Italian designer claims Hitchcock's women as inspiration for latest collection
Here's the link:
https://www.philosophyofficial.com/eeu_en/world-of/fall-winter-2024.html
Here's the link:
https://www.philosophyofficial.com/eeu_en/world-of/fall-winter-2024.html
Hmm..I can't really see it myself, because I can't really see a "direct" connection to the more famous Hitchcock women costumes.
I would pick these as those:
Grace Kelly's outfits in Rear Window
Grace Kelly's outfits in To Catch A Thief(ESPECIALLY that giant gold gown at the end.)
Doris Day's gray suitdress in The Man Who Knew Too Much '56(so clearly OF 1956 and yet boxy and matronly to me now.)
Kim Novak's gray suitdress (as Madeleine) in Vertigo(pretty much Doris Day's gray suitdress from Man '56 but a little bit more curve-showing.)
Kim Novak's sweater(as Judy) in Vertigo (a weird one -- but she goes braless.)
Eva Marie Saint's white blouse/tight black skirt in North by Northwest
Eva Marie Saint's black and red dress for the auction in North by Northwest
Eva Marie Saint's orange suitdress for the Mount Rushmore climax in North by Northwest(chosen by Hitchcock so we could see her in the dark blue night.)
Janet Leigh wearing Saint's white blouse/tight black skirt in the beginning of Psycho(I think this is a pert, sexy and modern outfit on both Saint and Leigh.)
Janet Leigh's longer worn (until death) and more iconic gray wool suitdress(in black and white) in Psycho. (For her drive; to meet Norman.)
Tippi Hedren's iconic green suit in The Birds(sort of the female counterpart to Cary Grant's silver-gray suit in North by Northwest.) Its like the whole color scheme of The Birds (the green hills of Bodega Bay, the turquoise color of cars and trucks) is keyed to Hedren's outfit.
Tippi Hedren's NON-iconic , tight black suit for the first scene in the movie(sparring with Rod Taylor.)
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And I kind of feel like stopping there, except I will skip to:
Topaz: Karin Dor's purple -- robe? dress? -- that flows outward like a pool of blood as she succumbs to a gunshot wound.
Frenzy: Barbara Leigh Hunt's green body-covering dress -- no cleavage visible at all. Psycho rapist Bob Rusk has to rip the dress open to see the goods.
Anna Massey's bright, BRIGHT orange suiitdress -- its the final outfit she wears to HER murder by Rusk, and the orange dress stays in plot and memory thereafter -- in Rusk's bedside drawers as a memento of murder and then placed by Rusk into Blaney's luggage to frame him.
The Italian designers no doubt fed Hitchcock's films through their own cultural fashion viewpoint, though..
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