Outside The Rose Theater

Port Townsend has this steam punk/piratey thing going on. I loved this women's white dreadlocks and casual approach to style.

Advanced Style The Movie Premiere Photos

Advanced Style The Movie finally premiered in New York this weekend and we celebrated with a series of Q&A's and screenings including a wonderful conversation with Simon Doonan at City Winery. We had such a grand time sharing the film with hometown audiences and can't wait for more theatrical releases throughout the country. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us at one of the Q&A's this weekend. The ladies had a ball and really felt your love and support. The film will be playing in New York at Quad Cinema through October 2nd and then rolling out to theaters nationally.

For more info on show times and screenings check the links below:

For show times and screenings in the US: Advancedstylethemovie.com
For international show times and screenings: Advancedstylefilm.com
To follow all our adventures on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdvancedStyleFilm

Advanced Style The Movie Comes Out Today

I can't believe that the Advanced Style documentary is finally hitting US theaters starting today! Lina Plioplyte, director of the film, and I met six years ago when I first moved to NYC. She was working at a coffee shop and we admired one another's crazy mix of paisley and tropical patterns and I asked if we could be friends. I told her that I wanted to start a blog where I photographed some of the most stylish, vital, and interesting older people in New York and she told me that she was just about to start a position at a fashion magazine making videos. Lina and I ran into each other about a month later at a gallery. She had been seeing my posts on Advanced Style and asked if she could make a few videos of the ladies for my blog. We started with Debra Rapoport and interviewed her about her style. From there we moved on to Tziporah and Ilona and quickly realized that these videos were about much more than just style. The ladies began to open up to us and share their lives and secrets to their incredible vitality. Lina and I became so captivated by their stories that we couldn't stop filming.

We are thrilled beyond belief to be able to finally share our film with everyone starting this weekend. Lina, The Ladies and I will be doing a series of Q&A's at the Quad Cinema all weekend and the film will be playing several times through the end of next week. For tickets to NYC screenings CLICK HERE or head to The Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, NY, NY 10011.

We couldn't have gotten here without all of your support. Thank you to everyone who has been following our journey over the last four years and a special thanks to all of our incredible Kickstarter Supporters. We hope to see everyone at the theater this weekend!

For more national screenings: Advancedstylethemovie.com
For international screenings: Advancedstylefilm.com

Matching On The Weekend

I love how these two matched their outfits for a weekend stroll uptown.

Button Dress

Janette Force, Executive Director of  the Port Townsend Film Festival, wore an incredible dress made from recycled buttons for our screening of Advanced Style.

Roma

Advancing Style: Tziporah Salamon

Tziporah as a Berkeley, 1979, when she moved back to NYC to pursue fashion

At 34, 1984, when she was approached by Wendy Goodman for a shoot for New York Magazine(photo: Cheryl Koralick)

Hamptons, 1986, (photo: Zachy Sherif)

In Egypt, 1992, 42-years-old (photo Youssef Nabil)

Egypt, 1993 (photo Zachy Sherif)

Tziporah at 53 in NYC (photo: Julie McCarthy)

At 59-years-old

I'm starting a new series entitled "Advancing Style" where I will be asking some of our favorite ladies to share some vintage photos documenting the development of their personal style. Our first feature is on the marvelous Tziporah Salamon who describes her personal style as, "artistic, bold, dramatic, and hopefully, elegant."

Tziporah, now 64, has seen a lifetime of style. Her parents were Holocaust survivors who moved their family to Israel and later New York. Her father worked as expert tailor in the garment district and her mother a dressmaker. As a little girl she would wake up to brand new outfits waiting at the edge of her bed each morning. She always felt like, "the best dressed girl in town" getting glamorous gifts from her uncle, who was the vice president of Neiman Marcus.

After graduating from Berkeley, Tziporah moved back to New York to pursue a career in fashion. She loved the work of Japanese designers like Commes des Garcons and Issey Miyake, but after realizing that a single piece of clothing cost upwards of $800, she decided to go underground for inspiration. Tziporah says," I had just moved back to New York and quickly realized that I needed to go underground for fashion. There was this great vintage store called Alice Underground where I bought my first 1940s jacket for $100. I remember seeing the quality of the garment and thinking that it was as good as what my father used to make. I still have the jacket today."

Tziporah struck vintage gold when she befriended collector Renee Lewis in New York City. Lewis had been collecting vintage clothing since she was four years old and according to Tziporah it is still the best collection she has ever seen. Renee could no longer wear the pieces from her archive so she decided to give her entire collection to Tziporah.This ignited a love of vintage collecting that has lasted for over thirty years.

The first time I saw a photograph of Tziporah I just knew I had to meet her. At the time she was 59 and too young for Advanced Style, so I waited a year until we finally got together. Tziporah was destined to become a style icon from day one. For more information on her wonderful one woman show CLICK HERE. 

Short Wedding Hairstyles

Brides, bridesmaids and guests wait for the big day with great impatience but preparations take so much energy. One of the most important things about wedding is surely dress and hairstyle and no matter you are a bride, bridesmaids or guest. Let’s talk about wedding hairstyles and mainly about short wedding hairstyles.

Women with short hair surely know all advantages of short haircut but sometimes they are limited in styling options especially when it comes to special occasions. In this case women with short hair more often use hair extensions. Well, this is an option but new season hair trends represented brand new short hairstyles that have the same smashing impact just like long hair. It means you will not have to pay for hair extensions. Your short hair can be transformed in the most unimaginable way so that your evening look will be complete.

The most popular short haircut is bob. It is more likely that you have bob so let’s talk about it first. No matter you have chin length or short bob haircut you will be able to get the best wedding hairstyle. For brides stylists offer to wear retro hairstyle with deep side parting and Marcel waves. Such hairstyle will look luxurious even without hair accessory. Surely brides would like to wear accessory; for retro look it can be shiny hair clip or brooch. Bridesmaids can get glamorous curly bob or classy sleek bob hairstyle that will look perfectly with any style of evening dress.

Shorter haircut can also be transformed so that it will look even more beautiful than classy up-do. If you have pixie haircut with long bang you can play with different styles like finger waves, flipped bag or quiff hairstyle.

Modern Gray Hairstyles

2014 color trends are versatile and contrastive; alongside with natural and subtle tones trends represent palette of quite bold and nontraditional shades that will blow your mind. One of such ultra-hot and trendy colors is gray that is getting more and more popular. Recently many celebrities have chosen gray as an alternative hair color.

The best thing about gray hair color is that you can easily hide your gray hair without going for regular touch ups. This is may be the reason why gray hair color is one of the main trends of 2014. There are several ways to wear gray hair color and the final result will depend only on your preferences. Here are some ideas of modern gray hairstyles and the ways to wear such fashionable look.

Let’s begin with elegant and less dramatic gray hairstyles. One of the best ways to wear gray color is to combine it with blonde. Light blonde can be spiced up with gray highlights; it can be either dip dying or thin highlighted strands spread all over hair.

Gray highlights will look fantastic with black hair but this style is hard to pull off and you should be ready to wear such dramatic image. Hair highlighting is surely perfect way to wear gray color but block colored gray hair has greater impact than multi chromatic hairstyle. In this case too you will have several options. You can choose darker gray that is close to black; such hairstyle will look stylish and less dramatic. For more fashionable look you should definitely go lighter and choose silver blonde or light gray color. You will find several celebrity images that will inspire you to wear modern gray hairstyle.

Celebrity Hairstyles from 2014 Cannes Film Festival

2014 Cannes Film Festival turned to be the most luxurious red carpet even of this year and if you have missed the event you can check out the best moments from Cannes and surely get some inspiration from celebrity styles.

Celebrities wore designer dresses, luxurious jewelry and statement accessories and their hairstyles couldn’t be just simple; they wore the most elegant and beautiful hairstyles. Take a sneak peek at the best celebrity hairstyles from 2014 Cannes Film Festival and find your favorites.

Celebrity Up-do Hairstyles

Blake Lively

We can say for sure that this year Blake Lively has gained all the highest rates with her unique red carpet images. At this time too she captured everyone’s attention with her super-stylish and elegant up-do.

Natasha Poly

Natasha Poly chose dramatic look with impressive gown, smokey eye makeup and center parted slicked up-do.

Suki Waterhouse

Suki Waterhouse chose romantic and a bit messy up-do hairstyle with side bang that made her natural beauty even more accentuated.

Lea Seydoux

Lea Seydoux completed her emerald green dress and luxurious earrings with side parted wavy up-do that beautifully opened her face and made her green eyes even more accentuated.

Marion Cotillard

On one of the latest red carpet events Marion Cotillard chose side twist that completed her retro image. For 2014 Cannes she chose similar vintage look.

Cate Blanchett

For 2014 Cannes Film festival Cate Blanchett chose classy backcombed up-do that was combined with smokey eye makeup and luxurious designer earrings.

Cheryl Cole

Voluminous up-do looks glamorous and elegant. Here is another beautiful style of voluminous up-do hairstyle by Cheryl Cole.

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore chose classy low bun with side parting that was a perfect match to her evening gown.

Karlie Kloss

Another example of romantic up-do is Karlie’s wavy chignon in Greek goddess style that was a perfect match to her Valentino gown.

 

Celebrity Braided & Ponytail Hairstyles

Both ponytail and braided hairstyles will always be trendy and even on such special events like Cannes Film Festival those two designs will always have their special place.

Alessandra Ambrosio 

 

Freida Pinto

 

Melanie Laurent 

 

Celebrity Loose Hairstyles

Our beauty bunnies adore wearing loose hairstyles. Natural and simple hairstyles were also seen on the red carpet.

Salma Hayek

 

Amelie Valade

 

Audrey Tautou

 

Berenice Bejo

 

Christina Hendricks

 

Eva Green

 

Hilary Swank

 

Isabeli Fontana

 

Jennifer Lawrence

 

Jessica Chastain

 

Lia Kebede

 

Mia Wasikowska

 

Monica Belucci

 

Naomi Watts