14 September 2011

{On this Day...}

On this day, September 14, in 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco died. The former actress just only was 52 year old and she had been victim of a car accident.
I love her jewerlly here…

The world will not forget you.




11 September 2011

{Original "Wedding in Monaco" MGM Film, 1956 directed by J. Masson}


April, 1956. Monaco celebrates the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. Preparations are under way in this principality of 4,000 citizens and 16,000 foreign residents. The U.S. Constitution comes to port; Ms. Kelly disembarks onto the Prince's yacht. That evening, she walks the state rooms of the palace. In the morning, a civil ceremony precedes a party for the nation on the palace grounds. That evening, dancers entertain the royal couple before their nuptial Mass. The next day, the city's populace cheers as a motorcade takes the couple to the yacht for their honeymoon. Protocol, tradition, and love combine; beauty and pageantry, heretofore only imagined, become real...

Do not forget to click for watch it in full window:
First Part:


Second Part:


{Last Days of Summer; Lavande Lunch}



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{Photos by Kt Merry via This is Glamourous}

10 September 2011

{Fashion Plates from 1860s}















Source: Fripperies And Fobs (http://fripperiesandfobs.tumblr.com/)

{To Catch a Thief Premiere in 1955}





Grace with Cary Grant and others.
Up Grace´sisters: Peggy and Lizanne.

{Venice...}

(via the marion house book » a collection of stories about my house)
Photo source: this is glamorous.
(via {this is glamorous})
Winter look by Chloe.


Catherine Deneuve in Venice in the end of 60s.
(via {this is glamorous})


Corelli-Concerto Grosso.

Gywneth Paltrow at the Venice Film Festival 2011.

Grace Kelly dressed by Edith Head in "To Catch a Thief"

Old photo tribute to Giacomo Cassanova.