![]() ![]() Thompson's character was based on Diana Vreeland, the legendary fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and American Vogue – and she really was a legend, complete with misty beginnings, contested moments and narrative loops. ![]() A cutaway shot suggests that, from now on, even shampoo should be rosy. From now on, she declares, women of the world must "Think Pink!" It's not just a question of frocks, but of repainting the entire feminine world. Then Thompson's gimlet eye alights on a piece of pink cloth and her face comes alive. Green is "obscene", blue is "through" and red is "dead". ![]() It's the question of colour that bugs her. T here's an early moment in Funny Face, the 1957 Stanley Donen musical, when Kay Thompson, playing a New York fashion editor, bursts into her chic monochrome office and declares herself devoid of inspiration for the new season. ![]()
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