Coordinates	42°04′″N48°17′″N
name	Frida
director	Julie Taymor
producer	Sarah GreenSalma HayekJay Polstein
screenplay	Clancy SigalDiane LakeGregory NavaAnna Thomas
based on
starring	Salma HayekAlfred MolinaAntonio Banderas
music	Elliot Goldenthal
cinematography	Rodrigo Prieto
editing	Françoise Bonnot
distributor	Miramax Films
released
runtime	123 minutes
country
language	EnglishSpanishFrenchRussian
budget	$12 million
gross	$56,298,474 }}

''Frida'' is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.

The movie was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas and Edward Norton (uncredited) from the book ''Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo'' by Hayden Herrera. It was directed by Julie Taymor. It won Oscars for Best Makeup and Best Original Music Score (recipient: Elliot Goldenthal).

Plot

''Frida'' begins with the traumatic accident Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) suffered at the age of 18 when a car trolley collided with a bus she was riding. She is impaled by a metal pole and the injuries she sustained plague her for the rest of her life. To help her through convalescence, her father brings her a canvas upon which to start painting. Throughout the film, a scene starts as a painting, then slowly dissolves into a live-action scene with actors.

''Frida'' also details the artist's dysfunctional relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). When Rivera proposes to Kahlo, she tells him she expects from him loyalty if not fidelity. Diego's appraisal of her painting ability is one of the reasons that she continues to paint. Throughout the marriage, Rivera cheats on her with a wide array of women, while the bisexual Kahlo takes on male and female lovers.

The two travel to New York City so that he may paint the mural ''Man at the Crossroads'' at the Rockefeller Center. While in the United States, Kahlo suffers a miscarriage, and her mother dies in Mexico. Rivera refuses to compromise his communist vision of the work to the needs of the patron, Nelson Rockefeller (Edward Norton); as a result, the mural is destroyed. The pair return to Mexico, with Rivera the more reluctant of the two.

Kahlo's sister Cristina moves in with the two at their San Ángel studio home to work as Rivera's assistant. Soon afterward, Kahlo discovers that Rivera is having an affair with her sister. She leaves him, and subsequently sinks into alcoholism. The couple reunite when he asks her to welcome and house Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush), who has been granted political asylum in Mexico. She and Trotsky begin an affair, which forces the married Trotsky to leave the safety of his Coyoacán home.

Kahlo leaves for Paris after Diego realizes she was unfaithful to him with Trotsky. When she returns to Mexico, he asks for a divorce. Soon afterwards, Trotsky is murdered in Mexico City. Rivera is temporarily a suspect, and Kahlo is incarcerated in his place when he is not found. Rivera helps get her released.

Kahlo has her toes removed when they become gangrenous. Rivera asks her to remarry him, and she agrees. Her health worsens, including the amputation of a leg, and she ultimately dies after finally having a solo exhibition of her paintings in Mexico.

Cast

Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo

Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera

Geoffrey Rush as Leon Trotsky

Mía Maestro as Cristina Kahlo

Ashley Judd as Tina Modotti

Antonio Banderas as David Alfaro Siqueiros

Edward Norton as Nelson Rockefeller

Amelia Zapata as Maid

Alejandro Usigli as Professor

Diego Luna as Alejandro Gonzalez Arias

Fermín Martínez as Painter on Bus

Loló Navarro as Nanny

Lucia Bravo as Auditorium Model

Margarita Sanz as Natalia Trotsky

Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Matilde Kahlo

Roger Rees as Guillermo Kahlo

Valeria Golino as Lupe Marín

Omar Rodriguez as André Breton

Felipe Fulop as Jean Van Heijenoort

Saffron Burrows as Gracie

Chavela Vargas as La Pelona

Lila Downs as Singer

Allusions

The passengers on the trolley Kahlo rides and that crashes with a bus are based on subjects in the painter's 1929 portrait, ''The Bus''.

The Brothers Quay - created the stop motion animation sequence depicting the initial stages of Kahlo's recovery at the hospital after the trolley accident are inspired by ''Day of the Dead''.

The gown Valeria Golino wears at Kahlo's 1953 Mexican solo art exhibition is a replica of the dress her character Lupe Marín wore in Rivera's 1938 portrait of her.

Production

Development

The film version of Frida Kahlo's life was initially championed by Nancy Hardin, a former book editor and Hollywood-based literary agent, turned early "female studio executive", who, in the mid-1980s wished to "make the transition to independent producing." Learning of Hayden Herrara's biography of Kahlo, Hardin saw Kahlo's life as very contemporary, her "story... an emblematic tale for women torn between marriage and career." Optioning the book in 1988, Hardin "tried to sell it as an epic love story in the tradition of ''Out of Africa'', attracting tentative interest from actresses such as Meryl Streep and Jessica Lange, but rejection from the film studios. As Kahlo's art gained prominence, however ("[i]n May 1990 one of Kahlo's self-portraits sold at Sotheby's for $1.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a Latin American painting"), Madonna "announced her plans to star in a film based on Frida's life", and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions reportedly "envisioned a joint biography of Rivera and Kahlo."

In the spring of 1991, director Luis Valdez began production on a New Line feature about Frida Kahlo starring Laura San Giacomo in the lead. San Giacomo's casting was objected due to her non-Hispanic ethnicity, and New Line bowed to the protests, and left the then-titled ''Frida and Diego'' in August 1992 citing finances. Hardin's project found itself swamped by similar ones: :"When I first tried to sell the project... there was no interest because nobody had heard of Frida. A few years later, I heard the exact opposite--that there were too many Frida projects in development, and nobody wanted mine."

Valdez was contacted early on by the - then unknown in the US - Salma Hayek, who sent "her [promo] reel to the director and phoned his office", but was ultimately told she was then too young for the role. By 1993 Valdez had retitled the film ''The Two Fridas'' with San Giacomo and Ofelia Medina both playing the portraitist. Raúl Juliá was cast as Diego Rivera, but his death further delayed the movie. At the same time, Hardin approached HBO, and with "rising young development executive and producer" Lizz Speed (a former assistant to Sherry Lansing) intended to make a TVM, hopeful that Brian Gibson (director of "''What's Love Got to Do With It'', the story of Tina Turner" and ''The Josephine Baker Story'') would direct. Casting difficulties proved insurmountable, but Speed joined Hardin in advocating the project, and after four years in development, the two took the project from HBO to Trimark and producer Jay Polstein (with assistant Darlene Caamaño). At Trimark, Salma Hayek became interested in the role, having "been fascinated by Kahlo's work from the time she was 13 or 14" - although not immediately a fan:

Hayek was so set on acting the role that she sought out Dolores Olmedo Patino, longtime-lover of Diego Rivera, and (after his death) administrator to the rights of Frida and Rivera's art, which Rivera had "willed... to the Mexican people", bequeath[ing] the trust to Olmedo. Salma Hayek personally secured access to Kahlo's paintings from her, and began to assemble a supporting cast, approaching Alfred Molina for the role of Rivera in 1998. According to Molina, "She turned up backstage [of the Broadway play '''Art'''] rather sheepishly and asked if I would like to play Diego". Molina went on to gain 35 pounds to play Rivera.

When producer Polstein left Trimark, however, the production faltered again, and Hayek approached Harvey Weinstein and Miramax, and the company purchased the film from Trimark; Julie Taymor came onto the project as Director. Meanwhile, in August 2000 it was announced that Jennifer Lopez would star in Valdez's take on the story, ''The Two Fridas'', by then being produced by American Zoetrope. Nonetheless, it was Hayek and Miramax who began production in Spring, 2001 on what was to become simply titled ''Frida''.

Filming

Filming took place from April 7 through June 2001 and was shot entirely in Mexico.

Among the on location places shot were three UNESCO world heritage sites: Teotihuacan, Xochimilco, and Puebla's historic centre. Other on location sites include Rivera and Kahlo's Juan O'Gorman-designed San Ángel studio house and the San Idelfonso National Preparatory School. Replicas of the Casa Azul (Kahlo's Coyoacán house) and the RCA Building's lobby were built at Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and shot in Stage 4 there.

For scenes depicting Diego completing a mural, crew members stretched a canvas across a scaffold placed in front of the painter's actual artwork. This "makeshift 'mural'" included sketched outlines and painted portions. The optical "illusion" of a work in progress was achieved through the canvas "flattened" by a camera shooting from a distance and therefore "blending" the edges into the fixed mural.

Salma Hayek wore over fifty costumes as Frida. Some pieces were purchased from street vendors in Mexico City.

Release

On August 29, 2002, the film made its world premiere opening the Venice International Film Festival. ''Frida'''s American premiere was at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on October 14 of that year. It had its Mexican premiere on November 8, 2002 at Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts.

Honors

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Award !! Category !! Recipient !! Result
rowspan="6"	Academy Awards	Academy Award for Best Actress>Best Actress in a Leading Role	Salma Hayek
Academy Award for Best Art Direction	Best Art Direction	Felipe Fernández del Paso, Hania Robledo
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Best Costume Design	Julie Weiss
Academy Award for Best Makeup	Best Makeup	John E. Jackson, Beatriz De Alba
Academy Award for Best Original Score	Best Original Score	Elliot Goldenthal
Academy Award for Best Original Song	Best Original Song ("Burn It Blue")	Julie Taymor, Elliot Goldenthal
rowspan="2"	Golden Globes	Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama ||	Salma Hayek	Nominated
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score	Best Original Score	Elliot Goldenthal
rowspan="4"	BAFTA Awards	|	Salma Hayek	Nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Alfred Molina
Best Costume Design	Julie Weiss
Best Make Up/Hair	Judy Chin, Beatriz De Alba, John E. Jackson, Regina Reyes
rowspan="2"	Screen Actors Guild Awards	|	Salma Hayek	Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role	Alfred Molina

American Film Institute

Movies of the Year 2002, Official Selection

Rationale:

FRIDA is a movie about art that is a work of art in itself. The film's unique visual language takes us into an artist's head and reminds us that art is best enjoyed when it moves, breathes and is painted on a giant canvas, as only the movies can provide.

;National Board of Review

Top Ten Films

See also

Frida (soundtrack)

References

External links

Archives of the Official site

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Karlie Elizabeth Kloss (born August 3, 1992) is an American model and ballet dancer.

Kloss is ranked 4th on the ''Top 50 Models Women'' List by models.com. Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.

Early life and discovery

Kloss was born in Chicago, Illinois, and her family moved to suburban St. Louis, Missouri in 1995. Before making it as a model, Kloss studied at Caston's Ballet Academy in 2002, a prestigious dance school in St. Louis. She soon became very talented at dance, and was in a number of performances such as the Nutcracker. Kloss has called her classical ballet training "a beautiful thing" that taught her how to move in the modeling world and was a great training ground for her runway walk.

When Kloss was 13, she was discovered at a charity fashion show in St. Louis. She was encouraged and inspired to model by one of her teachers in Webster Groves High School. In 2007, she signed with Elite Model Management.

Modelling

thumb|left|170px|On the runway for Zac Posen , Fall 2008 in New York Fashion Week. In January 2008 she left Elite and signed with NEXT Model Management. Kloss received publicity when her runway walk was being mocked by Tyra Banks, but it was Karlie's unusual walk that had designers loving it. She ended up walking 31 runways in New York Fashion Week notably, closing for Marc Jacobs, opening Carolina Herrera, and scored both spots at Doo.Ri. After New York she went on to walk 20 shows in Milan, and 13 in Paris for the fall 2008 collections. A total of Sixty-four shows in a single season. At just 15 years old Kloss was already making serious money, so much so that she was worth going to court over. Kloss found herself in the middle of a legal dispute when her former agency Elite was suing NEXT for allegedly stealing away its young star by offering her "improper compensation" to sign and Elite felt they were responsible for launching her career and getting her tons of work. The case was eventually settled out of court.

She was named the best model by ''People magazine'' in 2008. Kloss, labeled her famed runway walk a "moody gait." Molly Sims, whom she considers a mentor, told ''New York'' she thinks Kloss is the type of model who will still "do well at 30" because of her classic look.

She has been in advertisements for Donna Karan, Nina Ricci, Chloé, Lacoste, Sportmax, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Gap, Bally Shoe, Bergdorf Goodman, Pringle of Scotland, Dior, Hermes, Oscar de la Renta, Sonia Rykiel, Aquascutum, Topshop, Eryn Brinie, Uniqlo, Omnia Jade, Lord & Taylor, Barneys New York, American Eagle, and Victoria's Secret PINK. Kloss is the face of the Marc Jacobs fragrance ''Lola''. She has walked for numerous designers in New York, London, Milan and Paris, including Shiatzy Chen, Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Givenchy, Gucci, Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Versace, and appeared in editorials for American and Korean ''W'', American ''Elle'', ''Allure'', ''i-D'', French and Japanese ''Numéro'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''Dazed & Confused'', and American, Australian, Italian, French, British, Korean, German, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese, Teen, and Latin American ''Vogue'' magazines. Her covers include Italian ''Vogue'' in October 2009 and January 2010, ''Vogue'' Turkey, ''Vogue'' Portugal, ''Vogue'' China in February, August, and November in 2010, ''Vogue'' Korea and American ''Teen Vogue'', alongside Chanel Iman and Ali Michael in February 2008 and by herself in May 2010. She has ventured into TV when she appeared in Season Four Episode 2 of ''Gossip Girl'' as herself. She has become a muse for fashion designer John Galliano and has appeared in Dior and John Galliano campaigns and opened both shows, Christian Dior Haute Couture and Dior resort shows from spring summer 2010. In the Spring/Summer 2011 Season, she opened 10 shows and closed 8. Her runway walk, one of the most unique, is often described as powerful and 'panther-like'.

In 2011 Kloss renewed her contract with Christian Dior for the third season in a row. According to Vogue.com Kloss, who was considered by designer Jason Wu, is one of the newest icons in American style.

Personal life

Her hobbies include baking cookies, biking and ballet. Among her fellow models, her friends include Coco Rocha , Ali Stephens, Chanel Iman, Toni Garrn, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Irina Kulikova, Frida Gustavsson, Patricia van der Vliet, Ali Michael, and Jourdan Dunn. Supermodel Tyra Banks has stated on her Twitter account that, Karlie Kloss is one of her favorite models right now because of her unique, atypical beauty.. ==References==

External links

''Riverfront Times'' article

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Frida Gustavsson (born June 6, 1993) is a Swedish fashion model.

Career

Gustavsson began modeling locally in 2008 and made her way to Japan. Her career took a positive turn when she was signed by IMG in 2009. Soon after, she opened the Fall Valentino haute couture show in Paris.

Since then, she has walked shows for Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Lanvin, Carolina Herrera, Fendi, Christian Dior, Jil Sander, Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Abdullah Kobayashi, Emilio Pucci, Celine, Hermès, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren, Blumarine and Versace.

She was the fourth most requested model of the Spring 2010 season, behind Kasia Struss, Liu Wen, and Constance Jablonski.

Gustavsson has been in magazines such as ''Elle'', ''W'', ''Numéro'', American, Italian, French, British, German, and Japanese ''Vogue'', ''L'Officiel ''and ''Crash''. In March 2010, she appeared on the cover of German ''Vogue''.

She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Jill Stuart, Anna Sui, H&M;, Max Mara and Prada.

Gustavsson won Elle Sweden's Model of the Year award in 2011.

Personal

She graduated from the Swedish division of the prestigious Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in June 2011. She hopes to become a fashion stylist and is particularly interested in pattern and product design.

Frida is a close friend of fellow models Monika Jagaciak, Karlie Kloss and Caroline Brasch Nielsen. She has also been romantically linked to Marcel Castenmiller, a popular male model.

References

External links

Frida Gustavsson on The Internet Fashion Database

Frida Gustavsson on Style.com

Frida Gustavsson on New York Magazine

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Nina García, (born May 3, 1965) is a Colombian fashion journalist and critic who has held the post of Fashion Director at ''Elle'' and ''Marie Claire'' magazines, and is currently a judge on the Lifetime reality television program ''Project Runway''.

Early life and education

Garcia was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, the daughter of a wealthy importer. She graduated from the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1983 and holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University. Later she attended Ecole Superieure de la Mode in Paris and also earned a bachelor's degree in 1992 from the Fashion Institute of Technology(FIT).

Career

Garcia began her career in the fashion industry in the early 1980s. She worked in the public relations department for Perry Ellis and its then-designer, Marc Jacobs.

Journalism

After leaving Marc Jacobs, Garcia moved to ''Mirabella'' where she worked as Assistant Stylist and Market Editor, until taking a position at ''Elle''. She became Fashion Director of ''Elle'' in 2000. Garcia left the Fashion Director position in April 2008, becoming Editor-at-Large at the magazine until the end of August. On April 11, 2008, ''Us Weekly'' reported that Garcia left her post as fashion director of ''Elle''. Garcia's contract was reportedly up for renewal. Roberta Myers, Vice President/Editor-in-Chief at the magazine, announced May 15, 2008 that they had entered a new agreement with Nina Garcia who was named Editor-at-Large through September 1, 2008. She had spent 13 years at ''Elle'' and been Fashion Director for the past eight years. She began her new position as Fashion Director of ''Marie Claire'' on September 2, 2008. Garcia currently oversees the fashion coverage for the magazine and runs the fashion department. She also covers the designer fashion markets of New York, Milan and Paris, and is relied upon as a fashion authority and has participated in numerous television interviews.

Project Runway

Garcia has been a judge on Project Runway since Season 1.

Other work

In May 2007 Garcia was a judge for the Miss Universe competition in Mexico City.

Author

Garcia is the author of four best-selling books. On September 5, 2007, Garcia's book, ''The Little Black Book of Style'' (Harper Collins) was released. The book is in its eighth printing and has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. On August 26, 2008, Garcia's second book for Harper Collins, ''The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own'' was released, with eight printings at the launch. Garcia's third book, ''The Style Strategy'' was published in September 2009. ''Nina Garcia’s Look Book'' was published in September 2010.

Personal life

She lives in New York City and is married to David Conrod. She gave birth to a boy, Lucas Alexander Conrod, on March 24, 2007. On November 29, 2010, she announced that she gave birth to another son, Alexander David Conrod.

References

External links

Nina Garcia's Official website

Nina Garcia Biography on the Lifetime Television Project Runway website

Nina Garcia 2006 Interview on ''Sidewalks Entertainment''

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