Louise Brooks screenings in Florence, Italy

Three films featuring Louise Brooks are being featured in Florence, Italy. The screenings are included in the March calendar at the Cineteca di Firenze. On the 9th, the film center showed Diary of a Lost Girl. And on March 23rd, they will be screening Prix de Beaute and Windy Riley Goes Hollywood. For more information, visit this link.

Fat Man

A new chapter of The Fat Man is now online at http://www.myebook.com/ebook_viewer.php?ebookId=2367 It introduces Louise Brooks as a character.

The Fat Man is the latest in a ever growing list of appearances / homages to Louise Brooks in comics, graphic novels, and comix. This list begins with Dixie Dugan and "Show Girl" in the late 1920's and continues through Guido Crepax's Valentina in the 1960's through to today.

Catch up with the entire Fat Man story from the beginning at http://www.myebook.com/ebook_viewer.php?ebookId=2170

Guido Crepax in mostra - Oltremoda

Check out this fabulous Italian video clip (on youtube) about Guido Crepax and his graphic novel heroine Valentina. I don't speak Italian and don't really know what they are talking about, but I do know that Louise Brooks is featured throughout! There even seems to have been an exhibit in Italy about Crepax that also featured the comix silent film star muse.



Thank you Gianluca Chiovelli for forwarding this clip.

Nameographie

While doing research, I found this item in an Austrian newspaper dating from 1928. As may be noticed, portraits of each individual are composed of the letters of their name. 



Can anyone come up with a similar Louise Brooks name-o-graph?

This Time The Dream's On Me

Speaking of things I have only now come across . . .  I just discovered this somewhat interesting 2008 youtube video featuring "This Time The Dream's On Me" (Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer) and  "Dream" (Johnny Mercer) as sung by Susanna McCorkle. The clips are mostly of Louise Brooks, though Clara Bow, Colleen Moore and a couple of others also feature in this video. I kinda like it.

Lulu in Abu Dhabi

An article about fashion in today's The National, an English-language newspaper from Abu Dhabi, mentions Louise Brooks. Is there no limit to Brooks' reputation as an international icon?

Fur did indeed make an appearance on John Galliano’s catwalk for Dior, but it was just one part of a beautiful Far Eastern fantasy harking back to the 1920s, with exquisite hats by Stephen Jones, that mimicked Louise Brooks-style bobs, and lavish brocades, draping and beading. This was by far the most luxurious show of the week so far, with designers elsewhere concentrating on harsh power-dressing in black, black and more black. At Gareth Pugh and Anne Valérie Hash on Wednesday, Balmain, Nina Ricci and Balenciaga on Thursday and in Lanvin’s outstanding show on Friday, the palettes were almost entirely limited to charcoal, black, oyster, grey and stone, with the occasional blast of bright colour.

Heels soared, models stalked, shoulders were extended and waists cinched in a series of collections that drew on the 1940s and the 1980s for their silhouettes and their look-but-don’t-touch attitude.