Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. Monique continues her obsession with cinematic style and profiles Claudia, the character indelibly portrayed by Monica Vitti in Antonioni’s “L’Avventura”.

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week marks the first installment of Monique’s series profiling the muses of cinema, starting off with the character of Giula in Bernardo Bertolluci’s “The Conformist”.

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion.

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week, Monique checks out Julia Sarr-Jamois, the fashion editor of Wonderland Magazine, whose afro totally makes us wish that Monique wore her waves on swim [...]

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week, Monique set out to find a set of pouty lips to rival hers and found them in Lindsey Wixson, a model whose existence just [...]

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week, our resident Spanish siren/Mediterranean muse spends the comedown from her motherland’s first World Cup final/championship locking her gaze onto Stevie Dance, the editor/stylist of [...]

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. Our very own sassy Spanish siren wrote this week’s post on The Prêt-À-Porter Pedestrian through trembling fingers, still on a comedown from her motherland’s historic World Cup [...]

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week, we fawn over model Bambi Northwood-Blyth.

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. The Modern Muse returns after surviving another harrowing hard drive crash to profile Kate Lanphear, the Style Director of US Elle and apparent fellow BBM addict.

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week, Monique (momentarily) puts her Summer of Debauchery on pause to profile Ruby Aldridge, the youngest daughter of photographer/model duo Miles and Saffron Aldridge.
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