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BEAUTY, FILM MAJOR, NEWS / November 2 2011 8:42 AM

Michelle Williams Keeps Her Hair Short in Memoriam

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“Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair!” Michelle Williams reveals in the December issue of Elle UK. Well, sister you got that right. Give me a Mia Farrow pixie cut any day of the week and twice on Sunday. But why, then, does she keep her man-repeller coiffure? “I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it.”

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CULTURE / October 31 2011 1:27 PM

BOOKCLUBBIN’: Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis

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Childlike. Innocent. Vulnerable. Beautiful. Shrewd. Intelligent. Talented. A great actress. Not an actress at all. A movie star. A legend. An icon. These are just some of the words used to describe that indelible image known as Marilyn Monroe in itbooksMarilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis by David Willis and Stephen Schmidt. Monroe, more than any other movie star alive or dead, has been chronicled, dissected, studied, researched and probed again and again in basically every medium that exists. So what could possibly be added to her already copiously-covered canon? 

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CULTURE, NEWS / October 21 2011 8:49 AM

15 of Hal Rubenstein’s “100 Unforgettable Dresses”

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InStyle‘s fashion director, Hal Rubenstein waxes iconic in his new book, 100 Unforgettable Dresses (Harper Design, 2011). From Rita Hayworth in Gilda to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, Princess Diana to the Duchess of Cambridge, Grace Kelly to Grace Jones, Bob Mackie to Karl Lagerfeld, Rubenstein delves into fashion history and comes up with an informative and entertaining read. But what makes a dress unforgettable? Calvin Klein — one of several designers interviewed for the book —  put it best: “an unforgettable moment is the combination of the right dress on the right woman at the right time.” Click through for a sampling of some of the dresses that made the list.*

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