red carpet perfection

michelle williams looking magnificent in vera wang at the 78th annual academy awards. one the best red carpet looks of all time in my book.

icon of the moment: camilla belle

i love camilla belle, she is just so incredibly gorgeous. she can also really rock the red carpet. it seems like she never gets it wrong, even with her makeup. camilla is always effortlessly beautiful and alluring. i started noticing her after i saw her in "the ballad of jack and rose", i suggest you watch it if you havent yet, she stars in it with the amazing oscar winner daniel day-lewis.

what do you guys think of her?

vintage playboy covers

i adore vintage playboys covers, it is amazing to see that playboy was once a very classy magazine. nowadays playboy is more of a trash magazine, filled with blonde bimbos with fake breasts. but i love seeing the covers from the sixties, because they are classy, demure, and some quite fashionable. they used naturally beautiful girls, with natural bodies.

i wish playboy could go back to the classy magazine it used to be.

as cool as steve mcqueen

the lovely bianca over at fashion ivy gave me a thinking blogger award. thank you so much bianca for giving me this marvelous award, im honored. so im supposed to answer a few questions about my blog and nominate five others.

but first im going to share some photos of one of my favorite people of all time, the original king of cool, steve mcqueen.



_______________________________________
now on to the questions:

1. what is the story behind the name of your blog and your nickname?
well, my name is hannah...and im a fan of couture...so there you go. i sound like the dad from my big fat greek wedding.

2. why did you start blogging in the first place?
i started because i took a lot of photos of my friends, and they wanted to view all of them, and posting them on a livejournal blog seemed convenient and fun. then it evolved into more of a blog about fashion and i decided to start 'hannah couture'.

3. What has been your best blogging experience? What about the worst?
i cant come up with anything off the top of my head...

4. What do you think/ want to happen to your blog in 2008?
more of the same. i love knowing that people actually read, and are interested in what i post. i think i get far too excited when i see i got a new comment. i hope to get more and more readers this year and discover new blogs i can read.

i pass this award on to:
fashion smashion
starbucks and jane austen
jottings of a fashionista
i want big hair
le book

i hope none of you have been awarded this before. but weather you have or havent, you now have concrete evidence that you are awesome.

go here to learn more about the award. and if you want to participate, answer the questions in a post on your blog and nomintated five others as well. also, retrieve your banner to display proudly on your blog (it comes in silver and gold, which is pretty darn exciting).

incredible editorials in french vogue march 2008

eau de rose
sasha pivarova, photographed by i&v, styled by emmanuelle alt:







en vogue
ekaterina kiseleva, photographed by benoit peverelli, styled by melanie huynh and geraldine saglio:




libre court
anja rubik, photographed by mark segal, styled by julia von boehm:




un fille un style
ambra medda:


photos via thefashionspot.com (member diorette)

kate in the vivienne westwood opus

"Kate came in with a cigarette a can of lager and some chips." says Westwood. "She's not worried about anorexia." A quick spell in hair and make-up transformed Moss, the lager-swilling chip-muncher, into Moss, the icon. Westwood describes how, after the first picture was taken, Moss studied her own image intently. “She’s very shy, and every time she does a shot, she needs to know if that magic is working on the picture or not. Maybe she doubts herself. She needs to see this ‘thing’ emerge. It is amazing, because she’s a little skinny girl before she’s photographed, but in pictures, she becomes larger than life.”

my favorite photo of audrey

icon of the moment: kirsten dunst

i love kirsten dunst, she is an amazing actress and has a great sense of style. some of you will probably say that her style is nothing special, but i think is is lovely. she doesnt seem to dress for anyone but herself, she wears what she wants and doesnt care what anyone might think. i adore her laid back chic ensembles, as well as her gorgeous red carpet wear. she sure knows how to rock scarves and suspenders. i think it is marvelous that she isnt trying to be one of those hollywood it girls and doesnt take herself too seriously.

what do you guys think of her?