#wendy leach

[commonguttersnipe]

A super messy doodle of Wendy Leach!

[wendy-leach-fanblog]

The colour schemes in AFCW and it's meanings

I just realized that and had to share it with you. I don't know wether John Cleese planned this or not but:

⚪️🔵🟡 = harmony

🩷 = disturbing/breaking harmony

⚫️ = mayhem

Garden scene

No 🔵⚪️🟡 = no harmony

⚫️ = mayhem

The harmony colour scheme is entirely absent which means no harmony. Archie's black suit brings mayhem into it.

Result:

🔵⚪️🟡 = harmony

🩷 = trouble

⚫️ = mayhem

Wanda's room is actually a harmonic place - but her pink blouse and the pink lamp trouble the harmony. Also Otto brings mayhem.

Result:

Bedroom scene

🔵⚪️🟡 incomplete = no harmony

🩷 = trouble

The harmony colour scheme is in complete as Archie's pyjamas are only blue-white. Wendy's nightgown is only white. The pink curtains cause trouble. No harmony but trouble in this scene.

Burglar scene

🔵⚪️🟡 incomplete = no harmony

⚫️ = mayhem

Wendy wears white-blue but that's not the complete harmony colour scheme so no harmony. Archie's entirely black clothing brings mayhem.

Result:

🔵⚪️🟡 = harmony

⚫️ = mayhem

The harmony colour scheme is complete! Not only on Wendy's cllthes but also in the room (yellow walls with white-blue vases) But Archie wears grey (a lighter shade of black) which causes mayhem.

Result:

⚫️ = mayhem

The scene where they all wear black except Portia who wears pink?

Well...

Pure mayhem.

[creative-soul-22]

Tell me more about your Wendy Leach backstory please?

(I'm fr invested in it now!!)

Hii ☺️

OMG your ask makes me so happy 🥰 Thank you so much for asking!

Plot details under the cut:

When a young Wendy gets in trouble with the law, young barrister Archie Leach helps her out. They hang out in the pub and Archie starts visiting Wendy's races since she's a renown equestrian taking part in national races. They fall in love. Their parents, however, are not quite happy with this relationship.

But Wendy and Archie marry and soon thereafter welcome their daughter Portia.

This changes their lives completely: they stop going to the pub and Wendy rests her equine activities.

They start to fit in the conventions of the society they once fought against. They become sensible parents. Archie founds his own law firm as soon as he has the chance to do so and Wendy becomes sort of a housewife. She looks after Portia, makes social connections such as meeting for lunch with Marjorie Brooks, playing three rubbers with Philippa Hunter, etc. the social life of the rich, you know. But to fit in the conventions has a very high price: their love fades.

Then Wendy gets the necklace and she is so happy because it shows her Archie still loves her. Shortly after that he asks her to give the necklace back but Wendy says no.

Soon thereafter, a burglar breaks in to their house and steals her necklace. She is traumatized and needs Archie's company but he rushes off to conference.

She comes to terms Archie might have an affair and is devastated. Then she's proven right in court when he humilliates her by publicly calling Wanda "darling", admitting the affair. Wendy slaps him and divorces him.

Archie feels free, finally being able to officially date Wanda but Wendy feels heartbroken and grieves the end of her marriage.

Their lives changes again: Archie setting off to Rio with Wanda and 20 mio. $, Wendy losing her necklace and Archie. She's a single mother of a teenage girl now.

But eventually, she realizes the divorce might has set her free, as well...

[wendy-leach]

So, tell me...

How does it feel to root for a man who cheats on his wife and when she divorces him, he leaves her and their teenage daughter all alone without a goodbye?

[yonderghostshistories]

Remember the AFCW meme you made?

I made my own:

It's lovely :)

Thanks for being inspired by my lil AFCW meme!!

[creative-soul-22]

Very much so!

But

You see how happy Wendy is with the necklace? It's the only time she ever smiles in the whole movie and it would be heartless to rob her of this.

Also, when you think of what shit she's going through...

Watching A fish called Wanda again, Archie could have avoided a lot of crap if he had just told Wendy that the necklace that Portia picked up belongs to the strange American man that had used their telephone

[celestialmazer]

Camille Lemoine

Gemma Dagger

Rachel Lamb

Wendy McMurdo

Izzy Leach

Margaret Mitchell

https://diormagazine.dior.com/dior-magazine-en/dior-magazine-48/fashion/from-dior-to-scotland

Christian Dior - Cruise 2025

Highlands, Tantallon Castle, Edinburgh

Catwalk at Drummond castle, Scotland, June 3rd 2024

Pietro Ruffo's blue Toile de Jouy Scotland motif

Yilan Hua wears Dior for Vogue Czech December 2024 - https://anneofcarversville.com/fashion/2024/12/16/7yilan-hua-vogue-czechoslovakia

https://www.dior.com/en_gb/fashion/womens-fashion/ready-to-wear-shows/cruise-2025-show

For Maria Grazia Chiuri, the presentation of the cruise collection is an opportunity to follow the steps of Christian Dior around the world.

Visual journeys that each time invoke new experiences. In 1955, Monsieur Dior presented his work in Perthshire, Scotland, in the ballroom of the Gleneagles Hotel. For the Creative Director of Dior Women’s Collections, this country has become the narrative framework of the Dior cruise 2025 collection – unveiled in the gardens of Drummond Castle – where memories, inspirations and suggestions fuse to generate shapes and embroideries.

The unicorn and the thistle, both symbols of Scotland, provide an unprecedented variation of the Millefleurs motif, and are transposed into heraldic embroidery, recalling the savoir-faire of this exceptional technique, a language in itself, a form of resilience. An emblem of Mary Stuart that can be found in Clare Hunter’s book Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power1.

A map of Scotland adorns some of the models in this cruise line, sketching a cartography of collaborations and cultural encounters deployed specially for this défilé, such as the tribute to tartan: “It’s probably the only fancy fabric that resists fashions,” Christian Dior wrote in The Little Dictionary of Fashion2. Blending various colors and the cut of a kilt, this historic cloth, intrinsically characteristic of the region, continues to cross fashions past and present, from romanticism to punk.

Photographs from the spring-summer 1955 presentation are transformed into prints or employed as appliques on the edges of kilts or pea coats, in a kind of cinematic montage. They constitute objects of memory punctuating this Dior cruise 2025 collection.

The looks merge contrasting elements, including the diverging textures of velvet and lace dressing the contemporary equestrian. Certain silhouettes feature exaggeratedly wide sleeves which, on white shirts, appear under little dresses with gathered skirts and bustiers resplendent with embroidery. The latter can be found on several dark, iridescent pieces that are sometimes adorned with pearls. Lace collars, in their turn, brighten up the black.

Also used in very light materials, tartan is the common thread running through this veritable celebration of the kilt, whether made directly in Scotland or reinterpreted. Not to forget dresses conceived in diverse lengths, as well as coats and capes with large hoods. Rain boots come and go. Small jackets adopt the gray of menswear fabrics, and the iconic Bar jacket sports black velvet Brandenburg buttons.

This same velvet magnifies an evening gown, the fitted bust of which emphasizes the oversized skirt. Feathery woven fishnet metamorphoses into long, lightweight dresses, embracing the mauve hue of nostalgia.

This inventive choreography is made up of interconnected affinities. Like an testimony revisiting stories of earlier times, it offers a journey where the different stages become the subjects of creativity.

1 Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power, Clare Hunter, Sceptre, 2022.

2 The Little Dictionary of Fashion, Christian Dior, Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1954, translated into French in 2007 as an appendix to the catalogue Dior 60 Years of Style.

Odes To Mary Stuart

Inspired by Scottish craft traditions and the iconic figure of Mary Stuart, the silhouettes reinvent the look of the visionary sovereign, from romance to punk, tartan to corset-armor, dresses with accentuated shoulders to tweed sets and prodigious couture embroidery, echoing that of Holyrood Palace*. Between celebration and transgression(s), the iconic Argyle motif is unveiled in a fine open-work version; emblematic Fair Isle lace is modernized with a subtle interplay of material and transparency; crinolines are boldly revisited, punctuated by elements borrowed from counter-cultures. All these reinterpreted textile symbols marvelously revive the founding ties between France and Scotland.

* Primary residence of the kings and queens of Scotland

Punk Attitude

Poetic and all-conquering, the silhouettes designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri for the Dior cruise 2025 show are enhanced by accessories that convey a powerful, impetuous femininity. Worn with high socks, leather riding boots are adorned with zips and multiple straps, promising a confident, determined gait. Inspired by traditional sporran, kilts are worn with saddlebags emblazoned with the initials “CD”. A tribute to the customs that make Scotland so rich, the bags' shoulder straps are decorated with heraldic symbols that combine the House's emblems with those of this fascinating country. Wonderful finishing touches include necklaces with delicate black ribbons and pendants featuring marine motifs, a poetic evocation of the seas that shape the beauty of coastal landscapes.

Dior in Scotland: The making of the collection

Full show:

[mariocki]

Disraeli: The Great Game (1.3, ATV, 1978)

"Mary Anne, do not distress yourself; you know that whatever happens, you need never worry."

"I am not thinking about myself, don't you understand? I shall not always be here, my money dies with me. What will you do when I'm gone?"

"I cannot imagine such an empty world."

[thesuetyouforgot]

You: "Just here to bathe in Monty Python content"

Me: "Ooohhh... a Python fan again... hehe" *rubs hands together* *throws my Wendy Leach fanfiction idea at you*

Also me: *is not really into the Pythons*

Not me bamboozling up Python fans and behaving like one of them just because I am hyped with Wendy Leach at the moment lol😅

I love your approach! :D And A Fish Called Wanda definitely could use every fan and every crumb of content it can get. But this time you've sadly come to the wrong person haha... I've never gotten around to watch that movie although it's been on my to-watch-list for years now :(

[jackdavenportaddict]

I watched A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures for my Jamie Lee Curtis hyperfixation caused by her role as Madame Leota in Haunted Mansion

But I ended up being obsessed with Wendy Leach/Maria Aitken!

I'm writing Wendy's backstory at the moment (it's supposed to be Wendy's and Archie's backstory but it's gotten way too Wendy-centric for that)

Oh that's exciting! :) I remember when I was writing a backstory for Marge Sherwood from The Talented Mr Ripley (my favorite movie) on Wattpad, never finished it though

[commonguttersnipe]

*clinks triangle* I made a Wendy Leach edit!

[wendy-leach-fanblog]

JUST IMAGINE WENDY DIDN'T LEFT FOR THE OPERA...

[creative-soul-22]

Watching Archie fake a break into his own house is all fun and games...

... until you see Wendy's perspective.

@spacecluster @jackdavenportaddict

[wendy-leach]

Who runs off to Rio with another woman and 20 Mio. $?

So, tell me...

How does it feel to root for a man who cheats on his wife and when she divorces him, he leaves her and their teenage daughter all alone without a goodbye?

[kwebtv]

Love for Lydia - ITV - September 9, 1977 - December 2, 1977

Drama (13 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Mel Martin as Lydia Aspen

Christopher Blake as Edward Richardson

Sherrie Hewson as Nancy Holland

Peter Davison as Tom Holland

Jeremy Irons as Alex Sanderson

Beatrix Lehmann as Bertie Aspen

Rachel Kempson as Juliana Aspen

Michael Aldridge as Captain Rollo Aspen

Ralph Arliss as Blackie Johnson

Christopher Hancock as Mr Richardson

Patricia Leach as Mrs. Richardson

David Ryall as Bretherton

Wendy Gifford as Mrs Sanderson

[ambroseisland]

Wendy Leach