#french diva

[bitter69uk]

Thirty years ago, maverick punk conceptualist Malcolm McLaren released his 1994 album Paris. McLaren’s former lover, artistic collaborator and co-producer Eugenia Melian has reflected in a juicy recent blog post about the record’s tortured genesis. Paris was meant to feature collaborations with iconic Parisian women like Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Hardy. Melian has wild anecdotes about how difficult and volatile these divas were, and it’s miraculous Paris came out at all! Most challenging was Moreau: “When we sat down with Jeanne Moreau in her living room it was me who was star-struck, even though I had already exchanged a few phone calls with her directly. Sitting on the sofa in front of me was the legend, the spunky odd beauty with the raspy smoky voice whom Orson Welles had called the "best actress in the world.” Jeanne and Malcolm chatted amicably, her English was impeccable. Malcolm was writing a song called “Paris Paris” for her. Then she asked us who else was on the album. When she heard that we had approached Greco, “Oh, that lesbian?” Jeanne said, but when Malcolm told her that we were also approaching Françoise Hardy and Catherine Deneuve, her face became stony and hard. She lit another cigarette and blew the smoke out slowly saying: “It’s either ME, or them,” and the meeting ended there. Jeanne practically pushed us to her door … au revoir. Mortified, her agent Tony Krantz who I had become friends with, invented an excuse that Jeanne was not available, and her agenda was full. Much later, in November when we had nearly finished the recordings, I tried again, pitching to her Malcolm’s idea of me conducting a 15-minute interview with her in French, that we could use in the album. Jeanne replied “NON, too busy.” Only later did we find out that she was in rehab … In January 1994 Tony Krantz contacted me to say that Jeanne was now free and really wanted to be on the album. It was too late. The team was already back in London working on the mixes. What a shame.” Read full post here. Portrait of Moreau by Helmut Newton.

[annoyingpotatosworld]

Haven't been so happy with my hairstyle in a while. I love going to hair saloon.

I look like a French diva <3<3

[superficialcore]

[poppingmary]

Brigitte Bardot

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Catherine Deneuve🌻🌻🌻

Via @isabelfutre on Instagram🌻

[wayofthewang]

Chloé Bourgeois

[nerdyten]

Lestat honey even the Duolingo owl has clocked your tea

[boxedfoxess]

i can’t be the only one who when they first read aftg thought kevin was french

HE GIVES OFF THE ENERGY YK???

[justkillingthyme]

how'd you?? get banned from talking about ls in ceramics lmfao?

Got too silly with it

[x-heesy]

Eva FucKing Green at the Cannes Film Festival, 2024 👑

#fashion #fashiongram #fashionable #fashionphotography #fashionlover #fashionart #fashionaddict #fashionphotographer #fashionpost #fashionshoot #fashionlove #fashionlovers #fashioneditoral #editoral #catwalk

Kunst by Lebanon Hanover 🎧

[bitter69uk]

“Catherine Deneuve has been compared to Greta Garbo because of her extraordinary beauty and her ability to act as a reflecting pool for the audience’s emotions. Like Garbo at the end of Queen Christina, Deneuve often does more simply by allowing herself to be a cypher than most other actresses can express by “acting.” This quality has made her one of the most popular modern French actresses and a leading international star in American, English and Spanish films as well. Her screen persona is one of icy sensuality, a beautiful and seemingly innocent girl driven by an intense sexuality which sometimes frightens and repels her. She often portrays call girls or mistresses, and sex is almost always the focal point of her relationships …”

/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World’s Great Movie Stars (1979) by Ken Wlaschin /

Interviewer: “But supposing you could have a penis just for a day, Camille. What would you do with it?” Camille Paglia: “You don’t want me to answer that question! I would go find Catherine Deneuve in a hurry!”

/ From the 1994 compilation of Camille Paglia essays Vamps & Tramps /

Born on this day 81 years ago (22 October 1943): alluring and inscrutable reine du cinéma français Catherine Deneuve. Her commitment to European art films has never wavered: Deneuve is still challenging herself and taking artistic risks right up to the present day. No wonder Martin Scorsese argues “Catherine Deneuve is French cinema. They are inseparable, and one and the same.” Pictured: portrait of Deneuve by Helmut Newton for the April 1989 edition of Vanity Fair.

[inmaculateheart]

[superficialcore]

Fenty Confetti 🎀 ᯓ ᡣ𐭩

[poppingmary]

Corinne Calvet

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Catherine Deneuve🌻🍂🌻

Via CINEMA FB🍂

[rurik-dmitrienko]

Diva By Rurik Dmitrienko