the lost girls

hello dear world wide web, i finally have an internet connection here after nearly 2 full of weeks of no internet connection at all, and as sad as it may be i have to admit i started to feel a bit like i was drowning. but i am finally back and it feels so good, and i have so much to tell you about! first, maybe most excitingly (although so many exciting things are happening), is the news i read recently about the new GREY GARDENS film, based on the original documentary, that is currently in filming. i may be a bit on the slow end of receiving this news but oh my goodness! if you love any of the following - fashion, eccentric humans, beautiful women, crumbling old houses, show-tunes, vintage anything - YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM.



most of you will have heard of Grey Gardens by now, so i will only give a short summary: a documentary in 1975 was released, starring Edie Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie") and her daughter "Little Edie" (not so little, being somewhere around 65 in the film), distant cousins of Jackie O. The women live in a large, once grand, estate that is now literally crumbling to pieces under their feet. They rarely leave the house or the grounds, and instead choose to live in a strange, romantic, eerie sort of solitary existence. They sing and dance classic show-tunes all day, and reminisce over days gone by. The film was particularly noticed when it was re-released in the past few years by the fashion world, and many designers have admitted to being hugely inspired by Big & Little Edie's eccentric, dramatic, rag-tag style. Only a few years ago, shortly after the Criterion Collection release of Grey Gardens, the Criterion Collection also released The Beales of Grey Gardens, a whole second film made up of extra documentary footage which was just as fascinating as the first.





and NOW there is a feature film movie in production, based on the lives of the Beale women, set for release in November of 2008. The film Grey Gardens will be starring DREW BARRYMORE as "Little Edie" and Jessica Lange as "Big Edie", and i could not be more excited about these choices.





IMDB summarizes the goal of the movie best: Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy (both named Edith Bouvier Beale aka "Big and Little Edie") raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world when international tabloids learned of a health department raid on their home, and Jackie swooped in to save her relatives.

with this & the Chanel biopic on their way, this year is looking to be pretty exciting for fashion on the big screen.

(and of course, my Little Edie inspired polyvore:)