cinematic fashion: stealing beauty

Stealing Beauty is a 1996 drama film directed by Academy Award-winning Italianfilmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot. It stars Liv Tyler, D.W. Moffett, Jeremy Irons, and Rachel Weisz. The film focuses on an American teenage girl named Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler), who travels to a beautiful Italian villa to stay with family friends of her poet mother who recently committed suicide.

Lucy has visited her family at the villa just four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy who she hopes she can get reacquainted with. The entire film is really representative of a young girl's journey to finding herself in life and owning her budding sexuality. The time in Italy for Lucy was a period of growth and discovery and every person has that period (or numerous periods) of that in their life.

The visuals in this film are truly wonderful. The gorgeous Italian landscapes play a huge role in the film but Lucy's styling is what really adds to the mysterious beauty of her character. Very loose, casual and feminine clothing that seem to have just been thrown on but plays a part in the attraction factor. Men are in love with this young woman and her innocent yet sophisticated & natural styling adds to the dreaminess. The perfect wardrobe for any girl dreaming of getting away to find herself, looking for love in an exotic location.