![]() ![]() She left Charlie's Angels after one season (1976-77) to embrace a movie career, but her popularity never again reached the same heights. The show made her a star and she briefly became America's hottest pin-up a famous poster of Farrah Fawcett wearing a red swimsuit and a rampant mane of blonde hair sold a reported 12 million copies. All Rights Reserved.Farrah Fawcett played Jill Munroe in the original cast of the 1970s TV show Charlie's Angels, joining Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith in the titular trio of distaff detectives. I am sure there will be a lot of reruns…You should watch them.Ĭopyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. For so many years, she was judged by the way she looked…the films are pretty fantastic. When she heard me say that she was so happy…I really felt it…And for me, I really was even happier when I saw her reaction - that it meant a lot to her. I wanted to send you a note to tell you how impressed I was with your movie. She came in the shop and asked for me.I said "I was just thinking about you. Maybe they weren’t ‘movie movies,’ but they had a very meaningful message. I was really taken aback at how she’d developed into a really fantastic actress. One was "The Burning Bed." She did a series of Lifetime-sort of movies. It wasn’t that long ago.Ī couple of years ago, I think she just did a series of TV movies. In that way, she was similar to Jennifer Aniston. She was the perfect example of that moment in history…there are certain women who exemplify a type of feeling of the culture. Her hairstyle, her look, her whole persona embodied the whole female of the 1970s. ![]() She had a profound impact that was greater than just the TV star impact. She was so extraordinary…She had such an impact on the culture, even more so than that Jennifer Aniston hair thing. It was very brave of her to do and also a good kind of inspiring piece for people to look at in a difficult situation. When you see the bit when she has no hair, it’s like, "Oh my god." You realize, when it doesn’t mean anything, then it doesn’t mean anything. ![]() I think Madonna did that, not long ago.ĭid you watch the documentary she made, that aired on NBC? Just in the culture it will affect a lot of people and bring up memories… We may see that haircut back again. I think what’s going to happen now is there’s going to be a lot of visual references to her and the influences she had. I have a feeling just by the nature of her passing, there’s going to be a lot of fond remembrances, and even some references to that time. A lot of the clothes I was doing then, even though it's not a typical American fashion, it was a very American kind of classic styles, with a twist.ĭo you think Farrah is going to be a source of fashion inspiration? Is there any chance you might re-issue the swimsuit or some of the iconic looks? If anything was photographed…she just had that look, very American. The press associated her with my clothes. I think I was one of the designers they turned to when she was doing photo shoots. If you look at my vintage portfolios, there’s Farrah in so many photos wearing my clothes. I am sure certain people looked…for it because she wore it.ĭiscontinued in mid 1980s. It had a life in my line for a long time.
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