Since I mentioned Ali MacGraw this week, I figured now would be as good a time as any to feature the lovely lady for today's style inspiration post. Ms. MacGraw got her start as a photographic assistant to Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar after graduating from Wellesley College in 1960. She is best known for her oscar-nominated performance in Love Story (1970), which landed her face on the cover of TIME magazine. After three short-lived marriages in rapid succession (to banker Robin Hoen from 1961-62, producer Robert Evans from 1969-72, and finally to Steve McQueen from 1972-78), she struggled with alcohol before finding her center in the practice of Hatha Yoga.
Ironically, she apparently appeared on Richard Blackwell's worst-dressed list in 1971 (although, granted, most of the inspirational style photos of Ms. MacGraw are film stills... and she most likely did not style herself :) I am dying to find a fur hat like the one she is wearing in the second photo, and I love the knotted turban and open-front dress from the first photo, which appears to be candid--if you ask me, that's evidence of her personal style!
She is beautiful and with such an inspiration of style!!!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen Love Story, but clearly I need to put it on my list. That camel coat of her's is popping up all over the blogosphere lately! She does have such a classic fresh all American style that I cannot help but admire and she has this natural really unique beauty. Wow, no one really looks like and that's amazing in itself.
ReplyDeletegreat photos, I've loved the interviews I've read of her! Cool page layout, too ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I love her style, but I appreciate her particular brand of natural beauty. Those thick eyebrows!
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