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  • L'Wren Scott: Holiday Classics 23 Dec 2012

    L'Wren Scott: Holiday Classics on Nowness.com.


    The Muse-Turned-Designer Talks New Creations and Old Traditions, From Claridges to the Caribbean

    Descending on a favored cocktail spot, The Fumoir bar in London's Claridges Hotel, L’Wren Scott looks suitably glam adorned in a richly colored mix of satin and brocade. “It’s such a cozy, intimate place,” the designer explains of the venue, where she was launching her new design collaboration with German eyewear brand Menrad. “Great for an after-party chat.” Standing six-foot-three in her bare feet, the raven-haired beauty stuck out in her home state of Utah­, but upon moving to Paris in 1985 she quickly captivated the fashion world with her 42-inch legs. A long-standing collaboration with fabled photographer Herb Ritts followed in the 1990s as she moved towards Hollywood, consulting on movies like Eyes Wide Shut and Diabolique as well as styling the Oscars. Scott met her current love Mick Jagger in 2001 and five years later launched her first collection, aimed at women looking for a classic womanly silhouette. Eyewear represents Scott's newest creative frontier. “Much like doing a dress when you have to think about body proportions,” she says, “with eyewear you have to think about everyone’s face shape.” A great lover of the British capital's sumptuous holiday destinations, Scott talked seasonal traditions as photographer Liz Collins snapped her portrait.

     

    What’s your favorite place to spend the holidays?
    At home on the island of Mustique.

     

    Do you have any holiday rituals?
    Yes! No cell phone on, read as many books as possible and fatten up.

    What’s your favorite seasonal food indulgence?
    The island doesn’t have a lot of options but I do love a bit of caviar.

     

    Cook or cater?
    Cook.

    Candlelight or limelight?
    Candles please.

    What’s at the top of your wish list this year?
    Just having a holiday! I have been so busy working and I’m so excited to have some time off.

     

     

     

     

    Return or re-gift?
    Keep.

     

    What’s the best gift you’ve ever been given?
    A song written for me and played on the beach.

     

  • Dree Hemingway: Desert Rose 22 Dec 2012

    The Model and Actress Lets Loose in the Mojave for an Intimate Shoot

    Without the usual entourage of makeup artists and hair and clothes stylists, longtime friends Dree Hemingway and Jesse John Jenkins traveled from Beachwood Canyon in the Hollywood Hills to Death Valley, California, for this free-spirited portrait of the actress, model and fashion house muse. “I have always wanted to shoot her in an unconstrained environment,” says skateboarder turned photographer and director Jenkins. “No brief to follow—just Dree.” The two met as teenagers in their SoCal high school and have collaborated previously on a video for the acclaimed English indie outfit The Vaccines’ single, “I Always Knew”. The great-granddaughter of author Ernest Hemingway and the child of actress Mariel Hemingway and documentary maker Stephen Crisman, Dree made her debut on the runway in March 2009 and has since featured in campaigns for brands including Valentino, Chanel and Gucci. Having already appeared in a number of films, in 2012 the emerging talent took on the lead role in the critically acclaimed indie release, Starlet. Jenkins, whose next project is a music video for south London-based band Bastille, grew up visiting the desert every summer. “You can do what you want there,” he says. “It’s the ultimate freedom to have no one around for a hundred miles in any direction.”

     

    Tags:Photography , Fashion , California , Dree Hemingway , Jesse John Jenkins , The Vaccines

    Dree Hemingway: Desert Rose on Nowness.com.

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