Courted by fashion, essential and unforgettable in the movies, the gloves have collected more and more admiration and acclaim. Some costume designers have anticipated the trend predicting the future style and the ”movie addicted” has often become a ”fashion addicted”. The actors were recognised timeless characters for the outfit weared or for a particular raised, becoming in this way, glamour icons for the fashion industry. The gloves in the movie ”Gilda”, starred by Rita Hayworth, and those of Marilyn Monroe in ”Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” have emphasized the sensuality of the actresses. Both of them have played to perfection the ”femme fatale” who unrolls the long glove, entering immediately into the myth. The beautiful Grace Kelly in the 1954 Hitchcock masterpiece ”Rear window” shows off the wonderful Edith Head dress completed by long white gloves to three quarters. The American actress, known for her class , has made the glove a must gadject even out of the set to enrich her unforgettable outfit. Memorable her official releases as Princess of Monaco or to the Oscar awards ceremony, the gloves were worn with innate elegance showing thw ”great lady” style of the 50s.
In the same years the legendary partnership between the actress Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy became the most famous of the Hollywood cinema. The clothes disegned for her by the the French fashion designer often accompanied by long gloves, they made her a real style icon. Unforgettable in ” Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, wonderful in ”Sabrina”. In this last movie gloves complete the black and white dress worn by the actress and it is considered the ultimate expressione of Givenchy style . Long, short, made by lightweight materials and sometimes untangible, gloves went through centuries without their charm cleans state. Int he 80’s they have been proposed in a different model cutted off fingers and black leather, a real revolution in style, a trasgressive mood worn in one of her first film,”Who’s that girl”, by the material girl par excellance: Madonna. Those were years in punk style. The most impetuous look gains wild fans and 80’s generation.
Not only classical models or that have undergone the change of costumes, in the movies have been seen types even more sporting. Particular leather gloves from the movies ” Drive” of 2011, motorist models with open knuckles. The sport genre has always had its admirers and it has inspired many fashion designer. The British actor Ryan Gosling, considered the most beautiful star of the latest generation, plays a pilot by looking tough and tender heart. Certainly the cinema will continue dreaming and its performers showing off gloves that will dictate then the latest fashion!
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