The Great Gatsby opens nation wide today, and while F. Scott Fitzgerald rolls in his grave, all of America will be granted access to see the maybe-not-so-great film in 3-D (it is currently rated at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes… ouch). Admitted...
The Great Gatsby opens nation wide today, and while F. Scott Fitzgerald rolls in his grave, all of America will be granted access to see the maybe-not-so-great film in 3-D (it is currently rated at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes… ouch). Admittedly, we had very high hopes, but not every Baz Luhrmann film can be as perfect as Romeo + Juliet, can it? If nothing else, the movie is an excuse to see two childhood buds all grown up, hear the unbelievably amazing soundtrack (spoiler: you don’t really have to see the film to appreciate that one), and more importantly, drown in the Prada-designed costumes. We’d be remiss, when speaking of Roaring Twenties Long-Island Americana, not to mention the still-chic bob, because, like Gatsby, we very much believe your hair can (and should) “repeat the past.”
For starters: what exactly is a bob? In basic terms, it’s a short women's haircut. But how short is short (say short one more time…short)? Is it just below the ears? Is it grazing the chin? Is it anything above your clavicle? Well, theoretically it is all of the above. We would venture to say a bob is anything longer than a pixie and shorter than your shoulders. The look originated around World War I as the then-typical “feminine” long hair was deemed unsuitable for war work and was subsequently popularized by the actress Louise Brooks [61, 62] in the early 1920s. Though the style ebbs and flows in popularity, it has never truly gone out of style. Much like Catherine Zeta Jones [24] rocked our socks off with her bob (and all that jazz) in Chicago, we’re hoping that Carey Mulligan [16, 17] can do the same in Gatsby. Stay tuned…
P.S. Our love of cats is no secret, so maybe this is just us, but the below is an adaptation we'd like to see made.
[1-3] Anja Rubik, [4, 5] Anna Wintour, [6-8] Arizona Muse, [9, 10] Gwyneth Paltrow, [11] Audrey Tautou in Amélie, [12] Michelle Obama, [13] Barbra Streisand, [14] Christy Turlington, [15] Ali Michael, [16, 17] Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby, [18, 19] Naomi Campbell, [20] Bette Franke, Sigrid Agren, and Sara Blomqvist backstage at Chanel Resort 2013, [21] Alicia Keys, [22] Alexa Chung, [23] Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and The City, [24] Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago, [25] Chloe Sevigny, [26, 27] Freja Beha Erichsen, [28] Rihanna, [29] Anna Ewers and Keke Lindgard, [30] Courtney Love, [31] Natalie Portman in Closer, [32, 33] Winona Ryder, [34, 35] Keira Knightley, [36] Ashleigh Good, [37, 38] Xiao Wen Ju, [39] January Jones, [40] Aline Weber, [41] Berenice Bejo in The Artist, [42] Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, [43, 44] Faye Dunaway, [45] Cameron Diaz, [46] Linda Evangelista, [47] Catherine McNeil, [48] Jackie Kennedy, [49] Coco Chanel, [50] Drew Barrymore, [51, 52] Isabella Rosselini, [53] Julie Andrews, [54-56] Karlie Kloss, [57] Suri Cruise, [58] Katie Holmes, [59] Kirsten Dunst, [60] Linda Fargo, [61, 62] Louise Brooks, [63] Lucy Liu, [64] Sam Rollinson
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