Norton Museum’s ‘Cocktail Culture’ exhibit shows how fashion, style coalesced in high society years

Up front in the Norton Museum of Art’s new "Cocktail Culture" exhibit is a video clip of William Powell in full alcoholic splendor in 1934′s The Thin Man, a movie in which Powell might be completely sober for perhaps 10 minutes. Those were the days. Nobody got swozzled better than Powell – he made it look desirable. (I shudder to think of the vast number of alcoholics created by people trying to emulate the debonair drunks of 1930s movies.) The film clips and objects in the Norton exhibit both precede and post-date Powell, but they don’t surpass him – nothing could. The earliest parts of...

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Jessica Hart for Pencey Standard Spring 2012 Collection

Model Jessica Hart has turned her attention towards fashion design as she created a super flirty but casual chic fashion collection for Pencey Standard. With a certain vintage vibe, the collection brings all the elements that Jessica Hart thinks are important this 2012 season, so check out the new collection and pick your new season favorites Australian model Jessica Hart has channelled her energy off the runway as well to create a stylish fashion collection with New York based fashion label Pencey Standard. The Aussie model, who also modelled for Victoria's Secret, isn't at her first entry in...

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