The Great Gatsby is my favorite book of all time; I really can't think of a piece that I've ever loved reading more. The novel captures so much glamour and excessive indulgence in such an interesting, historical time in our country. I was in an advanced lit class back in high school when I read it for the first time, where my teacher had us watch the Mia Farrow and Robert Redford movie. I even fell in love with the film, despite its glowy, overly dramatic 70's cinematic style. Ralph Lauren actually designed the costumes for that film in his early days of his career, and is again paying tribute to the Roaring Twenties and The Great Gatsby with his Spring 2012 collection. Pair its pearl-adorned, heavily-beaded, pastel-colored satin glory with the nostalgia I have for Gatsby, and you've got my adoration for a collection filled with the epitome of classic, timeless femininity.
"He smiled understandingly- much more than understandingly. It was one of
those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you
may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to
face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on
you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just
as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would
like to believe in yourself."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
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