Victoria Newman takes dress-up to a whole new level as she channels four spirited, take-no-prisoners women who continue to set the contemporary standard for Style.
Concept and Pictures by Elizabeth Stewart
Styling by George Kotsiopoulos
Makeup by Kathy Jeung
Hair by Jamal Hamadi
LOUISE BROOKS
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Crack open "Pandora's Box" and inside you'll find film actress Louise Brooks. A native of Cherryvale, Kansas, Brooks' shimmering beauty, keen intellect and iconic Dutchboy bob planted her firmly in the vortex that was the Flapper Era. From 1925 to 1938 she appeared in 24 films and was one of the few actors of the era to make a successful transition from Silents to sound. She was the first person in London to dance the Charleston, and appeared on countless magazine covers, postcards and posters but there was more to Brooks' style than a love for flapper dresses, tutus, sailor shorts and fingerless gloves - she was a pioneer to her very core. Her journey to stardom, which began at age 15 with a stint as a Denishawn dancer, then a Ziegfeld girl, then a film star epitomized the 20th Century woman's first steps toward autonomy and inspired a comic strip and a stage play. Her most important role wasn't in Hollywood, though, it was in Berlin, where she made "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" with German film giant G.W. Pabst. In those two films, both released in 1929, Brooks pioneered a new, naturalist acting style, which is still the standard for film today. Who better epitomizes the restless icon?
JOAN CRAWFORD
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F. Scott Fitzgerald once referred to her as the epitome of the 1920s, but it wasn't until years later that Lucille LeSueur of San Antonio, Texas hit her stride as a movie star known for her powerful portrayals of strong, flawed, deeply human women in such films as Rain, The Women, Mildred Pierce, The Damned Don't Cry, and Johnny Guitar. The American Film Institute dubbed her the Tenth Greatest Female Star of All Time. Yet all Oscar-winning Joan Crawford wanted to do was dance, and she broke into the movies as a dancer. Here, we take a look at her at the height of her powers; flawlessly coifed, groomed and dressed, her hair carefully pinned, this Crawford already understands the power of persona as well as meticulous attention to detail; she has become more than an actress, she is a star and the first star to understand that she is also a product. Her understanding of the power of branding, and her meticulousness would come back to haunt her later, but it's important to understand just how hard Crawford worked to free herself from the poverty of her youth and how terrified she was of returning to it. As filmmaker Peter Fitzgerald's Crawford documentary "The Ultimate Movie Star" explains, that's why she left nothing to chance.
GLORIA SWANSON
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Elegant. Stunning. Stylish. With designer friends like Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel, dressing to the nines was a relatively simple task for Gloria Swanson off-screen. Onscreen, her silent-movie era costumes were almost insane studies in luxury. Silks, satins and brocades combined with ermine, beading and ostrich and peacock feathers to create what was then a surreal vision of glamour - exactly the kind of fantasy movie audiences loved - which laid the visual groundwork for what we now think of when we think of "Hollywood Glamour." Not only a fashion pioneer, Swanson was also one of the very first public figures to extol the virtues of a healthy diet and she remained an outspoken advocate - and compelling advertisement for - a macrobiotic diet washed down with lots of water until her death. Thirty-six years after her first film, Swanson scored another triumph in 1950 in Billy Wilder's noir classic Sunset Boulevard, where she played an aging silent movie star trying to come to terms with her obscurity. And while some critics feel she was mirroring her own life, Swanson was anything but obscure, as she continued acting, appearing on talk shows and promoting healthy eating habits up to her death in 1983.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
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No question; Elizabeth Taylor is one of the greatest Hollywood style icons ever, consistently thrilling her fans both on and off screen. Born in London to American parents, Taylor owes her career partly to WW2 as her family returned home to the States to avoid the coming war. They settled in Los Angeles, where the stunning child with the violet eyes, pale skin and jet-black hair was discovered by Hollywood. She became a superstar with the 1950 release of Butterfield 8, in which she lent new life to the satin slip. Here, we see her as she begins her ascent from actress to screen diva. Butterfield 8 not only won her her first Best Actress Oscar and cemented her reputation as a skilled actress as well as a great beauty, it also marked her metamorphosis from ingenue to Brunette Bombshell. Her eyes, hair, figure and innate understanding of her physical appeal precluded turning back. Liz would go on to become the first actress to earn $1 million for her role in Cleopatra, become famous for serial marriages at a time when such a thing was truly scandalous, and to cultivate a legendary love for jewelry. She still owns a 50-carat pearl formerly owned by Mary I of England, and has a 70-carat, pear-shaped diamond given to her by Richard Burton named aptly enough, The Taylor-Burton Diamond. But what sets this icon apart more than her enormous jewels is her sense of humor and her enormous heart. Despite numerous health issues, Taylor continues to work tirelessly for a variety of charitable causes and turned in a hilarious performance as Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law in the live-action Flintstones movie.
Comments
I always thought Victoria (AM) was a strikingly pretty woman and these shots just prove that and shows how she can capture classic looks of former leading ladies in Hollywood. Great job to everyone that worked on this photo spread! One question though, why is Phyllis the fashion expert on the RS home page? Her expertise is designing websites.It would make a lot more sense (and believable) for Sharon to be the fashion expert fielding fashion questions since she worked in fashion and exemplifies great fashion style on the show. Would love to see Sharon on a future cover as well.
Wow, beautiful photos. AH can carry off so many looks! Love the site too by the way. Just another fun way to keep up with the show, and find out what others are saying. Keep up the good work Y&R.
Awww this is great like i said before; I would like 2 see Lily her or Drucila because after all she was a ex model and she has some good forms but bad attitude.... So I want 2 ask ho come this magazine is so great i mean it's rollin on the streets 2 ?!!?/ or just a webmagazine ? can some1 here tell me?!
Victoria you are beautiful and you look amazing in these pics as you normally do on a daily basis on Y&R. Keep up the wonderful work.
See how incredible a face can look without plastic surgery.Viva the real thing!
Hi! I grew up watching Y&R b/c my mother has been a fan since it debuted. Now, it's the only soap I watch regularly. Generational fans! I love the magazine, hate Jack's scheming, I want him to get what he deserves. I have a question, though. Years ago, didn't Victor have a vasectomy? I can't wait for Nikki to find out that Sabrina's pregnant because she knows that Victor can't father anymore-- why doesn't he remember that? What's up with that?
Please show the Gloria Swanson look on a future episode of Y&R. It's absolutely fabulous!!!
I love the Young and the Restless!! It's the only show I watch. Victoria Newman is hot and I love this issue. Great Job!
Great job! Victoria is a beautiful lady in any style.
WOW Victoria looks amazing!! I love the pictures and info oa actresses of yesteryear! They were all wonderful! Great job on the pic's RS!
Great Job Victoria, absolutely lovely.
Go Jack, love your "style".....Yay for Sharon, love him like he is, what a man!!!!
Restless Style keep going strong.
WOW!!! I am so amazed how Amelia (Victoria) altered her look to the "REstless Icons" You look FABULOUS!!!
I LOVE LOVE The Young and the Restless,it's the only soap opera I watch!! Victoria looks so beautiful in all the photos! Awesome job to the whole crew on this!! The whole Y&R actors/writers are the BEST!!!!
I just love the iconic women that Victoria is pertraying. She just looks so amzaing as all of them but i have to say i never would have known that was her as Joan Crawford, she looks so remarkable.
Unbelieveable! Victoria can transform into any look. The Louise Brooks one looks nothing like her..what a transformer.
Good makeup. The Elizabeth Taylor one was the most convincing.
This is so awesome!! Keep up the great work! Can't get enough of Restless Style or Y&R!
I love Y&R it is the best day time drama on TV right now. Vicky looks so stunning in these photos. The feud between Vitoria and Sabrina is so wonderful it is storing up more drama. Jack just keep on scheming things to make your magazine sell more. Great job to the crew of the magazine.
Victoria seems to take on the personals of all these beautiful women! Great job! Beautiful! I would love to see the magazines in any stores so I definitely can buy it!!! She is so beautiful like a flowers!
I am completely blown away by these photos of Victoria. They really captured the persona of all these women. Please make this magazine available in print!!!
hi you guys are wonderfull please keep up the good work i watch you guys everyday and i love everyone of you all. keep the magazine going.
The magazine and people are fabulous. Keep up the great work. Looooove the style!
Carol
Yes i agree with all it's fantastic!! So can some1 tell me something this is web magazine created by Philis and the rest. It's great!!!!!!!! Awesome!
WOW! Victoria is amazing! She owned every look you went for! Great team work! I loved this issue of Restless Style, very interesting and knowledgeable about the 4 stars of Hollywood Glamour..
Y&R needs to put the real deal on the stands, and let the proceeds go to a real charity! What a collectors, if only for a little while, it would be for all the die-hard "restless fans". I know I'd buy every one of them!
Great job on this story line!!
Thanks for all the great years...
Deborah
Victoria looks beautiful, am glad to see this side of her instead of the one we have been seeing the unforgiving, whinny Victoria, don't like her attitude lately. It is time for her to grow up and get over it. Thanks for sending us the refreshing side of Victoria she has such great potential to become an icon on the show. I would also love to see restless style on store shelves without the controversy from Jack though.
Gloria Swanson???? NO WAY! She's a dead ringer for Gene Tierney!
i have watched young and restless since day 1 and i love everybody on the show it's the best ever. restless style is great and all looks great.
keep up the good work.
Just sayng Hi from Murwillumbah Australia
LOVE THE SHOW
Best Wishes everyone
OMG! I loooove this! And I am a bigger fan of the show daily, I swear! and even got my husband, who says 'ewww' to soaps, completely hooked on Y&R! I Love the new Ideas and the Website, the Mag and well, just everything! Keep it up!
Thanks soo much for the excellent entertainment!
Hello, I would like to tell you that I love watching young & the restless everyday. If for someone reason I can't see Y&R on time I recorded it. It is awesome soap opera. This is the only soap I watch, the actors do such a great professional job; it seems so real what is going on in the Y&R. I think there should be a real restless style magazine that we can see in print. That we could read and see; what the Y&R reads an sees. That would be so cool. Victoria looks great on the cover. She looks like a model. What ever happens in the soap opra don't let the magazine go. It's great just like the Y&R. I am getting hook on that magazine. Ya are doing such a great & awesome job on the script of Y&R. Also I think Victoria is doing a great job on how she is acting against Sabrina (her so call bestfriend). Vicky is a great actress thumbs up to you Vicky keep up the good work girl. Oh yea I think Daniel and Amber should get back together. Take Care..
I love this look for the magazine.You guys made a great choice with this one.I just read it over and over.can't get enough of the stories and the pretty pictures.
Wow, what a great job! Vickie looks fabulous. Each & every actress she posed for she captured so well. Amelia Heinle is doing a terrifc job at Y&R. I wish that Jack would get Jabot back and Gloria needs to pay for what she did. If not she should ask for Jack's forgiveness and he just let her work there.
I LOVE Y&R and the restless style magazine and THE GREAT WORK THE PRODUCTION TEAM IS DOING. VICTORIA LOOKS SO GREAT & AND ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS THE OLD TIME HOLLYWOOD LOOK AND MAKE-UP WORK IS SO GREAT I LOVE IT. I WOULD LOVE TO WORK ON Y&R SOME DAY IAM A MAKE-UP ARTIST IN JAMAICA AND I BIG FAN OF Y&R. NUFF RESPECT FROM SANDY FROM JAMAICA.
Vikkie look GREAT!!!!! I love the look classic! Keep up the good work.
Victoria seems to take on the personas of all these beautiful women! Great job! Beautiful!
and WHO JUST HAD A BABY NOT VICKIE.YOU ARE HOT GIRL.KEEP IT UP Y&R YOU ARE ALL I LOOK AT 3 TIMES A DAY.AND NOW RESTLESSSTYLE.COM
IM LOVING IT
FELICIA MORAN FROM NEW ORLEANS
my hubby and i are retired.. and at twelve thirty each weekday we are glued to the tv and eat our lunch which we enjoy the delights of the show...it is now so interestintg and a little naughty but not filthy which is so needed nowadays... my hubby thinks victoria is just a beautiful young lady... and i get a big kick out of my hubbby how a workaholic plastic engineering manager who is retired is now hooked on this soap... he says he thinks it is filmed so professionaly and the actors are superb..
keep up these great story lines... carol and jim
I am amazed at how stunning Victoria looks. Great job!! Keep it coming.
As someone who can't get enough Y&R, Restless Style has added another dimension to my viewing pleasure. Great work and awesome pics of Victoria.
Wow! This was well written, interesting, and I'm delighted that you may be encouraging younger people to check out these iconic leading ladies. This is the best content I've yet seen on the site. Nicely done!
I like the black and white photos much better than the cover shot. Amelia Heinle does have sort of an ageless beauty. I do wish they'd lighten up her makeup in the day-to-day episodes, though.
It is really great how you have made this "magazine" "come to life"..... it is awesome the kind of work that the writers / creators of Y&R have put into this "webzine".... A really great way for us to escape the everyday... and to feel a part of the cast etc. Great job to the Webmaster for all their wonderful contributions to our fantasy of Y&R...
I too would love to see this magazine in stores... I would buy it in a heartbeat.
She looks great!
Spectacular!
JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT I IT WOULD BE SPECTACULAR IF Y&R CAME OUT WITH A MAGAZINE FOR THE PUBLIC, I THINK IT WOULD GO OVER B I G .......I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A VOTE BOX ON THIS WEBSITE....LET THE VIEWERS DECIDE....ALSO VICTORIA SHOULD BE A MODEL, SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL....M
Yes she looks fabulous! Especially since she just had a baby not too long ago! You go girl! Hot Hot Hot!!
i think victoria look awesome i hope they keep on and maybe add sharon for the near future
I love Restless STYLE" I love the magaline. and the pictures of victoria. are hot" and just so
beautiful"
This is really great. Victoria is usually not looked at as sexy or edgey, but I think she pulled off "all that and a bag of chips". She really rocked this issue.
All I can say is...WOW!
She looks fabulous!
Victoria looked great!!!! loved each and every look!!
Glad the did not put Mrs. Abbott on the cover, they would all still be sitting on the shelves and the magazine would be out of business!
I love Restless Style expecially with Victoria on the cover. To bad Jack caused all the trouble with Sabrina, but business is business I guess. There is going to be lots going on now on the show to keep us glued. Can't wait for more action to start hehe. Sure would be nice to see Sharon on the cover.
Take care, Diane
WOW VICKY LOOKS AWESOME!
I just wish we could get the "real"magazine in print.
Victoria looks awesome in these pictures!! Although, I would of loved to see Sharon on the cover, she would of been great too!
She looks amazing. What a great idea and the show is better than ever
Great photographs! Love the old Hollywood idea. Victoria on the cover --I did not see that one coming. Would love to see a male on the cover. I nominate Cane Asby.
VICTORIA IS LOOKING SO STUNNING. SHE IS A VERY CLASSY LADY- AND ONE OF MY CHARACTERS. GOOD CHOICE:)
Wow, I was blown away with the striking resemblance Victoria has to these actresses. She's gorgeous! Loved it!
How did Vicky changed like this i mean she is great another side a great classy and wild side of her! I love her and i like all the producers of this great magazine Nick,Sharon, Jack , Philis great job !!!
Oh my goodness. Who could believe victoria has that style in here. I didn't. She has been kinda getting on my nerves lately, but this has helped me like her more & after yesterday's 7/15 eppisode, she seems to be forgiving Sabrina for the rediculous reason for not liking her. Nicki LOOOOves david & vicki & sabrina were best friends in italy. Get over it vicki.
kristy
Wow.....loved that side of her.
WOW! These photos are great. I am so happy to really get to see this magazine. I have been curious as to what the actors were viewing on computer screen and now I can see too! Delicious! I hope I can find the article about Sabrina on here somewhere. I would love to read it.
Gale Laure,
Author
What a beautiful cover girl. Love the pictures and the theme!
Beautiful , Beautiful !!!!
I think these photo epitomize old Hollywood glamour, she is looking vintage and absolutely fabulous
Wow! I can't believe how much work is going into this site! Pretty cool. :-)
Victoria looks so pretty in this photos. What a great idea to put her on the cover.
Love these photos! She looks so beautiful, and I love the old Hollywood theme!