Lauren Bacall 2.0

Waahh... Do I really stroll around to kill better dressed ladies on the street? Don't worry, just kidding!

This is a "behind the scenes"- picture from the Film-Noir-Shooting by the super talented and award-winning Austrian photographer Bina Winkler. She wanted to do a tribute to the great Lauren Bacall who deceased lately. Luckily I knew the perfect beauty for our project: the lady behind the Just Another Wandrobe Experience blog. What a natural acting talent.

I did the make up&hair&styling and story&set design&lighting asisstence, used my furniture to decorate and the incredible collection of authentic clothing from the model. We had so much fun - it didn't feel like work at all.

Hope you like that movie Lauren Bacall never made ... "Deadly Lovers" in the style of 1946.

A young blonde beauty from a little village is captured in an unhappy marriage to an older and rich husband in Metropolis. She decides to get rid of him, calls the life insurance company to change the contract and tries to poison him in a hotel room after a romantic night out. But she gets caught in the act... the witness is a ganster and then she finds out that her husband is one, too. After a thrilling pursuit she kills the gangster and leaves the big city with a heart full of dreams and a suitcase full of suppressed dollars.

 

THE END

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Californication

As promised - some more pictures from our California road trip. Hope you enjoy:

above: on the knees for my hero David Bowie at Hollywood Walk of Fame

Venice Beach

 

Look at this crazy miniature-encrusted van in Santa Barbara!

Oh, they smell!

 

driving the Highway 1 to the great Santa Cruz: 

beach fun, vintage shopping, mexican food and an art-deco-cinema, needless to say I was very happy there.

arriving at San Francisco  

 

after vintage shopping at Haight Street I enjoyed all my shopping successes

 for so far at the bedside locker in our 1930s hotel

playing Mini Golf at the Lake Tahoe

watching TCM on a rainy day in a retro motel near the Mono Lake

 Welcome to the wild Wild West on the 4th of July! 

 

  

talking to the ghosts in Ghost Town Bodie

 

 

After hiking in the more than beautiful Yosemite National Park, 

we were heading trought the unscalable Death Valley by 50 degrees strait to Nevada.

 

Las Vegas was overlain by a giant smoke cloud from the bushfire,

but at night - it´s just neon lights and show girls.

on Route 66 trough the Mojave Desert we reached Palm Springs, our last station.

There I was finding myself, as a vintage clipons collector,  in real HEAVEN...

but more from that in the next post.

PS: a big thanx to all our fabulous air bnb hosts!

my pilgrimage

 

Right back from our California Road Trip - what a great experience!

It started as a kind of pilgrimage, because I always dreamed of visiting the Hollywood Museum in L.A., 

and so we did. Needless to say, I loved everything there. 

To sit in that Max Factor chair was an unforgettable moment for me.

You can see such amazing memorabilia there. 

Sadly it was forbitten to take pictures with flash, so pardon the fuzzy quality. 

I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did:

Dorothy's ruby slippers,

incredibile photographs of all the old Hollywood stars,

so many spectacular movie costumes with amazing details, like the glove from Sonja Henie, my Ice Angel. 

Unfortunately the "Lady Mascara" dress of Betty Grable's movie "Dolly Sisters" were in restoration. But look at this:

But for a make up artist, the most important things were the make up tools in all their Art-Deco-packing glory.

For every diva's hair color, Max Factor created an own make up room. 

So the room for the brunettes, painted in pale pink, made me goose bumps all over, I tell ya!

There was one for the Redheads too, in pale mint green. Isn´t the beautycase of Rita a blast?

And finally the pale blue one for the blond bombshells.

But what is going on in a place like this, that Honey, who is not interested in that vintage-thing at all, 

goes to his knees and stares? The original bustier of Marilyn! She really had measures to dream of...

Marilyn somehow stayed a big issue on our whole trip. 

The Hollywood Museum had a giant MM special exhibition,

on our way trough the Sierra Nevada we stayed in the Sierra Sky Ranch for a while and  swam in the same pool

as she did. When we finised the road trip in Palm Springs - she was there again. And how!

Stay tooned, more CA pictures will follow...