Abel Muñoz Fall/Winter 2011 Collection is Hollywood Glamour

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Something that I love about designer Abel Muñoz, besides the gorgeous heels that he designs, is how he also uses his collections to pay tribute to women. For his fall/winter 2011 collection, Muñoz pays tribute to women of Hollywood. Every heel is as beautiful and classic as the actress it is named after. So, without further commentary, I present to you the fall/winter 2011 collection from designer Abel and a little bio on each glamorous actress he chose.

Note: I did not ask Abel if I have attributed each heel to the correct actress however, from the names of the heels and the info I have read on these women, I am positive I got them correct.

Marlene:

Though it is not a high heel, it so perfectly embodies Marlene Dietrich. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. After the success of The Blue Angels, Dietrich then moved to the U.S. on contract to Paramount Pictures. She starred in films Shanghai Express and Desire which lead her to stardom and made her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. From the early 1950s until the mid-1970s, Dietrich worked almost exclusively as a highly-paid cabaret artist. Dietrich often performed parts of her show in top hat and tails, in order to sing songs usually sung by the males. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Marlene Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.

Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Taylor began as a child star with MGM and went on to become one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Taylor won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Butterfield 8 (1960) and for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966). Elizabeth Taylor was a champion for HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1992 for her HIV/AIDS humanitarian work. Elizabeth Taylor received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the “Greatest American Screen Legends”

Sophia:

Sophia Loren In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women (first major Academy Award for a non-English-language performance). Loren won a total of 22 international awards for Two Women. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. Loren has also received seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award.

Josephine:

Josephine Baker she was the most successful American entertainer working in France. On October 2, 1925, she opened in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She also toured Europe and went on to star in the Folies Bergeres in Paris, France. Her three movies (which were only successful in Europe) were Siren of the Tropics in 1927, ZouZou in 1934 and her final appearance in a movie was in 1935, when she starred in Princess Tam Tam. Baker was a muse for contemporary authors, painters, designers, and sculptors including Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Balmain, and Christian Dior. In Paris, she was often accompanied on stage by her pet cheetah, Chiquita, who was adorned with a diamond collar.

Ingrid:

Ingrid Bergman is probably best remembered for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942). In her lifetime, Bergman, won three Academy Awards (Gaslight, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express), two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award. In 1982, Bergman starred in a television mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, about the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. It was her final acting role and she was honored posthumously with an Emmy Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute.

Veronica:

Veronica Lake was an American film actress and pin-up model, who was also known for her wave peek-a-boo hairstyle. Her movies include Sullivan’s Travels, This Gun for Hire, I Married a Witch, The Glass Key, and So Proudly We Hail!. In many of her films Lake played a femme fatale.

Betty:

Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as “Betty in 1921 Davis changed the spelling of her name to “Bette” Davis when she decided to pursue acting. She was known for playing unsympathetic characters and also for her piercing brown eyes. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice (Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938) and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute (1977). Bette Davis is second on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest female stars of all time.