Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBethann Hardison is an African American who was a very successful NY showroom model for years in the 1960’s but it wasn’t until she appeared in her first TV commercial that her mother actually saw her work, and she was totally shocked. In those early days the word ‘model’ was often a pseudonym for hooker, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFive years ago Ari Seth Cohen took to the streets of Manhattan armed with his camera looking for old ladies. Not just any elderly dears but photographing fashionable women in their ’70’s, ’80s and beyond having being inspired by his own grandmother who made him appreciate senior style icons who life live to the fullest. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe reason that I sit in a movie theater as often as I do is my eternal hope that every movie I watch will be so near perfect that it will just blow me away. In reality it’s a rarity, but tonight was one such occasion. Watching ‘Bill Cunningham New York’, a wonderful moving and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDiana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed. You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guidePhotograph by Bruce Weber ‘I don’t like pretty’ says the 93 year old idiosyncratic fashion maven Iris Apfel in an enchanting new documentary by Albert Maysles. Iris acknowledges that she was never a conventional beauty but that has hardly stopped her pursuing her passion for style and becoming one of most original and daring dressed women … Continue reading