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3 Insanely Chic Ways to Copy Grace Kelly Rear Window Jeans Outfit

3 Insanely Chic Ways to Copy Grace Kelly Rear Window Jeans Outfit

Grace Kelly Rear Window jeans outfit is the kind of chic, outfit you want to reach for when you want to look casual but still put together.

We loved this Grace Kelly inspired outfit so much we show you 3 ways to recreate it with a range of mid-and low price ranges, including a sustainable fashion option.

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Rear Window Grace Kelly - the Wardrobe Fit for a Princess

Rear Window Grace Kelly - the Wardrobe Fit for a Princess

Rear Window Grace Kelly - the classic fashion she wears in her role as Lisa Fremont before becoming a real-life princess. 

Grace Kelly’s clothes in Rear Window movie play a large role in showing her character in the film. Her job is never mentioned but she seems to be a model or somehow otherwise connected to the fashion industry.

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Vertigo plot holes—and did Judy commit suicide at the end?
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Vertigo plot holes—and did Judy commit suicide at the end?

We have to talk about them…there are just too many of them not to notice—call them plot holes, loose ends, script errors, whatever you like, but there are plenty of them in Vertigo.

Despite Vertigo being one of our favorite Hitchcock films, perhaps his best! It’s hard not to watch it and wonder about the loose ends that never get tied up.

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Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock’s best film?
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Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock’s best film?

Welcome to our second Alfred Hitchcock movie review! 

Following up our review of Rear Window, today we are talking about a film that has been cited as one of the defining works of Hitchcock’s career, Vertigo (1958)

Vertigo, shot in San Francisco, has a stunning cinematography, complex characters and a storyline that feels like a novel, versus some of Hitchcock’s movies that are based on plays. It has a super high rating on IMDB, an 8.3 at the time of this blog post.

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Hitchcock Movie Review: Rear Window
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Hitchcock Movie Review: Rear Window

Today we are talking about Rear Window (1954) with James Stewart and Grace Kelly.

Hitchcock, was known as the “master of suspense” and liked to make the audience suffer as much as possible…he certainly earns his nickname in Rear Window, as the first 40 minutes are pretty painful to get through...but after that, the story begins to ramp up and you see why it’s such a classic.

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