Caught a bit of the 1962 Kubrick film Lolita on TCM (Turner Classic Moives) and was struck by how the heroine’s girl-woman beauty styling still holds up today. Nabokov’s imagined woman child is beautifully realized by the actress Sue Lyon. Her precocious sensuality and sophisticated teenie-bopper beauty is a perennial inspiration for fashion designers and photographers. When I saw the film Ellen Von Unwerth’s work and the styling of numerous runway shows immediately came to mind. Lolita as executed in the Kubrick film brings to mind Spring time. She represents that fleeting, nubile, youthful, and pretty beauty that happens just once in a life and for a brief moment – just like that first bloom of Spring.
Here are few ways to inject that youthful shot of Spring into your wardrobe. GET THE LOOK:
