Ain't We Got Style

The 1930s had style as well as breadlines. So let's see My Man Godfrey wearing Armani, deck the Joads out in Burberry and Bottega Veneta, and pretend that It Happened One Night in Ralph Lauren. With an homage to Hollywood. Hard Times Edition, MICHAEL ROBERTS. JEAN ROY, MARK SELIGER. and ART STREIBER photograph a bevy of this summer’s stars— costumed by Dolce & Gabbana. Prada, Givenchy, Galliano, and others—in cinematic moments from seven Depression classics

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As depressing Depression films go. Sydney Pollack’s 1969 opus takes the stale biscuit. Heart attacks, broken dreams, and breakdowns on the dance floor as 30s dance-marathon participants down on their luck compete for prize money. Rather like a reality show without the chance of “Page Six” celebrity. Here, our cast gives their thespian all. in everything from D&G to Brioni.

It Happened One Night James Marsden and Rose Byrne Runaway heiress. love triangle, gruff but adorable joumalist-Frank Capra's 1934 classic has everything a screwball on-the-road comedy should have to take the mind off foreclosures and bank closures. The most iconic scene (apart from the one where Clark Gable removed his shirt, revealing no undershirt, and wiped out an entire industry) is the hitchhiking sequence. Gable invokes the language of the thumb. Claudette Colbat trumps him with the power of her games. Here Gable (Marsden. in Ralph Lauren) and Colbert (Byrne, in Sportmax) square off.

42nd Street Krysten Ritter, Margarita Levieva, Willa Holland, Ari Graynor, Moon Bloodgood, Jon Engstrom, Nikki Reed, Greta Genvig, Lucas Till, Jamie Chung, Lmma Stone, Rashida Jones, and C hris Messina The whole world's going to the dogs, so what do we need? Battalions of tap-dancing girls in ankle socks and flimsy shorts! Then (1933), as now, the chorines pound the hoards (in Lmporio Armani). Hopefuls wait their turn in assorted pret-a-porter while choreographer Kngstrom and director Messina emote. Will the show go on? When will it not?

LIIY Liiilüii lila kunis Before gigantic eebrns and shoulders engulfed her. .Joan ran ford played numerous birdlike shopgirls. socialites, and gold-digging secretaries tiled under the category Clotheshorse. A sell-dressed no~here film, Letr Lnwn (1932) contained gold dust in us heroine's dreams ardrobc (b Adrian). and the Lett~ I.~nton dress. ith billoiing, diaphanous skews, became an oernight sensation. Iore than 509,0(U) copies sold in the depths f the I)epression. Our ras ford gibes enchs feather autumn offering a similar come-and-get-me allure.

My Man Godf rey (hanning latum and Amanda Seyfried A scavenger hunt-eum-party game in this 1936 classic somehow involves Carole Lombard's madcap heiress wandering into the Depression-era streets, picking up hobo William Powell, and turning him into her exquisitely attired butler. Not, one feels, something to be attempted todav. Here, as Powell, Tatum (in Armani) serves up serious tidbits as Seyfried's Lombard (in Galliano) finds it all highly amusing.

The Grapes of I! rath Kelli Gamer, Eugene Levy, Dan Fogler, Emile Hirseh, Demetri Martin, and Mamie Glimmer A sacred piece of .John Ford cinema. Poignant, powerful, troubling—with hats to die for. Or is that a tad inappropriate? W hatever, the Dust Bowl style of 1940 is freight-training hack toward us, and come September fashionable dames will surely embrace Stella McCartney’s granny-ish knits, Bottega Veneta's drapey dresses, and Burberry's drapier separates while guys adopt newsboy caps and suspenders to make it “Two for the .load.” Our irreverent cast (from Ang Lee's latest. Taking Woodstock) show how it's done.

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