12 Classic Films to Channel Your Inner Bombshell
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The bombshell is a creature at one with her sexuality — a lady, never a tramp, who uses her feminine wiles to seduce, control and if she so chooses, destroy. She’ll easily walk the fine line between good girl and trashbag and openly flirt with the dichotomy of Madonna and whore — and I’m not talking about that whore, Madonna. The bomnbshell is not merely a pretty face or a rockin’ bod — she’s a force to be reckoned with. It takes a little work, but anyone can learn the art of bombshelling. Just take a tip or three from the iconic bombshells of yore in these twelve classics films.




If the tents at Bryant Park aren’t exciting enough for you, come February’s Fashion Week, the International Center of Photography is sure to feed your extra glam craving. ICP curator, Brian Wallis, was recently tipped on the eBay sale of a lifetime: 4,000 of Harper’s Bazaar photographer Martin Munkacsi’s long-lost negatives. Wallis jumped on the listing, driving to the seller in Connecticut and bathing in unreleased photographs of Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, and Fred Astaire from ancient issues of Harper’s Bazaar. There is no word on when the show will hit the museum floor, but cross your fingers of a little post-runway museum browsing!