A long break...

It’s been a while, again. I really wanted to get my old site up and running within a month and keep blogging regularly, but a lot of otherwise very welcome work prevented me from doing much that wasn’t immediately work-related.

I have finally found a way to keep updating my old site on the new PCs, not an easy feat at all for someone who has never been that knowledgeable about computers. Putting all of the pending content together and generating pages however is now a lower priority among all the things going on, but the site will be up again.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to keep up with upcoming movies… I’ve already written about Carol and Cate Blanchett’s headscarf scenes, but it looks Sarah Paulson is getting some nice ones.

She’s wearing a nice Kelly here. Sarah Paulson has already been headscarved (Classic-style) in American Horror Story…

 

















… Which would mean she would almost be a Scarf Lady on the site.

Also of notice was the trailer for Joy, which shows Jennifer Lawrence in a Classic headscarf.

I think this is a first for her, but I haven’t had time to check her whole filmography. Looks like we’re in for a nice season, though!

Stay safe, stay covered and enjoy the holidays!

On Classics...

Well, it's been a while since I hit a bit of a block with my dear old website. No hosting trouble this time, unfortunately it's the "generation" side that is having problems.

The site as I said many times before is a bit of a relic. It's very, very old style. I never realized how old style it was until I was forced to get a new PC and found out that half of the software I have been using to build and maintain it no longer works or is unsupported.

Now what? I could change the whole site but it would be a very big and very time-consuming task. I could simply generate the new pages in a new way, but it would not be possible to have a style consistent with the past, though I think maybe it wouldn't be the worst solution. I could simply turn to a more modern way to share contents, after all this site has been around when there was no Flickr, Imageshack and other picture hosting sites.

I could simply do everything from this blog, too. After all, there used to be a dedicated section on the site on writings which ended up being better served by the blog.

Or I could try, as I'm doing now, to make the old software suite work in some way to keep things going. However, this is only postponing the inevitable...

It's a choice I'm going to have to make, sooner or later. I'd rather keep some control of my content and the traditional web hosting seems to be still the best way. I don't know, I'm not an expert and what I know I had to be taught very patiently. If you have any suggestions, I'd like to hear them.

Meanwhile...

I have already written about "Carol", and the new trailer is simply great. There are a lot of women wearing headscarves (not surprising) but I'll have to wait until I have seen the movie to say more.
There is however another movie coming up, "Brooklyn", starring Saoirse Ronan who in a scene from the trailer is seen wearing a Classic headscarf...

Being a movie set in the 1950s, it's a natural choice. But I can't help thinking about how many Classics I'm seeing those times. On the fashion side, Dolce & Gabbana have done it again...

 

 

... And so has Moschino.

And while it's normal for fashion models and actresses to be headscarved, the Classic has been adorning the heads of singers...

Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, as photographed by Jamie Hakwesworth for The New York Times Style Magazine.

Amber Rose, at Kari Feinstein's pre-Golden Globes Style lounge.

... And of lots, lots of fashion bloggers.

Evgenya Tarletskaya (http://evgeniyatarletskaya.blogspot.com)

Anastasya Zayarskaya (http://www.nastacia.com/)

I will have to write a post on just how many fashion bloggers out there have embraced the headscarf!

 

 

The one above is a very modern take, seen in the "Heartbreak Hotel" video for the Autumn-Winter 2014 Sophia Webster collection. I should mention Sophia makes shoes. Anyway, while in the Classic usually the knot is tight under the chin and the tail well draped over the back, in this interesting variation the wrap is looser and the upper tail purposefully folded upwards exposing the lower one. I wonder if it's going to ever catch.

 

The Classic is definitely a Classic. It's nice to see it so often again.

Chloe, in style

I recently stumbled on this InStyle photoshoot from August 2013 (yes, I know, once again late) featuring the lovely Chloe Grace Moretz. Among other outfits she wears a very peculiarly styled Classic headscarf...

 ...  Adorned with flowers which delicately frame her face. This is a very interesting take on the Classic, although I suspect not too practical.

 

 Chloe seems to have had some fun modelling for this photoshoot. Here are some images of her wearing her headwrap and having it adjusted...

 

 

 

 

 

  ... Just watch the "making of" video here.

  I was almost sure I had already seen something like Chloe's flowered headscarf and apparently I was right: Vivienne Westwood's Red Label Spring-Summer 2013 collection included one such wrap.

 

 

I wonder if that was the look the photographers were shooting for. In any case, it's a stunning one!

Still missing, apologies, movie sightings.

Hello and once again sorry for my site being offline. I can't really do much but wait for Zymic to finish repairing whatever it's broken, so some updates will have to be done all at once.

Meanwhile, I have seen The Two Faces of January and though Kirsten Dunst only has one headscarf scene, it's simply great.

Kirsten wears her Classic in a very elegant way. There are plenty of closeups of her wrapped head and framed face. What a pity they didn't have a proper scene in Mona Lisa Smile or she would have qualified as a Scarf Lady by now.

In a funnier movie, The Other Woman, there's a brief scene with Leslie Mann wearing a Kelly headscarf.

Yes, it's another Headscarf & Sunglasses scene. It's short but Leslie looks great in her Kelly.

The last scene it's from The Double, a quite bizarre movie based on the Dostoevsky novel. There are a couple of brief scenes of Mia Wasikowska (from Alice in Wonderland) wearing a small Classic headscarf.

Mia's scarf looks quite cute on her and I like the way she has it fluttering around while she's taking some air on the train ride. There is another brief scene later on when she's seen adjusting her hair under the just tied-on scarf while walking. I wish there would be more but it wasn't the case. I think it's a "first wrap" for Mia.

And it's a wrap for this post as well. If you see any movies with good scenes, please drop me a line!

Out on a limb again

I owe you all an apology for not updating my site due to another outage (which is out of my hands) and above all for not informing you (which actually is). Anyway, the Zymic hosting has been having issues since about the end of September and while the site has been mostly up since then, it's now unreachable again and, until the FTP issues have been resolved, I cannot update it. Well, at least you know I'm still alive and well.

In the meantime...

Fashion designers seem to be busy keeping the headscarf in the limelight year after year. Last year, Anastasia Romantsova had her models wrapped in a variety of Peasant and Kelly wraps for her Spring-Summer 2013 collection...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again in 2013, the young Italian designer Virginia Burlina showed off her "For Wonder" collection at the Antwerp Fashion Academy's graduation show. And what happened? She had all her models wearing Classic headscarves. Not even D&G have done that!

Definitely one designer to look out for! Now fast forward to 2014 and it's Larisa Lobanova's turn to have her models' heads wrapped. Her Fall/Winter 2014-15 collection features some nice Kelly and Classic headscarves.

Victora Gres has her models in a number of Kelly, Classic and Peasant headscarves for her Spring/Summer 2014 collection.

What can I say, except that I should really check out fashion shows more often? This was a picture-rich post but I wanted to make up for the lack of updates! Have fun until the next time.