almost famous

Almost Famous is a 2000 film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It tells the fictional story of a teenage journalist William Miller (played by Patrick Fugit) writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone. It also follows how William comes of age as a man an falls in love for the first time with the free spirited and beautiful 'band aid' (a nice way of saying 'groupie') Penny Lane (played by Kate Hudson)

This is one of my favorite movies in so many ways. The storyline, the soundtrack, the styling, the dialogue, everything. It's an all around great movie. Set in the late 1960's/early 1970s, taking place in a bohemian yet fast paced rock & roll lifestyle where free love seemed to be everywhere but it was more complicated than it sounded. Penny Lane is the ideal hippy girl wandering through life trying to love, be loved and most of all..enjoy her life and enjoy music. Penny Lane's styling is dead on with loose and natural clothing, piled on accessories, paisleys & earth tones, loose and free curly hair and little to no make up. Glammed up when she needs to be but on the whole, she's Penny Lane. She just needs to be herself because that's what everyone loves to see.

There's an air of confidence about the character but as you see throughout the movie, her look is often deceiving. She's a lot more complicated than what she allows people to see through her appearance.

Almost Famous' styling is a perfect way of depicting the early 1970's era where free love and 'hippy-dom' was still existing but the era of free love, rock and roll and hope for peace was coming to a close.

Designers have emulated Penny Lane's bohemian look season after season:

Alberta Ferretti
Anna Sui

Etro

Here is my styling take on Penny Lane's look:

Sheer top, 95 GBP
Citizens of Humanity mid rise jeans
ASOS ankle sandal, $81
Leather handbag, $76
DAY Birger et Mikkelsen tribal jewelry, 145 EUR
In God We Trust owl jewelry, $60
Feather hair accessory, 240 GBP