UK Vogue October 1989 💜💜💜💜💜
Model/Modèle : Claudia Schiffer
Luscious décolletage in a violet silk
evening dress, with a bodice of silk satin laced with satin ribbon mbroidered with flowers, and sumptuously wrapped in a matching satin stole deep sea-green lining. Satin by Taroni.
Silk crepe by Clericci Tessuto. broidery by Valentino. Scent: Valentino.
Photographed at Hôtel Meurice.
Décolleté pulpeux en soie violette robe de soirée, avec un corsage de satin de soie lacé d'un ruban de satin brodé de fleurs, et somptueusement enveloppé dans une étole de satin assortie doublée d'un vert d'eau profond. Satiné par Taroni. Crêpe de soie par Clericci Tessuto. broderie par Valentino. Parfum : Valentino. Photographié à l'Hôtel Meurice.
Stylist: Sarajane Hoare
Coiffure: Serena Radaelli
Makeup/Maquillage : Francesca Tolo
Photo Herb Ritts
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October 9, 1989: The day the dictatorial GDR regime broke
Throughout the 1980s, discontent among the population of the GDR about the economical and political situation kept growing. Nonetheless, the ruling party SED (Socialist Union Party of Germany) upheld its role as the only governing part of the state, continuing the process of the "socialist revolution" in the state. People started protesting against oppression of dissidents.
The situation became explosive after the rigged local elections on May 7, 1989. People didn't have the choice between multiple options. Instead, there was only one list of the "National Front", which was automatically counted as "yes" as soon as the ballot was dropped into the urn. The only way to vote "no" was to strike all entries in the list through with a straight line. Although this was a tedious proces that could easily be traced by the Stasi officers in the polling stations, many people made use of this way of voting "no". For the first time, citizens gathered in the polling stations to observe the process of counting. Althouth this was explicitly allowed by law (§ 37 of the voting act), access was denied in almost all cases. Nonetheless, members of the church documented electoral fraud and made it public. This led to the first protests, which the Stasi and regular police forced tried to quench. Around the same time, a mass exodus through neighboring countries to West Germany started.
These protests attracted more and more people. In many cases, the demonstrations started after peace prayers in the protestant churches throughout the country. But still, the oppressive system of the state held the upper hand. On October 7, 1989, the police forces, workers' militia, and Stasi arrested thousands of protesters in Leipzig and arrested them in horse stables on the grounds of the agricultural fair.
This led pastor Christoph Wonneberger to publish a plea for non-violence, which was agreed to by some SED secretaries read out loud over the city's public announcement system (by Leipzig's Gewandhaus Orchestra's conductor Kurt Masur) and during the peace prayers. On October 9, 1989, the situation was tense as approx. 130,000 people took to the streets, marching past the Stasi central. A massive presence of state forces was also present, and people feared a "Chinese solution", referring to the violent Tiananmen Square massacre earlier that year. However, the plea for non-violence by the power of its wording kept both protesters and state forces from violent actions and the protests ended peacefully and without any arrests.
This was the first time the GDR authorities gave in to the masses of protesters. The word spread, and protests sprang up in more and more cities throughout the country, leading to state leader Erich Honecker's demise on October 18 and culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which ultimately led to the German reunification.
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Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Polly Mellon, and Christy Turlington, The Fashion Group International's 6th Annual “Night of 100 Stars” at the The Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York on October 29, 1989
Photo: Ron Galella
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US Vogue December 1988 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Escada Spring/Summer 1989 Models, Cindy Crawford, Gail Elliott, Famke Janssen. Unidentified photographer.
Escada printemps/été 1989 Modèles, Cindy Crawford, Gail Elliott, Famke Janssen. Photographe nonidentifié.
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Titanic Model from Ghostbusters II
"In the 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II, a buildup of psychomagnotheric mood slime beneath the streets of New York turns the city into a melting pot of paranormal activity, manifesting a number of the film’s most spine-tingling visuals, among them the 'better late than never' arrival of the Titanic.
To make the scene a reality, modelmakers John Goodson and Jeff Olson constructed a Titanic miniature out of plywood and urethane that, while highly detailed, took some liberties compared to the wreckage.
In the November 1989 issue of Cinefex magazine, model shop supervisor at ILM Bill George would discuss these changes, among them the addition of skeletal smokestacks and director Ivan Reitman wanting the hole in the bow’s ship to appear larger, stating:
'We tried to be as accurate as we could using books, magazine articles, and videotape of the wreck, but we still had to make changes in two areas. One had to do with the fact that the smokestacks were torn off when the ship went down–but the ship without the smokestacks is less recognizable. So we built the smokestacks, making them very skeletal to kind of split the difference. The second change was because the director wanted the hole in the bow to be much larger than it actually was, and he also wanted the name on the ship moved so you could read it.'
Contrary to what’s seen in the film, the Titanic miniature was broken in half. However, it’s never shown, with George, again, citing that this decision came from Reitman, adding:
'Although it’s very difficult to tell in the angle it was filmed at, our model was broken in half because the real ship split into two sections when it went down. Early on, we were thinking that it would be great to have the bow section come up and then have the aft section follow. There were also thoughts of seeing the ship floating above the water or rising up out of the water. But the director wanted the audience to be able to see one shot and get the whole joke. He did not want a sequence or any lead-in shots.'
With pieces of the miniature being sold over the years, among them a recent Propstore auction containing the ship’s frontend closing at £10,000, much like the actual Titanic, Ghostbusters II’s take on the ocean liner is anything but still intact; however, for those who’d like to catch a glimpse of the scaled-down fabrication, the below image has been making the rounds.
While near complete, the miniature in the photo would see a handful of revisions before making its big screen debut, among them Reitman’s request to increase the damage seen on the bow.
Bow portion of the filming model. source
In addition to the Titanic, a couple of other ghostly ideas were tossed around for Ghostbusters II‘s 'Flip City' montage, with star and co-writer Harold Ramis saying:
'We considered several ideas. One had the Hindenberg arriving with flaming passengers getting off carrying luggage that was also on fire. Another featured a ghostly subway station with rotting commuters. That was the precursor to the ghost train that is now in the film. We also had a cemetery scene where the gravestones were taking off like rockets. Then the idea for the Titanic hit me one day and that seemed to offer the most powerful images.'”
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