![]() ![]() The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995), where it features as a novel which is rejected for publication but is stolen to form the screenplay of a film named The Freezer. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene returns from the dead to tie up loose ends. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz stars as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave. “On occasion,” she said, “garbage can take you to paradise.Volver ( Spanish pronunciation:, meaning "to go back") is a 2006 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Throughout her costume quest, Grande went upscale shopping as well as Dumpster-diving to find the elusive quality she wanted to evoke in the film. For the first part of the film, in which Magdalena is working as a secretary and a phone-sex worker, a gray Alaïa suit from the ’80s was the perfect uniform. Almodóvar happened to have a particularly great collection of men’s clothes from the era Chanel supplied Cruz’s “incredible” black evening dress with gold chains. “Her character had to be beautiful, without us forgetting that elegance can be a direct route to sadness,” said Grande, who also studied the ’90s for inspiration and scoured the personal closets of friends and strangers throughout Europe. If Cruz has another significant muse relationship beyond Almodóvar, it is with costume designer Grande- Broken Embraces was their sixth film working together, on the heels of Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. ![]() But it would be her next Almodóvar film in which Prada would figure prominently. “He said, ‘I am going to write you a character that fits you like a glove.” She plays a pregnant prostitute, in a chaste collared coat like a Miuccia design. When he called her up at home, she told Vogue in 2011, she was shocked. Meanwhile, the director was curious about the young woman he’d just seen in her first two breakout films. “Why does he see the world that way? Why does he understand women the way he does? I wanted to know this person who was brave enough to stand up for himself politically,” she has said. Growing up in Spain, the daughter of a hardware store owner and a hairdresser, Cruz obsessively watched movies on her family’s Betamax, but after seeing Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! alone in a theater at age 14, she decided she must be an actress. In her first film with Almodóvar, Cruz appears for only eight minutes, but what an eight minutes it is-she goes into labor on a city bus and delivers the film’s protagonist, an auspicious start to her career with the director. “She is an extremely inspiring woman.” Here, nine of the fashion looks on film that have defined Penélope Cruz’s career. “Penélope is the actress with whom I have worked the most throughout my career and is somewhat of an idol,” Grande has said. Fashion has yielded the second significant muse relationship for Cruz, too: While her longtime connection to filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has transformed both of their careers, she has worked with costume designer Sonia Grande on a number of films. In Penélope Cruz’s world, it’s an intrinsic element of some of her most memorable roles on film. Whether or not Cruz’s character, Valentina Valencia, a motorcycle-riding fashion special agent, will weaken in the face of a Blue Steel stare-down remains to be seen, but in a dominatrix superhero skintight red leather suit and scarlet Christian Louboutin boots with stiletto heels so formidable they do resemble actual weapons, she appears equipped for the challenge.įashion in Derek Zoolander’s world is ultraserious business. We’re still a month away from the premiere of Zoolander 2, but already glimpses have surfaced of key figures in Derek and Hansel’s new life-significantly among them, February cover star Penélope Cruz. ![]()
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