Decadent Fashion Friday.

I’m leaving town again (but this is the last time — for at least a couple of months!) to see the Seattle contingent. Yay!

Here are two things that are awesome:

Catholic Church Fashion Show from Federico Fellini’s Roma. I won’t try to describe it. Just watch it.

Featurette: The Eyes of Laura Mars — Helmut Newton and Rebecca Blake photographs, a lovely Faye Dunaway, a young Brad Dourif (aka Doc from Deadwood), and magnificently extreme late seventies styles. (Personal to garretfw: if you ever need to appear in costume, I think you’d be an excellent Dunaway-esque Laura Mars.)

Oh, and an extra awesome thing, unrelated to decadent fashion unless you consider Guys and Dolls costumes to be examples of same: thanks to caitiecait for letting me know that a passage from Empress is up on literaryquotes!