Mid-Week Inspiration: Christmas Window Shopping

A little window shopping never hurt anyone. Have you started your Christmas shopping? 

Here, style icon Sophia Loren, figures out gifts for her list. 

Image via Pinterest. 

Mid-Week Inspiration: Sophia Knitting

More Sophia inspiration. Love those knit stockings, too! 

Style Icon: Sophia Loren

Sophia is a true bombshell, in the classic sense of the word. She's most known for her curves and those eyes but she also has sense of style that enhanced her god-given features. 

Born Sofia Scicolone in Italy in 1934, she started her career at the age of 14 when she entered a beauty pageant. She didn't win, but it did lead to acting lessons. She got bit parts here and there until the 1950's when she signed a 5 picture contract with Paramount that launched her international career. She then changed her name to Sophia Loren. 

She was the first woman to win a Best Actress Oscar in a foreign language film for the film Two Women in 1962. 

Here she is with Clark Gable in It Started in Naples (1959).

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." - Sophia Loren

Mid-Week Inspiration: In The Mirror

Classic Hollywood stars at their vanities...a perfect setting if you ask me. So glamorous and amazing. I love these photos.

*Gasp* that gown! Rosemary Lane, 1939.

Tallulah Bankhead. Gorgeous!

Sophia Loren. This is such great photo and she looks amazing. 

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Retro Looks In The Modern World: Bella Donna

As much as the modern fashion world looks forward it also continually looks back in time. Here we explore Retro Looks in the Modern World.

Bella Donna was featured in the March 2004 issue of Vogue. I love this spread, I can easily picture Sophia Loren or Ava Gardner in place of Natalia Vodanova. Can't you?

Photographer: Mert & Marcus.

Images via fashiongonerogue.com

Mid-Week Inspiration: Houseboat 1958

I was lucky enough to catch a Cary Grant movie marathon last Sunday on TCM. A pleasant surprise was Houseboat (1958), a very uplifting feel good romantic comedy. Cary Grant plays a divorced bureaucrat that gains custody of his three children after their mother dies. A young Sophia Loren is hired as the maid even though she can't cook because the children love her more than their pig-headed Dad. They rent out a shabby and leaky houseboat and with some movie magic fix it up into a wonderful home. It takes him a while to realize it but he falls in love with the dazzling Sophia by the film's end. In real life Cary Grant was madly in love with Sophia and he made this movie in an attempt to reignite their love affair that had ended the year before. She turned down his advances and married Carlos Ponti instead.



Here's the trailer: