Classic Films to Inspire Your Summer Wardrobe — vogue.com

I think I’m probably always trying to channel a certain long-limbed, languid Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story air, but summer means swim and sun and various types of bodies of water, and for me that means Romy Schneider in La Piscine—that sultry low back, that sleek silhouette, that slicked-back hair (and Alain Deloin never hurts)—nobody ever wore a one-piece better. Her wardrobe in that film is summer-perfect: fitted and relaxed linen button-down shirts in white and pale blue, belted sleeveless sundresses with kicky pleated skirts, lightweight long, printed dresses for intrigue-filled dinner parties and late-night jaunts down to St.-Tropez. She plays the refined, glamorous, and grown-up version of a woman across a very young, very gamine Jane Birkin (in a variety of abbreviated hemlines and baby-doll silhouettes) and never looks anything but alluring in comparison.

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