The clothes she wore in her life are countless. Between stage costumes that have gone down in history, unlined outfits for the most famous red carpets and looks created with her own hands, the wardrobe of Barbra Streisand it almost seems to have no (creative) boundaries.
It’s like a big book, where every dress, accessory, pattern or fabric corresponds to a page of her intense life of woman, actress, singer, multifaceted artist. A dense, long life eighty years, those that the star of the great cinema and the great stages performs on April 24, dotted with successes, awards, moments of glory, anecdotes and even (fashion) incidents along the way.
A bit like the one given by the outfit chosen for the Oscars ceremony of 1969the year the actress took home the gold statuette for best actress in the film Funny Girl. For the occasion, Streisand slipped into a ensemble of pants flare completed by a top piece with white collar and cuffs in sight by Arnold Scaasi. All right, were it not for the total transparency of the look revealed only later, in the spotlight, and of which she was totally unaware. “I had no idea that the moment the lights focused on the dress, it would become transparent!” she told Wmagazine. A problem he glossed over with at the time nonchalance: «I intend to win two Oscars in my life. I’ll be more moderate next time, ”she said.
It was certainly not unexpected transparencies, in fact, that stopped the irreverent artist and made him more cautious. Memorable was the curtain with the Queen Elizabeth IIin 1975, on the occasion of the premiere of Funny Lady. The actress, in the presence of the sovereign, wrapped in a sumptuous lilac velvet cloak, with a curious and unscrupulous manner asked her: “His Majesty, why do women have to wear white gloves when they have to meet her and men don’t? “. The Queen, without failing hers aplombhe replied: “I have to think about it, but I suppose it is by tradition“.
Bold as a dress of transparencies and sequins, scratchy like hers animalier passioncheerful as i chromatisms of his style, linear, but not too much, like the stripes and the pinstripe effects of her oversized suits, saucy like the carousel of her loved ones turbans and headdress, Barbra Streisand is and was also what she wore. This is why we have collected ten of her looks that somehow tell something about her, about her personality, about being her, about the golden moments of her career, about her moments away from the spotlight.
A tribute to an artist loved all over the world. From Queen Elizabeth included. Or at least we suppose.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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