So odd that you liked this when you’re literally arguing against gender neutrality lol

Tonight’s old movie is “Leave Her to Heaven” (1945). Not often you see a 40s film noir in glorious Technicolor. Gene Tierney is fantastic in this as the psycho villain. She only narrowly lost the Oscar to Joan Crawford in “Mildred Pierce”.

I’m sick, and watching Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Marlene Dietrich is incredible. The way she dominates any room she walks into, a quality shared only by a handful of other old Hollywood actresses. I’m obsessed with how she draws on her eyebrows a full inch higher than they are naturally.

Please can someone buy me the Robert Vivier for YSL shoes that Catherine Deneuve wore in Belle de Jour? They are filth.

Spent the afternoon building this paper Moomin house that was designed by Tove Jansson herself in 1957. I got it free in a recent charity hardback release of Moomins and the Great Flood (which is a lovely edition in its own right).

#sotd Snob by Le Galion. Sharp green apple and sparkling aldehydes lead into a heady jasmine and rose duo that lasts for hours. It’s so elegant, and very 1950s. I really want a full bottle of this.

#sotd is The Lover’s Tale by Francesca Bianchi. Waxy iris, burnt rubbery leather, and furry castoreum and oakmoss. It smells like a mothball ridden vintage store and I love it.

#sotd Intra-Venus by @chronotope.bsky.social purchased from @saintecellier.bsky.social
Inspired by the works artist Hannah Wilkes made during her battle with lymphoma. A plasticky hyacinth, with végétal notes: yarrow, maté and wasabi - this perfume is haunting, medicinal & reminiscent of hospitals.

Tonight’s old movie was Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright (1950). A film noir murder mystery romp, which is both funny and tense as you’d expect from Hitchcock. But the best thing about this is Marlene Dietrich, who is on form as the bored & bitchy actress who may or may not have murdered her husband.

After the Nosferatu film we watched the 1979 Werner Herzog version. Bad acting, too well lit, & obviously filmed in The Netherlands rather than Germany, but it had its moments. Enjoyed how pathetic the monster was, and the dystopian plague scenes with the same music used by Kate Bush in Hello Earth