Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Adozen Fashion Film: Hitchcock Heroines


Hitchcock hysteria has well and truly dominated fashion for Autumn/Winter, with the celebrated director's most notable heroines being referenced on catwalks, editorials and shoots aplenty.

 A likely impetus for this trend is the BBC's upcoming film 'The Girl', which depicts Alfred Hitchcock's controlling relationship towards the bewitchingly blonde Tippi Hedren throughout the making of the cult classic, 'The Birds'. 
Sienna Miller convincingly evokes the fifties femininity of Hedren's character Melanie Daniels in the film, a vision of pastel perfection complete with coiffed candy-floss hair and a Pistachio green suit.

 Although the film isn't released until later this year, the fashion world have undoubtedly twigged on; Jil Sander's Spring/Summer lavender toned coat screams 'Melanie', whilst magazines have seen an abundance of Hitchcock themed fashion stories throughout the Summer.  
From Glamour's Vertigo inspired shoot from their September issue to US Elle's February 'Horror Story' photos, the director's leading ladies are influencing just about everyones wardrobes.

The primness of Kim Novak in Vertigo; the daintiness of Psycho's Janet Leigh; Grace Kelly's boundless glamour in Rear Window... which Hitchcockian beauty will you be inspired by?


Sienna Miller & Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels

Tippi Hedren, The Birds

Hitchcock-inspired Jil Sander

Glamour's Vertigo-esque 'Hitchcock Presents'

Elle's Replication of The Birds

Janet Leigh, Psycho

Grace Kelly, Rear Window

By Rose Lewis



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