crush with the law ➣ model

Dior Homme just reignited my ancient crush on Jude! set to the music of Muse, here's Guy Ritchie's short film with Jude Law & Michaela Kocianová, about their rendez-vous in one of the world's most romantic capitals...

speaking of fashion & models, if you want some insight on what it was like and how much of it still stands true today, watch MODEL... this amazing documentary is Frederick Wiseman's Warholian look at the modeling industry --Warhol himself makes a cameo appearance-- revealing the tremendous expense, aspiration, and fuss that goes into selling sleek cars and couture collections. The film, structured around a television commercial for panty hose and an Oscar de la Renta runway show, is a riveting meditation on imagemaking and fantasy (one photographer demands of a confused and impressionable young model, ''A little more innocent! A little more sexual!"). Model was made in 1980 during a seemingly pivotal moment in the industry, poised between the ethereally glamorous and seductive portraits of the fashion world in Stanley Donen’s Funny Face (1957), Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966), and William Klein’s Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966), and today’s more populist, and somehow more tawdry, reality shows like America’s Next Top Model... here's a short excerpt: