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The Times of London came out with a list of its Top Ten Most Fashionable Films. Here's my take...keep in mind this is fashion--not style--for which I would assess differently.

#1: West Side Story (1961). Um...no. I completely disagree with this assessment. There were a lot of clashing colors and polyester in that film.

#2: Belle de Jour (1967): Never saw it. First two pages of Google Images were nudes. Not sure what that says for fashion. I do like the look of the above pic, though...so the clothed scenes may have been great.

#3: The Big Sleep (1946): Oh how I wish this was in color. I agree with the assessment wholeheartedly.

#4: Atonement (2007): I liked the clothes in this movie. It doesns't hurt that Kiera Knightley is pretty much a model. The way she looks is ten times better than the way she acts.

#5: Bonnie & Clyde (1967): YES! YES! YES! This movie has fashion. Faye Dunaway as Bonnie wears clothes set for the 1930s in the 1960s that I wear in the 2010's.

#6: Annie Hall (1977): I get it. Diane Keaton wears khaki's and changes the world. Perhaps if I'd lived in those times, I would feel  more inspired by this...but I honestly think she looks blase...not groundbreaking.

#7: Factory Girl (2006): Edie can do no wrong. Of course the fashion was good in this...it's about Edie Sedgwick-the fashion model, modqueen, Warhol muse. Love it. Need to rent it again asap.

#8: Coco avant Chanel (2009): Another cheat. Movies about fashion will obviously have good fashion. They should have been excluded. And the fashion in this was not the best ever. It wasn't Coco Before Chanel--so a little more vagabond than Venice. I blogged about it a while ago, if you're interested.

#9: Gone With the Wind (1939): Great costumes, yes. Great fashion? Negatory.

#10: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999): Another agree. Like Bonnie & Clyde, they're able to keep the clothes in the times of the story, the times of production, and now over a decade later. True fashion (like true film) is timeless.