This film image released by Columbia Pictures shows Daniel Craig as James Bond in the action adventure film, “Skyfall.” Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on _ and consumers respond to _ is buzz. Craig’s wardrobe in ìSkyfallî is impeccably tailored and quite tight. Unlike the James Bonds that came before him who all liked the traditional looser, longer cut of a Savile Row-style suit, Craig, whose wardrobe is created mostly by Tom Ford, takes his suits Euro style with tapered legs and shorter rises. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures, Francois Duhamel)By Joceylyn Noveck
Marilyn Monroe. The Rolling Stones. And Bond – James Bond. What do they have in common?
Sure, one’s long gone, and one’s fictional. But all three marked a golden anniversary in 2012. And after a half-century in our pop-culture consciousness, they each displayed a surprisingly enduring appeal.
So even though, as a culture, we still worshiped at the fountain of youth this year, marveling at the precocious talents of a Lena Dunham, a Taylor Swift, a Jennifer Lawrence, let’s also give a shoutout to some of our most enduring icons. Turns out some things never go out of style.
JANUARY: Here begins the incredible ascension of Lena Dunham, as HBO picks up the actress-director-writer’s “Girls,” a meditation on the awkwardness of being female and 20-ish in New York. By year’s end Dunham, at 26, will have gathered so much buzz, she’ll be on her way to becoming what her character, Hannah Horvath, can only dream of being: “The voice of my generation. Or at least, A voice. Of A generation.”