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

-please don't use this pictures without permission-

autumn everyday wear

 

Last thursday was a public holiday in Germany, traditional time for the super big Ostbahnhof fleamarket. Went there in my office clothes, because the night before I stayed at my best friend's beautiful home. In the garden there's a huge chestnut tree. I collected some of its fruits right away untill the pockets of my skirt were full... so autumnally!

The thing on my head is a velvet bow headband from the 80s, found on the fleamarket last week.

 I really love it this time.

My jewelry was all green, one a my favorite colours, especially in colder months. The ring, the clip ons 

and  the brooch are all vintage from the 50s. I found this galalith souvenir brooch once on a 

fleamarket bargain bin for 50 cent. It was nearly white, all the colous were rubbed off.

 I restored it by hand with a tiny brush and breathed new life into the sweet little wine queen 

on her cliff "Drachenfels" and the Rhine again.

Back home with my findings, a 40s jacket, a 50s dress, a 40s brooch, two 50s hats and a little 50s poodle fingurine - I was more than happy. The sun was celebrating with me and painted this shadow picture on my living room floor.

 

I found my new 50s skirt on ebay France. It´s more a summer skirt but I wear it with a straight petticoat warming my legs. The belt is a 50s original too and he still forms aperfect waist. The flower print is so gorgeous.

Sadly, the time for pink flowers is over. 
On my vanity table now standing these Chrysanthemes, the flower of the 30s.

The next day in my lunch break I visited the incredible art of the photographer Eugenio Recuenco.

My favorite picture from him is Cinderella:

found here

If in Berlin, you have to visit the exhibition in the CWC.

This is a snapshot from me with another picture of him: 

The sweater is a cashmere vintage 50s one from Santa Cruz, CA.

 I love his pale pink softness, the pearl buttons and the pastell grossgrain applications. 

How do you look in everyday autumn life?

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...

Blitzmädel

I´m a bookworm and busy reader, so Santa brought me some nice books about the 40s and old movies last year. A speciality is this book about the Blitzmädchen, printed in the 70s.Thank you Santa for knowing my taste so well. I wanna show you some pictures and share some facts out of it:

During the entire WW II, women were involved on all sides. In Hitler's Germany, a woman should be a mother at first, staying at home and backing up her husband. But when in 1940 the occupied areas needed more stuff to administrate, the so called "Blitzmädels" filled up the ranks. In the beginning, they came voluntary, but later young women were called up. All in all  half a million women worked as Blitzmädels in the army, the marine and the air force. They were called Blitzmädels because of the Blitz signs on their uniforms. In 1940 every Blitzmädel got a uniform, later with the deprivation they just wore uprons or a brassard with civil clothes.

The boards were the same rations as the soldiers got.

Army postal service brought news and presents from home.

Most of the younger girls were looking for an adventure. But it was forbidden to have any personal contact to soldiers or civilians from occupied countries. Every Blitzmädel had to move once a year to another station to prevent deeper relationships. Even though the rules and controls were strict, a lot of romances and even marriages started here.

Most of the Blitzmädels did telecommunication for the Wehrmacht with machines like this:

 

For propaganda reasons the Nazis showed a young mother who left her two children at home with her grandmother to help the boys in the war.

In the end of the war, fire protection became more and more important

 and the girls learned how to handle a gun.

 Finally some of them died, some of them came home again  soon,

but most of them landed in war captivity.

 

 Hopefully we will never have a war again.

more 1954s autumn fashion

I wanna show you some more scans from the FILM UND FRAU mag. 

Autumn is party season, so this time comes the festive fashion: 

What about black velvet and white glacé gloves?

Or a embroidered floorlength evening gown? 

Worn by the lovley Sonja Ziemann, famous as the star in "Schwarzwaldmädel", 

a musical from 1950. I also looove her poodle.

Isn´t the paisley brocade just stunning?

An autumn brides dress can look alluring, too.

For everyday wear, I would choose this striped beauty with a soft creoline.

 The illustrations recommend the same autumn colours as we like today... 

hope you enjoy.