Betrayed by their spouses two neighbours find friendship, love and consolation in each other after learning their partners are involved in a secret love affair. The quest for love - the true kind - is put against 1960s Hong Kong by two of the best actors to emerge from the country during the 2000s. The plot is a slow, anxious search for love where oldschool ideas has the actors moving in slow motion. Maggie Cheung as Mrs. Chan is passionately gazing after her neighbour Mr. Chow (Tony Leung), but to afraid to do wrong to act on her feelings. The atmosphere is thick with emotions and the beautiful photography is one of the best to emerge during the last couple of years. Cheung wearing a new cheongsan dress for every scene (in total 46 silk dresses), with five hair and make up hours per day for 15 months, the picture of In the Mood for Love has you being with Cheung, touching her dresses, smelling her scent. Add to that the fact that Cheung’s look is a fashionistas’ must-see. The dresses alone: perfect cut collars that, together with Cheung's hair-do, emphasize a long slim neck, and the equal slimness of the knee-length dress that has floral silk pattern, stripes or comes in a bold stand-out color. Atmosphere filled with romantic longing in everyone of its exquisite composed frame, Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece is a much needed deep breath of fresh air in mood, pace and look.

In the mood for love by two of our great stylists:

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Louu is a stylist that not only create great looks but seems heavily in to fashion in general too. Naming Blondie as her favourite style icon she calls her personal style "Quiet Indie". Her looks as a stylist are however anything but quiet. Interesting layers of pattern and colors, daring to mix full length dresses with studs and chains or bows with animal print, fur and a feather fan her imagination is beyond most things we've ever seen. All this at the tender age of 14.

How much time do you spend on Looklet?
As much time as possible. I love seeing other peoples views on my looks and creating with the Twiggy model. I also love the Featured User features in Looklet Mag.

How would you describe your style as a stylist?
Unique!

What are your thoughts of fashion in general?
I worship fashion and my dream job is stylist! I also love the late Alexander McQueen's designs.

Do you have any style icons?
Blondie or Marylin Monroe

What song sums you up the best?
Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon

Which actor would play you in the story of your life?
Nicole Kidman, she's amazing.

One of our many favourite looks from Louu:

The time of my life amongst the it-crowd during a fashion week must-attend event, at some point ended up in a long argument with Very Important Photographer. Never mind if it was him or me who started it, point being that by every word he claimed the truth, all I kept hearing was The Smiths’ line will nature make a man of me yet? Of, ironically, ”This Charming man”.

Conversation started with argument on street style snap shots. In his opinion the only future of fashion and a contributing reason as to why the industry is experiencing a hard time money-wise. I claimed no matter how inspiring street style fashion might be it could never reflect anything other than a contemporary mode. Therefore, not a reason to why high end has a hard time, but merely a reflection of it.

A great source of inspiration, the reality of how people wear their clothes, how a particular heel makes someone move their hips, a button unbuttoned reflects a casual spirit to some, a sexual appealing to others. However, this is fashion, not reality.

Fashion in still life is a quest for beauty, the hunter and the hunted. That said I’d like to introduce a new colleague and member of the Looklet staff, our new photographer Jesper with whom I will continue my quest for the fantasy that is fashion.

xo
Tereza O