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shabam ! pow ! blop ! wizz !

I'm slightly obsessed with the trailer and stills from the upcoming Serge Gainsbourg biopic.

But will ever Vie Héroïque finally get an American release date? Let me know if yes so I can change out of my artfully-disheveled bedsheet, climb off this piano and get myself to a theater.

eartha kitt x isaac mizrahi

I hope at some point I enjoy life half as much as Eartha Kitt appears to in Unzipped. I love this clip of her shimmying around her overly-floral apartment in a green sequined dress with fake eyelashes on at what is probably two in the afternoon, singing a lot of possessed-sounding gibberish and telling the story about the one time Orson Welles bit her.

Eartha is also the best impression Isaac does in the entirety of this film. And there are really a lot of them to choose from.

muse a la mode: karen o.

Les Ateliers Ruby

image vie Les Ateliers Ruby

Last night at the Fischerspooner show in Hollywood--excellent, by the way--the dancers popped on some polka-dot headwear for a song or two. I would have felt a bit sorry for them, considering that they'd spent the previous 30 minutes sweating, jerking and twirling to frenetic electropop, but instead I was just jealous. Those helmets were adorable.

Lo and behold, this morning I was flipping through a magazine and spotted that very helmet, which appears to be made by Les Ateliers Ruby. The helmet-maker, Jerome Grew, says his headgear is equally inspired by Steve McQueen, science fiction and French luxury. (At least that middle inspiration he shares with FS.)

What I love the most about Grew is that he also designs and sells silk scarves. Because as we all know, the look and feel of a gorgeous scarf fluttering around your neck in the speeding-by breeze is 90 percent of the reason to ride a scooter anyway.