06.10.2011- My Week with Marilyn Trailer

It's here! After what feels like months of waiting, the trailer for My Week with Marilyn has finally been released:

Michelle Williams' performance looks amazing, as do the costumes and locations. I can't wait to see the full film when it hits cinemas on November 18th.

Are you looking forward to seeing My Week with Marilyn?

(Video credit: Youtube.)

16.09.2011- Weekend Wishes

Hello! Firstly, I am so so sorry for not posting at all over the last week, my hard drive completely gave up the ghost and my computer has only returned from the menders today! Needless to say I have a lot to catch up on! Anyway, forgetting about that for a moment and celebrating the weekend; I wish I could spend mine chanelling the timeless style of Marilyn Monroe as well as Michelle Williams does in the October issue of US Vogue: 

Michelle Williams photographed by Annie Leibovitz and styled by Tonne Goodman, US Vogue October 2011.

Doesn't she look stunning? I can't wait to see her performance in My Week With Marilyn when the film is released in November.

What are your plans for the weekend?

(Image credit: vogue.com via fashiongonerogue.)

27.04.2011- My Week with Michelle

My Week with Marylin is one of the films which I'm really looking forward to seeing towards the tail end of the year, and I can't wait to see how Michelle Williams captures the magic of Marylin Monroe on screen. I've loved Michelle since I saw her in Brokeback Mountain, and I've admired her style ever since she wore that stunning Vera Wang gown to the Oscars in 2006. As if to cement her status as an up-and-coming style icon, Michelle is featured on the May cover of Interview magazine, starring in a shoot styled by Karl Templer and photographed by Mikael Jansson:

I love the Rosemary's Baby meets Hitchcock heroine feel of this shoot and Michelle looks beautiful as always. And, it seems, peter-pan collars are here to stay!

What do you think of this shoot? Are you a fan of Michelle? And are you looking forward to seeing My Week With Marylin? I wish they'd hurry up and release a trailer!

(Image credit: fashiongonerogue.)

11.10.2010- Michelle does Marilyn

You might have seen this over the weekend- the first official publicity picture of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Williams is portraying Monroe in My Week with Marylin, a film which is set to recall the making of The Prince and the Showgirl, and is based upon the memoirs of Colin Clark, an assistant on the 1957 production. The film also stars Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier, Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark and Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike. The supporting cast includes Dominic Cooper, Zoe Wanamaker, Simon Russell Beale and Emma Watson, in her first role since graduating from Harry Potter. The premise of the film sounds brilliant, and the cast is second to none. I'm already thinking that there may be some Oscars in the pipeline, as we all know that Michelle is a phenomenal actress. And, if this promotional image of her in full costume, hair and makeup as Marylin is anything to go by, I'd say that the producers could have chosen no-one better to play one of the most beloved cinema icons of all time:

Credit: The Weinstein Company

Talking of Marilyn, a new book called Marylin, August 1953: The Lost LOOK Photos, compiled by Brian Wallis features over one hundred previously unseen images of Monroe from 1953, taken when she was filming River of No Return. The book is released at the end of the month and, if this glimpse is anything to go by, I'd say it's definitely worth picking up:

Not only does the book showcase more of Marilyn's classic style, but it also offers a really intimate portrait of her in her element, as captured by John Vachon. Beautiful, no?

What do you think of Michelle Williams as Marilyn? Are you looking forward to seeing My Week with Marilyn? And will you be buying the book?

(Image credit: The Weinstein Company, Google Images, and John Vachon via telegraph.co.uk.)