Colette

...Vogue). The frames are hand-crafted in Italy, and sold at only the most hallowed retail shrines: Dover Street Market in London, Colette in Paris and Barneys in New York. In the words of Anna Laub, the woman who launched Prism, 'Glasses are...

In this article: Diane Keaton, Dorothy Parker, Colin Firth, Academy Awards, C J Cregg, Mr Darcy, Tom Ford, Natalie Imbruglia, and Jack Nicholson

...as seen from various vantage points; a boxer getting creamed; a horse as well as his rider; a tennis pro; and other competitors. The writer Colette reviewed his act in 1936, celebrating "this surprising artist who's created something new...

In this article: Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Paris, Play Time, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jour de fete, Parade, Trafic, and Dachshund

...the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Other women include the sculptor Camille Claudel, the scientist Marie Curie, the writer Colette, the fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, and the philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir, founder...

In this article: Eastern Europe, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Legal age, Orlando, Camille Claudel, Marie Curie, England, and European country

...makes a person attractively "careless rather than modish, above fashion" (The Emperor's Children). Later, reading the French novelist Colette, I found out that "artistic jewellery wrecks a woman's reputation" (Gigi) and - though still a...

In this article: Capricorn, Moon, Evelyn Waugh, Claudine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Raymond Chandler, and Jack Kerouac

...beast is as old as, well … the hills they've finally stopped scaling. Twentieth-century French novelist Colette made it a popular pastime for a time when she shacked up with her stepson. She later wrote about the experience (albeit from the...

In this article: Gail Sheehy, Demi Moore, Cindy Crawford, Self-help, GQ Magazine, and Cheri

...aging courtesan is almost as extraordinary as "Bright Star." Frears brews a vision of Belle Epoque loveliness that transcends decadence. As Colette's heroine, Lea, the amazing Michelle Pfeiffer creates a portrait of a woman whose essential...

In this article: Dog, Ari Folman, Baltimore, John Keats, The Hurt Locker, The New Land, and Los Angeles

...too many revelations, although it does come as a surprise to realise that Caron was pregnant while playing a nymphette in Minnelli's film of Colette's uncomfortable Gigi. Hunting With Barracudas by Chris Snyder (Constable, GBP7.99) is a...

In this article: Roger Moore, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Warren Beatty, Iris Burton, Disney, Leslie Caron, and June Whitfield

...a performance of great delicacy and poignancy as an aging courtesan in Stephen Frears' delicious period piece, based on the novel by Colette. -- Audrey Tautou, "Coco Before Chanel." You'll forget "Amelie" (not that you'd want to) in

In this article: Meryl Streep, Oscar, Julie & Julia, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bright Star, Audrey Tautou, Abbie Cornish, and Amy Adams

...portrait and fashion photography for several generations. Luxuriating in a sinuous mass of fabrics: Irving Penn's portrait of Colette Penn, who died on Wednesday October 7, spent the bulk of his illustrious career at Vogue, producing...

In this article: Irving Penn, Vogue, Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Platinum, Marc Chagall, Jasper Johns, and Alfred Stieglitz

...a playful take on the painter's own canvases. One of Mr. Penn's most celebrated images was a 1951 picture of the French novelist Colette, who was 78 at the time and an invalid. She would be dead in three years, and her sickly pallor was...

In this article: Irving Penn, Vogue, Pablo Picasso, Lisa Fonssagrives, Richard Avedon, New York City, Truman Capote, and Harper's Bazaar