Tom Munro

Vogue Rusia 1998

Vogue Rusia noviembre 2009

Vogue Alemania Diciembre 2011

Madonna y Andrea Riseborough

Harper's Baazar diciembre 2011

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French Twists

In an inspired take on France's most scandalous century, Hamish Bowles writes, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has transformed the famous Wrightsman Galleries into a series of vignettes celebrating the looks and lifestyle that led to revolution. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.

Editorial publicado en Vogue US en su edición de mayo de 2004

Nueve años atrás, Gerard Depardieu estaba delgado o_O

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YSL 1983

Me encantaba Yves Saint Laurent de aquella época :)

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Una casa victoriana para una bruja

You’ve been clamoring to see the grand white Victorian from Practical Magic, and I can understand why. It’s one of my all-time favorite movie houses. Producer Denise DiNova says that the house where the Owens family of witches lived played such an important role in the story that they decided to build it themselves: “I don’t think we could ever have found a house that could have matched our needs.”

The story takes place in New England, but the house was built on San Juan Island in Washington State, where the weather would be more amenable for shooting. In the shot above, you can see how close the house is to the water.

It looks like a real house that was built in the 1850s, but it’s really just an “architectural shell” that took 8 months to build and was (sadly) destroyed after filming was over.

After their parents die, sisters Sally and Gillian go to live with their aunts Frances (Fran) and Bridget (Jet), played by Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest:

 The movie was based on the bestselling novel by Alice Hoffman.

 Derek of Derek M Design tells me that the entire exterior set was built on an old Indian burial ground, so they weren’t allowed to dig there or disturb the site. The entire house was built on a giant platform. Here’s a photo he sent me of it being taken down–you can see that it was “empty” inside:

 

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The interior sets were all created in a studio in Los Angeles.

The Potions Room:

 The pantry is where the Owens women store ingredients for their magic potions. The props department reportedly filled hundreds of bottles to put inside these glass-fronted cabinets.

Sally's shop in town:

The town they used was Coupeville on Whidbey Island in Washington State. Debi Ward Kennedy says that the production designers painted everything in the town white for the movie. After filming was done, they repainted the buildings their original colors.

 The attic:

 The stairs go up from the attic to the lighthouse-like tower:

After they accidentally killed Gillian’s boyfriend Jimmy (played by Goran Visnjic, who you may recognize from “ER”), the sisters cast a spell to bring him back to life. Unfortunately, he came back as a kind of zombie who was way creepier and even more evil than the original Jimmy had been.

Here he is, confronting Officer Gary Hallet (Aidan Quinn) in the attic:

 Gillian in the attic bedroom, possessed by Zombie Jimmy:

The parlor:

They tie possessed Gillian to a chair and plan a kind of exorcism for her in the parlor. They round up women from the town (via the school’s phone tree, of course!) to help them.

The kitchen:

 “The Aga is almost like a shrine,” production designer Robin Standefer says of the gas stove that is the focal point of the kitchen. “This is the place where they do their work; it’s where they place the cauldron.”

The conservatory:

“The house itself has a certain magic to it,” production designer Robin Standefer says. “There is a whole world in this house and garden. These women are outcasts and this place is their sanctuary.”

Director Griffin Dunne says he was enchanted by the script: “It was literally like a cauldron. Every emotion, theme and ingredient you could imagine was swirling around in it. I particularly liked the women’s use of magic; it comes right from the title. It’s about a more practical, almost holistic approach that seems like a gift that virtually anyone could have.”

 Practical Magic fans knows that the best fan site on the Internet is Amas Veritas. You can find a lot more information there, including floor plans for the house and drawn elevations that were used for building it. I found a few of these photos there.

Others are from a Victoria Magazine photo shoot in 1998. And the rest were ones I took while watching the movie (all rights belong to Warner Bros).

HookedonHouses.net
25 de octubre de 2009

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Una curiosidad que encontré casualmente por la red :) 

¿Ya he dicho que Practical Magic es una de mis pelis favoritas de brujas? ;-)

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Voy de negro en los 80s

 

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Amo los 80s

Editorial de la revista Marie Claire UK en su edición de septiembre de 2009

Una muestra de que los 80s no fueron totalmente horteras, ni plásticos, ni fosforitos ;-)

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