reveal less. Maybe wear layers of smocks and then have super-sexy underwear on. Dress like a pilgrim on the outside and a whore underneath.

--Alexa Chung

Via wastoldtheredbecake.

Election Day

Jane Russell, 1956
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Icon - Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1977)

“She came in,and the costume lady [Nancy McArdle] on ‘Annie Hall’ said, ‘Tell her not wear that. She can’t wear that. It’s so crazy.’ And I said “Leave her. She’s a genius. Let’s just leave her alone and let her wear what she wants.”

--Woody Allen remembers Annie Hall with Diane Keaton

Via Silence is Golden.

Icon - The Cool Nerd

A Bryn Mawr student from the 1950s. From LIFE Magazine via Library Land.

Icon - Princess Grace Kelly

You just trusted Grace´s beauty, you knew that it had nothing to do with clothes or makeup. In New York she always came to my studio in a pullover, a skirt and slippers. In Jamaica, there was no difference: pulled-back hair, a simple shirt. That was Grace - natural, unpretentious.