photography

It's official: we have a girl crush on Karen Gillan! We've been following her 60s-inspired style ever since we saw this redhead steal the screen in Dr Who... and we're just as hooked with her laid back luxe look off screen.

So tonight, it's over to Manhattan, before Carrie Bradshaw et al showcased their inimitable style as Karen takes the lead role as 60s supermodel Jean Shrimpton opposite Aneurin Barnard as infamous 60s photographer, David Bailey. The scene is their 1962 Vogue photoshoot, marking their first encounter and resulting love affair. The swinging 60s shot against the ever glamorous backdrop of NYC and tracing the journey of too such exciting (and gorgeous) leads? We'll take our seat on the sofa now!

We'll Take Manhattan is on BBC4 at 9.00pm tonight.

Offering a glimpse into the 'golden age' of cinema, Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits is going to be our first stylish stop this weekend. Located just by Trafalgar Square - so perfect for a gorgeous day out in the heart of London - the National Portrait Gallery will showcase almost 70 vintage photographs displaying the transformation of the era’s most important actors and actresses into international style icons.

Including images of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, Glamour of the Gods is also a rare chance to enjoy a glimpse at a world before paparazzi, and admire these stars at their most timeless and glamorous.

Plan your visit with the National Portrait Gallery website. 

 

Elizabeth Taylor, 1948 by Clarence Sinclair Bull © John Kobal Foundation, 2011 
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford for Dancing Lady, 1933 by George Hurrell © John Kobal Foundation, 2011

Fashion Revolution: the award-winning fashion website led by Nick Knight, one of the world's most influential fashion image-makers of our time brings us the new exhibition by SHOWstudio. Since being introduced to the fashion world almost 10 years ago, Nick Knight’s website SHOWstudio.com; has pioneered the most inventive and exciting forms of fashion on the web. These have both been informative and enthused by the fashion revolution of the moment so I had high expectations of what was in store for us at his current exhibition at Somerset House. Through the doors, we were confronted with a staged new world of film, music, art, photography; performance and technology all under the one roof. The exhibition, showing his unique relationship with the fashion world’s most influential style icons, included exclusive behind the scenes footage, allowing insights into the concept and creation of fashion. The exhibition gets you actively involved; answering old fashion telephones and listening to messages from fashion’s biggest models calling from their hotel suite in New York the morning after they made their way down the catwalk for fashion week. Watching an old film based on Brad Pitt’s cover shoot with Vanity Fair in 2004; reciting Nick’s favourite poem whist painting over old photographs. Showcasing over 20 projects from SHOWstudio’s archives, alongside unique footage of films, artworks and live fashion shoots and events especially devised for the exhibition; SHOWstudio is jam-packed with exciting, creative ways of working, well worth a visit.