On Friday the museum's late night was devoted to Retro Hollywood glamour. The place was swinging with classic songs, and there was much milling around with a glass o'wine, watching the glammed-up world go by. You could play Golden Age dress up in vintage clothes, have your hair backcombed and set, and get your red lipstick & black eyeliner applied by the professionals. There was a curator-guided tour of the Grace Kelly exhibition; and the world of Edith Head was evoked by Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis (the lady who gave Indiana Jones his fedora and Michael Jackson his red 'Thriller' jacket).
Of course, no human being could squodge all that in to one evening. We chilled out in the garden, took in some of the live old-style radio theatre (spooky murder mystery, of course), then somewhat unplanned, we did the Hitchcock & Friends table quiz in the sumptuous cafe. In true table quiz fashion, it ran very late (in a museum locking up kinda way). And though we were a team of two, 'The Women Who Knew Too Little' ranked!
Lovely atmosphere. And as intended, it got us thinking about glamour, which reminded me of the photographer Toni Frissell, who conveyed glamour exceptionally well.
She makes it look effortless :-)
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